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A sign of the times
Imagine that you are taking a peaceful walk in the British countryside, when suddenly you hear the annoying sound of mobile phones going off all around you. Before you start looking for any loquacious human culprits, maybe you should look to the trees instead. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds __________ that British birds, such as starlings, are mimicking the noise of cell phone ringing tones. Mike Everett, a spokesman for the society, says that birds have long imitated manmade sounds from human whistling to car brakes screeching.
GLOSSARY:
starlings = estorninho (tipo de pássaro)
loquacious = falador, loquaz, tagarela
spokesman = porta-voz
culprit = situações perturbadoras
screeching = som de freada brusca
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Em um cone, a medida da altura é o triplo da medida do raio da base. Se o volume do cone é 8!$ \pi !$ dm3, a medida do raio da base, em dm, é
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Assinale a alternativa em que o acento indicador de crase foi empregado incorretamente.
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Se x é a raiz da equação !$ \left ( \dfrac{2}{3} \right )^x \, = \, 2,25 !$, então o valor de x é
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Sejam uma circunferência de centro O e um ponto A exterior a ela. Considere !$ \overline{AT} !$ um segmento tangente à circunferência, em T.
Se o raio da circunferência mede 4 cm e AT = !$ 8\sqrt{2} !$ cm , então a medida de !$ \overline{AO} !$, em cm, é
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A sign of the times
Imagine that you are taking a peaceful walk in the British countryside, when suddenly you hear the annoying sound of mobile phones going off all around you. Before you start looking for any loquacious human culprits, maybe you should look to the trees instead. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has found that British birds, such as starlings, are mimicking the noise of cell phone ringing tones. Mike Everett, a spokesman for the society, says that birds have long imitated manmade sounds from human whistling to car brakes screeching.
GLOSSARY:
starlings = estorninho (tipo de pássaro)
loquacious = falador, loquaz, tagarela
spokesman = porta-voz
culprit = situações perturbadoras
screeching = som de freada brusca
“annoying”, is
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Who Sleeps?
Reptiles, birds and mammals all sleep. Some fish and amphibians reduce their awareness but do not ever become unconscious like the higher vertebrates do.
Insects do not appear to sleep, although they may become inactive in daylight or darkness.
By studying brainwaves, it is known that reptiles do not dream. Birds dream a little. Mammals all dream during sleep. Whales and dolphins are “conscious breathers” and because they need to keep conscious while they sleep in order to breathe, only one half of their brain sleeps at a time.
GLOSSARY:
awareness = consciência
In “... like the higher vertebrates do”, the underlined word was used
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I always wanted a car and thought that having one would make my life easier. I still remember the day I bought the car - my car! - and drove it home. It was the happiest day of my life... and then everything went wrong.
First of all, I got a ticket for speeding. I was so excited about driving my new car that I didn’t realize how fast I was going. Later, when I got home, there was nowhere to park on the street. I looked for parking for almost thirty minutes. Finally, I found a place – six blocks from my house! The next morning, I decided to drive to school. The traffic was terrible and I was fifteen minutes late for class. All this happened in the first twenty-four hours of owning a car!
By the end of the first year, I was almost $2,000 in debt. I needed money for car payments, gas and insurance. It was crazy! In the end, I had to sell the car to pay my bills.
So what’s the moral of the story? If you don’t need a car, don’t buy one. It would be a terrible mistake!
According to the author, a terrible mistake is to
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Em “Cresce o número de assaltos a ônibus intermunicipais. Isso não só inibe os cidadãos como também os apavora.”, há
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Se f(x) = mx2 + (2m – 1)x + (m – 2) possui um zero real duplo, então o valor de m é
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