Questões de Inglês - Grammar - Infinitive and Gerund
Medical information on the web has pros and cons
By Christian Vey
Jan 2, 2012
You feel a twinge in your stomach and there is no
obvious explanation. Or maybe, for no apparent
reason, you get a stabbing headache. To whom - or to
what - do you turn first? According to various studies,
there is a good chance it is the internet.
'About 65 per cent of respondents now state that they
have recently searched for health content on the
internet,' said Marie-Luise Dierks, co-director of the
Hanover Patients' University, an independent
education institution at Hanover Medical School in
Germany. Some, though by no means all of them, try
to diagnose themselves.
Independently researching a health-related matter on
the internet can indeed be useful, said Dierks, who
said it is a good way to boost one's self-reliance and
confidence in dealing with illnesses, doctors and
medicine. But she added a caveat: 'It's important,
however, that information from the web always be
called into question.'
Health care professionals are divided on the internet
as a source of medical information.
'There is nothing wrong with informing oneself,' said
Ursula Marschall, medical director of a German public
health insurance company. But she said it is
dangerous to regard the internet as more credible than
one's doctor. Noting that 'patients always have their
own notions about their illness,' she said those who
did internet research were at risk of latching onto
information that supports their preconceptions, even if
these latter ones are completely wrong.
Maria Gropalis, a psychologist at Mainz University's
Department of Psychology, also sees risks. 'The
danger of misinformation is very high on the internet.
The overabundance of information can be a problem
as well' - particularly for hypochondriacs, she said.
'There's the risk that the internet will intensify existing
fears.'
A word has even been coined for unfounded anxiety
concerning the state of one's health brought on by
visiting medical websites: 'cyberchondria.' While
Gropalis views the neologism as mainly a vogue word,
she said the phenomenon it described was definitely a
modern variety of hypochondria.
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1683515.php/Medical-information-on-the-web-has-pros-and-cons. Adaptado.
No trecho do terceiro parágrafo -- Independently researching a health-related matter on the internet can indeed be useful — a palavra indeed indica
Read the comic strip and answer question:
Based on the comic strip, select the alternatives that are TRUE:
I. In the sentence “I heard you´re gonna be an artist...” “gonna” is the same as “going to”.
II. In the sentence “I heard you´re gonna be an artist...” “gonna” is the same as “want to”.
III. In the sentence “I wanna be an artist” “wanna” is the same as “going to”.
IV. In the sentence “I wanna be an artist” “wanna” is the same as “want to”.
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Published by DSEWPaC - Australian Government (The text below has been slightly modified to better suit the exam)
1. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012. Also referred to as Rio+20, the conference is convened under the authority of the United Nations General Assembly.
2. The Rio+20 Conference is an important step in ongoing international efforts to accelerate progress towards achieving sustainable development globally. The conference will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (the Earth Summit).3. It will also mark the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
4. The 1992 and 2002 summits were headline international events ____ key drivers of the sustainable development agenda. Similarly, Rio+20 presents an opportunity ____ re-direct and re-energise political commitment ____ the three pillars ____ sustainable development: economic growth, social improvement and environmental protection.
5. The objectives of the Rio+20 Conference are to:
• secure renewed political commitment to sustainable development
• assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development
• address new and emerging challenges.
6. The conference will focus on two themes:
• a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication
• the institutional framework for sustainable development
7. It is expected that tens of thousands of people will be involved in the Rio+20 Conference and the many related side events, including heads of state and senior representatives from nongovernmental organisations from around the world.
What do secure, assess and address have in common as they appear in the fifth paragraph of the text?
Text 1
The Rose-Tree
[1] A man had two children, a daughter by his first wife and a son by his second. His
daughter was very beautiful, and her brother loved her but his mother hated her.
The stepmother sent the daughter to the store to buy candles. Three times, the girl put
down the candles to climb a stile, and a dog stole them.
[5] The stepmother told her to come and let her comb her hair. She claimed she could not
comb it on her knee, or with the comb, and sent the girl for a piece of wood and an axe,
and cut off her head.
She stewed her heart and liver, and her husband tasted them and said they tasted
strangely. The brother did not eat but buried his sister under a rose-tree. Every day he
[10] wept under it.
One day, the rose-tree flowered, and a white bird appeared. It sang to a cobbler and
received a pair of red shoes; it sang to a watchmaker and received a gold watch and
chain; it sang to three millers and received a millstone. Then it flew home and rattled the
millstone against the eaves. The stepmother said that it thundered, and the boy ran out,
[20] and the bird dropped the shoes at his feet. It rattled the millstone again, the stepmother
said that it thundered, the father went out, and the bird dropped the watch and chain at
his feet. It rattled the millstone a third time, and the stepmother went out, and the bird
dropped the millstone on her head.
By Joseph Jacobs
What is the correct infinitive form of the verbs: "flew" (line 13), "stole" (line 4), "wept" (line 10).
About the text, it is CORRECT to state that
Millennials ditch the pill for high-tech pull & pray
Millennials are increasingly ditching the pill — that miracle tablet that ushered in female empowerment and free love — and opting for more old-fashioned methods of contraception, from condoms to the rhythm method to diaphragms. A new survey of 2,000 US women by Cosmopolitan magazine found that 70 percent of millennials who have used the pill have stopped taking it or thought about stopping in the past three years. In its place, some are using new fertility apps designed to tell a woman when she’s ovulating — and thus likely to become pregnant — such as MyFLO, Clue and Natural Cycles, the first app certified for contraception in Europe. These companies, featured in sponsored Instagram posts depicting beautiful women on restorative vacations drinking coconut water, make going off the pill look as trendy as green juices and SoulCycle.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/19/why-millennial-women-are-ditching-the-pill/ Access: March,2019.
I. women are reducing the contraceptive pill use.
II. technology has evolved so the pill is considered old-fashioned.
III. about contraceptive methods four of them are mentioned in the text.
IV. the concept of going off pill is presented like drug addiction rehabilitation program.
V. Millennials are reducing the pill use due to its side effects.
TEXTO:
Salads and fries
To deal with widespread criticism (and the
possibility of legal judgments) that their food is
making people obese, fast-food chains are testing
new health-conscious products in America. This fall
[5] McDonald’s, which has already introduced fruit packs
and salads in many of its international branches, is
testing a new adult version of its Happy Meal. The Go
Active meal includes salad, bottled water, a nutrition
booklet and a clip-on pedometer to encourage walking.
[10] Trying to be more extreme, Burger King last month
showed for the first time a line of Light Combo Meals
that come with a grilled chicken baguette, salad and
bottled water. The new food options are helpful, but
some salads, like McDonald’s Crispy Chicken Bacon
[15] Ranch Salad, can contain more fat than a Quarter
Pounder Hamburger. So, before you get in line, go
online to check calorie counts. Fast food doesn’t have
to mean fat food anymore.
BARRET, Jennifer. In: Newsweek,s.d. p. 57. (Adaptado)
In the text,
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