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Questão 01 - (UEA AM/2014) 
Mr. Day was a teacher at a school in a big city in the north of England. He usually went to France or Germany for 
a few weeks during his summer holidays, and he spoke French and German quite well. 
But one year Mr. Day said to one of his friends, “I’m going to have a holiday in Athens. But I don’t speak Greek, 
so I’ll go to evening classes and have Greek lessons for a month before I go.” 
He studied very hard for a month, and then ___10___holidays began and he went to Greece. 
When he came back a few weeks later, his friend said to him, “Did you have any trouble with your Greek when 
you were in Athens, Dick?” 
“No, I didn’t have any trouble with it,” answered Mr. Day. “But the Greeks did!” 
(L. A. Hill. Elementary Stories for Reproduction, 1977.) 
 
 
A palavra que completa corretamente a lacuna numerada no texto é 
 
a) its. 
b) his. 
c) their. 
d) your. 
e) her. 
 
Questão 02 - (UFRGS/2014) 
 
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 I am happy to join ........ you today in 
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 what will go down in history as the greatest 
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 demonstration for 
freedom in the history of 
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 our nation. 
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 In the process ........ gaining our rightful 
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 place we must not be guilty of wrongful 
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 deeds. Let us not seek 
to satisfy our thirst for 
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 freedom ........ drinking from the cup of 
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 bitterness and hatred. We must forever 
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conduct our struggle on the high plane of
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 dignity and discipline. We must not allow our 
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 creative protest to 
degenerate into physical 
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 violence. The marvelous new militancy which 
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 has engulfed the Negro community 
must not 
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 lead us to distrust of all white people, for 
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 many of our white brothers, as evidenced by 
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 their 
presence here today, have come to 
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 realize that their destiny is tied up with our 
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 destiny and their freedom is 
inextricably 
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 bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. 
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 I have a dream that one day this nation 
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 will rise up and live out the true meaning of 
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 its creed: "We hold 
these truths to be selfevident: 
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 that all men are created equal." I 
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 have a dream that my four little children will 
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one day live in a nation where they will not be 
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 judged by the color of their skin but by the 
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 content of their 
character. 
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 This is our hope. This is the faith that I go 
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 back to the South with. When we allow 
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 freedom to ring, when 
we let it ring from 
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 every state and every city, we will speed up that 
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 day when all of God's children, black men 
and 
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 white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and 
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 Catholics, will join hands and sing the old Negro 
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spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God 
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 Almighty, we are free at last!" 
Adaptado de: LUTHER KING JR., Martin. I have a dream. 
Disponível em: <http://www.archives.gov/press/ exhibits/dream-speech.pdf>. 
Acesso em: 06 set. 2013. 
 
 
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta os referentes de their (Ref. 17), its (Ref. 23) e it (Ref. 31), 
respectivamente. 
 
a) all white people (Ref. 15) – dream (Ref. 21) – freedom (Ref. 31) 
b) all white people (Ref. 15) – this nation (Ref. 21) – ring (Ref. 31) 
c) many of our white brothers (Ref. 16) – this nation (Ref. 21) – freedom (Ref. 31) 
d) many of our white brothers (Ref. 16) – this nation (Ref. 21) – day (Ref. 33) 
e) Negro community (Ref. 14) – meaning (Ref. 22) – freedom (Ref. 31) 
 
Questão 03 - (UFV MG/2011) 
We May Be Born With an Urge to Help 
 
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What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians. Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote 
Hobbes. Selfish 
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and in need of considerable improvement, think many parents. But biologists are beginning to 
form a generally sunnier view of 
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humankind. Their conclusions are derived in part from testing very young 
children, and partly from comparing human children with 
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those of chimpanzees, hoping that the differences will 
point to what is distinctively human. 
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The somewhat surprising answer at which some biologists have arrived is that babies are innately sociable 
and helpful to 
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others. Of course every animal must to some extent be selfish to survive. But the biologists also 
see in humans a natural willingness 
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to help. When infants 18 months old see an unrelated adult whose hands 
are full and who needs assistance opening a door or 
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picking up a dropped clothespin, they will immediately help, 
Michael Tomasello writes in. The helping behavior seems to be innate 
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because it appears so early and before 
many parents start teaching children the rules of polite behavior. 
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“It’s probably safe to assume that they haven’t been explicitly and directly taught to do this,” said Elizabeth 
Spelke, a 
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developmental psychologist at Harvard. “On the other hand, they’ve had lots of opportunities to 
experience acts of helping by others. I 
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think the jury is out on the innateness question.” But Dr. Tomasello finds 
that helping is not enhanced by rewards, suggesting that it is 
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not influenced by training. It seems to occur 
across cultures that have different timetables for teaching social rules. And helping 
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behavior can even be seen 
in infant chimpanzees under the right experimental conditions. For all these reasons, Dr. Tomasello 
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concludes 
that helping is a natural inclination, not something imposed by parents or culture. 
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Infants will help with information, as well as in practical ways. From the age of 12 months they will point at 
objects that an adult 
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pretends to have lost. Chimpanzees, by contrast, never point at things for each other, and 
when they point for people, it seems to be 
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as a command to go fetch something rather than to share 
information. For parents who may think their children somehow skipped the 
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cooperative phase, Dr. Tomasello 
offers the reassuring advice that children are often more cooperative outside the home, which is 
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why parents 
may be surprised to hear from a teacher or coach how nice their child is. “In families, the competitive element is 
in 
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ascendancy,” he said. As children grow older, they become more selective in their helpfulness. Starting 
around age 3, they will share 
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more generously with a child who was previously nice to them. Another behavior 
that emerges at the same age is a sense of social 
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norms. “Most social norms are about being nice to other 
people,” Dr. Tomasello said in an interview, “so children learn social norms 
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because they want to be part of the 
group.” 
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Where do they get this idea of group rules, the sense of “we do it this way”? Dr. Tomasello believes children 
develop what he 
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calls “shared intentionality,” a notion of what others expect to happen and hence a sense of a 
group “we.” It is from this shared 
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intentionality that children derive their sense of norms and of expecting others 
to obey them. Shared intentionality, in Dr. Tomasello’s 
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view, is close to the essence of what distinguishes 
people from chimpanzees. A group of human children will use all kinds of words 
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and gestures to form goals and 
coordinate activities, but young chimps seem to have little interest in what may be their companions’ 
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minds. 
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If children are naturally helpful and sociable, what system of child-rearing best takes advantage of this 
surprising propensity? 
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Dr. Tomasello says that the approach known as inductive parenting works best because 
it reinforces the child’s natural propensity to34
cooperate with others. Inductive parenting is simply communicating 
with children about the effect of their actions on others and 
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emphasizing the logic of social cooperation. 
“Children are altruistic by nature,” he writes, and though they are also naturally selfish, all 
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parents need do is try 
to tip the balance toward social behavior. 
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The shared intentionality lies at the basis of human society, Dr. Tomasello argues. From it flow ideas of 
norms, of punishing 
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those who violate the norms and of shame and guilt for punishing oneself. Shared 
intentionality evolved very early in the human 
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lineage, he believes, and its probable purpose was for 
cooperation in gathering food. Anthropologists report that when men cooperate 
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in hunting, they can take down 
large game, which single hunters generally cannot do. 
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Frans de Waal, a primatologist, in a book called “The Age of Empathy, has long studied the cooperative side 
of primate 
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behavior and believes that aggression, which he has also studied, is often overrated as a human 
motivation. The roots of human 
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cooperation may lie in human aggression. We are selfish by nature, yet also 
follow rules requiring us to be nice to others. “That’s why 
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we have moral dilemmas,” Dr. Tomasello said, 
“because we are both selfish and altruistic at the same time.” 
(WADE, N. We may be born with an urge to help. Available in: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01human.html?_r=2&em. 
Retrieved on: Dec. 3, 2009. Adapted.) 
 
 
The referent to the pronoun “its” (ref. 39) is: 
 
a) “probable purpose”. 
b) “gathering food”. 
c) “shared intentionality”. 
d) “human lineage”. 
 
Questão 04 - (PUC RJ/2010) 
 NEW YORK TIMES’ POLICY ON FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES 
 
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From PoynterOnline, advice by The New York Times’ assistant managing editor who oversees journalist 
standards on using Facebook. Here’s the idea: you’re always representing your employer and what you say 
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and 
do […] can shape perceptions in unpredictable and potentially adverse ways. 
Facebook and other social networking sites — MySpace, LinkedIn, even Twitter — can be remarkably useful 
reporting tools, as the Virginia Tech shooting in 
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2007 proved. As we’ve discovered from the experts on our staff, 
Facebook pages often tell a lot about a person’s work, interests, friends, and thoughts, and, as one page leads or 
links to another, Facebook can help reporters do triangulation on difficult-to-research subjects. What 
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people 
write on Facebook sites is publicly available information, like anything posted on any site that is not encrypted. 
But there are a few things to be careful about, nonetheless. 
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One of them is that outsiders can read your Facebook page, and that personal blogs and “tweets” represent 
you to the outside world just as much as an 800-word article does. If you have or are getting a Facebook page, 
leave blank the section that asks about your political 
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views, in accordance with the Ethical Journalism 
admonition to do nothing that might cast doubt on your or The Times’s political impartiality in reporting the news. 
Remember that although you might get useful leads by joining a group on one of these sites, it will appear on 
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your page, connoting that you “joined” it — potentially complicated if it is a political group, or a controversial 
group. 
Be careful not to write anything on a blog or a personal Web page that you could not write in The Times 
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— 
don’t editorialize, for instance, if you work for the News Department. Anything you post online can and might be 
publicly disseminated, and can be twisted to be used against you by those who wish you or The Times ill — 
whether it’s text, photographs, or video. That includes 
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things you recommend on TimesPeople or articles you 
post to Facebook and Digg, content you share with friends on MySpace, and articles you recommend through 
TimesPeople. It can also include things posted by outside parties to your Facebook page, so keep an 
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eye on 
what appears there. Just remember that we are always under scrutiny by magnifying glass and that the 
possibilities of digital distortion are virtually unlimited, so always ask yourself, could this be deliberately 
misconstrued or misunderstood by somebody who wants to make me look bad? 
Reporters can ask questions by e-mail using addresses found on Facebook, of course, but the same rules 
that apply to telephone contacts (or personal contacts) apply. “The Times treats news sources Just 
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as fairly and 
openly as it treats readers,” Ethical Journalism says. “We do not inquire pointlessly into someone’s personal life.” 
Approaching minors by e-mail or by telephone, or in person, to ask about their or their parents’ private lives or 
friends is a particularly sensitive 
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area. Depending on the circumstances, it may not be advisable. In every case, 
reporters and editors should first consult with the Standards Editor before going ahead with such inquiries. 
By Matt Armstrong 
PoynterOnline, May 4, 2009 
Disponível em http://mountainrunner.us/2009/05/nyt_facebook_policy.html 
(with slight adaptations) 
 
Check the correct statement concerning reference. 
 
a) In “...in accordance with the Ethical Journalism admonition to do nothing that might cast doubt on your or The 
Times’s political impartiality in reporting the news.” (ref. 25), “your” refers to political impartiality. 
b) In “Remember that although you might get useful leads by joining a group on one of these sites, it will appear 
on your page,” (ref. 25-30), “it” refers to a useful lead. 
c) In “It can also include things posted by outside parties to your Facebook page, so keep an eye on what 
appears there.” (ref. 40-45), “there” refers to the New York Times. 
d) In “Just remember that we are always under scrutiny by magnifying glass...” (ref. 45), “we” refers to the 
readers of the New York Times. 
e) In “Depending on the circumstances, it may not be advisable.” (ref. 60), “it” refers to a sensitive area. 
 
Questão 05 - (UFT TO/2007) 
A glass of coffee? 
 
Coffee drinkers can be very particular about their daily cups, writes Tom Stafford, co-author of Mind Hacks: Tips 
and Tools for Using Your Brain. “Demonstrate this by finding someone with a favourite mug and giving them their 
morning coffee in a glass instead. 
The drink tastes exactly the same, but they will be extremely unhappy [. . .] When the brain experiences reward, it 
triggers
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 a search for the things that might have caused it. You can’t see caffeine directly, so you form a positive 
attachment to all the things consistently associated with its delivery
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. First among these is the taste of the drink 
itself, but they also include things like the place or time of day and, of course, the favourite mug.” 
BBC Focus magazine. www. Indekx.com (Globe and Mail) Access: Oct. 2006. (Adapted) 
 
 
“... all the things consistently associated with its delivery” (ref.2) In this phrase, the word its refers to 
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a) attachment. 
b) brain. 
c) caffeine. 
d) glass. 
 
Questão 06 - (UNIFAP/2007) Eating Disorders 
 
Anorexia and bulimia 
Both diseases are much more than 'slimming diseases' - people use destructive eating patterns to attempt to gain 
control over their lives. 
What are the symptoms? 
The stereotypical image of an anorexic is of a bed-bound teenage girl looking as though she's just arrived from 
one of the world's famine spots. But it's important to remember that this kind of intense starvation is not the only 
symptom of an eating disorder. A person with an eating disordermay maintain a normal body weight and so their 
condition may go unnoticed for years. This is more often the case with bulimia. 
Bulimia 
Like anorexia, bulimia develops from an obsessive desire to be thin. However, instead of not eating, the person 
alternates between frantic bingeing and drastic purging (by self-induced vomiting and the abuse of laxatives and 
diuretics) or periods of excessive fasting and exercise. In the long-term, this can cause: 
irregular heartbeat 
damaged kidneys 
eroded tooth enamel 
Compulsive eating 
Compulsive eaters differ from people with bulimia in that, after binge eating, they don't try to get rid of what they've 
eaten. Many of them feel powerless to control their desire to keep 'comfort eating'. They may develop health 
problems as a result of carrying too much weight. 
Anorexia 
This often starts during the teens and may be a result of emotional problems connected with becoming an adult, 
as well as low self-esteem and/or physical or emotional abuse. It shares many features with bulimia. People with 
anorexia develop a fear of fatness that goes far beyond that of most dieters. The need to control their weight 
dominates all other emotions and food becomes the central issue of their lives. Binge eating is less likely, but the 
obsessions with weight and shape, exercising and the use of vomiting and laxatives to reduce weight are often 
major elements. Other signs before a person loses a dramatic amount of body weight include: 
failure to notice or be satisfield with the result of exercise 
avoiding food high in carbohydrates 
low mood 
menstrual cycle becomes irregular or ceases 
lack of interest in sex 
People with anorexia have a very low body weight, which can cause serious medical problems, including poor 
circulation, brittle bones, infertility, fainting and dizziness, dehydration and kidney damage. 
(BBCnews on line) 
Vocabulário: 
slim: magro(a), emagrecer 
desire: desejo 
as though: como se 
thin: magro(a) 
instead of: ao invés de 
frantic: frenético, desesperado 
to binge: farrear, beber/comer demais 
to purge: purgar, purificar 
enamel: esmalte 
to get rid of: livrar-se de 
weight: peso 
shape: forma 
as well as: assim como 
failure: falha, fracasso, deixar de... 
to avoid: evitar 
brittle: frágil, quebradiço 
 
 
A palavra their, usada no primeiro parágrafo, refere-se 
a) aos distúrbios alimentares. 
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b) às duas doenças. 
c) às doenças causadas pelo emagrecimento. 
d) aos padrões alimentares. 
e) às pessoas. 
 
Questão 07 - (UFMS/2007) 
 
Woman Dies During Liposuction at Home 
Adapted from: Centre Daily Times 
URL Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/n/a/2006/07/31/national/a083501D36.DTL 
Published: Jul 31, 2006 
Author: Associated Press 
Post Date: 2006-07-31 15:50:18 byWillie Green 
 
 
Framingham, Mass. (AP) -- A couple who authorities say performed liposuction in the basement of a home has 
been charged with practicing medicine without a license after the female patient died. 
Carlos Ribeira, 49, a native of Brazil, and his1 wife, Maria Ribeira, also 49, were arraigned in district court on 
Monday following the death of a 24-year-old woman Sunday. 
The Ribeiras pleaded not guilty. Ribeira was ordered held on $250,000 cash bail. His wife was held on $50,000 
cash bail. Both2 were ordered to surrender their3 passports. 
The Middlesex District Attorney's Office, which is investigating the case, would not release the identity of the 
patient4. An autopsy was to be performed Monday. 
Authorities said the woman5 was unconscious when she was brought to the hospital Sunday. She6 was 
pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. 
The district attorney's office said authorities believe that Ribeira and his wife administered illegally obtained drugs 
and performed the surgical procedure on the woman. 
Neither Ribeira nor his wife are licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts. 
Police charged Ribeira7 with unauthorized practice of medicine, drug possession and distribution, and illegal 
possession of a hypodermic needle. His wife was charged with unauthorized practice of medicine and drug 
distribution. 
A spokeswoman for the district attorney's office said she8 did not know what type of drugs. 
Framingham, a town of about 67,000 about 20 miles west of Boston, is home to an estimated 14,000 Brazilian 
immigrants. 
 
 
 
De acordo com o texto “Woman Dies During Liposuction at Home”, é correto afirmar: 
01. “his1” refere-se a um homem nascido no Brasil. 
02. “Both2” faz referência aos valores de 250 mil dólares e 50 mil dólares. 
04. “their3” refere-se a Carlos e Maria. 
08. “patient4”, “the woman5” e “She6” referem-se a uma jovem de 24 anos de idade. 
16. “Ribeira7” refere-se aos irmãos Ribeira. 
32. “she8” faz referência a Maria. 
 
Questão 08 - (UFMS/2007) 
STROKE: Remember the 1st three letters… 
February 01, 2006 
 
STROKE IDENTIFICATION: 
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During a barbecue at the home of friends, a lady stumbled and took a little fall
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 – she assured everyone that she 
was fine and had just
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 tripped over a brick because of
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 her new shoes. Her friends got her
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cleaned up and got her 
a new plate of food – while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself
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 the rest of the 
afternoon. 
Later in the day, after she had gone home, Ingrid's husband called her friends informing them that his
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 wife had 
been taken to the hospital. At 6:00pm, Ingrid passed away – It was discovered that she had suffered a stroke 
during lunch. Had they
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 known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps she would be with us today. 
However, many people who suffer strokes don't die. They
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 end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only 
takes a minute to read this and save somebody
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’s life. 
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke 
... totally! He
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 said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically 
cared for within 3 hours. 
 
RECOGNIZING A STROKE 
Just remember the first three letters of the word STRoke. Read and Learn! Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are 
difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may
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suffer severe brain 
damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. 
Doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions: 
S *Ask the individual
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 to SMILE. 
T *Ask the person
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 to TALK, to SAY A SIMPLE SENTENCE, Coherently (i.e... It is sunny today). 
R *Ask him
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 or her
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 to RAISE BOTH ARMS. 
NOTE: Another way to recognize a stroke is by asking the person to stick his or her tongue out straight... if the 
tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other - that is also an indication of a stroke. 
If he or she has trouble with any one
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of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the 
dispatcher. 
Source: text received by e-mail 
 
 
Baseado no texto “STROKE: Remember the 1st three letters...”, é correto afirmar: 
01. “her4” e “herself5” referem-se a Ingrid. 
02. “his6” refere-se aos amigos de Ingrid. 
04. “They8” refere-se aos amigos de Ingrid. 
08. “He10” refere-se ao esposo de Ingrid. 
16. “they7” refere-se aos amigos de Ingrid. 
32. “individual12”, “person13”, “him14” e “her15” referem-se a possíveis vítimas de um derrame cerebral. 
 
Questão 09 - (URCA CE/2006) 
YOU´LL LOUVRE IT! 
By Lou Lumenick 
 
RON Howards´s splendid “The Da Vinci Code” is the Holy Grail of summer blockbusters: a crackling, fast-movingthriller that´s every bit as brainy and irresistible as Dan Brown´s controversial bestseller. After being kept under 
close wraps by Sony, the hotly anticipated film was finally screened for critics yesterday before its premiere tonight 
at the Cannes Film Festival and its worldwide opening on Friday. 
It´s the best thing that either Howard and Tom Hanks – perfectly cast as Brown´s hero, Harvard symbologist 
Robert Langdon – Blank I , since their last collaboration, “Apollo 13”, a decade ago. (…) 
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Even those who haven´t read the book know that conspiracy involves Opus Dei, a real-life prelature of the Roman 
Catholic Church, which has condemned the novel as libelous and blasphemous. 
While the movie doesn´t seriously deviate from Brown´s premises, sometimes that premise is held at arm´s 
length: “We´ve been dragged into a world of people who think this stuff is real,” as Langdon puts it. While we´re 
not going to reveal major spoilers, the few people who haven´t read the book might want to stop reading now if 
they want to derive the fullest enjoyment from Blank II “The Da Vinci Code”. (…) 
Howard keeps the narrative taut, and Akiva Goldsman´s screenplay is a model adaptation that hews closely to the 
essentials of Brown´s already cinematic novel without being slavish. And this lavish production almost entirely 
avoids the schmaltz that Howard and Goldsman ladled over their previous collaborations, “A Beautiful Mind” and 
“Cinderella Man.” 
At the movie´s heart is Hanks, who is sympathetic, funny and immensely watchable as the rumpled Langdon. 
He´s well matched by Tautou, who in a difficult role shows the most screen presence since her breakthrough 
performance in “Amelie.” 
“The only thing that matters is what you believe,” – Langdon tells Sophie at one point. It´s also the creed of “The 
Da Vinci Code,” which is far more interested in being a rare summer movie that you won´t forget an hour after 
leaving the theater than questioning the basis of anybody´s religious faith. 
http://www.nypost.com/php 
 
 
In Brown´s hero, Brown´s could be replaced for the pronoun: 
a) him 
b) he 
c) his 
d) himself 
e) its 
 
Texto comum às questões: 10 e 21. 
Gang violence grips Brazil State 
 
Attacks are continuing in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo where a wave of coordinated violence since Friday has 
left at least 81 people dead. 
Overnight, gangs torched
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 buses
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, targeted banks and maintained their attacks on police patrols and stations. At 
least 23 people were killed in the latest fighting
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, officials said. Authorities say the unrest is being directed from 
inside jail by a criminal gang
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 after hundreds of its
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 members were sent to maximum security prisons. 
Correspondents say the violence is an escalation of what many in Sao Paulo are calling a war between the state 
authorities and the First Command of the Capital (PCC) criminal faction. 
Uprisings are said to have been quelled at some 40 jails
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, but officials are also struggling to restore order in 29. 
About 120 people are still being held hostage. Unrest has also been reported in some prisons in neighbouring
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states, including Mato Grosso do Sul and Parana. Following a meeting with the Brazilian president, Justice 
Minister Marcio Thomaz Bastos is on his way to Sao Paulo to offer the use of both the army and
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 an elite police 
unit. Petrol Bombs Heavily armed gangs held up more than 60 buses
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 during a third night of extreme violence in 
Sao Paulo, clearing
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 the passengers off and then setting the vehicles alight. Molotov cocktails were hurled into
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several bank branches and across Sao Paulo city, police stations again came under attack by gangs wielding 
machine guns, machetes and home-made bombs. There were also several fatal shoot-outs. 
On Monday morning, bus terminals and underground stations were closed amid fears of further attacks, making it 
impossible for many people to get to work. Many worried parents kept their children away from school
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. The 
attacks and riots began on Friday after 700 jailed PCC members were transferred to higher-security facilities
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. 
Violence was reported in various parts of Greater Sao Paulo, as well as towns along the coast, including Guaruja, 
Santos and Cubatao, and towns in the interior of the state. 
Despite the violence, the governor of Sao Paulo state
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, Claudio Lembo, has said local authorities can cope, but 
Brazilian newspapers report that the federal government is eager to send troops to restore order. 
Mobile Phones A local public safety official told the Associated Press that authorities had been prepared for a 
PCC response to the jail transfers but "never imagined it would be so big or ferocious”. 
According to authorities, 38 gunmen and 39 police officers and prison guards are among the dead. Those who 
saw the killing of one police officer said two men wearing
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 masks had approached and shot him
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 in the head as
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he dined with his wife
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. 
Founded in 1993, the PCC has been involved in drugs and arms trafficking, kidnappings, bank robberies, and 
prison breaks and rebellions, police say. The power of the faction has been heightened in recent years
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 by the 
availability of mobile phones, smuggled through prison security
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, enabling members to run criminal activities from 
the safety of their cells. 
In November 2003, the gang attacked more than 50 police stations
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, killing three police officers and wounding 12. 
Those attacks were thought to have been orchestrated by PCC leaders in jail. 
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www.bbc.news Monday, 15 May 2006 
Questão 10 - (UFPI/2006) Assinale a alternativa que corresponde ao referente do adjetivo possessivo “its” (ref.13): 
a) authorities; 
b) members; 
c) criminal gang; 
d) jail; 
e) officials. 
 
Questão 11 - (FGV /2006) 
 
TEXTO 2 
 
BUREAUCRACY BOGS DOWN BRAZIL IN RACE FOR GROWTH 
 
Thu Sep 1, 2005 
By Todd Benson 
 
1. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazil is closing the gap in the global race for growth and investment, 
but it still must tackle a series of politically sensitive economic reforms to be considered in the same league as 
China and India, analysts and business leaders say. 
2. A decade ago, Brazil was a rising star among emerging markets, poised to assert itself as a world economic 
powerhouse. But since 1994, Brazil has dropped to 14th place from eighth among the world’s largest economies 
in dollar terms, losing ground to countries like China, India and Russia. 
3. What went wrong? While Brazil has made significant strides in recent years in stabilizing its economy by 
defeating hyperinflation and controlling spending, it has struggled to push through a series of so-called 
microeconomic reforms that would create a more business-friendly environment and attract the investment 
needed to attain higher growth rates, according to economists and corporate leaders at a conference in Rio de 
Janeiro over Wednesday and Thursday. 
4. “On the macroeconomic side, we’ve done our homework,” said Mario Marconini, a senior adviser to the Sao 
Paulo State Federation of Industries, an influential business lobby. “But we would probably get two to three times 
as much investment if we focused more on the microeconomic reforms that are needed.” 
 
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5. One way Brazil could attract more investment would be to simplify the thicket of red tape that entrepreneurs 
must hack through to set up shop in South America’s largest economy. According to one World Bank study, it 
takes on average 152 days in Brazil to license a new business. By contrast, in Chile it takes 27 days, and just f ive 
in the United States.6. Other obstacles to more robust economic growth include the country’s snail-paced justice system and its rigid 
labor code, which dates back to 1943 and was inspired by fascist Italy. Though the cost of labor in Brazil is 
relatively low, benefits mandated by the labor code mean workers end up costing as much as their counterparts in 
some parts of Europe. 
7. Brazil’s bureaucracy means that many entrepreneurs who try to open a business legally often give up. 
Instead, most simply operate off the books, generating an underground economy that is thought to be nearly half 
the size of the official output. 
8. A bigger problem hamstringing Brazil’s long-term growth prospects is education. Though the government has 
invested heavily in primary education over the last decade, Brazil still has a relatively small pool of skilled workers, 
putting it at a disadvantage with emerging-market rivals like China and India. “Education is our weakest link, no 
doubt,” said Jose Carlos Grubisich, chief executive of petrochemical giant Braskem. 
(http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx. Adaptado) 
 
 
In the sentence of the 6th paragraph – Though the cost of labor in Brazil is relatively low, benefits mandated by 
the labor code mean workers end up costing as much as their counterparts in some parts of Europe. – the word 
their refers to 
a) benefits. 
b) cost of labor in Brazil. 
c) counterparts in Russia. 
d) workers in Brazil. 
e) counterparts in some parts of Europe. 
 
Questão 12 - (PUC RJ/2006) 
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Orkut is a virtual community designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. 
Today, “virtual community” is loosely used and interpreted to indicate a variety of social groups 
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connected in 
some ways by the Internet. It does not necessarily mean that there is a strong bond among the members. An 
email distribution list on Star Trek may have close to one hundred members, and the communication which takes 
place there could be either 
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one-way (the list owner making announcements) or merely informational (questions 
and answers are posted, but members stay relatively strangers and uninterested to each other). The membership 
turnover rate could be high. This is in line with the liberal use of the term 
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community. 
Similar to Friendster, Orkut goes a step further by permitting “communities” of users. It is also invitationonly: 
Users must be invited to join the community by someone already there. 
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Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google, the search engine company. The service was 
created by Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten, who had developed a similar system, InCircle, for his previous 
employer, Affinity Engines. InCircle was 
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intended for use by former university students. 
With regard to copyrights, their terms of service state: “By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or 
through the Orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, 
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sublicenseable, 
transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly 
perform and display such Materials”. 
Originally, the Orkut community was felt to be elite, because its membership is by invitation only. However, at 
the end of July 2004 Orkut surpassed the 1,000,000 member mark, and 
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at the end of September it surpassed 
the 2,000,000 mark. As of September 2004, 57% of Orkut’s members were from Brazil, followed by 14% from the 
United States and 6% from Iran. Brazilians 
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were below 50% from August 9 to August 20, 2004. It is believed that 
this happened because a lot of them changed their nationality to something else due to a rumor that users with 
their countries set to Brazil got slower speeds and a greater chance of getting an error 
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page. 
Invitations to Orkut are obtainable, with a few minutes’ (or days’) worth of diligence, via the web. 
From http://www.whatis.tv/Orkut.html (with slight adaptations) 
 
 
Mark the only correct statement. 
a) “It” (line 5) refers to “Internet”. 
b) “Which” (line 9) refers to “members”. 
c) “Who” (line 23) refers to “Google”. 
d) “His” (line 23) refers to “employer”. 
e) “Its” (line 34) refers to “community”. 
 
Questão 13 - (UFAM/2006) 
 
The average American teenager spends 1500 hours each year sitting in front of a TV set. In comparison they will 
have spent only 900 hours sitting in a classroom. 
This is not good news. 
Studies show that excessive TV watching is associated with all sorts of bad things such as poor school 
performance, a diminished attention span, and an increase in aggressive behavior. Too much TV watching also 
makes teens feel less secure and worry more that they will be a victim of crime. Teens who watch a lot of 
television also have lower social trust and are less engaged with friends. Television also makes children fat. 
According to the US government’s Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 8- to 16-year-olds who 
watched four or more hours of television a day, were on average 17 per cent heavier than those who watched 
fewer than two hours of television a day. 
In 1961, former FCC Commissioner Newton Minow described television as a vast wasteland. It’s become worse 
since then. But it’s not just the content of TV shows that is the problem. Research suggests that the passive 
nature of TV watching may lead to diminished brain growth in children. So even if your teen is watching four hours 
of news, documentaries and educational television a day, that is still too much. 
 
 
This is _____ grandfather. _____ is 75 years old and _____ brother is 81. _____ are both healthy and active. 
a) my – he – him – them 
b) my – he – his – they 
c) mine – he – his – they 
d) mine – he – him – they 
e) my – he – his – their 
 
Questão 14 - (UFMT/2006) 
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(Disponível em www.comics.com. Acesso em 15/05/2005.) 
 
 
Em relação aos recursos lingüísticos utilizados no texto, assinale a afirmativa correta. 
a) A palavra Your refere-se ao leitor. 
b) A expressão Click here indica obrigação. 
c) O verbo to help, nas duas ocorrências, está empregado no mesmo tempo verbal. 
d) O vocábulo children é a forma singular de child. 
e) A palavra them retoma o sentido de doações. 
 
Questão 15 - (UPE/2006) What are ______ names? ______ is Michael and ______ is Hellen. 
a) their; his; hers. 
b) your; my; hers. 
c) yours; mine; her. 
d) your; He; my. 
e) their; He’s; hers. 
 
Questão 16 - (PUC SP/2006) 
TIME World Thursday, Jun. 01, 2006 
Brazil's New Closing Time 
One city's decision to shut down bars before midnight has served as a model for cutting crime and 
alcoholism in a nation plagued by both 
By ANDREW DOWNIE/DIADEMA 
 
 
Their caipirinhas are as potent as their soccer stars, and their beer is so beloved that they hold annual 
competitions to decide which is the coldest, frothiest and tastiest. But while partying is second nature to Brazilians, 
the mornings after can be rougher than most. Some 17% of all men suffer from alcohol-related problems or 
dependence, and more than one in ten of all deaths in Brazil are alcohol-related  which is two and a half times 
the world average, according to the Brazilian Psychiatric Association. 
 
In recent years, however, a suburb of Sao Paulo came up with a new approach to help curb the nation's nasty 
collective hangover. In Diadema, a gritty, industrial city of almost 400,000 people, Mayor Jose de Filippi Junior 
passed a law in 2002 that forced almost all of the city's 4,800 bars and restaurants to stop selling alcohol between 
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Since the law kicked in, "the number of murders fell by 47.4%," said Regina Miki, the city's social-services chief. 
"The number of road accidents fell by 30%. The number of assaults against women fell by 55%. And the number 
of alcohol-related hospital admissions fell by 80%. And it's all because of this law." 
 
Such phenomenal statistics are leading towns and cities all over Brazil to embrace partial prohibition as a cheap 
and effective solution to the inner-city violence that has made it one of the bloodiest societies in the world. At least 
120 municipalities have followed Diadema's lead, and the federal government encourages such prevention efforts 
by offering additional funding for law enforcement to towns that restrict drinking. Even international experts have 
taken notice. 
 
 
No trecho inicial do texto  Their caipirinhas are as potent as their soccer stars, and their beer is so beloved that 
they hold annual competitions… o pronome their referese a: 
a) brasileiros. 
b) moradores de Diadema. 
c) craques do futebol. 
d) operários da periferia de Diadema. 
e) homens. 
 
Questão 17 - (UCS RS/2006) 
 
Goodbye To Goldie The Oldest Fish 
 
 
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Goldie, said to be the oldest goldfish in the world, has died at the grand old age of 45. 
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Owners Pauline and 
Tom Evans from Bradninch in Devon, said the family pet had been out
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of sorts for a while, resting at the bottom of 
his tank. 
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Goldie inherited the unofficial "oldest" record from Tish the goldfish from North 
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Yorkshire which was 43 when 
it died. 
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Mr Evans said: "It's the end of an era and a bit sad." Goldie has been buried in the 
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Evans' garden, and 
although Mr and Mrs Evans say their house seems very empty without 
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Goldie, they said they have no plans to 
replace him. 
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Goldie was one of three goldfish won at a fair in Budleigh Salterton by Mrs Evans' 
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parents in1960. When 
her mother and father died in 1995 and 1997, Goldie – always 
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referred to as 'he' – was transferred into a bucket 
to make the 45-minute drive to Bradninch. 
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Since becoming an elder statesman for goldfish, Goldie has done his bit for charity. 
13
Amazed at the media 
interest in their fish, Mr and Mrs Evans asked for donations to Vranch 
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House. Cheques should be made payable 
to Devon and Exeter Spastic Society. These 
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allowed Goldie to sponsor an aquarium at the school, much to the 
children's delight. 
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Spokesman Graeme Wheeler said: "The support generated by Pauline through Goldie has 
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been amazing and the children absolutely adore the aquarium. Goldie was one hell of a 
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fish." 
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Goldie was also featured in a Japanese television film about goldfish. 
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However, the years did take their toll on the goldfish, whose skin faded from a yelloworange 
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to a pale pink. 
However, Goldie did not make it into the Guinness Book of Records 
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because no documentary proof was 
available to prove his age. 
(Disponível em: www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk. Acesso em: 15 out. 2005 – Texto adaptado.) 
 
 
Ao dizer It’s the end of an era and a bit sad (linha 06), o sr. Evans refere-se 
a) ao fato de que a família estava muito triste. 
b) à morte de Goldie. 
c) ao fato de que não haveria mais doações. 
d) ao fato de o peixe não ter deixado filhotes. 
e) ao encerramento das atividades do aquário na escola. 
 
Questão 18 - (UEG GO/2006) 
 
TEXTO 3 
 
THE EARTH FOR SALE 
Harold Monro 
 
1 Is there no pledge to make at once with Earth 
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2 While yet we have not murdered all her trees; 
3 Before it is too late for oath or pledge; 
4 While yet man may be happy in his birth – 
5 Before we have to fall upon our knees, 
6 Clinging for safety to her farthest edge? 
 
7 It is not very noble that we kill 
8 Her lions and tigers, all. Is that our reign? – 
9 Then let us build ourselves on earth again. 
10 What is the human will? 
 
11 Is it so clearly better than the ant’s? 
12 And is our life more holy than the plants’? 
13 They do fulfill their purpose every year, 
14 And bring no pain, nor fear. 
Disponível em: <http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/3025.html>. Acesso em: 10 maio 2006. [Adaptado]. 
 
 
TEXTO 4 
 
IS THIS THE WORLD WE CREATED…? 
Brian May, Freddie Mercury 
 
1 Just think of all those hungry mouths we have to feed 
2 Take a look at all the suffering we breed 
3 So many lonely faces scattered all around 
4 Searching for what they need. 
 
5 Is this the world we created…? 
6 What did we do it for 
7 Is this the world we invaded 
8 Against the law 
9 So it seems in the end 
10 Is this what we’re all living for today 
11 The world that we created 
 
12 We know that everyday a helpless child is born 
13 Who needs some loving care inside a happy home 
14 Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne 
15 Waiting for life to go by. 
 
16 Wooh, is this the world we created…? 
17 We made it all our own 
18 Is this the world we devastated, right to the bone 
19 If there’s a God in the sky looking down 
20 What can he think of what we’ve done 
21 To the world that he created. 
Disponível em: <http://www.queenwords.com/lyrics/songs/sng13_09.shtml> Acesso em: 10 maio 2006. 
 
 
Com relação aos aspectos lingüísticos do texto 3, é CORRETO afirmar: 
a) O título do poema expressa esperança e otimismo em relação ao futuro do planeta. 
b) A forma negativa de we have not murdered all her trees, seria: “we don’t have murdered all her trees”. 
c) O termo her, em Her lions and tigers (linha 8) refere-se a Earth (linha 1). 
d) A sentença They do fulfil their purpose every year tem o mesmo sentido de “They really realize their goal 
once a year”. 
 
Questão 19 - (UEM PR/2006) 
TEXTO 
 
Teen Obesity 
 
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Obesity continued to increase dramatically during the late 1990s for Americans of all ages according to the 
data collected and analyzed by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the 
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Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC). 
The percent of children and teens who are overweight also continues to increase. Among children and teens 
aged 6-19, 15 percent (almost 9 million) are overweight according to the 1999-2000 
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data, or triple what the 
proportion was in 1980. In addition, the data shows that another 15 percent of children and teens aged 6-19, are 
considered at risk of becoming overweight. 
Obesity can be defined as an excessive 
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accumulation of body fat, which results in individuals being at least 
20% heavier than their ideal body weight. 
"Overweight" is defined as any weight in excess of the ideal range. Obesity is a common 
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eating disorder 
associated with adolescence. 
Although children have fewer weight-related health problems than adults, overweight children are at high risk 
of becoming overweight adolescents and adults. 
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Overweight people of all ages are at risk for a number of health problems including heart disease, diabetes, 
high blood pressure, stroke and some forms of cancer. 
Obesity can weaken physical health and well
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being, and can shorten life expectancy. It can also lead to 
social disabilities and unhappiness, which may cause stress and even mental illness. A study released in May 
2004 suggests that overweight children are more likely to be involved in bullying 
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than normal-weight children 
are, both as victims and as perpetrators of teasing, name-calling and physical bullying. 
The development of a personal identity and body image is an important goal for adolescents. 
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Your parents, 
physician and teacherscan help you. If you think you are overweight, talk to a trusted adult about what you can 
do to improve your health. 
(Disponível em <http://www.pamf.org/teen/health/diseases/obesity.html>.Acesso em 26 outubro 2005.) 
 
 
Assinale a alternativa na qual o vocábulo apresentado indica posse. 
a) "who" (linha 6) 
b) "another" (linha 11) 
c) "their" (linha 16) 
d) "have" (linha 21) 
e) "which"(linha 31) 
 
 
Questão 20 - (UFMS/2006) 
B e i n g a m o t h e r o r f a t h e r – a c o n s t a n t l e a r n i n g p r o c e s s 
We don't need to go to school to learn to be good mothers and fathers. 
 
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The other day I saw an article that caught my attention: the headline was 'School in France teaches how to 
be a father and mother'. Because of my personal situation - I am a first-time mother of a one-year-old baby - I 
rushed to read the article about the French experience. The School for Parents and Educators (EPE in French), a 
non-governmental 
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organization offers activities and services that help train mothers and fathers throughout 
France. The project seems to be very interesting and the numbers confirm its success: in 1998 the EPE recorded 
51,000 visits made by parents. The comments made by mothers and fathers are encouraging: they talk about how 
good it feels to share the same experiences, and the same joys and heartaches with fellow parents. 
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How to be a good enough mother or father for our children is a topic that is high on everyone's agenda, more 
so today than ever before. Theories on modern psychology and education abound and have been widely 
disseminated. Parents devour information about how to raise their children with the same voracity of a hungry 
baby nursing at his mother's breast. But often they read so much and listen to so many diverse and diverging 
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opinions that they end up with a theoretical overdose. An excess of information often distracts parents from their 
most precious gift: that of simply observing their own children. This, more than any theory, provides parents with 
that "sixth sense" that enables them automatically and naturally to "figure out" what the child needs. 
We must remember that intuition should go hand in hand with common sense, which 
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comes from the loving 
and caring observation of the everyday lives of children and youngsters. Any studies that have been done about 
their universe will confirm this. Readings, conversations with friends, support groups and the help of experienced 
professionals are always welcome, as long as the participants are caring and loving parents. 
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We do not need to go to school to learn how to be mothers and fathers. We should, however, do everything 
in our power to ensure that we are truly doing the best we can. But without all that guilt or neurosis. After all, 
education goes both ways: we will teach them about life and they will teach us. Parents can learn so much from 
their children, including how to be decent parents - and vice versa. 
Source: CLASSE, on-board TAM magazine, Oct, 2005 
 
Assinale a(s) alternative(s) correta(s). 
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01. its in its success (line 6) refers to project. 
02. their in their universe (line 21) refers to studies. 
04. them in teach them (lines 27 and 28) refers to ways. 
08. This in this … provides (line 17) refers to the fact of observing children. 
16. their in raise their children (line 13) refers to theories. 
 
 
Questão 21 - (UFPI/2006) Assinale a alternativa que corresponde ao referente do adjetivo possessivo “its” (linha - 
04): 
a) authorities; 
b) members; 
c) criminal gang; 
d) jail; 
e) officials. 
 
Questão 22 - (UNIFAP/2006) 
 
ANXIETY SEEN IN TEENAGERS WHO SMOKE By DENISE GRADY 
 
Contrary to the popular belief that teenagers who smoke are nervous children who use tobacco to calm down, 
a new study suggests that heavy smoking may have the opposite effect, and actually increase their risk of 
developing certain anxiety disorders in late adolescence or early adulthood. 
The study found that compared with nonsmokers, teenagers who smoked at least 20 cigarettes a day had 12 
times the risk of suffering panic attacks and 5 times the risk of generalized anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, a 
fear of open spaces that makes some people unable to leave their homes. 
''These severe anxiety disorders can start within only a few years of starting to smoke a pack a day,'' said Dr. 
Jeffrey G. Johnson, an author of the study and an assistant professor of clinical psychology at Columbia 
University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Johnson said he hoped the findings would persuade 
teenagers to quit smoking, or not to start. 
Dr. Alan I. Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said the study was important because it 
showed that cigarette smoking might cause emotional harm rapidly in teenagers, long before physical effects like 
lung cancer and heart disease would show up. 
How smoking might heighten anxiety is not known. Dr. Johnson and his co-authors, from the National Institute 
of Mental Health and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, said the increased anxiety might be due to the 
effects of nicotine on the brain or of diminished oxygen levels in smokers. Dr. Johnson said studies by other 
researchers had shown that breathing problems and lack of oxygen could touch off panic attacks, a finding that 
helped persuade him and his colleagues to pursue their research. 
The study is the second recent one to suggest that smoking may lead to emotional disturbance in teenagers. 
An article in October in the journal Pediatrics reported that teenagers who smoked were four times as likely as 
nonsmokers to develop depression. But those who were already depressed were no more likely to take up 
smoking than teenagers not suffering from depression. 
People with generalized anxiety disorder have frequent feelings of fear and anxiety, often accompanied by 
physical symptoms like rapid heartbeat, sweating and shortness of breath, Dr. Johnson said. 
The researchers found that teenagers who already had anxiety disorders at the age of 16 were no more likely 
to smoke than those without anxiety disorders. In both groups, 14 percent to 15 percent went on to smoke at least 
20 cigarettes a day in early adulthood. ''Anxiety disorders during adolescence did not contribute to increased 
smoking,'' Dr. Johnson said. ''There was no association, not even a hint of an association.'' 
At the mean age of 16 years, 39 of the teenagers, or 6 percent, smoked at least 20 cigarettes a day. Six years 
later, agoraphobia had developed in 4, generalized anxiety disorder in 8 and panic disorder in 3. The rates of 
those disorders were far lower in those who had smoked less or not at all. 
Dr. Johnson said his research did not determine exactly how long a person had to smoke heavily to increase 
the risk of anxiety disorders or reveal whether stopping smoking would help to get rid of the disorders. 
(Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company) 
 
 
A palavra their, usada no 5º parágrafo do texto, refere-se: 
a) aos outros cientistas. 
b) ao Dr. Johnson e seus colegas. 
c) aos efeitos da nicotina. 
d) aos ataques de pânico. 
e) aos estudos do Dr. Johnson e seus colegas. 
 
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Questão 23 - (UNIFOR CE/2006) 
Time for Marketers to Grow Up? 
 
By Cris Prystay and Sarah Ellison 
 
If demography is destiny, then consumer products companies are facing an aging future. As the 
[POSSESSIVE] slow down and [PRONOUN] population ages, multinational companies are being forced to 
reconsider strategies for selling diapers, arthritis medicine and everything in between. 
But some remain reluctant to let go of their fixationon youth. Lois Coleman, who organizes focus-groups for 
consumer companies, says she is almost [ADVERB] asked to study people over age 50. Even for the bran flakes 
she helped launch in Mexico, she was asked to talk to consumers under 35. "It was a bran cereal," she says, 
pausing. "Now who do you think really needed that product – the kids in their 20s?" 
(Adapted from http://www.globalaging.org/elderrights/world/grow.htm) 
 
 
No texto, a forma correta de [PRONOUN] é 
a) its. 
b) their. 
c) her. 
d) his. 
e) your. 
 
Questão 24 - (UNIFRA RS/2005) I wonder why some housewives ___________ changed __________ ways after 
reading the book. 
a) haven’t - their 
b) didn’t - its 
c) aren’t - her 
d) hasn’t - hers 
e) weren’t - theirs 
 
Questão 25 - (CEFET PR/2004) 
DID YOU KNOW? 
 
Where there are salmon streams there usually are bears. And Vancouver Island, with its abundant salmon 
streams, seems like perfect bear habitat. The American black bear (Ursus americanus) does inhabit the island, 
but oddly there are no grizzly bears (Ursus arctos), even though many are found just a short distance away on the 
mainland of British Columbia. Why? Some scientists believe that the two species of bear simply cannot coexist on 
islands, even though they do coexist on the continent— perhaps it would mean too much competition in a 
confined space. But the fact of the matter is that no one really knows. 
— Alice J. Dunn 
(Disponível em: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0302/fea ture6/index.html Acesso em 04 mar. 2004.) 
 
 
Its in “… with its abundant salmon streams …” refers to: 
a) a salmon stream. 
b) Vancouver Island. 
c) the American black bear. 
d) British Columbia. 
e) a grizzly bear. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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GABARITO: 
 
1) Gab: B 
2) Gab: C 
3) Gab: C 
4) Gab: A 
5) Gab: C 
6) Gab: E 
7) Gab: 13 
8) Gab: 49 
9) Gab: C 
10) Gab: C 
11) Gab: D 
12) Gab: E 
13) Gab: B 
14) Gab: A 
15) Gab: A 
16) Gab: A 
17) Gab: B 
18) Gab: C 
19) Gab: C 
20) Gab: 9 
21) Gab: C 
22) Gab: B 
23) Gab: A 
24) Gab: A 
25) Gab: B