(UEMG - 2015)
Virtual people, real friends
by Anna Pickard (The Guardian)
The benefits of forming friendships with those we meet online are obvious, so why is the idea still treated with such disdain?
Another week, another survey claiming to reveal great truths about ourselves. This one says that people are increasingly turning “online friends” into people they’d think worthy of calling real-life friends. Well, that’s stating the obvious, I would have thought! If there’s a more perfect place for making friends, I have yet to find it. However, when surveys like this are reported in the media, it’s always with a slight air of “it’s a crazy, crazy world!” And whenever the subject crops up in the conversation, it’s clear that people look down on friends like these. In fact some members of my family still refer to my partner of six years as my “Internet Boyfriend.”
It’s the shocked reaction that surprises me as if people on the internet were not “real” at all. Certainly, people play a character online quite often – they may be a more confident or more argumentative version of their real selves – but what’s the alternative? Is meeting people at work so much better than making friends in a virtual world? Perhaps, but for some a professional distance between their “work” selves and their “social” selves is necessary, especially, if they tend to let their guard down and might say or do something they will later regret.
Those people disapproving of online friendships argue that the concept of “friendship” is used loosely in a world driven by technology, in which you might have a thousand online friends. They make a distinction between “social connections” – 1acquaintances who are only one click away – and meaningful human interaction, which they say requires time and effort. They note that for many Facebook “friends,” conversation is a way of exchanging information quickly and efficiently rather than being a social activity.
However, I’ve found that far from being the home of oddballs and potential serial killers, the internet is full of like-minded people. For the first time in history, we’re lucky to enough to choose friends not by location or luck, but by those who have similar interests and senses of humour, or passionate feelings about the same things. The friends I’ve made online might be spread wide geographically, but I’m closer to them than anyone I went to school with, by millions miles. They are the best friends I have.
Obviously, there will be concerns about the dangers of online friendship. There are always stories buzzing around such as “man runs off with the woman he met on Second Life” or people who meet their “soulmate” online and are never seen again. But people are people, whether online or not. As for “real” friendship dying out, surely, is social networking simply redefining our notion of what this is in the twenty-first century? The figures – half a billion Facebook users worldwide – speak for themselves. And technology has allowed countless numbers of these people to keep in close contact with their loved ones, however far away they are. Without it, many disabled or household people might go without social contact at all. Call me naive, call me a social misfit, I don’t care. Virtual people make best real friends.
Adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jan/02/internet-relationships
Read the passage below to complete the gaps with the relative pronouns (1 - 4):
Online friends are people _______ always post messages and pictures of the places _______ they are, _______ they are with and ______ they are doing.
1.what
2. who
3.whom
4. where
The CORRECT sequence is:
(1), (3), (2), (4)
(3), (1), (4), (2)
(4), (2), (1), (3)
(2), (4), (3), (1)
Gabarito:
(2), (4), (3), (1)
(UEMG-2006)
Assinale a alternativa em que o(s) termo(s) em negrito do fragmento citado NÃO contém (êm) traço(s) da função emotiva da linguagem.
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(Uemg 2010) Leia atentamente os versos a seguir e, depois, faça o que é pedido.
Eu sei que vou te amar
Eu sei que vou te amar
Por toda a minha vida eu vou te amar
Em cada despedida, eu vou te amar
Desesperadamente, eu sei que vou te amar
E cada verso meu será
Pra te dizer
Que eu sei que vou te amar
Por toda a minha vida
Eu sei que vou chorar
A cada ausência tua, eu vou chorar
Mas cada volta tua há de apagar
O que esta tua ausência me causou
Eu sei que vou sofrer
A eterna desventura de viver
À espera de viver ao lado teu
Por toda a minha vida
(Vinícius de Morais e Tom Jobim)
No texto dessa letra de música (MPB), observa-se a presença da linguagem coloquial, quando o leitor verifica
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(Uemg 2015) Considerando a análise de aspectos linguísticos dos trechos abaixo, extraídos da obra “Você Verá”, marque (V) para os comentários verdadeiros e (F) para os falsos. Em seguida, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA.
( ) Em “Acho a astrologia a ciência dos tolos, e, até prova em contrário, não me considero um deles.” Houve um desvio da norma padrão, que prescreve como certa a expressão “até provem o contrário”, em substituição à expressão sublinhada.
( ) Em “Foi um morticínio, uma coisa que ninguém na região nunca vira(...)”, a palavra morticínio significa assassinato em série.
morticínio significa assassinato em série.
( ) O que aconteceu com o nome do narrador do conto Bem - Stanislaw > Lauro > Lau > Stan - é um fenômeno linguístico semelhante ao ocorrido com o pronome de tratamento Vossa Mercê - Vosmecê > você > cê.
( ) Em “(...) que direito tinha o Bem de se tornar milionário?”, o pronome sublinhado aparece anteposto ao verbo (próclise), uma vez que a preposição o atrai, segundo a norma padrão.
( ) Em “(...) quando a mãe a levava à matinê.” e “(...) pois ainda escutava em mim as risadas”, os pronomes sublinhados são classificados, respectivamente, como oblíquo átono e oblíquo tônico.
( ) Em “Minha mãe sempre dizia: 'Deus protege quem trabalha’”, a regência do verbo proteger não está de acordo com a norma padrão, uma vez que ele é transitivo indireto e, por isso, rege preposição, como em: 'Deus protege a quem trabalha’”.
A sequência correta é
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(UEMG - 2013)
The Birth of a Storyteller
Jackie Torrence spent her childhood in North Carolina, in the southern part of the United States. She was a shy child because she had problems with her teeth, which made it hard for her to talk. Other children teased her because of her speech problem, so she spent much of her childhood playing alone. One of Jackie’s favorite games was to pretend she was on television. She told stories out loud using gestures and dramatic voices. At school, Jackie soon learned that she was good at writing stories, and with the help of her favorite teacher, she started to work on improving her speech.
Jackie’s first storytelling performance was in a library. She was working as a librarian and was asked to entertain a group of children. Jackie told them a story and they loved it! Before long, she began telling stories within her community. Many of her stories came from old American and African-American folktales. Eventually, she started telling stories across North America.
As Jackie’s fame increased, her health decreased. She now has to use a wheelchair, but this has not stopped her storytelling career. Jackie’s stories have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers and she has appeared on radio and television. She has won awards for nine of her sound recordings and three of her television specials.
Adapted from NorthStar 3: Listening and Speaking, 2nd Edition (Longman, p. 57), Helen S. Solórzano and Jennifer P. L. Schmidt.
In the sentence, “She has won awards for nine of her sound recordings and three of her television specials”, the underlined expression shows that
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