Apostila de Exercícios de Inglês EEAR_pag23

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c) across – on – by – above 
d) during – up – of – behind 
 
34 – According to the text, it’s not correct to say that 
a) shaving can be considered an unpleasant time for 
men. 
b) a product to soften the beard is going to be 
launched the following month. 
c) a new cream was made not only to prevent the 
ageing process, but also to get the beard ready for 
shaving. 
d) Matt can’t stand using a razor to shave his beard so 
he would like to know a special way to solve his 
problem. 
 
35 – In “ ... this new generation of products are often 
applied overnight, ... ”, the underlined verb form is in 
the 
a) passive voice 
b) present perfect 
c) indirect speech 
d) past progressive 
 
36 – Choose the correct question for this answer “The 
beard feels soft and lovely.” 
a) What is a beard? 
b) What is the beard like? 
c) What does the beard feel? 
d) How does the beard soften? 
 
37 – Choose the best alternative to complete this 
sentence: 
If you don’t want to shave, 
a) your skin didn’t feel soft and lovely. 
b) your beard would be brittle and tough. 
c) you would have gone to the barbershop. 
d) your beard will get longer, wiry and bushy. 
 
Read the text and answer questions 38, 39, 40, 41 and 
42. 
 
Simply your life 
Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you 
were smoking more, but enjoying it less. That 
describes the way many of us live today. We are doing 
more, but enjoying it less. In our frantic search for 
satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, 
never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach. 
 
The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe. 
Satisfaction lies with less, not with more. Yet, we 
pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will 
somehow provide the satisfaction 
we so desperately seek. 
 
Arthur Lindman, in his devastating book, “The Harried 
Leisure Class,” described the futility of pursuing more. 
His research focused on what people did with their 
leisure time. He found that as income rose, people 
bought more things to occupy their leisure time. But, 
ironically, the more things they bought, the less they 
valued any one of them. Carried to an extreme, he 
predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous 
variety. That was more than twenty years ago, and his 
prediction seems more accurate every year. 
 
Lindman of course, is not the first to discover this. The 
writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought 
thousands of years ago. It is better, he wrote, to have 
less, but enjoy it more. 
If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to 
experiment with me. How could you simplify your life? 
What could you do without? What could you stop 
pursuing? 
 
The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life 
does not depend on things. The more I give up, the 
more I seem to gain. But words will never convince 
you. You must try it for yourself. 
 
Time Management Corporation 
 
GLOSSARY: 
to pursue = perseguir 
to stuff = preencher 
fullness = plenitude 
boredom = tédio, aborrecimento 
approach = a maneira, o caminho 
 
38 – The author claims that 
a) happiness depends exclusively on possessions. 
b) Lindman himself was the early pioneer in this 
research. 
c) people search for satisfaction by getting more and 
more. 
d) people don’t agree with him, despite his efforts to 
persuade 
them. 
 
39 – “... he predicted massive boredom in the midst of 
tremendous variety.”,(lines 20 - 22), means that 
a) a large variety of things makes people highly 
excited. 
b) people don’t mind about having a lot and enjoying it 
little. 
c) people are still bored, in spite of having a wide 
variety of 
things to buy. 
d) people usually get bored when they are prevented 
from 
getting things. 
 
40 – “accurate”, (line 23), is closest in meaning to 
a) safe. 
b) correct. 
c) reliable. 
d) available. 
 
41 – The writer’s intention is to advise the readers to 
a) lead a simple life. 
b) get rid of useful things. 
c) read the Bible a bit more. 
d) face some new challenges. 
 
42 – “ The more I give up, the more I seem to gain.”, 
(lines 33 
and 34), means that 
a) if I start to gain, I give up. 
b) when I give up, I seem to gain. 
c) I always give up in order to gain. 
d) I still seem to gain, even though I don’t give up.