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CHINA'S CENTURY BABIES
The rumor started circulating last December: babies born just past the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, would win prizes, 1perks, even a "passport" from the World Health Organization. Soon the notion of having ___(I)___ the media 2dubbed a Century Baby took off.
But officials of the WHO do not issue passports and were not terribly amused. The prospect of a sudden baby boom would hardly advance their efforts to control the global population. Even as they denied the rumors, promoters around the world came forward with real offers. Millennium babies will win a car from a newspaper in Russia, and 100 francs from local authorities in France. Couples from Beijing to Paris are already aware that the best time to conceive a Y2K kid is on or about April 9 - an evening the British press ___(II)___ "bonk night". Only in China, ___(III)___ started as a silly rumor ___(IV)___ superstitious parents on a collision course with officials, ___(V)___ fear that even one hyperfertile night could end up overwhelming delivery rooms, crowding schools and generally aggravating the burdens of the world's largest population.
Chinese fertility experts ___(VI)___ that, worldwide, only 13 true Century Babies will be born right after midnight on the millennium. "So the chance of success is tiny. My patients are realistic; only a very small number are hoping for a Century Baby", said Dr. Huang. "Besides, with so many time zones and hospitals involved worldwide, ___(VII)___ can verify whether you've had a true Century Baby or not?"
(Adapted from Newsweek. March,1,1999.)
As lacunas II, IV e VI devem ser preenchidas, respectivamente, por:
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(UFSCar - 2000)
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
THE END OF EVOLUTION?
The development of symbolic thought and complex communication did nothing less than alter human evolution. For one thing, high-tech transportation means that the world, though ethnically diverse, now really consists of a single, huge population. "Everything we know about evolution suggests that to get true innovation, you need small, isolated populations," says Tattersall, "which is now unthinkable."
Not only is a new human species next to impossible, but technology has essentially eliminated natural selection as well. During prehistory, only the fittest individuals and species survived to reproduce. Now strong and weak alike have access to medicine, food and shelter of unprecedented quality and abundance. "Poor peasants in the Third World," says University of Michigan anthropologist Milford Wolpoff, "are better off than the Emperor of China was 1,000 years ago."
And technology shows no signs of slowing down, which means that even dramatic changes in the natural world won't necessarily have evolutionary consequences. Argues Wolpoff.. 'We're not going to adapt to the next ice age by changing our physical form. We'll set off an atom bomb or set up a space mirror or whatever to control climate.' Manipulation of the human genome, meanwhile, will eventually let us change the basic characteristics of our species to order. Evolution by natural selection could be replaced, perhaps chillingly, with evolution by human intervention.
That's not to say humanity can't become extinct. A 50-mile-wide asteroid crashing down from space would do it. So could a sudden and thorough collapse of earth's ecosystem through pollution, deforestation and the like - unless we establish some colonies in space beforehand. But, whatever happens, the long history of multiple hominid species struggling for supremacy on earth is over. After millions of years, evolution by natural selection, operating blindly and randomly, has produced a creature capable of overturning evolution itself. Where we go from here is now up to us.
(From "Up From The Apes" in TIME MAGAZINE, August 23,1999, p.5.)
A palavra "unless" que se encontra no último parágrafo, na frase "-unless we establish some colonies..." indica uma relação de
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(UFRGS - 2000)
In Victorian England, the valet, the master's personal servant, had much prestige within the household. First, he had to have, clean and repaired, the correct outfit for every occasion, to attend to his master's toilette (perhaps using his own recipe for shaving soap or boot polishing) including the ironing of shoelaces and the washing of small 1change. The valet travelled everywhere of 2consequence with his master, deciphering train timetables and taking charge of valuables and cash, and he was 3privy to many close-kept secrets. Abroad he acted as courier and interpreter, and might well have more contacts and knowledge of foreign ways than his master. He needed 4to be fit, for he rose before his master and could not sleep until long after he had retired.
Fonte: Pitkin Guides, 1998
The ING forms that have, in the text, the function of nouns are
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(FATEC - 2000)
ATTENTION, E-COMMERCE SHOPPERS: your days of being tied to the PC for your product needs may soon be over. In the near future, currently being envisaged by engineers, you'll go shopping via Palm Pilot, via TV with cable-modem hookup, via game machine, via intelligent refrigerator - via any means, it seems, other than a good old-fashioned desktop and keyboard.
A new kind of consumer is about to emerge as the Internet revolution spills over the edges of the computer revolution's territory. "The next wave is people who never wanted to buy a PC," says Barry Parr an analyst at International Data Corp. Even as early as 2003, analysts expect, a third of on-line households will be spending around $50 billion through non-PC devices.
Many of them won't even have to open a Web browser to go shopping. Internet-ready cell phones already have e-commerce capabilities. Sony's latest terminal for WebTV offers split-screen shopping, so you can buy Christmas gifts without taking your eyes off the tube. Excite Home's broadband cable service will launch an undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say you're watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and it's heading to your door. Excite Home already knows your credit-card details and address. Just sit back and wait for the calories.
By Chris Taylor
TIME, DECEMBER 27,1999
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra, extraída do texto, cuja formação com o sufixo "-ING" obedece à mesma regra gramatical de "being" em "...your days of BEING tied to the PC...", no primeiro parágrafo do texto.
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(Mackenzie - 2000)
Indicate the alternative that best completes the following sentence.
"The most ______ material for _______ consumer goods ____________ cardboard."
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(PUC - PR 2000) Tick the CORRECT ORDER:
who - true - pursue - our - for - opinion
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(UFSCar - 2000)
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
THE END OF EVOLUTION?
The development of symbolic thought and complex communication did nothing less than alter human evolution. For one thing, high-tech transportation means that the world, though ethnically diverse, now really consists of a single, huge population. "Everything we know about evolution suggests that to get true innovation, you need small, isolated populations," says Tattersall, "which is now unthinkable."
Not only is a new human species next to impossible, but technology has essentially eliminated natural selection as well. During prehistory, only the fittest individuals and species survived to reproduce. Now strong and weak alike have access to medicine, food and shelter of unprecedented quality and abundance. "Poor peasants in the Third World," says University of Michigan anthropologist Milford Wolpoff, "are better off than the Emperor of China was 1,000 years ago."
And technology shows no signs of slowing down, which means that even dramatic changes in the natural world won't necessarily have evolutionary consequences. Argues Wolpoff.. 'We're not going to adapt to the next ice age by changing our physical form. We'll set off an atom bomb or set up a space mirror or whatever to control climate.' Manipulation of the human genome, meanwhile, will eventually let us change the basic characteristics of our species to order. Evolution by natural selection could be replaced, perhaps chillingly, with evolution by human intervention.
That's not to say humanity can't become extinct. A 50-mile-wide asteroid crashing down from space would do it. So could a sudden and thorough collapse of earth's ecosystem through pollution, deforestation and the like - unless we establish some colonies in space beforehand. But, whatever happens, the long history of multiple hominid species struggling for supremacy on earth is over. After millions of years, evolution by natural selection, operating blindly and randomly, has produced a creature capable of overturning evolution itself. Where we go from here is now up to us.
(From "Up From The Apes" in TIME MAGAZINE, August 23,1999, p. 5.)
A palavra "which" na frase "which is now unthinkable", constante da última linha do primeiro parágrafo, refere-se a
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(PUC-RS - 2000)
TEXTO
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.
(REUTERS) - Thursday, September 2and, 1999.
1 California schoolchildren will no longer learn their classroom lessons by 1counting M&M's, 2calculating the cost of Nike tennis shoes or pondering the benefits of Gatorade drinks.
2 Under a new law signed by Gov. Gray Davis Wednesday, product logos and brand names will be 3banned from textbooks in California - the first state in the nation to act against overt advertising in schoolbooks.
3 The law 4prohibits 5product references in textbooks bought with state money, unless the state education board finds they are needed for educational purposes or if they appear incidentally in illustrations or pictures.
4 "I don't think our children should be subjected to needless 6advertising", democratic Assemblywoman Kerry Mazzoni, the 11bill's author, 7said in a telephone interview.
5 Mazzoni introduced the bill after a parent approached her about his child's math textbook, which was filled with references to products such as Gatorade drinks, M&M candies and Oreo cookies.
6 One math textbook, for example, asked: Bob is saving his allowance to buy a pair of Nike shoes that cost $68.25. If Bob 9earns $3.25 a week, how many weeks will he need to 10save?"
7 "That is very typical of one example," she said.
8 Most of the product examples were found in word problems in books at a wide range of levels, Mazzoni added. The state Board of Education has a policy against such references since 1997, but enforcement has been lax.
9 Although the publisher 8maintained it used the product examples to make lessons more relevant and did not receive money for including them, Mazzoni said textbooks were no place for advertising - whether intended or not.
The correct ACTIVE VOICE for the sentence "Most of the product examples were found in word problems in books" in "People
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(Mackenzie - 2000)
LEARNING TO THINK
Asians (I) proud of how well they educate their children. Thanks to the prodding of their determined parents, Asians score highest in science and math in worldwide comparisons. But from Tokyo to Taipei and Singapore, governments are realizing their children are so overstressed and overtested that they are ill equipped for the Information Age, (II) thinking and creativity hold a premium. Reform-minded educators share a similar complaint: ask a Korean student to write a creative essay or a Japanese student to pose a challenging question and or a Hong Kong student to even ask a question and, more often than not, they will be unable to stray from the script.
Two years ago Kishore Mahbubani, a senior official in Singapore, posed a challenging question at a conference: "Can Asians think?" It was a remarkable moment of self-doubt. For years, Singapore's leaders had been 1crowing about the advantages of Asian values, the idea that order in schools and government alike works better in Asia than Western-style freedom. But across Asia, that approach (III) efficient, obedient workers (IV) let their bosses do the thinking for them. Governments merrily invested in production lines and gleaming skyscrapers, and even school buildings, but skimped on developing modern teaching methods and training teachers. The result: Asia's schools (V) so neglected that in many countries kids attend for half-day sessions in classrooms so crowded they are ready to bust. Asian students are too busy memorizing deadening answers to learn to think. In too many Asian classrooms, thinking actually 2gets in the way.
(Adapted from Newsweek. September 6, 1999.)
The sentence "He said, "Can Asians think?"' in the reported speech would be:
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(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 and 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.)
The sentence 'They said, "Do parents know their kids?"' in the reported speech would be:
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