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• A pauta aqui é INGLÊS-UNIVERSIDADES PARTICULARES.
➧NESTE POST: PROVA de INGLÊS da PUC-RIO-2010/2-VESTIBULAR DE INVERNO, Prova aplicada em 04/07/2010.
➧BANCA/ORGANIZADOR:
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica/RJ.
➧LEITURA de textos de jornais digitais, revistas, websites, é um excelente treino para a prova.
• 10 Questões do tipo Multiple Choice (A,B,C,D,E).
➧TÓPICOS ABORDADOS ao longo da prova:
1-VERBS:
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2-PHRASAL VERBS - USES:
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3-PERFECT TENSE - USES:
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4-MODAL VERBS - USES:
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5-NOUN:
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6-ADJECTIVES:
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7-ADVERBS:
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8-NOUN PHRASES(Adjective+noun):
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9-IDIOMS(Expressões Idiomáticas):
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10-COLLOCATIONS:
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11-TECHNICAL ENGLISH(Military English, Business English, Finance English and so on):
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12-CONNECTORES AND LINKERS:
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13-GENITIVE CASE:
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14-FALSE COGNATES:
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➧ Agora vamos à PROVA!TEXTO
Cell phones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls
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By JENNA WORTHAM Published:
May 13, 2010
For many Americans, cell phones have become irreplaceable tools to manage their lives and stay connected to the outside world, their families and networks of friends online. But increasingly, by several measures, that does not mean talking on them very much.
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For example, although almost 90 percent of households in the United States now have a cell phone, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has stagnated, according to government and industry data. This is true even though more households each year are disconnecting their landlines in favor of cell phones.
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Instead of talking on their cell phones, people are making use of all the extras that iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphones were also designed to do — browse the Web, listen to music, watch television, play games and send e-mail and text messages.
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The number of text messages sent per user increased by nearly 50 percent nationwide last year, according to the CTIA, the wireless industry association. And for the first time in the United States, the amount of data in text, e-mail messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices in 2009 surpassed the amount of voice data in cell phone calls, industry executives and analysts say.
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“Originally, talking was the only cell phone application,” said Dan Hesse, chief executive of a large American telecommunications company. “But now it’s less than half of the traffic on mobile networks.”
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Of course, talking on the cell phone isn’t disappearing entirely. But figures from the CTIA show that over the last two years, the average number of voice minutes per user in the United States 20 has fallen. When people do talk on their phones, their conversations are shorter and the unused voice minutes mount up.
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“I have thousands of rollover minutes,” said Zach Frechette, 28, editor of Good magazine in Los Angeles, who explained that he dialed only when he needed to get in touch with someone instantly, and limited those calls to 30 seconds.
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Mr. Frechette said part of the reason he rarely talked on his phone was that he had an iPhone. But also, he said, most of his day was spent swapping short messages through services like Gmail, Facebook and Twitter. That way, he said, “you can respond when it’s convenient, rather than impose your schedule on someone else.”
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Others say talking on the phone is intrusive and time-consuming, while others seem to have no patience for talking to just one person at a time.
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American teenagers have been ahead of the curve for a while, turning their cell phones into texting machines; more than half of them send about 1,500 text messages each month, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.
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Mrs. Colburn, from Massachusetts, said she caved to the pleading of her 12-year-old daughter Abigail for a cell phone to send text messages with her friends after she and her husband discovered it was hindering her from developing bonds with her classmates. “We realized she was being excluded from party invitations and being in the know with her peers,” she said.
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Mrs. Colburn said texting had also become a much easier way to stay in touch with her daughter and receive quick updates about after-school plans. “The other night she texted me from upstairs to ask a vocabulary question,” she said with a laugh. “But I drew the line there. I went upstairs to answer it.”
Adapted from
HTTP://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2010/05/14/TECHNOLOGY/PERSONALTECH/14TALK.HTML?REF=TECHNOLOGY ACCESS ON MAY 15TH , 2010
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👉 Questão 1 :
The main purpose of the text is to
a) prove that only adolescents are frequent users of cell phones.
b) justify why American adults cannot use text messaging efficiently.
c) blame smartphones for the inadequate and unsafe use of text messages.
d) report on a new tendency in the American society concerning the use of cell phones.
e) show how American cell phone companies have encouraged the use of smartphones.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito D
O principal objetivo do texto é
a) provar que apenas adolescentes são usuários frequentes de telefones celulares.
b) justifique por que os adultos americanos não podem usar as mensagens de texto com eficiência.
c) culpar os smartphones pelo uso inadequado e inseguro de mensagens de texto.
d) relatar uma nova tendência da sociedade americana no uso de telefones celulares.
e) mostrar como as empresas americanas de telefonia celular incentivaram o uso de smartphones.
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👉 Questão 2 :
‘Almost 90 percent’ (line 4) refers to the percentage of American families that
a) own a cell phone nowadays.
b) can only have one cell phone at home.
c) are exchanging their cell phones for landlines.
d) have been using voice minutes more frequently.
e) had to disconnect either their cell phones or landlines.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito A
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👉 Questão 3 :
The fragment “But now it’s less than half of the traffic on mobile networks.” (lines 17-18) means that the number of Americans using cell phones to talk has been
a) quite stable.
b) gradually rising.
c) slightly growing.
d) sharply increasing.
e) dramatically decreasing.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito E
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👉 Questão 4 :
According to Zach Frechette, text messaging is
a) exclusively used by people who can afford an iPhone.
b) definitely time-consuming and unwelcome to most people.
c) only helpful in case people need to save their voice minutes.
d) certainly more convenient and less disturbing than phone calls.
e) always preferred when people have to contact someone at once.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito D
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👉 Questão 5 :
Check the item in which there is a correct correspondence between the idea expressed by the underlined items and the idea in italics.
a) “This is true even though more households each year are…” (line 6) – cause.
b) “Instead of talking on their cellphones…” (line 8) – addition.
c) “But figures from the CTIA show … (line 19) – conclusion.
d) “... you can respond when it’s convenient, rather than impose …” (lines 28-29) – result.
e) “... while others seem to have no patience …” (lines 30-31) – contrast.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito E
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👉 Questão 6 :
In the sentence “Even though in theory, it might take longer …” (line 32), “might” is correctly substituted by
a) ought to.
b) had to.
c) should.
d) could.
e) must.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito D
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👉 Questão 7 :
In the fragment “…more than half of them…” (line 36), “them” refers to
a) conversations. (line 34)
b) teenagers. (line 35)
c) cell phones. (line 35)
d) machines. (line 36)
e) messages. (line 36)
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito B
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👉 Questão 8 :
Based on the meanings expressed in the text, it is correct to affirm that
a) “almost” (line 4) and “nearly” (line 11) express opposite ideas.
b) “surpassed” (line 14) could not be substituted by “exceeded”.
c) “mount up” (line 22) and “accumulate” are synonyms.
d) “impose” (line 29) and “force” are antonyms.
e) “bonds” (line 40) and “relations” have different meanings.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito C
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👉 Questão 9 :
In the excerpt “But I drew the line there. I went upstairs to answer it.” (lines 44-45), the expression ‘draw the line’ means to
a) admit a fear.
b) refuse to act.
c) impose a limit.
d) tolerate a threat.
e) avoid a challenge.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito C
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👉 Questão 10 :
Mrs. Colburn is mentioned in the article because she
a) illustrates how text messaging can be beneficial to some teenagers.
b) considers the cell phone an excellent tool to solve vocabulary doubts.
c) does not know how to deal with her teenage daughter’s problems at school.
d) criticizes young classmates who are excessively dependent on technology.
e) lists several problems resulting from the excessive use of cell phones by adolescents.
_____________________________________________________________________________👍 Comentários e Gabarito A
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