PUC/SP – 2012 – VESTIBULAR VERÃO – LÍNGUA INGLESA – PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO – PROVA COM GABARITO.

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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: PUC/SP-2012-VESTIBULAR-VERÃO.

➧ PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 05 Questões do tipo (A,B,C,D).

➧ GABARITO:

01-B, 02-D, 03-E, 04-C, 05-C

➧ PROVA:

➧ TEXT I: Leia o texto para responder às questões de números 01 a 05.

Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km beneath the Amazon
Scientists estimate the subterranean river may be 6,000km long and hundreds of times wider than the Amazon

Alok Jha, science correspondent guardian.co.uk Friday, 26 August 2011

An aerial view of the Amazon river.
Photograph: Frans Lanting/Corbis

Covering more than 7 million square kilometres in South America, the Amazon basin is one of the biggest and most impressive river systems in the world. But it turns out we have only known half the story until now.

Brazilian scientists have found a new river in the Amazon basin – around 4km underneath the Amazon river. The Hamza river, named after the head of the team of researchers who found the groundwater flow, appears to be as long as the Amazon river but up to hundreds of times wider. Both the Amazon and Hamza flow from west to east and are around the same length, at 6,000km. But whereas the Amazon ranges from 1km to 100km in width, the Hamza ranges from 200km to 400km. The underground river starts in the Acre region under the Andes and flows through the Solimões, Amazonas and Marajó basins before opening out directly into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Amazon flows much faster than the Hamza, however, draining a greater volume of water. 3 Around 133,000m of water flow through the Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km beneath the Amazon Scientists estimate the subterranean river may be 6,000km long and hundreds of times wider than the Amazon Alok Jha, science correspondent guardian.co.uk Friday, 26 August 2011 An aerial view of the Amazon river. Photograph: Frans Lanting/Corbis Amazon per second at speeds of up to 5 metres per second. The underground river's flow rate has been 3 estimated at around 3,900m per second and it barely inches along at less than a millimetre per hour.

The Hamza was located using data collected inside a series of 241 abandoned deep wells that were drilled in the Amazon region by the petrochemical company Petrobras in the 1970s and 1980s. Elizabeth Tavares Pimentel and Valiya Hamza of the Department of Geophysics at Brazil's National Observatory led the work and presented their results last week at the International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysics Society in Rio de Janeiro.

According to the researchers, the presence of the Hamza river might account for the relatively low salinity of the waters around the mouth of the Amazon. Professor Hamza said Pimentel's measurements represented preliminary work on the discovery of the new river, but Hamza said he expected to confirm the existence of the flow with additional measurements within the next few years.

01 – (PUC/SP-2012-VESTIBULAR VERÃO)

Segundo o texto,

(A) o rio Hamza é um afluente do rio Solimões, que se torna subterrâneo no trecho entre o Rio Amazonas e a ilha de Marajó.
(B) o Rio Hamza tem comprimento similar ao do rio Amazonas, porém é muito mais largo.
(C) o rio Hamza corre em paralelo com o rio Amazonas a uma profundidade de 400 metros abaixo de seu leito.
(D) o fluxo do rio Amazonas é bastante lento comparado ao do rio Hamza.
(E) as águas pluviais são filtradas pelo solo e alimentam tanto o rio Hamza como o rio Amazonas.

02 – (PUC/SP-2011-VESTIBULAR VERÃO)

O rio Hamza

(A) foi descoberto por pesquisadores da Sociedade Brasileira de Geofísica.
(B) foi considerado o maior rio do mundo pelo Observatório Nacional do Brasil.
(C) tem este nome em homenagem a um cientista que morreu durante as pesquisas.
(D) foi localizado a partir de poços abandonados da Petrobras.
(E) nasce nas geleiras da cordilheira dos Andes.

03 – (PUC/SP-2011-VESTIBULAR VERÃO)

The flow of the Hamza river

(A) has already been demonstrated by the researchers.
(B) can be questioned because the water is salty and too close to the ocean.
(C) has been shown in pictures during the international congress.
(D) has been already identified in the 70's and 80's.
(E) is yet to be confirmed by additional measurements.

04 – (PUC/SP-2011-VESTIBULAR VERÃO)

No trecho do segundo parágrafo

– But whereas the Amazon ranges from 1 km to 100km in width, the Hamza ranges from 200km to 400km. –

a palavra whereas pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por

a) whenever.
b) wherever.
c) while.
d) however.
e) which.

05 – (PUC/SP-2011-VESTIBULAR VERÃO)

No trecho do último parágrafo

– According to the researchers, the presence of the Rio Hamza river might account for the relatively low salinity of the waters around the mouth of the Amazon. –

a palavra might pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por

a) has to.
b) will.
c) could.
d) ought to.
e) is going to.