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❑ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA:
• UECE-2017.1-VESTIBULAR-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-04/12/16.
❑ ESTRUTURA-PROVA:
• 20 MCQ (Multiple Choice Question) / 4 Options Each Question.
• Texto – | Putting Sugary Soda Out of Reach | nytimes.com |
PROVA, TRADUÇÃO, GABARITO & MUITO VOCABULÁRIO
❑ FONTE DO TEXTO:
* The New York Times é um jornal diário estadunidense. A versão impressa do jornal tem a segunda maior circulação, atrás do The Wall Street Journal. Apelidado de "The Lady Gray", o New York Times há muito tempo tem sido considerado um "jornal de referência" nacional.
❑ TEXTO:
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.
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