Questões de Inglês - Vocabulary - City and Living
28 Questões
Questão 20 9883968
UNIEVA Medicina 2022/2Leia o texto para responder à questão.
Every day of delayed peace will accelerate a freefall into poverty for Ukraine, warns UNDP Early data estimates suggest that 90% of the Ukrainian population could be facing poverty and extreme economic vulnerability should the war deepen, setting the country – and the region – back decades and leaving deep social and economic scars for generations to come.
Disponível em: https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/development-impact-warukraine-initial-projections-enuk. Acesso em: 12 mai. 2022.
Escolha a alternativa correta para os sinônimos dos substantivos: freefall, scars.
Questão 52 7338548
PUC-GO 2022Read the sentences bellow, paying attention to the cognates:
I - The parents support their daughter on her dreams.
II - They wore different costumes at the Halloween party.
III - To get into the bank, you must push the glass door.
IV - The legend of that movie was written by the Grimm brothers.
Mark the only alternative with the correct translation of the underlined words:
Questão 28 6324161
UNICENTRO 2021Read text and answer question.
Text
Lawyers say they can’t find the parents of 545 migrant children separated
by Trump administration By Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff
WASHINGTON — Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated 2 by the Trump administration say that they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children and that 3 about two-thirds of those parents were deported to Central America without their children, according to 4 a filing Tuesday from the American Civil Liberties Union. 5 The
Trump administration instituted a “zero tolerance” policy in 2018 that separated migrant children 6 and parents at the southern U.S. border. The administration later confirmed that it had actually begun 7 separating families in 2017 along some parts of the border under a pilot program. The ACLU and other 8 pro-bono law firms were tasked with finding the members of families separated during the pilot program. 9 Unlike the 2,800 families separated under zero tolerance in 2018, most of whom remained in custody 10 when the policy was ended by executive order, many of the more than 1,000 parents separated from 11 their children under the pilot program had already been deported before a federal judge in California 12 ordered that they be found.
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(Retrived from: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-say-they-can-t-find-parents-545-migrant-children-n1244066.)
The word “about”, paragraph 1, line 3, could be properly substituted by:
Questão 33 6312214
UNIFIMES 2020Leia o texto para responder à questão.
Smoking damages eyes as well as lungs
Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warn specialists. Despite the clear connection, only one in five people recognise that smoking can lead to blindness, a poll for the Association of Optometrists (AOP) finds. Smokers are twice as likely to lose their sight compared with non-smokers.
That is because tobacco smoke can cause and worsen a number of eye conditions. Cigarette smoke contains toxic chemicals that can irritate and harm the eyes. For example, heavy metals, such as lead and copper, can collect in the lens - the transparent bit that sits behind the pupil and brings rays of light into focus - and lead to cataracts, where the lens becomes cloudy.
Smoking can make diabetes-related sight problems worse by damaging blood vessels at the back of the eye (the retina). In the poll of 2,006 adults, 18% correctly said that smoking increased the risk of blindness or sight loss, while three-quarters (76%) knew smoking was linked to cancer. The AOP says stopping or avoiding smoking is one of the best steps you can take to protect your vision, along with having regular sight checks.
(www.bbc.com, 02.07.2019. Adaptado.)
No trecho do segundo parágrafo “where the lens becomes cloudy”, a palavra sublinhada pode ser substituída, sem perda de sentido, por
Questão 32 6445111
UNIMES 2018Leia o texto para responder à questão.
Brazilian doctors use fish skin to treat burn victims
Researchers in Brazil are experimenting with a new treatment for severe burns using the skin of tilapia fish, an unorthodox procedure they say can ease the pain of victims and cut medical costs. Frozen pig skin and even human tissue have long been placed on burns to keep them moist and allow the transfer of collagen, a protein that promotes healing.
Brazil’s public hospitals, however, lack human and pig skin supplies and the artificial alternatives easily available in Western countries. Instead, gauze bandage, which needs regular changing – often painfully – is the norm. Tilapia is abundant in Brazil’s rivers and fish farms, which are expanding rapidly as demand grows for the mildly flavored freshwater fish.
Scientists at the Federal University of Ceara in northern Brazil have found that tilapia skin has moisture, collagen and disease resistance at levels comparable to human skin, and can aid in healing. In China, researchers have tested tilapia skin on rodents to study its healing properties, but scientists in Brazil say their trials are the first on humans.
“The use of tilapia skin on burns is unprecedented,” said Odorico de Morais, a professor at Ceara University. “The fish skin is usually thrown away, so we are using this product to convert it into something of social benefit.” The tilapia treatment can speed up healing by several days and reduces the need for pain medication, the Brazilian researchers say
The fish skin has high levels of collagen type 1, stays moist longer than gauze, and does not need to be changed frequently. Morais said that the tilapia skin treatment costs 75 percent less than the sulfadiazine cream typically used on burn patients in Brazil, as it is a cheap fish-farming waste product. The researchers hope the treatment will prove commercially viable and encourage businesses to process tilapia skin for medical use.
(Paulo Whitaker e Pablo Garcia. www.reuters.com, 25.05.2017. Adaptado.)
In the excerpt from the first paragraph “an unorthodox procedure”, the word in bold can be replaced, without changing the meaning of the sentence, by
Questão 44 7289780
PUC-GO 2016/1TEXTO
Rápido, rápido
Sofro – sofri – de progéria, uma doença na qual o organismo corre doidamente para a velhice e a morte. Doidamente talvez não seja a palavra, mas não me ocorre outra e não tenho tempo de procurar no dicionário – nós, os da progéria, somos pessoas de um desmesurado senso de urgência. Estabelecer prioridades é, para nós, um processo tão vital como respirar. Para nós, dez minutos equivalem a um ano. Façam a conta, vocês que têm tempo, vocês que pensam que têm tempo. Enquanto isso, eu vou escrevendo aqui – e só espero poder terminar. Cada letra minha equivale a páginas inteiras de vocês. Façam a conta, vocês. Enquanto isso, e resumindo:
8h15min – Estou nascendo. Sou o primeiro filho – que azar! – e o parto é longo, difícil. Respiro, e já vou dizendo as primeiras palavras (coisas muito simples, naturalmente: mamã, papá) para grande surpresa de todos! Maior surpresa eles têm quando me colocam no berço – desço meia hora depois, rindo e pedindo comida! Rindo! Àquela hora,
8h45min – eu ainda podia rir.
9h20min – Já fui amamentado, já passei da fase oral – meus pais (ele, dono de um pequeno armazém; ela, de prendas domésticas) já aceitaram, ao menos em parte, a realidade, depois que o pediatra (está aí uma especialidade que não me serve) lhes explicou o diagnóstico e o prognóstico. E já estou com dentes! Em poucos minutos (de acordo com o relógio de meu pai, bem entendido) tenho sarampo, varicela, essas coisas todas.
Meus pais me matriculam na escola, não se dando conta que às 10h40min, quando a sineta bater para o recreio, já terei idade para concluir o primeiro grau. Vou para a escola de patinete; já na esquina, porém, abandono o brinquedo que parece-me então muito infantil. Volto-me, e lá estão os meus pais chorando, pobre gente.
10h20min – Não posso esperar o recreio; peço licença à professora e saio. Vou ao banheiro; a seiva da vida circula impaciente em minhas veias. Manipulo-me. Meu desejo tem nome: Mara, da oitava série. Por enquanto é mais velha do que eu. Lá pelas onze horas poderia namorá-la – mas então, já não estarei no colégio. Ali, me foge o doce pássaro da juventude.
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(SCLIAR, Moacyr. Melhores contos. 6. ed. São Paulo: Global, 2003. p. 54-55.)
In Text, the character has a disease called progeria. The abstract that follows is a research about Hutchinson– Gilford progeria syndrome. Choose the best sequence of words to complete the text:
Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is an extremely rare 1 ____________ that causes premature, rapid aging shortly 2 ____________ birth. Recently, de novo point mutations in the Lmna 3 ____________ have been found in individuals with HGPS. Lmna encodes lamin A and C, the A-type lamins, which are an important 4 ____________ of the nuclear envelope. The most common HGPS 5 ____________ is located at codon 608 (G608G). This mutation creates a cryptic splice site within exon 11, 6 ____________ deletes a proteolytic cleavage site within the expressed mutant lamin A. Incomplete processing of prelamin A results in nuclear lamina abnormalities that can be observed in 7 ____________ studies of HGPS cells. [...]
(Pollex, RL; Hegele, RA. Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome. Clinical Genetics, Denmark, v. 66, n. 5, p. 375- 381, nov. 2004. Available on: http://www.ingentaconnect. com/search/article?option1=tka&value1=PROGERIA&pa geSize=10&index=1. Accessed on: July 14th, 2015.
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