UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE- LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR-Universidade Estadual do Ceará - Prova com gabarito.

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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-VESTIBULAR, aplicada em 04/12/2016.

➧ BANCA/ORGANIZADOR: Universidade Estadual do Ceará - Comissão Executiva do Vestibular - www.uece.br/cev.

➧ PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 20 questões do tipo múltipla escolha (A,B,C,D).

➧ GABARITO:

01-D, 02-B, 03-C, 04-A, 05-B

06-D, 07-B, 08-C, 09-A, 10-D

11-B, 12-C, 13-A, 14-B, 15-D

16-C, 17-B, 18-D, 19-A, 20-B

➧ TEXTO:

Can public health officials force Americans to break their soda habit?

The answer may come soon from the University of California, San Francisco, a health sciences center that has more than 24,000 employees on its sprawling campus. Last year, U.C.S.F. removed sugar-sweetened beverages from every store, food truck and vending machine on its campus. Even popular fast-food chains on the campus, like Subway and Panda Express, have stopped selling Sprite, Coca-Cola and their sugary brethren at the university’s request.

The institution is believed to be one of the largest employers to remove sugary drinks from the workplace. With sugary sodas now a rare sight on campus, the university found that it had the perfect conditions to study what happens when people who were drinking large amounts of sugar during their workday suddenly stop.

Researchers there have enrolled 214 of the school’s employees into a rigorous study, collecting blood samples to see if there have been any major metabolic changes in the people who lowered their soda intake. While they expect to publish complete results soon, early indicators are promising.

Since the policy went into effect a year ago, the university says it has recorded a significant drop in soft drink consumption among its employees, particularly service workers, who were the biggest consumers. A university survey of 2,500 employees found that some service workers and support staff members had been drinking up to a liter of soda at work and at home each day, or almost three cans. Six months after the policy went into effect, these workers had reduced their consumption by about a quarter.

“We’re a public health institution, and there’s something not right about us making money off of products that we know are making people sick,” said Laura Schmidt, a professor at the medical school who spearheaded the beverage initiative. “How dare we profit off of a product that our own doctors say causes metabolic disease?”

The university’s experiment comes at a time of growing battles over policies aimed at curbing soda consumption. On Tuesday, three cities in Northern California and one in Colorado will be voting on whether to tax soft drinks. The cities of Berkeley and Philadelphia have already approved taxes on sugary beverages. One recent study found that the Berkeley tax was working: In low-income areas, sugary drink consumption fell and water consumption rose after the tax went into effect. Last month, the World Health Organization urged countries around the world to impose a tax on sugary drinks, presenting research that showed just a 20 percent increase in soda prices would result in a proportionate reduction in their consumption.

The beverage industry has been fighting back, spending millions on ad campaigns against the proposed taxes in California and Colorado, which it calls a regressive “grocery tax” that hurts the poor. In September, the industry filed a lawsuit against Philadelphia, calling its soda tax illegal.

As the fights over soda taxes play out, many hospitals and health organizations have taken matters into their own hands, banning sugary drinks from their own workplaces. Nationwide, at least 30 medical centers have restricted the sale of soda and full-calorie sports drinks, including the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and the University of Michigan Health System.

U.C.S.F.’s policy may be the most farreaching. It applies not only to its medical center, but the entire university, including the aforementioned 24,000 employees and its 8,500 visitors and patients each year. Visitors to the campus now will find only bottled water, diet drinks, unsweetened teas, and in some cases 100 percent fruit juice with no added sugar.

Michael Flanders, an assistant specialist in the medical center’s division of hematology and oncology, said he had been consuming “tons” of added sugar daily from San Pellegrino Limonatas and other sugary drinks. But when the policy went into effect and the drinks disappeared, sparkling water became his drink of choice.

“It took my taste buds a couple months to adjust, but I’ve come to genuinely enjoy black coffee and unflavored fizzy water,” he said. “Soda and sugary coffee drinks now seem overwhelmingly sweet.”

But while the university says it hopes its policy will become a model for other large employers to follow, the beverage industry argues that the strategy is flawed. It points out that obesity rates have been climbing even as America’s soda intake has declined in recent years. And it says that focusing blame on soda alone, rather than calories from all foods, is misguided.

But Ms. Schmidt said it doesn’t make sense for doctors to urge patients to cut back on sweetened beverages while a university medical center continues to sell those same drinks.

Getting the university to stop selling sugary drinks was surprisingly easy, Ms. Schmidt and her colleagues say. The school’s chancellor, after some initial reluctance, decided that the goal was important, and many faculty members supported the idea. The university’s beverage supplier then agreed to stock the campus stores and cafeterias with mostly water and zero-calorie drinks. One exception was made for 100 percent fruit juices, which have natural but not added sugars.

The policy was announced last July and phased in over a four-month period as the university handed out pamphlets and other educational materials to students and staff members.

“We educated everyone and explained to people how harmful sugar sweetened beverages can be to health,” said Leeane Jensen, the director of well-being at the university. “People got it right away, and they were all in support of it.”

Robert W. Jones, who owns two Subway franchises on the campus, said that when the school asked him to stop selling soda, he worried that it would upset his customers. Mr. Jones said that his beverage sales declined by about 10 percent in the first two months after the soda was removed, but that he recovered most of the business through sales of diet drinks and bottled water.

Whether the policy will have any measurable impact on health remains to be seen. Elissa Epel, the associate director of the university’s Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, said she and her colleagues want to find out if employees who manage to reduce their overall sugary drink intake saw any impact on things like weight loss, liver health, insulin resistance and telomeres, the stretches of DNA that are linked to longevity.

One employee who is enrolled in the study, Kristine Obiniana, an analyst at the medical center, said she had been consuming as many as three sugary drinks per day. Ms. Obiniana said that when the policy first went into effect last year, she found herself bringing ginger ale, Dr. Pepper and Capri Sun juices to work. Eventually, she stopped bringing soda to work and started drinking water, tea and zero-calorie flavored drinks instead. She has lost five pounds and hopes to lose at least 20 more.

www.nytimes.com/

nov/03/2016

01 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

According to the text, last year the University of California, San Francisco, decided to

A) prohibit its 24,000 employees from drinking soda.

B) disallow the selling of sugary beverages in its campus.

C) ban from the vending machines all types of products containing sugar.

D) restrict the commercialization of soda to visitors only.

02 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

Laura Schmidt, a professor at the medical school, argues that a public health institution is not supposed to

A) profit from the selling of products that are causing people to be sick.

B) interfere with the campus policies on what to sell.

C) allow its employees to bring unhealthy food from home.

D) give permission to fast food chains to be on the campus. 

03 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

With the new policy adopted by the U.C.S.F. on sugary beverages, the consumption of these products has already dropped significantly mainly among

A) students.

B) professors.

C) service workers.

D) visitors.

04 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The decision made by the U.C.S.F. is in the context of policies toward reducing the consumption of sugary beverages in the US, where cities like Philadelphia and Berkeley have already decided to

A) tax these beverages.

B) prohibit schools from selling them.

C) allow only people over 18 to buy them.

D) reduce the size of bottles.

05 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

As a result of the soda related policy adopted by the city of Berkeley some figures start to appear, like a reduction in consumption of sugary drinks in

A) schools and hospitals.

B) workplaces in general.

C) universities.

D) low-income areas.

06 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The World Health Organization has presented research evidencing that an increase in soda prices

A) will make the younger generation much healthier.

B) corresponds proportionately to a decrease in consumption.

C) would solve most of children’s health problems.

D) can bring financial benefits to the poor.

07 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The University of California has enrolled more than two hundred employees for a study that will explore the effects of lowering soda consumption. Among the issues that will be considered in the research are

A) migraines and liver conditions.

B) heart diseases and weight loss.

C) weight loss and longevity.

D) blood pressure and insulin resistance.

08 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

Although the impacts of the policy are still to be seen, employees like Ms. Obiniana have already reported results from not consuming sugar sweetened beverages at work, such as

A) getting rid of some pounds.

B) not having constant headaches.

C) having lost almost 20 pounds.

D) not worrying about diabetes.

09 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

Among the beverages one may easily find at U.C.S.F. nowadays are

A) orange juice and low-calorie drinks.

B) sprite and flavored water.

C) water and zero-calorie drinks.

D) San Pellegrino Limonatas and water.

10 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The largest employer so far to stop the selling of sugary drinks at the workplace seems to be the

A) University of Michigan.

B) University of California, San Francisco.

C) Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

D) New York University.

11 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The U.C.S.F. is optimistic and hopeful in the sense that its decision may serve as a

A) stimulus to people all over the world.

B) means to help low-income students.

C) source of research data for other institutions.

D) model to be followed by other large institutions.

12 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The beverage industry has reacted to such policies related to their sugary drinks arguing that

A) sugary beverages are very healthy.

B) the policy has flaws.

C) the problem is totally in other types of food.

D) they will sue all the institutions involved.

13 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentences:

“Last year, U.C.S.F. removed sugar-sweetened beverages from every store, food truck and vending machine on its campus.” (lines 6- 9)

and

“Eventually, she stopped bringing soda to work and started drinking water, tea and zerocalorie flavored drinks instead.” (167-169)

are, respectively,

A) compound and simple.

B) complex and compound.

C) simple and compound.

D) compound-complex and simple.

14 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentences:

“...some service workers and support staff members had been drinking up to a liter of soda at work and at home each day” (lines 35-37)

and

“The university’s experiment comes at a time of growing battles over policies aimed at curbing soda consumption.” (lines 49-51)

are, respectively, in the

A) present perfect tense and present continuous.

B) past perfect continuous and present tense.

C) present perfect continuous and past continuous.

D) past perfect tense and present perfect tense.

15 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentences:

“…he recovered most of the business through sales of diet drinks and bottled water.” (lines 147-149)

and

“Even popular fast-food chains on the campus, like Subway and Panda Express, have stopped selling Sprite, Coca-Cola and their sugary brethren at the university’s request.” (lines 09-13)

contain, respectively, a/an

A) direct object and a direct object.

B) indirect object and a direct object.

C) direct object and an indirect object.

D) indirect object and an indirect object.

16 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The verbs in the sentences:

“Michael Flanders, an assistant specialist in the medical center’s division of hematology and oncology, said he had been consuming “tons” of added sugar daily from San Pellegrino Limonatas and other sugary drinks.” (lines 91-95) 

and

“Six months after the policy went into effect, these workers had reduced their consumption by about a quarter.” (lines 38-40)

are, respectively, in the

A) active voice and passive voice.

B) passive voice and active voice.

C) passive voice and passive voice.

D) active voice and active voice.

17 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentences:

“The school’s chancellor, after some initial reluctance, decided that the goal was important…” (120-122)

and

“Kristine Obiniana, an analyst at the medical center, said she had been consuming as many as three sugary drinks per day.” (161-163)

contain, respectively, a/an

A) subject noun clause and an object noun clause.

B) object noun clause and an object noun clause.

C) subject noun clause and a subject noun clause.

D) object noun clause and a subject noun clause.

18 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentences “One exception was made for 100 percent fruit juices, which have natural but not added sugars…” (126-128)

and

“Robert W. Jones, who owns two Subway franchises on the campus, said that when the school asked him to stop selling soda, he worried that it would upset his customers.” (lines 141-144)

contain relative clauses that are classified, respectively, a/an

A) non-defining and non-defining.

B) defining and non-defining.

C) defining and defining.

D) non-defining and defining.

19 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

In the sentence

“Mr. Jones said that his beverage sales declined by about 10 percent in the first two months after the soda was removed…” (144-147),

one can find a/an

A) noun clause and an adjective clause.

B) adverb clause and an adverb clause.

C) noun clause and an adverb clause.

D) adjective clause a noun clause.

20 – (UECE-2017/1-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The functions of the -ing words sprawling (line 06), vending (line 09), drinking (line 20), collecting (line 24), and growing (line 50)

are, respectively,

A) adjective, verb, adjective, verb, and adjective.

B) verb, adjective, verb, adjective, and verb.

C) verb, verb, verb, adjective, and verb.

D) adjective, adjective, verb, verb, and adjective.