Questões de Inglês - PUC 2006 | Gabarito e resoluções

(PUC Minas - 2006) TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG The web log or blog, where internet pioneers first recorded their daily lives in on-line diaries, has been a significant part of the internet since 1999, when a software from blogger.com put blogging within the reach of all web-users, no matter how limited their technical skills. There are now as many as a million blogs out there in cyberspace. But last year the blog experienced a Cinderella-like transformation due to a young Iraqi architecture graduate writing under the pseudonym Salam Pax. His blog, Where is Raed?, providing an eyewitness account of life in Baghdad during and after the final months of the Saddam regime, became extremely popular for a huge international audience. It finally gave the web log, according to Richard Clark, the editor of Web User, the UKs best-selling internet magazine, the prominence it deserves. Salam Pax has created a precedent many people hope will be followed. But in reality, few blogs provide insight on global events. For many bloggers, the objective is simply to entertain. In the vast world of blogs - 1which now includes photoblogs for amateur photographers and moblogs, updated in real time with photos from mobile phones - Richard Clarks own personal favorites are chosen 2for their literary appeal. His regular reads include a cynical account of working life as a manager in a call centre, an Australian students views on British culture and the difficulties of a British woman in Belgium with what she claims is an intensely annoying boyfriend. To find the blogs that amuse you, he recommends following the links on the page of a popular blog: most bloggers compulsively link to other blogs, but there are also lots of sites that list blogs according to popularity. If, 3on the other hand, you actually want to make your own contribution to the blogging universe, Clark advises you to make sure theyre interesting and to update them regularly - ideally, every day, or every two days - because thats the only reason people come back. (FROM: Speak Up, April 2004. Adapted) The word WHICH in which now includes... (ref. 1) refers to

(PUC-PR - 2006) Im sorry, but I _____ able to meet you for lunch tomorrow.

(PUC-Rio -2006) Orkut is a virtual community designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Today, virtual community is loosely used and interpreted to indicate a variety of social groups connected in some ways by the Internet. 8It does not necessarily mean that there is a strong bond among the members. 2An email distribution list on Star Trek may have close to one hundred members, 3and the communication 9which takes place there could be either one-way (the list owner making announcements) or merely informational (questions and answers are posted, but members stay relatively strangers and uninterested to each other). The membership turnover rate could be high. This is in line with the liberal use of the term community. 5Similar to Friendster, Orkut goes a step further by permitting communities of users. It is also invitation-only: 4Users must be invited to join the community by someone already there. Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google, the search engine company. The service was created by Google employee Orkut Bykkokten, 10who had developed a similar system, InCircle, for 11his previous employer, Affinity Engines. 6InCircle was intended for use by 13former university students. With regard to copyrights, their terms of service 14state: By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the Orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a 15worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, 16irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials. 1Originally, the Orkut community was felt to be elite, because 12its membership is by invitation only. However, at the end of July 2004 Orkut surpassed the 1,000,000 member mark, and at the end of September it surpassed the 2,000,000 mark. As of September 2004, 57% of Orkuts members were from Brazil, followed by 14% from the United States and 6% from Iran. Brazilians were below 50% from August 9 to August 20, 2004. It is believed that this happened because 7a lot of them changed their nationality to something else due to a rumor that users with their countries set 18to Brazil got slower speeds and a greater chance of getting an error page. Invitations to Orkut are obtainable, with a few minutes (or days) worth of diligence, 17via the web. From http://www.whatis.tv/Orkut.html (with slight adaptations) The passive voice is used in Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004. Find the sentence that is also in the passive voice.

(PUC-Rio -2006) KIDS AND TV: PARENTS DONT PRACTICE WHAT EXPERTS PREACH One-third of the youngest children in the United States - babies through age 6 - 20live in homes where the television is on almost all the time, says a study that 2highlights the immense disconnect between what pediatricians advise and what parents allow. TV in the bedroom is not even that rare for the youngest children anymore. Almost one child in five under 2 has a set, even though the American Academy of Pediatrics advises against any TV watching at that age. Eight in 10 children younger than 6 watch TV, play video games or use the computer on a typical day. They average about two hours of screen time, compared with 48 minutes when they are being read to, the 14Kaiser Family Foundation concludes in a study released Wednesday. The number of youngsters glued to the screen has not changed much since the foundations first report on the topic in 2003. However, in this follow-up, Kaiser asked parents - in a survey and in focus-group sessions - why they and their children use TV and other electronic media the way 8they do. Instead, a generation of parents raised on TV is largely encouraging the early use of television, video games and computers by their own children, often starting in infancy. These parents say TV teaches how to share and the ABCs when they do not have the time. Television 3provides time for parents to cook or take a shower. 1They use screen time as a reward or, paradoxically, to help kids wind down at bedtime. 7Despite studies that link bedroom TVs to kids sleep problems, the most common reason cited for giving children their own set was that 9it freed up other TVs so parents or their other children could watch shows of their choice. The report by 15the California-based foundation, 10which analyzes health care 4issues, comes at a time of great debate about the impact of TV and other multimedia on youngsters. Just last week, 16specialists called together by the National Institutes of Health urged more research on how electronic media affect children at different ages. Those specialists sigh at the notion that parents could not get by without TV. People have made dinner for millennia, but weve only had television for 50 years, said Dr. Dimitri Christakas of the University of Washington. Televisions not inherently good or bad. ... The real 5goal now has to be not to de-technologize childhood, but how to optimize childrens experiences with 11it. The pediatrics group recommends no TV or other electronic media for kids younger than 2 - advice that just 26 percent of parents followed, Kaiser found - and no more than two hours of total screen time daily for older children. 17The organization is not anti-TV, said 18Dr. Daniel Broughton of the Mayo Clinic, an academy member who co-wrote the recommendations. But before age 2 is the time of the brains most rapid development, and interaction - the live give-and-take that TV cannot provide - is crucial during that period, he said. Some studies also link TV watching at younger ages to youngsters attention disorders. After a child reaches 2, the idea is to 6balance a little TV with riding bikes, playing with friends, household chores and the other activities of childhood, Broughton said. We want parents to watch with their kids, he added. 13One reason is that viewing ethnic stereotypes or bad behavior on TV can become instructive, when parents explain why children should not copy what 12they saw. Adapted from http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/parenting. May 24, 2006 In the expression (...) live in homes where the television is on almost all the time (ref. 20), where could be rephrased CORRECTLY with:

(PUC-Rio - 2006) Orkut is a virtual community designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Today, virtual community is loosely used and interpreted to indicate a variety of social groups connected in some ways by the Internet. 8It does not necessarily mean that there is a strong bond among the members. 2An email distribution list on Star Trek may have close to one hundred members, 3and the communication 9which takes place there could be either one-way (the list owner making announcements) or merely informational (questions and answers are posted, but members stay relatively strangers and uninterested to each other). The membership turnover rate could be high. This is in line with the liberal use of the term community. 5Similar to Friendster, Orkut goes a step further by permitting communities of users. It is also invitation-only: 4Users must be invited to join the community by someone already there. Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google, the search engine company. The service was created by Google employee Orkut Bykkokten, 10who had developed a similar system, InCircle, for 11his previous employer, Affinity Engines. 6InCircle was intended for use by 13former university students. With regard to copyrights, their terms of service 14state: By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the Orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a 15worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, 16irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials. 1Originally, the Orkut community was felt to be elite, because 12its membership is by invitation only. However, at the end of July 2004 Orkut surpassed the 1,000,000 member mark, and at the end of September it surpassed the 2,000,000 mark. As of September 2004, 57% of Orkuts members were from Brazil, followed by 14% from the United States and 6% from Iran. Brazilians were below 50% from August 9 to August 20, 2004. It is believed that this happened because 7a lot of them changed their nationality to something else due to a rumor that users with their countries set 18to Brazil got slower speeds and a greater chance of getting an error page. Invitations to Orkut are obtainable, with a few minutes (or days) worth of diligence, 17via the web. From http://www.whatis.tv/Orkut.html (with slight adaptations) Mark the only correct statement.

(Pucpr 2006) When Carlos has a headache, he ______ some tea.