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(PUC - RS -2001) TEXTO 1 What is beauty? Define beauty? One may as well dissect a soap bubble. We know it when we see it - or so we think. 2 Philosophers define 1it as a moral equation. What is beautiful is good, said Plato. Poets look for high standards. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, wrote John Keats. 3 Science examines beauty and pronounces it a strategy. Beauty is health, a psychologist tells me. Its a sign saying Im healthy and fertile. I can pass on your genes. 4 At its best, beauty celebrates. From the painted Txiko Indian in Brazil to Madonna in her metal bra, humanity likes to abandon its everyday look and masquerade as a more powerful, romantic, or sexy being. 5 At its worst, beauty discriminates. Studies suggest attractive people make more money, get more attention in class and are seen as 2friendlier. We do judge people by their looks. In an era of feminist and politically correct values, not to mention the belief that all men and women are created equal, the fact that all men and women are not - and that some are more beautiful than others - disturbs, confuses, 3even angers. 6 The search for beauty is 4costly. 7In the United States last year people spent six billion dollars 8on fragrance and another six billion on make up. In the mania to lose weight 20 billions were spent on diet products and services - in addition to the billions that were paid out for health club memberships and cosmetic surgery. 7 The sad, sometimes ugly side of beauty: In a 1997 magazine survey, 15 percent of women and 11 percent of men sampled said theyd sacrifice more than five years of their life to be at their ideal weight. According to one study, 80 percent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. In one of its worst manifestations, discontent with ones body can wind up as an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia. Both can be fatal. 5Today eating disorders, once mostly limited to wealthy Western cultures, occur around the world, in countries as different as Fiji, Japan and Argentina. 8 The preoccupation with beauty can be a neurosis, and yet there is something therapeutic about paying attention to how we look and feel. People are so quick to say beauty is superficial, says Ann Marie Gardner, beauty director of W magazine. Theyre fearful. They say: It doesnt have substance. What many dont 6realize is that its fun to reinvent yourself, as long as you dont take it too seriously. The correct active voice for the sentence 20 billions were spent on diet products and services (par. 6) is People _______ 20 billions on diet products and services.

(PUC - RJ 2001 - adaptada) The Nun Study: Unlocking the Secrets of Alzheimers [...] Much of this knowledge comes from a single, powerful piece of ongoing research: the aptly named Nun Study. Since 1986, University of Kentucky scientist David Snowdon has been studying 678 School Sisters- painstakingly researching their personal and medical histories, testing them for cognitive function and even dissecting their brains after death. Over the years, as he explains in Aging with Grace, a moving, intensely personal account of his research, Snowdon and his colleagues have teased out a series of intriguing-and quite revealing-links between lifestyle and Alzheimers. Adapted from Time, May 14, 2001 The word them, in the phrase testing them for cognitive function (in bold), refers to:

(Pucpr 2001) In which of the sentences we MUSTNT use the article THE to complete the blanks?

(PUCPR 2000/ adaptada) Which is the correct alternative about the use of the article the in the phrases below? I. You mustnt smoke in __________ class. II. Marcos has all the right qualifications for __________ job. III. Sometimes there are shows in __________ Central Park. IV. __________ Mercury is the smallest planet in __________ Solar System. V. __________ liberty and __________ democracy are idealized since __________ French Revolution.

(PUCRIO 2000) In the sentence For the first time in human history, early in the next millennium, there will be more people living in cities than on the rest of the planet, the future form is used to express a prediction. In which of the alternatives below is the future form used to express a similar idea?

(Pucpr 2000) Which is the correct alternative about the use of the article the in the phrases below? I - You mustnt smoke in class. II- Marcos has all the right qualifications for __________ job. III - Sometimes there are shows in __________ Central Park. IV - ___________ Mercury is the smallest planet in __________ Solar System. V - __________ liberty and __________ democracy are idealized since __________ French Revolution.

(PUC-Rio -2000) 1 1On the way to the hardware store my husband and I noticed that our 15-year-old sons bike was parked outside the drugstore - unlocked and unattended. We were thoroughly annoyed because during the past year, two of his bikes had been stolen. 2In the name of tough love, we tossed the bike into the back of the truck and continued with our errands. 2 Several hours later we returned home. Our 17-year-old daughter met us at the door with a cat-that-swallowed-the-canary look. Mom and Dad, the police were here while you were gone, she reported. Someone called in your license-plate number for stealing a bike from the parking lot at the drugstore. Readers Digest - September 1998 The expression called in (par.2) could be replaced by:

(PUC - PR 2000) Tick the CORRECT ORDER: who - true - pursue - our - for - opinion

(PUC-Rio - 2000) 1On the way to the hardware store my husband and I noticed that our 15-year-old sons bike was parked outside the drugstore - unlocked and unattended. We were thoroughly annoyed because during the past year, two of his bikes had been stolen. 2In the name of tough love, we tossed the bike into the back of the truck and continued with our errands. 2 Several hours later we returned home. Our 17-year-old daughter met us at the door with a cat-that-swallowed-the-canary look. Mom and Dad, the police were here while you were gone, she reported. Someone called in your license-plate number for stealing a bike from the parking lot at the drugstore. Readers Digest - September 1998 The prepositions on and in are used in ref.1 and ref.2, respectively. Mark the sentence which must be completed with on and in, in the same sequence.

(PUC-RS -2000) TEXTO SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (REUTERS) - Thursday, September 2and, 1999. 1 California schoolchildren will no longer learn their classroom lessons by 1counting MMs, 2calculating the cost of Nike tennis shoes or pondering the benefits of Gatorade drinks. 2 Under a new law signed by Gov. Gray Davis Wednesday, product logos and brand names will be 3banned from textbooks in California - the first state in the nation to act against overt advertising in schoolbooks. 3 The law 4prohibits 5product references in textbooks bought with state money, unless the state education board finds they are needed for educational purposes or if they appear incidentally in illustrations or pictures. 4 I dont think our children should be subjected to needless 6advertising, democratic Assemblywoman Kerry Mazzoni, the 11bills author, 7said in a telephone interview. 5 Mazzoni introduced the bill after a parent approached her about his childs math textbook, which was filled with references to products such as Gatorade drinks, MM candies and Oreo cookies. 6 One math textbook, for example, asked: Bob is saving his allowance to buy a pair of Nike shoes that cost $68.25. If Bob 9earns $3.25 a week, how many weeks will he need to 10save? 7 That is very typical of one example, she said. 8 Most of the product examples were found in word problems in books at a wide range of levels, Mazzoni added. The state Board of Education has a policy against such references since 1997, but enforcement has been lax. 9 Although the publisher 8maintained it used the product examples to make lessons more relevant and did not receive money for including them, Mazzoni said textbooks were no place for advertising - whether intended or not. The correct ACTIVE VOICE for the sentence Most of the product examples were found in word problems in books in People

(PUC-Rio - 2000) THE LABORATORY OF URBANISM 1 For the first time in human history, early in the next millennium, there will be more people living in cities than on the rest of the planet. Until the late 19th century, the worlds urban population did not surpass 10% of the human total. In the 20th century, that percentage has more than quadrupled, and at the very beginning of the new era, almost one-half of all humanity will live in an urban area. The biggest problems and challenges of the next millennium will certainly be urban. The solutions will need to be urban too. 2 If the story will be that of the city and its discontents, Latin America will be its paramount laboratory. Latin America and the Caribbean have exceeded the global trend in the past half-century. Entering the next millennium, nearly 75% of the regions population is urban, a level rapidly approaching those of Europe and North America, up from less than 50% in 1950. Two of the five largest agglomerations in the world - So Paulo and Mexico City, with populations in excess of 16 million and 15 million, respectively - are in Latin America, as well as three other megacities, 2metropolitan areas with more than 8 million residents each: Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Lima. By 2015, Latin America will be the most 3urbanized region in the world, with an estimated 364 million city dwellers, four metropolitan areas of more than 10 million people, and 28% of the total population living in cities of a million or more inhabitants 3 The consequences of this astounding 4demographic shift, one that is almost unprecedented in its magnitude and compressed time frame, will dominate the region indefinitely. Rural Latin America is becoming little more than the womb of urban Latin America. It will be increasingly so in the decades ahead. 4 The reasons people migrate to cities are clear: economic opportunity born of greater economic productivity in the cities; and a better life than in the country as a result of access to health care and other services. Much is made of the 5squalid and violent conditions of the shantytowns that sprawl across the region, but life expectancy levels of 6urban dwellers far exceed those for rural areas, as 1do education levels and most other standard-of-living measures. Alberto Vourvoulias (excerpt). Time, May 24, 1999 In the sentence For the first time... (par.1), the future form is used to express a prediction. In which of the alternatives below is the future form used to express a similar idea?

(PUC - MG -2000) Raymond Sasso has smoked since his early teens. He used to sit in the San Francisco hairstyling salon where he worked, enjoying a cigarette while waiting for his next client. Then California passed its anti-smoking legislation, Assembly Bill 13, banning smoking in all public places. Sasso could still smoke, but he had to do it outside. Not being allowed to smoke at work got me started, says 44-year old Sasso. But the smoking ban in bars and restaurants is what really got me going. Late in 1995 Sasso co-founded FORCES (Fight Ordinances Restrictions to Control Eliminate Smoking), a political-action group dedicated to promoting and protecting the right of smokers. FORCES is only one such group. Others include the American Smokers Alliance, Friends of Tobacco, the Smokers Freedom Society and AIR (Americans For Individual Rights). Set up by Los Angeles bar owner John Johnson, AIR openly and loudly defies the smoking ban in bars and has become a focal point in the area for dissatisfaction over the states extreme anti-smoking position. AIR was established to resist what Johnson calls dogooder politicians who are gradually taking away individual liberties and subverting citizens ability to make informed choices as to how THEY should lead their lives. (FROM: Speak Up, June 99 - adapted.) The pronoun THEY in ...how they should lead their lives refers to

(PUC-PR - 2000) Mark the CORRECT ALTERNATIVE to fill the gaps of the dialogue below: At the supermarket... Wife - Do we need ___I___ wheat? Husband - Yes, we do. We havent got ___II___ wheat. Husband - We need ___III___ apples, dont we? Wife - No, we dont. We have got ___IV___ apples. But we have ___V___ carrots and ___VI___. cheese. Lets get some...

(PUC - PR -1999) Fill in the balloons with the right interrogative pronouns. Relate the numbers given to the pronouns.

(PUC - 1999) Its a Miracle Tourists traveling to Israel to mark a certain 2,000th birthday will be able to celebrate in New Testament style. In September, the National Parks Authority is planning to open a 1$4.5 million submerged, crescent-shaped bridge in the Sea of Galilee. On it, as many as 280 pilgrims at a time will be able to walk on water - or at least wade in two inches of 3it. Bubbles rising at the edges of the 12-foot-wide transparent platform will be 4the only markers preventing pilgrims from taking a 5plunge. Is the structure sacrilegious? The Roman Catholic Church says no. It will not improve faith, hope and love, ------says Pietro Sambi, 6the popes ambassador to Jerusalem. But from the touristic point of view, it could be just a nice idea. Newsweek, March 99. The indefinite article, as in a $4.5 million (...) bridge (ref.1), is used INCORRECTLY in