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Read the paragraph below to answer question.
Over the past several months it has come to FDA’s attention that there is an increase in the number of liquid vitamin D dietary supplements being marketed that could lead to infants an unsafe amount of vitamin D; as a result, FDA believes industry should provide safeguards to ensure that infants these products would not an unsafe amount of vitamin D. Most liquid vitamin D products marketed today use a dropper that could deliver a considerably greater amount of liquid vitamin D than an infant should receive. To reduce the likelihood dosing errors, FDA recommends that 400 units be clearly and accurately marked the dropper accompanying your product.
(FDA Letter to Industry Concerning Liquid Vitamin D Dietary Supplements).
Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks of the sentence below.
“To reduce the likelihood dosing errors, FDA recommends that 400 units be clearly and accurately marked the dropper accompanying your product”.
 

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Read the paragraph below to answer question.
Over the past several months it has come to FDA’s attention that there is an increase in the number of liquid vitamin D dietary supplements being marketed that could lead to infants an unsafe amount of vitamin D; as a result, FDA believes industry should provide safeguards to ensure that infants these products would not an unsafe amount of vitamin D. Most liquid vitamin D products marketed today use a dropper that could deliver a considerably greater amount of liquid vitamin D than an infant should receive. To reduce the likelihood dosing errors, FDA recommends that 400 units be clearly and accurately marked the dropper accompanying your product.
(FDA Letter to Industry Concerning Liquid Vitamin D Dietary Supplements).
Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks of the sentence below.
“`could lead to infants an unsafe amount of vitamin D; as a result, FDA believes industry should provide safeguards to ensure that infants these products would not an unsafe amount of vitamin D”.
 

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The Obama administration moved ahead Friday with the first major overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system in more than 70 years, proposing tough new standards for fruit and vegetable producers and food manufacturers. The long-awaited proposals by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are part of a fundamental change aimed at preventing food-borne outbreaks rather than simply reacting to them. Every year, contaminated foods sicken an estimated 48 million Americans and kill 3,000. The rules, which span 1,200 pages, are aimed at creating safer conditions from farm to fork. Produce farmers would be required to ensure that their crops aren’t contaminated by bad water or animal waste. Some will likely be compelled to build fences to keep out wildlife and to provide adequate restrooms and hand-washing facilities for field workers.
(The Washington Post, 1/4/2013)
Choose the alternative that best rewrites the sentence below.
“The long-awaited proposals by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are part of a fundamental change aimed at preventing food-borne outbreaks rather than simply reacting to them”.
 

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Read the paragraph below to answer question.
The Obama administration moved ahead Friday with the first major overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system in more than 70 years, proposing tough new standards for fruit and vegetable producers and food manufacturers. The long-awaited proposals by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are part of a fundamental change aimed at preventing food-borne outbreaks rather than simply reacting to them. Every year, contaminated foods sicken an estimated 48 million Americans and kill 3,000. The rules, which span 1,200 pages, are aimed at creating safer conditions from farm to fork. Produce farmers would be required to ensure that their crops aren’t contaminated by bad water or animal waste. Some will likely be compelled to build fences to keep out wildlife and to provide adequate restrooms and hand-washing facilities for field workers.
(The Washington Post, 1/4/2013)
Consider the sentences below.
I. The Obama administration moved ahead Friday with the first major overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system.
II. The rules, which span 1,200 pages, are aimed at creating safer conditions from farm to fork.
III. Some will likely be compelled to build fences to keep out wildlife.
Choose the alternative that presents the best replacement for the underlined words above.
 

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The silicone breast implant scandal
I have heard, in my life, many implausible statements from government officials, but never have I heard or seen anything quite as egregious as what I witnessed as a guest on the BBC's Newsnight program on 7 February 2012. Twenty-five frightened and suffering women had agreed to appear in the studio to ask questions of Anne Milton, a health minister for the UK coalition government. They had all been implanted with PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse) breast implants, which had been withdrawn from the EU market in 2010, after revelations of high rupture rates and confirmation that substandard – believe it or not, industrial — grade silicone had been used.
When I was researching my The Beauty Myth in 1991, I was reading British medical journals that informed me about the terrible health problems caused by silicone breast implants. I was shocked to see that even as women's magazines were promoting the hell out of them, medical journals were offering doctors insurance on implants because the rate of rupture was 30-70%. The implant manufacturers' own literature warns that one in four women will need additional surgery within the first year after getting implants, and many will have multiplesurgeries. The real boondoggle is not that it costs under $600 in the UK, a relative bargain, to get silicone breast implants; it's that it costs $3,000-8,000 to remove them, or to have repeat surgery for ruptured or hardened implants. The very defective nature of the implants, about which women are not adequately informed, guarantees a surgeon lucrative future procedures from that same woman, as her implants harden and rupture over time.
The warnings paid off in the US: silicone implants were banned in 1992. But Britain never followed suit and now British women, like the ones in the Newsnight studio, are facing the nightmare that they were never informed of the dangers of silicone. It is in this context that I was astonished to hear Anne Milton say "The evidence to date is that they [PIP implants] are not [dangerous]".
In the USA, Mentor and Allergan told the Food and Drug Administration that they had lost track of many patients after implantation. They had promised the FDA that, as a condition of the agency's approval of their implant products, they would follow up with the women who had received them, but — oh dear! — they could only keep track of 21% of those women. In 2009, 318,000 breast implant procedures were done in the US, 70% of those using silicone. The FDA's response to the industry's failure to comply with the clinical record-keeping it had undertaken as a condition of the lifting of the ban has been merely to note that it would think about this situation and not take any action without consultation with, creepily enough, surgeons, patients and "sponsors".
So, a new generation of women will not have access to critical government studies that would otherwise confirm the overwhelming evidence of the health problems associated with silicone implants. Why is it always women who are treated as guinea pigs and their bodies like lab rats'? I guess because .
(Adapted from WOLF, N. The Guardian, 02/15/2012)
Choose the alternative that explains the apostrophe placed after the noun “rats” in the sentence below.
“Why is it always women who are treated as guinea pigs and their bodies like lab rats'?”
 

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Read the text below to answer question.
The silicone breast implant scandal
I have heard, in my life, many implausible statements from government officials, but never have I heard or seen anything quite as egregious as what I witnessed as a guest on the BBC's Newsnight program on 7 February 2012. Twenty-five frightened and suffering women had agreed to appear in the studio to ask questions of Anne Milton, a health minister for the UK coalition government. They had all been implanted with PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse) breast implants, which had been withdrawn from the EU market in 2010, after revelations of high rupture rates and confirmation that substandard – believe it or not, industrial — grade silicone had been used.
When I was researching my The Beauty Myth in 1991, I was reading British medical journals that informed me about the terrible health problems caused by silicone breast implants. I was shocked to see that even as women's magazines were promoting the hell out of them, medical journals were offering doctors insurance on implants because the rate of rupture was 30-70%. The implant manufacturers' own literature warns that one in four women will need additional surgery within the first year after getting implants, and many will have multiplesurgeries. The real boondoggle is not that it costs under $600 in the UK, a relative bargain, to get silicone breast implants; it's that it costs $3,000-8,000 to remove them, or to have repeat surgery for ruptured or hardened implants. The very defective nature of the implants, about which women are not adequately informed, guarantees a surgeon lucrative future procedures from that same woman, as her implants harden and rupture over time.
The warnings paid off in the US: silicone implants were banned in 1992. But Britain never followed suit and now British women, like the ones in the Newsnight studio, are facing the nightmare that they were never informed of the dangers of silicone. It is in this context that I was astonished to hear Anne Milton say "The evidence to date is that they [PIP implants] are not [dangerous]".
In the USA, Mentor and Allergan told the Food and Drug Administration that they had lost track of many patients after implantation. They had promised the FDA that, as a condition of the agency's approval of their implant products, they would follow up with the women who had received them, but — oh dear! — they could only keep track of 21% of those women. In 2009, 318,000 breast implant procedures were done in the US, 70% of those using silicone. The FDA's response to the industry's failure to comply with the clinical record-keeping it had undertaken as a condition of the lifting of the ban has been merely to note that it would think about this situation and not take any action without consultation with, creepily enough, surgeons, patients and "sponsors".
So, a new generation of women will not have access to critical government studies that would otherwise confirm the overwhelming evidence of the health problems associated with silicone implants. Why is it always women who are treated as guinea pigs and their bodies like lab rats'? I guess because .
(Adapted from WOLF, N. The Guardian, 02/15/2012)
Read the sentence below.
"The evidence to date is that they [PIP implants] are not [dangerous]."
Choose the alternative that explains the format of the sentence.
 

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Read the text below to answer question.
The silicone breast implant scandal
I have heard, in my life, many implausible statements from government officials, but never have I heard or seen anything quite as egregious as what I witnessed as a guest on the BBC's Newsnight program on 7 February 2012. Twenty-five frightened and suffering women had agreed to appear in the studio to ask questions of Anne Milton, a health minister for the UK coalition government. They had all been implanted with PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse) breast implants, which had been withdrawn from the EU market in 2010, after revelations of high rupture rates and confirmation that substandard – believe it or not, industrial — grade silicone had been used.
When I was researching my The Beauty Myth in 1991, I was reading British medical journals that informed me about the terrible health problems caused by silicone breast implants. I was shocked to see that even as women's magazines were promoting the hell out of them, medical journals were offering doctors insurance on implants because the rate of rupture was 30-70%. The implant manufacturers' own literature warns that one in four women will need additional surgery within the first year after getting implants, and many will have multiplesurgeries. The real boondoggle is not that it costs under $600 in the UK, a relative bargain, to get silicone breast implants; it's that it costs $3,000-8,000 to remove them, or to have repeat surgery for ruptured or hardened implants. The very defective nature of the implants, about which women are not adequately informed, guarantees a surgeon lucrative future procedures from that same woman, as her implants harden and rupture over time.
The warnings paid off in the US: silicone implants were banned in 1992. But Britain never followed suit and now British women, like the ones in the Newsnight studio, are facing the nightmare that they were never informed of the dangers of silicone. It is in this context that I was astonished to hear Anne Milton say "The evidence to date is that they [PIP implants] are not [dangerous]".
In the USA, Mentor and Allergan told the Food and Drug Administration that they had lost track of many patients after implantation. They had promised the FDA that, as a condition of the agency's approval of their implant products, they would follow up with the women who had received them, but — oh dear! — they could only keep track of 21% of those women. In 2009, 318,000 breast implant procedures were done in the US, 70% of those using silicone. The FDA's response to the industry's failure to comply with the clinical record-keeping it had undertaken as a condition of the lifting of the ban has been merely to note that it would think about this situation and not take any action without consultation with, creepily enough, surgeons, patients and "sponsors".
So, a new generation of women will not have access to critical government studies that would otherwise confirm the overwhelming evidence of the health problems associated with silicone implants. Why is it always women who are treated as guinea pigs and their bodies like lab rats'? I guess because .
(Adapted from WOLF, N. The Guardian, 02/15/2012)
Based on the text, consider the assertions below.
I. American doctors are forbidden to perform silicone breast implants surgeries since 1992.
II. Nowadays, the FDA is much more reliable than British health officials.
III. The author of the article also wrote a book.
The correct assertion(s) is/are
 

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Questão presente nas seguintes provas
Read the text below to answer question.
The silicone breast implant scandal
I have heard, in my life, many implausible statements from government officials, but never have I heard or seen anything quite as egregious as what I witnessed as a guest on the BBC's Newsnight program on 7 February 2012. Twenty-five frightened and suffering women had agreed to appear in the studio to ask questions of Anne Milton, a health minister for the UK coalition government. They had all been implanted with PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse) breast implants, which had been withdrawn from the EU market in 2010, after revelations of high rupture rates and confirmation that substandard – believe it or not, industrial — grade silicone had been used.
When I was researching my The Beauty Myth in 1991, I was reading British medical journals that informed me about the terrible health problems caused by silicone breast implants. I was shocked to see that even as women's magazines were promoting the hell out of them, medical journals were offering doctors insurance on implants because the rate of rupture was 30-70%. The implant manufacturers' own literature warns that one in four women will need additional surgery within the first year after getting implants, and many will have multiplesurgeries. The real boondoggle is not that it costs under $600 in the UK, a relative bargain, to get silicone breast implants; it's that it costs $3,000-8,000 to remove them, or to have repeat surgery for ruptured or hardened implants. The very defective nature of the implants, about which women are not adequately informed, guarantees a surgeon lucrative future procedures from that same woman, as her implants harden and rupture over time.
The warnings paid off in the US: silicone implants were banned in 1992. But Britain never followed suit and now British women, like the ones in the Newsnight studio, are facing the nightmare that they were never informed of the dangers of silicone. It is in this context that I was astonished to hear Anne Milton say "The evidence to date is that they [PIP implants] are not [dangerous]".
In the USA, Mentor and Allergan told the Food and Drug Administration that they had lost track of many patients after implantation. They had promised the FDA that, as a condition of the agency's approval of their implant products, they would follow up with the women who had received them, but — oh dear! — they could only keep track of 21% of those women. In 2009, 318,000 breast implant procedures were done in the US, 70% of those using silicone. The FDA's response to the industry's failure to comply with the clinical record-keeping it had undertaken as a condition of the lifting of the ban has been merely to note that it would think about this situation and not take any action without consultation with, creepily enough, surgeons, patients and "sponsors".
So, a new generation of women will not have access to critical government studies that would otherwise confirm the overwhelming evidence of the health problems associated with silicone implants. Why is it always women who are treated as guinea pigs and their bodies like lab rats'? I guess because .
(Adapted from WOLF, N. The Guardian, 02/15/2012)
According to the text, it is correct to affirm that
 

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Read the text below to answer question.
The silicone breast implant scandal
I have heard, in my life, many implausible statements from government officials, but never have I heard or seen anything quite as egregious as what I witnessed as a guest on the BBC's Newsnight program on 7 February 2012. Twenty-five frightened and suffering women had agreed to appear in the studio to ask questions of Anne Milton, a health minister for the UK coalition government. They had all been implanted with PIP (Poly Implant Prothèse) breast implants, which had been withdrawn from the EU market in 2010, after revelations of high rupture rates and confirmation that substandard – believe it or not, industrial — grade silicone had been used.
When I was researching my The Beauty Myth in 1991, I was reading British medical journals that informed me about the terrible health problems caused by silicone breast implants. I was shocked to see that even as women's magazines were promoting the hell out of them, medical journals were offering doctors insurance on implants because the rate of rupture was 30-70%. The implant manufacturers' own literature warns that one in four women will need additional surgery within the first year after getting implants, and many will have multiplesurgeries. The real boondoggle is not that it costs under $600 in the UK, a relative bargain, to get silicone breast implants; it's that it costs $3,000-8,000 to remove them, or to have repeat surgery for ruptured or hardened implants. The very defective nature of the implants, about which women are not adequately informed, guarantees a surgeon lucrative future procedures from that same woman, as her implants harden and rupture over time.
The warnings paid off in the US: silicone implants were banned in 1992. But Britain never followed suit and now British women, like the ones in the Newsnight studio, are facing the nightmare that they were never informed of the dangers of silicone. It is in this context that I was astonished to hear Anne Milton say "The evidence to date is that they [PIP implants] are not [dangerous]".
In the USA, Mentor and Allergan told the Food and Drug Administration that they had lost track of many patients after implantation. They had promised the FDA that, as a condition of the agency's approval of their implant products, they would follow up with the women who had received them, but — oh dear! — they could only keep track of 21% of those women. In 2009, 318,000 breast implant procedures were done in the US, 70% of those using silicone. The FDA's response to the industry's failure to comply with the clinical record-keeping it had undertaken as a condition of the lifting of the ban has been merely to note that it would think about this situation and not take any action without consultation with, creepily enough, surgeons, patients and "sponsors".
So, a new generation of women will not have access to critical government studies that would otherwise confirm the overwhelming evidence of the health problems associated with silicone implants. Why is it always women who are treated as guinea pigs and their bodies like lab rats'? I guess because .
(Adapted from WOLF, N. The Guardian, 02/15/2012)
Choose one alternative to complete, in a coherent way with Wolf’s whole article, the last paragraph of her text, as shown below.
“Why is it always women who are treated as guinea pigs and their bodies like lab rats'? I guess because .”
 

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Leia o Texto I e II, para responder à questão.

Texto I

Assim que o vapor Congo lançou âncoras, naquela manhã de 22 de agosto de 1888, um velho de olhar difuso e bastas barbas brancas pisou, titubeante, na pedra do porto do Rio de Janeiro – o mesmo porto sujo, infecto e obsoleto de onde ele havia zarpado rumo à Europa para tratar da diabetes, da anemia e de problemas cardíacos. Treze meses haviam se passado e D. Pedro II estava de volta porque era preciso cuidar da saúde da monarquia. Ambos, imperador e império, exibiam uma imagem fragilizada e um corpo cansado. E os elixires e “remédios secretos”, anunciados pelos jornais ou em praças públicas, não pareciam capazes de recuperar o vigor dos áureos tempos em que ele fora chamado de “monarca-mecenas” e o Brasil desfrutara das benesses trazidas pelo café.

D. Pedro continuava despertando a simpatia popular, tanto é que seria recebido com vivas e urras, ali mesmo no porto. Mas sua figura, abatida pela doença e desgastada pelos embates políticos, fazia com que ele mais parecesse um fantasma da realeza do que um real governante. Não havia remédio que pudesse salvar o império.

Naquele melancólico crepúsculo da monarquia, o Brasil já era um vasto hospital, como diria, uma década mais tarde, o médico Miguel Pereira. A precariedade das condições sanitárias e os próprios hábitos da população, além da ineficiência e descaso do governo nas questões de saúde, faziam com que doenças infectocontagiosas, para as quais não havia cura, se espalhassem por todo o território nacional com rapidez espantosa. E, algumas delas, tinham começado a se disseminar justo a partir daquele porto no qual D. Pedro II acabava de desembarcar.

De fato, 38 anos antes, no verão de 1850, uma devastadora epidemia de febre amarela havia chegado à zona portuária do Rio de Janeiro. Em apenas cinco meses, a doença (então chamada “vômito negro”) vitimou quase dez mil pessoas. Embora trágico, o surto acabaria sendo responsável por uma guinada na história do sanitarismo no Brasil, pois foi em função dele que o ministério do Império decidiu nomear, em fevereiro de 1850, uma Comissão Central de Saúde Pública. E tal comissão tornou-se o embrião da Junta Central de Higiene Pública, criada em 20 de setembro de 1851.

Foi da Junta Central de Higiene que partiram as primeiras medidas concretas, visando fiscalizar a propaganda de medicamentos no Brasil. E é natural que assim fosse, pois a instituição havia sido criada graças às pressões da Sociedade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, associação que, desde a sua fundação, em junho de 1829, lutava para regulamentar não só o exercício da medicina, mas a fabricação e a comercialização de medicamentos no Brasil, bem como os reclames que anunciavam seus supostos poderes curativos.

BUENO, Eduardo. Vendendo Saúde: história da propaganda de medicamentos no Brasil. (Com adaptações)

Brasília: Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, 2008. (Série I. História da Saúde).

Texto II

A saúde e o fenômeno da cura têm tido significados diferentes conforme a época. O conceito de saúde, tal como o conceito de vida, não pode ser definido com precisão; os dois estão, de fato, intimamente relacionados. O que se entende por saúde depende da concepção que se possua do organismo vivo e de sua relação com o meio ambiente. Como essa concepção muda de uma cultura para outra, e de uma era para outra, as noções de saúde também mudam. O amplo conceito de saúde necessário à nossa transformação cultural – um conceito que inclui dimensões individuais, sociais e ecológicas – exige uma visão sistêmica dos organismos vivos e, correspondentemente, uma visão sistêmica de saúde. Para começar, a definição de saúde dada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde poderá ser útil: “A saúde é um estado de completo bem-estar físico, mental e social, e não meramente a ausência de doenças ou enfermidades”.

Embora a definição da OMS seja algo irrealista – pois descreve a saúde como um estado estático de perfeito bem-estar, em vez de um processo em constante mudança e evolução –, ela revela, não obstante, a natureza holística da saúde, que terá de ser apreendida se quisermos entender o fenômeno da cura. Ao longo dos tempos, a cura foi praticada por curandeiros populares, guiados pela sabedoria tradicional, que concebia a doença como um distúrbio da pessoa como um todo, envolvendo não só seu corpo como também sua mente, a imagem que tem de si mesma, sua dependência do meio ambiente físico e social, assim como sua relação com o cosmo e as divindades. Esses curandeiros, que ainda tratam a maioria dos pacientes no mundo inteiro, adotam muitas abordagens diferentes, as quais são holísticas em diferentes graus, e usam uma ampla variedade de técnicas terapêuticas. O que eles têm em comum é que nunca se restringem a fenômenos puramente físicos, como ocorre no modelo biomédico. Através de rituais e cerimônias, tentam influenciar a mente do paciente, aliviando a apreensão, que é sempre um componente significativo da doença, ajudando-o a estimular os poderes curativos naturais que todos os organismos vivos possuem. Essas cerimônias de cura envolvem usualmente uma intensa relação entre o curandeiro e o paciente, e são frequentemente interpretadas em termos de forças sobrenaturais canalizadas através do primeiro.

CAPRA, Fritjof. O Ponto de Mutação. Trad. Álvaro Cabral. São Paulo: Cultrix, 1999.

Levando em consideração os textos I e II, como um todo, e as orientações da prescrição gramatical no que se refere a textos escritos na modalidade padrão da Língua Portuguesa, assinale a alternativa correta.

 

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