Questões de Inglês - Grammar

TEXTO

“Words like these have lost their meaning to many refugees:
home, family, work, human rights, future. Its our job to give them meaning again.” UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).

TEXTO:

Calcuholism

    It has been said that many people are victims of
calcuholism, a dependence on the use of calculators,
causing a diminished ability to do mathematics on
one’s own. Technology in schools, offices, and industry
[5] has resulted in an unfortunate overdependence
on all types of modern devices, but particularly on
calculators, Calcuholism can be avoided if schools
and individuals concentrate on using the mind to do
mathematics rather than relying on calculators for
[10] simple tasks.
    Obviously the term calcuholism has been coined
with the intent to compare it to other addictions such
as alcoholism. While it is not nearly as serious as
alcoholism, dependence on the calculator can be
[15] harmful. Abuse of something normally beneficial may
lead to a harmful reliance on it. It is not that calculators
are harmful, but overuse may cause harm by making
people forget how to do mathematics with their own
minds.
[20]    The problem arises from modern technological
advances. In schools, classes become more
complicated because of the technology for which
students must be prepared when they graduate.
Calculators are permitted and essential in many
[25] classes. In offices, calculators, computers, and word
processing systems are commonplace because they
increase speed and improve efficiency. Business
people may spend hours working with numbers
and rarely calculate mentally. In industry as well,
[30] the emphasis on advanced machines results in
individuals’ solving fewer mathematical problems on
their own.
    To alleviate the problem, schools should
avoid allowing students to use calculators too
[35] early and should require sufficient in-class work
without them. All of us should restrict our use of
calculators and strive to do math on our own so that 

we will not lose our basic math skills.
    Calcuholism has increased in recent years
[40] and will continue to increase due to advances
in technology. To avoid dependency, we must
do mathematics with our minds from time to time rather
than with a machine.

PYLE, Michael A. & PAGE, Mary Ellen Muñoz. Test of English as a foreign language. U.S.A. s.d. p. 641.

INSTRUCTION: Answer question according to the text below.

In France, a film taps into a desire for change

By Celestine Bohlen

The New York Times - May 2, 2016

    In France, as in the United States, there is no "politics as usual" this year. With popular
disaffection on the rise, traditional parties and candidates have been thrown off course as voters look
for alternatives to the status quo. The restless, sometimes incoherent, clamor for change has taken
many forms in France — support for the extreme-right National Front; recurring strikes by hard-left
[05] labor unions; and a protest movement known as Nuit Debout, or Up All Night, which for the last month
has gathered young people in Paris and several other cities to vent their frustration with the "system."
If there is one thing these various dissatisfied voters would agree upon, it is the failure of the French
political establishment, on the left and on the right, to solve the country’s persistent problems — high
unemployment, low growth and the social cleavage created by immigration and inequality.
[10]    This frustration helps explain the unlikely success of "Demain," or "Tomorrow," a French
documentary. Since its release in December, the film has drawn almost one million viewers. The 80-
minute film was made as a road movie with a budget of 1.3 million euros, about $1.5 million, one-third
of it collected through crowdfunding. With a chatty narration by Mélanie Laurent, a well-known French
actress, it tracks a global quest for workable initiatives in places as disparate as Detroit, Finland,
[15] Iceland and India, where people have found ways to move away from dependence on fossil fuels,
mobilize grass-roots democracy, grow their own food and inspire children to learn. According to Cyril
Dion, who, along with Ms. Laurent, directed the film, "Demain" reconnects people to something
positive and gives them hope. The movie opened at a propitious moment, after a difficult year that
included two terrorist attacks in Paris and a persistent economic crisis.
[20]    The response has been enthusiastic and sustained: The film is playing in 122 French cinemas,
for longer than some recent Hollywood blockbusters. Audiences have been known to stand up and
applaud as the credits appear on the screen. Mr. Dion said some viewers have written to tell him that it
changed their lives. When he showed the movie on April 17 at the Place de la République, in central
Paris, where the Nuit Debout protesters have been camping out every night since March 31, a crowd
[25] of some 2,500 people — mostly young — braved unusually temperatures and occasional technical
difficulties. "They, too, are looking for solutions that can work," said Mr. Dion, 37, a former actor with a
long history of civic activism. According to Mr. Dion, this success is proof that optimism, fueled by
positive can- do energy, can be a force for change.

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