Questõesde UNESP 2018 sobre Inglês

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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

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Prescriptions for fighting epidemics 



    Epidemics have plagued humanity since the dawn of settled life. Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy. Experts predict that a global one that could kill more than 300 million people would come round in the next 20 to 40 years. What pathogen would cause it is anybody’s guess. Chances are that it will be a virus that lurks in birds or mammals, or one that that has not yet hatched. The scariest are both highly lethal and spread easily among humans. Thankfully, bugs that excel at the first tend to be weak at the other. But mutations – ordinary business for germs – can change that in a blink. Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.
    A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million to 100 million people, was a potent version of the “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. The H5N1 “avian flu” strain, deadly in 60% of cases, came about in the 1990s when a virus that sickened birds made the jump to a human. Ebola, HIV and Zika took a similar route.

                                                                                                     (www.economist.com, 08.02.2018. Adaptado.)

A
o vírus H5N1 é uma mutação do vírus HIV.
B
o vírus influenza possui comportamento sazonal, ou seja, é capaz de se espalhar pelos continentes.
C
a gripe suína de 2009 foi muito mais letal que a gripe espanhola de 1918.
D
os vírus Ebola, HIV e Zika passaram a contaminar os seres humanos.
E
um vírus só é considerado perigoso se sua letalidade superar 60% dos casos de contaminação.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts”, o termo sublinhado indica

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Prescriptions for fighting epidemics 



    Epidemics have plagued humanity since the dawn of settled life. Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy. Experts predict that a global one that could kill more than 300 million people would come round in the next 20 to 40 years. What pathogen would cause it is anybody’s guess. Chances are that it will be a virus that lurks in birds or mammals, or one that that has not yet hatched. The scariest are both highly lethal and spread easily among humans. Thankfully, bugs that excel at the first tend to be weak at the other. But mutations – ordinary business for germs – can change that in a blink. Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.
    A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million to 100 million people, was a potent version of the “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. The H5N1 “avian flu” strain, deadly in 60% of cases, came about in the 1990s when a virus that sickened birds made the jump to a human. Ebola, HIV and Zika took a similar route.

                                                                                                     (www.economist.com, 08.02.2018. Adaptado.)

A
acréscimo.
B
decorrência.
C
comparação.
D
condição.
E
finalidade.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “can change that in a blink”, a expressão sublinhada tem sentido de

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Prescriptions for fighting epidemics 



    Epidemics have plagued humanity since the dawn of settled life. Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy. Experts predict that a global one that could kill more than 300 million people would come round in the next 20 to 40 years. What pathogen would cause it is anybody’s guess. Chances are that it will be a virus that lurks in birds or mammals, or one that that has not yet hatched. The scariest are both highly lethal and spread easily among humans. Thankfully, bugs that excel at the first tend to be weak at the other. But mutations – ordinary business for germs – can change that in a blink. Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.
    A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million to 100 million people, was a potent version of the “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. The H5N1 “avian flu” strain, deadly in 60% of cases, came about in the 1990s when a virus that sickened birds made the jump to a human. Ebola, HIV and Zika took a similar route.

                                                                                                     (www.economist.com, 08.02.2018. Adaptado.)

A
confiança.
B
previsibilidade.
C
expectativa.
D
desalento.
E
rapidez.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary, Sinônimos | Synonyms

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy”, o termo sublinhado equivale, em português, a

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Prescriptions for fighting epidemics 



    Epidemics have plagued humanity since the dawn of settled life. Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy. Experts predict that a global one that could kill more than 300 million people would come round in the next 20 to 40 years. What pathogen would cause it is anybody’s guess. Chances are that it will be a virus that lurks in birds or mammals, or one that that has not yet hatched. The scariest are both highly lethal and spread easily among humans. Thankfully, bugs that excel at the first tend to be weak at the other. But mutations – ordinary business for germs – can change that in a blink. Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.
    A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million to 100 million people, was a potent version of the “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. The H5N1 “avian flu” strain, deadly in 60% of cases, came about in the 1990s when a virus that sickened birds made the jump to a human. Ebola, HIV and Zika took a similar route.

                                                                                                     (www.economist.com, 08.02.2018. Adaptado.)

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assim mesmo.
B
portanto.
C
além disso.
D
ao invés disso.
E
no entanto.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

De acordo com o texto, os especialistas

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Prescriptions for fighting epidemics 



    Epidemics have plagued humanity since the dawn of settled life. Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy. Experts predict that a global one that could kill more than 300 million people would come round in the next 20 to 40 years. What pathogen would cause it is anybody’s guess. Chances are that it will be a virus that lurks in birds or mammals, or one that that has not yet hatched. The scariest are both highly lethal and spread easily among humans. Thankfully, bugs that excel at the first tend to be weak at the other. But mutations – ordinary business for germs – can change that in a blink. Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.
    A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million to 100 million people, was a potent version of the “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. The H5N1 “avian flu” strain, deadly in 60% of cases, came about in the 1990s when a virus that sickened birds made the jump to a human. Ebola, HIV and Zika took a similar route.

                                                                                                     (www.economist.com, 08.02.2018. Adaptado.)

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pressupõem que haverá uma pandemia futura, ainda sem patógeno identificado.
B
identificaram o vírus que poderá matar mais de 300 milhões de pessoas.
C
presumem que vacinas sejam capazes de conter epidemias, ainda que sem evidências.
D
acreditam que os vírus mais letais não são transmitidos para os humanos.
E
estão criando patógenos mutantes em laboratórios para produzir vacinas.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “or one that that has not yet hatched”, o termo sublinhado refere-se a

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Prescriptions for fighting epidemics 



    Epidemics have plagued humanity since the dawn of settled life. Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy. Experts predict that a global one that could kill more than 300 million people would come round in the next 20 to 40 years. What pathogen would cause it is anybody’s guess. Chances are that it will be a virus that lurks in birds or mammals, or one that that has not yet hatched. The scariest are both highly lethal and spread easily among humans. Thankfully, bugs that excel at the first tend to be weak at the other. But mutations – ordinary business for germs – can change that in a blink. Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.
    A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million to 100 million people, was a potent version of the “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. The H5N1 “avian flu” strain, deadly in 60% of cases, came about in the 1990s when a virus that sickened birds made the jump to a human. Ebola, HIV and Zika took a similar route.

                                                                                                     (www.economist.com, 08.02.2018. Adaptado.)

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mutation.
B
virus.
C
mammals.
D
epidemic.
E
birds.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

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Prescriptions for fighting epidemics 



    Epidemics have plagued humanity since the dawn of settled life. Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy. Experts predict that a global one that could kill more than 300 million people would come round in the next 20 to 40 years. What pathogen would cause it is anybody’s guess. Chances are that it will be a virus that lurks in birds or mammals, or one that that has not yet hatched. The scariest are both highly lethal and spread easily among humans. Thankfully, bugs that excel at the first tend to be weak at the other. But mutations – ordinary business for germs – can change that in a blink. Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.
    A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million to 100 million people, was a potent version of the “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. The H5N1 “avian flu” strain, deadly in 60% of cases, came about in the 1990s when a virus that sickened birds made the jump to a human. Ebola, HIV and Zika took a similar route.

                                                                                                     (www.economist.com, 08.02.2018. Adaptado.)

A
há perspectivas de erradicar as epidemias nos próximos 40 anos.
B
as epidemias assolaram principalmente os povos ancestrais nômades.
C
as mutações que os germes sofrem geralmente atenuam a sua letalidade.
D
doenças presentes em animais e aves podem se transformar em doenças humanas.
E
as aves são as principais transmissoras de patógenos, devido à sua mobilidade.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1731-1775


Based on the information presented by the map, one can say that, from 1731 to 1775,

A
the majority of enslaved Africans were taken to the British and French Caribbean colonies.
B
enslaved Africans from Senegambia were mainly smuggled to Brazil.
C
a great part of enslaved Africans were forced to work in other African regions.
D
most enslaved Africans from West Central Africa were taken to British colonies in the Caribbean.
E
the northern region of the Americas, colonized by the British, received more enslaved Africans than the south.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

A obra Antropofagia (“Cannibalism”) de Tarsila do Amaral, apresentada na imagem, é interpretada pelo autor do artigo como

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She led Latin American Art in a bold new direction 


    In 1928, Tarsila do Amaral painted Abaporu, a landmark work of Brazilian Modernism, in which a nude figure, half-human and half-animal, looks down at his massive, swollen foot, several times the size of his head. Abaporu inspired Tarsila’s husband at the time, the poet Oswald de Andrade, to write his celebrated “Cannibal Manifesto,” which flayed Brazil’s belletrist writers and called for an embrace of local influences – in fact, for a devouring of them. The European stereotype of native Brazilians as cannibals would be reformatted as a cultural virtue. More than a social and literary reform movement, cannibalism would form the basis for a new Brazilian nationalism, in which, as de Andrade wrote, “we made Christ to be born in Bahia.” 

    The unconventional nudes of A Negra, a painting produced in 1923, and Abaporu unite in Tarsila’s final great painting, Antropofagia, a marriage of two figures that is also a marriage of Old World and New. The couple sit entangled, her breast drooping over his knee, their giant feet crossed one over the other, while, behind them, a banana leaf grows as large as a cactus. The sun, high above the primordial couple, is a wedge of lemon.


(Jason Farago. www.nytimes.com, 15.02.2018. Adaptado.)

A
o casamento tradicional entre um homem e uma mulher.
B
uma referência aos trabalhadores rurais, evidenciados pelo tamanho dos pés.
C
a agrura implacável da natureza, representada pelo Sol sobre o sertão.
D
uma expressão de contraste entre a suavidade da bananeira e os espinhos do cacto mandacaru.
E
uma mistura entre a Europa e a América.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

De acordo com o artigo de Jason Farago, o “Manifesto Antropofágico”, escrito por Oswald de Andrade, foi influenciado

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She led Latin American Art in a bold new direction 


    In 1928, Tarsila do Amaral painted Abaporu, a landmark work of Brazilian Modernism, in which a nude figure, half-human and half-animal, looks down at his massive, swollen foot, several times the size of his head. Abaporu inspired Tarsila’s husband at the time, the poet Oswald de Andrade, to write his celebrated “Cannibal Manifesto,” which flayed Brazil’s belletrist writers and called for an embrace of local influences – in fact, for a devouring of them. The European stereotype of native Brazilians as cannibals would be reformatted as a cultural virtue. More than a social and literary reform movement, cannibalism would form the basis for a new Brazilian nationalism, in which, as de Andrade wrote, “we made Christ to be born in Bahia.” 

    The unconventional nudes of A Negra, a painting produced in 1923, and Abaporu unite in Tarsila’s final great painting, Antropofagia, a marriage of two figures that is also a marriage of Old World and New. The couple sit entangled, her breast drooping over his knee, their giant feet crossed one over the other, while, behind them, a banana leaf grows as large as a cactus. The sun, high above the primordial couple, is a wedge of lemon.


(Jason Farago. www.nytimes.com, 15.02.2018. Adaptado.)

A
pelo quadro Abaporu, produzido por Tarsila do Amaral em 1928.
B
pela exuberância das paisagens tropicais brasileiras.
C
pelo quadro Antropofagia, produzido antes da Semana de Arte Moderna. 
D
pelo estereótipo dos povos indígenas brasileiros.
E
pelo sincretismo religioso na Bahia e pelo primitivismo nas artes plásticas.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

A apresentação sublinha a influência de uma determinada vanguarda europeia sobre a pintura de Tarsila do Amaral. A influência dessa vanguarda europeia também se encontra nos seguintes versos do poeta modernista Murilo Mendes.

Entre 11 de fevereiro e 03 de junho de 2018, o Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova Iorque (MoMA) abrigou a primeira exposição nos Estados Unidos dedicada à pintora brasileira Tarsila do Amaral. Leia a apresentação de uma das pinturas expostas para responder às questões


The painting Sleep (1928) is a dreamlike representation of tropical landscape, with this major motif of her repetitive figure that disappears in the background.

This painting is an example of Tarsila’s venture into surrealism. Elements such as repetition, random association, and dreamlike figures are typical of surrealism that we can see as main elements of this composition. She was never a truly surrealist painter, but she was totally aware of surrealism’s legacy.


(www.moma.org. Adaptado.)

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No fim de um ano seu Naum progrediu, já sabe que tem Rui Barbosa, Mangue, Lampião.
Joga no bicho todo dia, está ajuntando pro carnaval,
depois do almoço anda às turras com a mulher.
As filhas dele instalaram-se na vida nacional. Sabem dançar o maxixe
conversam com os sargentos em bom brasileiro.

(“Família russa no Brasil”)

B

Eu sou triste como um prático de farmácia,
sou quase tão triste como um homem que usa costeletas.
Passo o dia inteiro pensando nuns carinhos de mulher
mas só ouço o tectec das máquinas de escrever.
Lá fora chove e a estátua de Floriano fica linda.
Quantas meninas pela vida afora!
E eu alinhando no papel as fortunas dos outros


(“Modinha do empregado de banco”)

C

Ele acredita que o chão é duro
Que todos os homens estão presos
Que há limites para a poesia
Que não há sorrisos nas crianças
Nem amor nas mulheres
Que só de pão vive o homem
Que não há um outro mundo.

(“O utopista”)

D

A costureira, moça, alta, bonita,
ancas largas,
os seios estourando debaixo do vestido,
(os olhos profundos faziam a sombra na cara), morreu.
Desde então o viúvo passa os dias no quarto olhando pro
[manequim.

(“Afinidades”)

E

O cavalo mecânico arrebata o manequim pensativo
que invade a sombra das casas no espaço elástico.
Ao sinal do sonho a vida move direitinho as estátuas
que retomam seu lugar na série do planeta.
Os homens largam a ação na paisagem elementar
e invocam os pesadelos de mármore na beira do infinito

(“O mundo inimigo”)

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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

A apresentação refere-se à pintura:

Entre 11 de fevereiro e 03 de junho de 2018, o Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova Iorque (MoMA) abrigou a primeira exposição nos Estados Unidos dedicada à pintora brasileira Tarsila do Amaral. Leia a apresentação de uma das pinturas expostas para responder às questões


The painting Sleep (1928) is a dreamlike representation of tropical landscape, with this major motif of her repetitive figure that disappears in the background.

This painting is an example of Tarsila’s venture into surrealism. Elements such as repetition, random association, and dreamlike figures are typical of surrealism that we can see as main elements of this composition. She was never a truly surrealist painter, but she was totally aware of surrealism’s legacy.


(www.moma.org. Adaptado.)

A


B


C


D


E


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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Tempos Verbais | Verb Tenses, Vocabulário | Vocabulary, Verbos modais | Modal verbs, Sinônimos | Synonyms

No trecho do quarto parágrafo “emotions may be the key to changing minds”, o termo sublinhado pode ser substituído, sem alteração de sentido no texto, por:

                      


      In today’s political climate, it sometimes feels like we can’t even agree on basic facts. We bombard each other with statistics and figures, hoping that more data will make a difference. A progressive person might show you the same climate change graphs over and over while a conservative person might point to the trillions of dollars of growing national debt. We’re left wondering, “Why can’t they just see? It’s so obvious!

      Certain myths are so pervasive that no matter how many experts disprove them, they only seem to grow in popularity. There’s no shortage of serious studies showing no link between autism and vaccines, for example, but these are no match for an emotional appeal to parents worried for their young children.

      Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, studies how our minds work and how we process new information. In her upcoming book, The Influential Mind, she explores why we ignore facts and how we can get people to actually listen to the truth. Tali shows that we’re open to new information – but only if it confirms our existing beliefs. We find ways to ignore facts that challenge our ideals. And as neuroscientist Bahador Bahrami and colleagues have found, we weigh all opinions as equally valid, regardless of expertise.

      So, having the data on your side is not always enough. For better or for worse, Sharot says, emotions may be the key to changing minds.

                                          (Shankar Vedantam. www.npr.org. Adaptado.)

A
must.
B
has to.
C
can.
D
used to.
E
will.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

O trecho do terceiro parágrafo “we weigh all opinions as equally valid, regardless of expertise” quer dizer que as pessoas

                      


      In today’s political climate, it sometimes feels like we can’t even agree on basic facts. We bombard each other with statistics and figures, hoping that more data will make a difference. A progressive person might show you the same climate change graphs over and over while a conservative person might point to the trillions of dollars of growing national debt. We’re left wondering, “Why can’t they just see? It’s so obvious!

      Certain myths are so pervasive that no matter how many experts disprove them, they only seem to grow in popularity. There’s no shortage of serious studies showing no link between autism and vaccines, for example, but these are no match for an emotional appeal to parents worried for their young children.

      Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, studies how our minds work and how we process new information. In her upcoming book, The Influential Mind, she explores why we ignore facts and how we can get people to actually listen to the truth. Tali shows that we’re open to new information – but only if it confirms our existing beliefs. We find ways to ignore facts that challenge our ideals. And as neuroscientist Bahador Bahrami and colleagues have found, we weigh all opinions as equally valid, regardless of expertise.

      So, having the data on your side is not always enough. For better or for worse, Sharot says, emotions may be the key to changing minds.

                                          (Shankar Vedantam. www.npr.org. Adaptado.)

A
não diferenciam opiniões de leigos das de especialistas.
B
não percebem a ideologia por trás das opiniões.
C
não conseguem avaliar posições contraditórias.
D
mudam de ideia com facilidade.
E
aceitam a opinião da maioria como válida.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

No trecho do segundo parágrafo “but these are no match for an emotional appeal to parents worried for their young children”, o termo sublinhado refere-se a

                      


      In today’s political climate, it sometimes feels like we can’t even agree on basic facts. We bombard each other with statistics and figures, hoping that more data will make a difference. A progressive person might show you the same climate change graphs over and over while a conservative person might point to the trillions of dollars of growing national debt. We’re left wondering, “Why can’t they just see? It’s so obvious!

      Certain myths are so pervasive that no matter how many experts disprove them, they only seem to grow in popularity. There’s no shortage of serious studies showing no link between autism and vaccines, for example, but these are no match for an emotional appeal to parents worried for their young children.

      Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, studies how our minds work and how we process new information. In her upcoming book, The Influential Mind, she explores why we ignore facts and how we can get people to actually listen to the truth. Tali shows that we’re open to new information – but only if it confirms our existing beliefs. We find ways to ignore facts that challenge our ideals. And as neuroscientist Bahador Bahrami and colleagues have found, we weigh all opinions as equally valid, regardless of expertise.

      So, having the data on your side is not always enough. For better or for worse, Sharot says, emotions may be the key to changing minds.

                                          (Shankar Vedantam. www.npr.org. Adaptado.)

A
“experts”.
B
“studies”.
C
“autism and vaccines”.
D
“parents”.
E
“myths”.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the second paragraph, the link between vaccines and autism

                      


      In today’s political climate, it sometimes feels like we can’t even agree on basic facts. We bombard each other with statistics and figures, hoping that more data will make a difference. A progressive person might show you the same climate change graphs over and over while a conservative person might point to the trillions of dollars of growing national debt. We’re left wondering, “Why can’t they just see? It’s so obvious!

      Certain myths are so pervasive that no matter how many experts disprove them, they only seem to grow in popularity. There’s no shortage of serious studies showing no link between autism and vaccines, for example, but these are no match for an emotional appeal to parents worried for their young children.

      Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, studies how our minds work and how we process new information. In her upcoming book, The Influential Mind, she explores why we ignore facts and how we can get people to actually listen to the truth. Tali shows that we’re open to new information – but only if it confirms our existing beliefs. We find ways to ignore facts that challenge our ideals. And as neuroscientist Bahador Bahrami and colleagues have found, we weigh all opinions as equally valid, regardless of expertise.

      So, having the data on your side is not always enough. For better or for worse, Sharot says, emotions may be the key to changing minds.

                                          (Shankar Vedantam. www.npr.org. Adaptado.)

A
is accepted by both parents and experts.
B
is a true fact that worries most experts.
C
has been established by recent studies.
D
is a myth many people believe in.
E
has been shown in many young children.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “A progressive person might show you the same climate change graphs over and over while a conservative person might point to the trillions of dollars of growing national debt”, o termo sublinhado indica sentido de

                      


      In today’s political climate, it sometimes feels like we can’t even agree on basic facts. We bombard each other with statistics and figures, hoping that more data will make a difference. A progressive person might show you the same climate change graphs over and over while a conservative person might point to the trillions of dollars of growing national debt. We’re left wondering, “Why can’t they just see? It’s so obvious!

      Certain myths are so pervasive that no matter how many experts disprove them, they only seem to grow in popularity. There’s no shortage of serious studies showing no link between autism and vaccines, for example, but these are no match for an emotional appeal to parents worried for their young children.

      Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, studies how our minds work and how we process new information. In her upcoming book, The Influential Mind, she explores why we ignore facts and how we can get people to actually listen to the truth. Tali shows that we’re open to new information – but only if it confirms our existing beliefs. We find ways to ignore facts that challenge our ideals. And as neuroscientist Bahador Bahrami and colleagues have found, we weigh all opinions as equally valid, regardless of expertise.

      So, having the data on your side is not always enough. For better or for worse, Sharot says, emotions may be the key to changing minds.

                                          (Shankar Vedantam. www.npr.org. Adaptado.)

A
alternativa.
B
tempo.
C
consequência.
D
preferência.
E
contraste.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

De acordo com o texto, as pessoas

                      


      In today’s political climate, it sometimes feels like we can’t even agree on basic facts. We bombard each other with statistics and figures, hoping that more data will make a difference. A progressive person might show you the same climate change graphs over and over while a conservative person might point to the trillions of dollars of growing national debt. We’re left wondering, “Why can’t they just see? It’s so obvious!

      Certain myths are so pervasive that no matter how many experts disprove them, they only seem to grow in popularity. There’s no shortage of serious studies showing no link between autism and vaccines, for example, but these are no match for an emotional appeal to parents worried for their young children.

      Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, studies how our minds work and how we process new information. In her upcoming book, The Influential Mind, she explores why we ignore facts and how we can get people to actually listen to the truth. Tali shows that we’re open to new information – but only if it confirms our existing beliefs. We find ways to ignore facts that challenge our ideals. And as neuroscientist Bahador Bahrami and colleagues have found, we weigh all opinions as equally valid, regardless of expertise.

      So, having the data on your side is not always enough. For better or for worse, Sharot says, emotions may be the key to changing minds.

                                          (Shankar Vedantam. www.npr.org. Adaptado.)

A
tendem a descartar fatos que conflitam com suas crenças.
B
são propensas a rejeitar quaisquer informações novas.
C
valorizam as opiniões de especialistas em um determinado assunto.
D
acreditam em fatos embasados em estatísticas e números.
E
estão cada vez mais dispostas a inventar conteúdo para ganhar dinheiro fácil.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

No último quadrinho do cartum 1, por meio da fala “If you don’t pursue the truth, you’ll never recognize the lies”, o personagem

Leia os cartuns 1 e 2 para responder à questão.


                    

A
chega a meio-termo conciliatório.
B
respeita a opinião do interlocutor.
C
adverte o interlocutor.
D
mostra que os conflitos não interferem na amizade.
E
revê sua própria opinião.
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UNESP 2018 - Inglês - Tradução | Translation

Na fala do terceiro quadrinho do cartum 1 “Well, if it goes against my biases and beliefs, it’s fake”, o termo sublinhado equivale, em português, a

Leia os cartuns 1 e 2 para responder à questão.


                    

A
ordens.
B
pesquisas.
C
questionamentos.
D
inclinações.
E
sugestões.