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Mark the item corresponding to the inconsistent underlined part correction.

Mark the item corresponding to the inconsistent underlined part correction.

In the text, which of the verb forms below DOES NOT
have the same function as increased (l. 34)?

Instrução: A questão refere-se ao texto
abaixo.



ADAPTED FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox.
Acesso em 05/05/2018.

Select the alternative that adequately fills in the blanks
in lines 03, 04 and 06.

INSTRUCTION: Read the comic strip and answer to the question.



Available at: <http://web.gocomics.com/comics/collections/1626789/calvin-and-%20hobbes-%20scientific-theory?page=12>. Accessed on: Dec 7th, 2017.


Calvin says to his mom: I’ve ________ trapped on the
ceiling.

 The correct verb form to complete the
sentence is:

The latest information about a specific condition __________________ by subscribers.

Texto III

Read an excerpt from the article, How Studying or Working Abroad Makes You Smarter.

A study (LEAD) by William Maddux, an associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD,
(FIND) that among students enrolled in an international MBA program, their “multicultural
engagement”—the extent to which they adapted to and learned about new cultures—predicted
how “integratively complex” their thinking (BECOME).

That is, students who adopted an open and adaptive attitude toward foreign cultures (BE) more
able to make connections among disparate ideas. The students’ multicultural engagement also
predicted the number of job offers they (RECEIVE) after the program ended.
Available at:<http://time.com/79937/how-studying-or-working-abroad-makes-you-smarter/> . Accessed on 4/3/16. 

The verbs in parentheses originally appeared in the simple past in the article. The correct of
the simple past of these verbs is:

Text I

JANUARY 18, 2015 - DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

“Let’s go, Open your eyes, Open your mind to her dream. Let’s go, fight for what’s right, fight for
her life."

Carl & the Reda Mafia, a young, dynamic, award-winning Dubai band, wrote the song “Fight for
Your Queen” as a direct call to men to fight for gender equality. As they told UN Women:
“HeForShe is a movement we have looked up to since its inception. The idea of ____________’s
rights is something we truly believe in and support.” Lead singer Carl Frenais, who is from India,
introduced the campaign to the band. He has been very passionate about fighting against the
horrifyingly violent crimes against women in his home country.
We got over 500 men to pledge to support the movement. Even those who were afraid told us they
support it.
Adaptation from: http://www.heforshe.org/en/newsroom/safety/rock-voices-for-change. Access on: April 4, 2016. 

The verbs containing in the first part of the text are in the ________________, a very
common verb tense/mood in the language of campaings, meaning ________________.

Read this text and answer to the question

Inside the world's quietest room

If you stand in it for long enough, you start to hear
your heartbeat. A ringing in your ears becomes
deafening. When you move, your bones make a
grinding noise. Eventually you lose your balance,
because the absolute lack of reverberation
sabotages your spatial awareness.
In this room at Microsoft's headquarters in
Redmond, Washington, all sound from the outside
world is locked out and any sound produced
inside is stopped cold. It's called an anechoic
chamber, because it creates no echo at all — which
makes the sound of clapping hands downright
eerie.
The background noise in the room is so low that it
approaches the lowest threshold theorized by
mathematicians, the absolute zero of sound — the
next step down is a vacuum, or the absence of
sound.
This is the world's quietest place.


Deafening silence


The room offers a very rare sensorial experience.


As soon as one enters the room, one immediately
feels a strange and unique sensation which is hard
to describe, wrote Hundraj Gopal, a speech and
hearing scientist and the principal designer of
the anechoic chamber at Microsoft, in an email.
Most people find the absence of sound deafening, feel
a sense of fullness in the ears, or some ringing. Very
____ sounds become clearly audible because the
ambient noise is exceptionally low. When you turn
your head, you can hear that motion. You can hear
yourself breathing and it sounds somewhat loud,
he said.

In the real world, Gopal explained, our ears are
constantly subject to some level of sound, so there
is always some air pressure on the ear drums. But
upon entering the anechoic room this constant air
pressure is gone, since there are no sound
reflections from the surrounding walls.

This is a novel experience, he wrote. [...]


Jacopo Prisco, CNN


Disponível em: <https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ anechoic-chamber-worlds-quietest-room/index.html>. Acesso em: 29 mar. 2018.



Choose the option in which the pair of words from the
text, formed with the suffix ing, represents a verbal
form.

READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT AND CHOOSE THE OPTION WHICH BEST
COMPLETES EACH QUESTION ACCORDING TO IT:

                 Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed

      The battle between men and machines goes back centuries. Are they taking
our jobs? Or are they easing our workload? A study by economists at the consultancy
Deloitte seeks to shed new light on the relationship between jobs and the
rise of technology by searching through census data for England and Wales going
back to 1871.
      Their conclusion is that, rather than destroying jobs, technology has been
a “great job-creating machine”. Findings by Deloitte such as rise in bar staff since
the 1950s or a surge in the number of hairdressers this century suggest to the
authors that technology has increased spending power, therefore creating new demand
and new jobs. Their study argues that the debate has been twisted towards
the job-destroying effects of technological change, which are more easily observed
than its creative aspects.
      Going back over past figures paints a more balanced picture, say authors
Ian Stewart and Alex Cole. “The dominant trend is of contracting employment in
agriculture and manufacturing being more than balanced by rapid growth in the
caring, creative, technology and business services sectors,” they write. “Machines
will take on more repetitive and laborious tasks, but they seem no closer to eliminating
the need for human labor than at any time in the last 150 years.” 
      According to the study, hard, dangerous and dull jobs have declined. In
some sectors, technology has quite clearly cost jobs, but they question whether
they are really jobs we would want to hold on to. Technology directly substitutes
human muscle power and, in so doing, raises productivity and shrinks employment.
“In the UK the first sector to feel this effect on any scale was agriculture,” says the
study. 
      The study also found out that ‘caring’ jobs have increased. The report cites
a “profound shift”, with labor switching from its historic role, as a source of raw
power, to the care, education and provision of services to others.
Technological progress has cut the prices of essentials, such as food, and the price
of bigger household items such as TVs and kitchen appliances, notes Stewart. That
leaves more money to spend on leisure, and creates new demand and new jobs,
which may explain the big rise in bar staff, he adds. “_______ the decline in the
traditional pub, census data shows that the number of people employed in bars
rose fourfold between 1951 and 2011,” the report says.
      The Deloitte economists believe that rising incomes have allowed consumers
to spend more on personal services, such as grooming. That in turn has driven
employment of hairdressers. So, while in 1871 there was one hairdresser or
barber for every 1,793 citizens of England and Wales; today there is one for every
287 people.
                                  (Adapted from: https://goo.gl/7V5vuw. Access: 02/02/2018.)

The use of the modal verb may in “which may explain the big rise in bar staff”
(paragraph 6) indicates that