Atenção: Considere o texto abaixo para responder as questões de números 51 a 60.
Read the text below which is entitled %u201CA modest proposal%u201D in order to answer questions 24 to 26.
In paragraph 1, the author refers to "the wrangling before this week's EU summit", which denotes an atmosphere which is
Read the text below which is entitled "Congress Caps another Disappointing Year" in order to answer questions 27 to 30.
The author points out that "Funding for all other federal R&D programs collectively will barely increase", which means it will
From the text, it can be deduced that
the industrial society was replaced by the information society.
In the text, the writer refers to “robots” using all the synonyms below, EXCEPT:
In “An Ishiguro made of circuitry and silicone might soon be answering his own questions.” (lines 64-66), “might” can be correctly substituted by:
In the text,
a “porch” (l.13) is another word for garage.
In the text,
“all of” (l.18) can be correctly replaced by most of.
In the text,
the expression “fly-on-the-wall” (l.7) means to be able to watch what people are doing without their noticing you.
In the text,
the adjective “ordinary” (l.9) is synonymous with unusual.
