Questões de Inglês - PUC 2001 | Gabarito e resoluções

(PUC - PR -2001) Fill in the blanks below, choosing the best alternative: I - _____ knows how to speak decent French to talk to the tourists? II - The ticket costs $8. _____ are you going to pay? III - _____ can I take the subway to the Guggenhein Museum? IV - _____ of those buildings is the hospital? V - _____ will your sister travel to London?

(PUC - RS -2001) TEXTO 1 What is beauty? Define beauty? One may as well dissect a soap bubble. We know it when we see it - or so we think. 2 Philosophers define 1it as a moral equation. What is beautiful is good, said Plato. Poets look for high standards. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, wrote John Keats. 3 Science examines beauty and pronounces it a strategy. Beauty is health, a psychologist tells me. Its a sign saying Im healthy and fertile. I can pass on your genes. 4 At its best, beauty celebrates. From the painted Txiko Indian in Brazil to Madonna in her metal bra, humanity likes to abandon its everyday look and masquerade as a more powerful, romantic, or sexy being. 5 At its worst, beauty discriminates. Studies suggest attractive people make more money, get more attention in class and are seen as 2friendlier. We do judge people by their looks. In an era of feminist and politically correct values, not to mention the belief that all men and women are created equal, the fact that all men and women are not - and that some are more beautiful than others - disturbs, confuses, 3even angers. 6 The search for beauty is 4costly. 7In the United States last year people spent six billion dollars 8on fragrance and another six billion on make up. In the mania to lose weight 20 billions were spent on diet products and services - in addition to the billions that were paid out for health club memberships and cosmetic surgery. 7 The sad, sometimes ugly side of beauty: In a 1997 magazine survey, 15 percent of women and 11 percent of men sampled said theyd sacrifice more than five years of their life to be at their ideal weight. According to one study, 80 percent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. In one of its worst manifestations, discontent with ones body can wind up as an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia. Both can be fatal. 5Today eating disorders, once mostly limited to wealthy Western cultures, occur around the world, in countries as different as Fiji, Japan and Argentina. 8 The preoccupation with beauty can be a neurosis, and yet there is something therapeutic about paying attention to how we look and feel. People are so quick to say beauty is superficial, says Ann Marie Gardner, beauty director of W magazine. Theyre fearful. They say: It doesnt have substance. What many dont 6realize is that its fun to reinvent yourself, as long as you dont take it too seriously. The correct active voice for the sentence 20 billions were spent on diet products and services (par. 6) is People _______ 20 billions on diet products and services.

(Pucpr 2001) In which of the sentences we MUSTNT use the article THE to complete the blanks?

(PUC - RJ 2001 - adaptada) The Nun Study: Unlocking the Secrets of Alzheimers [...] Much of this knowledge comes from a single, powerful piece of ongoing research: the aptly named Nun Study. Since 1986, University of Kentucky scientist David Snowdon has been studying 678 School Sisters- painstakingly researching their personal and medical histories, testing them for cognitive function and even dissecting their brains after death. Over the years, as he explains in Aging with Grace, a moving, intensely personal account of his research, Snowdon and his colleagues have teased out a series of intriguing-and quite revealing-links between lifestyle and Alzheimers. Adapted from Time, May 14, 2001 The word them, in the phrase testing them for cognitive function (in bold), refers to: