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(FUVEST - 2001 - 1a fase) MICHAEL D. COES Breaking the Maya Code. Revised paperback edition. First published 1992. Thames Hudson, New York, 1999 ($18.95). The decipherment of the Maya script was, Coe states, one of the most exciting intellectual adventures of our age, on a par with the exploration of space and the discovery of the genetic code. He presents the story eloquently and in detail, with many illustrations of the mysterious Maya inscriptions and the people who tried to decipher them. Most of the credit, he says, goes to the late Yuri V. Knorosov of the Russian Institute of Ethnography, but many others participated. They did not always agree, and some of them went up blind alleys. Coe----- emeritus professor of anthropology at Yale University----- vividly describes the battles, missteps and successes. What is now established, he writes, is that the Maya writing system is a mix of logograms and syllabic signs; with the latter, they could and often did write words purely phonetically. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN APRIL 2000 According to the passage, Michael D. Coes book

(FUVEST - 2001 - 1a fase) MICHAEL D. COES Breaking the Maya Code. Revised paperback edition. First published 1992. Thames Hudson, New York, 1999 ($18.95). The decipherment of the Maya script was, Coe states, one of the most exciting intellectual adventures of our age, on a par with the exploration of space and the discovery of the genetic code. He presents the story eloquently and in detail, with many illustrations of the mysterious Maya inscriptions and the people who tried to decipher them. Most of the credit, he says, goes to the late Yuri V. Knorosov of the Russian Institute of Ethnography, but many others participated. They did not always agree, and some of them went up blind alleys. Coe----- emeritus professor of anthropology at Yale University----- vividly describes the battles, missteps and successes. What is now established, he writes, is that the Maya writing system is a mix of logograms and syllabic signs; with the latter, they could and often did write words purely phonetically. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN APRIL 2000 Which of these statements is true according to the passage?

(FUVEST - 2000 - 1 FASE) The Sydney Olympics billed as the Green Games open in exactly 64 weeks, on 15 September 2000. In bidding for the Games, the Sydney delegates promised that theirs would be the most environmentally-friendly Games ever. But there are growing doubts that Sydney will deliver on its promises, even though Australia holds a commanding lead in the race to develop key environmentally-friendly technologies. The biggest single obstacle to the Green Games is the site itself. The land around Homebush Bay, in western Sydney, was an industrial graveyard previously used by chemical giants such as ICI and Union Carbide infamous for the Bhopal plant leak on 3 December 1984 that poisoned thousands in India. Their legacy was toxic waste in unmarked sites. The bodies associated with the bid knew about this, and saw the Games as a way to clean up the mess and create a new community. Thus Sydneys bid document featured a glorious artists impression of a ceremonial entrance on the waterfront, where, beneath fluttering bunting, Olympic athletes and grandees arrive from downtown on eco-friendly water taxis. It was, says Murray Hogarth, environmental correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, an absolutely key facet of the bid. THE FRIDAY REVIEW The Independent 25 June 1999 Choose the question for the statement: ...the Sydney delegates promised that theirs would be the most environmentally-friendly Games ever. (lines 4-7)

(FUVEST -1998) Science talent redirected Is Science Talent Squandered? (SN: 5/31/97, p. 338) sent me into a reverie of my precollege days. Having achieved, at 10 years of age, minor celebrity status in Nations Business by inventing a new cotton picker, having burned holes in my parents basement ceiling with my huge Gilbert chemistry set, and having been given a key to the high school lab to conduct my own experiments on weekends, 2I knew I would be a scientist. Then came college and the public denigration (in an introductory chemistry class) of my poetic expression of the practical application of combustion. Literary and artistic teachers and friends enjoyed my weird presentation, so I joined their ranks instead, achieving modest adult recognition as a writer but still finding my real reading interest in science. If I had found a Carl Sagan some 40 years ago, I might be in a different college in my University today, but perhaps with different regrets. F. Richard Thomas, Professor of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. [Science News, 26 July 1997, vol. 152] Escolha a question tag correta para: I knew I would be a scientist. (ref. 2):

(FUVEST - 1997) Choose another way of saying There isnt anything really like that:

(FUVEST - 1993) Assinale a alternativa correta. I expect that she ________ arrive at about midnight.

(FUVEST - 1979) Assinale a alternativa de significado equivalente palavra entre aspas: He was fast asleep.

(FUVEST - 1978) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna: She did not tell me the truth. She _______ to me.

(FUVEST - 1978) Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente a sentena: Of all the movies I have seen lately, the one I saw yesterday was.............

(FUVEST - 1978) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente as lacunas: I..... you as soon as my work.....

(FUVEST - 1977) Qual dessas sentenas est correta?

(FUVEST - 1977) Qual a pergunta a anteceder a resposta yes, I did?