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Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 01, 02 e 03. 
 
US immigration: Thousands gather under bridge at US-Mexico border in growing 
crisis 
Some 10,000 migrants __________ (1) under a US-Mexico border bridge over 
recent days, which is increasing the humanitarian crisis. The bridge __________ (2) 
Del Rio in Texas to Mexico's Ciudad Acuña and the temporary camp there has grown 
with staggering speed in recent days. The US government has been facing a surge of 
migrants at the border. The mostly Haitian migrants are sleeping under the bridge in 
squalid conditions. 
Earlier this year, it was reported that the number of migrants __________ (3) 
at the US-Mexico border in July exceeded 200,000 for the first time in 21 years, 
government data shows. And last month, the authorities arrested more than 195,000 
migrants at the Mexican border, according to government data released on 
Wednesday. This summer's numbers represent a significant increase from the 51,000 
arrested in August 2019. The makeshift camp has few basic services, and migrants 
waiting in temperatures of 37C (99F) are said to be going back to Mexico to get 
supplies. 
Border Patrol said in a statement it was increasing staffing in Del Rio to 
facilitate a "safe, humane and orderly process". "To prevent injuries from heat-related 
illness, the shaded area underneath Del Rio International Bridge is serving as a 
temporary staging site while migrants wait to be taken into USBP [US Border Patrol] 
custody," it added. Drinking water, towels and portable toilets have been provided, 
the statement added. 
Since taking office, President Joe Biden, who had vowed to reform US 
immigration, has created a taskforce to reunify migrant children with their families, 
paused construction of Donald Trump's border wall, and called for reviews of legal 
immigration programmes terminated by his predecessor. Mr Biden has also presided 
over a record-breaking influx of arrivals to the US southern border, including 
hundreds of unaccompanied children who are being held in US immigration detention 
facilities. 
Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58593632 
 
 
1- Choose the alternative containing the correct verb forms to complete the gaps 
(1), (2) and (3) in the paragraphs 1 and 2 respectively. 
 
a) gathered, has connected , detains 
b) have gathered, connects, detained 
c) gather, connected, have detained 
d) will gather, is connecting, detain 
e) gathered, connected, detain 
 
 
 
2- In the sentence “The mostly Haitian migrants are sleeping under the bridge in 
squalid conditions.” (paragraph 1), the word squalid means 
 
a) spotless 
b) salubrious 
c) pleasant 
d) miserable 
e) stainless 
 
 
 
3- According to the text, choose the correct statement. 
 
a) The number of people arrested in 2019 at the Mexican border was higher compared 
to 2021. 
b) Border Patrol has helped some migrants by providing basic items for hygiene and 
health. 
c) Mexicans started crossing the Mexico-USA border 21 years ago. 
d) Regarding the construction of a wall that separates the two countries, Joe Biden 
complies Trump’s plans. 
e) The current humanitarian crisis faced by the United States has its roots in the US 
immigration. 
 
 
Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 04, 05 e 06. 
 
Cities Have Firefighters and Trash Collectors. As the Climate Breaks Down, Do They 
Also Need Resilience Corps? 
 
When Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans in early September, Tonya Freeman-Brown 
made the difficult decision to remain the city. The 53 year-old and her family sheltered 
in an old brick hotel in the downtown area, watching fierce winds of up to 150 mph 
pelt rainwater at the windows, and remembering the destruction caused __________ 
(1) Hurricane Katrina, 16 years earlier to the day. It was stressful, but Freeman-Brown 
had a job to do, she says. “We’re no match for nature, but this is what we’ve trained 
for. This is what the Resilience Corps was built for.” 
Like firefighters put out fires, and waste collectors keep the city clean, the job 
__________ (2) the New Orleans Resilience Corps is to teach the citizens be resilient 
to shocks, crises and climate change. Launched by the city in October 2020, as a pilot 
to run for two years, the corp’s 40 workers were mainly people who had lost jobs in 
the hospitality industry during the pandemic, who are now on full-time contracts, 
starting at $12 an hour with a path to an $18 an hour wage. Freeman-Brown joined 
after losing her work as a corporate massage therapist at an insurance company. The 
corps spent much of the last year working to support the city through COVID-19 and 
get people vaccinated. 
Hurricane Ida is the first climate disaster that the corps has confronted. The 
storm’s high winds battered the city, killing 13 people there and toppling thousands 
of power lines and hundreds of substations. The NOLA resilience corps’ work after Ida 
is a key test for a model that advocates hope to see repeated in cities across the 
country as climate change makes extreme weather events more common and more 
widespread. According to analysis published Sept. 4 by the Washington Post, in the 
last three months, nearly one in three Americans have experienced a weather disaster 
in their county. 
 
Adapted from: https://time.com/6096397/climate-change-resilience-corps/ 
 
 
 
04- Choose the alternative containing the correct words to respectively complete 
gaps (1) and (2). 
 
a) with, for 
b) for, at 
c) at, with 
d) by, of 
e) of, from 
 
 
 
05- In the sentence “We’re no match for nature, but this is what we’ve trained for” 
(paragraph 1), the expression We’re no match for nature means that those people: 
 
a) Are unable to compete successfully with nature. 
b) Are nature’s biggest opponents. 
c) Are capable of fighting against nature. 
d) Are not appropriate for nature. 
e) Are willing to defy nature. 
 
 
 
06- According to the text, choose the correct statement. 
 
a) All cities will have firefighters, trash collectors and resilience corps. 
b) Tonya Freeman-Brown moved from her city to an old brick hotel to escape from a 
hurricane. 
c) The Resilience Corps aims at teaching resilience amid difficult situations. 
d) Lots of people abandoned previous jobs to work for the Resilience Corps. 
e) In the future there will be Resilience Corps in most areas of the United States. 
 
 
 
 
 
Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 07, 08 e 09. 
 
Keir Starmer will address green new deal plans at conference 
 
Keir Starmer is committed to debating plans for a green new deal at Labour’s 
conference later this month, his team have insisted, despite the party having rejected 
a grassroots motion on the issue. Labour sources said the need to transform the 
economy to meet the climate challenge and create green jobs in the UK would be a 
key theme in Starmer’s conference speech, and in a lengthy essay for the Fabian 
Society he is due to publish in the run-up to the conference in Brighton. 
During last year’s Labour leadership campaign, Starmer wrote: “We need a green 
new deal hardwired into every level of government,” but some green activists are 
concerned about whether the leadership remains committed to the policy. The 
frontbenchers Rachael Maskell and Olivia Blake, and backbench MPs including the 
former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, have joined those calling on the party to 
reverse a decision to rule out of order a conference motion calling for Labour to 
endorse a green new deal. 
Labour insists the green new deal motion, passed by 21 local parties and 
endorsed by the leftwing Momentum campaign group, was rejected because it was 
too broadly drawn, bringing in policies such as universal free broadband. Some party 
figures see it as an attempt to shoehorn parts of Jeremy Corbyn’s 2019 manifesto into 
Labour policy.But Blake, who is Labour’s shadow minister for nature, tweeted: “You can’t draw 
the line around the climate emergency – our response to it should thread through all 
the work we do.” She added that she hoped the decision by Labour’s conference 
arrangements committee would be reversed. 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/17/keir-starmer-green-new-deal-
debate-labour-party-conference 
 
 
 
 
 
 
07- “In the sentence but some green activists are concerned” (paragraph 2), the word 
green means: 
 
a) Of a color between blue and yellow. 
b) Of the color of grass. 
c) Opposite to the people in authority. 
d) Not experienced or trained. 
e) Related to the protection of the environment. 
 
 
 
08- Choose the alternative with the correct reference for the underlined words from 
the text. 
 
a) his (paragraph 1) = Keir Starmer 
b) we (paragraph 2) = green activists 
c) it (paragraph 3) = campaign group 
d) you (paragraph 4) = the reader 
e) our (paragraph 4) = response 
 
 
 
09- Choose the statement in which the expression draw the line has been used in a 
figurative way just like in paragraph 4. 
 
a) Please draw the line in the sand for the beach ball game and let’s start the 
competition. 
b) His Geometry teacher has asked him to draw the line around a small square. 
c) It all depends on your concept of fiction and where you draw the line between fact 
and fiction. 
d) I am left-handed and therefore I am unable to draw the line with my right hand. 
e) She needs to draw the line to match the picture and the word. 
 
 
 
Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 10, 11 e 12. 
 
Afghan Survivors of U.S. Drone Strike 
 
Emal Ahmadi, whose 3-year-old daughter Malika was killed on Aug. 29, when 
the U.S. hellfire missile struck his elder brother’s car, told The Associated Press on 
Saturday that the family demands Washington investigate who fired the drone. “That 
is not enough for us to say sorry,” said Ahmadi. “The U.S.A. should find the person who 
did this.” 
On Friday, U.S. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, 
called the strike a “tragic mistake,” and after weeks of denials, said that innocent 
civilians were indeed killed in the attack and not an Islamic State extremist as was 
announced earlier. The drone strike followed a devastating suicide bombing by the 
Islamic State group — a rival of the Taliban — that killed 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. 
military personnel at one of the gates to the Kabul airport. McKenzie apologized for 
the error and said the United States is considering making reparation payments to the 
family of the victims. 
Emal Ahmadi, who said he heard of the apology from friends in America, insisted 
that it won’t bring back members of his family and while he expressed relief for the 
U.S. apology and recognition that his family were innocent victims, he said he was 
frustrated that it took weeks of pleading with Washington to at least make a call to 
the family. 
Even as evidence mounted to the contrary, (…) and that their goal was to protect 
the U.S. troops remaining at Kabul’s airport. Looking exhausted, sitting in front of the 
charred ruins of Zemarai’s car, Ahmadi said he wanted more than an apology from the 
United States — he wanted justice, including an investigation into who carried out the 
strike “besides, I want him punished by the U.S.A.” 
https://time.com/6099470/afghan-drone-strike/ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10- According to the text, read the statements and choose the correct alternative. 
 
I. Almost two hundred people were killed because of the drone strike and the suicide 
bombing. 
II. Emal Ahmadi has lost his entire family in the drone strike. 
III. It was difficult for Ahmadi to get in touch with his family 
IV. An apology from the U.S. is not sufficient for Ahmadi. 
V. The U.S. will give money to victims’ families. 
 
a) I, II and IV are correct. 
b) II, IV and V are correct. 
c) All of them are correct. 
d) I, III, IV and V are correct. 
e) I, III and IV are correct. 
 
 
11- Choose the alternative that correctly substitutes the word besides in the sentence 
“besides, I want him punished by the U.S.A.” (paragraph 4). 
 
a) however 
b) thus 
c) nonetheless 
d) furthermore 
e) therefore 
 
 
12- According to the context, the missing part of paragraph 4 is… 
 
Even as evidence mounted to the contrary, (…) 
a) Pentagon officials asserted that the strike had been conducted correctly 
b) Pentagon officials admitted that there was a huge mistake 
c) Pentagon officials said they heard near to nothing about the events 
d) Pentagon officials pleaded themselves guilty 
e) Pentagon officials said they wanted to protect Afghan people