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ID
28261
Banca
CESGRANRIO
Órgão
REFAP SA
Ano
2007
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
Assuntos

Good Stuff? - A Consumption Manifesto:
The Top Ten Principles of Good Consumption
Consumption is one of life's great pleasures. Buying
things we desire, traveling to beautiful places, eating
delectable food: icing on the cake of life. But too often the
effects of our blissful consumption make for a sad story.
Giant cars exhaling dangerous exhaust, hog farms pumping
out harmful pollutants, toxic trash pestering poor
neighborhoods - none of this if there weren't something
to sell.
But there's no need to trade pleasure for guilt. With
thoughtfulness and commitment, consumption can be a force
for good. Through buying what we need, produced the way
we want, we can create the world we'd like to live in.
To that end and for the future, a Consumption Manifesto:
Principle One. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This brilliant triad
says it all. Reduce: Avoid buying what you don't need-
and when you do get that dishwasher/lawnmower/toilet,
spend the money up front for an efficient model. Re-use:
Buy used stuff, and wring the last drop of usefulness out of
most everything you own. Recycle: Do it, but know that
it's the last and least effective leg of the triad. (Ultimately,
recycling simply results in the manufacture of more things.)
Principle Two. Stay close to home. Work close to home
to shorten your commute; eat food grown nearby; support
local businesses; join local organizations. All of these will
improve the look, shape, smell, and feel of your community.
Principle Three. Internal combustion engines are polluting,
and their use should be minimized. Period.
Principle Four. Watch what you eat. Whenever possible,
avoid food grown with pesticides, in feedlots, or by
agribusiness. It's an easy way to use your dollars to vote
against the spread of toxins in our bodies, land, and water.
Principle Five. Private industries have very little incentive
to improve their environmental practices. Our consumption
choices must encourage and support good behavior; our
political choices must support government regulation.
Principle Six. Support thoughtful innovations in
manufacturing and production. Hint: Drilling for oil is no
longer an innovation.
Principle Seven. Prioritize. Think hardest when buying
large objects; don't drive yourself mad fretting over the small
ones. It's easy to be distracted by the paper bag puzzle,
but an energy-sucking refrigerator is much more worthy of
your attention. (Small electronics are an exception.)
Principle Eight. Vote. Political engagement enables the
spread of environmentally conscious policies. Without
public action, thoughtful individuals are swimming
upstream.
Principle Nine. Don't feel guilty. It only makes you sad.
Principle Ten. Enjoy what you have-the things that are
yours alone, and the things that belong to none of us. Both
are nice, but the latter are precious. Those things that we
cannot manufacture and should never own-water, air, birds,
trees-are the foundation of life's pleasures. Without them,
we're nothing. With us, there may be nothing left. It's our
choice.
Umbra Fisk, Grist Magazine.
Slightly adapted from: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1470
Access on June 1, 2007.

Mark the correct statement concerning reference.

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  • me recuso a responder essa questão.

    não tem as linhas marcadas no texto.

  • Marque a afirmação correta de acordo com a referência.

    A) "These" (essas coisas) não está se referindo a "organizations" (organizações), o último item mencionado no período anterior, mas sim a todas as ações e/ou atividades que poderão melhorar a aparência, a forma, o cheiro e a impressão de sua comunidade ("will improve the look, shape, smell, and feel of your community"). Nesse caso, então, "These" refere-se a: "Stay close to home. Work close to home to shorten your commute; eat food grown nearby; support local businesses; join local organizations." (Fique perto de casa. Trabalhe perto de casa para diminuir o seu deslocamento; coma alimentos cultivados pela redondeza; apoie o comércio local; filie-se a organizações locais.)

    B) "It" (isso) não se refere a "agribusiness" (agronegócio) exatamente, mas sim à ação de evitar alimentos cultivados com pesticidas, em currais de engorda, ou por agronegócio ("avoid food grown with pesticides, in feedlots, or by agribusiness").

    C) "Their" (seus/suas) não se refere a "practices" (práticas), mas sim a "private industries" (indústrias privadas). "Private industries have very little incentive to improve their environmental practices." (As indústrias privadas têm muito pouco incentivo para aprimorar suas práticas ambientais.)

    D) Correto. "Ones" (os/as) refere-se a "objects" (objetos). " Think hardest when buying large objects; don't drive yourself mad fretting over the small ones." (Pense duramente quando estiver comprando objetos grandes; não se perturbe preocupando-se com os [objetos]  pequenos.)

    E) "Them" (elas/eles) não se refere a "trees" (árvores) apenas, mas sim a tudo aquilo que não é fabricado por nós. "Those things that we cannot manufacture and should never own - water, air, birds, trees - are the foundation of life's pleasures. Without them, we're nothing." (Aquelas coisas que não podemos fabricar e que nunca deveríamos possuir - água, ar, pássaros, árvores - são a base dos prazeres da vida. Sem elas, não somos nada.)

    Gabarito: Letra "D".







  • Bela força de vontade vc tem, Pedro.

  • Alternativa correta: d. a) Incorreta, “these” é no plural e se refere a todas as coisas anteriormente citadas. // b) assim como a letra a), it se refere ao contexto inteiro e não apenas à agribusiness. // c) their é pronome possessivo, deles, logo não se refere às práticas. // d) Sim. “Think hardest when buying large objects; don't drive yourself mad fretting over the small (objects) ones.” // e) Não, them também se refere à todas as coisas anteriormente citadas e não a uma só. “Those things that we cannot manufacture and should never own - water, air, birds, trees - are the foundation of life's pleasures. Without them”

  • d-

    In order not to repeat a noun, a pronoun is used to refer back to it, thus avoiding pleonasm