Questão 25
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Instrução: Leia o texto para responder às questões de números 25 a 30.
Brazil wants to count trees in the Amazon rainforest
By Channtal Fleischfresser
February 11, 2013
Brazil is home to roughly 60 percent of the Amazon, about half of what remains of the world’s tropical
rainforests. And now, the country has plans to count its trees. A vast undertaking, the new National Forest
Inventory hopes to gain “a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in the forest cover”, according
to Brazil’s Forestry Minister Antonio Carlos Hummel.
The census, set to take place over the next four years, will scour 3,288,000 square miles, sampling 20,000
points at 20 kilometer intervals and registering the number, height, diameter, and species of the trees,
among other data.
The initiative, aimed to better allocate resources to the country’s forests, is part of a large-scale turnaround
in Brazil’s relationship to its forests. While it once had one of the worst rates of deforestation in the world,
last year only 1,797 square miles of the Amazon were destroyed – a reduction of nearly 80% compared to
2004.
(www.smartplanet.com. Adaptado.)
O Governo brasileiro
(A) tentará recuperar as áreas desmatadas desde 2004.
(B) fará fotografias panorâmicas da floresta para conter o desmatamento.
(C) reduzirá o desmatamento legal para apenas 1797 milhas quadradas.
(D) fará um censo das árvores da Amazônia brasileira.
(E) contará 60% das árvores da floresta amazônica.
Resposta: D
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De acordo com as passagens "the country has plans to count its trees." e "The census,
set to take place over the next four weeks", o governo brasileiro fará um censo das
árvores da Amazônia brasileira.