UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ
Câmpus Medianeira
Centro Acadêmico de Línguas Estrangeiras Modernas
GABARITO EXAME DE SUFICIÊNCIA EM LÍNGUA INGLESA OUTUBRO 2015
Questões
1. d
2. b
3. c
4. Translate the following paragraph to Portuguese:
As maiores estações públicas de carregamento tendem a parecer bombas de
gás de alta tecnologia e frequentemente estão em estacionamentos. Mas elas
podem variar muito no custo e potência de carga. Algumas levam meia hora para
uma carga e outros quatro ou mais horas; muitas são gratuitas ou subsidiadas,
e outras custam US$ 1 hora ou mais. Estações públicas de carregamento e luzes
em muitos veículos indicam quando uma bateria de carro está cheia.
5. Write a summary of the article in Portuguese.
Parágrafos com informações necessárias para o resumo.
SAN FRANCISCO — Of all the states, California has set the most ambitious targets for
cutting emissions in coming decades, and an important pillar of its plan to reach those
goals is encouraging the spread of electric vehicles.
The bad moods stem from the challenges drivers face finding recharging spots for their
battery-powered cars. Unlike gas stations, charging stations are not yet in great supply,
and that has led to sharp-elbowed competition. Electric-vehicle owners are unplugging
one another’s cars, trading insults, and creating black markets and side deals to trade
spots in corporate parking lots
More public chargers are the obvious long-term solution. About half of the 330,000
electric vehicles in this country are registered in California, and Gov. Jerry Brown wants
to increase that number to 1.5 million by 2025. He has pledged a sharp increase in
charging stations.
The larger public charging stations tend to look like high-tech gas pumps and often are
in parking lots. But they can vary widely in cost and charging power. Some take half an
hour for a charge and others four hours or more; many are free or subsidized, and
others cost $1 an hour or more. Public charging stations and lights on many vehicles
indicate when a car battery is full.
The competition has led people to judge one another’s cars and which ones deserve
charging priority. Owners of all-electric cars see themselves as most entitled to the
chargers, since they have no Plan B. One rung down are “plug-in hybrids,” which use
electricity but also can use gas, followed by hybrids, and then two groups for which the
owners of pure electric cars reserve particular disdain: gas cars and, perhaps
surprisingly, Teslas.
Ms. Hull, an executive at Evernote, a software company where electric vehicles
outnumber chargers 60 to 12, the scramble for chargers leads to curious behavior. The
company does have a sign-up sheet for reserving charging time. But it is not
uncommon for people to leave their cars too long, or for members of the public to take
the spots or even, Ms. Hull said, for people to work outside deals.