Questões de Inglês

Parking in New York sends you to ecstasy or rips your
heart out. Which is to say, it’s a natural continuation of family life.
Most of the time it is joyous. Joy is an odd word to use in
connection with parking, but some of my happiest moments have
come in connection with finding a good parking space. Often
enough, though, it is terrible — so it feels like an even balance, and
for this reason, parking the car is always an occasion of great
suspense.

Take one recent evening, a Wednesday: we arrived in our
neighborhood at the end of an ambitious expedition, our bedtime
schedule long lost. There had been a truly fantastic sunset that we
witnessed coming down the Henry Hudson Parkway, but our
pleasure was diminished by the fact that the baby was asleep in the
car. It was after 8 P. M. He would need to be woken and bathed.
The only question was if Evangeline — five years old — might still
get to bed at a somewhat reasonable hour.

The answer lay with the fate of the parking.

We approached our block, our building. A tremor of hope
that a miracle would occur moved through my wife and me, battling
despair as the alternative scenario. I asked her the usual question,
like the riddle of the Sphinx: “Do you want to get out with the kids
or do you want to drive around with me looking for a spot?”

She doesn’t find this choice easy. I don’t blame her. In this
sense I have it easy — I will park the car. It is a necessity. She is an
excellent driver but this parking duty feels fatherly, hunter-gatherer,
stoic.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The couple was sad because the baby was asleep and therefore could not enjoy the beautiful sunset.

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TEXT I

A Day in the Life of the Women of O&G

by Jaime Kammerzell

From Rigzone Contributor. Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Although far fewer women work in the oil and gas
(O&G) industry compared to men, many women find
rewarding careers in the industry. Five women were
asked the same questions regarding their career
choices in the oil and gas industry.
Question 1: Why did you choose the oil and gas
industry?
Woman 1: Cool technology, applying science and
money.
Woman 2: It seemed interesting and the pay was
good.
Woman 3: They offered me a job! I couldn’t turn down
the great starting salary and a chance to live in New
Orleans.
Woman 4: I did not really choose the oil and gas
industry as much as it chose me.
Woman 5: I chose the oil and gas industry because of
the challenging projects, and I want to be part of our
country’s energy solution.
Question 2: How did you get your start in the oil
and gas industry?
Woman 1: I went to a university that all major oil
companies recruit. I received a summer internship with
Texaco before my last year of my Master’s degree.
Woman 2: I was recruited at a Texas Tech Engineering
Job Fair.
Woman 3: At the time, campus recruiters came
to the geosciences department of my university
annually and they sponsored scholarships for
graduate students to help complete their research.
Even though my Master’s thesis was more geared
toward environmental studies, as a recipient of one
of these scholarships, my graduate advisor strongly
encouraged me to participate when the time came for
O&G Industry interviews.
Woman 4: I was working for a company in another
state where oil and gas was not its primary business.
When the company sold its division in the state
where I was working, they offered me a position at
the company’s headquarters in Houston managing
the aftermarket sales for the company’s largest
region. Aftermarket sales supported the on-highway,
construction, industrial, agricultural and the oil and
gas markets. After one year, the company asked me
to take the position of managing their marine and
offshore power products division. I held that position
for three years. I left that company to join a new startup
company where I hold the position of president.
Woman 5: My first job in the oil and gas industry was
an internship with Mobil Oil Corp., in New Orleans.
I worked with a lot of smart, focused and talented
geoscientists and engineers.
Question 3: Describe your typical day.
Woman 1: Tough one to describe a typical day. I
generally read email, go to a couple of meetings and
work with the field’s earth model or look at seismic.
Woman 2: I talk with clients, help prepare bids and
work on getting projects out the door. My days are
never the same, which is what I love about the job I
have.
Woman 3: I usually work from 7:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
(although the official day is shorter). We call the field
every morning for an update on operations, security,
construction, facilities and production engineering
activities. I work with my team leads on short-term
and long-term projects to enhance production (a lot of
emails and Powerpoint). I usually have 2-3 meetings
per day to discuss/prioritize/review ongoing or
upcoming work (production optimization, simulation
modeling, drilling plans, geologic interpretation,
workovers, etc.). Beyond our team, I also participate
in a number of broader business initiatives and
leadership teams.
Woman 4: A typical day is a hectic day for me. My
day usually starts well before 8 a.m. with phone
calls and emails with our facility in Norway, as well
as other business relationships abroad. At the office,
I am involved in the daily business operations and
also stay closely involved in the projects and the
sales efforts. On any given day I am working on
budgets and finance, attending project meetings,
attending engineering meetings, reviewing drawings
and technical specifications, meeting with clients
and prospective clients, reviewing sales proposals,
evaluating new business opportunities and making a
lot of decisions.
Woman 5: On most days I work on my computer
to complete my projects. I interpret logs, create
maps, research local and regional geology or write
documents. I go to project meetings almost every day.
I typically work only during business hours, but there
are times when I get calls at night or on weekends
from a rig or other geologists for assistance with a
technical problem.

Adapted from URL: . Retrieved on February 14, 2012.





TEXT II

How To Start A Career In The Oil And Gas Industry:

What Employers Say

By Katie Weir

From Talent Acquisition Specialist, Campus

Talisman Energy

How to start your career, step by step



Fix up your resumé– take it to your career
centre at your university and they’ll help you.

Write a compelling cover letter that speaks to
your best qualities– save the pretentious language
for your English papers.

Join a professional association and attend
their events– if you feel uncomfortable attending
alone, try volunteering at them. By having a job to do,
it gives you an excuse to interact with the attendees,
and an easy way to start up a conversation the next
time you see them.

Do your research– I can’t stress this enough. I
want students to apply to Talisman, not because we
have open jobs, but because they actually have an
interest in what we’re doing, and want to be a part of it.

Be confident, but stay humble– it’s important
to communicate your abilities effectively, but it’s also
important to be conscious of the phrase: “sense of
entitlement.” This generation entering the workforce
has already been branded with the word “entitlement,”
so students will need to fight against this bias from the
very beginning of any relationship with people in the
industry – be aware that you will need to roll up your
sleeves and work hard for the first couple years, and
you will be rewarded in the end.
Retrieved and adapted from URL: .
Acess on: February 14, 2012.



Concerning Texts I and II, it is possible to affirm that

a) neither text points out ways to get rewarding jobs in the O&G industry.
b) both texts discuss strategies to ask for promotion in the O&G industry.
c) both texts present ways of starting successful careers in the O&G industry.
d) only Text I encourages prospective employees of O&G industries to plan their careers in advance.
e) only Text II provides hints on how to give up highly-paid jobs in the O&G industry.

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Historically, cachaça is directly linked to the introduction of sugarcane and the production of sugar in Brazil during the mid- 1500s. The slaves who were working at the sugar mills discovered that the garapa, the cooked sugarcane juice that was left standing, would ferment, turning into an alcoholic beverage. Apparently in the beginning, the beverage was given only to slaves at the end of their workday, but soon it became a popular drink consumed by all types of people. With the increase of demand, cachaça distilleries proliferated, and cachaça turned into the favorite alcoholic drink of the whole colony, becoming a threat to bagaceira, a Portuguese brandy made with grapes. As a consequence, during the gold rush, the consumption of cachaça was such that a royal court order of 1743 prohibited the distilleries in all Minas Gerais, probably starting cachaça’s first steps on its long social underground history. (Only in the 1990s did cachaça exit this social stigma to gain status and national and then international recognition.)
With the excuse of producing sugar, people continued to secretly produce cachaça, which prompted the court to attach high taxation on the Brazilian beverage.
Later, during the first movements for independence, cachaça was converted to a political statement when Brazilians served it instead of Porto wine during important receptions.

(Roberts, Yara Castro & Richard Roberts. 2009. The Brazilian Table. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith., p. 29)



Infere-se do texto que

a) a produção da cachaça, por razões políticas, não alcançou o merecido lugar no rol dos produtos exportados.
b) Portugal cobrou altos impostos sobre a cachaça para auferir maior receita com sua exportação.
c) a cachaça agrada mais ao gosto brasileiro do que o vinho do Porto.
d) a produção clandestina da cachaça foi um dos fatores que contribuíram para dar início ao movimento de independência do Brasil.
e) a produção da cachaça foi proibida a partir de 1743 por representar uma ameaça à bagaceira portuguesa.

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Parking in New York sends you to ecstasy or rips your
heart out. Which is to say, it’s a natural continuation of family life.
Most of the time it is joyous. Joy is an odd word to use in
connection with parking, but some of my happiest moments have
come in connection with finding a good parking space. Often
enough, though, it is terrible — so it feels like an even balance, and
for this reason, parking the car is always an occasion of great
suspense.

Take one recent evening, a Wednesday: we arrived in our
neighborhood at the end of an ambitious expedition, our bedtime
schedule long lost. There had been a truly fantastic sunset that we
witnessed coming down the Henry Hudson Parkway, but our
pleasure was diminished by the fact that the baby was asleep in the
car. It was after 8 P. M. He would need to be woken and bathed.
The only question was if Evangeline — five years old — might still
get to bed at a somewhat reasonable hour.

The answer lay with the fate of the parking.

We approached our block, our building. A tremor of hope
that a miracle would occur moved through my wife and me, battling
despair as the alternative scenario. I asked her the usual question,
like the riddle of the Sphinx: “Do you want to get out with the kids
or do you want to drive around with me looking for a spot?”

She doesn’t find this choice easy. I don’t blame her. In this
sense I have it easy — I will park the car. It is a necessity. She is an
excellent driver but this parking duty feels fatherly, hunter-gatherer,
stoic.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The writer believes that family life is somewhat similar to parking in New York.

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London becomes 4G high speed internet hotspot


London will begin to switch on 4G high-speed mobile internet with the launch of the first large-scale public trial in Britain. Initiated by O2, Britain"s second largest operator with 22 million customers, the trial involves more than 25 masts covering 15 square miles. It will run for nine months, and the equipment installed will eventually become part of O2"s first commercial 4G network.
The technology is 10 times faster at navigating the internet than the current 3G networks, which often frustrate smartphone users because they are significantly slower than the average home broadband connection. The 25 masts in London will be able to carry more data than O2"s entire national 3G network.
Britain"s 4G or long-term evolution ( LTE ) upgrade, expected to begin in earnest in 2013 after a much delayed spectrum auction, will make mobile networks powerful enough to handle video calls, high definition TV and live multi-player gaming. About 1,000 users will be invited to join the London trial.
Initially, the O2 trial will not involve phones, because no compatible handsets exist yet. Samsung dongles will be handed out to plug into tablets and laptop computers, as will portable miniature modems that can create small WI-FI hotspots linking into O2"s 4G infrastructure or "backhaul".
The new technology is capable of speeds of up to 150 megabits per second. During the trial, users will be more likely to experience average speeds between 25Mbps and 50Mbps. When 4G is introduced nationally the average speeds are likely to drop to between 10Mbps and 15Mbps. This is faster than 3G, which averages between 1Mbps and

1.5Mbps, and compares well with the average household, fixed line broadband connection, which rose to just under 7Mbps this year.
Live gaming against other players and video calling without delays will become possible from phones, because the speed at which new information loads onto the screen will be reduced from 1 second to 0.07 seconds.


(Adapted from www.guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13, November, 2011)

During the trial phase, the speed of the 4G network is estimated to be

a) around 150 megabits per second.
b) higher than 50 megabits per second.
c) between 1 and 1.5 megabits per second.
d) at least 25 megabits per second.
e) no higher than 20 megabits per second.

A resposta correta é:

Parking in New York sends you to ecstasy or rips your
heart out. Which is to say, it’s a natural continuation of family life.
Most of the time it is joyous. Joy is an odd word to use in
connection with parking, but some of my happiest moments have
come in connection with finding a good parking space. Often
enough, though, it is terrible — so it feels like an even balance, and
for this reason, parking the car is always an occasion of great
suspense.

Take one recent evening, a Wednesday: we arrived in our
neighborhood at the end of an ambitious expedition, our bedtime
schedule long lost. There had been a truly fantastic sunset that we
witnessed coming down the Henry Hudson Parkway, but our
pleasure was diminished by the fact that the baby was asleep in the
car. It was after 8 P. M. He would need to be woken and bathed.
The only question was if Evangeline — five years old — might still
get to bed at a somewhat reasonable hour.

The answer lay with the fate of the parking.

We approached our block, our building. A tremor of hope
that a miracle would occur moved through my wife and me, battling
despair as the alternative scenario. I asked her the usual question,
like the riddle of the Sphinx: “Do you want to get out with the kids
or do you want to drive around with me looking for a spot?”

She doesn’t find this choice easy. I don’t blame her. In this
sense I have it easy — I will park the car. It is a necessity. She is an
excellent driver but this parking duty feels fatherly, hunter-gatherer,
stoic.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

For the author, parking in New York is an occasion of great suspense because it is always a terrible experience.

A resposta correta é:

Athens rehearses the nightmare of default

By Joshua Chaffin in Athens


Constantine Michalos, president of the Athens
chamber of commerce, sat in his office – around
the corner from where protesters were hurling
chunks of marble at riot police – and
contemplated what was once unthinkable: that
Greece would default on its debt and then be
forced into a messy exit from the euro.
“All hell would break loose,” Mr Michalos said,
sketching a society that would quickly run short of
fuel, food, medicine and necessities. “You would
have social upheaval.”
Since the crisis began, it has been widely held that
a default would prove disastrous not only for
Greece but also for the entire European Union,
and that it was to be avoided at all costs.
That assumption is being questioned as never
before. Some officials argue that the blowback
from a Greek default might not be so debilitating,
after all.
“I am not advocating a Greek default, hard or soft
– but I’m not excluding the possibility of it if the
Greeks don’t get their acts together, Europe is
prepared... I think we’ve taken the necessary
measures.” Alexander Stubb, Finland’s Europe
minister, told the Financial Times.
That view is by no means unanimous among
Greece’s creditors. François Fillon, French prime
minister, on Friday had a stinging rebuke for those
who would consider it. “To put in play the default
of Greece is completely irresponsible,” he told
broadcaster RTL.
Stéphane Deo, European economist at UBS,
warned that a Greek default could wreak havoc
across the continent, including bank runs.
In rumour-prone Athens, business leaders,
politicians and economists are aghast at open
discussion of default. “It would be a nightmare,”
said Yannis Stournaras, head of the Foundation
for Economic and Industrial Research, an Athens
think-tank. “You would see serial defaults... Banks
would collapse completely. There would be no
banks.”
An important factor in any default would be the
reaction of the European Central Bank. It might be
possible to keep Greece in the eurozone and
contain the damage if the ECB were to provide a
lifeline to the country’s banks, some analysts
believe.
But it is also possible Frankfurt would decide it
could no longer accept Greek government bonds
as collateral. Without ECB liquidity – cut-off from
financial markets – Athens would have to print
drachmas to pay its bills.
The new currency would plunge in value against
the euro. That would trigger another wave of
defaults for businesses and citizens, unable to pay
outstanding debts in euros. Litigation, and even
deeper recession, would probably ensue.
Platon Monokroussos, research head at Eurobank
EFG, believes a Greek default might even cascade
into a full-]blown EU exit, because government
would probably try to impose capital controls,
close borders and take measures that violated EU
law.
Greece’s mainstream politicians appear aware of
this. Lucas Papademos, the prime minister,
warned MPs that the country faced “catastrophe”
if it did not approve a sweeping austerity package
tied to the loan.
Opinion polls show more than 70 per cent of
Greeks determined to remain in the eurozone
despite enduring two years of austerity and
economic contraction.
However, there is a minority – particularly on the
far left – that wants out. Their chief argument,
endorsed by some well-known foreign
economists, is that a devalued drachma would
lower wages and instantly make Greece more
competitive.
They tend to point to Argentina, which broke its
peg with the dollar more than a decade ago,
defaulted on its foreign debt and has since fared
far better than many expected.
Yet that comparison overlooks the fact that the
Greek economy – unlike Argentina’s – boasts a
small production base and few exporters. Most of
its companies rely on imports, which would rocket
in cost. Sceptical, too, are ordinary citizens. “We
are not Argentina,” Mr. Stournaras said. “We are
not even self-sufficient in agriculture.”
(Adapted from: Financial Times http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/76d064c6-5992-11e1- 8d36]00144feabdc0.html#axzz1mlF7WlTl)


From paragraph 1 we understand that Constantine Michalos

a) is the President of Greece.
b) is in charge of the fish market.
c) is responsible for the stock market.
d) runs the Athens Board of Trade.
e) forced Greece into exit from the euro.

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Parking in New York sends you to ecstasy or rips your
heart out. Which is to say, it’s a natural continuation of family life.
Most of the time it is joyous. Joy is an odd word to use in
connection with parking, but some of my happiest moments have
come in connection with finding a good parking space. Often
enough, though, it is terrible — so it feels like an even balance, and
for this reason, parking the car is always an occasion of great
suspense.

Take one recent evening, a Wednesday: we arrived in our
neighborhood at the end of an ambitious expedition, our bedtime
schedule long lost. There had been a truly fantastic sunset that we
witnessed coming down the Henry Hudson Parkway, but our
pleasure was diminished by the fact that the baby was asleep in the
car. It was after 8 P. M. He would need to be woken and bathed.
The only question was if Evangeline — five years old — might still
get to bed at a somewhat reasonable hour.

The answer lay with the fate of the parking.

We approached our block, our building. A tremor of hope
that a miracle would occur moved through my wife and me, battling
despair as the alternative scenario. I asked her the usual question,
like the riddle of the Sphinx: “Do you want to get out with the kids
or do you want to drive around with me looking for a spot?”

She doesn’t find this choice easy. I don’t blame her. In this
sense I have it easy — I will park the car. It is a necessity. She is an
excellent driver but this parking duty feels fatherly, hunter-gatherer,
stoic.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

In the episode narrated, there were only three people in the car.

A resposta correta é:

Parking in New York sends you to ecstasy or rips your
heart out. Which is to say, it’s a natural continuation of family life.
Most of the time it is joyous. Joy is an odd word to use in
connection with parking, but some of my happiest moments have
come in connection with finding a good parking space. Often
enough, though, it is terrible — so it feels like an even balance, and
for this reason, parking the car is always an occasion of great
suspense.

Take one recent evening, a Wednesday: we arrived in our
neighborhood at the end of an ambitious expedition, our bedtime
schedule long lost. There had been a truly fantastic sunset that we
witnessed coming down the Henry Hudson Parkway, but our
pleasure was diminished by the fact that the baby was asleep in the
car. It was after 8 P. M. He would need to be woken and bathed.
The only question was if Evangeline — five years old — might still
get to bed at a somewhat reasonable hour.

The answer lay with the fate of the parking.

We approached our block, our building. A tremor of hope
that a miracle would occur moved through my wife and me, battling
despair as the alternative scenario. I asked her the usual question,
like the riddle of the Sphinx: “Do you want to get out with the kids
or do you want to drive around with me looking for a spot?”

She doesn’t find this choice easy. I don’t blame her. In this
sense I have it easy — I will park the car. It is a necessity. She is an
excellent driver but this parking duty feels fatherly, hunter-gatherer,
stoic.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The couple"s feelings as they get near home are expressed as a struggle between hope and discouragement.

A resposta correta é:

Internet Architects Warn of Risks in Ultrafast Networks


If nothing else, Arista Networks proves that two people can make more than $1 billion each building the Internet and still be worried about its reliability.
David Cheriton, a computer science professor at Stanford known for his skills in software design, and Andreas Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, have committed $100 million of their money, and spent half that, to shake up the business of connecting computers in the Internet"s big computing centers.
As the Arista founders say, the promise of having access to vast amounts of data instantly, anywhere, is matched by the threat of catastrophe. People are creating more data and moving it ever faster on computer networks. The fast networks allow people to pour much more of civilization online, including not just Facebook posts and every book ever written, but all music, live video calls, and most of the information technology behind modern business, into a worldwide "cloud" of data centers. The networks are designed so as to be always available, via phone, tablet, personal computer or an increasing array of connected devices.
Statistics dictate that the vastly greater number of transactions among computers in a world 100 times faster than today will lead to a greater number of unpredictable accidents, with less time in between them.
Mr. Bechtolsheim says that because of the Internet"s complexity, the global network is impossible to design without bugs. Very dangerous bugs, as he describes them, capable of halting commerce, destroying financial information or enabling hostile attacks by foreign powers.
More transactions also mean more system attacks. Even though he says there is no turning back on the online society, Mr. Cheriton worries most about security hazards. "I ...... the claim that the Chinese military can take it down in 30 seconds, no one can prove me wrong," he said.
The common connection among computer servers, one gigabit per second, is giving way to 10-gigabit connections, because of improvements in semiconductor design and software. Speeds of 40 gigabits, even 100 gigabits, are now used for specialty purposes like consolidating huge data streams among hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe, and that technology is headed into the mainstream. An engineering standard for a terabit per second, 1,000 gigabits, is expected in about seven years.


(Adapted from. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/)

According to the writer

a) software engineers cannot be trusted since they are mainly worried about making money.
b) although a lot of money has been invested in building the internet, the whole network system is not always reliable.
c) by making more data available, fast networks enable users to enhance their knowledge about modern civilization.
d) internet users may feel threatened by the vast amount of data which can be instantly created when using fast networks.
e) Arista founders have invested a great deal of their money to ensure that transactions among computers are increasingly faster.

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