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Australia debates nuclear waste
The Stuart Highway runs through Tennant Creek in
Australia’s Northern Territory
Aboriginal groups are to debate controversial plans
to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on tribal
land in the Northern Territory.
The federal government has identified a remote
5 cattle station north of Tennant Creek as a likely site.
In the next six years nuclear waste that Australia
sent to Europe for reprocessing will be returned but
officials in Canberra have yet to decide where to put it.
Muckaty Station, an isolated property 120
10 kilometers from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory,
has been chosen as a possible site. Local aborigines
have offered to sell the land for $11,000,000, a move that
has infuriated other indigenous groups in the area, who
worry about the health and environmental implications.
These conflicting views are expected to collide at
a public meeting that will be held in Tennant Creek, an
old gold-mining town south of Darwin. Australian Greens
Senator Scott Ludlam says the plan to build a radioactive
waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive.
Australia’s federal government said that Muckaty
Station would be subject to thorough scientific and
environmental assessments. Ministers have indicated
that the nuclear dump won’t be built if landowners oppose
it.
Critics believe that recent earthquakes in that part
of the Northern Territory have raised questions about the
safety of the sites. The Australian Greens have said that
radioactive waste should be stored at the country’s only
nuclear facility on the outskirts of Sydney.
- MERCER, Phil. Australia debates nuclear waste. Disponível em:<www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/03/100303_witn_aborigine.shtml>. Acesso em:30 set. 2010.
01 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).
It’s stated in the text:
( ) Aboriginal groups in Australia have already reached an
agreement as to where to dispose of their nuclear waste.
( ) A possible site for dumping the waste, Muckaty Station, is
located a long way from other towns and population
centers in Australia.
( ) Local aborigines want to sell that piece of land for over
ten million dollars.
( ) The plan to build a radioactive waste dump in the region
has been causing strong disagreement within the
community.
According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom,
is
A) T F T F
B) T F T T
C) F T F T
D) F T T T
E) T T T T
Comentários e Gabarito D
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02 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) Australia has sent nuclear waste to Europe in order that
A) they can get rid of that dangerous stuff.
B) it can be treated and safely used again.
C) Australians give up using nuclear energy.
D) Europeans advise the country on the best use of nuclear
power.
E) it can be dumped in safer sites in that continent.
Comentários e Gabarito B
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03 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) Some indigenous groups _____ that the building of a nuclear
waste dump in the area _________ the environment.
According to what is mentioned in paragraph 4, the only
alternative that completes the blanks incorrectly is
A) believe — might harm.
B) fear — may damage.
C) consider — won’t spoil.
D) don’t think — will be harmless.
E) are afraid — could be harmful for.
Comentários e Gabarito C
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04 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) Australian government ministers have stated that
A) they are against the building of nuclear waste dump in
Muckaty Station.
B) the area in question will be carefully evaluated to find out
if it’s suitable for the nuclear waste dump.
C) the nuclear waste dump must be built even if the
community disagrees about that.
D) all the indigenous groups consulted have nothing against
the building of the waste dump in that area.
E) the aboriginal groups will profit a lot from the sale of their
land to the government.
Comentários e Gabarito B
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05 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) The adjective “thorough” (l. 21) is closest in meaning to
A) formal.
B) detailed.
C) careless.
D) practical.
E) optimistic.
Comentários e Gabarito B
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06 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2)
- “the nuclear dump won’t be built if landowners oppose it.”
(l. 23-24)
This sentence expresses
A) doubt.
B) improbability.
C) real possibility in the future.
D) unreal possibility in the past.
E) unreal possibility in the present.
Comentários e Gabarito C
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07 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).
( ) The verb form “are to debate” (l. 1) refers to future time.
( ) The relative pronoun “who” (l. 13) refers to “other
indigenous groups” (l. 13).
( ) The word “These” (l. 15) is in the singular form.
( ) The modal “should” (l. 28) expresses prohibition.
Considering language use in the text, the correct sequence,
from top to bottom, is
A) F F T T
B) F T F T
C) T T F F
D) T F T F
E) T T T T
Comentários e Gabarito C
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❑ TEXTO:
Immigration in the United States
Immigrants are good for our economy. The most
skilled create jobs in technology and engineering, says
Duke professor Vivek Wadhwa, who estimates that in
2005 immigrant-founded engineering and tech companies
5 employed 450,000 people and generated $52 billion in
sales. But even the least skilled more than repay their
costs in school and health care. Two highly respected
Australian economists, Maureen Rimmer and Peter
Dixon, studied the issue for the libertarian Cato Institute. “The net impact on U.S. households from tighter border
enforcement is unambiguously negative,” they found,
because even low-skilled immigrants expand the
economic pie and create jobs farther up the ladder. Cato’s dan Griswold says the study shows a $250 billion difference between the most and least restrictive
immigration policies.
- IMMIGRATION in the United States. Newsweek, Ang. 24 & 31, 2009. p.53.
* “enforcement” (l. 11): cumprimento de uma lei.
08 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) The main idea of this text is in alternative
(A) The United States’ policy on immigration
(B) Immigrants make more jobs than they take.
(C) Immigration contributes to rising health care costs.
(D) Rules governing immigration into the United States.
(E) How to make foreigners obey immigration laws.
Comentários e Gabarito B
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09 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) Professor Vivek Wadhwa says that, in 2005, some
immigrant-founded companies
(A) went bankrupt.
(B) were highly profitable.
(C) gave jobs to very few people.
(D) had a damaging effect on small businesses.
(E) had to close because of unfair competition.
Comentários e Gabarito B
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10 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2011.2) The only alternative in which there IS NOT a pair of opposites
is
(A) “good” (l. 1) — bad.
(B) “The most” (l. 1) — The least.
(C) “skilled” (l. 2) — talented.
(D) “tighter” (l. 10) — looser.
(E) “up” (l. 13) — down.
Comentários e Gabarito C
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