MACKENZIE – 2012/2 – VESTIBULAR – 2º SEMESTRE – UNIVERSIDADE PRESBITERIANA MACKENZIE/SP – PROVA COM GABARITO.

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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: MACKENZIE-2012/2-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE-APLICAÇÃO-16/06/2012.

➧ GABARITO:

01-C, 02-E, 03-D, 04-A, 05-B, 06-D, 07-C

➧ PROVA:

➧ TEXT I: The following text refers to questions 01 and 02.

The truth about videogames, please! 

By Cheryl K. Olson         

On June 27 the Supreme Court invalidated California’s law prohibiting the sale or rental of violent videogames to people under 18. On a practical level, it was never clear which games might be classified under the law, or who would decide.
          
But more important, the state’s case was built on assumptions – that violent games cause children psychological or neurological harm and make them more aggressive and likely to harm other people – that are not supported by evidence. In the end, the case serves only to highlight __ ( I ) ___ .
          
Many people assume that video game violence is awful, but these people haven’t played many video games. The state based its examples of depravity almost exclusively on a little-known game called Postal 2, which is rarely played by children or young teens. The game is outrageous as you can kill animals. A trailer for Postal 3 encourages players to “shoot moms in the face!”
          
This may sound disturbing, but it’s also ridiculous. And young people know it: as one 13-year-old said during a study I conducted at Harvard, “With video games, you know it’s fake.”
          
In my research on middle school students, the most popular game series among boys was Grand Theft Auto, which allows players to commit cartoon violence with chain saws as well as do perfectly benign things like deliver pizza on a scooter.
          
Teenage boys may be more interested in violence, but there’s no evidence that this leads to violent behavior in real life. F.B.I. data shows that youth violence continues to decline; it is now at its lowest rate in years, while bullying appears to be stable or decreasing.
          
This certainly does not prove that video games are harmless. The violent games most often played by young teens, like most of the Grand Theft Auto series, are rated M, for a reason and need parental supervision.
         
But violence in video games may be less harmful than violence in movies or on the evening news. It seems reasonable but virtually acting out a murder is worse than watching one. But there is no research supporting this, and one could say that interactivity makes games less harmful: the player controls the action, and can stop playing if she or he feels overwhelmed or upset. And there is much better evidence to support psychological harm from exposure to violence on TV news. In fact, such games (in moderation) may actually have some positive effects on developing minds.

01 – (MACKENZIE/SP-2012/2-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The article clearly states that

a) violence on TV or videogames surely makes teens act violently in real life.
b) the lesson teens learn when exposed to videogames is to shoot their moms in the face.
c) not all videogames will exclusively teach you evil things.
d) violence in movies is much more evident than in videogames, for viewers can act out murders on screen.
e) the sale or rental of violent videogames has been considered outrageous by people under 18, according to law invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court.

02 – (MACKENZIE/SP-2012/2-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The best way to complete the blank I in the text is

a) how did we know about this medium and which is its effects on our children.
b) how little do we know about this medium and what is its effects on our children.
c) little did we knew about this medium and what are its effects on our children.
d) how much little we knew about this medium and their effects on our children.
e) how little we know about this medium and its effects on our children.

➧ TEXT II:

       

www.linguee.com is a website where you can search for the translation of words and expressions from Portuguese into English or English into Portuguese. However, it is not a translation machine – every entry in its database bas been translated by people and all the translations are lifted from bilingual written texts available in the web. ___( I )___. Since all the words and expressions are viewed in context (short paragraphs) you can check if the translation fits your personal context. It does not translate sentences; you might therefore have to simplify your search and key in words instead.
         
It is a very interesting tool to help both students and teachers expand their own range of the expression searched while enabling the simultaneous visualization of how the same expression translates differently in the varied contexts available.

Braz-Tesol

03 – (MACKENZIE/SP-2012/2-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The sentence that properly fills in blank I in the text is:

a) Words of every kind have a special meaning when contextualized and properly defined.
b) A sentence is made up of words functioning as subjects, verbs and complements.
c) A bilingual dictionary has the list of words in one language and their explanations in another.
d) Every word or expression is embedded in an appropriate example sentence.
e) This translation process is the process of putting writing or speech into another language.

➧ TEXT II: The following text refers to questions 04 and 05.

Dude Is a Rock Star

Gustavo Dudamel is the Elvis of the orchestra world, and he has the sold-out concerts to prove it. Meet the L.A. Philharmonic conductor who’s bridging the generation gap – and saving classical music.

By Chris Lee         

Meet the maestro called the savior of classical music. “The Dude,” as he’s come to be known, is widely hailed as “the rock-star conductor,” the classical world’s answer to Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson. The __( I )__ conductor is a __( II )__ figure in symphonic music, whose cultural influence belies his relatively young 31 years. With his __( III )__ mane of corkscrew curls, ecstatic podium presence, and unabashedly __( IV )__ interpretations of __( V )__ orchestral works, Dudamel has unleashed a flood of new interest in classical music, bridging the generation gap between pension-age high-culture appreciators and younger listeners.
         
And the show is just beginning. "The Mahler Project is immense," says Deborah Borda, president and chief executive of the L.A. Phil. “When we planned it, I don't think the two of us completely took in how big it would turn out to be.” It is the kind of bar-raising command performance that audiences have come to expect from the Venezuelan wunderkind – a musician who, whether taking on a Sibelius violin concerto or a Strauss symphony, makes a policy of raising the roof whenever he performs.
         
The grueling project also underscores Dudamel's commitment to El Sistema – "The System" – Venezuela’s tough-love musical-outreach program for youth that made the conductor what he is and still counts him as its most forward face. "An orchestra is a model for an ideal global society – a symbol,” he says in his heavily accented English. "You have to create harmony. Everyone has to listen to each other, this large, complex group of people with different personalities that has to communicate. You have to have discipline. This is where The System works! The point is not to build better musicians. It’s to build better citizens, to see children building their lives from music."

Newsweek

04 – (MACKENZIE/SP-2012/2-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the text, Gustavo Dudamel

a) has made classical music more appealing to both old-timers and youth.
b) would never have conducted an orchestra better than Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson.
c) also conducts classic rock'n'roll concerts worldwide.
d) states that The Mahler Project has been very well thought of in order to attract a larger audience.
e) complains that his musicians have to listen more to each other, and have to have more discipline in order to bring harmony into his orchestra.

05 – (MACKENZIE/SP-2012/2-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The adjectives that properly fill in blanks I, II, III, IV and V, in the text, are:

a) mini, gigantic, terrifying, dismal and light-headed.
b) diminutive, towering, undulating, modern and cherished.
c) tiny, sheer, avoidable, stunted and traditional.
d) trendy, visible, sympathetic, unsuspecting and voluminous.
e) fragile, prodigious, wild, profitable and volatile.

➧ TEXT III: The following advertisement refers to questions 06 and 07.

06 – (MACKENZIE/SP-2012/2-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the ad,

a) proper eye care can only be offered to 80% of blind people at the moment.
b) should you contribute to Orbis, you will help save 20% of those who suffer from blindness.
c) being aware of the problem of blindness can save millions of sick people.
d) there's no need for the majority of blind people to be like that.
e) saving lives worldwide is Orbis’s purpose regardless of the disease.

07 – (MACKENZIE/SP-2012/2-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The pronoun who in

"80% of those who are blind don't have to be"

can be replaced by

a) whom or that.
b) which or that.
c) only that.
d) whose or that.
e) whom, that or whose.