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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: PUC/PR-2014/2015-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO-19/10/2014.
➧ BANCA/ORGANIZADOR: https://multiversidade.pucpr.br/
➧ PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 04 questões do tipo (A,B,C,D,E).
➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text.
Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy
robots routinely outdo humans in strength and precision. Artificial intelligence software can drive cars, beat grandmasters at chess and leave “Jeopardy!” champions in the dust.
But machines still lack a critical element that will keep them from eclipsing most human capabilities anytime soon: a well-developed sense of touch.
Consider Dr. Nikolas Blevins, a head and neck surgeon at Stanford Health Care who routinely performs ear operations requiring that he shave away bone deftly enough to leave an inner surface as thin as the membrane in an eggshell.
Dr. Blevins is collaborating with the roboticists J. Kenneth Salisbury and Sonny Chan on designing software that will make it possible to rehearse these operations before performing them. The program blends X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging data to create a vivid three-dimensional model of the inner ear, allowing the surgeon to practice drilling away bone, to take a visual tour of the patient’s skull and to virtually “feel” subtle differences in cartilage, bone and soft tissue. Yet no matter how thorough or refined, the software provides only the roughest approximation of Dr. Blevins's sensitive touch.
But machines still lack a critical element that will keep them from eclipsing most human capabilities anytime soon: a well-developed sense of touch.
Consider Dr. Nikolas Blevins, a head and neck surgeon at Stanford Health Care who routinely performs ear operations requiring that he shave away bone deftly enough to leave an inner surface as thin as the membrane in an eggshell.
Dr. Blevins is collaborating with the roboticists J. Kenneth Salisbury and Sonny Chan on designing software that will make it possible to rehearse these operations before performing them. The program blends X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging data to create a vivid three-dimensional model of the inner ear, allowing the surgeon to practice drilling away bone, to take a visual tour of the patient’s skull and to virtually “feel” subtle differences in cartilage, bone and soft tissue. Yet no matter how thorough or refined, the software provides only the roughest approximation of Dr. Blevins's sensitive touch.
Disponível em:<http://www.nytimes.com/
2014/09/02/science/robottouch.html?ref=science>.
Acesso em: setembro de 2014.
01 – (PUC-PR-2014/2015-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)Select the alternative that is TRUE to the text.
A) Robots can do almost everything better than man, but man's sense of touch.
B) Artificial intelligence is surpassing man’s intelligence.
C) Robots will soon eclipse man’s capabilities.
D) New software will soon perform very thorough surgeries.
E) The software’s touch is better than Dr. Blevin’s sensitive touch.
B) Artificial intelligence is surpassing man’s intelligence.
C) Robots will soon eclipse man’s capabilities.
D) New software will soon perform very thorough surgeries.
E) The software’s touch is better than Dr. Blevin’s sensitive touch.
__RESPOSTA (A)__
• Selecione a alternativa TRUE ao texto.
A) Os robôs podem fazer quase tudo melhor que o homem, exceto a sensação de toque do homem.
B) A inteligência artificial está superando a inteligência do homem.
C) Os robôs logo eclipsarão as capacidades do homem.
D) Novo software em breve realizará cirurgias muito completas.
E) O toque do software é melhor que o toque sensível do Dr. Blevin.
B) A inteligência artificial está superando a inteligência do homem.
C) Os robôs logo eclipsarão as capacidades do homem.
D) Novo software em breve realizará cirurgias muito completas.
E) O toque do software é melhor que o toque sensível do Dr. Blevin.
Source: <http://hectorandalfonse.wordpress.com/
2010/03/22/sosincere/>.
Acesso em: setembro 2014.
02 – (PUC-PR-2014/2015-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)According to the comic strip it is CORRECT to infer:
A) The park is so big that one character insists to stay close to the other.
B) The two characters have the same feeling for each other.
C) One character is not the other’s friend because he is very sincere.
D) One character doesn't consider the other as its friend.
E) Because one character is staying close to the other they are friends.
B) The two characters have the same feeling for each other.
C) One character is not the other’s friend because he is very sincere.
D) One character doesn't consider the other as its friend.
E) Because one character is staying close to the other they are friends.
__RESPOSTA (D)__
➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text. Read the text and answer question 03.
The master’s program “British and American Cultures: Texts and Media” deals with the cultural productions of Great Britain and the United States of America in all their forms and variations. In addition to the researchoriented examination of English and American literature from their beginnings to the present day, the program also focuses on contemporary theoretical and critical discourses such as postcolonial studies, cultural studies, gender studies, performance studies, and media studies. From the dramas of Shakespeare to the representation of gender in American and British
television, from Hamlet to the narrative forms of new
media, a broad spectrum of texts will be discussed
from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Students will learn advanced analytical skills in
dealing with fiction, poetry, drama, photography, movies, paintings, comics, and music. The course puts a special emphasis on innovative didactic methods of communication and on independent research work conducted by students. These approaches include, for example, the guided organization of a conference, symposium, or publication during which the students will be showcasing their own projects or research papers.
Students will attend seminars and lectures in both English and American Studies with the option to
specialize in one of these disciplines in the later part of the program.
Disponível em:<http://www.unihamburg.de/
iaa/Master_British_and_American_Cultures.html>.
Acesso em: setembro 2014.
03 – (PUC-PR-2014/2015-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)The words highlighted in the text:
deals, examination, broad, research and option
could be replaced by the following with no change in their meanings:
A) bargains, perception, ample, exam, resort.
B) takes care, lookout, spacious, questioning, recourse.
C) works, observation, vast, investigation, alternative.
D) involves, monitor, wide, inquiry, appeal.
E) negotiate, vigil, vast, examination, request.
B) takes care, lookout, spacious, questioning, recourse.
C) works, observation, vast, investigation, alternative.
D) involves, monitor, wide, inquiry, appeal.
E) negotiate, vigil, vast, examination, request.
__RESPOSTA (C)__
➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text.
An Italian Holiday Home For One Euro.
Are you looking for a holiday home in Italy? Why not
Euro? This offer may seem too good to be true, but
there’s a catch: you have to promise to renovate the
property within three years and this could cost you
€20,000. Gangi’s mayor came up with the idea to put
some life back into the Sicilian town. Poverty caused
many inhabitants to leave after World War II. The idea is attracting interest from all over the world. Would you buy one of these homes?
Disponível em: <http://tinytexts.wordpress.com/>.
Acesso em: setembro de 2014
04 – (PUC-PR-2014/2015-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)These words from the text:
picturesque, too good to be true, catch, came up, poverty
could be replaced with no change in their meanings for the following words respectively.
A) pictorial, fabulous, cash, occur, power.
B) pretty, unbelievable, a slight problem, thought of, poor economic conditions.
C) picture, amazing, drawback, arise, indigence.
D) charming, trustful, take, come, shortage.
E) delightful, wonderful, caught, happen, lack.
__RESPOSTA (B)__
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