Questões de concursos sobre "Determinantes e quantificadores | Determiners and quantifiers" | Inglês - página 1

TEXT II
World Work Worker Workplace
Does your workplace offer affordances for #wellbeing? Natural
light, movement, a view, informal areas to socialize or
collaborate? 40% say no. 
                  

According to the survey conducted in Text II, the workers who are
unhappy with their working conditions are: 

Experts Try to Gauge Health Effects of Gulf Oil Spill
                                          Wednesday, June 23, 2010

WEDNESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) - This
Tuesday and Wednesday, a high-ranking group of
expert government advisors is meeting to outline and
anticipate potential health risks from the Gulf oil spill -
and find ways to minimize them.

The workshop, convened by the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) at the request of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, will not issue any
formal recommendations, but is intended to spur
debate on the ongoing spill.
“We know that there are several contaminations.

We know that there are several groups of people —
workers, volunteers, people living in the area," said
Dr. Maureen Lichtveld, a panel member and professor
and chair of the department of environmental health
sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. “We're going
to discuss what the opportunities are for exposure and
what the potential short- and long-term health effects
are. That's the essence of the workshop, to look at
what we know and what are the gaps in
High on the agenda: discussions of who is most
at risk from the oil spill, which started when BP's
Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank in the Gulf
of Mexico on April 20, killing 11 workers. The spill has
already greatly outdistanced the 1989 Exxon Valdez
spill in magnitude.

“Volunteers will be at the highest risk," one panel
member, Paul Lioy of the University of Medicine &
Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University,
stated at the conference. He was referring largely to
the 17,000 U.S. National Guard members who are
being deployed to help with the clean-up effort.

Many lack extensive training in the types of
hazards — chemical and otherwise — that they'll be
facing, he said. That might even include the poisonous
snakes that inhabit coastal swamps, Lioy noted. Many
National Guard members are “not professionally
trained. They may be lawyers, accountants, your
next-door neighbor," he pointed out.

Seamen and rescue workers, residents living
in close proximity to the disaster, people eating fish
and seafood, tourists and beach-goers will also face
some risk going forward, Dr. Nalini Sathiakumar, an
occupational epidemiologist and pediatrician at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham, added during
the conference.

Many of the ailments, including nausea, headache
and dizziness, are already evident, especially in
clean-up workers, some of whom have had to be
hospitalized.
“Petroleum has inherent hazards and I would
say the people at greatest risk are the ones actively
working in the region right now," added Dr. Jeff
Kalina, associate medical director of the emergency
department at The Methodist Hospital in Houston. “If
petroleum gets into the lungs, it can cause quite a bit
of damage to the lungs [including] pneumonitis, or
inflammation of the lungs."

“There are concerns for workers near the source.
They do have protective equipment on but do they
need respirators?" added Robert Emery, vice president
for safety, health, environment and risk management
at the University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston.

Physical contact with volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) and with solvents can cause skin problems
as well as eye irritation, said Sathiakumar, who noted
that VOCs can also cause neurological symptoms
such as confusion and weakness of the extremities.
“Some of the risks are quite apparent and some
we don't know about yet," said Kalina. “We don't know
what's going to happen six months or a year from
now."
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retrieved on September 9th, 2010.

In terms of reference,

Para responder às questões de números 46 a 50, considere o texto abaixo.





A palavra que preenche a lacuna C, no texto, corretamente é

In the sentence of the text “Still, there are plenty of ways millennials can build a credit history without a credit card” (lines 52 – 53), the quantifier plenty of can be replaced, with no change in meaning, by

Technology and legal pressure have changed 
spammers’ terms of trade. They long relied on sending 
more e-mails from more computers, knowing that some 
will get through. But it is hard to send 100m e-mails 
without someone noticing. In 2008 researchers from the 
University of California at Berkeley and San Diego posed 
as spammers, infiltrated a botnet and measured its 
success rate. The investigation confirmed only 28 “sales” 
on 350m e-mail messages sent, a conversion rate 
under .00001%. Since then the numbers have got worse. 
But spammers are a creative bunch. 
 of tricking 
consumers into a purchase, they are stealing their money 
directly. Links used to direct the gullible to a site selling 
counterfeits. Now they install “Trojan” software that 
ransacks hard drives for bank details and the like. 
Spammers also have become more sophisticated 
about exploiting trust. In few places is it granted more 
readily than on social-networking sites. Twitter, a forum for 
short, telegram-like messages, estimates that only 1% of 
its traffic is spam. But researchers from the University of 
California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at 
Champaign-Urbana show that 8% of links published were 
shady, with 
 of them leading to scams and the rest to 
Trojans. Links in Twitter messages, they found, are over 
20 times more likely to get clicked than those in e-mail 
spam. 
Nor is Facebook as safe as it seems. As an 
experiment, BitDefender, an online-security firm, set up 
fake profiles on the social network and asked strangers to 
enter into a digital friendship. They were able to create as 
many as 100 new friends a day. Offering a profile picture, 
particularly of a pretty woman, increased their odds. When 
the firm’s researchers expanded their requests to strangers 
who shared even one mutual friend, almost half accepted. 
Worse, a quarter of BitDefender’s new friends clicked on 
links posted by the firm, even when the destination was 
obscured. 

(Adapted from http://www.economist.com/node/17519964) 
 

A alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna  é

Read text I and answer questions 31 to 36. 

TEXT I 

Beware the power of the blog 

Companies may not like blogs, but if they ignore them 
they may be inviting some PR disasters 


The number of blogs on the internet is doubling every five 
months, according to blog-tracking site Technorati. The total is 
now around 20 million, with around 1.3 million posts made each 
day. Most are no more interesting than overhearing another 
person's telephone call, but there are exceptions that can have a 
remarkable impact. 



(from http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/comment/ 2145491/beware-power-blog, retrieved on September 24th, 2008) 


The opposite of the underlined word in “more interesting than” is

Read text I and answer questions 31 to 36. 

TEXT I 

Beware the power of the blog 

Companies may not like blogs, but if they ignore them 
they may be inviting some PR disasters 


The number of blogs on the internet is doubling every five 
months, according to blog-tracking site Technorati. The total is 
now around 20 million, with around 1.3 million posts made each 
day. Most are no more interesting than overhearing another 
person's telephone call, but there are exceptions that can have a 
remarkable impact. 



(from http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/comment/ 2145491/beware-power-blog, retrieved on September 24th, 2008) 


In “Most are no more interesting” most refers to