Questões de Inglês - Grammar - Linking words
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The longstanding mystery surrounding Antarctica’s Blood Falls has finally been solved. The deep red falls were first discovered in Antarctica in 1911 where scientists noticed a river had stained the surrounding cliff of ice with a dark red color. Previously, they had believed it was due to algae discoloring the water, however that hypothesis was never verified.
Now, thanks to research by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, we know the true origin of the Blood Falls flowing from the Taylor Glacier. The deep red coloring is due to oxidized iron in brine saltwater, the same process that gives iron a dark red color when it rusts. When the iron bearing saltwater comes into contact with oxygen the iron undergoes oxidation and takes on a red coloring, in effect dying the water to a deep red color.
The research team calculates that the brine water takes approximately 1.5 million years to finally reach the Blood Falls as it makes its way through fissures and channels in the glacier.
https://tinyurl.com/22vb439j%20Acesso%20em:%2016.08.2023.
A expressão due to, em negrito, introduz
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(www.publichealth.hscni, 20.01.2017.)
No título do pôster “I have dementia but I’m still me”, o termo sublinhado foi empregado com o mesmo sentido em:
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Meu Deus, que estais pendente em um madeiro
Meu Deus, que estais pendente em um madeiro,
Em cuja lei protesto de viver,
Em cuja santa lei hei de morrer
Animoso, constante, firme e inteiro.
Neste lance, por ser o derradeiro,
Pois vejo a minha vida anoitecer,
É, meu Jesus, a hora de se ver
A brandura de um Pai manso Cordeiro.
Mui grande é vosso amor, e meu delito,
Porém, pode ter fim todo o pecar,
E não o vosso amor que é infinito.
Esta razão me obriga a confiar,
Que por mais que pequei, neste conflito
Espero em vosso amor de me salvar.
MATOS, Gregório. Meu Deus, que estais pendente em um madeiro. Disponível em: https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Meu_Deus,_que_ estais_pendente_em_um_madeiro. Acesso em: 18 dez. 2022.
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In the word "uncomplicate" the prefix un- has the idea of
Read the text below about Monkeypox, a viral disease, and choose the CORRECT words to complete the blanks.
Monkeypox is a viral infection that is often accompanied (1) ______ a rash. The virus (2) _______ isn’t all that new to scientists. According to the WHO, monkeypox was first identified in humans (3) ______ in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (4) ______ then, human cases have been identified in 11 African countries. In May 2022, monkeypox cases began to be identified in several non-endemic countries (5) ______ Africa. It is still unknown (6) _____ the virus is spiking now.
(Source: https://nationalpost.com/health/monkeypox-explained - retrieved on 14th August, 2022).
Mark the alternative which contains the words you have chosen respectively.
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Although often used interchangeably by the general public, there are crucial distinctions between the terms “refugee” and “migrant”:
Refugee
Refugees are persons who are outside their country of origin for reasons of feared persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or other circumstances that have seriously disturbed public order and, as a result, require international protection. The refugee definition can be found in the 1951 Convention and regional refugee instruments, as well as United Nations Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Statute.
Migrant
While there is no formal legal definition of an international migrant, most experts agree that an international migrant is someone who changes his or her country of usual residence, independently of the reason for migration or legal status. Generally, a distinction is made between short-term or temporary migration, covering movements with a duration between three and 12 months, and long-term or permanent migration, referring to a change of country of residence for a duration of one year or more.
(https://refugeesmigrants.un.org. Adaptado.)
No trecho inicial do texto “Although often used interchangeably by the general public”, o termo sublinhado equivale, em português, a
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You may want to skip the toppings on your next hot dog, or skip it altogether: Health researchers at the University of Michigan have found that eating a single hot dog could take 36 minutes off your life. In their study, researchers looked at 5,853 foods in the US diet and measured their effects in minutes of healthy life gained or lost. “We wanted to make a health-based evaluation of the beneficial and detrimental impacts of the food in the entire diet,” Olivier Jolliet, professor of environmental health sciences at the university and senior author of the paper, told CNN.
The team came up with an index that calculates the net beneficial or detrimental health burden in minutes of healthy life associated with a serving of food. It’s based on a study called the Global Burden of Disease, which measures morbidity associated with a person’s food choices. “For example, 0.45 minutes are lost per gram of processed meat, or 0.1 minutes are gained per gram of fruit. We then look at the composition of each food and then multiplied this number by the corresponding food profiles that we previously developed,” said the professor.
One of the foods researchers measured was a standard beef hot dog on a bun. Its 61 grams of processed meat resulted in the loss of 27 minutes of healthy life, Jolliet said — but when ingredients like sodium and trans fatty acids were factored in, the final value was 36 minutes lost. Consumption of foods such as nuts, legumes, seafood, fruits and nonstarchy vegetables, on the other hand, have positive effects on health, the study found. “The index is primarily there to help aid in selecting and using calories consumed on a daily basis to tweak a minimum of habits and make the minimum of change to obtain a maximum benefit for health and the environment from our food experience,” Jolliet said.
(Lauren M. Johnson. https://edition.cnn.com, 27.08.2021. Adaptado.)
No trecho do segundo parágrafo “We then look at the composition of each food and then multiplied this number by the corresponding food profiles that we previously developed”, os termos sublinhados indicam
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