Questões de Inglês - Grammar - Linking words - Reason
22 Questões
Questão 16 14447918
Santa Casa Conhecimento Gerais 2025O termo “since”, no trecho do terceiro parágrafo “The share of adults age 65 and more in the labor force reached a historic low of 10% in the mid-1980s but has since almost doubled”, é empregado com o mesmo sentido do termo sublinhado em:
Questão 13 14447734
Santa Casa Conhecimento Gerais 2025Leia o texto e examine o gráfico para responder á questão abaixo.
Most don’t work anymore, but Americans age 70 and older have seen their share of collective wealth surge during the pandemic. As a group, they have accumulated more than $14 trillion in additional net worth since the end 2019, based on Federal Reserve data. Their share of the country’s wealth has jumped to a record 30%, even though they account for 11% of the population.
The aging population helps explain some of the gains: there are about 2.3 million more people over 70 in the country than in 2019. But one major driver was the surge in home values and stocks during the pandemic, which benefited older generations most likely to own a house — or two — and hold equities or mutual funds.
Although people who are over 70 are typically retired, a rising portion of that age group is still working. The share of adults age 65 and more in the labor force reached a historic low of 10% in the mid-1980s but has since almost doubled, even after many retired early at the onset of the covid-19 health crisis.
Older Americans also have been the beneficiaries of good timing with the stock market, despite recessions along the way. Since 2019, those age 70 and older have collectively gained about $5 trillion in equity gains. Close to 38% of the nation’s corporate equities and mutual fund shares were held by people in that age group, the highest share on record in data going back to 1989.
(Alex Tanzi. www.bnnbloomberg.ca, 2023. Adaptado.)
In the excerpt from the second paragraph “The aging population helps explain some of the gains: there are about 2.3 million more people over 70 in the country than in 2019”, the underlined words express
Questão 11 14031466
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Claude Monet was a French artist known for painting in the style called Impressionism. Monet was famous during his lifetime, and his paintings remain popular today. They are on display in art museums around the world.
Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. He drew and painted as a young man. In the 1860s he became friends with other artists, including PierreAuguste Renoir. The group of artists became known as the Impressionists because of Monet’s painting called Impression: Sunrise.
Most of Monet’s subjects were from nature. Like other Impressionists, he was fascinated by the way light and shadows change during the day. He often painted the same scene again and again to show all the variations of light and shadow.
In the 1880s Monet settled in Giverny, outside of Paris. There he painted one of his most famous series of paintings, called Water Lilies. Monet died on December 5, 1926, in Giverny.
(https://kids.britannica.com)
No contexto em que se insere, o trecho sublinhado que introduz ideia de causa é:
Questão 9 10782114
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The longstanding mystery surrounding Antarctica’s Blood Falls has finally been solved. The deep red falls were first discovered in Antarctica in 1911 where scientists noticed a river had stained the surrounding cliff of ice with a dark red color. Previously, they had believed it was due to algae discoloring the water, however that hypothesis was never verified.
Now, thanks to research by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, we know the true origin of the Blood Falls flowing from the Taylor Glacier. The deep red coloring is due to oxidized iron in brine saltwater, the same process that gives iron a dark red color when it rusts. When the iron bearing saltwater comes into contact with oxygen the iron undergoes oxidation and takes on a red coloring, in effect dying the water to a deep red color.
The research team calculates that the brine water takes approximately 1.5 million years to finally reach the Blood Falls as it makes its way through fissures and channels in the glacier.
https://tinyurl.com/22vb439j%20Acesso%20em:%2016.08.2023.
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Questão 46 1937632
EN 2° Dia 2015Which of the options completes the sentence correctly?
People who are middle-aged and older tend to know more than voung adults they have been around longer, and score higher on vocabulary tests, crossword puzzles and other measures of so-called crystallized intelligence.
(Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com)
Questão 50 154722
AFA 2015TEXT I
JOBS AT HIGH RISK
It is an invisible force that goes by many names.
Computerization. Automation. Artificial intelligence.
Technology. Innovation. And, everyone's favorite,
ROBOTS.
[5] Whatever name you prefer, some form of it has
been stimulating progress and killing jobs — from tailors
to paralegals — for centuries. But this time is different:
nearly half of American jobs today could be automated in
"a decade or two". The question is: which half?
[10] Another way of posing the same question is:
Where do machines work better than people? Tractors
are more powerful than farmers. Robotic arms are
stronger and more tireless than assembly-line workers.
But in the past 30 years, software and robots have
[15] succeeded replacing a particular kind of occupation: the
average-wage, middle-skill, routine-heavy worker,
especially in manufacturing and office administration.
Indeed, it's projected that the next wave of
computer progress will continue to endanger human
[20] work where it already has: manufacturing, administrative
support, retail, and transportation. Most remaining
factory jobs are "likely to diminish over the next
decades". Cashiers, counter clerks, and telemarketers
are similarly endangered. On the other hand, health care
[25] workers, people responsible for our safety, and
management positions are the least likely to be
automated.
The next big thing
[30] We might be on the edge of an innovating
moment in robotics and artificial intelligence. Although
the past 30 years have reduced the middle, high- and
low-skill jobs have actually increased, as if protected
from the invading armies of robots by their own moats.
[35] Higher-skill workers have been protected by a kind of
social-intelligence moat. Computers are historically good
at executing routines, but they're bad at finding patterns,
communicating with people, and making decisions,
which is what managers are paid to do. This is why
[40] some people think managers are, for the moment, one of
the largest categories immune to the fast wave of AI.
Meanwhile, lower-skill workers have been
protected by the Moravec moat. Hans Moravec was a
futurist who pointed out that machine technology copied
[45] a savant infant: Machines could do long math equations
instantly and beat anybody in chess, but they can't
answer a simple question or walk up a flight of stairs. As
a result, not skilled work done by people without much
education (like home health care workers, or fast-food
[50] attendants) have been saved, too.
The human half
In the 19th century, new manufacturing
technology replaced what was then skilled labor. In the
[55] second half of the 20th century, however, software
technology took the place of median-salaried office work.
The first wave showed that machines are better at
assembling things. The second showed that machines
are better at organizing things. Now data analytics and
[60] self-driving cars suggest they might be better at patternrecognition
and driving. So what are we better at?
The safest industries and jobs are dominated by
managers, health-care workers, and a super-category
that includes education, media, and community service.
[65] One conclusion to draw from this is that humans are,
and will always be, superior at working with, and caring
for other humans. In this light, automation doesn't make
the world worse. Far from it: it creates new opportunities
for human creativity.
[70] But robots are already creeping into diagnostics
and surgeries. Schools are already experimenting with
software that replaces teaching hours. The fact that
some industries have been safe from automation for the
last three decades doesn't guarantee that they'll be safe
[75] for the next one.
It would be anxious enough if we knew exactly
which jobs are next in line for automation. The truth is
scarier. We don't really have a clue.
(Adapted from http://www.businessinsider.com/robots-overtakingamerican- jobs-2014-1)
According to the first paragraph, robots can be _____ by many names.
Pastas
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