Questõessobre Tradução | Translation
No trecho do segundo parágrafo – But the region continues to
have the highest inequality rate in spite of advances in helping
income distribution. –, in spite of equivale, em português, a
No trecho do segundo parágrafo “People’s recollections of
seeing themselves from above”, o termo sublinhado equivale,
em português, a
No trecho inicial do quarto parágrafo “As poorer countries
develop and the world’s population grows”, o termo em
destaque tem sentido equivalente, em português, a
Leia o texto para responder à questão.
Reducing food waste would mitigate climate change, study shows
April 7, 2016
Reducing food waste around the world would help curb
emissions of planet-warming gases, lessening some of the
impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather
and rising seas, scientists said on Thursday.
Up to 14% of emissions from agriculture in 2050 could
be avoided by managing food use and distribution better,
according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research (PIK). “Agriculture is a major
driver of climate change, accounting for more than 20% of
overall global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010,” said
co-author Prajal Pradhan. “Avoiding food loss and waste would
therefore avoid unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions and
help mitigate climate change.”
Between 30 and 40% of food produced around the world
is never eaten, because it is spoiled after harvest and during
transportation, or thrown away by shops and consumers. The
share of food wasted is expected to increase drastically if emerging economies like China and India adopt western food
habits, including a shift to eating more meat, the researchers
warned. Richer countries tend to consume more food than is
healthy or simply waste it, they noted.
As poorer countries develop and the world’s population
grows, emissions associated with food waste could soar
from 0.5 gigatonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalent per
year to between 1.9 and 2.5 GT annually by mid-century,
showed the study published in the Environmental Science &
Technology journal. It is widely argued that cutting food waste
and distributing the world’s surplus food where it is needed
could help tackle hunger in places that do not have enough -
especially given that land to expand farming is limited.
But Jürgen Kropp, another of the study’s co-authors and
PIK’s head of climate change and development, told the
Thomson Reuters Foundation the potential for food waste
curbs to reduce emissions should be given more attention.
“It is not a strategy of governments at the moment,” he said.
(www.theguardian.com. Adaptado.)
No trecho do segundo parágrafo “Agriculture is a major
driver of climate change”, os termos em destaque têm sentido
equivalente, em português, a
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Reducing food waste would mitigate climate change, study shows
April 7, 2016
Reducing food waste around the world would help curb
emissions of planet-warming gases, lessening some of the
impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather
and rising seas, scientists said on Thursday.
Up to 14% of emissions from agriculture in 2050 could
be avoided by managing food use and distribution better,
according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research (PIK). “Agriculture is a major
driver of climate change, accounting for more than 20% of
overall global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010,” said
co-author Prajal Pradhan. “Avoiding food loss and waste would
therefore avoid unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions and
help mitigate climate change.”
Between 30 and 40% of food produced around the world
is never eaten, because it is spoiled after harvest and during
transportation, or thrown away by shops and consumers. The
share of food wasted is expected to increase drastically if emerging economies like China and India adopt western food
habits, including a shift to eating more meat, the researchers
warned. Richer countries tend to consume more food than is
healthy or simply waste it, they noted.
As poorer countries develop and the world’s population
grows, emissions associated with food waste could soar
from 0.5 gigatonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalent per
year to between 1.9 and 2.5 GT annually by mid-century,
showed the study published in the Environmental Science &
Technology journal. It is widely argued that cutting food waste
and distributing the world’s surplus food where it is needed
could help tackle hunger in places that do not have enough -
especially given that land to expand farming is limited.
But Jürgen Kropp, another of the study’s co-authors and
PIK’s head of climate change and development, told the
Thomson Reuters Foundation the potential for food waste
curbs to reduce emissions should be given more attention.
“It is not a strategy of governments at the moment,” he said.
(www.theguardian.com. Adaptado.)
According to the text, choose the alternative(s) in which
the information about the compounds is correct.
“breathtaking” (line 50) can be translated into
Portuguese as “emocionante” or “empolgante”.
Considere as afirmações abaixo.
I - A frase “John demurs.” (l. 04), significa,
“John discorda.”, visto que ele tem
atitude contrária a do narrador sobre a
manutenção de motocicletas.
II - A forma nominal “building” na frase “The
building stops” (l. 11) refere-se à conversa
que se desenrola na frase “the
conversation just naturally builds
pleasantly” (l. 10) e que é interrompida.
III - As palavras “surface” (l. 17) e “underneath”
(l. 17) têm sentidos opostos, sendo seus
significados, respectivamente, “superfície”
e “sob a superfície”.
Assinale a alternativa correta.
INSTRUÇÃO: Para responder à questão, considere o texto abaixo.
(Excerpt from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, By Robert M. Pirsig. New York: Harpertorch, 1974)
Considere as seguintes afirmativas sobre algumas palavras e expressões usadas no texto.
I - “However” (linha 09) poderia ser substituída, sem prejuízo de significado, por “Moreover”.
II - “Don’t take my word for it” (linha 12) equivale à “Não precisa acreditar em mim”.
III - “They” (linha 21) refere-se a “immigrants” (linha 21).
IV- A palavra “acknowledge“ pode ser usada como antônimo de “deny” (linha 23).
Estão corretas as afirmativas
I e II.
No trecho do texto “1.5 million children die each year of
diseases that could have been thwarted by vaccines”, o
termo em destaque indica uma ideia de
Leia o texto para responder à questão.
W.H.O. calls ‘vaccine hesitancy’ an increasing concern globally
Rick Gladstone
August 18, 2015
The World Health Organization warned Tuesday of what it called the growing problem of “vaccine hesitancy,” when people delay or refuse vaccines for themselves or their children. In a statement on its website, the organization called the problem “a growing challenge for countries seeking to close the immunization gap.” Globally, the organization said, one in five children still do not receive routine lifesaving immunizations, and 1.5 million children die each year of diseases that could have been thwarted by vaccines.
(www.nytimes.com)
No trecho do quinto parágrafo “The power of suggestion is a
double-edged sword.”, a expressão em destaque equivale,
em português, a
No trecho do quarto parágrafo “Instead, we could simply
wield the power of suggestion.”, o termo em destaque equivale, em português, a
O trecho do segundo parágrafo “And ‘please’ it does.” tem
sentido equivalente, em português, a:
No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “the rock cress Arabidopsis
can distinguish”, o termo em destaque tem sentido semelhante, em português, a
Pseudoscientific claims that music helps plants grow have been made for decades, despite evidence that is shaky at best. Yet new research suggests some flora may be capable of sensing sounds, such as the gurgle of water through a pipe or the buzzing of insects.
In a recent study, Monica Gagliano, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Western Australia, and her colleagues placed pea seedlings in pots shaped like an upside-down Y. One arm of each pot was placed in either a tray of water or a coiled plastic tube through which water flowed; the other arm had dry soil. The roots grew toward the arm of the pipe with the fluid, regardless of whether it was easily accessible or hidden inside the tubing. “They just knew the water was there, even if the only thing to detect was the sound of it flowing inside the pipe,” Gagliano says. Yet when the seedlings were given a choice between the water tube and some moistened soil, their roots favored the latter. She hypothesizes that these plants use sound waves to detect water at a distance but follow moisture gradients to home in on their target when it is closer.
The research, reported earlier this year in Oecologia, is not the first to suggest flora can detect and interpret sounds. A 2014 study showed the rock cress Arabidopsis can distinguish between caterpillar chewing sounds and wind vibrations – the plant produced more chemical toxins after “hearing” a recording of feeding insects. “We tend to underestimate plants because their responses are usually less visible to us. But leaves turn out to be extremely sensitive vibration detectors,” says lead study author Heidi M. Appel, an environmental scientist now at the University of Toledo.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can
truly rest.
Nelson Mandela
Disponível em:<www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/nelson_mandela.htm>. Acesso em: 24 ago.
2016
Nelson Mandela foi um líder rebelde, presidente da África do Sul de 1994 a 1999 e
agraciado com o prêmio Nobel da paz em 1993. Nesse trecho, Mandela diz que
nenhum de nós pode verdadeiramente descansar enquanto persistirem:
“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you
think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.” Malcolm X
Disponível em: <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/281078-don-t-be-in-a-hurry-to-condemn-becausehe-doesn-t>. Acesso em: 12 set. 2016
Citações são passagens curtas retiradas de textos orais ou escritos. Nessa citação,
Malcolm X aconselha a:
De acordo com o texto, em termos de sentido, verifica-se que o trecho
Leia o texto a seguir para responder à questão.
Artificial intelligence and the future of medicine
Right now, the challenges we need to address as we try to bring AI into medical practice include improving the quality of the data that we feed into AI systems, developing ways to evaluate whether an AI system is actually better than standard of care, ensuring patient privacy and making sure not only that AI doesn't disrupt clinical work flow but in fact improves it. But if doctors do their jobs right and build these systems well, much of what we have described will become so ingrained in the system, people won't even refer to it separately as informatics or AI. It will just be medicine.
No trecho do segundo parágrafo “Despite its environmental
importance”, o termo sublinhado equivale, em português, a
Cerrado
Located between the Amazon, Atlantic Forests and Pantanal, the Cerrado is the largest savanna region in South America.
The Cerrado is one of the most threatened and overexploited regions in Brazil, second only to the Atlantic Forests in vegetation loss and deforestation. Unsustainable agricultural activities, particularly soy production and cattle ranching, as well as burning of vegetation for charcoal, continue to pose a major threat to the Cerrado’s biodiversity. Despite its environmental importance, it is one of the least protected regions in Brazil.
Facts & Figures
• Covering 2 million km2 , or 21% of the country’s territory, the Cerrado is the second largest vegetation type in Brazil.
• The area is equivalent to the size of England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined.
• More than 1,600 species of mammals, birds and reptiles have been identified in the Cerrado.
• Annual rainfall is around 800 to 1600 mm.
• The capital of Brazil, Brasilia, is located in the heart of the Cerrado. • Only 20% of the Cerrado’s original vegetation remains intact; less than 3% of the area is currently guarded by law.
(http://wwf.panda.org. Adaptado.)
Qual o significado de “crippled” (l. 07)?
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a tradução mais adequada para a frase “some
degree of fence-seating is understanding” (l. 06).
Em termos de sentido, verifica se que
Disponível em: <http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/see-boschs-contribution-to-industry-4-0-42895.html>. Acesso em: 23 fev. 2018. (Adaptado)