STRIX – 2018/2 – EBMSP – VESTIBULAR – LÍNGUA INGLESA – ESCOLA BAHIANA DE MEDICINA E SAÚDE PÚBLICA – PROVA COM GABARITO.

Welcome back to another post!

➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: STRIX-2018/2-EBMSP-VESTIBULAR-APLICAÇÃO-20/05/2018.

➧ GABARITO:

01-A, 02-E, 03-B, 04-E, 05-C

➧ PROVA:

➧ TEXT: Questões de 01 a 04.

Big U.S. tobacco companies are all developing e-cigarettes. The battery-powered gadgets feature a glowing tip and a heating element that turns liquid nicotine and flavorings into a cloud of vapor that users inhale. Some past research has suggested that using e-cigarettes may help smokers cut down on use of traditional tobacco products, or even transition entirely away from tobacco – an idea aggressively marketed by e-cigarette and tobacco companies.

But a recent European study says that smokers who also use e-cigarettes may be half as likely to give up tobacco as smokers who never vape at all.  

Researchers analyzed data from a 2014 survey of more than 13,000 current or former smokers in the European Union. About 2,500 had tried vaping at least once; 46% of the participants were former smokers and 19% currently or previously used e-cigarettes. The study revealed that people smoked an average of about 14 cigarettes a day when they didn’t vape, and around 16 cigarettes a day when they did.

“This is important because e-cigarettes are widely promoted as a smoking cessation tool”, said senior author Stanton Glantz of California, San Francisco. "And, while there is no question that some smokers do successfully quit with e-cigarettes, they keep many more people smoking", he added.

"Most adult smokers express a desire to quit, and many try and fail", said Samir Soneji, a health policy researcher in New Hampshire. "E-cigarettes might seem like an appealing cessation tool because the devices in some ways mimic the smoking, but nicotine gum or patches may be more effective."

RAPAPORT, Lisa.
Disponível em: <www.foxnews.com>.
Acesso em: abr. 2018. Adaptado.

01 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR)

About e-cigarettes, it’s correct to say that they

A) resemble traditional cigarettes.
B) vaporize a nicotine-free liquid solution.
C) can be lit up just like ordinary cigarettes.
D) are a healthier way for people to avoid nicotine.
E) have been strongly opposed by tobacco companies.

02 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR)

Considering the recent European study about e-cigarettes, fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

(  ) Over thirteen thousand people took part in the survey.

(  ) All the participants had been cigarette smokers at some point.

(  ) The smokers in the study used more cigarettes a day when they vaped.

(  ) None of the participants had tried e-cigarettes before the survey.

The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

A) F T F F
B) F T T T
C) T F F T
D) T F T F
E) T T T F

03 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR)

About the role of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool, the study has found out that e-cigarette users

A) find it easier to kick the habit.
B) may be less likely to quit smoking.
C) stop smoking shortly after they start vaping.
D) are rather free from the harmful effects of nicotine.
E) reduce considerably the number of cigarettes they used to smoke.

➧ TEXT: Questões de 04 e 05.

The aim of mindfulness is not quieting the mind, or attempting to achieve a state of eternal calm. The goal is simple: we’re aiming to pay attention to the present moment, without judgment.

Easier said than done, we know. When we notice judgments arise during our practice, we can make a mental note of them, and let them pass. Return to observing the present moment as it is. That’s the practice. The work is to just keep doing it. Results will accrue.

Disponível em: <https://www.mindful.org/what-is-mindfulness/>. Acesso em: abr. 2018. Adaptado. 

04 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR)

According to the text, mindfulness emphasizes that we should try to

A) escape from what’s going on around us.
B) reach a state of complete peace of mind.
C) stay detached from the present moment.
D) judge all our present actions carefully.
E) be aware of the present moment the way it is.

05 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR)

The suitable definition of the phrase "Easier said than done" is

A) Easy to suggest as it requires little effort.
B) Sounds like a good idea and it’s easy to do.
C) Easy to propose but difficult to accomplish.
D) Seems perfectly manageable and uncomplicated.
E) More easily put into practice than talked about.

STRIX – 2018/1 – EBMSP – VESTIBULAR – LÍNGUA INGLESA – ESCOLA BAHIANA DE MEDICINA E SAÚDE PÚBLICA – PROVA COM GABARITO.

Welcome back to another post!

➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: STRIX-2017/2018-EBMSP-VESTIBULAR.

➧ GABARITO:

01-A, 02-B, 03-A, 04-C, 05-C

➧ PROVA:

➧ TEXT: Questões de 01 a 04.

A law in France banning the use of unhealthily thin fashion models has come into effect. Models will need to provide a doctor's certificate attesting to their overall physical health, with special regard to their body mass index (BMI) – a measure of weight in relation to height.

   
The health ministry says the aim is to fight eating disorders and inaccessible ideals of beauty. Digitally altered photos will also have to be labeled from now on. Images where a model's appearance has been manipulated will need to be marked photographie retouchée (English: retouched photograph).

A previous version of the bill had suggested a minimum BMI for models, prompting protests from modeling agencies in France. But the final version allows doctors to decide whether a model is too thin by taking into account their weight, age, and body shape.

Employers breaking the law could face fines of up to 75,000 euros ($82,000) and up to six months in jail. "Exposing young people to normative and unrealistic images of bodies leads to a sense of self-depreciation and poor self-esteem that can impact health-related behavior," said France's Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Marisol Touraine.

France is not the first country to legislate on underweight models – Italy, Spain and Israel have all done so. Anorexia affects between 30,000 to 40,000 people in France, 90% of whom are women.

Disponível em: <www.bbc.com/news/world-europe>. 

Acesso em: ago. 2017. Adaptado.

01 – (STRIX-2018/1-VESTIBULAR)

According to the text, fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

The new French law

(   ) prohibits the use of dangerously skinny models.

(   ) encourages the adoption of weight-gaining diets.

(   ) emphasizes the importance of not being overweight.

(   ) requires media to state when photos have been manipulated to make models look thinner.

The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

A) T F F T
B) T F T F
C) T T F F
D) F T F T
E) F T T T

02 – (STRIX-2018/1-VESTIBULAR)

Fashion models in France are now required to

A) go through medical checkup as often as possible.
B) furnish a doctor’s note certifying that they’re healthy.
C) tell the agency whenever they have any kind of eating disorder.
D) prove that they have been following a sustainable diet.
E) see the agency’s doctor before each modeling event.

03 – (STRIX-2018/1-VESTIBULAR)

According to Marisol Touraine, the new law aims to

A) avoid the promotion of beauty ideals that are difficult to reach.
B) help young people cope with the hardships faced by fashion models.
C) promote a better relationship between fashion models and their agencies.
D) combat the practice of abuses by modeling agencies.
E) make young fashion models become more competitive.

04 – (STRIX-2018/1-VESTIBULAR)

The agents that disobey this law

A) are likely to face an irrelevant fine.
B) will be banned from the business.
C) may be given a prison sentence.
D) will have to pay a fine of over seventy-five euros.
E) won’t be able to work in the French market anymore.

05 – (STRIX-2018/1-VESTIBULAR)

Disponível em:<www.azquotes.com/quote>.

Acesso em: ago. 2017.

According to Albert Schweitzer, a truly ethical man

A) avoids assisting injured people.
B) limits his help to humans only.
C) tries to preserve any kind of life.
D) recognizes his inability to save lives.
E) thinks that causing injuries is unavoidable.

• ANSWER (C)

➦QUOTE (Citação):

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."
(Um homem é verdadeiramente ético somente quando obedece à compulsão de ajudar toda a vida que ele é capaz de ajudar e evita ferir qualquer coisa que viva.)

STRIX – 2017/2018 – EBMSP – VESTIBULAR – LÍNGUA INGLESA – ESCOLA BAHIANA DE MEDICINA E SAÚDE PÚBLICA – PROVA COM GABARITO.

Welcome back to another post!

➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: STRIX-2017/2018-EBMSP-VESTIBULAR-APLICAÇÃO-10/12/2017.

➧ GABARITO:

01-C, 02-B, 03-C, 04-D, 05-D

➧ PROVA:

➧ TEXT I: Questões de 01 a 02.

The use of human embryos for research on embryonic stem (ES) cells is currently high on the ethical and political agenda in many countries. Human embryonic stem cells (hES cells) are currently discussed not only by the biologists by whom they were discovered but also by the medical profession, media, ethicists, governments and politicians. There are several reasons for this. On the one hand, these ‘super cells’ have a major clinical potential in tissue repair, with their proponents believing that they represent the future relief or cure of a wide range of common disabilities; replacement of defective cells in a patient by transplantation of hES  cell-derived equivalents would restore normal function. On the other hand, the use of hES cells is highly polemical because they are derived from human pre-implantation embryos.

“Stem cells” are primitive cells with the capacity to divide and give rise to more identical stem cells or to specialize and form specific cells of somatic tissues. Broadly speaking, two types of stem cell can be distinguished: embryonic stem (ES) cells which can only be derived from pre-implantation embryos and have a proven ability to form cells of all tissues of the adult organism (termed “pluripotent”), and “adult” stem cells, which are found in a variety of tissues in the fetus and after birth and are, under normal conditions, more specialized (“multipotent”) with an important function in tissue replacement and repair.

Disponível em: <https://academic.oup.com>.
Acesso em: set. 2017. Adaptado.

01 – (STRIX-2017/2018-VESTIBULAR)

Embrionic stem(ES) cells differ from “adult” stem cells in that they

A) are less powerful.
B) are found soon after birth.
C) derive from early embryos.
D) derive from tissues in the fetus.
E) are unable to restore all kinds of tissues.

02 – (STRIX-2017/2018-VESTIBULAR)

Despite the potential benefit of using human ES cells in the treatment of diseases, their use

A) is doomed to failure.
B) remains controversial.
C) promises to be irrelevant.
D) has been unaffected by ethical concerns.
E) has been rejected by all the scientific community.

➧ TEXT I: Questões de 03 a 05.

Efecto acogida (“hospitality effect”) is an initiative led by several Catholic groups with the goal of creating citizen awareness about the situation of the refugees and migrants, and that calls, in a globalizing world where the capitals and technologies are transnational, to “globalize freedom, Human Rights and social justice”.

In a release, this collective reminds us that migrant movements are often motivated by “wars, natural disasters, hunger, violence and terrorism”, and also that displaced people are currently trapped in situations of extreme precariousness because of the indifference of Europe, crowding at the gates of the continent, and “surviving and dying before our eyes”. 

Also, they call to pressure Governments to act and face the gravity of the situation and list the measures that they urge them to take; among them are giving urgent attention to refugees, granting their rights, free circulation of people, and the establishment of decent conditions as well as ideas for improving the situations of the countries of origin (such as the elimination of debt or the creation of a new economic world order based on dialogue and solidarity between towns) to prevent those people from having to flee. Measures intended, ultimately, to overcome the “globalization of indifference”.

Disponível em: <www.comillas.edu/>.

Acesso em: set. 2017. 

03 – (STRIX-2017/2018-VESTIBULAR)

The initiative called Efecto acogida aims to

A) restrict the entrance of potential terrorists in Europe.
B) solve the impact of extreme temperatures on refugee camps.
C) make people become more sensible of migrants’ current situation.
D) study the effects of multiple racial interaction among refugees.
E) show the results of refugees’ concentration in certain parts of Europe.

04 – (STRIX-2017/2018-VESTIBULAR)

Among the measures in favor of refugees, the one not mentioned in the text is to

A) promote their well-being.
B) give them freedom of movement.
C) build solidarity between refugees and European governments.
D) encourage more people to leave their countries of origin.
E) help their countries of origin to solve possible debt problems.

05 – (STRIX-2017/2018-VESTIBULAR)

The word or expression from the text has been correctly defined in

A) “displaced”– discouraged.
B) “trapped”– protected.
C) “as well as” – except for.
D) “ultimately”– in the end.
E) “overcome”– underestimate.

STRIX – 2017/2 – EBMSP – VESTIBULAR – LÍNGUA INGLESA – ESCOLA BAHIANA DE MEDICINA E SAÚDE PÚBLICA – PROVA COM GABARITO.

 STRIX-2017/2-EBMSP-VESTIBULAR-APLICAÇÃO-18/06/2017.

➧ GABARITO:

01-A, 02-E, 03-D, 04-B, 05-C

➧ PROVA:

➧ TEXT: Questões de 01 e 02.

Most of us want to reach our true potential. We might drink a cup of coffee to stay awake and alert, or go for a run, to feel on top of the job. So where’s the harm in a pill ‒ a “smart drug” ‒ that can do the same thing? These so-called cognitive-enhancing drugs are usually prescribed to treat medical conditions, but known for their power to improve memory or focus.

Many people buy them over the internet, which is risky because they don’t know what they’re getting. And we also know next to nothing about the long-term effects on the brains of healthy people, particularly the young. But some scientists believe they could have a beneficial role to play in society, if properly regulated.

So who’s taking what? Newsnight and New Scientist magazine decided to run an anonymous online questionnaire of readers. They were surprised by the volume of replies, 761, of whom 38% said they had taken cognitive-enhancing drugs. Of those, nearly 40% said they had bought the drug online, and 92% said they would try it again. One student said: “I was able to write a 22-page paper in one day. I revised it over the next couple of days and got an A. Normally, I wouldn’t have even been able to get a rough draft done in a week.” Another student remarked: “Did not help me do anything but feel anxious or excited, could not sit still even 15 hours later.”

Disponível em: <www.bbc.com/news/health-15600900>. Acesso em: mar. 2017. Adaptado.

01 – (STRIX-2017/2-VESTIBULAR)

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False) considering what is said about “smart drugs”.

(  ) They are harmful to people’s memory.

(  ) They might damage our brain.

(  ) They are avoided by the entire scientific community.

(  ) They are commonly used in some medical treatments.

The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

A) T F F T
B) T F T F
C) T T F F
D) F T F T
E) F T T T 

02 – (STRIX-2017/2-VESTIBULAR)

Considering the results of the survey carried out by Newsnight and New Scientist magazine about the “smart drug” consumption, it’s correct to say:

A) Only a negligible number of people answered the questionnaire.
B) Over half of the participants admitted having used the drug.
C) All the participants bought the drug through the Internet.
D) None of the students had a negative view about the drug.
E) Most of the users approved of the drug.

➧ TEXT: Questões de 03 a 05.

Change4Life is a public health program in England which began in January 2009, run by the Department of Health. It is the country’s first national social marketing campaign to tackle the causes of obesity.  

Change4Life aims to help families and  middle-aged adults make small, sustainable yet significant improvements to their diet, activity levels and alcohol consumption. It uses the slogan “eat well, move more, live longer”. 

Change4Life encourages people to adopt six healthy behaviors.

• 5 A Day – suggestions for ways to eat the recommended 5 portions of fruit and veg each day.

• Watch the salt – advice on reducing the amount of salt eaten each day, ideally keeping it to below 6g for adults.

• Cut back fat – information about the (mainly saturated) fat found in foods and ways to reduce this.

• Sugar swaps – information about sugar found in foods and suggestions for healthier alternatives.

• Choose less booze – ways for adults cut down on alcohol consumption to within government lowerrisk guidelines.

• Get going every day – why it’s important to lead an active lifestyle and ways for adults and children to do this cheaply and easily.

Disponível em: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change4Life>.
Acesso em: mar. 2017. Adaptado.   

03 – (STRIX-2017/2-VESTIBULAR)

The Change4Life program was launched by the English government in order to

A) hire people to help with the movement.
B) provide food for the poor people.
C) help families cope with expensive food.
D) deal with the overweight problem.
E) ban all kinds of alcoholic beverage.

04 – (STRIX-2017/2-VESTIBULAR)

Among the behaviors recommended by Change4Life, the only one not mentioned in the text is

A) exercising regularly.
B) ingesting saturated fat only.
C) cutting down on one’s salt intake.
D) eating reasonable amounts of fruit and vegetable every day.
E) exchanging sugary foods for nutritious ones.

05 – (STRIX-2017/2-VESTIBULAR)

Disponível em: <https://www.brainyquote.com>.

Acesso em: mar. 2017. 

According to Dr. Mayo, medicine should ideally reach a stage in which

A) most diseases could be avoided.
B) people would be able to live longer.
C) the doctor wouldn’t be necessary.
D) sick people had unconditional assistance.
E) all citizens could profit from welfare benefits.

STRIX – 2018/2 – EBMSP – VESTIBULAR – LÍNGUA INGLESA – ESCOLA BAHIANA DE MEDICINA E SAÚDE PÚBLICA – PROVA COM GABARITO.

Welcome back to another post!

➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: STRIX-2018/2-EBMSP-VESTIBULAR-APLICAÇÃO-17/06/2018.

➧ GABARITO:

01-A, 02-D, 03-E, 04-A, 05-E

➧ PROVA:

➧ TEXT:

Can our technological connectedness trump the risks of our biological and geographic connectedness?

That’s one reason Nathan Wolfe has pushed GVF (Globe Viral Forecasting) to pioneer what he calls digital epidemiology, which uses the resources of the Internet to make predictive sense of the viral chatter picked up in the field. He and his team are setting up a bioinformatics strategy that could mine data from Internet searches and social media to pinpoint new outbreaks as they dawn – and potentially predict which newly discovered viruses might pose real threats to humanity. That work is culminating in a project called Epidemic IQ that will, Wolfe hopes, provide the ability to predict new pandemics the way the CIA might predict a terrorist attack.

Current global disease control efforts focus largely on attempting to stop pandemics after they have already emerged. This fire brigade approach, which generally involves drugs, vaccines, and behavioral change, has severe limitations. Just as we discovered in the 1960s that it is better to prevent heart attacks than try to treat them, we realize that it’s better to stop pandemics before they spread and that effort should increasingly be focused on viral forecasting and pandemic prevention.

“We’re finally beginning to understand why pandemics happen instead of just reacting to them”, Wolfe says. What’s needed is a global effort to scale up that kind of proactive work to ensure that every hot spot has surveillance running for new pathogens in animals and in human beings and that it has its own GVF-type group to do the work. Viruses don’t respect borders – whether between nations or between species – and in a world where airlines act like bloodlines, global health is only as strong as its weakest link. We got lucky with the relatively weak swine-flu pandemic in 2009, but history tells us our luck won’t last. “We sit here dodging bullets left and right, assuming we have an invisible shield”, says Wolfe. “But you can’t dodge bullets forever.”

WALSH, Bryan.Virus hunter. Disponível em: <content.time.com/time/subscriber/l>.Acesso em: mai. 2018. Adaptado.

01 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR)

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

Considering the strategy set up by Nathan Wolfe and his team to handle the problem of pandemics, it’s correct to say that they aim to

(  ) ignore the next pandemics before it happens.

(  ) make the most of the Internet resources so as to better deal with them.

(  ) detect potential lethal viruses at their source.

(  ) disregard any information gotten through social media.

The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

A) F T T F
B) F T F T
C) T T F T
D) T F T F
E) T F F T

02 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR)

The text says that, when dealing with pandemics nowadays, public health officials try to

A) prevent them.
B) predict new outbreaks.
C) be prepared for the next one.
D) mitigate their harmful effects.
E) stop them before they take place. 

03 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR) According to Wolfe, the most important thing to do when dealing with pandemics is to

(A) find the best drugs to fight them.

(B) react to their effects as quickly as possible.

(C) avoid contact with contaminated animals.

(D) take measures to vaccinate all the population.

(E) identify emerging viruses before they start causing problems.

04 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR) The expression in bold in the sentence “But you can’t dodge bullets forever.” means that you can’t

(A) avoid the danger.

(B) predict the future.

(C) trust history.

(D) survive on drugs.

(E) be unlucky.

05 – (STRIX-2018/2-VESTIBULAR) Considering the reduction of pandemic influenza transmission, this cartoon focus on

Disponível em: <https://cartoonstock.com>.

Acesso em: mai. 2018.

(A) water misuse.
(B) religious faith.
(C) disease sueveillance.
(D) healthcare assistance.
(E) personal protective measures.

 👍  Comentários e Gabarito   E  
TÓPICOS - LEITURA DE IMAGEM, LEITURA DE TEXTO & MENSAGEM IMPLÍCITA:

Considering the reduction of pandemic influenza transmission, this cartoon focus on

(A) water misuse.

mau uso da água.

(B) religious faith.

fé religiosa.
(C) disease sueveillance.

vigilância de doenças.
(D) healthcare assistance.

assistência médica.
(E) personal protective measures.

medidas de proteção pessoal.