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MACKENZIE 2012 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Which question below CANNOT be answered with information from the text?


A
How often do women have to take Depo-Provera as part of a contraceptive treatment?
B
What is Melinda Gates like?
C
How come some women’s husbands are so unsupportive in situations like these?
D
When was the Gates Foundation created?
E
Why are clinics in the developing world out of injectable contraceptives?
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MACKENZIE 2017 - Inglês - Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

Which of the alternatives below are acceptable in English?

I. She would like me to speak to her mother.
II. We want he goes to England with us.
III. They asked that she study more.
IV. He would rather to traveling in winter.
V. I think people should avoid speaking too loud in public.

A
II and IV
B
II, III, and IV
C
I, II, and III
D
II, IV, and V
E
I, III, and V
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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


The idiomatic expression above means that

A
He was seriously hurt in the hand to the point of bleeding hard.
B
The police caught him with his hand inside the car.
C
He had his hands painted in red color after being caught by the police.
D
The police arrested him for the accusation of armed robbery.
E
He was caught in the act of doing something wrong.
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MACKENZIE 2017 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the description above, Leos



Strengths: Creative, passionate, generous, warm-hearted, cheerful, humorous

Weaknesses: Arrogant, stubborn, self-centered, lazy, inflexible

Leo likes: Theater, taking holidays, being admired, expensive things, bright colors, fun with friends

Leo dislikes: Being ignored, facing difficult reality, not being treated like a king or queen

People born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their “king of the jungle” status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Selfconfident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
A
wear bright colors and enjoy their buddies night and day.
B
can be irresistible and honest in times of trouble.
C
have problems being ignored or uniting people.
D
are fond of holidays and of being well-treated.
E
admire their own strength and enjoy being the king of the jungle.
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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 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 - Orações condicionais | Conditional Clauses

The sentence “Would you still love me if I did something wrong?” in the third conditional form is

A
If I did something wrong, would you had loved me?
B
Would you still love me if I done something wrong?
C
If I had done something wrong, would you have loved me?
D
Had I did something wrong, would you have loved me?
E
Would you have loved me if I would have done something wrong?
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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 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 - Voz Ativa e Passiva | Passive and Active Voice

The only sentence from the text which is in the active voice is 

‘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
Stangl was extradited and was targeted for the death of 900 thousand people.
B
The information of those who fit the profile is sent to the headquarters in Germany.
C
That stampede has been compared to the escape of rodents from a sinking ship.
D
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.
E
He was never tried.
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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 - 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, 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 - 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

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.
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