Questões de Inglês - ITA 1999 | Gabarito e resoluções

(ITA -1999) TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO: Wonder What Hes Up to? Ever wanted to know if Stevie Wonder goes to the movies? He does. You catch nearly all of it if you pay close attention, says Wonder, who has founded, along with SAP, a German software company, the SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards. The awards recognize products and research that assimilate blind people into the workplace, because while 2visually impaired people can follow a movie, a big percentage of them cant find a job. I dont get too surprised by anything, says Wonder of the inventions, but we did see some good things. One of the productions is a 3mouse pad that helps people feel what is going on the screen. Wonder is amazed by how few manufacturers think of the visually impaired when making appliances. Its 1weird. Its so simple to add voice capability, he says. And it means complete independence for a blind person. In between his good works, Wonder is still song writing. He hopes to record an album next year. (BY BELINDA LUSCOMBE. TIME, June 29, 1998) Determine a funo gramatical de impaired em visually impaired people (ref.2) e de mouseem mouse pad (ref.3).

(ITA -1999) TIME DOESNT STAND STILL FOR CITIES ON THE GO Places, like people, have personalities, says Robert Levine, a psychologist at California State University, Fresno. Levine wanted to know which of 36 U.S. cities had ____(1)____ pace of life. He found that Bostonians topped the list, outhustling surprising runnersup Buffalo and New York. His study, A Geography of Time, charted walking speed, talking speed, how long it took bank clerks to make change, and the number of passersby wearing watches. New Yorkers led in watches, but the Big Apple placed third overall due to a 28th place finish in talking speed. Fast-moving cities are ____(2)____ , but tend to be more productive economically than their ____(3)____ moving counter-parts, Levine discovered. At the bottom of the list: laid-back Los Angeles. People there talk so slowly that reading the 6p.m. news would take them until 7:25 to report what residents of Columbus, Ohio, would finish by 7 p.m. (TEXT BY BORIS WEINTRAUB NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, March 1998) A opo que preenche corretamente as lacunas 1, 2 e 3, respectivamente, :

(ITA -1999) The Gentle Cosmic Rain 1 - HARDLY ............... TOOK LOUIS FRANK SERIOUSLY when he first proposed, more than 10 years ago, that Earth was being bombarded by cosmic snowballs at the rate of as many as 30 a minute. Part of the problem was how preposterous his theory sounded: every day, he suggested, tens of thousands of icy comets, each the size of a small house and containing 36 metric tons of water, were vaporizing in the upper atmosphere and raining down on Earth. It didnt help that the University of lowa physicist happened to release his findings on April 1, 1986. Newspapers, he 2recalls, phoned to ask if this was an April Fools joke. 2 - Frank is unlikely to hear that kind of question again. Last week, at the American Geophysical Unions annual convention in Baltimore, Md., he 1backed up his theory with fresh evidence: satellite images that capture his cosmic hail in midflight. Suddenly it seems entirely possible that the source of much of the water on Earth - and even of life itself - might be Franks gentle cosmic rain. (...) (TIME, June 9, 1997) A lacuna encontrada na 1a linha do texto deve ser preenchida por:

(ITA -1999) Since 1985 the Shop _________ a Company limited by guarantee withcharitable status; its aim is primarily to relieve poverty in developing countries. (Panfleto da loja ONE WORLD SHOP, em Edimburgo, Esccia) A alternativa que melhor preenche a lacuna do texto :