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.
