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2º SIMULADO DISCURSIVO
PROVA 01
Língua Estrangeira - INGLÊS
Horário: das 13h às 16h30min
Dia: 10 de novembro.
LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA - INGLÊS
1ª QUESTÃO
Identifique os recursos gráficos que expressam a indignação na fala de Calvin no quadrinho.
Em seguida, explique o motivo dessa indignação.
Responda EM PORTUGUÊS.
Resolução: Recursos: o emprego do negrito na palavra "eighteen" e sinais de pontuação, tais como pontos
de exclamação e de interrogação.
Calvin, não vê sentido em ter de esperar até completar 18 anos para poder comprar cigarros porque com
essa idade ele já vai ter aprendido que fumar não faz bem.
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
CAFFEINE USE COMMON IN ATHLETES
British athletes routinely use caffeine to boost their performance, say researchers.
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A third of track and field athletes and 60% of cyclists reported taking caffeine before competing, a
Liverpool John Moores University study found.
The drug was removed from the list of banned substances in 2004 but its use is still monitored. The
study's authors said it raised concerns that athletes were exploiting caffeine to gain an advantage. [...]
Study leader Dr Neil Chester said the World Anti-Doping Agency had not been clear about why
caffeine had been removed from the list but he understood it was because it was too hard to distinguish
between normal social use and abuse of the drug.
A total of 480 athletes were questioned for the study, through athletics or cycling clubs and at
sporting events. They reported using caffeine in the form of energy drinks, sports supplements, pills and
coffee, the International Journal of Sports Medicine reported.
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Elite athletes were more likely to use caffeine to improve their performance than those who took
part in sport recreationally.
Dr Chester said caffeine had been shown to be beneficial for endurance events and would also
increase the alertness of athletes. He added that the fairly recent introduction of caffeine to energy and
sports drinks had increased the opportunity for athletes to consume the drug in high doses.
"There's been a lack of communication from WADA and there is a question about whether or not
sporting authorities are condoning its use," he said.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7525275.stm, access on July 31, 2008)
2ª QUESTÃO
Considerando a comparação feita na referência 1, indique a que se referem as seguintes palavras:
a) their;
b) those.
Responda em INGLÊS.
Resolução:
a) Elite athletes.
b) Athletes.
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
LINGUA FRANCA
Offshore English
Without a doubt, English is the lingua franca of global business. But oddly, native speakers are at a
disadvantage when it comes to brokering deals in their mother tongue. Foreign clients, confused by
Anglophone colloquialisms, often prefer to work with other non-native speakers. In order to combat this
trend, London's Canning School teaches "offshore English" to future CEOs* looking to clean up their
language when working abroad.
Offshore English consists of 1,500 or so of the most common English words. It emerged in the 1990s
as european and Asian firms saw their international fortunes rise, and it's proved a hit at Canning, where
offshore-English course enrollment has doubled in the past decade.
So what do these classes teach? Mainly, what to avoid: no idioms (say "make every possible effort"
instead of "pull out all the stops"). [...] Use Latin-based words ("obtain") instead of those with Germanic roots
("get"). By the end of class, your vocabulary may be poorer, but your company's prospects will be all
the wealthier.
*CEO = chief executive officer
- Christopher Werth
(NEWSWEEK International, May 5, 2008:7)
3ª QUESTÃO
Transcreva do texto um marcador discursivo e uma expressão verbal que denotam finalidade/objetivo.
Responda em INGLÊS.
Resolução:
- In order to.
- Looking for.
TEXTO PARA AS PRÓXIMAS 2 QUESTÕES:
In Philip Roth's novel Exit Ghost, the narrator, Nathan Zucherman, a famous writer, comes back to
New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England Mountain, Zuckerman had devoted
his time exclusively to being a writer. Below is an extract from the novel.
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What surprised me most my first few days walking around the city? The most obvious thing-the cell
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phones. We had no reception as yet up on my mountain, and down in Athena, where they do have it, I'd
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rarely see people striding the streets talking uninhibitedly into their phones. I remembered a New York when
the only people walking up Broadway seemingly talking to themselves were crazy. What had happened in
these ten years for there suddenly to be so much to say-so much so pressing that it couldn't wait to be said?
Everywhere I walked, somebody was approaching me talking on a phone and someone was behind me
talking on a phone. Inside the cars, the drivers were on the phone. When I took a taxi, the cabbie was on the
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phone. For one who frequently went without talking to anyone for days at a time, I had to wonder what that
had previously held them up had collapsed in people to make incessant talking into a telephone preferable to
walking about under no one's surveillance, momentarily solitary, assimilating the streets through one's
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animal senses and thinking the myriad thoughts that the activities of a city inspire. For me it made the
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streets appear comic and the people ridiculous. And yet it seemed like a real tragedy, too. [...] I was
impressed by the conspicuousness of it all and found myself entertaining the idea for a story in which
Manhattan has turned into a sinister collectivity where everyone is spying on everyone else, everyone being
tracked by the person at the other end of his or her phone, even though, incessantly dialing one another from
wherever they like in the great out of doors, the telephoners believe themselves to be experiencing the
maximum freedom. I knew that merely by thinking up such a scenario I was at one with all the cranks who
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imagined, from the beginnings of industrialization, that the machine was the enemy of life. Still, I could not
help it: I did not see how anyone could believe he was continuing to live a human existence by walking about
talking into a phone for half his waking life. No, those gadgets did not promise to be a boon to promoting
reflection among the general public.
(From ROTH, Philip, Exit Ghost. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007)
4ª QUESTÃO
The connector YET is used differently on references 5 and 6 in the text. Explain these different uses.
Resolução:
The first use (ref. 5) means "until and including this time", while the second use (ref. 6) expresses contrast.
5ª QUESTÃO
The statement "For one who frequently went without talking to anyone for days at a time [...]" (ref. 3) reveals
one aspect of Nathan Zuckerman's personality. Comment.
Resolução:
Nathan Zuckerman is a recluse / a solitary writer. He comes back to New York after having lived on the
mountains as a writer for 11 years. And it can be concluded from the text that he enjoyed being a writer
alone on the mountains.
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