MACKENZIE/2010 – VESTIBULAR – 2º SEMESTRE – UNIVERSIDADE PRESBITERIANA MACKENZIE/SP – PROVA COM GABARITO.

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❑ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA:

• MACKENZIE-2010-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE-22/06/2010.

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❑ ESTRUTURA-PROVA:

• 7 MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions) / 5 Options Each Question.

• Texto (1) – | Success Over Stress | 

• Texto (2) – | A film for the campaign trail | economist.com |

• Texto (3) – | The Boom Is Nigh | newsweek.com |

• Texto (3) – | The Boom Is Nigh | newsweek.com |

❑ TEXTO 1:The following text refers to questions 12 and 13.

Get into a comfortable, relaxed position. / Shut your eyes and turn your attention inwards. / Think about that assertive experience (real or imagined, yours or someone else’s) and really get into it. / Re-live it as though you are there all over again. / See everything there is to see, / the face of the other person or people / and how they’re responding to you.  / Hear the sound of your own voice as you speak. / Hear the sound of any other voices. / Feel really good about the situation. / Feel confident and assertive / and enjoy the feeling. / And when you’re deeply involved in those feelings, capture them for a few seconds with your word, image or gesture. / Stay in the experience a while longer but take away the word, image or gesture. / And now come slowly and gently back to the room.

Success Over Stress by Jane Revell

12 – (MACKENZIE-2010-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the text, choose the right alternative.

a) The text will teach you to be deeply involved in your feelings through a technique that works your assertiveness through relaxation and gestures meant to focus on question-response activities.
b) The text is instructing you to remember a time when you were able to be honest with someone, or a time when you felt really confident about saying something to someone.
c) The text is showing you how to relax before you really have the chance to get involved with someone’s image or self-esteem for a period of time.
d) The text shows you how to capture someone’s image or gesture as soon as this person is out of sight and his/her assertive personality interferes in your attention inwards.
e) The text helps you test your ability to go further into your feelings and experiment with your five senses: speaking, hearing, smelling, seeing and touching. The result will make you feel more confident and assertive.

      Comentários e Gabarito    B  
TÓPICO - RELAÇÃO SEMÂNTICA COM TRECHO DO TEXTO:

De acordo com o texto, escolha a alternativa correta.

a) The text will teach you to be deeply involved in your feelings through a technique that works your assertiveness through relaxation and gestures meant to focus on question-response activities. O texto vai ensiná-lo a estar profundamente envolvido em seus sentimentos por meio de uma técnica que funciona com a sua assertividade por meio de relaxamento e gestos destinados a se concentrar em atividades de perguntas e respostas.
b) The text is instructing you to remember a time when you were able to be honest with someone, or a time when you felt really confident about saying something to someone. O texto está instruindo-o a lembrar de uma ocasião em que você foi capaz de ser honesto com alguém ou de uma ocasião em que se sentiu realmente confiante em dizer algo a alguém.
c) The text is showing you how to relax before you really have the chance to get involved with someone’s image or self-esteem for a period of time. O texto mostra como relaxar antes que você realmente tenha a chance de se envolver com a imagem ou a auto-estima de alguém por um período de tempo.
d) The text shows you how to capture someone’s image or gesture as soon as this person is out of sight and his/her assertive personality interferes in your attention inwards. O texto mostra como capturar a imagem ou o gesto de alguém assim que essa pessoa está fora de vista e sua personalidade assertiva interfere em sua atenção para dentro.
e) The text helps you test your ability to go further into your feelings and experiment with your five senses: speaking, hearing, smelling, seeing and touching. The result will make you feel more confident and assertive. O texto ajuda você a testar sua capacidade de aprofundar seus sentimentos e experimentar seus cinco sentidos: falar, ouvir, cheirar, ver e tocar. O resultado fará você se sentir mais confiante e assertivo.

13 – (MACKENZIE-2010-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

If a person is assertive,

a) he/she works hard and conscientiously in order to achieve good results.
b) he/she makes a decision or forms a conclusion based on the facts only and does not allow himself/herself to be influenced by his/her own personal feelings or experiences.
c) he/she makes sensible decisions and is good at dealing and solving problems.
d) he/she makes his/her own decisions about his/her life, without relying on others for help, advice or further support. 
e)he/she speaks and acts firmly and confidently in company, or in his/her relations with others, so that people listen to him/her and take notice of him/her.

      Comentários e Gabarito    E  
TÓPICO - RELAÇÃO SEMÂNTICA COM TRECHO DO TEXTO:

Se uma pessoa é assertiva,

a) he/she works hard and conscientiously in order to achieve good results. trabalha com afinco e consciência para alcançar bons resultados.
b) he/she makes a decision or forms a conclusion based on the facts only and does not allow himself/herself to be influenced by his/her own personal feelings or experiences. toma uma decisão ou conclui com base apenas nos fatos e não se deixa influenciar pelos seus próprios sentimentos ou experiências pessoais.
c) he/she makes sensible decisions and is good at dealing and solving problems. toma decisões sensatas e é bom em lidar e resolver problemas.
d) he/she makes his/her own decisions about his/her life, without relying on others for help, advice or further support. toma as suas próprias decisões sobre a sua vida, sem depender de outros para ajuda, aconselhamento ou apoio adicional.
e) he/she speaks and acts firmly and confidently in company,  or in his/her relations with others, so that people listen to him/her and take notice of him/her. fala e age com firmeza e confiança em companhia, ou nas suas relações com os outros, para que as pessoas o ouçam e o notem.

❑ TEXTO 2: The following text refers to questions 14 and 15.

Brazil's presidential biopic
Lula, sanitised
SÃO PAULO

A film for the campaign trail

ONCE upon a time it was considered indecent to turn living people into myths, or even into films, with too much haste. The cycle seems to be shorter now. Gandhi had to wait until 34 years after his death before he appeared on cinema screens around the world. George Bush junior, by contrast, was the victim of an Oliver Stone biopic during the last year of his presidency. Now a Brazilian director, Fábio Barreto, has done the same for Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as he starts his final year of office.
         
“Lula, Son of Brazil” is the tale of a poor boy made good, his flaws left on the cutting table and his virtues in close-up. Since Lula hopes to secure the election of his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, in October, it is controversial. The film “promotes the worship of a political myth,” Man of the people’s picture palaces said Eugênio Bucci, a critic and journalism professor. Before it was even released Veja, a magazine, pointed out that many of the companies that funded its production (the most expensive in the history of Brazilian cinema) have either won or hope to win contracts from the government.
          
For all that, the film is very watchable. It opens in the poor north- -east, where Lula was born into a landscape of bright red soil and cacti, and ends with his rise as a metalworkers’ union leader in the industrial belt of São Paulo in the 1970s. This is a candyfloss version of the story, however. Lula’s reverses are shown: the little finger lost to a lathe, the death of his first wife and child in childbirth. But he is too good to be true: a perfect student, perfect husband and political moderate who abhorred violence.
          
The book on which the film is based, by contrast, quotes Lula as approving of an incident in which a director of a factory that is on strike is thrown out of a window. In the film he runs from the factory appalled. That is a shame. A more nuanced telling would not detract from Lula’s remarkable life story and achievement.
          
The film is doing well at the box office. Its producers say it is running more strongly in the north-east than in the populous south-east, which means it mirrors Ms Rousseff’s fortunes in the polls. There are plans to show the film on mobile screens in places with no cinema. It may get an airing on television, though there is no such deal in place yet.
          
All this helps a process of mythmaking around Lula that is already well under way. Catching some of Lula’s stardust is Ms Rousseff’s best hope for capturing the presidency in October, and there are some signs that this is happening. The gap between her and José Serra, her main rival, halved between March and December last year and now stands at 14 points. Competing against a celluloid legend is not easy.

www.economist.com

15 – (MACKENZIE-2010-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the text, “Lula, Son of Brazil”

a) shows how a metalworkers’ union leader hits the big time during the last year of his presidency.
b) has been considered responsible for favoring specific companies in the government as well as Veja magazine.
c) tells an exaggeratedly sentimental side of Lula’s story.
d) was based on a book co-written by the president.
e) is watchable due to its expensive production, superb cinematography and actors’ work.

      Comentários e Gabarito    C  
TÓPICO - RELAÇÃO SEMÂNTICA COM TRECHO DO TEXTO:

Segundo o texto, “Lula, Filho do Brasil”

a) shows how a metalworkers’ union leader hits the big time during the last year of his presidency. mostra como um líder sindical dos metalúrgicos atinge o grande sucesso durante o último ano de sua presidência.
b) has been considered responsible for favoring specific companies in the government as well as Veja magazine. foi considerado responsável por favorecer empresas específicas do governo e também da revista Veja.
c) tells an exaggeratedly sentimental side of Lula’s story.  conta um lado exageradamente sentimental da história de Lula.
d) was based on a book co-written by the president. foi baseado em livro co-escrito pelo presidente.
e) is watchable due to its expensive production, superb cinematography and actors’ work. é assistível devido à sua produção cara, excelente cinematografia e trabalho dos atores.

15 – (MACKENZIE-2010-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

Read the following statements about the text and choose the appropriate alternative.

I. Not only Fábio Barreto but also Oliver Stone have turned living politicians into myths.

II. Dilma Rousseff will surely benefit from the release of the movie.

III. An incident that took place in a factory is depicted differently from the way it really happened. IV. The film is about to be available for cell phones next year.

V. Until now producers have had no idea of how well the film is doing in the movie theaters.

a) Only I is correct.
b) III and IV are incorrect.
c) Only II is correct.
d) I, II and III are correct.
e) Only V is incorrect.

      Comentários e Gabarito    D  
TÓPICO - RELAÇÃO SEMÂNTICA COM TRECHO DO TEXTO:

Leia as seguintes declarações sobre o texto e escolha a alternativa apropriada.

I. Not only Fábio Barreto but also Oliver Stone have turned living politicians into myths. Não apenas Fábio Barreto, mas também Oliver Stone transformaram políticos vivos em mitos.

II. Dilma Rousseff will surely benefit from the release of the movie. Dilma Rousseff certamente se beneficiará com o lançamento do filme.

III. An incident that took place in a factory is depicted differently from the way it really happened. Um incidente ocorrido em uma fábrica é representado de maneira diferente do que realmente aconteceu.

IV. The film is about to be available for cell phones next year. O filme está prestes a estar disponível para celulares no ano que vem.

V. Until now producers have had no idea of how well the film is doing in the movie theaters. Até agora, os produtores não faziam ideia do desempenho do filme nos cinemas.

❑ TEXTO 3: The following text refers to questions 16 and 17.

The Boom Is Nigh
Why the coming recovery will hurt like hell.

By Gregg Easterbrook

Home prices keep falling, but productivity is rising fast. GDP grew 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter, yet unemployment remains stubbornly high. Inflation is nonexistent, while the consumer confidence index just rose to 55.9 from 53.6—whatever that means. Can’t make sense of these economic indicators? Don’t worry, because nobody else can, either.
          
Here is what you really need to know: a Sonic Boom is coming. It will be caused by globalization. And while globalization may be driving you crazy, it’s just getting started. Thirty years ago, Shenzhen, China, did not exist; today, it has nearly 9 million residents, roughly the same as New York City. In a single generation, it has grown from a village of tarpaper shacks into an important urban center. It has become the world’s fourth-busiest port, busier than Los Angeles and Long Beach combined. Never before has a great city been built so fast, nor a productive economy established from so little.
          
The international recession that began in 2008 has made the Sonic Boom quieter, but history shows that when a crisis ends, the larger trends in place before the crisis usually resume. Shenzhen represents the larger trend of growth, change, and transformation at unprecedented velocity. Thanks to vast increases in productivity, worldwide economic growth soon will pick up, creating rising prosperity and higher living standards for most people in most nations. The world will be far more interconnected, leading to better and more affordable products, as well as ever better communication among nations.
         
But there’s a big catch: just as favorable economic and social trends are likely to resume, many problems that have characterized recent decades are likely to get worse, too. Job instability, economic insecurity, a sense of turmoil, the fear that even when things seem good a hammer is about to fall—these are also part of the larger trend. As world economies become ever more linked by computers, job stress will become a 24/7 affair. Frequent shakeups in industries will cause increasing uncertainty. The horizon has never been brighter, but we may not feel particularly happy about it.

www.newsweek.com

16 – (MACKENZIE-2010-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The article states that

a) job instability is still feared.
b) a Sonic boom in China is about to happen as soon as the big catch takes over.
c) thirty years ago China did not exist.
d) globalization has grown recently, becoming nonexistent and turning China’s inflation into an important economic feature.
e) the recovery of China is compared to New York City’s power to develop itself throughout hard and shady times.

      Comentários e Gabarito    A  
TÓPICO - RELAÇÃO SEMÂNTICA COM TRECHO DO TEXTO:

O artigo afirma que

a) job instability is still feared. a instabilidade de emprego ainda é temida.
b) a Sonic boom in China is about to happen as soon as the big catch takes over. um boom Sonic na China está prestes a acontecer assim que a grande captura tomar conta.
c) thirty years ago China did not exist.  trinta anos atrás, a China não existia.
d) globalization has grown recently, becoming nonexistent and turning China’s inflation into an important economic feature. a globalização cresceu recentemente, tornando-se inexistente e transformando a inflação da China em uma característica econômica importante.
e) the recovery of China is compared to New York City’s power to develop itself throughout hard and shady times. a recuperação da China é comparada ao poder da cidade de Nova York de se desenvolver em tempos difíceis e sombrios.

17 – (MACKENZIE-2010-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

In the title of the article, the word nigh

a) is an adjective meaning “nocturnal”.
b) is an adverb meaning “near”.
c) is an adjective meaning “up”.
d) is a noun meaning “recovery”.
e) is a verb meaning “coming”.

      Comentários e Gabarito    B  
TÓPICO - RELAÇÃO SEMÂNTICA COM TRECHO DO TEXTO:

No título do artigo, a palavra NIGH (quase)

a) is an adjective meaning “nocturnal”. é um adjetivo que significa “noturno”.
b) is an adverb meaning “near”. é um advérbio que significa “próximo”.
c) is an adjective meaning “up”. é um adjetivo que significa “para cima”.
d) is a noun meaning “recovery”. é um substantivo que significa “recuperação”.
e) is a verb meaning “coming”. é um verbo que significa "vinda".

❑ TEXTO 4:

Illustration by David Simond

www.economist.com

❑ TRADUÇÃO - TEXTO 4:

• MENDIGO: Buddy, you spare a partnership? Amigo, dá para você fazer uma parceria?

18 – (MACKENZIE-2010-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the cartoon,

a) the characters can’t have made up their minds about getting a new job.
b) the lawyer may have been leaving home.
c) the law office should have been named after its owner.
d) both of the characters had better stand up to their bosses.
e) the beggar must have been laid off.

      Comentários e Gabarito    E  
TÓPICO - INFERÊNCIA, ELEMENTOS VERBAIS E NÃO VERBAIS:

De acordo com o Cartoon

a) the characters can’t have made up their minds about getting a new job. os personagens não conseguem se decidir por um novo emprego.
b) the lawyer may have been leaving home. o advogado pode ter saído de casa.
c) the law office should have been named after its owner. o escritório de advocacia deveria ter sido nomeado em homenagem ao seu proprietário.
d) both of the characters had better stand up to their bosses. ambos os personagens deveriam enfrentar seus chefes.
e) the beggar must have been laid off. o mendigo deve ter sido demitido.