MACKENZIE-2013 - GRUPOS 2,3 - LÍNGUA INGLESA - Vestibular da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie/SP - Prova com gabarito.

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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: MACKENZIE-SP-2013-VESTIBULAR-Grupos (II - III), aplicada em 08/12/2012. 

➧ BANCA/ORGANIZADOR: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie/SP.

➧ PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 07 questões do tipo (A,B,C,D,E).

➧ GABARITO:

01-C,  02-D,  03-E,  04-A,  05-B,  06-C,  07-C

• Directions: Look at the chart in Text I:

• TEXTO 1: The following text refers to questions 01 and 02.

Will Melinda Gates Change the Game for Women?

She plans to use the Gates Foundation’s billions to revolutionize contraception worldwide.

In the 12 years since Melinda Gates and her husband, Bill, created the Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropic organization, she has done a lot of traveling. A reserved woman who has long been wary of the public glare attached to the Gates name, she comes alive,  her associates say, when she’s visiting the foundation’s projects in remote corners of the world. “You get her out in the field with a group of women, sitting on a mat or under a tree or in a hut, she is totally in her element, totally comfortable,” says Gary Darmstadt, director of family health at the foundation’s global health program.

Visiting vaccine programs in sub-Saharan Africa, Gates would often ask women at remote clinics what else they needed. Very often, she says, they would speak urgently about birth control. “Women sitting on a bench 20 of them, immediately they’ll start speaking out and saying, ‘I wish I had that injection I used to get,’” says Gates. “‘I came to this clinic three  months ago, and I got my injection. I came last week, and I couldn’t get it, and I’m here again.’”

They were talking about Depo-Provera, which is popular in many poor countries because women need to take it only four times a year, and because they can hide it, if necessary, from unsupportive husbands. As Gates discovered, injectable contraceptives, like many other forms of birth control, are frequently out of stock in clinics in the developing world, a result of both funding shortages and supply-chain problems.

Women would tell her that they’d left their farms and walked for hours, sometimes with children in tow, often without the knowledge of their husbands, in their fruitless search for the shot. “I was just stunned by how vociferous women were about what they wanted,” she says.

Because of those women, Gates made a decision that’s likely to change lives all over the world. As she revealed in an exclusive interview with Newsweek, she has decided to make family planning her signature issue and primary public health a priority.

01 – (MACKENZIE-SP-2013 - GRUPOS 2, 3) 

Which question below CANNOT be answered with information from the text?

a) How often do women have to take Depo-Provera as part of a contraceptive treatment?
b) What is Melinda Gates like?
c) How come some women's husbands are so unsupportive in situations like these?
d) When was the Gates Foundation created?
e) Why are clinics in the developing world out of injectable contraceptives?

02 – (MACKENZIE-SP-2013 - GRUPOS 2, 3) 

The sentence

"Gates would often ask women at remote clinics what else they needed"

in the direct speech is

a) Gates will ask to the women at remote clinics "What else have you needed?"
b) "What else did you need?", Gates asked women at remote clinics.
c) Gates often asked to the women at remote clinics: "What else does she need?"
d) "What else do you need?", Gates usually asked women at remote clinics.
e) Gates occasionally questioned the women at remote clinics about what they needed.

• TEXTO 2: The following text refers to questions 03 and 04.

Baby it's you

Hal David & Burt Bacharach

Barney Williams

Recorded 11, 20 February 1963

Lennon ___( I )___ slightly ill-at-ease on his own songs, but with covers, he already had the confidence of a born interpreter. The group's boyish harmonies didn't distract him from giving another Shirelles hit a commanding vocal performance that marked him out as The Beatles' most distinctive voice.

03 – (MACKENZIE-SP-2013 - GRUPOS 2, 3)

The verb that properly fills in blank I in the text is

a) would have sounded.
b) would rather have sounded.
c) had better sound.
d) should sound.
e) may have sounded.

04 – (MACKENZIE-SP-2013 - GRUPOS 2, 3)

According to the song review,

a) Lennon was not self-confident enough while singing his own songs.
b) Lennon gave The Shirelles a hit single called “Baby it’s you”, recorded by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
c) Lennon’s harmonic voice turned him into a boyish born interpreter.
d) Both The Beatles and The Shirelles reached a remarkable performance while on stage.
e) The Beatles, whose voices sounded really distinctive, covered many of The Shirelles hits confidently.

• TEXTO 3: The following text refers to questions 05 to 07.

Join my new club, "tgit"

Until now, the business world was primarily made of two clubs. The most popular club, by far, was the "TGIF" club, or "Thank God It's Friday.” To be a member of this club, your primary focus is on the weekend. Members think about, anticipate, and look forward to Fridays so that they can get away from their work. Most members are highly stressed because only two days of the week are considered "good days." Even Sunday is considered stressful because the next day they have to go back to work. 

The other business club is substantially smaller, yet in some ways the members are more dedicated to the club. This one is called "TGIM," or "Thank God It's Monday." These members are usually workaholics who can’t stand weekends because they are away from work! Members of this club are also highly stressed because while there are generally five days of the week to be preoccupied with work, there is always that darn weekend that gets in the way! The most difficult day of the week is usually Friday, because it often means the member won’t be able to get back to work for a few days. They may try to work on weekends, but the demands of family get in the way. Needless to say, members of both clubs think members of the “other club” are completely nuts!

I invite you to join an alternate club. My hope is that together, we can eventually achieve a 100 percent membership. In fact, I’d love to put the other two clubs out of business altogether! This new club is called "TGIT," or "Thank God It's Today." Members of this club are happy seven days a week because they understand that every day is unique, and each brings with it different gifts. Members of this club are grateful to be alive; they rejoice in their many blessings and expect each day to be full of wonder, surprise, and opportunity. 

There are no qualifications necessary to join the “TGIT” club, other than the desire to have a higher quality of life and the desire to appreciate rather than dread each day. Members of this club understand that it’s useless to wish any day were different. They know that Mondays don't care if you like them or not – they simply go on being Mondays. Likewise, Fridays will come around every seventh day, ___( I )___. It’s up to each of us to make every day as special as it can be. No amount of wishing will make the slightest bit of difference.

Don't sweat the small stuff

By Richard Carlson

05 – (MACKENZIE-SP-2013 - GRUPOS 2, 3)

The sentence that properly fills in blank I in the text is

a) if you don't wish to be Friday.
b) whether you wish it were Friday or not.
c) if you wish to be Friday or not.
d) whether or not you wish they were Friday.
e) if you are on a Friday or not.

06 – (MACKENZIE-SP-2013 - GRUPOS 2, 3)

In the sentence,

"they rejoice in their many blessings, ..." 

the verb to rejoice in means

a) to enable something to happen.
b) to relate something funny to something outstanding.
c) to be very happy about something.
d) to make an idea, belief on feeling stronger.
e) to congratulate somebody on something.

07 – (MACKENZIE-SP-2013 - GRUPOS 2, 3)

The text states that

a) the “TGIF” club is made up of hundreds of people who believe being a workaholic is what lifts their spirits.
b) on the whole, people dread the fact that they will have to be back to work Monday morning and face the “TGIM” club members.
c) the “TGIT” club nowadays has reached a 100 percent membership due to the fact that it accepts members from both “TGIF” and “TGIM”.
d) while some people can't put up with weekends, others look forward to them.
e) families usually demand that their members be back home early in order to relieve stress although the families know their members make no difference in their lives.