❑ TEXTO: Read text 1 and answer questions from 1 to 3.
The socio-cultural implications of Covid-19
By Professor Fethi Mansouri
Worldwide, the Covid-19 response has been largely premised on physical distancing, though this has, unfortunately, been discursively referred to in formal and informal discourse as social distancing. There is a big difference between the two concepts, with physical distancing not necessarily precluding social connectedness, whereas social distancing unavoidably presumes disconnectedness.
But for physical distancing not to also engender social distancing and inter-personal disconnectedness, certain societal conditions need to be met and made available indiscriminately. These include, first and foremost, access to basic infrastructure such as shelter, internet and basic everyday living needs. Sadly, across the world, and even within some developed societies, this has not always been the case. Entrenched social inequalities and economic marginalization have resulted in large proportions of the world’s populations being deprived of the most basic of human needs, let alone the capacity to be physically distant while at the same time socially connected and adequately supported to meet living needs.
The problem of social and economic inequalities are amplifying the challenge of managing the rapid spread of Covid-19 globally, but what has also emerged is the systematic racism, particularly against people of Asian background, in Western émigré societies. Indeed, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence of racist attacks in many countries. This is not altogether a new phenomenon; a significant existing body of evidence shows that at times of crises – be they economic, environmental, security or health-related – minority groups are often made scapegoats and are subjected to racist, exclusionary, often violent discourses and practices.
Covid-19 is already showing us a variety of patterns of racism aimed at Asian people ranging from cyber bullying to physical attacks, racist trolling, and a variety of xenophobic conspiracy theories that have been articulated not only by ordinary citizens but also some politicians and world leaders. None of this serves the intercultural dialogue agenda, with its emphasis on cross-cultural contact, mutual understanding, respectful engagement and inter-communal solidarity.
- (Retrived from: <https://en.unesco.org/news/socio-cultural-implications-covid-19>)
01 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) What is the best word to replace “precluding”, paragraph 1, line 3?
a) Agreeing
b) Impeding
c) Supporting
d) Forwarding
e) Suggesting
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02 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) Regarding the main ideas from text 1, consider the following statements.
I. The Covid-19 has weakened cases of prejudice and discrimination.
II. The concepts of physical distancing and social distancing are not synonyms.
III. Access to technology to communicate with one another is considered a basic need now.
IV. Despite the difficulty of promoting an intercultural dialogue agenda, it is one of the key elements to
face Covid-19 globally.
Choose the correct alternative.
a) Only the statements I and II are correct.
b) Only the statements I and IV are correct.
c) Only the statements III and IV are correct.
d) Only the statements I, II and III are correct.
e) Only the statements II, III and IV are correct.
Comentários e Gabarito E
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03 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) The author employed the terms “social inequalities” and “economic marginalization” to state that the
pandemic
a) has enhanced varied types of inequalities that people have being experiencing.
b) has created varied types of inequalities.
c) had made a huge amount of people requering basic human needs.
d) has effected everyone regardless of his or her backgrounds.
e) has not change people’s reality at all.
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❑ TEXTO: Read text 2 and answer questions from 4 to 6.
- (Retrived from: <https://www.usnews.com/cartoons/immigration-cartoons>.)
04 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) On text 2, the former US President is addressing to a young migrant boy and creates a controversy in his
speech.
What is the meaning conveyed?
a) He said he hadn’t looked for his parents and couldn’t find them.
b) He said he had looked for his parents and couldn’t find them.
c) He didn’t say he hadn’t looked for his parents and could find them.
d) He said he had looked for his parents and could find them.
e) He didn’t say he had looked for his parents and couldn’t find them.
Comentários e Gabarito A
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05 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) In multimodal texts, the meanings are created by the use of both written and visual language. Regarding
the ideas created on text 2, consider the following statements.
I. The former US President says a declarative statement.
II. The young migrant boy is positioned as a passive character both by his visual representation and by
his non-verbal statement.
III. By visual language, it is possible to infer the discursive effect of the former US President’s statement
on the young migrant boy.
IV. The visual language contradicts the written one.
Choose the correct alternative.
a) Only the statements I and II are correct.
b) Only the statements I and IV are correct.
c) Only the statements III and IV are correct.
d) Only the statements I, II and III are correct.
e) Only the statements II, III and IV are correct.
Comentários e Gabarito D
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06 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) On text 2, the expression “but still’ can be replaced by what alternative without changing its meaning?
a) Likewise
b) Furthermore
c) Unlike
d) Luckly
e) Even so
Comentários e Gabarito E
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❑ TEXTO: Read text 3 and answer questions 7 and 8.
Lawyers say they can’t find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration
By Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff
WASHINGTON — Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say that they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children and that about two-thirds of those parents were deported to Central America without their children, according to a filing Tuesday from the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Trump administration instituted a “zero tolerance” policy in 2018 that separated migrant children and parents at the southern U.S. border. The administration later confirmed that it had actually begun separating families in 2017 along some parts of the border under a pilot program. The ACLU and other pro-bono law firms were tasked with finding the members of families separated during the pilot program.
Unlike the 2,800 families separated under zero tolerance in 2018, most of whom remained in custody when the policy was ended by executive order, many of the more than 1,000 parents separated from their children under the pilot program had already been deported before a federal judge in California ordered that they be found.
[...]
- (Retrived from: <https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-say-they-can-t-find-parents-545-migrant-children-n1244066>.)
07 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) Considering the information from text 3, the “zero tolerance” policy can be described as:
a) A policy designed to support migrant families who approach the US boarder seeking asylum.
b) A policy designed to detain migrant families who approach the US boarder seeking asylum and to separate
minors from their guardians.
c) A policy designed to reunite 2,800 migrant families who approach the US boarder seeking asylum.
d) A policy designed to investigate the separation of 2,800 migrant families who approach the US boarder seeking
asylum.
e) A policy designed to restart separating families by executive order.
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08 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) The word “about”, paragraph 1, line 3, could be properly substituted by:
a) Specifically
b) Accurately
c) In detail
d) Around
e) Precisely
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❑ TEXTO: Read text 4 and answer questions 9 and 10.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a booklet entitled “Getting your workforce ready for
Covid-19”. The eight-page document is organized by topics and in one of them, it is possible to read as
follows:
Promote regular and thorough hand-washing by employees, contractors and customers:
a. Put sanitizing hand rub dispensers in prominent places around the workplace;
b. Make sure these dispensers are regularly refilled;
c. Display posters promoting hand-washing – ask your local public health authority for these or look on
www.WHO.int;
d. Combine this with other communication measures such as offering guidance from occupational
health and safety officers, briefings at meetings and information on the intranet to promote
hand-washing;
e. Make sure that staff, contractors and customers have access to places where they can wash their
hands with soap and water;
f. Why? Because washing kills the virus on your hands and prevents the spread of Covid-19.
- (Retrived from: <https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/getting-workplace-ready-for-covid-19.pdf>)
09 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) Most of the sentences (from a to f) start with a(n):
a) Adjective
b) Noun
c) Verb
d) Subject
e) Preposition
Comentários e Gabarito C
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10 – (UNICENTRO-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2021.1) The statement letter “f” has the following purpose:
a) To inform that washing hands is a way of killing the virus.
b) To suggest what to do with those who do not adopt the procedures.
c) To stress the reason for adopting the recommendations.
d) To indicate what to do after adopting the measures.
e) To exemplify what happens with everyone that does not wash the hands.
Comentários e Gabarito C
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