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01. Leia o seguinte texto:
The dingo, Australia’s wild dog, was first spotted on the northwest shores of the subcontinent in the late seventeenth century. The arrival of the dingo brought about substantial changes in the continent’s ecosystem. It is noted that with the establishment of dingoes, native predators declined. Among the animals probably displaced from the mainland by the dingo was the Tasmanian tiger, a recently extinct wolf-like marsupial.
TOEFL
What is the main idea of the passage?
02. We can infer from the passage that the dingo
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seguinte texto:
“Our partnerships span forty, fifty, sixty years and more. They’re in oil, gas, and chemicals. They involve everything from building new plants to helping develop entire industries. But they have one thing in common: a commitment to be there for the long term. As a global energy partner in over seventy countries, our track record proves it. We don’t just make partnerships, we keep them.”
www.chevron.com
The pronoun they refers to
04. The pronoun it refers to
05. Identifique
a sequência correta:
Rubbing one’s nose and eyes transfers viruses to the hands, which then contaminate whatever they touch, such as the table top or the telephone.
Because the dried cold virus can live as long as three hours, you can pick it up long after the person with a cold is gone.
The most likely way of catching a cold.
The most likely way to catch a cold is by touching an object that someone suffering from a cold has handled.
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seguinte texto:
The Chicago Tribune once wrote that Henry Ford was a stupid person. Ford got mad and hired a lawyer to sue the newspaper, challenging them to prove it. During the trial at the Courthouse, Ford was asked dozens of simple, general information questions, such as “When did the Civil War happen?”, “Name the presidents of the United States”, and so on. Ford, who had very little formal education, could answer very few. Finally, exasperated, he said, “I don’t know the answer to those questions, but I could find a man in five minutes who does. I use my brain to think, not to store up a lot of facts.”
A partir do texto, é possível inferir que:
07. (FUVEST
– 2000) Lara Croft, adventurer and archaeologist, flees through
an underground cavern from a pack of pursuing dogs, only to find her
way blocked by a chasm. Cornered, she reaches over her shoulder into
her backpack, retrieves an orange bottle, and drinks its contents. Revitalized,
she gives the dogs the slip and sprints to safety. So runs the latest
British television commercial for Lucozade, a soft drink. Ms. Croft,
the energetic computer-generated heroine of the “Tomb raider”
games, was the obvious person to star in it. But if a character from
a computer game can appear in an advertisement, what about the other
way around? Why not put ads in computer games?
The Economist, July 24th, 1999
We can deduce from the passage that it might be a good idea to
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