Questões de Inglês - Reading/Writing

O vocábulo “meeting” ( grifado no texto) funciona na frase como:

Malala está sendo referenciada no texto porque:

"Until we can more definitively prove that these drugs help slow or stop Alzheimer's in humans, the risks aren't worth it," says Cirrito.

In their new study - published in the journal Science Translational Medicine - the researchers administered the antidepressant citalopram to older mice who already had plaques in their brain. They then tracked the growth of plaques in the mice for 28 days using a technique called "two-photon imaging." 

They found that citalopram halted the growth of the existing plaques, while formation of new plaques was reduced by 78%. 

In a second phase of the experiment, 23 human subjects between the ages of 18 and 50 received a single dose of citalopram. The participants were not cognitively impaired or depressed. Over the 24 hours following the administration of the citalopram, samples of spinal fluid were taken from the participants.

The spinal fluid samples showed that amyloid beta production had dropped in the human participants by 37%.

"Antidepressants appear to be significantly reducing amyloid beta production, and that's exciting," says Cirrito. 

'There is still much more work to do' 

"But while antidepressants generally are well tolerated," he continues, "they have risks and side effects. Until we can more definitively prove that these drugs help slow or stop Alzheimer's in humans, the risks aren't worth it. There is still much more work to do." 

The next step for the team is to use mouse models again in an attempt to understand the molecular process that causes serotonin to halt the production of amyloid beta.

Dr. Sheline says the team also plans to study older adults who will be treated for 2 weeks with antidepressants. 

"If we see a drop in levels of amyloid beta in their spinal fluid after 2 weeks," she explains, "then we will know that this beneficial reduction in amyloid beta is sustainable."

Last year, a study published in JAMA suggested that poor sleep quality may contribute to an increased build-up of amyloid beta plaques in the brains of older people. Meanwhile, a study published around the same time in the journal Neurology found an association between hardening of the arteries and the build-up of amyloid beta plaques in the brain. 

Written by David McNamee http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/276838.php (Accessed May 16, 2014) 

The text discusses the possibility of antidepressants 

Leia um trecho de um romance publicado em 1985.

But if you happen to be a man sometime in the future, and you’ve made it this far, please remember you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn’t about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down (…). Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

(Adaptado de ATWOOD, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. New York: HMH, p. 134, 1985.)

No depoimento, a personagem explicita a relação entre

A poeta e ativista palestina Rafeef Ziadah estava participando da cobertura jornalística do massacre em Gaza quando um jornalista não-palestino perguntou-lhe se as coisas não seriam melhores se os palestinos parassem de ensinar o ódio às suas crianças. Em resposta a essa pergunta, Ziadah compôs o poema “We teach life, sir”, transcrito a seguir:

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre
that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits.
And I perfected my English and I learned my UN resolutions.
But still, he asked me, Ms. Ziadah, don’t you think that
everything would be resolved
if you would just stop teaching so much hatred to your
children?
Pause.
I look inside of me for strength to be patient
but patience is not at the tip of my tongue as the bombs drop
over Gaza.
Today, my body was a TV’d massacre made to fit into soundbites and word limits
and move those that are desensitized to terrorist blood.
And these are not two equal sides: occupier and occupied.
And a hundred dead, two hundred dead, and a thousand dead.
And between that, war crime, and massacre,
I vent out words and smile “not exotic”, “not terrorist”.
No sound-bite will fix this.
We teach life, sir.

(Adaptado de https://blissonature.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/rafeef-ziadahwe-teach-life-sir-text-transcription-lyrics-words-of-poem/. Acessado em 01/ 07/2021.)

A partir da leitura do texto, depreende-se que

Exterior: Between The Museums — Day

    CELINE

    Americans always think Europe is perfect. But such beauty and history can be really oppressive. It reduces the individual to nothing. It just reminds you all the time you are just a little speck in a long history, where in America you feel like you could be making history. That's why I like Los Angeles because it is so...

    JESSE
    Ugly?
    CELINE

    No, I was going to say “neutral”. It's like looking at a blank canvas. I think people go to places like Venice on their honeymoon to make sure they are not going to fight I for the first two weeks of their marriage because they'll be too busy looking around at all the beautiful things. That's I what people call a romantic place — somewhere where the prettiness will contain your primary violent instinct. A real good honeymoon spot would be like somewhere in New Jersey.

KRIZAN, K: LINKLATER, R. Before Sunriao erecrpçtay. New York Vintage Books, 2005

Considerando-se o olhar dos personagens, esse trecho do roteiro de um filme permite reconhecer que a avaliação sobre um lugar depende do(a)