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(FATEC - 2005) THE COMISSARS NOT IN TOWN When Guangzhou resident Ma Yiyong, 57, went to renew his unemployment certificate last month, something extraordinary happened: he did so efficiently and discreetly, with a few keystrokes. It used to be really troublesome in the past, says Ma. I would have to stand in line several times, and sometimes the government officials werent at their desks. Now its fast. Chinas romance with e-government is now reaching the grass-roots level, bringing efficiency and convenience to citizens. But its biggest benefit may be in circumventing one of the last bastions of communism: the infamous neighborhood committees. These groups of local party members have for decades served as the authorities eyes and ears. They were also notorious busybodies, making it their business to know who was having marital problems, grumbling about the government or out of work. (Newsweek, October 11, 2004) O advrbio SO na frase he did so efficiently and discreetly, no primeiro pargrafo do texto, pode ser substitudo de forma adequada e sem prejuzo de significado por

(FATEC -2004) Barrier to Prosperity Despite losing a Likud Party vote on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he intends to push ahead with the initiative. Even if successful, though, he may leave Gaza in the lurch. For several years, a British energy company, British Gas, has been quietly drilling in the Mediterranean. The company concluded that the Palestinians have a potential moneymaker off the Gaza coast - a medium-size natural-gas reserve of about 30 billion cubic meters. British Gas reps argue that the Palestinian Authority would earn about US 50 million a year from the project and save an additional US 30 million annually in energy costs. That kind of money - if it doesnt go to Yasser Arafats cronies - could greatly help the overcrowded, poverty-stricken sliver of land get on its feet. Enter Sharon: British Gas will invest the required US 350 million needed to construct a pipelineonly if can market the gas to Israel, and the PM fears the money Israel would pay Palestinians for their resource (Israel plans to convert nearly all its power stations to natural gas over the next 20 years) would end up financing terrorist attacks against the Jewish state. Instead, Sharon is leaning toward importing gas from Egypt. Without an agreement, Gazas gas will stay untapped. DAN EPHRON (Newsweek - 2004) Observe o uso (funo gramatical) da forma ing nas frases abaixo. I. For several years, a British Gas energy company, British Gas, has been quietly drilling in the Mediterranean. II. Instead, Sharon is leaning toward... III. ... for their resource [...] would end up financing terrorist attacks... O uso dessa forma igual ao que se encontra em Despite losing a Likud Party vote..., EXCETO na(s) frase(s)

(FATEC - 2003) TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO: Its Not the Carbs, Stupid In the mid-19thcentury, William Banting first popularized the low carbohydrate weight-loss plan that has once again grabbed the medias collective attention. Banting was a well-meaning London undertaker who grew so fat in middle age that he could not descend a staircase face first, for fear of being toppled by his copious paunch. His friend and physician, the noted British aural surgeon William Harvey, prescribed a regimen focused on meat, small amounts of fruit and liberal lashings of Claret, sherry and Madeira, which helped Banting drop 35 pounds in 38 weeks. (BY ELLEN RUPPEL SHELLNewsweek, August 5, 2002) Assinale a alternativa em que o adjetivo composto por dois substantivos, como na palavra weight-loss, na 2 linha do texto.

(FATEC - 2003) TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO: Its Not the Carbs, Stupid In the mid-19th century, William Banting first popularized the low carbohydrate weight-loss plan that has once again grabbed the medias collective attention. Banting was a well-meaning London undertaker who grew so fat in middle age that he could not descend a staircase face first, for fear of being toppled by his copious paunch. His friend and physician, the noted British aural surgeon William Harvey, prescribed a regimen focused on meat, small amounts of fruit and liberal lashings of Claret, sherry and Madeira, which helped Banting drop 35 pounds in 38 weeks. (BY ELLEN RUPPEL SHELL Newsweek, August 5, 2002) Assinale a alternativa que apresenta o uso correto do caso possessivo, como no substantivo media em the medias collective attention.

(Fatec - 2002) Potatoes are supposed to be one of the worlds greatest foods, filled with calcium, niacin, iron, vitamin C and plenty of carbohydrates. A diet of milk and potatoes, the textbooks say, will provide all the nutrients the human body needs. But there is trouble lurking beneath the skin. According to a controversial new theory, potatoes, eaten in large quantities by a population increasingly sedentary and overweight, may be a major contributor to Americas alarming rates of heart disease and diabetes. The problem, according to Meir Stampfer, a nutrition professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, is potato starch. When you eat a potato and that starch hits the saliva in your mouth, its tightly bundled molecules immediately get turned into sugars, which make a beeline for the blood. You ate a potato, says Stampfer, but your body is getting pure glucose. The flood of blood sugar sets off a chain reaction. Insulin pours out of the pancreas. Triglycerides shoot up. HDL (good) cholesterol takes a dive. lts a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes, says Stampfer. This is not just a potato problem. Its also a problem with white bread, bagels and most white rice. But couch potatoes dont have to give up their spuds altogether, as long as they eat them in moderation. Or they could switch to sweet potatoes and yams, which metabolize less rapidly and wreak less havoc with blood sugar. TIME, January 21, 2002. Considere a frase Its a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes, says Stampfer., no segundo pargrafo do texto. Assinale a alternativa em que a transposio dessa frase para o discurso indireto est correta, completando a frase a seguir. Stampfer says........

(FATEC - 2002) TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO: O texto a seguir a transcrio de uma parte da entrevista que a CNN fez com o Dr. Steven Marans, em 13 de setembro de 2001, a respeito dos atentados ocorridos nos EUA dois dias antes. Dr. Steven Marans: Talking to children about violence Dr. Steven Marans is the head of the National Center of Children Exposed to Violence at Yale Universitys Child Study Center. He joined the CNN.com chat room from Connecticut. CNN: Dr. Marans, this incident has presented many challenges for parents and teachers. Can you give us some guidance as to how much we should be talking to kids about these events? Wont it greatly depend upon the age of the child? MARANS: Yes, it does depend on the age of the child. But perhaps the most important issue is that children need to have adults who are available to listen to what is on their minds. That it is the greatest importance that teachers and parents are able to demonstrate to children that they can tolerate hearing about all sorts of ideas and strong feelings. Parents and teachers need to listen carefully to their children in order to understand the issue that are uppermost in their childrens mind. The other issue is that for all of us, children and adults alike, there is no great fear than that of losing someone that we love. And that there is no greater fear than being frightened of damage to ones own body or to the bodys of people that we love. (www.cnn.com/2001/Community/09/13/marans/index.html) Assinale a alternativa que apresenta o uso gramatical correto de there is.

(FATEC - 2000) ATTENTION, E-COMMERCE SHOPPERS: your days of being tied to the PC for your product needs may soon be over. In the near future, currently being envisaged by engineers, youll go shopping via Palm Pilot, via TV with cable-modem hookup, via game machine, via intelligent refrigerator - via any means, it seems, other than a good old-fashioned desktop and keyboard. A new kind of consumer is about to emerge as the Internet revolution spills over the edges of the computer revolutions territory. The next wave is people who never wanted to buy a PC, says Barry Parr an analyst at International Data Corp. Even as early as 2003, analysts expect, a third of on-line households will be spending around $50 billion through non-PC devices. Many of them wont even have to open a Web browser to go shopping. Internet-ready cell phones already have e-commerce capabilities. Sonys latest terminal for WebTV offers split-screen shopping, so you can buy Christmas gifts without taking your eyes off the tube. Excite Homes broadband cable service will launch an undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say youre watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and its heading to your door. Excite Home already knows your credit-card details and address. Just sit back and wait for the calories. By Chris Taylor TIME, DECEMBER 27,1999 Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra, extrada do texto, cuja formao com o sufixo -ING obedece mesma regra gramatical de being em ...your days of BEING tied to the PC..., no primeiro pargrafo do texto.

(Fatec - 1998) M E X I C O WHERE WAS GUTIRREZ? IF YOU BELIEVE THE LETTER HE SENT the Universal newspaper, Fernando Gutirrez Barrios, Mexicos most knowledgeable intelligence expert, was outside Mexico enjoying vacation. If you believe rumors that started circulating when he dropped out of public sight two weeks ago, he is one of the countrys highest-ranking politicians ever kidnapped. That version goes like this: Gutirrez was driving in the capital after lunch when two cars cut him off and eight heavily armed men whisked him away. By Friday Gutirrez was reportedly back safe at home, but he had still not been seen in public, and his family remained mum. It is common for families in Mexico to avoid publicity in kidnapping cases and simply pay whatever ransom is demanded. Police are notoriously inept at rescue attempts. As in Colombia and Brazil, kidnapping has become rampant in Mexico, with hundreds of cases a year, an American businessman help for eight days was released just last week after his family paid an undisclosed ransom. However, the abduction of Gutirrez would be a new twist. It seems likely that he would be targeted not for his wealth but for what knows. For four decades he worked in Mexican intelligence, rising as high as minister of governing, the cabinet post in charge of internal security, under former president Carlos Salinas. In other words, he knew state secrets, the sort of information that would be of use to drug lords, politicians and guerrillas. Editorials are already referring to him as a political kidnapee. NEWSWEEK, DECEMBER 29, 1997 Indique a alternativa em que a traduo de a ou an difere do seu significado habitual de artigo indefinido (um, uma) em lngua portuguesa.

(FATED - 1998) TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO: THE NEW MUSCLE CANDY EXPERTS WRESTLE WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT CREATINE BY KAREM SPRINGEN AND MARC PEYSER AMERICANS ASSUME THAT ANYTHING natural must be safe. Thats the buzz about creatine, a muscle-building supplement thats become as common as sweaty towels in gyms across the country. Since it hit stores in 1992, creatine - sold as powder, capsules, candy and even chewing gum - has become a $100 million industry, boosted by endorsements from athletes including Baltimore Orioles outfielder Brady Anderson. Even casual jocks report Schwarzenegger-like growth. Dr. Ray Sahelian, coauthor of Creatine: Natures Muscle Builder. Says he has bigger muscles at 40 than he did when he was 20 - and he lifts weights only 15 minutes a day. Its miraculous, Sahelian says. But like so many dietary miracles, creatine may have a serious downside. Its safety has come under intense scrutiny after the recent deaths of three collegiate wrestlers. The FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and NCAA are investigating the athletes deaths and whether creatine played a role. True, the wrestlers had all been wearing rubber suits while riding stationary bikes. Wrestlers have always done outlandish things to make weight, yet no college wrestler had died in at least 15 years. Whats different? says Jeff Kovan, director of sports medicine at Michigan State. The only thing people have seen is, creatine has become a big issue. The irony for wrestlers is that creatine adds bulk, rather than reducing it. It gives athletes extra power by increasing energy available to the muscle, allowing them to recover more quickly and thus get stronger faster. The process also happens naturally: creatine is made in the human liver and kidneys and ingested in meat fish. Yet athletes often consume 20 or more grams a day - the amount found in 20 eight-ounce steaks. Some scientists believe that in high doses, creatine may contribute to dehydration because liquid shunted into the muscles robs the rest of its ability to cool down via sweat. No one knows exactly how creatine works and what doses might be safe. Its long-term effects have never been studied because it is an unregulated supplement, not a prescription drug. Though users have complained about nausea, diarrhea and cramps, manufacturers insist creatine has no side effects. If it were so dangerous, they argue, it wouldnt be used so widely. You can call any professional football team, and everybodys taking it, says Matthew Vukovich of Experimental and Applied Sciences, the first U. S. company to sell creatine. Although some universities now advise their athletes to avoid the supplement, its popularity remains strong, even at up to $50 for a months supply. Robert Presti, who runs The Vitamin Store in New York City, says creatine is his best-selling sports supplement. The controversy wont stop him from taking it, either. My body has responded well to it, says Presti, 33. Then again, he doesnt exercise in a rubber suit. With Jennifer Lach in New York NEWSWEEK, JANUARY 12, 1998 No primeiro pargrafo l-se: THATS the buzz about creatine, a muscle-building supplement THATS become as common as sweaty towels in gyms across the country. A contrao THATS corresponde respectivamente a: