Questões de Inglês - Reading/Writing
Texto para a questão
ASK THE NURSE
Nurse Anthea answers your questions. This week’s topic is bacteria.
Question - “I’m worried about my baby. She is crawling around on the floor and putting all sorts of things into her mouth.”
Nurse Anthea - Don’t worry. Children who live in spotlessly clean houses do not have much exposure to bacteria, so their immune systems don’t get the practice of fighting bacteria. Research shows that children living in houses that are not spotlessly clean, who have contact with animals and faecal matter, get fewer illnesses than children living in spotless homes.And there’s evidence that children who live with pets get fewer allergies.
Question - Is there a cure for MRSA (methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus)?
Nurse Anthea - There’s an antibiotic called Vancomycin. This is our last weapon against MRSA, but in time it will be useless too. One type of Staphylococcus aureus is now resistant to Vancomycin – so it is VRSA- Vancomycin resistant. There is a possibility of a bacterium which will be resistant to all antibiotics.
We have been winning the war against bacteria for about fifty years, but soon bacteria will make a comeback and we will be where we were in the nineteenth century – with no protection from bacteria.
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This Year at Davos: A Referendum on Davos Itself
Many values espoused by the World Economic Forum — globalization, liberalism, free market capitalism, representative democracy — are under attack.
The last time the World Economic Forum held its annual meeting in Davos,Switzerland — in January 2020, before the pandemic — protesters turned out tochallenge its message of globalization. Credit...Ennio Leanza/Keystone, via AssociatedPress
By David Gelles - May 21, 2022
The small ski town of Davos, high in the Swiss alps, has heightened security measure in place during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, when armed guards perch on hotel rooftops while world leaders and business executives sip champagne below. Yet today, everything that Davos stands for — globalization, liberalism, freemarket capitalism, representative democracy — seems to be under assault.
For the past half century, Klaus Schwab, the patrician founder of the World Economic Forum, has extolled the virtues of an interconnected world, one where the free flow of goods, services, people and ideas would lead to shared prosperity and peace. It was an idealistic vision that endured in spite of global unrest, and it found adherents in the corridors of power from Palo Alto, Calif., to Washington, D.C., and from Brussels to Singapore and beyond.
The past two years, however, have fundamentally challenged the viability of that aspirational worldview. The coronavirus pandemic prompted a wave of isolationist foreign policy moves, revealed the fragility of supply chains and left China largely walled off from the rest of the world.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought land war to Europe and stoked fears of broader global conflict. And even before the pandemic and the war, autocratic rulers were on the rise around the globe and internal divisions were straining superpowers like the United States.
Now, as Mr. Schwab prepares to preside over the first meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since the pandemic began, he confronts a world that looks very unlike the one he has been trying to conjure into being for more than 50 years. As heads of state finalize travel arrangements and wealthy corporations set up shop on the promenade, Mr. Schwab himself seems to understand that the global order as he once envisioned it is, for now at least, little more than a fantasy.
“We are living in a different world,” he said in an interview. “Even when we came together in 2020, we had a lot of serious concerns. Now we had two additional events which have actually accelerated the seriousness of our situation.”
But while the world may have changed, Davos has not. The annual meeting will feature, as usual, politicians, civil servants, executives and nonprofit leaders —the kind of privileged, globe-trotting idealists that gave rise to the term “DavosMan.” Timely issues like the war and Covid will be discussed, alongside perennial threats such as climate change and cybersecurity. And the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, will give a virtual address to other heads of state.
The one thing that will be different is the outside temperature. The annual meeting is usually held in January. But after a surge in Covid cases forced alast-minute cancellation, the World Economic Forum rescheduled it for late May. That means there will be no snow on the ground, but the threat of a dull, persistent rain is real. “My biggest worry is actually the weather,” Mr. Schwab said. ....
A alternativa que melhor traduz o objetivo do artigo de David Gelles sobre o Fórum Econômico Global é:
Texto para a questão
ASK THE NURSE
Nurse Anthea answers your questions. This week’s topic is bacteria.
Question - “I’m worried about my baby. She is crawling around on the floor and putting all sorts of things into her mouth.”
Nurse Anthea - Don’t worry. Children who live in spotlessly clean houses do not have much exposure to bacteria, so their immune systems don’t get the practice of fighting bacteria. Research shows that children living in houses that are not spotlessly clean, who have contact with animals and faecal matter, get fewer illnesses than children living in spotless homes.And there’s evidence that children who live with pets get fewer allergies.
Question - Is there a cure for MRSA (methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus)?
Nurse Anthea - There’s an antibiotic called Vancomycin. This is our last weapon against MRSA, but in time it will be useless too. One type of Staphylococcus aureus is now resistant to Vancomycin – so it is VRSA- Vancomycin resistant. There is a possibility of a bacterium which will be resistant to all antibiotics.
We have been winning the war against bacteria for about fifty years, but soon bacteria will make a comeback and we will be where we were in the nineteenth century – with no protection from bacteria.
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Leia a entrevista com Dermot Kincaid e relacione as perguntas abaixo com as respostas de cada parágrafo:
a. What is a normal day like?
b. What’s your favorite task?
c. Is there anything you don’t like?
d. Is your work the same every day?
e. Can you talk about your responsibilities?
Dermot Kincaid
Age: 21 Job: Secretary Nationality: Irish
1_________________________________?
I am in charge of the day-to-day running of the office. I am responsible for keeping my boss’s appointment diary up to date. I answer the phone and deal with enquiries from our customers.
2_________________________________?
In the morning I open, sort, and distribute the mail. During the day I type letters and answer the phone. I also send and receive emails and faxes. I take care of the filing and I keep records of expenditure such as travel or purchases. At the end of the day I prepare the outgoing mail.
3_________________________________?
Not really. We get a lot of visitors and I enjoy meeting new people. I go and meet them at reception, tell them about the company, and look after them.
4_________________________________?
I really like arranging business trips for my colleagues. I enjoy finding the flights, booking the hotels, and getting information about the places.
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The postings below were taken from an online forum on social isolation and digital technology, according to the american life studies.
Participant
Bob
Livingstone
Posting
Is the quality of the technological communication as rich or fulfilling as face to face discussion? Is there any discussion about the differences between the two? So, we’re left with the facts that social isolation has increased greatly in the last 20 years and that a huge drop in neighbor relations is perhaps the leading reason for this trend. In addition, people spend a great deal more time consuming digital technology than they did decades ago. We can let the researchers quibble over whether technology has caused the social isolation problem.
Participant
Michael
Wood-Lewis
Posting
Personally, I see current digital technologies as contributing to the death of our neighborhoods. Our children are growing up in neighborhoods that are far less socially active than they were decades ago. Neighbor relations are absolutely crucial for children, I would argue, because only in their neighborhoods might parents be willing to afford their children some measure of autonomy. If we agree that we should place special value on neighborhood relations, as opposed to social relations in general, the results from all these studies are quite troubling.
Participant
Po Bronson
Posting
Lots of my friends have social media networks or listservs for their immediate neighborhood. (I wish I did, will work on it.) Wouldn’t it help for social network technology to unite families in neighborhoods, to bring them together? Can you recommend sites that help to get a neighborhood talking again?
playborhood.com
Bob Livingstone is the first to post his opinion.
His comments aim at:
"My little brother is really little, and he does have a
disability. Many, many people don\\'t have the heart to
realize that he didn’t choose to be disabled. I look up to
my little brother 100% and nobody deserves to be
mistreated or looked down on. He\\'s amazing, and I love
him dearly, and he will change the world one day. Stand
up for everyone who you know has been bullied,
because it really hurts."
Amanda, 15, AZ
Adapted from http://www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org/
No fragmento do texto “he will change the world one day” Amanda (linha 6) demonstra:
