QCOM – 2018/2019 – OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA – LÍNGUA INGLESA – QUADRO COMPLEMENTAR DE OFICIAIS INTENDENTES DA MARINHA – PROVA COM GABARITO.

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➧ A pauta aqui é MILITARY ENGLISH.

➧ PROVA: QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA-LÍNGUA INGLESA.

➧ BANCA/ORGANIZADOR: https://www.marinha.mil.br

➧ PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 10 questões do tipo (A,B,C,D,E).

➧ GABARITO:

01-C, 02-D, 03-A, 04-C, 05-A

06-B, 07-A, 08-D, 09-B, 10-E

➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Based on the text below, answer the next question.

 Now Hear This: A Navy Audiologist in the Federated States of Micronesia

By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class

Byron C. Linder, Pacific Partnership Public Affairs

Story Number: NNS180326-20 Release

Date: 3/26/2018 1:34:00 PM

        PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) - Pacific Partnership, with 2018 marking the 13th iteration of the event, brings together a vast array of personnel from countries including the U.S., United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan. In each demographic, you'll find personnel who are on their first, second, or even third trip to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).

But only one participant this year can claim the crown of "most familiar firsthand" with the FSM islands. He is Lt. Matt Thomas, an audiologist stationed at Navy Environmental Preventative Medicine Unit 6 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with 18 years of service in the active duty and Reserves.

This is Thomas' third time to Yap...but ninth overall to Micronesia. He's not a diving enthusiast, exploring the countless reefs under the sea in his off duty time. Nor is this his ninth Pacific Partnership - indeed, it is his first time as part of the mission. Rather, he has made it his focus to bring his specialty of audiology to a place where there is no native support, time and time again.

A native son of El Paso, Texas, and University of Texas graduate, Thomas found himself working for a baseball team and being less than impressed with the "grunt work" the job entailed."During my breaks, I would read, mostly history. I was a history major, and I wanted to work overseas when I got out of college, but l was not doing that. So I put it all together and figured the Navy would be the way to make that happen," Thomas explained.

Thomas pursued a career as a surface warfare officer, but it was during a deployment to Djibouti in 2010 that he began not just a transition from the Reserves to active duty... but to a whole new field.'The medical field was my avenue to go from the Reserves to active duty, and audiology offered me the chance to take the prerequisite courses while I was deployed. I took eight classes that one summer in Djibouti, applied to every school that I could, and got accepted," Thomas recalled, adding he maintained Reserve service while balancing a full-time class schedule.

Navy Environmental Preventative Medicine Unit 6, Thomas' command, has significant operational presence in the area. But it was force of will, he said, that got him to the FSM.

(Abridged from http://www.navy.mil/)

01 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

According to the text, it is correct to state that:

(A) Lt. Matt Thomas has worked in active duty for 18 years.

(B) Lt. Matt Thomas has been to Pacific Partnership before.

(C) Lt. Matt Thomas intended to work abroad after graduation.

(D) Lt. Matt Thomas started in the Reserves as an audiologist.

(E) Lt. Matt Thomas took one summer off to prepare for college exams.

Resposta:  C

➧ INSTRUÇÃO: Based on the text below, answer the next question.

 How much should your boss know about you?

By José Luis Penarredonda, 26 March 2018

 We’re all being graded every day. The expensive plane tickets I bought recently have already popped up in my credit score. The fact that I've stopped jogging every morning has been noted by my fitness app - and, if it were connected with an insurance company, this change might push up my premiums. [...]. And, yes, my desirability and efficiency as a worker is also up for evaluation and can be given a number.

HR departments are crunching increasing volumes of data to measure employees in a more granular way. From software that records every keystroke, or the ‘smart’ coffee machines that will only give you a hot drink if you tap it with your work ID badge there are more opportunities than ever for bosses to measure behaviour. Some analysts think this industry could be worth more than $1 billion by 2022.

One big aim of data collection is to make “predictions about how long an'employee will stay, and it may influence hiring, firing, or retention of people" [...].

One problem with this approach is that it’s blind to some of the non-quantifiable aspects of work. Some of the subtler things I do in order to be a better writer, for instance, are not quantifiable: having a drink with someone who tells me a great story, or imagining a piece on my commute. None of these things would show up in my ‘job score'. “A lot of the qualitative aspects of work are being written out,” says Moore, “because if you can’t measure them, they don't exist”.

 The dilemma of data

         There are several good business reasons to collect data on employees - from doing better risk management to examining if social behaviours in the workplace can lead to gender discrimination. “Companies fundamentally don't understand how people interact and collaborate at work,” says Ben Waber, president and CEO of Humanyze, an American company which gathers and analyses data about the workplace. He says that he can show them.

Humanyze gathers data from two sources. The first is the metadata from employees’ communications: their email, phone or corporate messaging service [...]. The second area is data gathered from gadgets like Bluetooth infrared sensors which detect how many people are working in one particular part of an office and how they move around. They also use 'supercharged' ID badges that, as Waber says, are beefed up with "microphones which don't record what you say, but do voice-processing in real time.” This allows measurement of the proportion of time you speak, or how often people interrupt you.

After six weeks of research, the employer gets a 'big picture’ of the problem it wants to solve, based on the analysed data. If the aim, for instance, is to boost sales, they can analyse what their best salespeople do that others don’t.

Waber sees it as “a lens of very large work issues, like diversity, inclusion, workload assessment, workspace planning, or regulatory risk”. His business case is that these tools will help companies save millions of dollars and even years of time [...].

(Abridged from http://www.bbc.com)

02 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

According to the text, it is correct to state that:

(A) the writer’s insurance company is well aware of his exercise routine and rewards him for that.

(B) data collection industry will definitely be worth more than one billion dollars in four years’ time.

(C) employers can't use data collection to manage social behaviours in the workplace.

(D) companies are writing down a lot of the qualitative aspects of work to assess their employees.

(E) Humanyze has access to the content of the conversations the ID badges record.

Resposta:  D

03 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

Which option completes the text below correctly?

 The story of a sub's last desperate dive

         [...] The lost submarine ______ during an expedition______by Find AE1 Limited in December 2017, more than 103 years after it______near the Duke of York Islands in PNG, ending one of Australia’s longest naval mysteries.

Defence Minister Marise Payne said the images collected during the expedition ______ that the boat’s guardrails ______ and hatches appeared to be shut. “These first assessments from the expedition indicate that the AE1 ______ to be in a state for underwater operations."

(Adapted from httpI I : www.defence.gov.au/news)

(A) was discovered / led / disappeared / showed / were stowed / was configured

(B) discovered / was led / was disappeared / showed / were stowed / configured

(C) discovered / led / disappeared / were shown / stowed / was configured

(D) was discovered / was led / was disappeared / showed /stowed / configured

(E) discovered / led / was disappeared / were shown / stowed / configured

Resposta:  A

04 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

Which option completes the text below correctly?

A Beijing company has unveiled spectacularly futuristic designs for a pollution-busting, elevated bus

         [...] Song Youzhou, the project’s chief engineer, claimed the busses could be produced for 20% of the price of an underground train and rolled out far more quickly since the______infrastructure was relatively simple.

The project has been greeted with ______ in China, where traffic jams have grown as the country ______the United States to become the largest car market on earth in 2009.

However,______over th e______ was tempered by the fact that a virtually identical contraption was unveiled at the same expo in 2010 without catching on. Its ______? A Chinese engineer by the name of Song Youzhou.

(Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com)

(A) supporting / anticipated / mistook / excitement / innovative / designs

(B) supportive / anticipation / mistook / excited / innovation / designing

(C) supporting / anticipation / overtook / excitement / innovation / designer

(D) supportive / anticipated / overtook / excited / innovative / design

(E) supports / anticipation / undertook / excitement / innovation / designings

Resposta:  C

05 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

Which option completes the text below correctly?

 There are cells in the retina of our eye that ______ directly with the brain's biological clock regulators located in the hypothalamus and this pathway is most affected by light. These neurons ______ to be most affected by light waves from the blue spectrum or blue light. This is the kind of light most prominent in electronic lights from computers and smartphones. This ______ a modern challenge that can adversely affect our natural sleep-wake cycle.

Additional factors that can hamper sleep ______  pain conditions, medications for other conditions, and the increased demands and connectedness of modern society.

(Adapted from http://theconversation.com)

(A) communicate / have been found / has become / include

(B) communicates / had been found / had become / includes

(C) communicates / has been found / has become / includes

(D) communicate / had been found / had become / includes

(E) communicates / has been found / has become / include

Resposta:  A

06 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

Which is the correct option to complete the paragraph below?

     My reflections around the concept of responsibility

 I believe ___ responsibility is first and foremost ___ adult attitude. It is ___ result of human action and necessitates ___ sharing of meaning with others. It requires us to collectively adhere to ___ notion behind ___ idea of___ responsibility, which of itself is a responsibility.

(Adapted from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse)

(A) 0 / the / a / a / a / the / 0

(B) 0 / an / the / the / the / the / 0

(C) the / 0 / a / a / the / an / the

(D) the / an / the / 0 / a / the / the

(E) 0 / 0 / the / 0 / the / an / 0

Resposta:  B

07 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

Which option completes the text below correctly?

Marine Corps fitness test offers smart alternative to running

Marines of any age can now conduct the rowing portion of the PFT if they have a medical chit proving they are incapable ____completing the running test. (CpI. Jeff Drew/ Marine Corps)

The Marine Corps is making changes____ its Physical Fitness Test, allowing Marines to replace the three-mile running portion of the PFT ____ a 5,000- meter stint on a rowing machine. Marines seeking to do that will require a medical chit to prove and explain why they can’t run. But it will allow fit and hard-working Marines to still earn a top score ____ their fitness test without risking unnecessary injury. It comes at a time when the entire military is wrestling ____ issues of standards and fitness.

(Adapted from https://www.navytimes.com)

(A) of / to / with / on / with

(B) in / to / with / by / for

(C) to / from / with / by / with

(D) of/for/for/on / about

(E) to / for / for / by / for

Resposta:  A

08 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

Choose the correct option to complete the paragraph below.

Everyone ____ encryption, particularly when they____ sites that ____ personal information. Don't trust a page that ____ for passwords but isn’t encrypted. Do check out the address bar: if the beginning_____“HTTPS", that’s a sign of encryption.

(Adapted from http://makeuseof.com)

(A) needing / visited / requires / ask / reads

(B) need / visit / require / asking / read

(C) needs / have visited / requires / asks / reading

(D) needs / visit / require / asks / reads

(E) need / visited / require / asking /reading

Resposta:  D

09 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

Which option completes the paragraph below correctly?

Pacific Partnership 2018 consists of more than 800 ______ stationed worldwide and embarked aboard [...] Military Sealift Command expeditionary ______ USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6), working side-by-side with______to be better prepared for ______ and disaster response situations.

(Abridged from http://www.navy.mil)

(A) U.S. personnel military / fast ship transport / counterparts host nation / aid potential humanitarian

(B) U.S. military personnel / fast transport ship / host nation counterparts / potential humanitarian aid

(C) U.S. military personnel / transport fast ship / nation host counterparts / aid potential humanitarian

(D) Military U.S. personnel / fast transport ship / host nation counterparts / humanitarian potential aid

(E) Ü.S. personnel military / transport ship fast / nation host counterparts / potential humanitarian aid

Resposta:  B

10 – (QCOM-2018/2019-OFICIAL INTENDENTE DA MARINHA)

Mark the sentence that is INCORRECT.

(A) I thought the gap year would be a good experience and if I enjoyed it, I’d stay in the Navy.

(B) If left unchecked, it can double the amount of fuel needed to sustain operational speeds.

(C) If I just did the courses they required me to, I’d reach the “minimum threshold capability”.

(D) If the new coating continues to perform well, it is likely to be rolled out for all the vessels.

(E) If I knew their families are present at the ceremony, I will pass on my best wishes to them.

Resposta:  E