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(UEMG - 2017) How a young students innovative idea hopes to boost response times for EMTs By Woody Brown on June 1, 2015 Drones have been at the forefront of the national conversation for years now. As the components needed to create them grow smaller and more affordable, many companies and organizations have started exploring the potential that drones could have to improve our daily lives. Whether by delivering a product with unprecedented speed or taking photographs and video from new heights, drones have many capabilities, most of which we have yet to discover. One young man, however, has envisioned a new way to use drones that could save thousands of lives. One of the greatest obstacles facing first responders and emergency medical technicians [EMTs] when it comes to the difficult business of saving lives is time. Think of your daily commute: people in the United States spend an average of 25.5 minutes traveling one-way to work every day. In bumperto-bumper traffic, blaring sirens and flashing lights are often not enough to clear a fast path for an ambulance to reach someone in need. During cardiac arrest, there are, at most, a few minutes to save a persons life. After that, the mortality rate rises steeply. With stakes this high, every second counts. Alec Momont, a graduate student in engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, recognized this problem and saw a way to significantly reduce deaths that result from delayed emergency care. What if ambulances could fly? Or rather, what if we could make a drone that functioned like a stripped-down, lightweight automatic external defibrillator [AED]? AEDs, which can be found in schools, sports arenas and many government buildings, are significantly more effective than cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] at preventing fatalities resulting from cardiac arrest. CPR can be helpful, but an AED is better, and very few people have AEDs in their cars or homes. As his masters degree project, Momont built a prototype of this lifesaving drone. It contained an AED, a microphone and speakers. The average travel time, according to him, could be cut by 90 percent. Heres how it works: In the event of cardiac arrest, a paramedic would respond to a call by flying the drone at a speed of 60 mph to the scene of the emergency. The paramedic would then give instructions to someone near the victim,who would position the AED. Once in place, the AED would operate automatically. The paramedic would be able to see through the camera whether or not the pads on the AED have been correctly positioned, and how the victim responds. A dramatized video released by Momonts university demonstrates all of this functionality. In it, a young woman calls emergency services in a panic because her father has had a heart attack. A calm-voiced EMT answers and guides her through the surprisingly simple process of finding and using the drone. Fewer than two minutes after she makes the call, her father sits up and hugs her. The ambulance drone can increase the chances of surviving cardiac arrest from eight percent to 80 percent, Momont says in the video. The drones ability to travel as the crow flies frees it from infrastructural limitations that currently impede road-bound ambulances. Using advanced production techniques such as 3D printed microstructures and carbon fiber frame construction, we were able to achieve a very lightweight design, Momont says. The result is an integrated solution that is clear in its orientation and friendly in appearance. Momonts aim is to rapidly expand the existing framework of emergency services by constructing many of these drones over the next five years. Expenses are low: each drone is relatively cheap to make, about $18,600. By comparison, a typical ambulance costs more than $100,000, and a ride in one usually costs more than $1,000. The ambulance drones can even fly autonomously (though legislation in many countries does not permit this yet). Several emergency service providers have already expressed interest. If the technology continues to receive financial support from other parties in the healthcare industry, Momonts dream could very easily become a reality. We live in a world where drones have, so far, been used mostly in armed conflict. Momont, however, has a different vision. In the near future that he describes, tens of thousands of needless deaths will be prevented with his ingenious invention. That is certainly welcome news, especially in the United States, which deals with skyrocketing numbers of heart-related ailments and disabilities. Lets use drones for a good purpose, Momont says. Let us use drones to save lives. Adapted from: https://www.verizon.com/about/news/vzw/2015/05/ambulance-drones-could-save-thousands-of-lives. Acess on: 03 Oct. 2016, The word that functions as an adjective in the text is

(UEMG - 2017) How a young students innovative idea hopes to boost response times for EMTs By Woody Brown on June 1, 2015 Drones have been at the forefront of the national conversation for years now. As the components needed to create them grow smaller and more affordable, many companies and organizations have started exploring the potential that drones could have to improve our daily lives. Whether by delivering a product with unprecedented speed or taking photographs and video from new heights, drones have many capabilities, most of which we have yet to discover. One young man, however, has envisioned a new way to use drones that could save thousands of lives. One of the greatest obstacles facing first responders and emergency medical technicians [EMTs] when it comes to the difficult business of saving lives is time. Think of your daily commute: people in the United States spend an average of 25.5 minutes traveling one-way to work every day. In bumperto-bumper traffic, blaring sirens and flashing lights are often not enough to clear a fast path for an ambulance to reach someone in need. During cardiac arrest, there are, at most, a few minutes to save a persons life. After that, the mortality rate rises steeply. With stakes this high, every second counts. Alec Momont, a graduate student in engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, recognized this problem and saw a way to significantly reduce deaths that result from delayed emergency care. What if ambulances could fly? Or rather, what if we could make a drone that functioned like a stripped-down, lightweight automatic external defibrillator [AED]? AEDs, which can be found in schools, sports arenas and many government buildings, are significantly more effective than cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] at preventing fatalities resulting from cardiac arrest. CPR can be helpful, but an AED is better, and very few people have AEDs in their cars or homes. As his masters degree project, Momont built a prototype of this lifesaving drone. It contained an AED, a microphone and speakers. The average travel time, according to him, could be cut by 90 percent. Heres how it works: In the event of cardiac arrest, a paramedic would respond to a call by flying the drone at a speed of 60 mph to the scene of the emergency. The paramedic would then give instructions to someone near the victim,who would position the AED. Once in place, the AED would operate automatically. The paramedic would be able to see through the camera whether or not the pads on the AED have been correctly positioned, and how the victim responds. A dramatized video released by Momonts university demonstrates all of this functionality. In it, a young woman calls emergency services in a panic because her father has had a heart attack. A calm-voiced EMT answers and guides her through the surprisingly simple process of finding and using the drone. Fewer than two minutes after she makes the call, her father sits up and hugs her. The ambulance drone can increase the chances of surviving cardiac arrest from eight percent to 80 percent, Momont says in the video. The drones ability to travel as the crow flies frees it from infrastructural limitations that currently impede road-bound ambulances. Using advanced production techniques such as 3D printed microstructures and carbon fiber frame construction, we were able to achieve a very lightweight design, Momont says. The result is an integrated solution that is clear in its orientation and friendly in appearance. Momonts aim is to rapidly expand the existing framework of emergency services by constructing many of these drones over the next five years. Expenses are low: each drone is relatively cheap to make, about $18,600. By comparison, a typical ambulance costs more than $100,000, and a ride in one usually costs more than $1,000. The ambulance drones can even fly autonomously (though legislation in many countries does not permit this yet). Several emergency service providers have already expressed interest. If the technology continues to receive financial support from other parties in the healthcare industry, Momonts dream could very easily become a reality. We live in a world where drones have, so far, been used mostly in armed conflict. Momont, however, has a different vision. In the near future that he describes, tens of thousands of needless deaths will be prevented with his ingenious invention. That is certainly welcome news, especially in the United States, which deals with skyrocketing numbers of heart-related ailments and disabilities. Lets use drones for a good purpose, Momont says. Let us use drones to save lives. Adapted from: https://www.verizon.com/about/news/vzw/2015/05/ambulance-drones-could-save-thousands-of-lives. Acess on: 03 Oct. 2016. The use ofCANin paragraphs 3 and 6 reveals the idea of

(UEMG -2015) Virtual people, real friends by Anna Pickard (The Guardian) The benefits of forming friendships with those we meet online are obvious, so why is the idea still treated with such disdain? Another week, another survey claiming to reveal great truths about ourselves. This one says that people are increasingly turning online friends into people theyd think worthy of calling real-life friends. Well, thats stating the obvious, I would have thought! If theres a more perfect place for making friends, I have yet to find it. However, when surveys like this are reported in the media, its always with a slight air of its a crazy, crazy world! And whenever the subject crops up in the conversation, its clear that people look down on friends like these. In fact some members of my family still refer to my partner of six years as my Internet Boyfriend. Its the shocked reaction that surprises me as if people on the internet were not real at all. Certainly, people play a character online quite often they may be a more confident or more argumentative version of their real selves but whats the alternative? Is meeting people at work so much better than making friends in a virtual world? Perhaps, but for some a professional distance between their work selves and their social selves is necessary, especially, if they tend to let their guard down and might say or do something they will later regret. Those people disapproving of online friendships argue that the concept of friendship is used loosely in a world driven by technology, in which you might have a thousand online friends. They make a distinction between social connections 1acquaintances who are only one click away and meaningful human interaction, which they say requires time and effort. They note that for many Facebook friends, conversation is a way of exchanging information quickly and efficiently rather than being a social activity. However, Ive found that far from being the home of oddballs and potential serial killers, the internet is full of like-minded people. For the first time in history, were lucky to enough to choose friends not by location or luck, but by those who have similar interests and senses of humour, or passionate feelings about the same things. The friends Ive made online might be spread wide geographically, but Im closer to them than anyone I went to school with, by millions miles. They are the best friends I have. Obviously, there will be concerns about the dangers of online friendship. There are always stories buzzing around such as man runs off with the woman he met on Second Life or people who meet their soulmate online and are never seen again. But people are people, whether online or not. As for real friendship dying out, surely, is social networking simply redefining our notion of what this is in the twenty-first century? The figures half a billion Facebook users worldwide speak for themselves. And technology has allowed countless numbers of these people to keep in close contact with their loved ones, however far away they are. Without it, many disabled or household people might go without social contact at all. Call me naive, call me a social misfit, I dont care. Virtual people make best real friends. Adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jan/02/internet-relationships Read the passage below to complete the gaps with the relative pronouns (1 - 4): Online friends are people _______ always post messages and pictures of the places _______ they are, _______ they are with and ______ they are doing. 1.what 2. who 3.whom 4. where The CORRECT sequence is:

(UEMG -2015) Virtual people, real friends by Anna Pickard (The Guardian) The benefits of forming friendships with those we meet online are obvious, so why is the idea still treated with such disdain? Another week, another survey claiming to reveal great truths about ourselves. This one says that people are increasingly turning online friends into people theyd think worthy of calling real-life friends. Well, thats stating the obvious, I would have thought! If theres a more perfect place for making friends, I have yet to find it. However, when surveys like this are reported in the media, its always with a slight air of its a crazy, crazy world! And whenever the subject crops up in the conversation, its clear that people look down on friends like these. In fact some members of my family still refer to my partner of six years as my Internet Boyfriend. Its the shocked reaction that surprises me as if people on the internet were not real at all. Certainly, people play a character online quite often they may be a more confident or more argumentative version of their real selves but whats the alternative? Is meeting people at work so much better than making friends in a virtual world? Perhaps, but for some a professional distance between their work selves and their social selves is necessary, especially, if they tend to let their guard down and might say or do something they will later regret. Those people disapproving of online friendships argue that the concept of friendship is used loosely in a world driven by technology, in which you might have a thousand online friends. They make a distinction between social connections 1acquaintances who are only one click away and meaningful human interaction, which they say requires time and effort. They note that for many Facebook friends, conversation is a way of exchanging information quickly and efficiently rather than being a social activity. However, Ive found that far from being the home of oddballs and potential serial killers, the internet is full of like-minded people. For the first time in history, were lucky to enough to choose friends not by location or luck, but by those who have similar interests and senses of humour, or passionate feelings about the same things. The friends Ive made online might be spread wide geographically, but Im closer to them than anyone I went to school with, by millions miles. They are the best friends I have. Obviously, there will be concerns about the dangers of online friendship. There are always stories buzzing around such as man runs off with the woman he met on Second Life or people who meet their soulmate online and are never seen again. But people are people, whether online or not. As for real friendship dying out, surely, is social networking simply redefining our notion of what this is in the twenty-first century? The figures half a billion Facebook users worldwide speak for themselves. And technology has allowed countless numbers of these people to keep in close contact with their loved ones, however far away they are. Without it, many disabled or household people might go without social contact at all. Call me naive, call me a social misfit, I dont care. Virtual people make best real friends. Adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jan/02/internet-relationships Which alternative contains the correct conditional to complete the gap below? He would have chatted with his Facebook friends last night if he ___________ so busy.

(UEMG -2014) The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Paris, 1925. World War I had finished and the city was full of people with cash looking for business opportunities. Victor Lustig was reading the newspaper one day and found an article about the Eiffel Tower. It said the tower was being neglected because it was too expensive to maintain. Lustig a great business opportunity he would sell the Eiffel Tower! Lustig wrote to six important businessmen in the city and invited them to a secret meeting in a well-known Paris hotel. He said he was a government official and he told them that he wanted to talk about a business deal. All six of the businessmen came to the meeting. At the meeting, Lustig told them that the city wanted to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal and that he had been asked to find a buyer. He said that the deal was secret because it would not be popular with the public. The businessmen believed him, perhaps the Eiffel Tower was never planned to be permanent. It had been built as part of the 1889 Paris Expo, and the original plan had been to remove it in 1909. Lustig rented a limousine and took the men to visit the tower. After the tour, he said that if they were interested, they should contact him the next day. Lustig told them he would give the tower contract to the person with the highest offer. One of the dealers, Andre Poisson, was very interested, but he was also worried. Why was Lustig in such a hurry? The two men had a meeting, and Lustig confessed that he wasnt looking for the highest offer. He said he would give the contract to anybody for a price. Poisson understood: Lustig wanted a little extra money under the table for himself. This was Lustigs cleverest lie, because now Poisson believed him completely. Lustig sold Poisson a false contract for the Eiffel Tower and on top of that, Poisson paid him a little extra money under the table. Lustig put all the money in a suitcase and took the first train to Vienna. Poisson never told the police what had happened he was too embarrassed. After a month, Lustig returned to Paris and tried to sell the Eiffel Tower again, but this time somebody told the police and he had to escape to America. There, he continued his criminal career and finished his days in the famous Alcatraz prison. (Oxford UP 2009 - English Result, p.62. Adapted.) In the sentence The two men had a meeting, and Lustig confessed that he wasnt looking for the highest offer, the expressionthe highestis a superlative. Read the following adjectives: cheap tall good smart Which of the sequences below has the correct superlative form of the adjectives above?

(UEMG -2014) The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Paris, 1925. World War I had finished and the city was full of people with cash looking for business opportunities. Victor Lustig was reading the newspaper one day and found an article about the Eiffel Tower. It said the tower was being neglected because it was too expensive to maintain. Lustig a great business opportunity he would sell the Eiffel Tower! Lustig wrote to six important businessmen in the city and invited them to a secret meeting in a well-known Paris hotel. He said he was a government official and he told them that he wanted to talk about a business deal. All six of the businessmen came to the meeting. At the meeting, Lustig told them that the city wanted to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal and that he had been asked to find a buyer. He said that the deal was secret because it would not be popular with the public. The businessmen believed him, perhaps the Eiffel Tower was never planned to be permanent. It had been built as part of the 1889 Paris Expo, and the original plan had been to remove it in 1909. Lustig rented a limousine and took the men to visit the tower. After the tour, he said that if they were interested, they should contact him the next day. Lustig told them he would give the tower contract to the person with the highest offer. One of the dealers, Andre Poisson, was very interested, but he was also worried. Why was Lustig in such a hurry? The two men had a meeting, and Lustig confessed that he wasnt looking for the highest offer. He said he would give the contract to anybody for a price. Poisson understood: Lustig wanted a little extra money under the table for himself. This was Lustigs cleverest lie, because now Poisson believed him completely. Lustig sold Poisson a false contract for the Eiffel Tower and on top of that, Poisson paid him a little extra money under the table. Lustig put all the money in a suitcase and took the first train to Vienna. Poisson never told the police what had happened he was too embarrassed. After a month, Lustig returned to Paris and tried to sell the Eiffel Tower again, but this time somebody told the police and he had to escape to America. There, he continued his criminal career and finished his days in the famous Alcatraz prison. (Oxford UP 2009 - English Result, p.62. Adapted.) Read the reported sentence below, from the text. Lustig told them he would give the tower contract to the person with the highest offer. Which of the alternatives below corresponds to Lustigs direct speech?

(UEMG- 2013) The Birth of a Storyteller Jackie Torrence spent her childhood in North Carolina, in the southern part of the United States. She was a shy child because she had problems with her teeth, which made it hard for her to talk. Other children teased her because of her speech problem, so she spent much of her childhood playing alone. One of Jackies favorite games was to pretend she was on television. She told stories out loud using gestures and dramatic voices. At school, Jackie soon learned that she was good at writing stories, and with the help of her favorite teacher, she started to work on improving her speech. Jackies first storytelling performance was in a library. She was working as a librarian and was asked to entertain a group of children. Jackie told them a story and they loved it! Before long, she began telling stories within her community. Many of her stories came from old American and African-American folktales. Eventually, she started telling stories across North America. As Jackies fame increased, her health decreased. She now has to use a wheelchair, but this has not stopped her storytelling career. Jackies stories have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers and she has appeared on radio and television. She has won awards for nine of her sound recordings and three of her television specials. Adapted from NorthStar 3: Listening and Speaking, 2nd Edition (Longman, p. 57), Helen S. Solrzano and Jennifer P. L. Schmidt. In the sentence, She has won awards for nine of her sound recordings and three of her television specials, the underlined expression shows that

(UEMG - 2013) The Paradox of Our Times by Jeff Dickson The paradox of our times in history is that We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; We buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; More conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense; More knowledge, but less judgment; More experts, but more problems; More medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly; Laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, Stay up too late, get too tired, Read too seldom, watch TV too much, And pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. Weve learned how to make a living, but not a life; Weve added years to life, not life to years. Weve been all the way to the moon and back, But have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. Weve conquered outer space, but not inner space; Weve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; Weve split the atom, but not our prejudice. We have higher incomes, but lower morals; Weve become long on quantity, but short on quality. These are the times of tall men, and short character; Steep profits, and shallow relationships. These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; More leisure, but less fun; More kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; Of fancier houses, but broken homes. It is a time when there is much in the show window And nothing in the stockroom; A time when technology can bring this letter to you, And a time when you can choose either to make a difference Or just hit delete. (www.motivateus.com/stories/paradox.htm- July 2012.) In the line, we talk too much, love tooseldom, and hate too often, what kind of adverb isseldom?

(Uemg 2010) American superstar Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana on August 29, 1958 and entertained audiences nearly his entire life. A musical prodigy, Michaels singing and dancing talents were amazingly mature and he soon became the dominant voice and focus of The Jackson 5. As the Jackson 5, 1they became a cutting-edge example of black crossover artists. You basically had five working-class black boys with Afros and bell bottoms, and they really didnt have to trade any of that stuff in order to become mainstream stars. Young Michael Jackson was the first black bubblegum teen star. He became one of the first African-Americans to be a global icon, said Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke Universitys Department of African and African American Studies. Solo success for Michael was inevitable, and by the 1980s he had become infinitely more popular than his brotherly group. 2Record sales consistently orbited, culminating in the biggest-selling album of all time, Thriller in 1982. From his precocious abilities as a young singer in The Jackson 5 to his legendary moon-walk dance, Jackson continued as a pioneer in the black culture when he broke barriers by appearing on MTV and had much better luck with elaborate music videos. The former president of CBS Records, Walter Yetnikoff, remembered with scorn that MTV would not play Billie Jean or Beat It because it billed itself as a rock station. Michael Jackson co-wrote with Lionel Richie, We Are the World, a 1985 charity single that raised an estimated $50 million for famine relief in Africa, ushered in Live Aid and the era of celebrity philanthropy. Michael Jackson was the supreme showman who had an unrivalled knack of grabbing headlines. Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama. Michael did with music what they later did in sports and in politics and in television. And no controversy will erase the historic impact. He also influenced a new generation of black musicians, including Usher, Ne-Yo and Kanye West. Jacksons changing physical appearance in the past two decades led to criticism that he was trying to be less black. But during a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jackson shot down rumors that he was dying his skin to make it lighter. He told the talk show host that he had vitiligo, a disorder that destroyed his skin pigmentation. Total worldwide sales of more than 350 million records over his 40-year career give just a hint of the adoration there was for the King of Pop. On June 25, 2009, with his sudden death at age 50 of a cardiac arrest just as he was just coming out of a four-year reclusive period and rehearsing for a sold-out London concert in July seems uncommonly cruel and tragic. Millions of dedicated fans will remember where they were the day Michael died and he will be remembered as a musical hero - but also a man with human flaws. Adapted from CNN.com and The Internet Movie Database.com In the sentence Record sales consistently orbited, culminating in the biggest-selling album of all time, Thriller in 1982, (ref. 2) the biggest is

(UEMG - 2007) The Big Match Kathleen Becker Its early evening in the Matchmakers Bar, Lisdoonvarna, in the West of Ireland. A live band is warming up for the dancing later on while matchmaker Willie Daly is starting work: finding suitable partners for his clients. Every September, men and women looking for love come to Lisdoonvarna, Irelands only spa town. At the matchmaking festival they hope to find a good match. The tradition began when farmers came here after the hay harvest had been gathered, bringing their daughters with them. Even today, in remote parts of rural Ireland, it can be difficult to meet your soul mate. Willie Daly wants to help bring people together. A pint glass of Guinness in front of him, Daly hands out forms to fill in and consults his big matchmaking book with contacts and vital statistics. Willie Dalys father was a matchmaker, and his father before him. Initially, Willie Daly was reluctant to get involved. Now in his late 50s, Willie started when he was 24: Willie Daly (Standard Irish accent): The reason I started was where I live its down on a farm and it looks out on the Atlantic Ocean, its very pretty and very beautiful and theres great views everywhere. And I was looking around one day, and people kept saying to me, Willie, when are you going to start, will you start the matchmakings? And I said Maybe I will, you know, I wasnt really interested much in it, you know. But then I was looking around and noticing that, as the result of matchmaking having stopped, that a lot of lovely neighbors that I had, existing neighbors, were getting old, dying out, and their houses were being sold to tourists and stuff like that, you know. And I felt that I was losing great friends and neighbors, so I started at that age and I havent stopped since. I started when I was 24 and Im still doing it now. The first match Willie Daly ever made was between a very shy boy who worked on a nearby farm and a local girl. Every time they met the boys face would go pure red, Daly says. The boy did not realize that the girl had feelings for him. In his frustration he was even talking about emigrating to England. How it all worked out in the end is a long story best told over a pint of stout, but it involves the fake sale of a pig engineered by young Willie Daly. The match was a success, and the couple had eleven children. Daly and his wife have seven children. Some of them help their dad with the matchmaking. In 35 years, Daly has honed his psychologists skills. The internet has helped, too. In other ways, his job has become more difficult: Irish women today have a better education, more independence - and higher expectations. Revista Speak up, setembro de 2006 Vocabulary 1 - after the hay harvest had been gathered - depois da colheita do feno 2 - to hone - aprimora 3 - to match - casar And I said Maybe I will,‟ you know,I wasn\t really interested much in it, you know. About the period in bold, we can say that