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I started to run because I felt desperately unfit. But the
biggest pay-off for me was – and still is – the deep relaxation
that I achieve by taking exercise. It tires me out but I find that it
does calm me down. When I started running seven years ago, I
could manage only 400 meters before I had to stop. Breathless
and aching, I walked the next quarter of a mile, alternating
these two activities for a couple of kilometers.
When I started to jog I never dreamt of running in a
marathon, but a few years later I realized that if I trained for
it, the London Marathon, one of the biggest British sporting
events, would be within my reach. My story shows that an unfit
39-year-old, as I was when I started running, who had taken
no serious exercise for twenty years, can do the marathon –
and that this is a sport in which women can beat men. But is it
crazy to do it? Does it make sense to run in the expectation of
becoming healthier?
My advice is: if you are under forty, healthy and feel well,
you can begin as I did by jogging gently until you are out of
breath, then walking, and alternating the two for about three
kilometers. Build up the jogging in stages until you can do the
whole distance comfortably.
(Headway Intermediate – Student’s Book. Oxford University Press.
Adaptado.)
O parágrafo que melhor se encaixaria na sequência do texto, como um parágrafo adicional, seria
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I started to run because I felt desperately unfit. But the biggest pay-off for me was – and still is – the deep relaxation that I achieve by taking exercise. It tires me out but I find that it does calm me down. When I started running seven years ago, I could manage only 400 meters before I had to stop. Breathless and aching, I walked the next quarter of a mile, alternating these two activities for a couple of kilometers.
When I started to jog I never dreamt of running in a marathon, but a few years later I realized that if I trained for it, the London Marathon, one of the biggest British sporting events, would be within my reach. My story shows that an unfit 39-year-old, as I was when I started running, who had taken no serious exercise for twenty years, can do the marathon – and that this is a sport in which women can beat men. But is it crazy to do it? Does it make sense to run in the expectation of becoming healthier?
My advice is: if you are under forty, healthy and feel well, you can begin as I did by jogging gently until you are out of breath, then walking, and alternating the two for about three kilometers. Build up the jogging in stages until you can do the whole distance comfortably.
(Headway Intermediate – Student’s Book. Oxford University Press. Adaptado.)
Indique a alternativa composta de duas orações cujas afirmações se opõem.
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I started to run because I felt desperately unfit. But the biggest pay-off for me was – and still is – the deep relaxation that I achieve by taking exercise. It tires me out but I find that it does calm me down. When I started running seven years ago, I could manage only 400 meters before I had to stop. Breathless and aching, I walked the next quarter of a mile, alternating these two activities for a couple of kilometers.
When I started to jog I never dreamt of running in a marathon, but a few years later I realized that if I trained for it, the London Marathon, one of the biggest British sporting events, would be within my reach. My story shows that an unfit 39-year-old, as I was when I started running, who had taken no serious exercise for twenty years, can do the marathon – and that this is a sport in which women can beat men. But is it crazy to do it? Does it make sense to run in the expectation of becoming healthier?
My advice is: if you are under forty, healthy and feel well, you can begin as I did by jogging gently until you are out of breath, then walking, and alternating the two for about three kilometers. Build up the jogging in stages until you can do the whole distance comfortably.
(Headway Intermediate – Student’s Book. Oxford University Press. Adaptado.)
No texto, as expressões pay-off (1º parágrafo), a couple of (1º parágrafo), my reach (2° parágrafo) e becoming healthier (2° parágrafo) significam, respectivamente,
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Indique a alternativa em que quatro adjetivos e um advérbio foram formados por sufixação.
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Para os gregos antigos, a ideia de confronto entre oponentes, até que um dos contendores superasse os demais, atingindo um grau de excelência reconhecido e admirado por todos os circunstantes, era um ritual central em sua cultura. Os gregos faziam com que ele integrasse várias de suas cerimônias, as mais importantes e as mais sagradas.
(Nicolau Sevcenko. A corrida para o século XXI.
No loop da montanha-russa, 2004. Adaptado.)
O texto afirma que as Olimpíadas na Grécia Antiga
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Com o crescimento comercial, na Baixa Idade Média, a Europa atravessou períodos de pânico coletivo, provocados por manifestações endêmicas ou epidêmicas da peste bubônica e de outras doenças, como tifo, varíola, gripe pulmonar e disenteria. A disseminação de várias dessas doenças era facilitada, entre outros motivos, pela
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O fim último, causa final e desígnio dos homens (...), ao introduzir aquela restrição sobre si mesmos sob a qual os vemos viver nos Estados, é o cuidado com sua própria conservação e com uma vida mais satisfeita. Quer dizer, o desejo de sair daquela mísera condição de guerra que é a consequência necessária (...) das paixões naturais dos homens, quando não há um poder visível capaz de os manter em respeito, forçando-os, por medo do castigo, ao cumprimento de seus pactos (...).
(Thomas Hobbes. Leviatã, 1651. In: Os pensadores, 1983.)
De acordo com o texto,
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Entre as características da sociedade da região das Minas Gerais no período da extração de ouro, no século XVIII, podemos citar:
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O fechamento da Assembleia Constituinte, por D. Pedro I, em novembro de 1823,
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As relações entre os Estados Unidos e o restante do continente americano nas últimas décadas do século XIX se caracterizaram
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