Questõesde UNB sobre Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Irrespective of how death is defined in each culture, all of them understand it as a total cessation of life.

The actual meaning and conceptualization of death differ widely across cultures.

For the majority of people in the world, death involves different conditions such as sleep, illness and age.

In the first paragraph, “developing young” (L.3) and “offspring” (L.4) refer basically to the same idea.

What is the teacher saying to the pupil? Choose the most appropriate sentence in accordance with the picture.

Jander’s study investigated six species overall.

The absence of contractions, such as in “wasps do not always pollinate the fig” (L.3-4), is one of the features which characterize this text as colloquial.

Even though the wasps that establish a pollinator relationship with fig trees belong to different species, they utilize the same method of pollination.

The harshness of the punishment does not interfere in how often the participants follow the rules.

The relation between fig trees and wasps bears similarities with that between members of society and its laws.

The central theme of the text is the need for each of the parties involved in a given relationship to perform its role.

Even though the fig tree and the wasp belong to different natural kingdoms, they cooperate in each other’s reproductive cycle.

The ecological relation between the wasp and the fig tree which is referred to in the text can be described as mutualism and reduces the genetic variability in fig tree populations.

Among the animals that contribute substantially to the dispersion of the fruit of the fig tree, one can list a bat that can only be found in the Pantanal of south-western Brazil, and a bird that inhabits the plains of Patagonia, in southern Argentina.

There is not much the fig tree can do against wasps if they do not perform their role as pollinators.

Team sports contribute to children’s social development.

There is a direct relation between the Fair Play Code and the social code: Playing without causing harm to others.

Read the following paragraph.

Do not be afraid to stand up to anybody who you are sure is trying to make others cheat or engage in other unacceptable behavior. It is better to expose them and have them removed before they can do any damage. It is equally dishonest to go along with a wrongful act. Do not just say no. Tell the authorities about those misguided persons who are trying to spoil our sport before they can persuade somebody else to commit an illegal act.

The sentence Denounce those who attempt to discredit our sport is a suitable title for the paragraph above.

If one were to invert the order of the words in “handball goal” (L.7), the meaning of the phrase would remain the same.

The clause “To give fair play more visibility” (L.12) expresses the cause of what follows it.