Questões de Inglês - IME 2010 | Gabarito e resoluções

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) MARQUE A ALTERNATIVA QUE COMPLETA CORRETAMENTE A FRASE. Before _____ ways to accelerate the process, I should give a few more details on how the system works.

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) MARQUE A ALTERNATIVA QUE COMPLETA CORRETAMENTE A FRASE. A different and somewhat _____ approach than changing all the rules may work when a product fails to comply but still satisfies the purpose of the regulations. In these cases, minor adjustments may save a lot of the work done before.

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) MARQUE A ALTERNATIVA QUE COMPLETA CORRETAMENTE A FRASE. ATT said presale _____ were 10 times higher than they were for the previous version of the iPhone.

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) MARQUE A ALTERNATIVA QUE COMPLETA CORRETAMENTE A FRASE. Advocates of hydrogen-fuel-cell propulsion have a new _____ for their technology: trolleys. Engineers and transit planners concluded that streetcars are an ideal early application for hydrogen propulsion.

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) MARQUE A ALTERNATIVA QUE COMPLETA CORRETAMENTE A FRASE. The British communications _____ has released a road map calling for the completion of the nations move from analog FM to the digital audio broadcast (DAB) standard by the end of 2015.

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) Is Facebook, the social networking website, making us narcissist? A new book argues were much more self-absorbed nowadays, stating that technology is to blame. I tweet, therefore I am. Or is it, I tweet, therefore I am insufferable? As if adult celebrities that pop out on the red carpets werent clue enough, we now have statistical evidence that we are a lot more in love with ourselves than we used to be. This social phenomenon has raised fields of research to academic studies nowadays. In the book The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and W. Keith Campbell, a social psychologist at the University of Georgia, look to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, which measures self-regard, materialism, and lack of empathy. They found that the number of college students scoring high on the test has risen by 30 percent since the early 1980s. What kind of human behavior is central to the study mentioned in the text?

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) Is Facebook, the social networking website, making us narcissist? A new book argues were much more self-absorbed nowadays, stating that technology is to blame. I tweet, therefore I am. Or is it, I tweet, therefore I am insufferable? As if adult celebrities that pop out on the red carpets werent clue enough, we now have statistical evidence that we are a lot more in love with ourselves than we used to be. This social phenomenon has raised fields of research to academic studies nowadays. In the book The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and W. Keith Campbell, a social psychologist at the University of Georgia, look to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, which measures self-regard, materialism, and lack of empathy. They found that the number of college students scoring high on the test has risen by 30 percent since the early 1980s. What has NOT been encouraging people to act the way described in the text?

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement a dopamine squirt that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored. The resulting distractions can have deadly consequences, as when cell phone-wielding drivers and train engineers cause wrecks. And for millions of people these urges can inflict nicks and cuts on creativity and deep thought, interrupting work and family life. What does the passage imply?

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) The history of technology is full of breakthroughs in one field that wound up working wonders in a related one. The 300B vacuum tube, introduced by Western Electric in 1937 to amplify telephone signals, found a far more enduring use as a high-fidelity audio amplifier. The atomic clocks first used in the 1960s by the U.S. military to track Sputnik and later to validate Albert Einsteins relativity theories are now the basis of Global Positioning System. And of course, the magnetron, invented in the 1920s at General Electric and used in radars during World War II, later found itself repurposed as the basis for the microwave oven. According to the text, what is correct to say?

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) The history of technology is full of breakthroughs in one field that wound up working wonders in a related one. The 300B vacuum tube, introduced by Western Electric in 1937 to amplify telephone signals, found a far more enduring use as a high-fidelity audio amplifier. The atomic clocks first used in the 1960s by the U.S. military to track Sputnik and later to validate Albert Einsteins relativity theories are now the basis of Global Positioning System. And of course, the magnetron, invented in the 1920s at General Electric and used in radars during World War II, later found itself repurposed as the basis for the microwave oven. According to the text, complete the sentence: The microwave oven

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) Soon enough, say some engineers, miniature wireless sensors will be located in spots where it would be inconvenient, to say the least, to change their batteries inside your body, within the steel and concrete of buildings, in the dangerous innards of chemical plants. But today, even the most robust nodes can be counted on to last only a few years. Ideally, engineers need wireless sensors that can last forever without external power sources or battery changes. According to research presented in December at the International Electron Devices Meeting, in Baltimore, that dream is within reach. What inconvenience is mentioned in the text?

(IME -2010/2011 - 1 FASE) Soon enough, say some engineers, miniature wireless sensors will be located in spots where it would be inconvenient, to say the least, to change their batteries inside your body, within the steel and concrete of buildings, in the dangerous innards of chemical plants. But today, even the most robust nodes can be counted on to last only a few years. Ideally, engineers need wireless sensors that can last forever without external power sources or battery changes. According to research presented in December at the International Electron Devices Meeting, in Baltimore, that dream is within reach. What does the sentence According to research presented in December at the International Electron Devices Meeting, in Baltimore, that dream is within reach. imply about the text?

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) Soon enough, say some engineers, miniature wireless sensors will be located in spots where it would be inconvenient, to say the least, to change their batteries inside your body, within the steel and concrete of buildings, in the dangerous innards of chemical plants. But today, even the most robust nodes can be counted on to last only a few years. Ideally, engineers need wireless sensors that can last forever without external power sources or battery changes. According to research presented in December at the International Electron Devices Meeting, in Baltimore, that dream is within reach. The expression to say the least in the text suggests that

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) Recently, I was looking for something online, or probably browsing aimlessly, when I happened on a name I hadnt thought of since I was a child: Alfred P. Morgan. Someone had uploaded a digitized version of The Boy Electrician. I was instantly swept back more than half a century to my local library. In my mind I saw the familiar metal shelving and the blue-gray binding of my favorite book, also written and illustrated by Morgan: The Boys First Book of Radio and Electronics. What is known about Alfred P. Morgan?

(IME - 2010/2011 - 1 FASE) Recently, I was looking for something online, or probably browsing aimlessly, when I happened on a name I hadnt thought of since I was a child: Alfred P. Morgan. Someone had uploaded a digitized version of The Boy Electrician. I was instantly swept back more than half a century to my local library. In my mind I saw the familiar metal shelving and the blue-gray binding of my favorite book, also written and illustrated by Morgan: The Boys First Book of Radio and Electronics. Which of the following expressions is a synonym for aimlessly on the first line of the text?