AVALIAÇÃO BIMESTRAL 1 – 1ª SÉRIE 2023 (INGLÊS)

 QUESTÃO 01

Addiction can be devastating, not to mention life-threatening. Those who struggle with alcohol and drug addiction can face problems with their physical and mental health, finances, and relationships. If you’ve seen your loved one change as a result of addiction, it can be difficult to know how to help them heal.

Addiction is a chronic disease, and without the right addiction treatment, it can be difficult to overcome. Many individuals who go through a period of sobriety relapse at some point. However, a high-quality treatment program can help them work through the underlying causes of addiction and develop healthy coping skills for lifelong sobriety. At Lakeview Health, we offer comprehensive rehab programs. Detox, residential treatment, and outpatient programs help our clients rebuild their lives on the road to recovery.

In addition, we offer a number of resources to promote long-term sobriety. From our aftercare and alumni programs to family therapy, we help the individuals in our care address addiction’s impact on every aspect of their lives. And to help family members, employers, and healthcare professionals provide support, we offer a streamlined referrals and admissions process.

Available at: www.lakeviewhealth.com/addiction-resources

 

Ao abordar o assunto do vício, o texto tem como objetivo

a) culpar os viciados por problemas de relacionamento e financeiros.

b) anunciar um curso de medicina especializado no combate ao vício.

c) convidar os leitores para uma palestra sobre os malefícios do vício.

d) afirmar que a melhor forma de lidar com o vício é a internação compulsória.

e) descrever o método oferecido por uma clínica para tratar o vício e manter a sobriedade.

 

QUESTÃO 02

 

A ideia que a tirinha apresenta na fala do último balão é de:

a) elogio.

b) súplica.

c) descrição.

d) solicitação.

e) crítica.

 

QUESTÃO 03

Diet and exercise are the two most important changes you can make. Even if you’ve never been active, it’s never too late to get started. A healthy diet and physical activity are good at any age. As you age, these healthy habits strengthen muscles and bones. Strong muscles and bones reduce serious injuries related to falls. When your muscles are strong, activities like getting up from a chair or opening a door are easier. When lifting weights, start with a 1-pound or 5-pound weight. If you don’t have weights, use a can of soup, a book, or a full bottle of water. Keep your weights in the same room as your television. Do a few exercises while you watch.

 

Available at: https://familydoctor.org/healthy-habits-atage-60-and-beyond

 

O texto apresenta

a) dicas de saúde para pessoas de 60 anos ou mais.

b) exercícios para estimular a atividade mental de idosos.

c) instruções de como ser capaz de erguer grandes pesos.

d) maneiras de aproveitar melhor o tempo em frente à TV.

e) sugestões para quem quer um corpo bem delineado.

 

QUESTÃO 04

According to the comic, it is correct to affirm that:

a) Os personagens da tirinha estão marcando uma reunião na próxima semana para discutir assuntos acadêmicos.

b) Os personagens da tirinha estão marcando um encontro durante a semana para discutir assuntos de negócios.

c) O personagem principal está marcando uma consulta médica na quarta-feira às 10 horas da manhã.

d) Os personagens da tirinha estão marcando uma viagem de negócios na próxima semana.

e) Os personagens estão marcando uma confraternização para o próximo final de semana às 10 horas da manhã.

 

QUESTÃO 05

NEW YORK (AP)  – If you’ve ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It’s worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it.

“Problem solving is a very basic activity of the human mind and if a problem is complex you need to divide the problem into smaller elements,” says Ernö Rubik, who invented the cube in 1974.

Rubik has seen his color-matching puzzle go from a classroom teaching tool in Cold War-era Hungary to a worldwide phenomenon with over 450 million cubes sold and a mini-empire of related toys.

“For me, the cube represents what freedom means. Freedom is never endless,” he said during a recent visit to New York. “It lets you do what is necessary to achieve your goal.”

The original 3x3 Rubik’s has more than 43 quintillion – that’s more than 43,000,000,000,000,000,000 – possible configurations, but the principles behind the cube have been refashioned for 2x2, 4x4 and 5x5 cubes, a board game called Rubik’s Race, a pyramid, a tower and a Christmas tree, among others.

Available at: https://apnews.com/article/rubiks-cubeinventor- 10e05bf5c9e27c0cc6700c9dfb486e35

 

O cubo de Rubik

a) pode ser resolvido com apenas dois movimentos.

b) nasceu como ferramenta didática e virou um fenômeno global.

c) foi inventado na Hungria durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

d) representa, para seu inventor, a ideia de que a liberdade é infinita.

e) ao ser desmontado, mostra ser composto de 43 peças.

AVALIAÇÃO BIMESTRAL 1 – 2ª SÉRIE 2023 (INGLÊS)

QUESTÃO 01

Deanna: I don’t believe it. How could you lie to me?

William: Wait, listen to me. I can explain.

Deanna: There’s nothing to explain. You were having dinner with another woman.

William: Yes, because I bought us a new house.

Deanna: What?

William: She’s a real estate agent. Her name is Sarah and I’ve just bought a house from her. It was supposed to be a surprise.

Deanna: Oh, gosh… I feel so stupid.

William: So do I, but ___.

 

Choose the alternative that best completes this dialog.

a) if I had told you where I was going, I would have spoiled the surprise.

b) if I told you where I was going, you might spoil the surprise.

c) I will spoil the surprise if I tell you where I’m going.

d) the surprise would be spoiled if I told you where to go.

e) if I tell you where I’m going, I will spoil the surprise.

 

QUESTÃO 02

Opinion: Fake News about the Corona Virus and science in general

By Marc Schiltz

 

The news about the Corona Virus epidemic is making many people hold their breath on a daily basis. A theory has been spreading on social media that the virus did not – as assumed – start on a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, but that it was created in a lab where scientists experimented with viruses. The ‘theory’ is that something went wrong with their experiment and this led to the virus. Despite no foundation for this claim, it is spreading like fire, like the virus itself.

The internet and social networks pose a new and difficult challenge for dealing with information. Scientific studies have shown that false information spreads on social media up to ten times faster than truthful information, and that false information tends to reach a wider number of users.

Then there is the phenomenon of “social robots”: robots deployed on social media to spread information in a way where it appears they are real users. A recent study indicated that one quarter of the tweets about climate change were posted by such robots, with the majority devoid of any scientific foundation. This proportion was higher in certain topics—robots were responsible for 38% of tweets about “fake science” and 28% of all tweets about the petroleum giant Exxon.

Science struggles with Fake News. Most of the time, Fake News are short and very objective. On the other hand, Scientific and medical articles are long and complex. Still, science must try to fight back– for example what the WHO is trying to do with information about the Corona Virus epidemic.

One avenue is to get more visibility, for example by bringing science together with ‘influencers’, supporting science journalists, or increasing the communication coming directly from the scientists. Science actors can also create their own platforms with large visibility – as Luxembourg has done with science.lu.

It is clear – it will be a great challenge to limit the spread of Fake News and pseudo-science, just like the Corona Virus.

Available at: https://www.fnr.lu/research-with-impact-fnrhighlight/opinion-fake-news-about-the-corona-virus-andscience-in-general

 

The only statement, about the spread of fake news, which is TRUE, according to the text is

a) false information spreads as fast as truthful information.

b) truthful information spreads ten times faster on social media.

c) fake news spreads faster than truthful information on social media.

d) fake news spreads ten times slower than truthful information.

e) truthful information spreads slower on social media than on the internet.

 

QUESTÃO 03

Interview: ‘Any way you look at it, wars are evil’, UN Ukraine Crisis chief

 

UN News: The Russian war in Ukraine has reached a tragic milestone. Are there any hopes that this war will end anytime soon?

Amin Awad: “There is optimism that the war will end, because neither Ukraine nor Russia can afford it. Ukraine is suffering from the loss of life, the destruction of hospitals, schools, homes, railway stations and tracks, and the transport sector. And the sanctions on Russia are severe.

It is also destructive for the world. Ukraine supports about 15 to 20 per cent of the world’s food needs. This food is trapped, and we have another harvest season coming up: we have an impeding disruption of food pipelines and supply chains.

We’re also seeing inflationary problems and countries defaulting on their debt: Sri Lanka, for example, is unable to pay its loans. The world is not in a good place.

Available at: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/06/1119642

 

Read an extract of an interview with Amin Awad, the UN Crisis Coordinator in Ukraine during the war in 2022. Which sentence correctly reports something he said in the interview?

According to Amin Awad, ...

a) Russia was suffering from the loss of life, the destruction of hospitals, schools, homes, railway stations and tracks, and the transport sector.

b) the sanctions on Russia weren't severe, but the world was in a good place.

c) Ukraine supported about 15 to 20 per cent of the world's food needs and that food was trapped in 2022.

d) the Russians are seeing inflationary problems and countries are defaulting on their debt.

e) there wasn't any optimism that the war would end, because neither Ukraine nor Russia wanted to negotiate.

 

QUESTÃO 04

The 25 Biggest Regrets In Life. What Are Yours?

Eric Jackson - Former Contributor

We are all busy. Life happens. There’s always something to distract us from getting around to certain things we know we should do. [...]

In the backs of our minds, we know we're neglecting some stuff we should do. But we never get around to it.[...]

Here is a list of the 25 biggest ones we’ll probably have. [...]

1. Working so much at the expense of family and friendships.  How do you balance meeting that short-term deadline at work and sitting down for dinner with your family?  It’s tough.  There are always worries. “What will my boss and co-workers think? It’s not a big deal if I stay late this one time.  I’ll make it up with the family this weekend.”  But the “making up” never seems to happen.  Days turn to months and then years and then decades.

2. Standing up to bullies in school and in life.  Believe it or not, a lot of our biggest regrets in life have to do with things that happened to us in grade 4 or some other early age. We never seem to forget – or forgive ourselves – for not speaking up against the bullies.  We were too scared. (1) And by the way most of us have also met up with a bully in our work life.  Maybe he was our boss.  We remember that one time (2) - even if it cost us our job.  We usually take some small solace in hearing that that bully later on made some unfortunate career stumble. [...]

Avavilable at: www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/10/18/ the-25-biggest-regrets-in-life-what-are-yours/ ?sh=3bab8c066488

 

Read the article extract. Choose the correct alternative for sentences (1) and (2).

a) We wish we were more confident. – we wish we told him off

b) We wish we are more confident. – we wish we tell him off

c) We wish we have been more confident. – we wish we have told him off

d) We wish we will be more confident. – we wish we'll tell him off

e) We wish we had been more confident. – we wish we'd told him off

 

QUESTÃO 05

I slept in the long room at the front of our house, and the only furniture was a bed and a cabinet which I had bought with some of the money I had been given as an award for campaigning for peace in our valley and the right for girls to go to school. On some shelves were all the gold-coloured plastic cups and trophies I had won for coming first in my class. Only a few times had I not come top – each time I was beaten by my class rival Malka e-Noor. I was determined it would not happen again.

The school was not far from my home and I used to walk, but since the start of last year I had been going with other girls by bus.[...] I liked the bus because I didn't get as sweaty as when I walked, and I could chat with my friends and gossip with Usman Ali, the driver, who we called Bhai Jan, or 'Brother'. He made us all laugh with his crazy stories.

I had started taking the bus because my mother was scared of me walking on my own. We had been getting threats all year. Some were in the newspapers, some were notes or messages passed on by people. My mother was worried about me, but the Taliban had never come for a girl and I was more concerned they would target my father as he was always speaking out against them. His close friend and fellow campaigner Zahid Khan had been shot in the face in August on his way to prayers and I knew everyone was telling my father, ‘Take care, you’ll be next.’

Extracted from: Yousafzai, Malala; Lamb, Christina. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban (pp. 3-4). Orion.

 

Read an extract of Malala Yousafzai's autobiography. Choose the correct alternative about the verb structures in bold.

a) The structures are in the Past Perfect. This tense is used to refer to past actions and events that happened after other actions and events in the past.

b) The structures are in the Past Perfect. This tense is used to refer to past actions and events that happened prior to other actions and events in the past.

c) The structures are in the Past Perfect. This tense is used to refer to past actions and events that happened at the same time of other actions and events in the past.

d) The structures are in the Present Perfect. This tense is used to refer to actions and events that began in the past and continue up to the present.

e) The structures are in the Present Perfect. This tense is used to refer to actions and events that happened in an unknown moment in the past.

AVALIAÇÃO BIMESTRAL 2 – 1ª SÉRIE 2023 (INGLÊS)

QUESTÃO 01

I used to love to drift along the pale-yellow cornfields, looking for the damp spots one sometimes found at their edges, where the smartweed soon turned a rich copper colour and the narrow brown leaves hung curled like cocoons about the swollen joints of the stem. Sometimes I went south to visit our German neighbours and to admire their catalpa grove, or to see the big elm tree that grew up out of a deep crack in the earth and had a hawk's nest in its branches. Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.

CATHER, Willa. My Antonia. Book I, Chapter IV. Available at: www.sparknotes.com/lit/antonia/full-text/book-i-chapter-iv

 

No trecho acima, do Livro My Antonia escrito por Willa Cather, a autora

a) descreve o lugar onde mora, citando suas belezas e suas dificuldades.

b) faz uma reminiscência do seu passado e do lugar onde passou algum tempo.

c) lamenta não mais poder visitar o lugar na Alemanha onde passou sua infância.

d) descreve em detalhes a fauna e a flora de um local, com método e rigor científico.

e) critica o desaparecimento de um ambiente natural no qual ela viveu bons momentos.

 

QUESTÃO 02

Question: I asked a girl out on a date, but she said she had other plans. Does this mean she doesn't want to date me?

Answer (by Carmel Sileo): Not necessarily, she might in fact have had other plans. Did you ask when she would be available? If she gives you a bunch of excuses, that would be a clue. But if she says something like, “I have plans Friday but I’m free next Tuesday or Sunday,” she’s giving you a clue that she would be OK with setting aside those times for you. Also, did you call close to the end of the week? Some girls won’t accept a date for the weekend if you call on a Thursday or Friday, because it makes them feel like you’re just calling them because you have nothing better lined up.

Available at: www.quora.com/I-asked-a-girl-out-on-a-datebut- she-said-she-had-other-plans-Does-thismean- she-doesnt-want-to-date-me.

 

Ao convidar a jovem para sair com ele, o rapaz usou qual das perguntas abaixo?

a) “Would you like to go out with me on Friday?”

b) “Did you want to go out with me on Friday?”

c) “Were you interested in going out with me on Friday?”

d) “Will she go out on a date with me next Friday?”

e) “Are you on a date with me on Friday?”

 

QUESTÃO 03

Complete the sentence:

My vacation is over. I ___ get back to work immediately, otherwise I’ll lose my job.

a) may

b) should

c) can’t

d) might

e) must

 

QUESTÃO 04

Associe as frases que possuem o mesmo significado colocando o número correspondente nos parênteses.

1) I think it’s a good idea for me to take a few days off work.

2) the boss ordered me to take a few days off work.

3) I am not tired. It is not necessary for me to take a few days off work.

4) It is impossible for me now to take a few days off work.

 

(   ) I don’t have to take a few days off.

(   ) I must take a few days off.

(   ) I can’t take a few days off.

(   ) I should take a few days off.

 

A numeração correta é:

a) 1 – 2 – 4 – 3

b) 2 – 1 – 3 – 4

c) 2 – 4 – 1 – 3

d) 3 – 4 – 3 – 1

e) 4 – 1 – 3 – 2

 

QUESTÃO 05

Climate change has so far cost the global economy trillions of dollars, but low-income countries in tropical regions have borne the brunt of these losses, finds a study that analysed the economic consequences of heatwaves worldwide over a 20-year period.

The research, published on 28 October in Science Advances1, estimates that the global economy lost between US$5 trillion and $29 trillion from 1992 to 2013, as a result of human-driven global warming. But the effect was worst in low-income tropical nations, leading to a 6.7% reduction in their national income on average, whereas high-income countries experienced only a 1.5% average decrease.

Nature Magazine. Available at: www.nature.com/articles/ d41586-022-03573-z

 

According to the text, low-income tropical countries

a) lost more forests and animals than the richer countries.

b) are the most protected from the effects of global warming.

c) are as impacted by global warming as any other country in the world.

d) were more economically affected by global warming than richer countries.

e) don’t have as many problems with global warming as high-income countries.

AVALIAÇÃO BIMESTRAL 2 – 2ª SÉRIE 2023 (INGLÊS)

QUESTÃO 01

All my characters are me. I’m not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think ‘I wonder ___.’ Because for me, they’re all me.

Ryan Gosling

 

The option that best completes the quote by the American actor Ryan Gosling is

a) what does that feel like.

b) what that feels like.

c) if that feels like.

d) if does that feel like.

e) if what does that feel like.

 

QUESTÃO 02

The number of injuries suffered by children while they’re in school is on the rise. Many times, these injuries are normal accidents that couldn’t be avoided, but there are also injuries that occur due to fault or negligence of the teachers, the school administration, or the janitorial staff and it’s up to the school district and the administrators to reduce the risk of child injury whenever and wherever possible.

According to recent statistics, 55% of all major accidents in schools are caused by slips, falls, and trips. The most common place for these types of accidents to take place are in the corridors, playgrounds, and stairs of the school. Additionally, a child injury can occur in the classroom due to backpacks being left in an aisle way, cables to TV’s and computers not being properly secured, among other circumstances.

While some slips, falls, and trips may be hard to avoid, many of these school accidents could be prevented in schools by simple proactive or preventative efforts.

Available at: https://greenbergandstein.com/5-common-accidents-that-happen-at-school

 

Mark the alternative which contains a passage from the text in Passive Voice.

a) these injuries are normal accidents.

b) 55% of all major accidents in schools are caused by slips, falls, and trips.

c) The most common place for these types of accidents to take place.

d) a child injury can occur in the classroom.

e) some slips, falls, and trips may be hard to avoid.

 

QUESTÃO 03

Pushing back against the tide: Vanuatu’s climate fight

 

Mounds of heavy stones are all that protects Jeffrey Daniels’ home from the waves that wash onto tiny Emao, an island dotting the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. But the makeshift dams can’t stop his village from flooding during fierce tropical cyclones, tidal surges, or simply a heavy downpour.

“When the rain comes, we feel trapped as if we were standing on a ship,” Daniels said.

His home is located on an island strip less than 70 metres wide. When Daniels was a child, this land was twice as wide. Now his home and his village of Marow are vanishing, losing ground to the sea year by year. Where he used to play football, today there are only floating boats.

“If the sea levels continue to rise, this village will disappear,” he said. “Our community will disappear.”

Afraid that rising sea levels will swallow Marow within a few years, the entire village is planning to move to higher ground – a costly relocation that few here can afford. Many have already left for good, migrating to the capital, Port Vila, in search of work.

For Daniels, it’s the clearest sign of how climate change is disrupting lives and forcing vulnerable communities to adapt or go away.

Available at: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2020/12/1/pacific-vanuatu-disappearing-islandclimate-change-cyclone-lawsuit-migration

 

The people who live on the island of Emao, one of the many that make up Vanuatu, have recently…

a) had their homes destroyed by a tropical cyclone.

b) seen the price of their homes rise to high values.

c) been negatively affected by the rising of the sea.

d) abandoned football because land is too expensive.

e) been in a revolution, with the poor losing their homes.

 

QUESTÃO 04

When human activities produce greenhouse gases, around half of the emissions remain in the atmosphere, while the other half is absorbed by the land and ocean. These ecosystems – and the biodiversity they contain – are natural carbon sinks, providing so-called nature-based solutions to climate change.

Protecting, managing, and restoring forests, for example, offers roughly two-thirds of the total mitigation potential of all nature-based solutions. Despite massive and ongoing losses, forests still cover more than 30 per cent of the planet’s land.

United Nations Organization. Available at: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/climate-issues/biodiversity

 

Analyze these sentences as right or wrong according to the information in the text.

I. The oceans and the land absorb approximately 50% of the greenhouse gases that humans produce.

II. More than 30% of the forests on Earth have been lost due to deforestation.

III. Nature-based solutions to climate change are provided by the land, the ocean and the biodiversity in them.

 

Which of the sentences are correct?

a) Only I and II.

b) Only II and III.

c) Only I and III.

d) All of them.

e) None of them. 

 

QUESTÃO 05

The largest extinction in Earth’s history marked the end of the Permian period, some 252 million years ago. Long before dinosaurs, our planet was populated with plants and animals that were mostly obliterated after a series of massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.

Fossils in ancient seafloor rocks display a thriving and diverse marine ecosystem, then a swath of corpses. Some 96 percent of marine species were wiped out during the “Great Dying,” followed by millions of years when life had to multiply and diversify once more.

What has been debated until now is exactly what made the oceans inhospitable to life – the high acidity of the water, metal and sulfide poisoning, a complete lack of oxygen, or simply higher temperatures.

New research from the University of Washington and Stanford University combines models of ocean conditions and animal metabolism with published lab data and paleoceanographic records to show that the Permian mass extinction in the oceans was caused by global warming that left animals unable to breathe. As temperatures rose and the metabolism of marine animals sped up, the warmer waters could not hold enough oxygen for them to survive. The study is published in the Dec. 7 [2018] issue of Science.

Stanford University. Available at: https://earth.stanford.edu/news/what-caused-earths-biggest-mass-extinction

 

It is now believed that…

a) animals were unable to breathe in the Permian period due to acid waters.

b) the same conditions that caused the “Great Dying” are coming back.

c) the “Great Dying” was caused by human-provoked global warming.

d) ocean waters became too hot, causing the “Great Dying”.

e) volcanoes in Siberia are causing global warming again.