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I’ve never been any good at chatting up girls. I’ve discovered it’s something you can either do or you can’t – and, if you can’t, you’re always meeting the blokes that can.
Some of my friends are fantastic – they never fail. One of them will walk into a bar, stroll up to a girl. “ Hullo there,” he says. “What are you doing here?”
The girl will go weak at the knees and giggle. “ Waiting for someone like you”.
I tried that approach. “ Hullo there,” I said. “ What are you doing here?”
“ Avoiding creeps like you”.
But I kept trying. A friend gave me a book called How to Score at a Party, and I learnt that basically what you have to do is go round and grin at everybody. Eventually you’ve got to get lucky.
So I went to this party and grinned solidly for four hours.
“ Hi, there... hello there... what are you -” Not a light. Total failure.
I went home that night and, when I looked in the bathroom mirror, I saw I had got this great piece of green cabbage stuck between my front teeth. I’d been walking around all evening with it.
“ Hi, there... hello there”.
GLOSSARY
blokes – a man (informal)
hullo – hello
giggle – to laugh in a nervous or childish way
grin – to smile, a big smile
“Avoiding creeps like you”, means that the girl
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Changing lifestyles and new eating habits
Americans today have different eating habits than they had in the past. There is a wide selection of food available. They have a broader knowledge of nutrition, so they buy more fresh fruit and vegetables than ever before. At the same time, Americans purchase increasing quantities of sweets, snacks and sodas.
Statistics show that the way people live determines the way they eat. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the food industry compile sales statistics and keep accurate records. For instance, red meat, which used to be the most popular choice for dinner, is no longer an American favorite. Instead, chicken, turkey, and fish have become more popular. Sales of these foods have greatly increased in recent years. This is probably a result of the awareness of the dangers of eating food that contains high levels of cholesterol, or animal fat.
It is more than likely that an unhealthy diet can damage people’s health.
According to a recent survey, Americans also change their eating patterns to meet the needs of different situations. For example, they choose pasta, fruit, and vegetables to give them strength for physical activity. Adults choose foods rich in fiber to prepare them for business appointments. For romantic dinners, however, they choose shrimp and lobster.
Americans’ awareness of nutrition, along with their changing tastes and needs, leads them to consume a wide variety of foods - foods for health, for fun, and simply for good taste.
GLOSSARY:
compile: compilar
pattern: modo; padrão
accurate: exato
Reading the text leads to the conclusion that
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I am just like any typical physicist. My office may look messy, but I know where every atom is.
“messy”, underlined in the excerpt, means
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I’ve never been any good at chatting up girls. I’ve discovered it’s something you can either do or you can’t – and, if you can’t, you’re always meeting the blokes that can.
Some of my friends are fantastic – they never fail. One of them will walk into a bar, stroll up to a girl. “ Hullo there,” he says. “What are you doing here?”
The girl will go weak at the knees and giggle. “ Waiting for someone like you”.
I tried that approach. “ Hullo there,” I said. “ What are you doing here?”
“ Avoiding creeps like you”.
But I kept trying. A friend gave me a book called How to Score at a Party, and I learnt that basically what you have to do is go round and grin at everybody. Eventually you’ve got to get lucky.
So I went to this party and grinned solidly for four hours.
“ Hi, there... hello there... what are you -” Not a light. Total failure.
I went home that night and, when I looked in the bathroom mirror, I saw I had got this great piece of green cabbage stuck between my front teeth. I’d been walking around all evening with it.
“ Hi, there... hello there”.
GLOSSARY
blokes – a man (informal)
hullo – hello
giggle – to laugh in a nervous or childish way
grin – to smile, a big smile
In “I’d been walking around all evening with it.” the underlined verb tense is in the
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Ninguém nunca soube onde ele escondeu as moedas de ouro. Alguns afirmam que as enterrou perto do rio, mas todos têm certeza de que a fortuna não foi roubada da família.
As orações em destaque classificam-se, respectivamente, como subordinada
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The Horse and the Donkey
One day, a man went on a journey, and took with him his horse and his donkey. He put a very heavy load on the donkey’s back, but nothing on the horse’s back. After a while, the poor donkey asked the horse to help him. But the horse, who was very selfish, refused.
Further along the road, the donkey started to feel very tired, and again asked the horse to take some of the load. And again the horserefused.
Finally, the donkey fell exhausted at the side of the road and died.
So the man took the whole of the heavy load and put it on the horse’s back, together with the skin of the dead donkey, and they continued on their journey.
What is the moral of this fable?
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The Spirit of China – Lin Hao
It was a day that was filled with horror. on May 12th, 2008, a massive (1) earthquake measuring 7.9 on the ritcher scale hit the Sichuan province in China, killing over 70,000 people. Before the earthquake, 9-year-old Lin Hao sat in his 2nd grade classroom, among 30 students. When the earthquake struck, the entire building collapsed on Lin Hao and his classmates. But before Lin Hao escaped the rubble, he went back into the pile of rubble, kept himself alive (2) and calmed down his colleagues “by singing songs”. The boy was able (3) to save two of them.
When asked why he risked his life to save others, he said, “I was the hall monitor, it was my job to look after my classmates...”
Lin Hao was thrust into the spotlight Friday night at the Opening Ceremonies in Beijing. Lin Hao, holding the hand of the towering 7 foot 6 inch Yao Ming, helped lead the entire Chinese Olympic team into the arena before the official lighting of the torch. Before the Opening Ceremonies concluded, Yao Ming was interviewed on NBC live (4) television about what it meant to have the Olympics in Beijing. Then, the interviewer put Lin Hao on the spotlight (who was being carried by Yao), and Yao Ming mentioned how Lin’s act showed how even a 9 year old had the mindset to protect his friends, and how he could pass this story onto his children and grandchildren.
GLOSSARY:
rubble = entulho
to thrust = empurrar
mindset = mentalidade
Which of the underlined words, in the text, are adjectives?
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When a man has children, the first thing he has to learn is that he is not the boss of the house. I am certainly not the boss of my house. There is no wisdom I can give new fathers more profound than what I have just said: you are not the boss of the house.
When one of the children comes to you and says, “ Dad, can I go explore the Upper Nile?” your answer must be “ Go and ask your mother”.
Only once did I make the great permission mistake.
One of the children came to me and said, “Dad, can I go out and play?”
“ Sure”, I replied. “I don’t see why not”.
That was the last time I couldn’t see why not. My wife came in and said, “Did you let that child go out?”
“ Yeah”, I said.
“Well, next time check with me. He’s being punished.”
From that day on I knew my place; and whenever a child starts to say, “ Dad, can I...” even though it is my name, I always reply, “
What did your mother say?”
And even if the child tells me that she got permission, I still say, “ Very fine. Just bring me a note from your mother. It doesn’t have to be notarized. A simple signature and date will do.”
Ironically, even though the father is not the boss of the house, the mother will try to use him as a threat: “ When your father comes home, he’s going to spank you. And this time I’m not going to stop him”.
“Even though”, underlined in the text, gives an idea of
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Changing lifestyles and new eating habits
Americans today have different eating habits than they had in the past. There is a wide selection of food available. They have a broader knowledge of nutrition, so they buy more fresh fruit and vegetables than ever before. At the same time, Americans purchase increasing quantities of sweets, snacks and sodas.
Statistics show that the way people live determines the way they eat. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the food industry compile sales statistics and keep accurate records. For instance, red meat, which used to be the most popular choice for dinner, is no longer an American favorite. Instead, chicken, turkey, and fish have become more popular. Sales of these foods have greatly increased in recent years. This is probably a result of the awareness of the dangers of eating food that contains high levels of cholesterol, or animal fat.
It is more than likely that an unhealthy diet can damage people’s health.
According to a recent survey, Americans also change their eating patterns to meet the needs of different situations. For example, they choose pasta, fruit, and vegetables to give them strength for physical activity. Adults choose foods rich in fiber to prepare them for business appointments. For romantic dinners, however, they choose shrimp and lobster.
Americans’ awareness of nutrition, along with their changing tastes and needs, leads them to consume a wide variety of foods - foods for health, for fun, and simply for good taste.
GLOSSARY:
compile: compilar
pattern: modo; padrão
accurate: exato
“It’s more than likely that an unhealthy diet can damage people’s health”, means that
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In China the government is fighting to save a national symbol – the giant panda. There are very few pandas today and they are running a big risk of extinction.
Pandas are vegetarians. They live in the mountains of central China, in forests of pine trees and bamboo. Pandas eat flowers, grass, and sometimes small animals and honey. But bamboo is their main food. Because their digestive tracts extract little nutritive value from the plant, they consume enormous amounts, spending 50 to 75 percent of the day eating. A giant panda needs 20 kilos of bamboo a day, and he eats for about 15 hours!
Scientists are making a special study of the panda, its way of life, home, and food. They are also trying to breed pandas in new zoos, and to grow different kinds of bamboo in special natural reserves for pandas. Man, the principal problem for animals, is starting to work with nature. But there isn’t much time. Are we doing enough to save wild animals?
All the alternatives are correct EXCEPT,
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