Questões de concursos sobre "Pronome reflexivo | Reflexive Pronoun" | Inglês - página 1

“It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans
because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans". Eric Hobsbawm 
The word “itself" refers to:

The item “themselves” (line 27) refers to

Escolha a alternativa que preenche corretamente as lacunas. 

To understand your parents` love you must raise children _____.

            Paulo César Nóbrega is one of 40 milion people living with HIV/AIDS. This is story:


       Like most young people of my generation, I started using drugs as an adolescent. By the time I was 16, I was taking
cannabis, hallucinogens and injecting drugs. Soon, my addiction led me to drug trafficking. Between 1985 and 1993, I was
imprisoned in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, where I was diagnosed HIV-positive.


       Initially, I was shocked. But I didn't really know what HIV or AIDS were, which is why I continued using drugs and
sharing needles with other inmates. We received no guidance or preventive care.


In prison, AIDS first manifested itself through tuberculosis, an illness I suffered from three times. Although I was
eventually given anti-retroviral medicines, I continued taking drugs and only restarted the treatment in earnest after abandoning
drugs for good in 1999.


       At that time, I was a member of a support group in my hometown, the coastal city of São Vicente, and was close to other
HIV-positive people. We soon decided to establish the Hipupiara NGO to promote a sense of unity among people living with
HIV and to improve their quality of life.


       Unfortunately, I suffered a lot of prejudice for being HIV-positive, including from members of my family. I was also
denied jobs. Then, in 2001, I started working as a fisherman, a job I retired from in 2005, at 50, due to poor health.


       Today, I am free of drugs and am sticking to the treatment. I work as a volunteer for Hipupiara, contacting drug users in
the city and referring them to treatment and assistance services.


       Thanks to all the information I have accumulated about HIV/AIDS, I can now face and beat prejudice. People infected
with HIV and drug users should not close up or avoid talking about their problems; we should help each other so that we can all
lead a better life.







(Available in: <
http://www.unodc.org/newsletter/200601/page005.htm...>; Acess in: Mar. 6, 2006.)



“Addiction/ better/itself/among”. The following words can be classified as: 

The only correct statement concerning reference is:

The oil and natural gas industry has developed and
applied an impressive array of innovative technologies to
improve productivity and efficiency, while yielding
environmental benefits. According to the U.S. Department
of Energy, "the petroleum business has transformed itself
into a high-technology industry."
State-of-the-art technology allows the industry to
produce more oil and natural gas from more remote
places - some previously unreachable - with significantly
less adverse effect on the environment. Among the
benefits: increased supply to meet the world's growing
energy demand, reduced energy consumption at oil and
natural gas facilities and refineries, reduced noise from
operations, decreased size of facilities, reduced
emissions of pollutants, better protection of water
resources, and preservation of habitats and wildlife.
With advanced exploration and production
technologies, the oil and gas industry can pinpoint
resources more accurately, extract them more efficiently
and with less surface disturbance, minimize associated
wastes, and, ultimately, restore sites to original or better
condition.
Exploration and production advances include
advanced directional drilling, slimhole drilling, and 3-D
seismic technology. Other segments of the industry have
benefited from technological advances as well. Refineries
are becoming highly automated with integrated process
and energy system controls; this results in improved
operational and environmental performance and enables
refineries to run harder and produce more products safer
than ever before. Also, new process equipment and
catalyst technology advances have been made very
recently to meet new fuel regulations requiring very low
levels of sulfur in gasoline and diesel.
Technology advances such as these are making it
possible for the oil and natural gas industry to grow in
tandem with the nation's energy needs while maintaining
a cleaner environment. The industry is committed to
investing in advanced technologies that will continue to
provide affordable and reliable energy to support our
current quality of life, and expand our economic horizons.
For example, we are researching fuel cells that may
power the vehicles of tomorrow with greater efficiency
and less environmental impact. We are investigating ways
to tap the huge natural gas resources locked in gas
hydrates. Gas hydrates are common in sediments in
the ocean's deep waters where cold temperatures and
high pressures cause natural gas and water to freeze
together, forming solid gas hydrates. Gas hydrates could
be an important future source of natural gas for our nation.
Some of our companies are also investigating
renewable energy resources such as solar, wind,
biomass and geothermal energy. By conducting research
into overcoming the many technological hurdles that limit
these energy resources, they hope to make them more
reliable, affordable and convenient for future use. Although
the potential for these energy resources is great,
scientists do not expect them to be a significant part of
the nation's energy mix for many decades. For this
reason, the industry must continue to invest in
conventional resources such as oil and natural gas. We
will need to rely on these important energy resources for
many decades to come.

In: http://api-ec.api.org/focus/index

The only correct statement concerning reference is: