Advérbios de frequência – Simulado Enem de Inglês com 10 questões

(UDESC SC/2008)

Ningaloo Reef

Take a dive with hundreds of tropical fish, colorful coral and the world’s biggest fish, the whale shark, at unspoilt Ningaloo Reef.

The reef on Western Australia’s mid north coast, has gained an impressive reputation as one of Earth’s last ocean paradise.

It’s one of the largest fringing reefs in the world and unlike¹ many others; you can get to it just by stepping off the beach.

The marine park stretches 260 kilometers from Bundegi Reef near the town of Exmouth to Amherst Point near Coral Bay in the south.

It reaches nearly 20 kilometers seaward, encompassing a massive 5,000 square kilometers of ocean with 500 species of tropical fish and 220 species of coral in all.

Nothing can compare to the thrill of swimming beside a whale shark. These docile creatures visit the reef each year between April and June.

Rare turtle species hatch here in late January and February. Watch this amazing natural phenomenon on special guided, eco-interactive trails.

Accommodation in the area is comfortable and ranges from camping and backpacker style to chalets, motels, eco-retreats and self catering apartments.

It’s not all about the water at Ningaloo go four wheel driving² to Cape Range National Park to see amazing red rock canyons and gorges.

Getting there is easy take a two hour flight³ north of Perth, or give yourself two days to drive there from the capital.

(www.westernaustralia.com)

According to the text:

four wheel, in four wheel driving (ref.2); two hour; in two hour flight (ref.3); are:

(UFMS/1998)

Assinale a(s) sentença(s) na(s) qual(is) o advérbio de freqüência está corretamente posicionado.

(UEMG/2013)

The Paradox of Our Times

by Jeff Dickson

The paradox of our times in history is that

We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;

Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less;

We buy more, but enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families;

More conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees, but less sense;

More knowledge, but less judgment;

More experts, but more problems;

More medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly;

Laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly,

Stay up too late, get too tired,

Read too seldom, watch TV too much,

And pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life;

We’ve added years to life, not life to years.

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,

But have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.

We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space;

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;

We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We have higher incomes, but lower morals;

We’ve become long on quantity, but short on quality.

These are the times of tall men, and short character;

Steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;

More leisure, but less fun;

More kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are days of two incomes, but more divorce;

Of fancier houses, but broken homes.

It is a time when there is much in the show window

And nothing in the stockroom;

A time when technology can bring this letter to you,

And a time when you can choose either to make a difference

Or just hit delete.

(www.motivateus.com/stories/paradox.htm – July 2012.)

In the line, “we talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often”, what kind of adverb is seldom?

(ESCS DF/2007)

Germ – Chemo Combo Fights Cancer

Newswise – Bacteria that can cause deadly infections in humans and animals have shown promise in treating cancer by “eating” tumors from the inside out. Now, two new studies at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have demonstrated that, combined with specially-packaged anticancer drugs, the bacterial therapy’s prospects for cancer eradication have dramatically improved.

In mouse experiments reported in the November 24 issue of Science, the Hopkins researchers demonstrated that genetically-modified bacteria called Clostridium novyi-NT (C.novy-NT) have a special taste for oxygen-starved environments much like those found in the core of cancer cell clusters. The modified bacteria themselves are relatively harmless, but their unmodified counterparts produce poisons that have killed some humans and cattle when introduced into the bloodstream…

The combo approach temporarily wiped out both large and small tumors in almost 100 mice and permanently cured more than two-thirds of them.

(adapted from http://interestalert.com/story/11230000aaa0112e.nw/ siteia/MEDICAL1/medical.html)

The underlined word in “permanently cured more than two-thirds of them” can be replaced by:

(ITA/1995)

As an American Express Card member, you will enjoy a relationship with us that goes beyond the ordinary. You will be treated as a MEMBER, not a number. And you will receive the respect and recognition ‘seldom’ found today.

O termo seldom, entre aspas no trecho adiante, poderia ser substituído por:

(UEL/1996)

After 20 years of scientific advances, ‘nearly’ three out of four infertile couples seeking medical assistance to have a child still go home to an empty crib.

In the text bellow, the word nearly means:

(UNESP/1990)

The sun __________ rises in the west.

(UNITAU SP/2016)

How Einstein Discovered General Relativity amid War, Divorce and Rivalry

Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry that almost cost him the glory of his discovery

By Walter Isaacson

The general theory of relativity began with a sudden thought. It was late 1907, two years after the “miracle year” in which Albert Einstein had produced his special theory of relativity and his theory of light quanta, but he was still an examiner in the Swiss patent office. The physics world had not yet caught up with his genius. While sitting in his office in Bern, a thought “startled” him, he recalled: “If a person falls freely, he will not feel his own weight.” He would later call it “the happiest thought in my life.”

The tale of the falling man has become an iconic one, and in some accounts it actually involves a painter who fell from the roof of an apartment building near the patent office. Like other great tales of gravitational discovery—Galileo dropping objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the apple falling on Isaac Newton’s head—it was embellished in popular lore. Despite Einstein’s propensity to focus on science rather than the “merely personal,” even he was not likely to watch a real human plunging off a roof and think of gravitational theory, much less call it the happiest thought in his life.

Disponível em: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-einstein-discovered-general-relativity-amid-war-divorce-and-rivalry/. Acesso em 29/07/15.

Look at the following examples from the text. The words in bold typeface are combinations of verbs and prepositions or adverbs.

“The physics world had not yet caught up with his genius.”

“[…] even he was not likely to watch a real human plunging off a roof and think of gravitational theory […]”

Now match the columns.

(   )  bring on

(   )  fall out

(   )  fix up

(   )  keep up

(   )  leave out

(   )  put off

(   )  write off

1)    We have decided to __________ our trip to the Amazon because of a terrible flooding. (postpone)

2)    Mary, I really don´t want __________ with you about over this! (have an argument)

3)    She has been working so hard! But due to the crisis, I think it will be impossible for her to __________ the place. (maintain)

4)    I always avoid birds. They __________ my terrible allergies. (cause)

5)    Maybe out of superstition, many hotels in America __________floor number 13. (omit)

6)    Although the car was a total __________ after the accident, nobody got hurt. (destroyed)

7)    We haven´t seen each other for ages! We have to __________ a date for lunch! (arrange)

(UEM PR/2016)

Treating sugar addiction like drug abuse

¹ Millions of people globally are overweight or ² obese. With obesity rates on the rise worldwide and ³ excess sugar consumption considered a direct ⁴ contributor, the search has been on for treatments to ⁵ reverse the trend. Now a world-first study led by ⁶ Queensland University of Technology (QUT) may ⁷ have the answer.

⁸ Neuroscientist Professor Selena Bartlett from ⁹ QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation ¹⁰ said the study shows drugs used to treat nicotine ¹¹ addiction could be used to treat sugar addiction in ¹² animals.

¹³ The publication coincides with another paper by the ¹⁴ team which shows that long chronic sugar intake can ¹⁵ cause eating disorders and impact on behaviour.

¹⁶ “The latest World Health Organisation figures tell ¹⁷ us 1.9 billion people worldwide are overweight, with ¹⁸ 600 million considered obese,” said Professor Bartlett.

¹⁹ “Excess sugar consumption has been proven to ²⁰ contribute directly to weight gain. It has also been ²¹ shown to repeatedly elevate dopamine levels which ²² control the brain’s reward and pleasure centres in a way ²³ that is similar to many drugs of abuse including ²⁴ tobacco, cocaine and morphine.

²⁵ “After long-term consumption, this leads to the ²⁶ opposite, a reduction in dopamine levels. This leads to ²⁷ higher consumption of sugar to get the same level of ²⁸ reward.

²⁹ “We have also found that as well as an increased ³⁰ risk of weight gain, animals that maintain high sugar ³¹ consumption and binge eating into adulthood may also ³² face neurological and psychiatric consequences ³³ affecting mood and motivation.

       ³⁴ “Our study found that Food and Drug 35 Administration (FDA) approved drugs which treat ³⁶ nicotine addiction can work the same way when it ³⁷ comes to sugar cravings.”

(Adaptado do texto disponível em <http://www.sciencedaily. com/releases/2016/04/160407111828.htm>. Acesso em 08/04/2016.)

According to text, choose the alternative(s) in which the information about the suffix(es) is correct.

(FATEC SP/2010)

MOORE’S LAW DOESN’T MATTER

Back in 1965, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the semiconductor industry could double the number of transistors on a chip every 12 months (he later amended it to 24 months) for about the same cost. And for half a century, Moore’s Law has held true, making computers cheaper and faster and more powerful. It seems almost that long that experts have been warning that Moore’s Law would eventually run smack into the laws of physics, bringing everyone’s giddy ride to an end. It hasn’t happened yet. Justin Rattner, the chief technology officer at Intel, insists the company can keep doubling the number of transistors on a processor through several more generations of chips over the next decade. The trouble isn’t capacity; it’s speed. A few years ago microprocessors reached 3GHz. You can’t make them faster, or they overheat and start to melt. To solve that problem, the industry began making chips that do several tasks at once, instead of doing a single thing faster and faster. These days we’re seeing dual-core and quad-core chips–in essence, processors with two or four tiny computer engines on a single chip. Within a decade we will likely see chips with 100 cores, maybe even more, Rattner says.

But that raises a new problem: how to put those tiny side-by-side computer engines to good use. The operating systems aren’t set up for it. Neither are the programming languages and development tools. Neither, in fact, are the programmers themselves, who have all grown up writing software to run on a single engine–serially, that is, not in parallel. “For 50 years we’ve done thigs one way, and now we’re changing to a different model,” says Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, which as the biggest maker of operating systems and programming tools is leading the drive to solve the puzzle. It’s the biggest single change Microsoft has ever faced, Mundie says.

Parallel computing has been around for a long time. But it’s mostly been confined to high-end supercomputers. Writing programs for them is incredibly difficult and time-consuming. The challenge now is to make it possibleand cheap–for ordinary programmers to write programs that run in parallel. Mundie predicts big things when (he doesn’t say if) Microsoft works it all out. After all, the human brain is itself a massively parallel computer; writing programs that can operate in parallel is the key to making computers that seem more like us and less like machines. “In a sense we are trying to build a crude approximation of what nature does in your brain,” says 1 Mundie. “Parallelism is the only way I to get there.”

(LYONS, Daniel. Moore’s law doesn’t matter. In: Newsweek, August 2009, p.47)

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