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2º BIMESTRE / 2014
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/ 08
Nº ________
/ 2014.
Professor: Ivail Amaral Guerrini
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Texto para as questões de 1 a 5.
IF PUBLIC speaking gives you the willies, the chances are you’ll be just as scared of virtual people, experts have
discovered. But in the long run these “avatars” will help you overcome your fears.
Mel Slater at University College London, and his colleague David-Paul Pertaub have developed a VR environment to
help people overcome their phobias. In their virtual seminar room, people have to give a presentation to eight
computer-generated people who can appear by turns fascinated, bored stiff or just annoying neutral.
While it’s not the first time VR has been used to treat phobias, such as fear of spiders or flying, no one knew if the
technique could also help people to overcome their social phobias.
To find out, Pertaub watched how people behave in seminars and programmed the virtual people to do the same
things: crossing their arms, frowning, yawning and putting their feet on the table. “Our negative audience is very
negative, “says Slater”.
Then Slater and Pertaub compared the performances of 43 volunteers who gave a talk either to an attentive
audience or to an unenthusiastic one. Surprisingly, the subjects responded as if the avatars were real.
21 July 2001 – New Scientist – www.newscientist.com
Questão 1. According to the passage, experts have discovered that
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
people willing to talk to a virtual audience will hardly annoy a real one.
if public speaking gives us the willies, we will overcome our fears just by talking to an attentive virtual audience.
a virtual audience may be as frightening as a real one for people who fear public speaking.
a virtual audience is likely to be more frightening than a real one for people afraid of speaking in public.
if public speaking gives people the willies, a virtual audience is likely to make them less scared than a real one.
Questão 2. Which of these statements is true according to the passage?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
The virtual-reality technique has proved to be more effective for social rather than other phobics.
The virtual-reality environment was developed to help people get rid of their fears.
People who have fear of spiders or flying will, in the long run, become social phobics.
The virtual-reality environment appears to be ineffective or treating some types of phobias.
So far the virtual-reality technique has been used only to help social phobics.
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Questão 3. According to the passage,
( a ) while addressing the virtual audience, the volunteers behaved as if it was real.
( b ) the eight computer-generated people reacted negatively to the 43 volunteers’talks.
( c ) the virtual people seemed to find the subjects of the volunteers’talks extremely borings.
( d ) Slater and Pertaub were fascinated by the presentations, whereas the virtual audience showed no enthusiasm at
all.
( e ) the way the subjects reacted when addressing the computer-generated people was no surprise to Slater and
Pertaub.
Questão 4. Which of these statements is true according to the passage?
( a ) Pertaub discovered that virtual reality could be used to treat extreme fears by watching how people behave in
seminars.
( b ) Slater and Pertaub were amazed to see the response of the attentive audience to volunteers’talks.
( c ) Despite their fears, the 43 subjects had a surprising performance when exposed to the virtual audience.
( d ) Pertaub programmed the computer-generated people to behave the way people do in seminars.
( e ) Pertaub watched people’s behavior in seminars to help social phobics to adopt the same behavior.
Questão 5. “...in the long run” ( line 2 ) means
( a ) afterwards
( b ) before long
( c ) lately
( d ) from now on
( e ) in the end
Questão 6. Choose the wrong alternative.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
She has been living in Piracicaba since last week.
How long have you been waiting for me?
She put the newspaper on the table.
How long do you know him?
How many times do you come to school?
Questão 7. Choose the correct alternative.
( a ) My friends and her wanted to know the answer.
( b ) One of my friends want to know the answer.
( c ) A friend of her want to know the answer.
( d ) A cars of his needs to be fixed.
( e ) She wanted to know why her father bought two pieces of bread.
Questão 8. Choose the correct alternative.
( a ) She doesn’t know why is that person asking so many questions.
( b ) She does study in this school.
( c ) She thinks that that boy need to buy a new book.
( d ) She doesn’t think that those boys needs to buy a new book.
( e ) She is tired of thinking of hers friends.
TEXT: IRELAND. Leia o texto a seguir e responda as questões 9 e 10.
In 1916 the South of Ireland decided to be free from Britain. There was rebellion, called “Easter Rising”, which was
quickly put down by the British army. All the republican leaders were executed.
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In the 1918 elections the republicans won in almost every area except in the North, the region called Ulster. The new
parliament announced that Ireland was now a republic. Guerrilla fighting against the British began. As a result the
British government decided to make peace. In 1921 it agreed to the independence of the South of Ireland. But it also
insisted that Ulster, or Northern Ireland as it became known, should remain united with Britain. So, the island was
separated in two parts: Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.
However a minority has been since then ready and willing to use violent means to achieve a united Ireland. When the
country was divided, the population of the new republic was only 5% Protestant against 67% in Northern Ireland,
whose government was controlled by the Protestants. They feared the Catholics and kept them out of responsible
positions.
New riots began in 1969. The Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) started its campaign of shootings and bombings, and the
British army was drawn into fight. In 1972 the Northern Ireland government was removed and replaced with direct rule
from London. In 1985 Britain and Ireland made formal agreement at Hillsborough that they would exchange views on
Northern Ireland regularly. But this agreement is still controversial.
The future of Northern Ireland remains uncertain. It is unlikely that there will be more Catholics than Protestants for a
very long time. Meanwhile young people who live there cannot remember a time when there was peace in the
province.
De acordo com o texto:
QUESTÃO 9. A Revolta da Páscoa ocorreu
( a ) na Irlanda do Norte.
( b ) na Irlanda do Sul.
( c ) na Grã-Bretanha.
( d ) em Ulster.
( e ) em Hillsborough.
QUESTÃO 10. O IRA existe porque:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
o governo da Irlanda do Sul é controlado pelos católicos.
o parlamento inglês controla o governo da Irlanda.
o exército britânico executou os líderes republicanos na Revolta da Páscoa.
a Inglaterra não permite a independência da Irlanda do Norte.
os protestantes são maioria em Ulster.
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