Questõesde UECE sobre Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Despite the recent financial crisis,

TEXT 

By Robert Shiller. Newsweek - Special Issue, Dec. 2009. 

A
Capitalism maintains its strength/power.
B
The G20 has not been concerned about market bubbles.
C
Economists still believe in the efficientmarkets theory.
D
The lower classes are spending more and more money.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Shiller’s point of view about youths nowadays is that they:

TEXT 

By Robert Shiller. Newsweek - Special Issue, Dec. 2009. 

A
Don’t care about Economics.
B
Are worried about making money.
C
Are never concerned about financial crises.
D
Just want to spend money.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to Robert Shiller:

TEXT 

By Robert Shiller. Newsweek - Special Issue, Dec. 2009. 

A
There’s a strong faith that prices will go down.
B
Human psychology has changed over the years.
C
Human beings have a kind of herd mentality.
D
Old ideas about markets no longer exist.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The author believes in:

TEXT 

By Robert Shiller. Newsweek - Special Issue, Dec. 2009. 

A
The triumph of capitalism.
B
The US housing market.
C
Old people’s concern about making money.
D
New era stories that emphasize the world’s improvement.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The author also believes that the internet will

TEXT 

By Robert Shiller. Newsweek - Special Issue, Dec. 2009. 

A
Stop fueling the so-called tech bubble.
B
Keep on having effects on markets.
C
Destroy old ideas and beliefs about economics.
D
Cause prices to rise over the long term.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Among the personal aspects that have been object of tracking nowadays the text mentions


A
sleeping habits and learning approaches.
B
ecological awareness and exercising habits.
C
what people do and how they treat others.
D
what people eat and how they feel.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

One of the advantages of using numbers is that they allow our problems to be


A
analysed in an easy way.
B
shared and displayed.
C
faced in an objective way.
D
solved immediately.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

One of the reasons why we make so many errors is the fact that


A
decision-making is a very complicated task.
B
we rarely use a good timer.
C
our decisions are based on incomplete information.
D
we rely completely on our computer systems.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

As to the objectives of self-tracking, it is stated in the text that


A
all the people who get involved in the process have very clear objectives.
B
many people do not have exactly specific goals.
C
the majority of people do it just as a spare time activity.
D
30,000 people do it because it is fashionable.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

In the sentence ''Corporate executives facing down hostile shareholders load their pockets full of numbers.” (lines 32-34), the part in italics means


A
put lots of dollars in their pockets.
B
download huge files from the net.
C
gather lots of relevant data.
D
fill their pockets with lots of papers.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to Barooah, if a person wants to see the results of his/her acts, he/she must


A
put together personal information.
B
compare his/her attitudes with others’.
C
consult a specialist on data systems.
D
forget about the management of time.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

If the author knew then what he knows now, he


A
will find another ending for his novel.
B
would have found another ending for his novel.
C
would found another ending for his novel.
D
can have found another ending for his novel.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Near the end of the nineteenth century


A
Ambrose Bierce translated Poe‟s short stories into French.
B
there was an increased interest in the supernatural, in psychic phenomena, in psychotherapy and in spiritualism.
C
Gustave Doré applied himself to Dante and Milton.
D
artists depicted the spectre of death in paint, through sculpture and woodcutting.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Among the many writers influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, the text mentions


A
Myers and Blake.
B
John Martin and Milton.
C
Bierce and Lovecraft.
D
Gustave Doré and Milton.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Among the many themes explored in horror stories, one can include


A
witchcraft, lycanthropy, and occult practices.
B
vampires, hylomancy, psychical research.
C
occult practices, betrayal and madhouses.
D
the slums, moral chaos and depravity.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

For some religious groups, in the eighteenth century, the idea of hell


A
was re-created as a visitable place.
B
had an enormous influence on readers.
C
persisted as a site of lasting fire, punishment, and the devil‟s home.
D
disappeared completely from literature.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The concept of an inner hell was then considered


A
the abode of lux atra and eternal pain.
B
a psychological kind of horror and terror.
C
a horrible location in the cosmological system.
D
a place for voodoo, succubi, incubi, and poltergeists.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

In the sixteenth century, „hell‟ was


A
the center of attention among European writers.
B
turned into a diachronic feature of American literature.
C
displaced from its traditional location to the mind itself.
D
considered the spectre of death.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

As to the French “symbolistes”, the text says that they were


A
determined to discuss depravity and misery.
B
experimenting with different kinds of poetry.
C
translators of Baudelaire‟s tales.
D
influenced by Edgar Poe‟s tales.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The true hells in the 18th and 19th centuries were, among other things


A
illustrated in Paradise Lost.
B
celestial counterparts to the horrors of psychopathic conditions.
C
102 engravings made by William Blake.
D
slums, bedlams, gaols and asylums.