Inglês

TEXTO I

CELLULAR DEMAND

The demand for cellular telephone in Brazil is very high. Today there are only 2 million cellular phones for a population of 158 million; an estimated 4 million Brazilians are on waiting lists. By 2003, the government expects that the number of cell phones will reach 17 million.

(NEWSWEEK, Special Advertising Section, July 14, 1997)

Responda à questão 1, em PORTUGUÊS, com base no texto I.

QUESTÃO 1
A que se referem os seguintes valores numéricos presentes no texto I?

a) 2 milhões
b) 158 milhões
c) 4 milhões
d) 17 milhões

TEXTO II
Bar codes to identify missing children

IT COULD prove the perfect solution for parents worried about losing their children. The European Commission is considering a Belgian plan to sew supermarket-style bar codes into children´s clothing to help identify them if they go missing, writes Peter Conradi.

Under the scheme, devised by a Belgian company and computer experts at Louvain University, parents would buy blank versions of the so-called junior stripe badges which could be programmed with the children´s details at a police station.

Policemen, coastguards and other officials would have electronic pens and software to read the strips. Besides the names and addresses of the children, the bar code could contain other information such as their blood group. Families on holiday, when most children go missing, could include a hotel address.

(SUNDAY TIMES, July 13, 1997:19)

 

Responda às questões 2 e 3, em PORTUGUÊS, com base no texto II.

QUESTÃO 2
O texto apresenta um novo uso para o código de barras.

a) Mencione sua finalidade.
b) Explique como as crianças o usariam.

QUESTÃO 3
Cite as quatro informações que poderiam estar contidas no código de barras usado por crianças em férias.

TEXTO III
1 WE MUST EXAMINE THE ISSUE OF CLONING from all sides, weigh the consequences and benefits, and ultimately reach a unified decision that will make the world a better place.

Stephen Haxton, age 15
Cochrane, Canada

2 AS A PERSON WHO LOVES BEAUTIFUL clothes, I was stunned by the murder of Versace. My heart aches for his family.

Patricia De Cordova
Acapulco, Mexico

3 I RECOGNIZED THE NAMES OF ONLY SIX OF your silly 25 Most Influential. Last year I recognized eight. I can´t remember who they were, and neither does anyone else.

Joyce Tracksler
Bedford,New Hampshire

4 THE CONSTANT INFLUENCE OF PROGRES- sive business and global trade, applied one way for the past 155 years, has shaped the Hong Kong of today. Now the all-engrossing question is, Will the straightforward and pragmatic - thus successful - British way prevail over the multimillenarian Chinese way?

Silvano Corrêa
São Paulo

5 AFTER A NUMBER OF DULL ISSUES, YOUR editors finally awakened. Your "What´s Cool This Summer" is fantastic [ May 26 ]! The articles are interesting, well written and lots of fun. Well done!

J. Weyman Vogel
Fairview Park, Ohio

Revista TIME, seção de cartas.

 

Responda à questão 4 com base no texto III.

QUESTÃO 4
Indique o número da carta na qual o leitor:

a) parabeniza
b) sugere
c) lamenta
d) questiona

 

TEXTO IV

ONE THING IS CLEAR: MARS IS A DEAD planet. The most important thing we learn from the Mars exploration is that good planets are hard to find. We must take care of the one we have.

Seifu Hailu
Boston

Revista TIME, seção de cartas.

Responda à questão 5, em PORTUGUÊS, com base no texto IV.

QUESTÃO 5
Esclareça qual é o alerta feito pelo leitor na última frase.

TEXTO V

TRANSPLANT surgeons work miracles. They take organs from one body and integrate them into another, granting the lucky recipient a longer, better life. Sadly, every year thousands of other people are less fortunate, dying while they wait for suitable organs to be found. The terrible constraint on organ transplantation is that every life extended depends on the death of someone young enough and healthy enough to have organs worth transplanting. Such donors are few. The waiting lists are long, and getting longer.

Freedom from this constraint is the dream of every transplant surgeon. So far attempts to make artificial organs have been disappointing: nature is hard to mimic. Hence the renewed interest in trying to use organs from animals.

(The Economist, Dec. 21, 1996)

Responda às questões 6 e 7, em PORTUGUÊS, com base no texto V.

QUESTÃO 6
Quais devem ser as condições do doador antes de morrer para que seus órgãos possam ser doados?

QUESTÃO 7
Por que as tentativas de usar órgãos artificiais em transplante não têm sido bem sucedidas?

QUESTÃO 8
Escolha, dentre os fragmentos abaixo, aqueles que completam as frases do texto VI de forma lógica e gramaticalmente correta. Escreva a numeração no seu caderno de respostas.

1) ... unless you can peel or shell it yourself.
2) ... which is thoroughly cooked and still hot.
3) ... after going to the lavatory, before handling food and before eating.
4) ... unless you are sure it is made from safe water.
5) ... can be suspect in some countries.
6) ... boil it, sterilise it with disinfectant tablets or use bottled water.

TEXTO VI

Eat and Drink ... Safely
a) · Always wash your hands...

b) · If you have any doubts about the water available for drinking, washing food or cleaning teeth, ...

c) · Avoid uncooked food...

d) · Avoid ice ...

(Adapted from "Health advice for travellers" , Department of Health, U.K., Oct. 96 : 4)

 

TEXTO VII

HOSPITALS are to be judged by standards of medical care rather than administrative efficiency, the Government said yesterday.
The latest set of criteria will assess not how quickly patients arriving in casualty are greeted by a nurse, but how good their treatment is likely to be. The switch in emphasis was announced with the publication of the fourth and last set of National Health Service performance indicators.

(THE TIMES, July 10, 1997)

Answer questions 9 and 10 in ENGLISH, based on text VII.

QUESTÃO 9
a) How were hospitals judged in the past?
b) What is going to be evaluated now?

QUESTÃO 10
Copy from the text a synonym for each of the following words:

a) instead of
b) the most recent
c) evaluate
d) change

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