FUVEST 2000

Questão 2607

(FUVEST - 2000) 

A explosão dos computadores pessoais, as "infovias", as grandes redes - a lnternet e a World Wide Web - atropelaram o mundo.

Tornaram as leis antiquadas, reformularam a economia, reordenaram prioridades, redefiniram os locais de trabalho, desafiaram constituições, mudaram o conceito de realidade e obrigaram as pessoas a ficar sentadas, durante longos períodos de tempo, diante de telas de computadores, enquanto o CD-Rom trabalha. Não há dúvida de que vivemos a revolução da informação e, diz o professor do MIT, Nicholas Negroponte, revoluções não são sutis.

(Jornal do Brasil, 13/02/96)

A expressão "revoluções não são sutis" indica

Questão 2668

(UFPE)

A escrita formal de textos requer a observância das normas da ortografia oficial. Identifique a série em que toda as palavras respeitam tais normas.

Questão 2975

(Ufal 2000)  

A acentuação dos dois vocábulos obedece à mesma regra de acentuação do vocábulo LÍNGUA em 

Questão 3064

 (Unirio 2000)

 "Apesar de o controle dos genes envolvidos no processo de envelhecimento ser uma das maiores conquistas da humanidade, não é objetivo dos cientistas a criação de pessoas imortais, uma vez que o corpo humano na sua forma atual não é compatível com a imortalidade física; assim, o importante é como se vive durante a velhice." O período acima, síntese do texto I, estrutura-se numa relação de coesão e coerência, através de ideias. São elas, respectivamente: 

Questão 3084

(PUC-Rio - 2000)

THE LABORATORY OF URBANISM

1          For the first time in human history, early in the next millennium, there will be more people living in cities than on the rest of the planet. Until the late 19th century, the world's urban population did not surpass 10% of the human total. In the 20th century, that percentage has more than quadrupled, and at the very beginning of the new era, almost one-half of all humanity will live in an urban area. The biggest problems and challenges of the next millennium will certainly be urban. The solutions will need to be urban too.

2          If the story will be that of the city and its discontents, Latin America will be its paramount laboratory. Latin America and the Caribbean have exceeded the global trend in the past half-century. Entering the next millennium, nearly 75% of the region's population is urban, a level rapidly approaching those of Europe and North America, up from less than 50% in 1950. Two of the five largest agglomerations in the world - São Paulo and Mexico City, with populations in excess of 16 million and 15 million, respectively - are in Latin America, as well as three other megacities, ²metropolitan areas with more than 8 million residents each: Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Lima. By 2015, Latin America will be the most ³urbanized region in the world, with an estimated 364 million city dwellers, four metropolitan areas of more than 10 million people, and 28% of the total population living in cities of a million or more inhabitants

3          The consequences of this astounding ⁴demographic shift, one that is almost unprecedented in its magnitude and compressed time frame, will dominate the region indefinitely. Rural Latin America is becoming little more than the womb of urban Latin America. It will be increasingly so in the decades ahead.

4          The reasons people migrate to cities are clear: economic opportunity born of greater economic productivity in the cities; and a better life than in the country as a result of access to health care and other services. Much is made of the ⁵squalid and violent conditions of the shantytowns that sprawl across the region, but life expectancy levels of ⁶urban dwellers far exceed those for rural areas, as ¹do education levels and most other standard-of-living measures.

Alberto Vourvoulias (excerpt). Time, May 24, 1999

In the sentence "For the first time..." (par.1), the future form is used to express a prediction. In which of the alternatives below is the future form used to express a similar idea?

Questão 3136

(Mackenzie - 2000)

DO PARENTS KNOW THEIR KIDS?

There are now 31 million kids in the 12-to-19 age group, and demographers predict that there will be 35 million teens by 2010, a population bulge bigger than even the baby boom at ___(I)___ peak. In many ways, these teens are uniquely privileged. They've grown up in a period of sustained prosperity and haven't had to worry about the draft (as ___(II)___ fathers did) or cataclysmic global conflicts (as ___(III)___ grandparents did). Cable and the Internet ___(IV)___ them access to an almost infinite amount of information.

In survey after survey, many kids - even those on the honor roll - say they feel increasingly alone and alienated, unable to connect with ___(V)___ parents, teachers, and sometimes even classmates. They're desperate for guidance, and when they don't get ___(VI)___ they need at home or in school, they cling to cliques or immerse themselves in a universe out of their parents' reach, a world defined by computer games, TV and movies, ___(VII)___ brutality is so common it ___(VIII)___ mundane.

Many teens say they feel ¹overwhelmed by pressure and responsibilities. They are juggling part-time jobs and hours of homework every night; sometimes they're so exhausted that they're nearly asleep in early-morning classes. Half ___(IX)___ through their parents' divorce. Sixty-three percent are in households ___(X)___ both parents work outside the home, and many look after younger siblings in the afternoon. Still others are home by themselves after school. That unwelcome ²solitude can extend well into the evening; mealtime for this generation too often begins with a ³forlorn touch of the microwave.

In fact, of all the issues that trouble adolescents, loneliness ranks at the top of the list. University of Chicago sociologist Barbara Schneider ___(XI)___ 7,000 teenagers for five years and ___(XII)___ they spend an average of 3 1/2 hours alone every day. Teenagers may claim they want privacy, but they also crave and need attention - and they're not getting it.

(Adapted from Newsweek. May 10, 1999.)

As lacunas I, II, III e V devem ser preenchidas, respectivamente, por:

Questão 3138

(PUC - MG - 2000)

Raymond Sasso has smoked since his early teens. He used to sit in the San Francisco hairstyling salon where he worked, enjoying a cigarette while waiting for his next client. Then California passed its anti-smoking legislation, Assembly Bill 13, banning smoking in all public places. Sasso could still smoke, but he had to do it outside. "Not being allowed to smoke at work got me started", says 44-year old Sasso. "But the smoking ban in bars and restaurants is what really got me going". Late in 1995 Sasso co-founded FORCES (Fight Ordinances & Restrictions to Control & Eliminate Smoking), a political-action group dedicated to promoting and protecting the right of smokers. FORCES is only one such group. Others include the American Smokers Alliance, Friends of Tobacco, the Smokers Freedom Society and AIR (Americans For Individual Rights). Set up by Los Angeles bar owner John Johnson, AIR openly and loudly defies the smoking ban in bars and has become a focal point in the area for dissatisfaction over the state's extreme anti-smoking position. AIR was established to resist what Johnson calls dogooder politicians who are gradually taking away individual liberties and subverting citizens' ability to make informed choices as to how THEY should lead their lives.

(FROM: Speak Up, June 99 - adapted.)

The pronoun THEY in "...how they should lead their lives" refers to

Questão 3146

(Mackenzie - 2000) Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente o diálogo apresentado:

A: How do you like your coffee?

B:___________________________

Questão 3168

(Mackenzie - 2000)

OUR NEW LOOK: THE COLORS OF RACE

The new century will not see the end of race - the dawning of an era (I) skin color is of (II) consequence- but it will see a further erosion of racial walls. And it will see America struggling to make sense of shifting racial classifications.

Already, Americans (III) - in ways both substantive and superficial - to conform to the new, more egalitarian, ideal. Nazis may still march, but they are inevitably outnumbered by counterprotesters. Aryan Nation kooks may still kill; but, if caught, they are imprisoned, stigmatized and scorned. Racial purity is not as prized as it once was. People (IV) call themselves white proudly acknowledge Latino and Native American roots. A small number even acknowledge some black ancestry. And interracial romance, once 1outlawed and condemned, now openly blooms.

Between 1960 and 1992 the number of interracially married couples multiplied more than seven times over. Black-white unions are still not the norm, accounting for only 20 percent of interracial marriages, but the marriage color line has all but dissolved between Asians and whites. In America, more children are born to white-Japanese couples than to parents (V) are both of Japanese ancestry. Then there are Hispanics, (VI) are projected to become America's second largest racial-ethnic group (after whites) by 2010. Latinos may consider themselves white, black, American Indian, Asian or Pacific Islander - or deem themselves (VII) of the above. It is not __(VIII)__ in Latin America for people (IX) don't consider themselves black to speak of a grandparent who is. Whatever they call themselves, the presence of an ever-growing number of multiracials or mestizos is forcing Americans to relinquish the notion that everyone can be put in a single racial box. The Census Bureau, acknowledging that reality, will allow people to be counted in more than one racial category during next year's Census.

The rise of the mixed-race - or café au lait- society (X) some to predict the end of distinctions based on ethnicity, racial appearance or ancestry. That seems unlikely. Even in Brazil, (XI) racial mixing is accepted, even celebrated, color coding (XII) __(XIII)__ sting. Status and privilege are still connected to lighter skin. Racial distinctions, __(XIV)__ mutable and imprecise, are constantly made. In the emerging U.S. mestizo future, some people will still be whiter than others - and if the Latin America experience is any guide, they will have an advantage.

Newsweek 

As lacunas II, VII e XIII devem ser preenchidas, corretamente, por:

Questão 3169

7. (Mackenzie 2000) Indicate the alternative that best completes the following sentence.

"Thanks ______ the financial aid he ______, he __________ to attend the university."