(Albert Einstein 2026) - QUESTÃO

Read the informational guide provided by Biosphere 2.

Biosphere 2 Experience, App Guided Audio Tour

The Biosphere 2 Experience is a self-paced app guided tour that will lead you through the rich history and current research initiatives of this remarkable facility. Visitors should be prepared for the following physical requirements:

• This is a 75-minute walking tour, where you explore Biosphere 2 using your own smartphone and headphones.
• This is an indoor AND outdoor tour.
• Approximately 100 stairs, both up and down.
• 1-mile route to walk.
• Varying weather conditions (Biosphere 2 Biomes are maintained as tropical environments; temperature and humidity inside the facility can each up to 37 degrees Celsius).

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(https://biosphere2.org. Adapted.)

The guide informs potential visitors to the Biosphere 2 project about

a) how to use the app guided audio tour.

b) which technology will be at their disposal.

c) which historical places they will visit.

d) how long the entire visit takes.

e) how to get inside the buildings.

(FGV-SP 2012) - QUESTÃO

NOT SO PERFECT AFTER ALL

1. For the past four decades or so, Botswana has been Africa’s golden boy. The former British possession has grown as fast as almost any country in the world. It has built an enviable reputation for good governance and political stability. It has a decent record on civil liberties and a relatively free press. Once one of the world´s poorest countries, it now ranks among the richer middle-income ones. A lot has to do with the discovery of diamonds, of which it is the world´s biggest producer, soon after independence in 1996. But unlike many other mineral-rich countries, it has invested wisely. It has been ranked as Africa’s least corrupt country.
2. But for the past two months it has been shaken by its first nationwide public-sector strike. Botswana´s 2m people, generally a deferential lot, were shocked when their normally unarmed police used tear-gas and rubber bullets to disperse rioting secondary-school pupils after they went on the rampage in April. The government closed all state schools, though they have since reopened.
3. The affair started as an ordinary pay dispute. Permitted for the first time to join trade unions under a new law, the country’s 120,000 public-sector workers promptly demanded a 16% pay rise after a three-year wage freeze. The government, pleading poverty following a slump in the diamond market during the global recession, offered just 5% conditional on future economic growth. Eager to flex their muscles, the newly formed unions stood their ground. But the government, the country´s biggest employer, accounting for 40% of formal jobs, also refused to budge.
4. On April 18th the unions called an all-out strike claiming that 80% responded. Even at its peak, says the government, no more than half of its employees walked out, leaving most ministries and services operating more or less normally. But the government has dealt with the dispute with a heavy hand, firing 1,400 striking health workers, including some 50 doctors, claiming they were providing an “essential service” and as such were banned under the constitution from striking. Worn down by almost two months without pay, the unions have agreed to accept the government´s revised unconditional 3% offer, provided all sacked workers are reinstated. This the government is refusing to do.

In paragraph 1, the phrase “… Botswana has been African’s golden boy” most likely means which of the following? 

a) Botswana’s best years are still to come. 

b) Botswana’s greatest asset is the fact that the British colonized it. 

c) Botswana is the only African country to have achieved middle-income prosperity. 

d) Botswana’s prosperity is based, ironically, on diamonds instead of gold. 

e) Botswana must be considered a real success story.

(FAAP 2016) - QUESTÃO

Erosion in America 

Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow in the nineteenth century. By the 1930s, more than 282 million acres of farmland were damaged by erosion. After 40 years of conservation efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands placed on the land by heavy crop production. In the years ahead, soil erosion and the pollution problems causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the nation's most critical natural resource problem. 

 It is pointed out in the reading that in America: 

a) petroleum is causing heavy soil erosion and pollution problems. 

b) heavy crop production is necessary to meet the demands and to prevent a disaster. 

c) water is undoubtedly the largest cause of erosion. 

d) soil erosion has been hastened due to the overuse of farming lands.

e) there are many ways to reduce erosion.

RESPOSTA: D

(FAAP 2016) - QUESTÃO

Erosion in America 

Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow in the nineteenth century. By the 1930s, more than 282 million acres of farmland were damaged by erosion. After 40 years of conservation efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands placed on the land by heavy crop production. In the years ahead, soil erosion and the pollution problems causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the nation's most critical natural resource problem.

The author points out in the passage that erosion in America: 

a) has damaged 282 million acres ever since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow. 

b) can become a more serious problem in the future. 

c) has been so severe that it has forced people to abandon their settlements. 

d) occurs only in areas with no vegetation. 

e) was on the decline before 1930s.

RESPOSTA: B