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MACKENZIE 2017 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The right way to complete the sentence Smudge’s mom is reading to him is


A
put their own houses together by themselves.
B
houses were blown by the wolf.
C
ate the bad wolf after he blew their houses.
D
got into their own houses through the chimney.
E
learned many lessons from other animals.
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MACKENZIE 2017 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text,


Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 90
By Ralph Ellis, Todd Leopold and Tony Marco, CNN
Updated 0212 GMT (1012 HKT) March 19, 2017

(CNN)Chuck Berry, a music pioneer often called “the Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” died Saturday at his home outside St. Louis, his verified Facebook page said. He was 90.
A post on the St. Charles County police Facebook page said officers responded to a medical emergency at the residence around 12:40 p.m. (1:40 p.m. ET) Saturday and found an unresponsive man inside. Resuscitation efforts failed.
“The St. Charles County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry.”
A musical legend
Berry wrote and recorded “Johnny B. Goode” and “Sweet Little Sixteen” -- songs every garage band and fledgling guitarist had to learn if they wanted to enter the rock ‘n’ roll fellowship.
Berry took all-night hamburger stands, brown-eyed handsome men and V-8 Fords and turned them into the stuff of American poetry. By doing so, he gave rise to followers beyond number, bar-band disciples of the electric guitar, who carried his musical message to the far corners of the Earth.
Some of his most famous followers praised him on social media.
Bruce Springsteen tweeted: “Chuck Berry was rock’s greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock ‘n’ roll writer who ever lived.”
Chuck Berry was rock’s greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock ‘n’ roll writer who ever lived.
The Rolling Stones posted on their website: “The Rolling Stones are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Chuck Berry. He was a true pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll and a massive influence on us. Chuck was not only a brilliant guitarist, singer and performer, but most importantly, he was a master craftsman as a songwriter. His songs will live forever. “
But it was perhaps John Lennon -- who died in 1980 -- who put it most succinctly. “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’”
The list of Berry’s classics is as well-known as his distinctive, chiming “Chuck Berry riff”: “Maybellene.” “Around and Around.” “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man.” “School Days.” “Memphis.” “Nadine.” “No Particular Place to Go.”
They were deceptively simple tunes, many constructed with simple chord progressions and classic verse-chorus-verse formats, but their hearts could be as big as teenage hopes on a Saturday night.
His music even went into outer space. When the two Voyager spacecrafts were launched in 1977, each was accompanied on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system by a phonograph record that contained sounds of Earth -- including “Johnny B. Goode.”
www.cnn.com

A
Chuck’s CDs were sent into space and were a huge success there.
B
Chuck Berry could turn almost any subject into music.
C
Chuck Berry’s riff, mainly heard in Maybellene, was performed for the first time in 1977.
D
The Rolling Stones heard that Chuck Berry was not only a brilliant guitarist but also a great craftsman.
E
Chuck’s song structures were as simple as they seemed to be.
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MACKENZIE 2017 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the comic strip above,


A
Monica’s mom is probably reading the Snow White story to her.
B
Smudge probably enjoys any kind of children stories.
C
The stories that are being read follow the characters’ personality traits.
D
The characters are being told how to behave better by their moms.
E
Maggy might love to cook brownies.
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MACKENZIE 2017 - Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary, Adjetivos | Adjectives, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The alternative which lists only words used as adjectives in the text is


Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 90
By Ralph Ellis, Todd Leopold and Tony Marco, CNN
Updated 0212 GMT (1012 HKT) March 19, 2017

(CNN)Chuck Berry, a music pioneer often called “the Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” died Saturday at his home outside St. Louis, his verified Facebook page said. He was 90.
A post on the St. Charles County police Facebook page said officers responded to a medical emergency at the residence around 12:40 p.m. (1:40 p.m. ET) Saturday and found an unresponsive man inside. Resuscitation efforts failed.
“The St. Charles County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry.”
A musical legend
Berry wrote and recorded “Johnny B. Goode” and “Sweet Little Sixteen” -- songs every garage band and fledgling guitarist had to learn if they wanted to enter the rock ‘n’ roll fellowship.
Berry took all-night hamburger stands, brown-eyed handsome men and V-8 Fords and turned them into the stuff of American poetry. By doing so, he gave rise to followers beyond number, bar-band disciples of the electric guitar, who carried his musical message to the far corners of the Earth.
Some of his most famous followers praised him on social media.
Bruce Springsteen tweeted: “Chuck Berry was rock’s greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock ‘n’ roll writer who ever lived.”
Chuck Berry was rock’s greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock ‘n’ roll writer who ever lived.
The Rolling Stones posted on their website: “The Rolling Stones are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Chuck Berry. He was a true pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll and a massive influence on us. Chuck was not only a brilliant guitarist, singer and performer, but most importantly, he was a master craftsman as a songwriter. His songs will live forever. “
But it was perhaps John Lennon -- who died in 1980 -- who put it most succinctly. “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’”
The list of Berry’s classics is as well-known as his distinctive, chiming “Chuck Berry riff”: “Maybellene.” “Around and Around.” “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man.” “School Days.” “Memphis.” “Nadine.” “No Particular Place to Go.”
They were deceptively simple tunes, many constructed with simple chord progressions and classic verse-chorus-verse formats, but their hearts could be as big as teenage hopes on a Saturday night.
His music even went into outer space. When the two Voyager spacecrafts were launched in 1977, each was accompanied on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system by a phonograph record that contained sounds of Earth -- including “Johnny B. Goode.”
www.cnn.com

A
well-known, simple, phonograph, pure.
B
chord, massive, launched, unresponsive.
C
big, succinctly, saddened, handsome.
D
brown-eyed, perhaps, master, system.
E
followers, medical, Saturday, solar.
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MACKENZIE 2016 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The verb “to try”, in He was never tried is closest in meaning to

‘Nazi-Hunters’ Come to Brazil After Hitler’s Accomplices
03/10/2016 - 09H28
ANNA VIRGINIA BALLOUSSIER
SPECIAL ENVOY TO RIO

Steinz still “has hope” that he will find some of the people
responsible for the Jewish genocide during WWII still living.

The Third Reich fell apart 71 years ago, leading Nazis, low to top ranking, to escape to Latin America in mass. That stampede has been compared to the escape of rodents from a sinking ship -the “rat routes”.
Delegate Uwe Steinz, 58, still “has hope” that he will find some of the people responsible for the Jewish genocide during World War II still living.
After fighting organized crime and prostitution in his country, the German lives off “hunting Nazis”-and believes there is a fistful of them in Brazil.
Since 2009, as an employee of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, he has already made 14 trips to the National Archive in Rio. Among five million immigrant registration records, Steinz is searching for the registrations for Germans born between 1916 and 1931.
The information of those who fit the profile is sent to the headquarters in Germany, which verifies if the person served the Third Reich. He didn’t come to hunt the “big fish” of the SS, the elite squad of Nazis -older, they are probably no longer with us. His target is the “lower clergy”, such as camp guards and accountants.
The most famous one of them, Joseph Mengele, the “Angel of Death”, was a doctor in Auschwitz responsible for prisoner triage (forced labor or gas chamber). He died at age 67, in 1979, when he drowned in Bertioga (on the coast of São Paulo), possibly a victim of cardiac arrest. He was never tried.
There are more accounts of older Nazis in Brazil, like Herbert Cukurs (who rented paddleboats in Niterói) and Franz Stangl, employed at a Volkswagen factory in ABC Paulista.
Arrested in 1967, Stangl was extradited and was targeted for the death of 900 thousand people. “My conscience is at peace”, he said at the time.
www1.folha.uol.com.br
A
to fit or finish with accuracy.
B
to examine or investigate judicially.
C
to subject to something (as undue strain or excessive hardship or provocation) that tests the powers of endurance.
D
to attempt something for the first time.
E
to melt down and procure in a pure state.
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MACKENZIE 2016 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the comic strip above

A
Calvin must have done something unusual.
B
Nothing can be worse than what is already happening.
C
Calvin’s father has no reason to have acted that way.
D
If Calvin’s father had been calmer, Calvin would certainly have behaved.
E
Calvin could have answered the question well if his father hadn’t screamed at him.
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MACKENZIE 2016 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension



According to the lyrics to the song HALLELUYAH, written by Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen,

A
the author has no doubt whatsoever that there is a God in Heaven.
B
a Halleluyah cry is what all of us wish for.
C
people who outdraw one another must not live.
D
once you have not seen the light, you’ re a cold person.
E
the author hasn’t learned much from love.
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MACKENZIE 2016 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The article above explains that


THE ROLLING STONES ANNOUNCE FREE CONCERT IN CUBA!

The Rolling Stones will perform a groundbreaking concert in Havana, Cuba on Friday March 25, 2016. The free concert will take place at the Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana and will be the first open air concert in the country by a British Rock Band. Always exploring new horizons and true pioneers of rock, the Stones, who have toured every corner of the globe, will bring their high-octane performance and incredible music catalogue to the Caribbean for the first time ever.
This once-in-a-lifetime concert event follows the band’s America Latina Ole tour, which is currently receiving rave reviews, playing to huge audiences in stadiums in Santiago, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Porto Alegre with Lima, Bogotá and Mexico City following next week. The band are also leading a musician to musician initiative in which much needed musical instruments and equipment are being donated by major suppliers for the benefit of Cuban musicians of all genres. Donors include The Gibson Foundation, Vic Firth, RS Berkeley, Pearl, Zildjian, Gretsch, Latin Percussion, Roland and BOSS with additional assistance from the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation.
This historical concert will no doubt have Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood mesmerizing a new audience of fans with a set packed full of classic Stones hits as well as special gems from their million selling albums.
The Rolling Stones concert, which has been in the planning stages for several months, comes only days after President Barack Obama’s recently announced visit to Cuba.
www.rollingstones.com
A
The Rolling Stones will never play in Cuba again in their lifetime.
B
The Stones’ worldwide performances have been highly regarded as powerful and hypnotizing.
C
musical instruments must be donated by music companies for the concert to be able to take place.
D
although long awaited to be heard live by fans, their songs present nothing special, being the same for a long time.
E
President Obama has been planning to visit Cuba by the time the Stones get there.
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MACKENZIE 2016 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text,

‘Nazi-Hunters’ Come to Brazil After Hitler’s Accomplices
03/10/2016 - 09H28
ANNA VIRGINIA BALLOUSSIER
SPECIAL ENVOY TO RIO

Steinz still “has hope” that he will find some of the people
responsible for the Jewish genocide during WWII still living.

The Third Reich fell apart 71 years ago, leading Nazis, low to top ranking, to escape to Latin America in mass. That stampede has been compared to the escape of rodents from a sinking ship -the “rat routes”.
Delegate Uwe Steinz, 58, still “has hope” that he will find some of the people responsible for the Jewish genocide during World War II still living.
After fighting organized crime and prostitution in his country, the German lives off “hunting Nazis”-and believes there is a fistful of them in Brazil.
Since 2009, as an employee of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, he has already made 14 trips to the National Archive in Rio. Among five million immigrant registration records, Steinz is searching for the registrations for Germans born between 1916 and 1931.
The information of those who fit the profile is sent to the headquarters in Germany, which verifies if the person served the Third Reich. He didn’t come to hunt the “big fish” of the SS, the elite squad of Nazis -older, they are probably no longer with us. His target is the “lower clergy”, such as camp guards and accountants.
The most famous one of them, Joseph Mengele, the “Angel of Death”, was a doctor in Auschwitz responsible for prisoner triage (forced labor or gas chamber). He died at age 67, in 1979, when he drowned in Bertioga (on the coast of São Paulo), possibly a victim of cardiac arrest. He was never tried.
There are more accounts of older Nazis in Brazil, like Herbert Cukurs (who rented paddleboats in Niterói) and Franz Stangl, employed at a Volkswagen factory in ABC Paulista.
Arrested in 1967, Stangl was extradited and was targeted for the death of 900 thousand people. “My conscience is at peace”, he said at the time.
www1.folha.uol.com.br
A
Delegate Uwe Steinz expects the Jewish people to be responsible for the genocide during World War II.
B
Joseph Mengele died of a heart attack while scuba diving on the southeast coast of Brazil.
C
Uwe Steinz currently regards Nazi hunting as his main source of income.
D
some of the Nazis living in Brazil have recently been found running boat and car companies.
E
the “big fish” of the SS have probably left the squad and turned into camp guards and accountants.
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MACKENZIE 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

I. Jean Monnet founded the European Union at the end of his life.
II. Today technology isn’t as beneficial as it used to be.
III. Poetry and love have been disregarded lately.
IV. Quantity isn’t as relevant as quality nowadays.
V. Progress has also been threatened by the world crisis.

De acordo com as afirmações a respeito do texto acima, podemos dizer que

GLOBALISATION, HUMANISM, MODERNITY: IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM
Monica Grigorescu*
Our time has proved to be amazingly effective in gropingly building up a civilization which it has proved amazingly inept at putting in order. (André Maliaux)

    After so many crises which have followed each other in as many areas, we ought to admit that industrial and technological civilization is creating as many problems as it is capable of resolving. The myth of progress, one of the founding myths of our civilization, also appears to have collapsed as a myth. The development of modern society, spectacular as it is from an economist’s angle of vision, has not been able to society; stop a slide into human and moral underdevelopment. A deterioration of quality in relation to quantity makes only those things that can be actually measured appear to be real; unfortunately, things like poetry, suffering, or love are hardly quantifiable.

    Towards the end of his eventful life, Jean Monnet, a remarkable figure of the twentieth century, reasoned that, had he been able to start all over again, he would have begun with culture. A founding father of what was later to become the European Union, he expressed that belated belief in the pre-eminent role of culture as a part of greater civilization after he had tried for several decades to build a prosperous Europe in economic terms in the aftermath of a devastating war.

*Director of the House of Latin America of the Ministry of Foreign Affair of Romania.
Revista Direito Mackenzie
A
As afirmações II e III são falsas.
B
As afirmações I e IV são verdadeiras.
C
A afirmação I é a única verdadeira.
D
A afirmação IV é a única falsa.
E
As afirmações II, III e V são verdadeiras.
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MACKENZIE 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, Tradução | Translation

A alternativa que melhor expressa a idéia da frase “had he been able to start all over again, he would have begun with culture” é:

GLOBALISATION, HUMANISM, MODERNITY: IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM
Monica Grigorescu*
Our time has proved to be amazingly effective in gropingly building up a civilization which it has proved amazingly inept at putting in order. (André Maliaux)

    After so many crises which have followed each other in as many areas, we ought to admit that industrial and technological civilization is creating as many problems as it is capable of resolving. The myth of progress, one of the founding myths of our civilization, also appears to have collapsed as a myth. The development of modern society, spectacular as it is from an economist’s angle of vision, has not been able to society; stop a slide into human and moral underdevelopment. A deterioration of quality in relation to quantity makes only those things that can be actually measured appear to be real; unfortunately, things like poetry, suffering, or love are hardly quantifiable.

    Towards the end of his eventful life, Jean Monnet, a remarkable figure of the twentieth century, reasoned that, had he been able to start all over again, he would have begun with culture. A founding father of what was later to become the European Union, he expressed that belated belief in the pre-eminent role of culture as a part of greater civilization after he had tried for several decades to build a prosperous Europe in economic terms in the aftermath of a devastating war.

*Director of the House of Latin America of the Ministry of Foreign Affair of Romania.
Revista Direito Mackenzie
A
Ele teria começado pela cultura se tivesse sido convencido a recomeçar.
B
A cultura teria sido revista se ele tivesse sido capaz de fazê-lo.
C
Ele daria um “start” na cultura caso tivesse sido capaz.
D
Cultura é por onde ele iniciaria caso pudesse recomeçar.
E
Sua habilidade de reiniciar teria sido posta em prática se ele tivesse mais cultura.
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MACKENZIE 2015 - Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Na sentença, “…he expressed that belated belief in the pre-eminent role of culture…” a palavra grifada pode ser substituída por

GLOBALISATION, HUMANISM, MODERNITY: IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM
Monica Grigorescu*
Our time has proved to be amazingly effective in gropingly building up a civilization which it has proved amazingly inept at putting in order. (André Maliaux)

    After so many crises which have followed each other in as many areas, we ought to admit that industrial and technological civilization is creating as many problems as it is capable of resolving. The myth of progress, one of the founding myths of our civilization, also appears to have collapsed as a myth. The development of modern society, spectacular as it is from an economist’s angle of vision, has not been able to society; stop a slide into human and moral underdevelopment. A deterioration of quality in relation to quantity makes only those things that can be actually measured appear to be real; unfortunately, things like poetry, suffering, or love are hardly quantifiable.

    Towards the end of his eventful life, Jean Monnet, a remarkable figure of the twentieth century, reasoned that, had he been able to start all over again, he would have begun with culture. A founding father of what was later to become the European Union, he expressed that belated belief in the pre-eminent role of culture as a part of greater civilization after he had tried for several decades to build a prosperous Europe in economic terms in the aftermath of a devastating war.

*Director of the House of Latin America of the Ministry of Foreign Affair of Romania.
Revista Direito Mackenzie
A
late; delayed
B
influenced; affected
C
authoritative; imperious
D
impulsive; rash
E
polite; respectful
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MACKENZIE 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

A alternativa que melhor expressa a idéia da frase “All the volunteers had slept well in the days before the test, and had been warned off alcohol” é:


SIESTA TIME
    Finally, vindication for power nappers. Far from being lazy louts, siesta-takers are actually doing their bit for the firm. According to Sara Mednick and her colleagues at Harvard, just 60 minutes of shut-eye in the middle of the day can make you perform like the fresh daisy you were first thing in the morning. But it has to be bona fide sleep; a mere rest, they found, has no effect.
    Dr. Mednick, whose results have just been published in Nature Neuroscience, wanted to know what effect power napping would have on people’s visual perception. She asked 30 student volunteers to come into her laboratory. Four times on the same day, at 9am, noon, 4pm and 7pm, they were required to stare at a computer screen for an hour. Their task was to pick out a vertical or horizontal bar from a striped background - an established test of visual perceptiveness. The more quickly they picked out the bar, the more acute their perception.
    All the volunteers had slept well in the days before the test, and had been warned off alcohol. During the test day, nicotine addicts were allowed to indulge their habits, but everyone had to remain uncaffeinated. Despite this cosseting, the performance of the ten volunteers who went straight through the day without a nap deteriorated rapidly. Their best scores were first thing in the morning, and it was downhill from there on. By the last session, they were taking 52% longer, on average, to identify the orientation of the bar than they had in the first.
The Economist
A
Todos os voluntários dormiram bem juntos alguns dias antes do teste e foram aconselhados a tomar bebida alcoólica.
B
Todos os voluntários dormiram muito antes do teste e não foram avisados para tomar bebida alcoólica.
C
Todos os voluntários dormiram bem nos dias antes do teste e foram advertidos para que se afastassem do álcool.
D
Os voluntários tinham dormido nos dias anteriores ao teste e tinham sido aconselhados a manter uma certa distância de qualquer bebida, alcoólica ou não.
E
Os voluntários dormiram todos juntos alguns dias antes do teste e, apesar do conselho para que não bebessem álcool, não conseguiram evitar a tentação.
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MACKENZIE 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

“Bona Fide” in the text is the same as


SIESTA TIME
    Finally, vindication for power nappers. Far from being lazy louts, siesta-takers are actually doing their bit for the firm. According to Sara Mednick and her colleagues at Harvard, just 60 minutes of shut-eye in the middle of the day can make you perform like the fresh daisy you were first thing in the morning. But it has to be bona fide sleep; a mere rest, they found, has no effect.
    Dr. Mednick, whose results have just been published in Nature Neuroscience, wanted to know what effect power napping would have on people’s visual perception. She asked 30 student volunteers to come into her laboratory. Four times on the same day, at 9am, noon, 4pm and 7pm, they were required to stare at a computer screen for an hour. Their task was to pick out a vertical or horizontal bar from a striped background - an established test of visual perceptiveness. The more quickly they picked out the bar, the more acute their perception.
    All the volunteers had slept well in the days before the test, and had been warned off alcohol. During the test day, nicotine addicts were allowed to indulge their habits, but everyone had to remain uncaffeinated. Despite this cosseting, the performance of the ten volunteers who went straight through the day without a nap deteriorated rapidly. Their best scores were first thing in the morning, and it was downhill from there on. By the last session, they were taking 52% longer, on average, to identify the orientation of the bar than they had in the first.
The Economist
A
fashionable, stylish.
B
attentive, instructional.
C
genuine, real.
D
scruffy, untidy.
E
reliable, confident.
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MACKENZIE 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text, the wrong alternative is


SIESTA TIME
    Finally, vindication for power nappers. Far from being lazy louts, siesta-takers are actually doing their bit for the firm. According to Sara Mednick and her colleagues at Harvard, just 60 minutes of shut-eye in the middle of the day can make you perform like the fresh daisy you were first thing in the morning. But it has to be bona fide sleep; a mere rest, they found, has no effect.
    Dr. Mednick, whose results have just been published in Nature Neuroscience, wanted to know what effect power napping would have on people’s visual perception. She asked 30 student volunteers to come into her laboratory. Four times on the same day, at 9am, noon, 4pm and 7pm, they were required to stare at a computer screen for an hour. Their task was to pick out a vertical or horizontal bar from a striped background - an established test of visual perceptiveness. The more quickly they picked out the bar, the more acute their perception.
    All the volunteers had slept well in the days before the test, and had been warned off alcohol. During the test day, nicotine addicts were allowed to indulge their habits, but everyone had to remain uncaffeinated. Despite this cosseting, the performance of the ten volunteers who went straight through the day without a nap deteriorated rapidly. Their best scores were first thing in the morning, and it was downhill from there on. By the last session, they were taking 52% longer, on average, to identify the orientation of the bar than they had in the first.
The Economist
A
Volunteers who did not have any sleep during the day didn’t do well on the test.
B
The last session the volunteers were exposed to was generally longer than the first.
C
Nature Neuroscience probably publishes scientific work.
D
First thing in the morning people usually perform well.
E
The volunteers had been sleeping well before the test.
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MACKENZIE 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Researchers have found out that


SIESTA TIME
    Finally, vindication for power nappers. Far from being lazy louts, siesta-takers are actually doing their bit for the firm. According to Sara Mednick and her colleagues at Harvard, just 60 minutes of shut-eye in the middle of the day can make you perform like the fresh daisy you were first thing in the morning. But it has to be bona fide sleep; a mere rest, they found, has no effect.
    Dr. Mednick, whose results have just been published in Nature Neuroscience, wanted to know what effect power napping would have on people’s visual perception. She asked 30 student volunteers to come into her laboratory. Four times on the same day, at 9am, noon, 4pm and 7pm, they were required to stare at a computer screen for an hour. Their task was to pick out a vertical or horizontal bar from a striped background - an established test of visual perceptiveness. The more quickly they picked out the bar, the more acute their perception.
    All the volunteers had slept well in the days before the test, and had been warned off alcohol. During the test day, nicotine addicts were allowed to indulge their habits, but everyone had to remain uncaffeinated. Despite this cosseting, the performance of the ten volunteers who went straight through the day without a nap deteriorated rapidly. Their best scores were first thing in the morning, and it was downhill from there on. By the last session, they were taking 52% longer, on average, to identify the orientation of the bar than they had in the first.
The Economist
A
the visual perceptiveness test the volunteers were submitted to had to be picked out by the researchers.
B
smoking and drinking coffee have no effect on our siesta time.
C
if you look at a computer screen for one hour a day you can perform your tasks much better.
D
resting is not as effective as deep sleeping.
E
volunteers who hadn’t been sleeping well recently flunked the test.
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MACKENZIE 2014 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension


The sentence that does NOT make sense according to the comic strip is

A
Unlike Monica, Jimmy Five plays chess intelligently and differently.
B
Monica, as usual, is mad at Jimmy Five for something wrong he might have done.
C
“Have you thought about chess?” could replace “How about chess?”
D
Monica is so uptight that she can barely listen to Jimmy Five.
E
Jimmy Five’s difficulty in pronouncing certain words is obvious in the story.
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MACKENZIE 2014 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Detainees

Female Prisoners Post Sexy Pictures of Themselves on Social Network
ESTELITA HASS CARAZZAI
FROM CURITIBA
At least two detainees have taken pictures and published them on social networking sites from inside Guarapuava Public Jail, in the state of Paraná.
The pictures, taken on a phone, were found by prison guards and posted online last April.
The 30 year-old detainees are in jail after being accused of drug trafficking. Both are serving provisional sentences, and are yet to be convicted.
One has been in jail since April, and the other for a year.
Detainees are not granted possession of cell phones, and, due to this breach, they were awarded a disciplinary sanction and have since been prevented from receiving visits or food sent by family members for 30 days.
Additionally, this occurrence may prevent them from shortening their sentences if they are eventually convicted.
They appear posing in underwear on concrete beds in the female dormitory, which is decorated with animal print.
After the prison guards discovered the images, they inspected the room the two women shared and found the cell phone used to take the pictures.
“This unfortunately happens. Detainees can hide things very well”, the prison chief, Altemir Nascimento, said.
According to Nascimento, 40 cell phones have been seized so far this year in the prison (which also houses men).
CELL PHONE THROWING
The location of the prison in downtown Guarapuava makes matters worse. According to the prison chief, during sunbathing, pedestrians toss cell phones over the wall.
“Cell phones and drugs are thrown over the wall. This happens regularly. On every sunny day two or three items are thrown”, Nascimento said.
At the beginning of the year, in order to bring the “deliveries” to a halt, the prison chief decided to install a protective net over the patio. Since then 77 cell phones have been caught on the net.

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A
have been denied the right to see their family members since they broke the law in prison.
B
are not allowed to use their phones inside their prison cells for more than 30 days.
C
throw cell phones with sexy images and other kinds of pictures over the wall on sunny days.
D
who decorate their cells with pictures of animals are seriously punished by the prison guards.
E
usually hide the things they bring to jail in the female dormitory.
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MACKENZIE 2014 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text,

Female Prisoners Post Sexy Pictures of Themselves on Social Network
ESTELITA HASS CARAZZAI
FROM CURITIBA
At least two detainees have taken pictures and published them on social networking sites from inside Guarapuava Public Jail, in the state of Paraná.
The pictures, taken on a phone, were found by prison guards and posted online last April.
The 30 year-old detainees are in jail after being accused of drug trafficking. Both are serving provisional sentences, and are yet to be convicted.
One has been in jail since April, and the other for a year.
Detainees are not granted possession of cell phones, and, due to this breach, they were awarded a disciplinary sanction and have since been prevented from receiving visits or food sent by family members for 30 days.
Additionally, this occurrence may prevent them from shortening their sentences if they are eventually convicted.
They appear posing in underwear on concrete beds in the female dormitory, which is decorated with animal print.
After the prison guards discovered the images, they inspected the room the two women shared and found the cell phone used to take the pictures.
“This unfortunately happens. Detainees can hide things very well”, the prison chief, Altemir Nascimento, said.
According to Nascimento, 40 cell phones have been seized so far this year in the prison (which also houses men).
CELL PHONE THROWING
The location of the prison in downtown Guarapuava makes matters worse. According to the prison chief, during sunbathing, pedestrians toss cell phones over the wall.
“Cell phones and drugs are thrown over the wall. This happens regularly. On every sunny day two or three items are thrown”, Nascimento said.
At the beginning of the year, in order to bring the “deliveries” to a halt, the prison chief decided to install a protective net over the patio. Since then 77 cell phones have been caught on the net.

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/
A
delivery of cell phones to prison has been good business nowadays.
B
recently not all cell phones coming from the outside of the prison building have reached the prisoners.
C
while women are left in prison cells, men are kept in houses inside the Guarapuava Public Jail.
D
when cell phones are found with prisoners, they are banned from sunbathing.
E
the pictures taken on the prisoners’ cell phones were posted on Facebook in the first semester of the year.
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MACKENZIE 2014 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The text explains that

The Rolling Stones Impose High Ticket Prices for U.S. Tour
“Is that a lot?” says Mick Jagger
By Jerry Hopkins November 15, 1969

Mick Jagger performing on stage circa 1969.

LOS ANGELES—The Rolling Stones have returned to the United States for their first tour in more than three years.

It begins with two evening shows at the Forum in Los Angeles November 8th, with tickets priced from $5.50 to $8.50. (This compares to a $7.50 top price for a Blind Faith concert in the same arena, a $6.50 top for the Doors. And in both those concerts, tickets started at $3.50.) In arranging this show, a previously-set hockey game between the Los Angeles Kings and the New York Rangers was rescheduled – at the request of the man who owns both the Forum and the Kings.

Acts appearing at the concerts here will include Terry Reid, who will appear on all the dates, and the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Negotiations were continuing to have Ike and Tina, B. B. King and Chuck Berry join the Stones in several other cities.

Promoters of the L.A. concerts said the gross for the evening would exceed $275,000 if the Stones filled the 18,000 seats in the Forum both shows. Similar grosses, on a per show basis, were expected throughout the tour, with the Stones getting guarantees of $25,000 a concert and up, against take home percentages running close to $60,000.

Although figures such as these are not unusual for tours by groups of this magnitude, they did bring strong criticism from, among others, Ralph Gleason in the San Francisco Chronicle.

“Can the Rolling Stones actually need all that money?” Gleason asked. “If they really dig the black musicians as much as every note they play and every syllable they utter indicates, is it possible to take out a show with, say, Ike and Tina and some of the older men like Howlin’ Wolf and let them share in the loot? How much can the Stones take back to Merrie England after taxes, anyway? How much must the British manager and the American manager and the agency rake off the top?”

“Paying five, six and seven dollars for a Stones concert at the Oakland Coliseum for, say, an hour of the Stones seen a quarter of a mile away because the artists demand such outrageous fees that they can only be obtained under these circumstances, says a very bad thing to me about the artists’ attitude towards the public. It says they despise their own audience.”

When Mick Jagger was confronted by this criticism at a press conference at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, he left the door slightly open to giving a free concert sometime during the 13-city, 18-concert tour, but his tone didn’t seem too promising.

“There has been talk of that,” he said. “I should think toward the end. We’ll have to see how things go. I don’t want to plan that right now, ‘cause we’re gonna be here some while. We’ve got time for all that. I don’t want to say that’s what we want to do or not do. I’m leaving it rather blurry. I’m not committing myself.”

And about the ticket cost, he strongly indicated that if some people thought prices were high, they might have been a lot worse.

“We were offered a lot of money to do some very good dates – money in front in Europe, before we left, really a lot of bread. We didn’t accept because we thought they’d be too expensive on the basis of the money we’d get. We didn’t say that unless we walk out of America with X dollars, we ain’t gonna come. We’re really not into that sort of economic scene. Either you’re gonna sing and all that crap, or you’re gonna be an economist. I really don’t know whether this is more expensive than recent tours by local bands. I don’t know how much people can afford. I’ve no idea. Is that a lot? You’ll have to tell me.”

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A
sports games are usually played before every concert of the Stones.
B
whether the Stones do need all the money mentioned for their concert tickets is debatable.
C
the Stones didn’t accept the bread offered them due to the fact that it would be too expensive to be paid back.
D
it is widely known that artists in general have been letting their audiences down for quite a while.
E
Mick Jagger doubts that other bands charge their concerts more than the Stones.