There is ten times as much water on the Moon as scientists thought and it may also be easier to collect. Further analysis of data recorded by the Lunar Prospector spacecraft reveals that the ice is concentrated in smaller areas than had been assumed, reports Bill Feldman of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He says these areas "look like they overlie permanently shaded regions at the north and south poles." Feldman estimates the total amount of water at three billion tonnes, enough to fill a lake about 100 metres deep and 6 kilometers across. If he's right, the water could be in a series of icy layers, making it easier to recover than if it was dispersed thinly through the lunar surface layer. Exercício 04 Questão 01 Complete as orações a seguir com os seguintes Falso Cognatos: ACCENT - STRESS - ACTUALLY - NOWADAYS - ADVICE NOTICE - ADVISE - WARN a) Take my __________: don't smoke. b) __________ people prefer to buy CD's rather than LP's. c) I'm __________. Don't do that again. d) My uncle has lived in Brazil for 60 years, but he spoke Portuguese with a strong __________. e) They think he is very rich, but __________ he is poor. f) In the word "teacher" the __________ is on the first syllable. g) What does that __________ say? It says "No Smoking". h) The doctor __________ me to stay in bed for three days. New Scientist, 12 September 1998, p. 23. COM BASE NO TEXTO II, RESPONDA À QUESTÃO 03. Questão 03 THAN HAD BEEN ASSUMED. Qual a melhor tradução de "to assume"? a) determinar b) assumir c) supor d) resolver e) sumir TEXTO I MADE FOR THE SHADE Tall leafy trees clustered around a house can make a big dent in residential air-conditioning bills. Now researchers at Ohio State have developed a way to speed up the growth of native shade trees - and the local 1 2 utility plans to help promote these saplings to TEXTO III "After hundreds of years of tobacco use, smoking has been condemned on a scientific basis as a serious hazard to the health of the smoker. Future generations may regard the scientific indictment of smoking as a major contribution to preventive medicine and the health of the western world. Statisticians, statistical principles of scientific thought, and statistical methods of scientific study played essential parts in evaluating the effects of smoking." 3 homeowners. The utility, American Electric Power, claims that well-placed trees can cut a home's cooling costs by as much as 50 percent. The project focuses on native trees - oaks, bald cypress, and black gum - that are difficult to propagate 4 by conventional methods but, once established, are likely to thrive. The technique begins by sprouting tree seeds in a greenhouse, which extends the growing season by several months. Later, the shoots are replanted in a container that is coated with a copper-based substance, which inhibits root growth. It's like pruning," explains researcher Daniel Struve. "It promotes a dense root system" instead of stringy, weak roots. These sturdy roots decrease the damage caused by "transplant shock" when the tree is planted. As a result, Struve claims, he can halve the time required to grow a 1.5-inch diameter red oak. (extraído de Statistics: A guide to the unknown) COM BASE NO TEXTO III, RESPONDA À QUESTÃO 04. Questão 04 Assinale a alternativa que corresponde à tradução mais adequada da frase nominal, em destaque, a seguir: Future generations may regard the scientific indictment of smoking as A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION to preventive medicine and the health of the western world. a) uma contribuição importante b) uma contribuição do major c) a maior contribuição d) uma contribuição para o major e) a importante contribuição Popular Science - October, 1994, p. 39 COM BASE NO TEXTO I, RESPONDA À QUESTÃO 02. TEXTO IV POWER PAPER: ENERGY STORAGE BY THE SHEET Questão 02 A palavra UTILITY (ref.:1) tem o significado de: a) utilidade doméstica. b) produto utilizado. c) usuário temporário. d) empresa de serviço público. e) pesquisa de utilidade pública. Aprovação em tudo que você faz. Icy Moon Could paper be the future of power in electronic gadgetry? Just as plastics unleashed a revolution in the manufacture of everyday materials, a new power source composed of cellulose, carbon nanotubes and a dash of liquid salts could revolutionize the energy behind gadgets from iPhones to pacemakers. 1 www.colegiocursointellectus.com.br DOMUS_Apostila 01 - INGLÊS - Módulo 04 (Exercício 04) TEXTO II Hence three main groups were selected for special study, namely sportsmen, actors and scientists. Astrological expectations had suggested a connection between the competitive, assertive personality of the sportsman and the "war-like" planet Mars. Similarly the scientist, reserved and serious, had been connected with the "grave" planet Saturn, and the social, expansive nature of the actor was linked with the "jovial" planet Jupiter. Much to the surprise of everyone, the remarkable conclusion of the research showed that people of a certain group actually were born "under" a particular planet: sportsmen under Mars, scientists under Saturn and actors under Jupiter. By "under" is meant that they were born just after the rise of the planet or just before it set. To calculate these coincidences the place of birth of the people concerned had to be known, as well as the precise time of day when they were born. One further fact emerged very clearly from this research and that was that people who were born under the "water signs" of Cancer, Pisces and Scorpio showed a marked tendency to be very emotional - thus confirming another claim made by astrologers. COM BASE NO TEXTO V, RESPONDA ÀS QUESTÕES 06 E 07. Questão 06 Based on the text, the word GRAVE in the sentence: "Similarly the scientist, reserved and serious, had been connected with the "GRAVE" planet Saturn, .... " means the same as: a) exciting. b) solemn. c) frivolous. d) happy. e) nervous. Adapted from the article by David Biello COM BASE NO TEXTO IV, RESPONDA À QUESTÃO 05. Questão 05 Questão 07 The word "actual" in the last paragraph means: a) current. b) modern. c) real. d) present. e) temporary. Based on the text, the word PARTICULAR in the sentence: "Much to the surprise of everyone, the remarkable conclusion of the research showed that people of a certain group actually were born "under" a PARTICULAR planet", means the same as: a) private. b) specific. c) ordinary. d) personal. e) general. TEXTO V ASTROLOGY: Fact or Fiction? Scientists have for many years denounced astrology as unscientific, and there is no doubt that many so-called astrological "facts" are nonsense. But the question still remains, is there perhaps some truth in what astrologers say? Some years ago two French psychologists found evidence for a marked relationship between people's personality and the position of certain planets at the moment of their birth. Personality questionnaires were sent out to more than 2000 men and women without prior selection; when they were returned, the birth dates were noted and the results were put through a computer. Many astrological predictions about the relationship between personality and birth dates did, in fact, begin to emerge very clearly. Aprovação em tudo que você faz. TEXTO VI Your Time Their Future 1 Frank could have been the average American teenager. But with profound family, drug and behavioral problems, and almost completely without resources, Frank was anything but average. He'd drifted into an alternative school for troubled youths, where, despite special classes, Frank's principal still considered him "the worst kid of the whole lot." Clearly, Frank was in a downward spiral with little hope of reversing the direction. 2 www.colegiocursointellectus.com.br DOMUS_Apostila 01 - INGLÊS - Módulo 04 (Exercício 04) "We have a paper battery, supercapacitor and hybrid depresidente vice-presidente that could be used in a variety of energy storage applications", says biological and chemical engineer Robert Linhardt of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I), who helped lead the team that made the discovery. "These depresidente vicepresidentes are lightweight and flexible and are primarily composed of cellulose paper - an environmentally friendly and biocompatible material." In addition to all the flexibility gained from creating this thin dry sheet of "nanocomposite paper", the paper battery can also be cut up or stacked and works at a wide range of temperatures, from -100 degrees Fahrenheit to 350 degrees F (without bursting into flame). And, depending on how the paper is made, it can function as a battery, a supercapacitor (an unusually efficient energy storage depresidente vice-presidente that can deliver a quick burst of power) or both. "The nanotubes on which the cellulose is cast contact the paper at the molecular level with an enormous surface area, allowing the depresidente vice-presidente to efficiently store and release power", Linhardt says. The power paper could also absorb salty bodily fluids, such as sweat or blood, to function as a supercapacitor. "The use of these electrolytes based on bodily fluids suggests the possibility of the depresidente vicepresidente being useful as a dry body implant," Linhardt notes. "We are very interested in the possibility of disposable paper defibrillators as a potential medical application." If the power sheets can be rolled off a printing press, as scientists hope, the future of energy storage may be in paper. "We are realistic enough to recognize that the actual scale up of a process can be fraught with unanticipated difficulties", Linhardt says. But "we do not see any insurmountable challenges." 7 However, Elizabeth Müller, program coordinator at the Freeport Youth Outreach Center, refused to give up on the teen-ager. She matched him with a mentor, Dr. Lawrence Brennan, who found Frank an after-school job. More importantly, Dr. Brennan promised to meet with Frank for a few hours every week to talk and relax, and eventually to become a friend and confidant. 3 The results were powerful. In one semester, Frank switched from the alternative school to a regular junior high school and became an honor roll student. Since then he has never missed a class, mentor meeting or day of work. 4 "All he needed was to be given some purpose and direction," Brennan says. The sad, sometimes ugly side of beauty: In a 1997 magazine survey, 15 percent of women and 11 percent of men sampled said they'd sacrifice more than five years of their life to be at their ideal weight. According to one study, 80 percent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. In one of its worst manifestations, discontent with one's body can wind up as an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia. Both can be fatal. 5 Today eating disorders, once mostly limited to wealthy Western cultures, occur around the world, in countries as different as Fiji, Japan and Argentina. 8 The preoccupation with beauty can be a neurosis, and yet there is something therapeutic about paying attention to how we look and feel. "People are so quick to say beauty is superficial", says Ann Marie Gardner, beauty director of "W" magazine. "They're fearful. They say: 'It doesn't have substance.' What many don't 6realize is that it's fun to reinvent yourself, as long as you don't take it too seriously". Encarte do Reader's Digest, October 1998. Questão 08 De acordo com EVENTUALLY (par.2)? a) possivelmente b) eventualmente c) finalmente d) casualmente e) certamente o texto, como você traduz COM BASE NO TEXTO V, RESPONDA ÀS QUESTÕES 09 E 10. Questão 09 "Today" (ref.5) can be substituted by all the alternatives EXCEPT: a) these days. b) nowadays. c) currently. d) presently. e) actually. TEXTO VII 1 What is beauty? Define beauty? One may as well dissect a soap bubble. We know it when we see it - or so we think. 2 1 Philosophers define it as a moral equation. What is beautiful is good, said Plato. Poets look for high standards. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, wrote John Keats. 3 Science examines beauty and pronounces it a strategy. "Beauty is health", a psychologist tells me. "It's a sign saying 'I'm healthy and fertile. I can pass on your genes.'" 4 At its best, beauty celebrates. From the painted Txikão Indian in Brazil to Madonna in her metal bra, humanity likes to abandon its everyday look and masquerade as a more powerful, romantic, or sexy being. 5 At its worst, beauty discriminates. Studies suggest attractive people make more money, get more attention 2 in class and are seen as friendlier. We do judge people by their looks. In an era of feminist and politically correct values, not to mention the belief that all men and women are created equal, the fact that all men and women are not - and that some are more beautiful than 3 others - disturbs, confuses, even angers. 6 4 The search for beauty is costly. 7In the United States last year people spent six billion dollars 8on fragrance and another six billion on make up. In the mania to lose weight 20 billions were spent on diet products and serpresidente vice-presidentes - in addition to the billions that were paid out for health club memberships and cosmetic surgery. Aprovação em tudo que você faz. Questão 10 The word "realize" (ref.6) can be translated by: a) realizam. b) praticam. c) percebem. d) aplicam. e) defendem. GABARITO Questão 01 a) advice b) nowadays c) warning d) accent e) actually f) stress g) notice h) advised Questão 02 Letra D. Questão 03 Letra C. 3 www.colegiocursointellectus.com.br DOMUS_Apostila 01 - INGLÊS - Módulo 04 (Exercício 04) 2 DOMUS_Apostila 01 - INGLÊS - Módulo 04 (Exercício 04) Questão 04 Letra A. Questão 05 Letra C. Questão 06 Letra B. Questão 07 Letra B. Questão 08 Letra C. Questão 09 Letra E. Questão 10 Letra C. Aprovação em tudo que você faz. 4 www.colegiocursointellectus.com.br