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Ano: 2022
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
UNB
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - UNB - Vestibular - Inglês |
Q2032742
Inglês
Texto associado
Freedom is a general term, like liberty, independence,
autonomy, and equality. In reality, freedom cannot be absolute;
no one can be completely free. Your talents, family situation, job,
wealth, cultural norms, and laws against murder, for example,
constrain and circumscribe your choices. And then there is the
freedom of others, which necessarily limits yours.
Broadly speaking, your rights, whatever they may be,
define the limits to your freedom. In the Western tradition of
freedom, these are your civil and political rights, including your
freedom of speech, religion, and association. Some philosophers
see these not only as morally justified rights in themselves, but
also as the means for fulfilling other possible rights, like
happiness.
The international justification for your freedom is by
reference to human rights, those due to you as a human being and
object of international conventions. The most basic of all these
rights are those defining what governments cannot do to you. In
effect, these human rights define what many mean by democratic
freedom. Your freedom of thought, expression, religion,
association, is basic, as are the secret ballot, periodic elections,
and the right to representation. In short, these rights say that you
have a right to be free. This is universal: we all have
internationally defined and protected human rights.
Rudolph Joseph Rummel. Why should you be
free?.Internet:<www.hawaii.edu> (adapted).
Judge the follow item concerning the ideas and linguistic features of the previous text.
In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the words “others” and “yours” are both in their plural form.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CECIERJ
Órgão:
CEDERJ
Prova:
CECIERJ - 2021 - CEDERJ - Vestibular - Língua Inglesa - 2022.1 |
Q1859703
Inglês
TEXT 2
Available from: www.nature.com/naturemedicine. Access: 10 Oct. 2021. Adapted.
The linking word “although” (underlined in two sentences of the text) establishes a contrast
between ideas, and it may be replaced by “but”. The alternative which correctly expresses the
ideas which are contrasted in the two sentences is:
Ano: 2020
Banca:
FGV
Órgão:
FGV
Prova:
FGV - 2020 - FGV - Graduação em Economia - Inglês e Física - 1° Dia |
Q1796824
Inglês
Texto associado
Read the text to answer question.
The aliens among us
Humans think of themselves as the world’s apex predators. Hence the silence of sabre-tooth tigers,
the absence of moas from New Zealand and the long list of endangered megafauna. But sars-cov-2
shows how people can also end up as prey. Viruses have caused a litany of modern pandemics, from
Covid-19, to hiv/aids to the influenza outbreak in 1918-20, which killed many more people than the first
world war. Before that, the colonisation of the Americas by Europeans was abetted – and perhaps made
possible – by epidemics of smallpox, measles and influenza brought unwittingly by the invaders, which
annihilated many of the original inhabitants.
(www.economist.com, 22.08.2020. Adapted.)
In the fragment “epidemics of smallpox, measles and influenza brought unwittingly by the invaders”,
the underlined word can be replaced, with no change in meaning, by
Ano: 2020
Banca:
FGV
Órgão:
FGV
Prova:
FGV - 2020 - FGV - Graduação em Economia - Inglês e Física - 1° Dia |
Q1796822
Inglês
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Read the text to answer question.
The aliens among us
Humans think of themselves as the world’s apex predators. Hence the silence of sabre-tooth tigers,
the absence of moas from New Zealand and the long list of endangered megafauna. But sars-cov-2
shows how people can also end up as prey. Viruses have caused a litany of modern pandemics, from
Covid-19, to hiv/aids to the influenza outbreak in 1918-20, which killed many more people than the first
world war. Before that, the colonisation of the Americas by Europeans was abetted – and perhaps made
possible – by epidemics of smallpox, measles and influenza brought unwittingly by the invaders, which
annihilated many of the original inhabitants.
(www.economist.com, 22.08.2020. Adapted.)
In the second sentence in the text, the term “hence” can be replaced, with no change in meaning, by
Q1705834
Inglês
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Social Distancing, Without the Police
Letting members of the community enforce social
distancing is the better way.
Of the 125 people arrested over offenses that law
enforcement officials described as related to the
coronavirus pandemic, 113 were black or Hispanic. Of
the 374 summonses from March 16 to May 5, a vast
majority — 300 — were given to black and Hispanic
New Yorkers.
Videos of some of the arrests are hard to watch. In
one posted to Facebook last week, a group of some
six police officers are seen tackling a black woman in a
subway station as heryoung child looks on. “She's got
a baby with her!” a bystander shouts. Police officials
told The Daily News the woman had refused to comply
when officers directed her to put the mask she was
wearing over her nose and mouth.
Contrast that with photographs across social
media showing crowds of sun-seekers packed into
parks in wealthy, whiter areas of the city, lounging
undisturbed as police officers hand out masks.
So it is obvious that the city needs a different
approach to enforcing public health measures during
the pandemic. Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to
understand this, and he has promised to hire 2,300
people to serve as social distancing “ambassadors.”
Hopefully, the mayor will think bigger.
One promising idea , promoted by City
Councilman Brad Lander and others, is to build
quickly a kind of “public health corps" to enforce
social-distancing measures.
In this approach, specially trained civilians could
fan out across the neighborhoods and parks, helping
with pedestrian traffic control and politely encouraging
New Yorkers entering parks to protect one another by
wearing masks and keeping their distance. Police
Department school safety agents, who are not armed,
could help. Such a program could also provide muchneeded employment for young people, especially with
New York's summer jobs program, which serves
people 14 to 24, threatened by budget cuts.
Another method to help social-distancing efforts
may be the community-based groups that have been
effective in reducing gun violence in some of the city's
toughest neighborhoods.
The Police Department would play only a minimal
role in this approach, stepping in to help with crowd
control, for example, something it does extremely
well.
Without a significant course correction, the
department's role in the pandemic may look more and
more like stop-and-frisk, the policing tactic that led to
the harassment of hundreds of thousands of innocent
people, most of them black and Hispanic, while rarely
touching white New Yorkers. Mr. de Blasio has scoffed
at the comparison, though it's not clear why.
Aggressive police enforcement of socialdistancing measures is nearly certain to harm the
health and dignity of the city's black and Hispanic
residents.
It could also diminish respect for the Police
Department. Which is why it makes sense that the
city's largest police union has said that its members
want little to do with social-distancing enforcement.
“The N.Y.P.D. needs to get cops out of the socialdistancing-enforcement business altogether,” Patrick
Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent
Association, said in a statement on May 4. On this
issue, Mr. Lynch gets it.
New York is facing a public health crisis, not a
spike in crime. Black and Hispanic New Yorkers are
already suffering disproportionately from the
coronavirus. They don't need more policing. They
need more help.
Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/nypdcoronavirus-arrests-nyc.html. Accessed May 18,2020.
The adverb that best conveys the of the
underlined word in the sentence "Hopefully, the
mayor will think bigger" (paragraph 5) is: