(UFMG - 2003)
The Bug is Back
Health authorities defeated dengue decades ago by vanquishing the mosquito that spreads 2it. Then why were half a million Brazilians sick this past summer?
It's not a pretty sight. The Aëdes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue and yellow fever, was eradicated decades ago. But the 1bug is back with a vengeance. It gave Brazil a dengue epidemic. Scientists now say the worst is yet to come. Why is nothing being done?
Brazil is a case study of how badly things went awry. Twice the aggressive 4mosquito battalions had freed Brazilian territory of Aëdes aegypti in 1955 and again in 1973. But these were the days of an ambitious military regime in Brazil, which had bigger things than bugs on its agenda. Instead of diligently tracking the disease, the generals poured money into highways, power plants and winning the Amazon frontier. When the dengue mosquito resurfaced, in 1976, Brasilia reacted swiftly – to hush it up, under the cloak of national security.
The generals are gone now, but the government continues to botch opportunities. There is no mystery, scientists say, to eradicating dengue: destroy the mosquito and 3its eggs , and the virus cannot prosper. Yet spraying is rarely done, except after an epidemic has hit. "No one bothers with disease control until people start going to the hospital," says Hermann Schatzmayr, head of virology at Rio's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Aëdes aegypti is now at home in 3,700 counties, including 60 percent of Brazil, and increasingly resistant to pesticides.
Newsweek, June 17, 2002. p. 40-41.
Which of the following words is NOT used to refer to 'Aedes aegypti'??
bug (ref. 1)
it (ref. 2)
its (ref. 3)
mosquito (ref. 4)
Gabarito:
it (ref. 2)
(UFMG) Em todas as frases, o termo grifado exemplifica corretamente o processo de formação de palavras indicado, exceto em:
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A propósito do trecho que segue, aponte a classificação correta referente ao termo em destaque:
“Minha bela Marília, tudo passa,
A sorte deste mundo é mal segura
Se vem depois dos males a ventura
Vem depois dos prazeres a desgraça”.
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga.
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(UFMG - 2010)
Um dos recursos utilizados pelo padre Antônio Vieira em seus sermões consiste na “agudeza” – maneira de conduzir o pensamento que aproxima objetos e/ou ideias distantes, diferentes, por meio de um discurso artificioso, que se costuma chamar de “discurso engenhoso”.
Assinale a alternativa em que, no trecho transcrito do Sermão da Sexagésima, o autor utiliza esse recurso.
(Ufmg 2003)
Com base na leitura de "Broquéis", de Cruz e Sousa, é INCORRETO afirmar que se trata de uma poesia
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