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How Smartphones Help Farmers in Rural India
In India, small farmers cultivate 50 percent of the
land, but they are often held back by inefficient methods.
The goal of the development project I work on is to help
spread information on agriculture among farmers through information technology. In 2009, I traveled to Devarahati,
a village three hours from Bangalore in order to better
understand the situation.
At first glance, Devarahati’s residents seem to use
little technology. In fact, few things in this poor community remind me of life in the 21st century. No toilets are
available except for a foot-wide (0.3 meter) hole in the
ground. Drinking water comes from a well. However, the
pump for the well can only be used during a six-hour
period each day when electricity is available.
When one looks again, however, one sees signs of
20th century developments. A few homes that look like
they were constructed a thousand years ago have satellite
dishes. Plastic garbage covers the ground, and in the
distance, two cell phone towers mark the age of mobile communication.
Mobile phones allow residents of rural India to
communicate with their families in cities and obtain
information on market prices. They also provide
unexpected side benefits. As I am walking around the village, my translator Suma points out farmers wearing
earphones. According to her, they “don’t even have a SIM
card but just use their phones as music players.”
Suma seems upset that people in her home
community use technology for such everyday activities as entertainment, but I’m thrilled. It is clear that people
are spending money on technology, charging their phones
when power is available, and using phones not designed
for illiterate people.
For our project, the mobile phone is the most promising way to spread information throughout the
farming community. The application we have developed
for touch-screen phones lets literate and illiterate farmers
share information about prices, seeds, fertilizers, and
pesticides. Touch-screen technology combined with sound and video enables illiterate people to use digital
information.
In a trial this summer, we hope to learn if and how
farmers in Devarahati will use this new technology in their
decision-making. For farmers who do not own TVs, the mobile phone will probably become a source of
entertainment and serve as a flashlight during power cuts.
However, we hope that farmers will adopt agricultural
innovations if trusted peers have had good experiences
with them. Our goal is to use the word-of-mouth approach that locals trust, rather than coming into communities
and telling them what to do. It’s just that we’re using
technology to make word-of-mouth bigger and better.
- Disponível em: <http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/05/mobilelearning-how-smartphones-help-illiterate-farmers-in-rural-india/>. Acesso em: 21 jul. 2016.
01 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) The author’s main purpose in writing this article is to
A) explain a project to spread information among farmers in
India.
B) compare life in Devarahati now and in the past.
C) show how smartphones have changed life in rural India.
D) convince citizens of India that smartphones will change
their lives.
E) prove that farmers will use cell phones to help them make
decisions.
Comentários e Gabarito A
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02 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) The author provides statistics about Indian farmers in the first
paragraph to
A) show that Indian farmers do not have good farming
methods.
B) emphasize that small farmers play an important role in
India.
C) compare small farmers to big land-owners.
D) prove that their mobile phone application will be popular.
E) show that farming is less important than technology.
Comentários e Gabarito B
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03 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) When Suma sees farmers listening to music on their cell
phones she
A) thinks it is a sign of progress.
B) would like farmers to use phones for calling people.
C) thinks it is a cheap way to listen to music.
D) finds it an unusual use for a cell phone.
E) is troubled by it.
Comentários e Gabarito E
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04 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) Some farmers are unable to benefit from the information about
market prices that is now available through text messages
because
A) their phones are not capable of receiving text messages.
B) smart phones have become increasingly expensive.
C) they are not able to read the messages.
D) some smart phones are not available in India.
E) they do not have earphones to listen to the information.
Comentários e Gabarito C
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05 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) Based on the text, fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).
( ) “constructed” (l. 17) is closest in meaning to appeared.
( ) “thrilled” (l. 30) is closest in meaning to excited.
( ) “promising” (l. 35) is closest in meaning to hopeless.
( ) “approach” (l. 49) is closest in meaning to method.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
A) T T T T
B) F T T F
C) F T F T
D) T F F T
E) T F T F
Comentários e Gabarito C
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❑ TEXTO: Questões de 6 a 10.
Genealogy
Genealogy — finding out about your family
history — is one of the most popular hobbies in Europe.
There seems to have been strong interest in tracing our
ancestry recently, and across the continent people are discovering their roots. Some of these people were
adopted and are now trying to find their biological parents,
but many are driven by a chance to learn more about
where they fit in to their family’s past.
It is not surprising that the rise in popularity of genealogy is closely linked to the technological
revolution — there are hundreds, probably thousands of
websites offering to help make the work easier for you.
Society has changed too. We no longer live in close
communities because many people have had to move far from their hometowns in search of work. After the initial
excitement of moving to a new town or city, people have
a tendency to want to rediscover their identity.
So how do you do it? It might seem obvious, but
many people forget that they can find out a lot by speaking to older family members. Call up an old aunt — or pay
her a visit. Older relatives are usually more than willing to
talk about the past. Many families have a Bible or a
photograph album with important names and dates written
in it. Keep a careful record of all the information you find.
When you have learned all you can, the next step
is to search official records. You can often do this at your
local town hall, courthouse, or church. The websites
mentioned earlier might be able to do this for you, but
you will probably have to pay to access their databases.
Researching your ancestry is not easy. If you’re
planning to look back more than three generations, you
need to be prepared. There will be many hours searching
on a computer, on microfilm, or in public offices. You
might have to go long periods of time without making any significant discoveries, or it could be worse — you might
find that your ancestors were not very nice people at all!
- (Adapted from “Q Skills For Success Level 2 Unit 5”, Oxford University
Press)
06 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) According to the text, genealogy
A) is a good hobby mainly for people who were adopted.
B) has suddenly become very popular because people are
interested in finding out where they come from.
C) is only useful for biological parents.
D) appeals to a small number of people because they want
to know about their past.
E) is difficult to research because there is a lack of information
on the subject nowadays.
Comentários e Gabarito B
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07 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).
( ) People do not know each other anymore in towns because
they often move far away to look for work.
( ) There were fewer websites about genealogy in the past
than there are now.
( ) Finding out about your family’s past is a way to discover
who you are.
( ) Moving to a new town can be very exciting.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
A) T T T T
B) T F F T
C) T T F F
D) F T T F
E) F F T T
Comentários e Gabarito A
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08 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) Two problems to prepare for when you are researching your
genealogy are
A) information is often misleading, and the cost of using
websites is often too high.
B) older people enjoy telling false stories about family history,
and public records can be sealed.
C) finding useful information might take a long time, and you
will have to try going to different places.
D) people sometimes have no older family members, and they
forget to write down all the information they find.
E) you can’t be prepared to find out about more than three
generations, and you might discover
unpleasant things.
Comentários e Gabarito C
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09 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) The only word which has beens suitably defined is
A) “tracing” (l. 3) writing.
B) “rise” (l. 9) improvement.
C) “linked” (l. 10) close.
D) “access” (l. 29) use.
E) “significant” (l. 35) challenging.
Comentários e Gabarito D
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10 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2017.1) Choose the best answer:
A) In paragraph 1, “and now are trying to find their biological
parents” (l. 6) their refers to “these people.”
B) In paragraph 2, the past perfect is used in “because many
people have had to move far from” (l. 14-15) because it
shows an action that was not possible in the past.
C) The passive voice is used in paragraph 3 “a photograph
album with names and dates written in it.” (l. 22-24) to
emphasize the people who wrote down the information.
D) “often”, in paragraph 4, has the same meaning as “might”
(l. 34), in paragraph 5.
E) “Could” is used in paragraph 5 to express an ability in the
past.
Comentários e Gabarito A
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