CESGRANRIO-TERMOAÇU-2008-Concurso Público para Engenheiro de Processamento do TERMOAÇU(Usina Termelétrica do Vale do Açu/RN) - Profº Valdenor Sousa - Prova de INGLÊS com gabarito e questões comentadas.

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Hey, what's up my friends!!!...How have you been?! Welcome back to another post!

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Neste post, veremos a Prova de INGLÊS-CESGRANRIO-2008 da TERMOAÇU(Usina Termelétrica do Vale do Açu/RN)-Cargo:Engenheiro de Processamento-Prova aplicada em 01/01/2008.

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LEITURA de textos de jornais,revistas, websites, blogs e cartoons a seguir, é um excelente treino para a prova OBJETIVA de inglês com 10 questões.

➦www.theguardian.com
➦www.nytimes.com
➦www.sciencenews.org
➦www.psychologytoday.com
➦www.economist.com

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[a]Banca Organizadora do Concurso Público 

www.cesgranrio.org.br

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[b]Padrão/Composição da prova 

➦01 Texto.
➦10 Questões(múltiplas escolhas com 05 alternativas cada)
➦Reading Comprehension(Compreensão textual).

➦Use of english(uso do inglês).

👉  TEXTO   "Alarming UN report on climate change too rosy, many say" (Relatório alarmante da ONU sobre as mudanças climáticas também corajoso, muitos dizem) 
[c]Dicionários sugestivos

Caso necessário, sugiro que consulte um dos 04(três) excelentes dicionários a seguir:

http://www.merriam-webster.com
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
[d]VOCABULÁRIO:

🔄Verbos
[to "]

🔄Phrasal Verbs:

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🔄Expressões verbais com o TO BE(simple present/simple past/simple future/ be going to/present continuous/past continuous/future continuous):

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🔄Expressões verbais no PERFECT TENSE(present perfect/past perfect/present perfect continuous/past perfect continuous):
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🔄Expressões com os 10 modais(can/could/may/might/must/ought to/should/would/will/shall):
["]
🔄Expressões com 30 verbos que transmitem ideia que ALGO CAIU, DESPENCOU, DECLINOU, REDUZIU, ENFRAQUECEU, AFOGOU (fall/flop/faint/drop/droop/down/ decrease/decline/diminish/dwindle/dip/dive/duck/ease/ebb/gasp/lower/mitigate/ plunge/sag/slash/slump/split/shrink/sink/stoop/stumble/wane/weaken/wilt):
["]
🔄Expressões com 25 verbos que transmitem ideia que algo SUBIU,ELEVOU, AUMENTOU, MELHOROU,REAGIU,ABASTECEU,AMPLIOU,(arise,better,boom, boost, broaden, clim, flood, fuel,further,grow,improve,increase,jump,lift,raise,rally,rise, skyrocket, soar, strenghten, surface,surpass,trigger, up, upgrade,widen):
["]
🔄Expressões com 10 verbos que transmitem ideia que ALGO MUDOU, TROCOU, PERMUTOU, TRANSFORMOU,ALTEROU,REFORMOU, SUBSTITUIU, CONVERTEU, ESCAMBOU, MODIFICOU(amend,barter,change,convert, exchange,replace,swap,switch,swop,vary):
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🔄Expressões com 20 verbos que transmitem ideia de COMBATE, DISPUTA, LUTA, GUERRA, COLISÃO, ATINGIR, ESPANCAR, SOCAR, BATER(bash,battle,beat, brawl, clash,cuff, fight ,grapple,hit,knock,punch,quarrel,slap,apank,apar, strike, tackle ,tussle,whack,wrestle):
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🔄Expressões com verbos com ING:

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🔄Expressões com VERBOS EM GERAL:
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🔄Substantivos(NOUNS):
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🔄Adjetivos/Locuções adjetivas:

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🔄Advérbios/Locução adverbial:
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🔄Conectores/Marcadores de discurso:
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🔄Expressões comuns naturais:

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🔄Expressões idiomáticas:
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🔄Expressões ADJETIVO+SUBSTANTIVO:
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🔄 Extruturas típicas :
[emergence(iMôrdjêns)/appearence(aPíurêns)(aparecimento)/advent(édvent)(advento)/onset(Ãnsét)(início)  of democracy="surgimento da democracia"]
🔄Expressões com 'S (Genitive case=proprietário 'S propriedade):
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🔄Expressões com frações/números:
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🔄 Técnicas de SUMMARY:
[The text intends show...="O texto pretende mostrar"]
[The author claims that...="O autor afirma que"]

🔄Falso cognato:

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Agora, vamos à prova.
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TEXTO

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Alarming UN report on climate change too rosy, many say

By Elisabeth Rosenthal and James Kanter International Herald Tribune, November 18, 2007

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VALENCIA, Spain: The blunt and alarming final report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), released here by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, may well underplay the problem of climate change, many experts and even the report’s authors admit.
 
The report describes the evidence for human-induced climate change as “unequivocal.” The rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere thus far will result in an average rise in sea levels of up to 4.6 feet, or 1.4 meters, it concluded.
 
“Slowing - and reversing - these threats is the defining challenge of our age,” Ban said upon the report’s release Saturday. Ban said he had just completed a whirlwind tour of some climate change hot spots, which he called as “frightening as a science-fiction movie.”
 
He described ice sheets breaking up in Antarctica, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, and children in Chile having to wear protective clothing because an ozone hole was letting in so much ultraviolet radiation.
 
The panel’s fourth and final report summarized and integrated the most significant findings of three sections of the panel’s exhaustive climate-science review, to create an official “pocket guide” to climate change for policy makers who must now decide how the world will respond. The first covered climate trends; the second, the world’s ability to adapt to a warming planet; the third, strategies for reducing carbon emissions.
 
“The sense of urgency when you put these pieces together is new and striking,” said Martin Parry, a British climate expert who was co-chairman of the delegation that wrote the second report.
 
This report’s summary was the first to acknowledge that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could result in a substantive sea level rise over centuries rather than millennia. “Many of my colleagues would consider that kind of melt a catastrophe” so rapid that mankind would not be able to adapt, said Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Princeton University who contributed to the IPCC.
 
Delegations from hundreds of nations will be meeting in Bali, Indonesia in two weeks to start hammering out a global climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the current climate change treaty.
 
“It’s extremely clear and is very explicit that the cost of inaction will be huge compared to the cost of action,” said Jeffrey Sachs, head of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. “We can’t afford to wait for some perfect accord to replace Kyoto, whose first phase expires in 2012, for some grand agreement. We can’t afford to spend years bickering about it. We need to start acting now.”
 
He said that delegates in Bali should take action immediately by public financing for demonstration projects on new technologies like “carbon capture,” a “promising but not proved” system that pumps emissions underground instead of releasing them into the sky. He said the energy ministers should start a global fund to help poor countries avoid deforestation, which causes emissions to increase because growing plants absorb carbon in the atmosphere.

Although the scientific data is not new, this was the first time it had been looked at together in its entirety, leading the scientists to new emphasis and more sweeping conclusions.

“And the new science is saying: ‘You thought it was bad? No it’s worse.’ ”

The IPCC chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, an engineer and economist from India, acknowledged the new trajectory. “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late,” Pachauri said. “What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future.”

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/18/europe/climate.php

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👉 Questão  11 :
The main purpose of the text is to
(A) remind the world that the first phase of the Kyoto Treaty ends in 2012.
(B) warn against the destruction of the Amazon forest and the breaking up of ice sheets in Antartica.
(C) alert about the sense of urgency to take action on problems brought about by climate change.
(D) criticize the release of the report by United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
(E) suggest that delegates in Bali should vote for public funds that will help research on new technologies such as carbon capture.
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  C 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
The main purpose of the text is to
(A) remind the world that the first phase of the Kyoto Treaty ends in 2012.
(B) warn against the destruction of the Amazon forest and the breaking up of ice sheets in Antartica.
(C) alert about the sense of urgency to take action on problems brought about by climate change.
(D) criticize the release of the report by United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
(E) suggest that delegates in Bali should vote for public funds that will help research on new technologies such as carbon capture.
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👉 Questão  12 :
The fragment “… the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could result in a substantive sea level rise over centuries rather than millennia.” (lines 33-35) means that
(A) abrupt changes in the Earth environment might happen sooner than expected.
(B) the rise of sea levels will definitely only take place a thousand years from now.
(C) ice sheets will endure the sudden climate change caused by harmful greenhouse gases.
(D) it is impossible to predict whether the melting of polar ice sheets will actually take place.
(E) the melting of polar ice sheets is a much welcome phenomenon that has been caused by sudden climate change.
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  A 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) abrupt changes in the Earth environment might happen sooner than expected.
(B) the rise of sea levels will definitely only take place a thousand years from now.
(C) ice sheets will endure the sudden climate change caused by harmful greenhouse gases.
(D) it is impossible to predict whether the melting of polar ice sheets will actually take place.
(E) the melting of polar ice sheets is a much welcome phenomenon that has been caused by sudden climate change.
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👉 Questão  13 :
According to Jeffrey Sachs, head of Columbia University’s Earth Institute,
(A) it is better to be accused of inaction than to act wrongly.
(B) energy officers should finance deforestation projects in poor countries.
(C) no public financing should be given to projects on new technologies like ‘carbon capture’.
(D) we must now only work towards a perfect agreement to substitute the Kyoto treaty in 2012.
(E) it is essential to act immediately on the threats to life in our planet as we cannot wait any further.
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  E 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) it is better to be accused of inaction than to act wrongly.
(B) energy officers should finance deforestation projects in poor countries.
(C) no public financing should be given to projects on new technologies like ‘carbon capture’.
(D) we must now only work towards a perfect agreement to substitute the Kyoto treaty in 2012.
(E) it is essential to act immediately on the threats to life in our planet as we cannot wait any further.
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👉 Questão  14 :
Where in the article does the author present alarming evidences of human impact on climate change?
(A) Paragraph 3, only (lines 11-15)
(B) Paragraph 5, only (lines  20-27)
(C) Paragraphs 2 and 4 (lines 6-10 ; 16-19)
(D) Paragraphs 4 and 5 (lines 16-27)
(E) Paragraphs 8 and 9 (lines 40-50)
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  C 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) Paragraph 3, only (lines 11-15)
(B) Paragraph 5, only (lines  20-27)
(C) Paragraphs 2 and 4 (lines 6-10 ; 16-19)
(D) Paragraphs 4 and 5 (lines 16-27)
(E) Paragraphs 8 and 9 (lines 40-50)
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👉 Questão  15 :
Which alternative contains a correct correspondence of meaning?
(A) “underplay” (line 4) is the opposite of  “minimize”.
(B) “unequivocal” (line  7) means the same as “clear”.
(C) “trends” (line  25) and “tendencies” are not synonyms.
(D) “acknowledge” (line  32) means “acquire”.
(E) “substantive” (line  34) and “significant” are  antonyms.
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  B 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) “underplay” (line 4) is the opposite of  “minimize”.
(B) “unequivocal” (line  7) means the same as “clear”.
(C) “trends” (line  25) and “tendencies” are not synonyms.
(D) “acknowledge” (line  32) means “acquire”.
(E) “substantive” (line  34) and “significant” are  antonyms.
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👉 Questão  16 :
The boldfaced item introduces a result in
(A) “…children in Chile having to wear protective clothing because an ozone hole was letting in so much ultraviolet radiation.” (lines  17-19)
(B) “…the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could result in a substantive sea level rise over centuries rather than millennia.” (lines  33-35).
(C) “Many of my colleagues would consider that kind of melt a catastrophe” so rapid that mankind would not be able to adapt” (lines  35-37).
(D) “…system that pumps emissions underground instead of releasing them into the sky.” (lines 54-55).
(E) “Although the scientific data is not new, this was the first time it had been looked at together in its entirety,” (lines 59-60).
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  C 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) “…children in Chile having to wear protective clothing because an ozone hole was letting in so much ultraviolet radiation.” (lines  17-19)
(B) “…the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could result in a substantive sea level rise over centuries rather than millennia.” (lines  33-35).
(C) “Many of my colleagues would consider that kind of melt a catastrophe” so rapid that mankind would not be able to adapt” (lines  35-37).
(D) “…system that pumps emissions underground instead of releasing them into the sky.” (lines 54-55).
(E) “Although the scientific data is not new, this was the first time it had been looked at together in its entirety,” (lines 59-60).
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👉 Questão  17 :
In terms of reference, it is correct to affirm that
(A) “It” (line  9) refers to “rise” (line  7).
(B) “Which” (line  14) refers to “threats” (line  11). (C) “Whose” (line  48) refers to “Jeffrey Sachs” (line  46).
(D) “Them” (line  55) refers to “emissions” (line  54).
(E) “Its” (line  60) refers to “time” (line  60).
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  D 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) “It” (line  9) refers to “rise” (line  7).
(B) “Which” (line  14) refers to “threats” (line  11). (C) “Whose” (line  48) refers to “Jeffrey Sachs” (line  46).
(D) “Them” (line  55) refers to “emissions” (line  54).
(E) “Its” (line  60) refers to “time” (line  60).
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👉 Questão  18 :
In “… delegates in Bali should take action immediately by public financing for demonstration projects on new technologies…” (lines 51-53), the verb that can replace should without changing the meaning of the sentence is
(A) will
(B) may
(C) might
(D) would
(E) ought to
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  E 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) will
(B) may
(C) might
(D) would
(E) ought to
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👉 Questão  19 :
Which statement does NOT represent the opinion expressed by one of the experts mentioned?
(A) According to Secretary General Ban Kin Moon, the major challenge of our times is to reduce and combat the threats of climate change.
(B) Secretary General Ban Kin Moon believes that the problems caused by climate change are as exciting and fun as watching a science-fiction movie’.
(C) Martin Parry’s opinion is that finding solutions for the problems of climate change is a pressing fact that must be considered immediately.
(D) Michael Oppenheimer considers that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet can result in a disastrous problem which will be difficult to adjust to.
(E) Rajendra Pachauri insists that humanity cannot wait for the 2012 agreement to decide what to do, and must act now, in the next couple of years.
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  B 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) According to Secretary General Ban Kin Moon, the major challenge of our times is to reduce and combat the threats of climate change.
(B) Secretary General Ban Kin Moon believes that the problems caused by climate change are as exciting and fun as watching a science-fiction movie’.
(C) Martin Parry’s opinion is that finding solutions for the problems of climate change is a pressing fact that must be considered immediately.
(D) Michael Oppenheimer considers that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet can result in a disastrous problem which will be difficult to adjust to.
(E) Rajendra Pachauri insists that humanity cannot wait for the 2012 agreement to decide what to do, and must act now, in the next couple of years.
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👉 Questão  20 :
The text as a whole is both
(A) argumentative and optimistic.
(B) subjective and informative.
(C) comforting and creative.
(D) persuasive and alarming.
(E) hopeful and enthusiastic.
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👍 Comentários e Gabarito  D 
TÓPICO - IDEIA CONTEXTUAL ou INFORMAÇÃO DENTRO DO TEXTO:
(A) argumentative and optimistic.
(B) subjective and informative.
(C) comforting and creative.
(D) persuasive and alarming.
(E) hopeful and enthusiastic.