Questões de Inglês

The key problems of society today are rarely
categorized by governments as problems of science and
technology. They are assumed to be socioeconomic and
political problems, such as avoiding war, building the
economy, curbing terrorism, fighting poverty and disease, or
preserving a healthful environment. We can predict, however,
that it will become clear that all social-economic-political
issues intersect and that issues of technological advance are
right in the middle of every intersection, sometimes causing the
problems, more often offering possibilities for their solutions,
and frequently providing opportunities for the world society to
rise to new, higher levels of productivity, satisfaction, and
happiness.

Of course, trying to predict the future with perfection
is not defensible. But if we are active in some field, we are
bound to be aware of important trends in it, and we should take
our anticipations of significant future events seriously. We
should force ourselves to list potential developments regularly,
estimating for each the probability of its occurrence and the
importance of the event should it occur. Then, for those
happenings we consider both highly probable and significant,
we should ask ourselves what we can do early to enhance the
positive and suppress the negative consequences.

At present we see that the impact of advancing
technology on the social-economic-political framework of the
entire globe is growing rapidly, yet its implications are far
from being adequately explored. Moreover, the effects of
technological change are underestimated as short-range;
crisis-dominated problems monopolize the attention of most of
the world’s leaders. A severe mismatch is developing between
accelerating technological advance and lagging social progress.

Internet: (adapted).



Based on the text, judge the following items.

Future forecast is entirely untenable.

A resposta correta é:

The key problems of society today are rarely
categorized by governments as problems of science and
technology. They are assumed to be socioeconomic and
political problems, such as avoiding war, building the
economy, curbing terrorism, fighting poverty and disease, or
preserving a healthful environment. We can predict, however,
that it will become clear that all social-economic-political
issues intersect and that issues of technological advance are
right in the middle of every intersection, sometimes causing the
problems, more often offering possibilities for their solutions,
and frequently providing opportunities for the world society to
rise to new, higher levels of productivity, satisfaction, and
happiness.

Of course, trying to predict the future with perfection
is not defensible. But if we are active in some field, we are
bound to be aware of important trends in it, and we should take
our anticipations of significant future events seriously. We
should force ourselves to list potential developments regularly,
estimating for each the probability of its occurrence and the
importance of the event should it occur. Then, for those
happenings we consider both highly probable and significant,
we should ask ourselves what we can do early to enhance the
positive and suppress the negative consequences.

At present we see that the impact of advancing
technology on the social-economic-political framework of the
entire globe is growing rapidly, yet its implications are far
from being adequately explored. Moreover, the effects of
technological change are underestimated as short-range;
crisis-dominated problems monopolize the attention of most of
the world’s leaders. A severe mismatch is developing between
accelerating technological advance and lagging social progress.

Internet: (adapted).



Based on the text, judge the following items.

It is advisable to evaluate the likelihood of highly meaningful coming events.

A resposta correta é:

The key problems of society today are rarely
categorized by governments as problems of science and
technology. They are assumed to be socioeconomic and
political problems, such as avoiding war, building the
economy, curbing terrorism, fighting poverty and disease, or
preserving a healthful environment. We can predict, however,
that it will become clear that all social-economic-political
issues intersect and that issues of technological advance are
right in the middle of every intersection, sometimes causing the
problems, more often offering possibilities for their solutions,
and frequently providing opportunities for the world society to
rise to new, higher levels of productivity, satisfaction, and
happiness.

Of course, trying to predict the future with perfection
is not defensible. But if we are active in some field, we are
bound to be aware of important trends in it, and we should take
our anticipations of significant future events seriously. We
should force ourselves to list potential developments regularly,
estimating for each the probability of its occurrence and the
importance of the event should it occur. Then, for those
happenings we consider both highly probable and significant,
we should ask ourselves what we can do early to enhance the
positive and suppress the negative consequences.

At present we see that the impact of advancing
technology on the social-economic-political framework of the
entire globe is growing rapidly, yet its implications are far
from being adequately explored. Moreover, the effects of
technological change are underestimated as short-range;
crisis-dominated problems monopolize the attention of most of
the world’s leaders. A severe mismatch is developing between
accelerating technological advance and lagging social progress.

Internet: (adapted).



Based on the text, judge the following items.

The majority of world"s leaders fail to notice the increasing pace of technological progress on one hand, and on the other the slowing down of social progress.

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The worst passwords of 2012


If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame
on you and go change them now. SplashData, which makes
password management applications, has released its annual
“worst passwords” list compiled from common passwords that
are posted by hackers. The top three — “password”, “123456”
and “12345678” — have not changed since last year. New ones
include “jesus”, “ninja”, “mustang”, “password1” and
“welcome”. Other passwords have moved up and down on the
list. The most surprising addition is probably “welcome”,
which, according to CEO Morgan Slain, “means that people are
not even changing default passwords… and it doesn’t take that
much time to make a new password!”
You should have different passwords for all of your
accounts. To make it easier to remember them all, Slain
suggests thinking about passwords as “passphrases”. For
instance, use a phrase like “dog eats bone” and add
underscores, dashes, hyphens, and other punctuation marks to
satisfy the special character requirement: “dog_eats_bone!”.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The expression "For instance" (L. 15-16 ) is used to introduce an example.

A resposta correta é:

The key problems of society today are rarely
categorized by governments as problems of science and
technology. They are assumed to be socioeconomic and
political problems, such as avoiding war, building the
economy, curbing terrorism, fighting poverty and disease, or
preserving a healthful environment. We can predict, however,
that it will become clear that all social-economic-political
issues intersect and that issues of technological advance are
right in the middle of every intersection, sometimes causing the
problems, more often offering possibilities for their solutions,
and frequently providing opportunities for the world society to
rise to new, higher levels of productivity, satisfaction, and
happiness.

Of course, trying to predict the future with perfection
is not defensible. But if we are active in some field, we are
bound to be aware of important trends in it, and we should take
our anticipations of significant future events seriously. We
should force ourselves to list potential developments regularly,
estimating for each the probability of its occurrence and the
importance of the event should it occur. Then, for those
happenings we consider both highly probable and significant,
we should ask ourselves what we can do early to enhance the
positive and suppress the negative consequences.

At present we see that the impact of advancing
technology on the social-economic-political framework of the
entire globe is growing rapidly, yet its implications are far
from being adequately explored. Moreover, the effects of
technological change are underestimated as short-range;
crisis-dominated problems monopolize the attention of most of
the world’s leaders. A severe mismatch is developing between
accelerating technological advance and lagging social progress.

Internet: (adapted).



Based on the text, judge the following items.

Nowadays, the crucial problems concerning society have to do with socioeconomic and political issues.

A resposta correta é:

The worst passwords of 2012


If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame
on you and go change them now. SplashData, which makes
password management applications, has released its annual
“worst passwords” list compiled from common passwords that
are posted by hackers. The top three — “password”, “123456”
and “12345678” — have not changed since last year. New ones
include “jesus”, “ninja”, “mustang”, “password1” and
“welcome”. Other passwords have moved up and down on the
list. The most surprising addition is probably “welcome”,
which, according to CEO Morgan Slain, “means that people are
not even changing default passwords… and it doesn’t take that
much time to make a new password!”
You should have different passwords for all of your
accounts. To make it easier to remember them all, Slain
suggests thinking about passwords as “passphrases”. For
instance, use a phrase like “dog eats bone” and add
underscores, dashes, hyphens, and other punctuation marks to
satisfy the special character requirement: “dog_eats_bone!”.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The article criticizes the reader who uses any of the passwords listed on the compilation prepared by SplashData.

A resposta correta é:

The key problems of society today are rarely
categorized by governments as problems of science and
technology. They are assumed to be socioeconomic and
political problems, such as avoiding war, building the
economy, curbing terrorism, fighting poverty and disease, or
preserving a healthful environment. We can predict, however,
that it will become clear that all social-economic-political
issues intersect and that issues of technological advance are
right in the middle of every intersection, sometimes causing the
problems, more often offering possibilities for their solutions,
and frequently providing opportunities for the world society to
rise to new, higher levels of productivity, satisfaction, and
happiness.

Of course, trying to predict the future with perfection
is not defensible. But if we are active in some field, we are
bound to be aware of important trends in it, and we should take
our anticipations of significant future events seriously. We
should force ourselves to list potential developments regularly,
estimating for each the probability of its occurrence and the
importance of the event should it occur. Then, for those
happenings we consider both highly probable and significant,
we should ask ourselves what we can do early to enhance the
positive and suppress the negative consequences.

At present we see that the impact of advancing
technology on the social-economic-political framework of the
entire globe is growing rapidly, yet its implications are far
from being adequately explored. Moreover, the effects of
technological change are underestimated as short-range;
crisis-dominated problems monopolize the attention of most of
the world’s leaders. A severe mismatch is developing between
accelerating technological advance and lagging social progress.

Internet: (adapted).



Based on the text, judge the following items.

Technological progress can, now and then, bring about problems, but it can also, more frequently, come up with their attainable solutions.

A resposta correta é:

The worst passwords of 2012


If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame
on you and go change them now. SplashData, which makes
password management applications, has released its annual
“worst passwords” list compiled from common passwords that
are posted by hackers. The top three — “password”, “123456”
and “12345678” — have not changed since last year. New ones
include “jesus”, “ninja”, “mustang”, “password1” and
“welcome”. Other passwords have moved up and down on the
list. The most surprising addition is probably “welcome”,
which, according to CEO Morgan Slain, “means that people are
not even changing default passwords… and it doesn’t take that
much time to make a new password!”
You should have different passwords for all of your
accounts. To make it easier to remember them all, Slain
suggests thinking about passwords as “passphrases”. For
instance, use a phrase like “dog eats bone” and add
underscores, dashes, hyphens, and other punctuation marks to
satisfy the special character requirement: “dog_eats_bone!”.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

It can be concluded from the text that the word "welcome" is the default password for many services.

A resposta correta é:

The key problems of society today are rarely
categorized by governments as problems of science and
technology. They are assumed to be socioeconomic and
political problems, such as avoiding war, building the
economy, curbing terrorism, fighting poverty and disease, or
preserving a healthful environment. We can predict, however,
that it will become clear that all social-economic-political
issues intersect and that issues of technological advance are
right in the middle of every intersection, sometimes causing the
problems, more often offering possibilities for their solutions,
and frequently providing opportunities for the world society to
rise to new, higher levels of productivity, satisfaction, and
happiness.

Of course, trying to predict the future with perfection
is not defensible. But if we are active in some field, we are
bound to be aware of important trends in it, and we should take
our anticipations of significant future events seriously. We
should force ourselves to list potential developments regularly,
estimating for each the probability of its occurrence and the
importance of the event should it occur. Then, for those
happenings we consider both highly probable and significant,
we should ask ourselves what we can do early to enhance the
positive and suppress the negative consequences.

At present we see that the impact of advancing
technology on the social-economic-political framework of the
entire globe is growing rapidly, yet its implications are far
from being adequately explored. Moreover, the effects of
technological change are underestimated as short-range;
crisis-dominated problems monopolize the attention of most of
the world’s leaders. A severe mismatch is developing between
accelerating technological advance and lagging social progress.

Internet: (adapted).



In the text

the expression "At present" (L. 24 ) is an adverb of place.

A resposta correta é:

The worst passwords of 2012


If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame
on you and go change them now. SplashData, which makes
password management applications, has released its annual
“worst passwords” list compiled from common passwords that
are posted by hackers. The top three — “password”, “123456”
and “12345678” — have not changed since last year. New ones
include “jesus”, “ninja”, “mustang”, “password1” and
“welcome”. Other passwords have moved up and down on the
list. The most surprising addition is probably “welcome”,
which, according to CEO Morgan Slain, “means that people are
not even changing default passwords… and it doesn’t take that
much time to make a new password!”
You should have different passwords for all of your
accounts. To make it easier to remember them all, Slain
suggests thinking about passwords as “passphrases”. For
instance, use a phrase like “dog eats bone” and add
underscores, dashes, hyphens, and other punctuation marks to
satisfy the special character requirement: “dog_eats_bone!”.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The sentence "You should have different passwords for all of your accounts" (L. 13-14 ) expresses an advice to the reader.

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