Questões de Inglês - Grammar - Modals - Would
Enchanted bike path inspired by van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’
“I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell,” Vincent van Gogh once said. “But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.” It is, of course, a terrible shame van Gogh never lived to see the profound impact his art had on the world, forever transforming the way so many of us gaze upon the night sky.
Vincent van Gogh’s wildest dreams probably couldn’t prepare him, for example, for the van Gogh-Roosegaarde Bicycle Path, an enchanting living artwork newly unveiled by Studio Roosegaarde. The kilometer-long path is adorned with a special paint that charges during the day and glows after dark. It runs through the Dutch province of Noord Brabant, where van Gogh was born and raised.
The amazing novelty, at the intersection of art and technology, mimics the ecstatic energy and swirling movement of van Gogh’s original. Each illuminated fleck operates like a brushstroke, adding a small yet crucial element to the whirling, unfathomable whole. “It’s a new system that is self-sufficient and practical, and just incredibly poetic,” says designer Daan Roosegaarde.
A solar panel close by generates power to illuminate the painted surface. Some LED lights are embedded in the path as well, casting extra light especially in the case of foggy weather. The fairy tale bike path is the second of Roosegaarde’s five-part Smart Highways project, which aims to create safe and environmentally friendly road networks. The first manifestation, “Glowing Lines,” employed photo-luminescent paint to brighten the edges of the road.
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Based on the text above, judge the item below.
Vincent van Gogh was confident that one day people would value his art.
Assinale a alternativa que completa a lacuna da tira.
Which of the options completes the dialogue correctly?
The Linden Tree
Mrs Linden: (...) You'd like some tea, you, Rex?
Rex: A cup, certainly.
Jean: And Marion and I.
(Priestley, J.B. “The Linden Tree”. An inspector calis and other plays.UKPenguin, 2001.)
Text 6
There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and no one really knows how long it would take to melt it all. Probably more than 5,000 years, some scientists say. But if we burn all the coal, oil, and gas, adding some five trillion more tons of carbon to the atmosphere, we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet. It ___________ be a hot planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58. (…)
(If All the Ice Melted. National Geographic, September, 2013. Adaptado.)
A sequência CORRETA que completa as lacunas dos textos 6, 7 e 8 está indicada na alternativa
Choose the correct option to complete the dialogue.
Megan: I'd like to live abroad,
Julie: So I. Which country do vou have in mind?
Megan: Probably Australia, because it's hot. I wouldn't like to live in a cold country.
Julie: I wouldn't . I hate feeling cold,
TEXTO:
Fooling with Mother Nature
Here comes the sun: How best to deal with climate change.
The shock of superstorm Sandy last year got a lot
of people wondering about better ways to deal with the
weather — perhaps even how to change it. John Latham,
a climate scientist based in Colorado, has been
[5] proposing ways to do that for more than two decades.
His studies show that it should be possible to spray fine
particles of sea water into clouds, increasing their ability
to reflect sunlight and thus reduce temperatures below.
Latham argues that global warming is leading to
[10] “irreversible and possibly catastrophic consequences”
and that the major polluting countries appear unwilling
to take dramatic action.
But Latham claims his cloud-seeding techniques
would help to hold Earth’s temperature constant “until a
[15] clean form of energy is developed to take over from oil,
gas, and coal.” He says, quite optimistically, that they
could keep the planet’s temperature stable for “perhaps
50 years.” If true, that would be a welcome breather from
impending doom. But what’s missing is money to fund
[20] large-scale experiments — and perhaps for a reason.
One thing we should know by now about our climate is
that when you fix one problem, you may create another.
DICKEY, Christopher . BIG THINK: Around the world in six ideas. Newsweek, March 25, 2013, p. 9.
“that would be a welcome breather from impending doom.” (l. 18-19)
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