Em uma caixa, há canetas vermelhas e azuis em quantidades tais que 3, em cada 5 canetas, são azuis. Retirando-se 15 canetas vermelhas da caixa, as canetas azuis passam a representar 80% do total de canetas da caixa. Inicialmente, quantas canetas havia na caixa?
Carlos depositou R$300,00, no primeiro dia útil de cada um dos 12 meses do ano passado, em um fundo de investimento que rendeu 1% ao mês, todos os meses. Considerando 1,0112 =1,127 , o valor que Carlos tinha imediatamente após o 12º depósito era de
De quantos modos diferentes podem-se separar 6 pessoas formando 3 pares?
Na feira de ciências deste ano, Pedro desenhou, no pátio da escola, uma miniatura em escala do sistema solar. Ele sabia que a distância da Terra ao Sol é de 150 milhões de quilômetros e que a distância de Netuno (o planeta mais afastado) ao Sol é de 4,5 bilhões de quilômetros. Se, no seu modelo, Pedro desenhou a Terra a 60cm do Sol, a distância de Netuno ao Sol era de
No triângulo ABC, o ângulo de vértice A é obtuso,BC = a e AB = AC = b. Os pontos P e Q do lado BC são tais que BP = PA = AQ = QC
A função f é definida da seguinte forma. Para cada x real, f(x) é o menor entre os números a = 2x - 1 e b = 40 - x/2 . Por exemplo para x = 2 tem-se a = 3 e b =19. Como 3 < 19 tem-se f (2) =3
O valor máximo de f é
João pede ao pai o dinheiro da semana e o pai diz:
“Filho, naquela gaveta há uma nota de 10 reais, três notas de 20 reais e duas notas de 50 reais.
Abra a gaveta e, sem ver, retire, ao acaso, duas notas.”
A probabilidade de que João tenha retirado 70 reais é
Eram tempos menos duros aqueles vividos na casa de Tia Vicentina, em Madureira, subúrbio do Rio, onde Paulinho da Viola podia traçar, sem cerimônia, um prato de feijoada - comilança que deu até samba, "No Pagode do Vavá". Mas como não é dado a saudades (lembre-se: é o passado que vive nele, não o contrário), Paulinho aceitou de bom grado a sugestão para que o jantar ocorresse em um dos mais requintados italianos do Rio. A escolha pela alta gastronomia tem seu preço. Assim que o sambista chega à mesa redonda ao lado da porta da cozinha, forma-se um círculo de garçons, com o maître à frente. [...]
Paulinho conta que cresceu comendo o trivial. Seu pai viveu 88 anos à base de arroz, feijão, bife e batata frita. De vez em quando, feijoada. Massa, também. "Mas nada muito sofisticado." Com exceção de algumas dores de coluna, aos 70 anos, goza de plena saúde. O músico credita sua boa forma ao estilo de vida, como se sabe, não dado a exageros e grandes ansiedades.
T. Cardoso, Valor, 28/06/2013. Adaptado.
Segundo o texto, Paulinho da Viola
Eram tempos menos duros aqueles vividos na casa de Tia Vicentina, em Madureira, subúrbio do Rio, onde Paulinho da Viola podia traçar, sem cerimônia, um prato de feijoada - comilança que deu até samba, "No Pagode do Vavá". Mas como não é dado a saudades (lembre-se: é o passado que vive nele, não o contrário), Paulinho aceitou de bom grado a sugestão para que o jantar ocorresse em um dos mais requintados italianos do Rio. A escolha pela alta gastronomia tem seu preço. Assim que o sambista chega à mesa redonda ao lado da porta da cozinha, forma-se um círculo de garçons, com o maître à frente. [...]
Paulinho conta que cresceu comendo o trivial. Seu pai viveu 88 anos à base de arroz, feijão, bife e batata frita. De vez em quando, feijoada. Massa, também. "Mas nada muito sofisticado."
Com exceção de algumas dores de coluna, aos 70 anos, goza de plena saúde. O músico credita sua boa forma ao estilo de vida, como se sabe, não dado a exageros e grandes ansiedades.
T. Cardoso, Valor,28/06/2013. Adaptado.
Tendo em vista o contexto, pode ser lida em duplo sentido a palavra sublinhada na seguinte frase do texto:
Eram tempos menos duros aqueles vividos na casa de Tia Vicentina, em Madureira, subúrbio do Rio, onde Paulinho da Viola podia traçar, sem cerimônia, um prato de feijoada - comilança que deu até samba, "No Pagode do Vavá". Mas como não é dado a saudades (lembre-se: é o passado que vive nele, não o contrário), Paulinho aceitou de bom grado a sugestão para que o jantar ocorresse em um dos mais requintados italianos do Rio. A escolha pela alta gastronomia tem seu preço. Assim que o sambista chega à mesa redonda ao lado da porta da cozinha, forma-se um círculo de garçons, com o maître à frente. [...]
Paulinho conta que cresceu comendo o trivial. Seu pai viveu 88 anos à base de arroz, feijão, bife e batata frita. De vez em quando, feijoada. Massa, também. "Mas nada muito sofisticado."
Com exceção de algumas dores de coluna, aos 70 anos, goza de plena saúde. O músico credita sua boa forma ao estilo de vida, como se sabe, não dado a exageros e grandes ansiedades.
T. Cardoso, Valor, 28/06/2013. Adaptado.
À frente das frases citadas abaixo, está indicado o tipo de circunstância que elas expressam no texto. A indicação NÃO está correta em:
Eram tempos menos duros aqueles vividos na casa de Tia Vicentina, em Madureira, subúrbio do Rio, onde Paulinho da Viola podia traçar, sem cerimônia, um prato de feijoada - comilança que deu até samba, "No Pagode do Vavá". Mas como não é dado a saudades (lembre-se: é o passado que vive nele, não o contrário), Paulinho aceitou de bom grado a sugestão para que o jantar ocorresse em um dos mais requintados italianos do Rio. A escolha pela alta gastronomia tem seu preço. Assim que o sambista chega à mesa redonda ao lado da porta da cozinha, forma-se um círculo de garçons, com o maître à frente. [...]
Paulinho conta que cresceu comendo o trivial. Seu pai viveu 88 anos à base de arroz, feijão, bife e batata frita. De vez em quando, feijoada. Massa, também. "Mas nada muito sofisticado."
Com exceção de algumas dores de coluna, aos 70 anos, goza de plena saúde. O músico credita sua boa forma ao estilo de vida, como se sabe, não dado a exageros e grandes ansiedades.
T. Cardoso, Valor, 28/06/2013. Adaptado.
Considere estas afirmações sobre elementos linguísticos presentes no texto:
I O verbo “traçar" pertence a um registro linguístico diverso do que predomina no texto.
II No trecho "um dos mais requintados italianos do Rio", ocorre elipse de um substantivo.
III Com as aspas em "Mas nada muito sofisticado", o autor do texto imprime, a essa expressão, um tom irônico.
Tendo em vista o contexto, está correto apenas o que se afirma em
Eram tempos menos duros aqueles vividos na casa de Tia Vicentina, em Madureira, subúrbio do Rio, onde Paulinho da Viola podia traçar, sem cerimônia, um prato de feijoada - comilança que deu até samba, "No Pagode do Vavá". Mas como não é dado a saudades (lembre-se: é o passado que vive nele, não o contrário), Paulinho aceitou de bom grado a sugestão para que o jantar ocorresse em um dos mais requintados italianos do Rio. A escolha pela alta gastronomia tem seu preço. Assim que o sambista chega à mesa redonda ao lado da porta da cozinha, forma-se um círculo de garçons, com o maître à frente. [...]
Paulinho conta que cresceu comendo o trivial. Seu pai viveu 88 anos à base de arroz, feijão, bife e batata frita. De vez em quando, feijoada. Massa, também. "Mas nada muito sofisticado."
Com exceção de algumas dores de coluna, aos 70 anos, goza de plena saúde. O músico credita sua boa forma ao estilo de vida, como se sabe, não dado a exageros e grandes ansiedades.
T. Cardoso, Valor, 28/06/2013. Adaptado.
Argumento (Paulinho da Viola)
Tá legal
Eu aceito o argumento
Mas não me altere o samba tanto assim
Olha que a rapaziada está sentindo a falta
De um cavaco, de um pandeiro
Ou de um tamborim.
Sem preconceito
Ou mania de passado
Sem querer ficar do lado
De quem não quer navegar
Faça como um velho marinheiro
Que durante o nevoeiro
Leva o barco devagar.
Se a expressão “mania de passado”, usada na letra da canção, for comparada à frase do primeiro texto “é o passado que vive nele, não o contrário”, quanto ao sentido que assumem no contexto, é correto afirmar que a referida expressão
Argumento (Paulinho da Viola)
Tá legal
Eu aceito o argumento
Mas não me altere o samba tanto assim
Olha que a rapaziada está sentindo a falta
De um cavaco, de um pandeiro
Ou de um tamborim.
Sem preconceito
Ou mania de passado
Sem querer ficar do lado
De quem não quer navegar
Faça como um velho marinheiro
Que durante o nevoeiro
Leva o barco devagar.
Ao empregar, na letra da canção, o verbo “navegar" em sentido metafórico e desdobrar esse sentido nos versos seguintes, o compositor recorre ao seguinte recurso expressivo:
Argumento (Paulinho da Viola)
Tá legal
Eu aceito o argumento
Mas não me altere o samba tanto assim
Olha que a rapaziada está sentindo a falta
De um cavaco, de um pandeiro
Ou de um tamborim.
Sem preconceito
Ou mania de passado
Sem querer ficar do lado
De quem não quer navegar
Faça como um velho marinheiro
Que durante o nevoeiro
Leva o barco devagar.
No verso “Mas não me altere o samba tanto assim", o pronome “me" não exerce função sintática alguma. Segundo a gramática da língua portuguesa, trata-se de um recurso expressivo de que se serve a pessoa que fala para mostrar que está vivamente interessada no cumprimento da exortação feita. Constitui uso mais comum na linguagem coloquial.
Nas citações abaixo, todas extraídas de Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, de Machado de Assis, esse recurso ocorre em:
Caracteriza o Romantismo, na literatura brasileira,
I o desejo de exprimir sentimentos como orgulho patriótico, considerado, então, algo de primordial importância;
II a intenção de criar uma literatura independente, diversa, de identidade bem marcada;
III a percepção da atividade literária como parte indispensável da tarefa patriótica de construção nacional.
Está correto o que se afirma em
Algum tempo hesitei se devia abrir estas memórias pelo princípio ou pelo fim, isto é, se poria em primeiro lugar o meu nascimento ou a minha morte. Suposto o uso vulgar seja começar pelo nascimento, duas considerações me levaram a adotar diferente método: a primeira é que eu não sou propriamente um autor defunto, mas um defunto autor, para quem a campa foi outro berço; a segunda é que o escrito ficaria assim mais galante e mais novo. Moisés, que também contou a sua morte, não a pôs no introito, mas no cabo: diferença radical entre este livro e o Pentateuco.
Dito isto, expirei às duas horas da tarde de uma sexta-feira do mês de agosto de 1869, na minha bela chácara de Catumbi. Tinha uns sessenta e quatro anos, rijos e prósperos, era solteiro, possuía cerca de trezentos contos e fui acompanhado ao cemitério por onze amigos.
Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas.
Para a composição do texto, o autor recorre ao emprego reiterado do recurso da antítese, como se pode verificar nos pares de palavras “princípio" e “fim", e “nascimento" e “morte". Examine os seguintes pares de palavras, considerando a relação de sentido que eles têm no contexto.
I "campa" e “berço";
II “galante" e "novo";
III “introito" e “cabo";
IV “rijos" e “prósperos".
É correto afirmar que constituem antíteses apenas os pares
Algum tempo hesitei se devia abrir estas memórias pelo princípio ou pelo fim, isto é, se poria em primeiro lugar o meu nascimento ou a minha morte. Suposto o uso vulgar seja começar pelo nascimento, duas considerações me levaram a adotar diferente método: a primeira é que eu não sou propriamente um autor defunto, mas um defunto autor, para quem a campa foi outro berço; a segunda é que o escrito ficaria assim mais galante e mais novo. Moisés, que também contou a sua morte, não a pôs no introito, mas no cabo: diferença radical entre este livro e o Pentateuco.
Dito isto, expirei às duas horas da tarde de uma sexta-feira do mês de agosto de 1869, na minha bela chácara de Catumbi. Tinha uns sessenta e quatro anos, rijos e prósperos, era solteiro, possuía cerca de trezentos contos e fui acompanhado ao cemitério por onze amigos.
Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas.
Pode-se apontar, no texto, a contradição, que repercute na obra a que ele pertence, entre
Algum tempo hesitei se devia abrir estas memórias pelo princípio ou pelo fim, isto é, se poria em primeiro lugar o meu nascimento ou a minha morte. Suposto o uso vulgar seja começar pelo nascimento, duas considerações me levaram a adotar diferente método: a primeira é que eu não sou propriamente um autor defunto, mas um defunto autor, para quem a campa foi outro berço; a segunda é que o escrito ficaria assim mais galante e mais novo. Moisés, que também contou a sua morte, não a pôs no introito, mas no cabo: diferença radical entre este livro e o Pentateuco.
Dito isto, expirei às duas horas da tarde de uma sexta-feira do mês de agosto de 1869, na minha bela chácara de Catumbi. Tinha uns sessenta e quatro anos, rijos e prósperos, era solteiro, possuía cerca de trezentos contos e fui acompanhado ao cemitério por onze amigos.
Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas.
A leitura do excerto permite inferir vários traços de caráter do narrador-personagem. Entre os traços relacionados abaixo, o único que NÃO é abonado ou confirmado pelo texto é o que está em
Algum tempo hesitei se devia abrir estas memórias pelo princípio ou pelo fim, isto é, se poria em primeiro lugar o meu nascimento ou a minha morte. Suposto o uso vulgar seja começar pelo nascimento, duas considerações me levaram a adotar diferente método: a primeira é que eu não sou propriamente um autor defunto, mas um defunto autor, para quem a campa foi outro berço; a segunda é que o escrito ficaria assim mais galante e mais novo. Moisés, que também contou a sua morte, não a pôs no introito, mas no cabo: diferença radical entre este livro e o Pentateuco.
Dito isto, expirei às duas horas da tarde de uma sexta-feira do mês de agosto de 1869, na minha bela chácara de Catumbi. Tinha uns sessenta e quatro anos, rijos e prósperos, era solteiro, possuía cerca de trezentos contos e fui acompanhado ao cemitério por onze amigos.
Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas.
Ao configurar as Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas como narrativa em primeira pessoa, conforme se verifica no trecho, Machado de Assis
Catar Feijão
1
Catar feijão se limita com escrever:
joga-se os grãos na água do alguidar
e as palavras na folha de papel;
e depois, joga-se fora o que boiar.
Certo, toda palavra boiará no papel,
água congelada, por chumbo seu verbo:
pois para catar esse feijão, soprar nele,
e jogar fora o leve e oco, palha e eco.
2
Ora, nesse catar feijão entra um risco:
o de que entre os grãos pesados entre
um grão qualquer, pedra ou indigesto,
um grão imastigável, de quebrar dente.
Certo não, quando ao catar palavras:
a pedra dá à frase seu grão mais vivo:
obstrui a leitura fluviante, flutual,
açula a atenção, isca-a como o risco.
João Cabral de Melo Neto, A educação pela pedra.
A comparação escolhida por João Cabral de Melo Neto para caracterizar o ato de escrever
Catar Feijão
1
Catar feijão se limita com escrever:
joga-se os grãos na água do alguidar
e as palavras na folha de papel;
e depois, joga-se fora o que boiar.
Certo, toda palavra boiará no papel,
água congelada, por chumbo seu verbo:
pois para catar esse feijão, soprar nele,
e jogar fora o leve e oco, palha e eco.
2
Ora, nesse catar feijão entra um risco:
o de que entre os grãos pesados entre
um grão qualquer, pedra ou indigesto,
um grão imastigável, de quebrar dente.
Certo não, quando ao catar palavras:
a pedra dá à frase seu grão mais vivo:
obstrui a leitura fluviante, flutual,
açula a atenção, isca-a como o risco.
João Cabral de Melo Neto, A educação pela pedra.
Considere as seguintes afirmações relativas ao poema de Cabral de Melo:
I O ideal de economia verbal, preconizado no poema, assemelha-se ao ideal estilístico do Graciliano Ramos de Vidas secas, também este sequioso de restringir-se ao essencial.
II O recurso ao “grão imastigável, de quebrar dente” e à “pedra [que] dá à frase seu grão mais vivo”, com o sentido que lhe dá Cabral de Melo, encontra-se presente no próprio poema que a reivindica.
III A ideia de se produzir uma obstrução da leitura como algo positivo participa do objetivo de se romper com os autoritarismos da percepção – desígnio frequente na literatura moderna, inclusive em autores estilisticamente muito diferentes de Cabral, como é o caso de Guimarães Rosa.
Está correto o que se afirma em
Catar Feijão
1
Catar feijão se limita com escrever:
joga-se os grãos na água do alguidar
e as palavras na folha de papel;
e depois, joga-se fora o que boiar.
Certo, toda palavra boiará no papel,
água congelada, por chumbo seu verbo:
pois para catar esse feijão, soprar nele,
e jogar fora o leve e oco, palha e eco.
2
Ora, nesse catar feijão entra um risco:
o de que entre os grãos pesados entre
um grão qualquer, pedra ou indigesto,
um grão imastigável, de quebrar dente.
Certo não, quando ao catar palavras:
a pedra dá à frase seu grão mais vivo:
obstrui a leitura fluviante, flutual,
açula a atenção, isca-a como o risco.
João Cabral de Melo Neto, A educação pela pedra.
Entre os recursos estilísticos de que lança mão o poeta na composição do poema, só NÃO se encontra
FLORIDA HURRICANES
1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.
2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.
3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.
4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that
5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.
Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013
According to the information in the article, the “series of violent storms” mentioned in paragraph 1
FLORIDA HURRICANES
1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.
2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.
3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.
4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that
5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.
Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013
In paragraph 2, the phrase “…turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat” most likely refers to which of the following?
FLORIDA HURRICANES
1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.
2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.
3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.
4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that
5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.
Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013
With respect to sea levels, the article provides information that supports all of the following except
FLORIDA HURRICANES
1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.
2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.
3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.
4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that
5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.
Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013
With respect to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which of the following is most supported by the information in the article?
FLORIDA HURRICANES
1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.
2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.
3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.
4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that
5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.
Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013
Which of the following statements is an irony suggested in the article?
FLORIDA HURRICANES
1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.
2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.
3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.
4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that
5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.
Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013
With respect to hurricanes in Florida, which of the following statements is most supported by the information in the article?
FLORIDA HURRICANES
1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.
2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.
3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.
4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that
5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.
Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013
According to the information in the article,
FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT
By Rod Nordland
1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.
2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates.
3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.
4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that.
5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30.
6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest.
7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles.
8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever.
Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The article's first sentence, “Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity," most likely refers to which of the following?
FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT
By Rod Nordland
1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.
2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates.
3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.
4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that.
5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30.
6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest.
7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles.
8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever.
Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
At the end of paragraph 1, “they,” in the phrase “…they seem to have bought,” most likely refers to
FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT
By Rod Nordland
1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.
2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates.
3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.
4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that.
5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30.
6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest.
7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles.
8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever.
Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Which of the following is most supported by the information in the article?
FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT
By Rod Nordland
1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.
2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates.
3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.
4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that.
5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30.
6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest.
7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles.
8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever.
Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
According to the information in the article, Qatar’s “Step Into Health” program
FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT
By Rod Nordland
1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.
2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates.
3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.
4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that.
5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30.
6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest.
7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles.
8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever.
Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Which of the following is most supported by the information in the article?
FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT
By Rod Nordland
1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.
2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates.
3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.
4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that.
5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30.
6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest.
7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles.
8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever.
Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
In paragraph 6, the sentence “Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale” most likely means the same as which of the following?
FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT
By Rod Nordland
1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.
2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates.
3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.
4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that.
5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30.
6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest.
7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles.
8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever.
Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
According to the information in the article, the fact that migrant workers make up the majority of Qatar’s population
FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT
By Rod Nordland
1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.
2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates.
3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.
4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that.
5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30.
6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest.
7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles.
8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever.
Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The “common phenomenon” mentioned in the last paragraph most likely refers to the fact that
Da mesma forma que a Terra Santa, ainda que com identidade menor, a Península Ibérica possibilitava a reunião das ideias de paz (luta no exterior da Cristandade), de Guerra Santa (engrandecimento da Igreja em terra anteriormente cristã) e de peregrinação (corpo santo apostólico em Santiago de Compostela). A Reconquista revelou-se especialmente atraente, o que é significativo, para o centro-sul francês (...) cujos cavaleiros foram os mais constantes participantes ultramontanos da luta antimoura na Península.
FRANCO JÚNIOR, Hilário. Peregrinos, monges e guerreiros.
Feudo-clericalismo e religiosidade em Castela Medieval. São Paulo: Hucitec, 1990, p. 161.
Sobre a Reconquista Ibérica, é correto afirmar que se trata de
Napoleão Bonaparte assumiu o poder na França em 1799. A partir do chamado Golpe do 18 Brumário, tornou-se primeiro cônsul, depois primeiro cônsul vitalício e, posteriormente, imperador. Durante o seu governo,
Sobre a participação brasileira na Primeira Guerra Mundial, é correto afirmar:
Leia atentamente as seguintes afirmações sobre as eleições presidenciais brasileiras ocorridas após 1988.
I As eleições de 1989 foram marcadas por uma acirrada polarização ideológica, sobretudo no segundo turno, disputado por Fernando Collor de Mello e Luís Inácio Lula da Silva.
II As eleições de 1994 ocorreram sob o impacto do sucesso do Plano Cruzado, que permitiu a eleição, em primeiro turno, do candidato do PMDB José Sarney.
III Nas eleições de 1998, as principais forças oposicionistas articularam-se em torno da chapa Lula e Brizola, mas foram derrotadas, ainda no primeiro turno, por Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
IV Nas eleições de 2002, todas as forças oposicionistas de esquerda participaram da coligação que elegeu Luís Inácio Lula da Silva no primeiro turno, contra a candidatura do tucano José Serra.
V Nas eleições de 2006, PT, PMDB e PSDB firmaram uma vitoriosa coligação, que permitiu a reeleição de Lula e a articulação da mais ampla maioria parlamentar da história política do Brasil.
Está correto apenas o que se afirma em
A cidade de Nova York, que se tornou um exemplo de adoção de faixas para ciclistas em grandes metrópoles, também enfrentou resistências e conflitos por causa do programa da ex-diretora do Departamento de Transporte Jannet Sadik-Khan. Durante os seis anos de sua gestão, de 2007 a 2013, ela mudou a face da cidade. Implantou 450 quilômetros de caminhos para bicicletas, fechou o Times Square para a circulação de veículos e 'roubou' espaços das ruas para as chamadas 'plazas' – locais de convivência, com mesinhas, cadeiras, guarda-sóis e quiosques de alimentação.
Folha de S. Paulo. NY enfrentou protestos, mas tinha metrô e trens eficientes. 10/08/2014, p. C7. Adaptado.
Considerando-se as metrópoles brasileiras, é correto afirmar:
Há um domínio natural (morfoclimático) brasileiro, que está situado em zona climática temperada, mas ainda sob efeito dos trópicos, por isso influenciado por um clima subtropical úmido de planaltos, com inverno bem delimitado e frio. Identifique a afirmação que define outras características desse domínio corretamente.
Mais de três quartos dos migrantes internacionais vão para um país com um nível mais elevado de desenvolvimento humano do que o do seu país de origem. Porém, são significativamente restringidos por políticas que impõem obstáculos à sua entrada e pela escassez de recursos disponíveis que lhes permitam a deslocação. As pessoas de países pobres são as que menos se mudam: por exemplo, o número de africanos que se mudou para a Europa é inferior a 1%.
ONU/PNUD. Relatório de Desenvolvimento Humano 2009.
Ultrapassar barreiras: mobilidade e desenvolvimento humano. Coimbra: Almedina, 2009. p. 2
Considerando o texto e os seus conhecimentos sobre os deslocamentos populacionais, assinale a alternativa correta:
Leia com atenção:
Nos anos 1860 se esquematiza uma reflexão em torno dos valores fundiários do território urbano. Na origem dessa reflexão, teorizada por Julius Faucher em 1867, encontra-se a crise habitacional, cuja causa é atribuída aos preços fundiários: o nível desses preços seria artificialmente elevado pela especulação, notadamente nas áreas de expansão imediata das cidades.
Elsa VONAU. Urbanismo: a invenção do zoneamento. In: O mapa, desafio contemporâneo:
La documentation Française, dossier no 8036. p. 58
Relacionando o que o texto afirma com a realidade urbana contemporânea do Brasil, é correto afirmar:
A Líbia vive a violência mais mortífera desde a guerra de 2011 [...] e, perante a incapacidade do governo em restaurar a ordem, o país mergulha cada vez mais no caos.
http://www.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/dezenas-de-mor...
na-libia-levam-ao-exodo-dos-estrangeiros-1664466
Sobre a atual situação de violência mencionada na reportagem, é correto afirmar:
Então, reduzir a desigualdade por meio da redistribuição prejudica o crescimento econômico? Não, segundo dois estudos marcantes feitos por economistas do FMI (Fundo Monetário Internacional), que dificilmente é uma organização de esquerda. O primeiro estudo examinou as relações históricas entre desigualdade e crescimento e descobriu que os países com desigualdade de renda relativamente baixa "têm mais êxito em alcançar um crescimento econômico sustentado, em oposição a surtos ocasionais". O segundo, divulgado no mês passado, analisou diretamente o efeito da redistribuição de renda e concluiu que "a redistribuição parece geralmente benigna em termos de seu impacto sobre o crescimento.
http://noticias.uol.com.br/blogs-e-colunas/coluna/...
/2014/03/11/o-lugar-da-distribuicao-de-renda-no-discurso-publico.htm
Assinale a afirmativa coerente com os argumentos do texto:
O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, assegurou neste sábado (9/08) que os ataques aéreos americanos contra os jihadistas que estão tomando o Curdistão iraquiano, no norte do país, continuarão enquanto for necessário.
http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultimas-noticias/efe/20...
obama-assegura-que-seguira-bombardeando-jihadistas-enquanto-for-necessario.htm
Sobre essa intervenção estadunidense no Iraque, é correto afirmar:
As explosões que abalam Gaza e Israel abafaram um ruído que é potencialmente muito mais perigoso. Refiro-me às declarações do primeiro-ministro Binyamin Netanyahu de que Israel tem de se assegurar de que "não haverá outra Gaza na Judeia e Samaria" (como os judeus se referem ao território que a comunidade internacional trata por Cisjordânia e é habitado majoritariamente pelos palestinos). Mais especificamente, Netanyahu declarou:
"Acho que o povo de Israel compreende agora o que eu sempre disse: não pode haver uma situação, sob qualquer acordo, na qual nós renunciemos ao controle de segurança no território a oeste do rio Jordão" (de novo, os territórios palestinos).
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/clovisrossi/2014/07/1487168-palestina-o-sonho-acabou.shtml
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta uma interpretação correta das declarações do primeiro- ministro Binyamin Netanyahu.
O grupo formado por Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul anunciou, nesta terça-feira (15/07), a criação de um banco de desenvolvimento. [...] O nome oficial é Novo Banco de Desenvolvimento (New Development Bank, NDB, em inglês).
http://economia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2014/0...
banco-do-brics-tera-sede-em-xangai-e-1-presidencia-sera-da-india.htm
Sobre o banco criado pelos BRICS, é correto afirmar: