Questões de Inglês - UNICAMP | Gabarito e resoluções

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 FASE - 2 dia de aplicao) A situao abaixo ocorreu em uma entrevista com a atriz Scarlett Johansson e o ator Robert Downey Junior, que atuaram juntos em um filme. (Disponvel em https://www.cracked.com/blog/14-epic-comebacks-stars-gave-tostupid-interview-questions/. Acessado em 25/06/20.) Em sua resposta, a atriz

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 fase) (Disponvel em https://toonhole.com/comic/what-would-you-like-for-christmas. Acessado em 30/07/2020) Ao reformular a sua pergunta, o Papai Noel

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 fase) A pgina Greengo Dictionary apresenta, em ingls, interpretaes bem-humoradas de expresses do portugus do Brasil. (Disponvel em https://www.instagram.com/greengodictionary. Acessado em 26/05/2020). Pode-se dizer que a expresso little lecture

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 FASE - 2 dia de aplicao) Os tweets abaixo remetem ao contexto do trabalho domiciliar durante o perodo de isolamento social. (Disponvel em https://twitter.com/ajdewerd/status/1237495536036581379. Acessado em 30/07/2020.) A resposta de Andrea ao tweet de Julieanne

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 fase) Em uma entrevista, a escritora nigeriana Ayobami Adebayo refletiu sobre os personagens principais (Yejide e Akin) e o contexto sociopoltico de seu romance Stay With Me. While writing, I also started thinking about the middle class in Nigeria. When Yejide visits her mother-in-law, theres a very low fence in front of their house. Its barely a fence. When Yejide and Akin build their own house in the early nineties, they erect a fence thats higher than the house. You cant see inside. That was something I observed about architecture in Nigeriathat at some point, probably in the eighties and nineties, when things became quite turbulent and there was all of this insecurity, one of the ways the people who could afford to insulate themselves against what was going on did was to build higher fences, to use money as a shield in a sense. I wanted that political turbulence to play in the background. (Adaptado de https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/08/08/great-expectations -interview-ayobami-adebayo/. Acessado em 21/07/2020.) Segundo a autora, as casas e as cercas na Nigria representam

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 FASE - 2 dia de aplicao) A curious item was found among Beethovens effects, locked away in a drawer, at the time of his death: three letters, written but apparently never sent (they may have been sent but returned to him), to the Immortal Beloved. The content, which varies from high-flown poetic sentiments to banal complaints about his health and discomfort, makes it clear that this is no literary exercise but was intended for a real person. The month and day of the week are given, but not the year. The periods 180102, 180607, and 181112 have been proposed, but the last is the most probable. The most cogent arguments regarding the identity of the person addressed, those by Maynard Solomon, point to Antonie Brentano, a native Viennese, who was the wife of a Frankfurt merchant and sister-in-law to Beethoven familiar Bettina Brentano. (Adaptado de https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-van-Beethoven. Acessado em 29/07/20.) A partir do contedo do texto, pode-se afirmar que

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 fase) Apresenta-se, a seguir, um artigo de opinio, seguido da resposta de uma leitora. IS BURNOUT REAL? Last week, the World Health Organization upgraded burnout from a state of exhaustion to a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress in its International Disease Classification. That is such a broad definition that it could well apply to most people at some point in their working lives. When a disorder is reportedly so widespread, it makes me wonder whether we are at risk of medicalizing everyday distress. If almost everyone suffers from burnout, then no one does, and the concept loses all credibility. By Richard A. Friedman Im sure the authors generation also experienced workplace stress. However, his generation also experienced real economic stability and socioeconomic gains. There was a light at the end of the tunnel. Currently, we are working tirelessly towards what ends? There doesnt seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. The burnout is psychological and existential as much as it is physical. Anna B. New York, June 4, 2019 (Adaptado de https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/opinion/burnout-stress.html. Acessado em 16/09/2020.) Em seu comentrio, a leitora Anna B. discorda do autor do texto quanto

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 FASE - 2 dia de aplicao) Catherine Fletcher, Tue 4 Feb 2020 The decision by a UK University to close history, modern languages and politics degrees in favour of more careerfocused courses has been widely criticised. The problem lies in reducing university education to what sells to employers. A society and a world urgently needs people who have the education to think about big issues, which arent only scientific or technological: theyre also about the ways that people have made, and continue to make, decisions. The humanities matter. And it matters that students from all backgrounds have the opportunity to join in these world-changing discussions. Roger Brown, Mon 10 Feb 2020 Catherine Fletcher is completely correct to warn about the damage that current policies are doing to the humanities. But her warning comes much too late. As I and other scholars have shown, the problem started with a government green paper which declared that the fundamental purpose of higher education was to serve the economy. Until we recover the idea that higher education is as much about the public good as anything else, we will never be able to sustain the humanities as an essential component of a balanced curriculum. Unfortunately, there is very little sign that this has been grasped by any of our current policymakers. (Adaptado de www.theguardian.com/education/2020/feb/10/humanities-are-notthe-right-courses-to-cut. Acessado em 22/05/2019.) Os textos acima concordam quanto identificao de um problema nos cursos universitrios no Reino Unido, mas divergem quanto

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 FASE - 2 dia de aplicao) OUR WORD OF THE YEAR FOR 2019 IS THEY English lacks a gender-neutral singular pronoun to correspond with singular pronouns like everyone or someone, and as a consequence they has been used for this purpose for over 600 years. Recentlythough, they has also been used to refer to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary, a sense that is increasingly common in published text, social media, and in daily personal interactions between English speakers. Theres no doubt that its use is established in the English language, which is why it was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in September of 2019. Nonbinary they was also prominent in the news in 2019. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA) revealed in April that her child is gender-nonconforming and uses they. And the American Psychological Associations blog officially recommended that singular they be preferred in professional writing over he or she when the reference is to a person whose gender is unknown or to a person who prefers they. (Adaptado de https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year/ they. Acessado em 29/04/2020.) De acordo com o texto, o fato de uma palavra simples, como o pronome they, ter sido escolhida como a palavra do ano de 2019 se justifica pela necessidade de

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 fase) All aboard the flat earth cruise just dont tell them about nautical navigation A group of people who believe the Earth is flat have announced their boldest adventure yet: a Flat Earth cruise scheduled for 2020. Flat earthers will enjoy swimming pools and perhaps even an artificial surf wave. Theres just one problem for those celebrating the flatness of the Earth. The navigational systems cruise ships, and other vessels, use rely on the fact that the Earth is not flat. Nautical charts are designed with that in mind: that the Earth is round. GPS relies on 24 main satellites which orbit the Earth to provide positional and navigational information. The reason why 24 satellites were used is because of the curvature of the Earth, said Henk Keijer, a former cruise ship captain who sailed all over the globe during a 23-year career. At least three satellites are required to determine a position. But someone located on the other side of the Earth would also like to know their position, so they also require a certain number of satellites. Had the Earth been flat, a total of three satellites would have been enough to provide this information to everyone on Earth. But it is not enough, because the Earth is round. (Adaptado de https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/09/flat-earth-cruisenautical-navigation. Acessado em 20/08/2020.) A respeito do fato noticiado, o autor do texto ressalta

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 FASE - 2 dia de aplicao) O cartaz reproduzido a seguir faz parte de uma campanha da Organizao Pan-Americana da Sade. (Disponvel em https://www.paho.org/en/topics/violence-against-women. Acessado em 24/08/2020.) Qual das medidas abaixo recomendada no cartaz?

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 fase) (Disponvel em https://www.who.int/reproductive/health/publications/covid-19-vaw-infographics/en. Acessado em 01/08/2020) O cartaz anterior, divulgado pela Organizao Mundial da Sade no contexto da atual pandemia, destaca o papel dos governos em

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 fase) Reproduz-se abaixo uma carta do poeta ingls John Keats a sua amada Fanny Brawne. Sweetest Fanny, When you passed my window home yesterday, I was filled with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time. You uttered a half complaint once that I only loved your Beauty. Have I nothing else then to love in you but that? Do not I see your heart? Nothing has been able to turn your thoughts a moment from me. Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you: how much more deeply then must I feel for you knowing you love me. My Mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses. Your affectionate, J. Keats (Adaptado de http://www.john-keats.com/briefe/. Acessado em 25/08/20.) O autor da carta

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 FASE - 2 dia de aplicao) There Will Come Soft Rains (Sara Teasdale) There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone. (Disponvel em https://poets.org/poem/there-will-come-soft-rains. Acessado em 24/08/2020.) O poema destaca

(UNICAMP - 2021 - 1 FASE - 2 dia de aplicao) The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector By Terrence Rafferty July 27, 2015 Theres a whiff of madness in the fiction of Clarice Lispector. The Complete Stories of the Brazilian writer, edited by Benjamin Moser and sensitively translated by Katrina Dodson, is a dangerous book to read quickly or casually because its so consistently delirious. Sentence by sentence, page by page, Lispector is exhilaratingly,arrestingly strange, but her perceptions come so fast, veer so wildly between the mundane and the metaphysical, that after a while you dont know where you are, either in the book or in the world. So its best to approach her with some caution. For the ordinary reader that is to say, for most of us immersion in the teeming mind of Clarice Lispector can be an exhausting, even a deranging, experience, not to be undertaken lightly. (Pack food, water, a first aid kit and plenty of sunblock.) Her stories are full of strange words, in strange combinations, and her Complete Stories is a remarkable book, proof that she was in the company of Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo and her 19th-century countryman Machado de Assis one of the true originals of Latin American literature. THE COMPLETE STORIES By Clarice Lispector Edited by Benjamin Moser Translated by Katrina Dodson 645 pp. New Directions. $28.95. (Adaptado de https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/books/review/the-completestories-by-clarice-lispector.html. Acessado em 21/07/20.) No texto acima, o livro de Clarice Lispector recebe uma crtica