PUC/PR – 2016/2017 – VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO – LÍNGUA INGLESA – PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO PARANÁ – PROVA COM GABARITO.

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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: PUC/PR-2016/2017-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO-16/10/2016.

➧ BANCA/ORGANIZADOR: https://multiversidade.pucpr.br/

➧ PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 06 questões do tipo (A,B,C,D,E).

➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text.

01 – (PUC-PR-2016/2017-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)

According to the strip the expression 'I stand corrected' means:

(A) What I just said was proved to be right 
(B) What I just said was just proved to be wrong.
(C) What I just said was correct.
(D) I admitted that I was right.
(E) I was corrected.

__RESPOSTA (B)__

• TRADUÇÃO LIVRE DO CARTOON:

• Make a wish!(Faça um desejo!)
• Like that ever works(Como isso sempre funciona)
• Ding Dong
• Happy Birthday Garfield!(Feliz Aniversário Garfield!)
• I stand corrected.(Eu estou corrigido.)

• De acordo com a tira, a expressão 'Estou corrigido' significa:

*Alternativa (A): O que eu acabei de dizer provou estar certo.
*Alternativa (B): O que eu disse foi apenas provado estar errado.

*Alternativa (C): O que eu disse foi correto.

*Alternativa (D): Eu admiti que estava certo.

*Alternativa (E): eu fui corrigido.

➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text.

Improving with age? How city design is adapting to older populations 

There is no denying it: like it or not we are all getting older. According to the UN World Population Prospects report, the global population of older people is growing at an unprecedented rate. By 2050, for the first time in human history, there will be more over-65s than children under 15.

The number of people over 100 will increase by 1,000%. And as by then 70% of the world’s population will likely live in cites, this will present huge challenges, and cities will need to adapt. “Small innovations can make a difference,” Recalcati adds. “Older people are less likely to drive, favouring public transport and walking. The average person over 65 manages a walking speed of 3km/hour. At 80 that goes down to 2km/hour, compared with the average for a working age person of 4.8km/hour. Reducing the distance between transport stops, shops, benches, trees for shade, public toilets and improving pavements and allowing more time to cross the road all encourage older people to go out.”

In the UK, the government has just announced the building of 10 new towns designed to address ageing and health issues such as obesity. As well as encouraging more active lifestyles, the designs could include wider pavements, few trip hazards and moving LCD signs, making the streets easier to navigate for people with dementia and other age-related conditions. London-based charity Living Streets has also been working alongside communities carrying out street audits with older residents to see what improvements could be made, as well as campaigning at a strategic level to influence positive legislative and infrastructure changes. Their project Time to Cross campaigned to increase pedestrian crossing times which resulted in Transport for London (TfL) agreeing to a review.

www.thegardian.com/

cities/2016/ap/25/improving-with-age-how-city-design-is-adapting-to-older-populations.

02 – (PUC-PR-2016/2017-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)

According to the text, it is CORRECT to state that.

I. Old people walk slowly, so they prefer driving.

II. The adaptions mentioned refer not only to elderly but also to obese people.

III. Population is helping to make improvements.

IV. US Policy makers think elderly people should move to smaller cities.

V. There will be more adults than children by 2050.

(A) Sentences II, III and V are right.
(B) Only I and III are right.
(C) Only IV and V are right.
(D) Only I is right.
(E) Only II and III are right.

__RESPOSTA (A)__

*Afirmativa (I): Os idosos andam devagar, então preferem dirigir.

*Afirmativa (II): As adaptações mencionadas referem-se não apenas a idosos, mas também a obesos.
*Afirmativa (III): A população está ajudando a fazer melhorias.
*Afirmativa (IV): Os formuladores de políticas dos EUA acham que os idosos devem se mudar para cidades menores.
*Afirmativa (V): Haverá mais adultos do que crianças até 2050.

➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text and choose the CORRECT option.

Portable devices Buddy, can you spare a watt? 

Trading power could free users from dead-battery tyranny

ONE of the most annoying features of smartphones is that they run out of power just when you need it most. After a day of e-mailing, streaming music, downloading podcasts, watching cat videos and snapping selfies, a device can easily be left without enough charge to make an emergency call. What would help, reckons Paul Worgan of the University of Bristol, in England, is to give portable devices the ability to share some of their power.
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Mr Worgan and his colleagues have come up with a wireless-charging system which they call PowerShake. To use it someone holds a phone with an expiring battery against another device—a phone, or even a smartwatch or a fitness band—and this initiates a power transfer from one to the other. Some 12 seconds of contact provides enough juice to make a one-minute telephone call. One minute of contact would allow, say, a four minute music video to be watched. The researchers will present their idea to CHI2016, a conference on computer-human interaction, in San Jose, California, in May.

Available in: <http://www.economist.com/

news/science-and-technology/21697800-trading-power-could-free-users-dead-battery-tyranny-buddy-can-you-spare>. 

Access on: may 2016.

03 – (PUC-PR-2016/2017-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)

I. New smartphones will have power to spare.

II. PowerShake wireless-charging system will help you to charge your out of power smartphone.

III. You have to plug in both phones for 12 seconds. IV. This new feature will allow you to make a short phone call.

V. The researchers will present this new idea at their university, in San Jose, California.

(A) Only statements I and III are correct.
(B) Only statements II and V are correct.
(C) Only statements III and IV are correct.
(D) Only statements II and IV are correct.
(E) Only statements I and II are correct.

__RESPOSTA (D)__

*Afirmativa (I): Novos smartphones terão energia de sobra.
*Afirmativa (II): O sistema de carregamento sem fio PowerShake ajudará você a carregar seu smartphone sem energia.
*Afirmativa (III): Você precisa conectar os dois telefones por 12 segundos.
*Afirmativa (IV): Esse novo recurso permitirá que você faça uma ligação curta.
*Afirmativa (V): Os pesquisadores apresentarão essa nova idéia em sua universidade, em San Jose, Califórnia.

➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text.

Zika virus makes Rio Olympics a threat in Brazil and abroad, health expert says 

Amir Attaran calls for postponement or moving of Games and says biggest risk is spreading the virus to countries without adequate healthcare infrastructure. As Brazil reels from a spiraling political crisis and its deepest recession in decades, a public health specialist in Canada has added to the country’s woes with a high-profile call for the 2016 summer Olympics – slated to kick off in Rio de Janeiro in early August – to be postponed or moved due to the Zika outbreak. Speaking to the Guardian on Thursday, Attaran described the idea of going ahead with the games as both “indescribably foolish” and “monstrously unethical”. The potential risks to visitors range from braindamaged children to death in rare instances, he added. “Is this what the Olympics stand for?”

Adapted from: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/12/rio-olympics-zika-amir-attaran-public-health-threat

04 – (PUC-PR-2016/2017-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)

What does this text aim to?

(A) show the spread of Zika virus around the world.
(B) explain that problems such as Zika virus only happen in poor countries.
(C) tell the world these games are fool.
(D) prove there are no risks for foreign visitors.
(E) warn people about the high health risks of keeping the Olympic Games in Brazil.

__RESPOSTA (E)__

*Alternativa (A): mostram a disseminação do vírus Zika em todo o mundo.
*Alternativa (B): explicam que problemas como o vírus zika só acontecem em países pobres.
*Alternativa (C): diga ao mundo que esses jogos são tolos.
*Alternativa (D): provar que não há riscos para visitantes estrangeiros.
*Alternativa (E): alertar as pessoas sobre os altos riscos à saúde de manter os Jogos Olímpicos no Brasil.

➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text.

Dreaming brain rhythms lock in memories 

It is the clearest evidence to date that REM sleep is critical for memory. By switching off certain brain cells, the researchers silenced a particular, rhythmic type of brain function - without waking the mice. If they did this during REM sleep, the mice failed subsequent memory tests. The research is reported in the journal Science.

REM sleep is the phase during which, at least in humans, dreams take place - but the question of whether it is important for settling new memories has been difficult to answer. Recent studies have tended to focus on deep, non-REM sleep instead, during which brain cells fire in various patterns that reflect memory consolidation and "re-play" of the day's experiences. During REM sleep, while our eyes flicker and our muscles relax, exactly what the brain is doing is something of a mystery. But it is a type of sleep seen across the animal kingdom, in mammals and birds and even lizards.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36275143 

05 – (PUC-PR-2016/2017-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)

What does the title of the text mean? 

(A) Dreaming brain rhythms make the memories permanent.
(B) There four different brain rhythms.
(C) Memories occur only through dreaming.
(D) Many people have memory problems.
(E) Not dreaming means forgetting.

__RESPOSTA (A)__

• O que significa o título do texto?

*Alternativa (A): Os ritmos cerebrais dos sonhos tornam permanente as memórias.
➦O ritmo dos sonhos torna a memória permanente
*Alternativa (B): Existem quatro ritmos cerebrais diferentes.
➦Texto não faz menção de quantidade de ritmos.
*Alternativa (C): As memórias ocorrem apenas através do sonho.
➦Não há uma restrição quanto ao armazenamento da memória.
*Alternativa (D): Muitas pessoas têm problemas de memória.
➦Texto não faz menção que muitas pessoas têm problemas de memória.
*Alternativa (E): Não sonhar significa esquecer.
➦ Não há relação direta no título.

➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Read the text.

Amazon keeps expanding its empire

 Elizabeth Weise 

Amazon has doubled the number of air freight cargo planes it is leasing, a further build out of its internal delivery system.

Atlas Air Worldwide on Thursday said it had signed an agreement with the Seattle internet retailer to operate 20 Boeing 767 for the company for ten years.

Operations under the agreements are expected to begin in the second half of 2016 and ramp up to full service through 2018, Atlas said.
In addition, Amazon will acquire as much as 20% of Atlas.

The planes will be used to move packages between Amazon’s fulfillment centers, which package goods, to its sortation centers, which sort them into local delivery pallets that can be taken to the Post Office for bulk delivery, the company said.

The planes will also be used by Amazon to move goods between its fulfillment centers across the country to other centers where they are needed for one- and two-day delivery, as no one Amazon center can stock the 20 million items Amazon typically has available for two-day delivery.

The deal isn't surprising, said John Haber, CEO of Spend Management Experts, a supply chain management consulting firm.

“This is just the most recent step in Amazon building out a massive logistics network designed to move more of their transportation and distribution under their direct control," he said.

Available in: <http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/05/06/amazon-further-builds-out-air-freight-network/84035574/>.Access on: May 2016.

06 – (PUC-PR-2016/2017-VESTIBULAR DE VERÃO)

The text shows that

(A) Amazon’s partnership with Atlas Air Worldwide is to be the biggest delivery system in the US.
(B) Amazon will only use planes to deliver goods.
(C) Atlas Air Worldwide and Amazon have set up a partnership to send packages across the country and  between its fulfillment centers.
(D) All goods are delivered within two days by Amazon.
(E) The leasing of planes is Amazon’s best logistics network to be the best supply chain in the US.

__RESPOSTA (C)__

*Alternativa (A): A parceria da Amazon com a Atlas Air Worldwide deve ser o maior sistema de entrega nos EUA.
➦ O texto não informa se essa sociedade será a maior nos Estados Unidos.
*Alternativa (B): A Amazon usará apenas aviões para entregar mercadorias.
➦ Amazon também usa o sistema de correios de acordo com o texto.
*Alternativa (C): A Atlas Air Worldwide e a Amazon estabeleceram uma parceria para enviar pacotes pelo país e entre seus centros de atendimento.
➦ Informação alinhada com o texto, veja:
"[...] The planes will also be used by Amazon to move goods between its fulfillment."
(Os aviões também serão usados pela Amazon para movimentar mercadorias entre seus atendimentos.)
*Alternativa (D): Todos os produtos são entregues no prazo de dois dias pela Amazon.
➦O texto menciona que há entrega de produtos em um e dois dias, mas não afirma que todos são entregues em até dois dias.
*Alternativa (E): A locação de aviões é a melhor rede de logística da Amazon para ser a melhor cadeia de suprimentos nos EUA.
"[...] This is just the most recent step in Amazon building out a massive logistics network designed to move more of their transportation and distribution under their direct control."
(Isso é somente o mais recente passo para a Amazon construir uma rede maciça de logística destinada a mover mais seu transporte e distribuição sob seu controle direto.)