Read the questions taken from the text:
Are you developing a new product?
Have you written a Research Paper?
Have you discovered something new?
Are you developing a new manufacturing technique?
Now, choose the alternative which contains the verb tenses of the sentences, respectively:
THE FIRST FIVE-FINGER BIONIC GRIP
THE I-LIMB, designed by Scottish prosthetics engineer David Gow, is the first hand replacement to feature five independently powered fingers, allowing for dozens of different grip patterns that reflect the ways people use their hands in real life—like toting a briefcase or pulling the tab off a can. Electrodes on the skin of what remains of the user’s arm pick up muscle signals and use them to operate the hand’s robotic controls, so it grips, grabs, and bends exactly the way its owner expects it to. Approx. $18,000 touchbionics.com
http://www.popsci.com Pop Sci’s Best of What’s New 2007
Assinale a alternativa que contém os sinônimos apropriados (ao texto) das palavras grip, toting, tab e can, negritadas acima:
A DVD Refresher on the Indiana Jones Trilogy - Let's rate them
On a dragass DVD week dominated by the drab and preachy The Great Debaters, the painfully unfunny Mad Money and the totally unwatchable Untraceable, Indy comes to the rescue. With the fourth installment — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — just nine days away from your local multiplex, the DVD gods have picked an ideal time to re-release the first three Indy chapters in spanking new editions. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas have done intros for each movie, there are new bonus features not included on the 2003 DVD package, and the images jump off the screen with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound to goose them. But the big question before the May 22nd opening of Indy 4, is how to rank the first three.
http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/traverstake/2008/05/a-dvd-refresher-on-the-indiana.php
Indique a alternativa que não apresenta um assunto tratado no texto::
A DVD Refresher on the Indiana Jones Trilogy - Let's rate them
On a dragass DVD week dominated by the drab and preachy The Great Debaters, the painfully unfunny Mad Money and the totally unwatchable Untraceable, Indy comes to the rescue. With the fourth installment — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — just nine days away from your local multiplex, the DVD gods have picked an ideal time to re-release the first three Indy chapters in spanking new editions. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas have done intros for each movie, there are new bonus features not included on the 2003 DVD package, and the images jump off the screen with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound to goose them. But the big question before the May 22nd opening of Indy 4, is how to rank the first three.
http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/traverstake/2008/05/a-dvd-refresher-on-the-indiana.php
As palavras unfunny e unwatchable, no texto, são usadas:
A DVD Refresher on the Indiana Jones Trilogy - Let's rate them
On a dragass DVD week dominated by the drab and preachy The Great Debaters, the painfully unfunny Mad Money and the totally unwatchable Untraceable, Indy comes to the rescue. With the fourth installment — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — just nine days away from your local multiplex, the DVD gods have picked an ideal time to re-release the first three Indy chapters in spanking new editions. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas have done intros for each movie, there are new bonus features not included on the 2003 DVD package, and the images jump off the screen with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound to goose them. But the big question before the May 22nd opening of Indy 4, is how to rank the first three.
http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/traverstake/2008/05/a-dvd-refresher-on-the-indiana.php
The text is:
Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species
By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: May 15, 2008
The polar bear, whose summertime Arctic hunting grounds have been greatly reduced by a warming climate, will be placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced on Wednesday.
The polar bear is being stressed by melting sea ice but scientists say the species would not vanish entirely for a century or more.
But the long-delayed decision to list the bear as a threatened species may prove less of an impediment to oil and gas industries along the Alaskan coast than many environmentalists had hoped. Mr. Kempthorne also made it clear that it would be “wholly inappropriate” to use the listing as a tool to reduce greenhouse gases, as environmentalists had intended to do.
While giving the bear a few new protections — hunters may no longer import hides or other trophies from bears killed in Canada, for instance — the Interior Department added stipulations, seldom used under the act, that would allow oil and gas exploration and development to proceed in areas where the bears live, as long as the companies continue to comply with existing restrictions under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Mr. Kempthorne said Wednesday in Washington that the decision was driven by overwhelming scientific evidence that “sea ice is vital to polar bears’ survival,” and all available scientific models show that the rapid loss of ice will continue. The bears use sea ice as a platform to hunt seals and as a pathway to the Arctic coasts where they den. The models reflect varying assumptions about how fast the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will increase.
In prepared remarks, the secretary, who earlier in his political life was a strong opponent of the current Endangered Species Act, added, “This has been a difficult decision.” He continued, “But in light of the scientific record and the restraints of the inflexible law that guides me,” he made “the only decision I could make.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/us/15polar.html?emc=rss&partner=rssnyt
Choose the alternative which contains appropriate synonyms for the following words from the text: hides, comply, and den.