Questões sobre Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

#Questão 1020051 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, Instituto Consulplan, 2022, SEED-PR, Área de Conhecimento: LEM – Inglês

Read the text to answer.

Linguisitc prejudice is endemic in public life, widely tolerated, and institutionalized in social enterprises that affect almost everyone, such as education and the media. There is limited knowledge about and little regard forlinguistic study showing that all varieties of a language display systematicity and that the elevated social position of standard varieties has no scientific linguistic basis.

(Available in: https://www.thoughtco.com. Adapted.)

The coloniality framework, which is present in several levels of personal and social life, is still reproduced even in the absence of colonial management, echoing in classrooms, in a very steady way in English classes. It is NOT a biased manifestation that might contaminate English teaching/learning to favor:

A) European peoples opposite to non Europeans.

B) Behavior leading to subjectification and identity.

C) Western knowledge damaging non western one.

D) Males and patriarchship at the expense of females.

#Questão 1020424 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, VUNESP, 2022, UNICAMP, Administrador de Sistemas Operacionais

Mining trucks are monstrous machines that guzzle fuel at a scarcely believable rate. Weighing 220 tonnes, they can get through 134 litres of diesel every hour. Little wonder then that mining companies are focusing their attention on these vehicles as the first step to reducing their carbon footprint.

Anglo American, in collaboration with several partners, is retrofitting a mining haul truck with hydrogen power technology. A first of its kind, the monster mining vehicle is being piloted in Limpopo, South Africa, at the firm’s Mogalakwena platinum mine. Due to be launched early 2022, the truck will be hybrid, with a hydrogen fuel cell providing roughly half of the power and a battery pack the other half.

Instead of having a tank of diesel that powers the motor, hydrogen enters the fuel cell and mixes with oxygen to create water in a chemical reaction catalysed by platinum, which generates the electricity needed to power the motors that drive the wheels. By rolling out this technology across its global truck fleet, Anglo American says it will be “taking the equivalent of half a million diesel cars ‘off the road”.

The construction sector, which includes mining, accounted for 39% of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2017, according to Davide Sabbadin, from the European Environmental Bureau. He says the sector will need to reduce its energy consumption by a third if it hopes to be compatible with the Paris Agreement. “While electric-powered vehicles, generally speaking, are less damaging to the environment than internal combustion engines on a life cycle analysis, this does not mean that they are green,” he says. It all hinges on how the hydrogen is produced. Some hydrogen is created using fossil fuels, which of course means there are substantial emissions as a result. “We should refrain from presenting hydrogen as a technological solution to all problems… all forms of hydrogen come at an environmental cost – water use, impacts on nature,” says Mr Sabbadin.

(Jesse Preyser. www.bbc.com, 21.12.2021. Adaptado)

According to the first and second paragraphs, the hydrogen-powered mining vehicle

A) is already in full use at a platinum mine in South Africa.

B) is the first mining truck model developed jointly by several partners.

C) has been able to cut down carbon footprint at drastic rates.

D) is lighter and less energy-consuming than traditional trucks.

E) combines two energy sources to be used in nearly equal proportions.

#Questão 1020052 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, Instituto Consulplan, 2022, SEED-PR, Área de Conhecimento: LEM – Inglês

Group 1

• Think – Bath – Thigh – Thorn – Length – Aesthetic – Cloth – Thousand – Thumb

Group 2

• Those – Then – With – Although – This – Within – Therefore – They – Mother

The sound represented by the TH in Group 1 and the sound represented by the TH in Group 2 differ due to:

A) Their diverse place of articulation.

B) Being either plosive or nasal sounds.

C) The manner of articulation they have.

D) Vocal fold vibration presence/absence.

#Questão 1020425 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, VUNESP, 2022, UNICAMP, Administrador de Sistemas Operacionais

Mining trucks are monstrous machines that guzzle fuel at a scarcely believable rate. Weighing 220 tonnes, they can get through 134 litres of diesel every hour. Little wonder then that mining companies are focusing their attention on these vehicles as the first step to reducing their carbon footprint.

Anglo American, in collaboration with several partners, is retrofitting a mining haul truck with hydrogen power technology. A first of its kind, the monster mining vehicle is being piloted in Limpopo, South Africa, at the firm’s Mogalakwena platinum mine. Due to be launched early 2022, the truck will be hybrid, with a hydrogen fuel cell providing roughly half of the power and a battery pack the other half.

Instead of having a tank of diesel that powers the motor, hydrogen enters the fuel cell and mixes with oxygen to create water in a chemical reaction catalysed by platinum, which generates the electricity needed to power the motors that drive the wheels. By rolling out this technology across its global truck fleet, Anglo American says it will be “taking the equivalent of half a million diesel cars ‘off the road”.

The construction sector, which includes mining, accounted for 39% of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2017, according to Davide Sabbadin, from the European Environmental Bureau. He says the sector will need to reduce its energy consumption by a third if it hopes to be compatible with the Paris Agreement. “While electric-powered vehicles, generally speaking, are less damaging to the environment than internal combustion engines on a life cycle analysis, this does not mean that they are green,” he says. It all hinges on how the hydrogen is produced. Some hydrogen is created using fossil fuels, which of course means there are substantial emissions as a result. “We should refrain from presenting hydrogen as a technological solution to all problems… all forms of hydrogen come at an environmental cost – water use, impacts on nature,” says Mr Sabbadin.

(Jesse Preyser. www.bbc.com, 21.12.2021. Adaptado)

The article was published in December 2021 to report

A) a set of alternatives in the South African mining industry to lower diesel emissions.

B) measures required from mining industries to make them meet the Paris Agreement on climate change.

C) the urgent need to replace monstrous expensive mining vehicles by more modern, cost-effective ones.

D) the expected release of a mining truck line aimed at reducing dirty energy comsumption.

E) allegations against mining companies and their timid actions to control potential pollution.

#Questão 1020053 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, Instituto Consulplan, 2022, SEED-PR, Área de Conhecimento: LEM – Inglês

Analyse the image to answer.

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(Available in: https://funnytimes.com.)

The instructions above the market cashier say, “10 items or less, exact change, no small talk, just bag your groceries and get the hell out”. Mark the item that matches text and image analysis.

A) The segment “get the hell out” is meant to delight costumers.

B) The image conveys warmth rendered by rules’ imposition.

C) Consumers’ right is violated since there’s not a patrons’ line.

D) The employment of “less” is not consistent with plural nouns.

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