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Brazil is brilliant at vaccinations. So what went wrong this time?
When it comes to Covid-19 vaccination programs, there are some countries that have exceeded expectations and others that have fallen surprisingly short. And then there is Brazil. Vaccinating over 210 million people may sound daunting, but for Brazil it really shouldn’t be. With one of the largest universal, free-of-charge public health systems in the world, the country has a distinguished track record of vaccinations and disease control. The National Immunization Program, founded in 1973, helped to eradicate polio and rubella in the country and currently offers more than 20 vaccines free in every municipality.
Along with the infrastructure to distribute vaccines, there’s also the expertise to do so: in 1980, the country vaccinated 17.5 million children against polio in a single day. In 2010, over 89 million doses of the swine flu vaccine were administered in under four months. And last year, more than 70 million Brazilians received their annual shot against influenza.
But despite these advantages, Brazil’s vaccine rollout has been painfully slow, inconsistent and marred by shortages. The nationwide program began on Jan. 18, later than over 50 countries, and its current rate will take more than four years to complete. Several major cities, such as Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, have already had to stop their campaigns because of problems in supply. In a country where the pandemic has wrought terrible damage, the failure amounts to a disaster. So what went wrong? Perhaps we should look to "Zé Gotinha", Joe Droplet: He seems to know exactly who to blame.
From the beginning, Mr. Bolsonaro’s government downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic. The president fought against masks and social distancing measures, comparing the coronavirus to rain that would fall on most people while drowning just some of them. ("It’s no use staying home crying," he recently said, after the country registered 1,452 deaths on a single day.) In the middle of the outbreak, he managed to get rid of two health ministers - both doctors - who threatened to contradict him, replacing them with an army general.
From: shorturl.at/vwEMQ. Accessed on 04/17/2021
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It might not be the slickest thing on four wheels, and it definitely won’t win any time trials, but Chinese logistics firm Cainiao’s new Xiao G delivery cart could be the future.
Every hour, the three-foot by five-foot automated vehicle picks up packages from Cainiao’s depot in Hangzhou—a city of 10 million people in China’s booming east—and tours a nearby neighborhood. Locals in pajamas pop down to meet the driverless cart at their nearest delivery point and type in a reference number. A door in the vehicle’s side flips open and the customer’s parcel can be retrieved. Xiao G heads onto the next stop, weaving ponderously through traffic via 360-degree sensors. “It sends a message to customers after setting off and another when it arrives at a pick-up point so they know to come down,” says Cainiao engineer Long Fei. “Some models allow customers to drop off as well as pick up packages.”
In terms of innovations in logistics, Xiao G may not be as earth-shaking as the shipping container or the cargo jet. But it is the most visible aspect of a stealthy revolution powered by Cainiao, which was founded in 2014. The $10 billion subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba says it is poised to transform worldwide trade.
Disponível em: https://time.com. Acesso em: 16 maio 2021.
Based on this text about the Chinese logistics firm Cainiao’s new delivery cart, we can infer that
I. customers may pick up their product and also send packages using Xiao G.
II. it may influence how businesses in other parts of the world deliver products.
III. it will probably be more impactful in logistics than shipping containers.
IV. it can move fast through heavy city traffics using 360-degree sensors.
V. it relies on mobile technology and driverless vehicles to make its deliveries.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta as afirmativas corretas.
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Juliet had a book open on her lap, but she was
not reading. She did not take her eyes from
what was going by. She was alone in a double
seat and there was an empty double seat
[05] across from her. This was the space in which
her bed was made up at night. The porter was
busy at the moment, dismantling the car’s
nighttime arrangements. In some places, the
dark-green zippered shrouds still hung down to
[10] the floor. There was the smell of that cloth, like
tent cloth, and a slight smell of nightclothes
and toilets. A blast of fresh winter air was felt
whenever anyone opened the doors at either
end of the car. The last people were going to
[15] breakfast, other people coming back.
There were tracks in the snow, small animal
tracks. Strings of beads, looping, vanishing.
Juliet was twenty-one years old and already
the possessor of a B.A. and an M.A. in classics.
[20] She was working on her Ph.D. thesis in
Toronto, but had decided to take some time
out to teach Latin at a private girls’ school in
Vancouver. She had no training as a teacher,
but an unexpected vacancy at half-term had
[25] made the school willing to hire her. Probably
no one else had answered the ad. The salary
was less than any qualified teacher would be
likely to accept. But Juliet was happy to be
earning any money at all, after her years on
[30] stingy scholarships.
She was a tall girl, fair-skinned and fine-boned,
with light-brown hair that would not retain a
bouffant style, even when sprayed. She had
the look of an alert schoolgirl: head held high,
[35] a neat rounded chin, wide thin-lipped mouth,
snub nose, bright eyes, and a forehead that
was often flushed with effort or appreciation.
Her professors were delighted with her — they
were grateful these days for anybody who took
[40] up ancient languages, and particularly for
someone so gifted — but they were worried as
well. The problem was that she was a girl. If
she got married — which might happen, as she
was not bad-looking for a scholarship girl, not
[45] bad-looking at all — she would waste all her
hard work and theirs. And if she did not get
married, her life would probably become bleak
and isolated — she would lose out on
promotions to men (who needed them more,
[50] since they had families to support). Either way,
she would not be able to defend the oddity of
her choice, to defy what people would see as
the irrelevance, or dreariness, of classics, to
slough off that prejudice the way a man could.
[55] Odd choices were simply easier for men, most
of whom would still find women glad to marry
them. Not so the other way around.
Adaptado de: MUNRO, Alice. Chance. In: Runaway. London: Vintage, 2013. p. 52-53.
Considere as seguintes afirmações acerca do texto.
I - A palavra who (l. 49) poderia ser substituída por that, sem prejuízo da correção gramatical e do significado original do texto.
II - A palavra what (l. 52) poderia ser substituída por which, sem prejuízo da correção gramatical e do significado original do texto.
III- As palavras whom (l. 56) e them (l. 57) referem-se à mesma palavra.
Quais estão corretas?
With the Internet, the World is yours!
Worldwide, more than 500 million people use the Internet. On the Net, you can send electronic mail (e-mail), find information in distant libraries and museums, play games, shop, and much, much more. The World Wide Web (www) is a part of the Internet that lets you see information using pictures, colors, and sounds. Most people just call it the Web. You can have your favorite Web sites. It’s your choice. With the Internet, the world is yours!
These are just some of the things you can do:
- You can watch movie trailers, download free music and books, and discover about your interests and
favorite things.
- You can meet people from other countries. The Internet is global, so you can make friends from all
over the world.
- You can give your opinion on message boards, build your own site about foot-volley or beach soccer
or put your poems on the Net.
- You can get legal music. There are plenty of legal places to get music downloads.
- You can listen to music on-line too. For example, you can listen to music shows on the BBC site
whenever you want.
- You can use search engines, like Google, Yahoo or Alltheweb to look for any subject under the sun.
In a word, with the Internet the world is yours!
(MARQUES, Amadeu. Inglês Série Brasil. Editora Ática, São Paulo-SP, 2007. P. 54)
In the sentence: “There are plenty of legal places to get music downloads” The expression “plenty of” can be replaced by which quantifier to guarantee the meaning of the sentence?
NO MORE FISH 'N' CHIPS: THE ORIGINAL FAST FOOD IS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE …
[1] It is the original British fast food; fish 'n' chips, the original "carry‐out" meal, has been part of
British life for over 100 years. But will it survive much longer? Perhaps only in the form of a
luxury for those who can afford it. Long before the Big Mac was invented, Britain had its own
national form of fast food.
[5] "When I was a young man, it was the sort of thing you'd have once or twice a week," remembers
82‐year old Arthur Mowbrey. "Before the last war, you'd get a full size portion of cod and chips
for sixpence. It was cheap, and good". Fish 'n' chips was nourishing too. It was a proper meal, that
you could eat in the street on your way home from work, or during the lunch‐break. Wrapped in
newspaper, it would keep warm to the last chip, even on the coldest days of the year.
[10] In the last quarter of a century, things have changed. "It's not so popular with young people these
days," says Lizzie, a teenager. "Most of the time, if young people want to eat out, they'll go to a
Burger King or something like that, or a Chinese take‐away. Fish 'n' chips is a bit old‐fashioned
really, I suppose. But there are still cheap chip shops around. I had fish 'n' chips about three
weeks ago. We sometimes have it at home, and we go and get it from the chip shop. It saves
[15] cooking!"
Thousands of chip shops, however, have closed in the last twenty‐five years. Some have been
turned into Chinese or Indian take‐aways, others have just closed. They have survived best in
seaside towns, where the fish is really fresh, and people visit them more as a tradition than for
any other reason. Yet nothing, perhaps, can save the classic fish 'n' chip shop from extinction.
[20] Fish 'n' chips wrapped in newspaper is already just a memory of the past. British and European
hygiene rules no longer allow food to be wrapped in old papers, so today's carry‐out chip shops
use new paper or styrofoam cartons. Of course, you can still eat fish and chips with your fingers if
you want, but there are now plastic throw‐away forks for those who don't want to get greasy
fingers! Yet in spite of these changes, the classic fish 'n' chip shop could disappear from British
[25] streets in a few years' time, for a completely different reason; lack of fish.
For over ten years, European agriculture ministers have been trying to solve the fish problem,
but with little success. As a result of modern industrial fishing, some types of fish are facing
extinction in the North Sea and Atlantic. "Overfishing in the North Sea has reached crisis levels,"
say Greenpeace. Quotas have been introduced, but each time there are new restrictions,
[30] fishermen in Britain, France, Spain and other countries protest, because jobs are lost.
Sadly, this is inevitable; and unless strict quotas are applied, thousands of European fishermen
could lose their jobs, as there will be few fish left to catch (at least, few of the kinds of fish that
people want to eat). One way or the other, sea fish will become rarer, and therefore more
expensive.
Fonte:http://linguapress.com/intermediate/nomorefishnchips.htm (acesso e adaptado em 05/04/11)
Tomando a frase When I was a young man (ℓ.5) como referência sintática, analise as alternativas abaixo e assinale a incorreta.