Questão 5418766

• Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
• Órgão: CBM-AL
• Ano: 2021
• Provas: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - CBM-AL - Aspirante do Corpo de Bombeiros
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

How rich countries cause deforestation in poor ones

    Forests are crucial to the functioning of the Earth. They provide homes for plants and animals, absorb rainfall, produce oxygen and suck up carbon dioxide, helping to keep global temperatures in check. Environmentalists are increasingly worried about their loss. Ten thousand years ago, more than half of the world’s habitable land was covered in trees; since then one third have been cut down to make way for agriculture and an ever-growing number of humans. Efforts to reverse this trend, including tree-planting programmes in America, Europe, China and India, among other places, have helped replenish some of what is left of the world’s forests.

   

    But such gains do not tell the whole story. For all their tree-planting efforts at home, rich countries continue to contribute, through their consumption, to the levelling of vast tracts of forests in poor countries. A study, published on March 29^th in Nature Ecology & Evolution, reveals the extent and location of the world’s “deforestation footprint”. Keiichiro Kanemoto and Nguyen Tien Hoang, of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Japan, combined data on global forest loss with that on international trade between 2001 and 2015. They calculated that rich-country demand for goods led overwhelmingly to deforestation outside their own borders, and mostly in tropical countries. In G7 countries, for example, the area covered by forests increased every year between 2001 and 2015. But after adjusting for trade, the authors found that these countries contributed to a net loss of 20,000 square kilometers of forest in the rest of the world in 2015 alone.

Internet: <www.economist.com> (adapted).

Based on the text above, judge the following item.

The text claims that over 50% of the world’s habitable land was covered in trees ten millennia ago.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• Questão: The text claims that over 50% of the world’s habitable land was covered in trees ten millennia ago.

  Respostas no primeiro parágrafo, terceiro período: "Ten thousand years ago, more than half of the world’s habitable land was covered in trees"

  Gabarito certo.

• Para a interpretação do texto sobre desmatamento, a dica para resolução dessa questão é aplicar a estratégia de leitura scanning, a qual, o candidato deve examinar detalhadamente o texto, destacando o vocabulário, as palavras-chave, selecionando apenas o trecho necessário do conteúdo para encontrar a informação.
  Com base no texto acima, julgue o seguinte item.
  O texto afirma que mais de 50% das terras habitáveis do mundo estavam cobertas por árvores há dez milênios.
  Conforme lemos no primeiro parágrafo, mais de 50% das terras habitáveis do mundo estavam cobertas por árvores.
  
  Ten thousand years ago, more than half of the world's habitable land was covered in trees; since then one third have been cut down to make way for agriculture and an ever-growing number of humans.
  
  
  Tradução: Dez mil anos atrás, mais da metade das terras habitáveis do mundo estavam cobertas por árvores; desde então, um terço foi cortado para dar lugar à agricultura e a um número cada vez maior de humanos.
  Gabarito do Professor: CERTO.