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Ano: 2018Banca: IF SUL - MGOrganização: IF Sul - MGDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Compreensão de Texto | Pronomes
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These Are The Laziest Countries In The World, According To The United Nations
By Bernadette Deron
Published September 6, 2018
The World Health Organization had hoped to reduce inactivity 10 percent by 2025, but these
numbers don't bode well for that goal.
The World Health Organization (WHO) — the agency of the United Nations concerned with international
public health — published a report in The Lancet Global Health on Sept. 5 that outlines which nations
get the most (and the least) amount of exercise.
Details Of The Study
The survey of 168 nations ranked the countries by most to least active by measuring the exercise
habits of a given percentage of each country’s population and then comparing that percentage with
those samples of the other countries involved in the study. The WHO defines enough exercise as at
least 75 minutes of vigorous activity or 150 minutes of moderately intense activity per week — or any
combination of the two. The WHO analyzed statistics and trends across different economic backgrounds,
and between genders.
The Laziest Countries
Overall, there were only four counties in the world where more than 50 percent of the population did
not get enough exercise: Kuwait, Iraq, American Samoa, and Saudi Arabia. So these four countries are
effectively the “laziest” in the world. Ultimately the nation with the least amount of physical activity was
Kuwait, with 67 percent of its adults not exercising enough.
Other nations towards the bottom of this list were the United States, which ranked 143rd out of 168
countries. A whopping 40 percent of the U.S.’s population doesn’t get enough exercise — meaning
approximately 130 million Americans can’t manage to get 2.5 hours of moderate activity per week.
The U.K. also ranked fairly inactive, with only 35.9 percent of their population getting the proper amount.
Other more inactive countries included Brazil, with 47 percent, the Philippines with 39.7 percent,
Singapore with 36.5 percent, and India with 34 percent of the population not getting enough exercise.
The Most Active Nations
In Uganda, only about five percent of their sample population did not exercise enough. China also
displayed high rates of activity, with just 14.1 percent of their sample population not getting sufficient
exercise. Other fairly active countries included Mozambique, with just over five percent, as well as
Myanmar, with around 10 percent of their population insufficiently active.
Surprising Trends
According to their survey results, women tended to get less exercise than men, with an overall eight
percent difference between the two. The report states:
“In 159 of 168 countries, prevalence of insufficient physical activity was lower in men than in women,
with a difference of at least 10 percentage points in 65 countries, and a difference of more than 20
percentage points in nine countries: Barbados, Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Palau, Iraq, Bangladesh, Trinidad
and Tobago, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.”
The organization also noted some interesting trends across different economic backgrounds. Generally,
people in poorer countries tended to be more than twice as active as richer ones. The report explains
that this trend could be related to the fact that those with higher incomes tend to have “more sedentary
occupations” and that greater access to automobile transportation results in lesser physical activity.
After pooling all of the data together, the WHO found that one in four adults the world over does not
get enough exercise — which is a pretty jarring statistic. “This puts more than 1.4 billion adults at risk
of developing or exacerbating diseases linked to inactivity, and needs to be urgently addressed,” the
report states.
The WHO had previously outlined a goal of lowering global inactivity by 10 percent by the year 2025,
but considering the fact that these statistics have not differed much since 2001, the WHO estimates that
their goal will likely not be met.
Disponível em: <https://allthatsinteresting.com/worlds-laziest-countries> Acesso em 10 set. 2018
As referências dos pronomes its e which, destacados no 3º parágrafo, são, respectivamente:
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Choose the CORRECT answer:
“The cat is playing with ______ toy.”
Ano: 2015Banca: IBFCOrganização: SEE-MGDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Compreensão de Texto | Pronomes | Pronomes Indefinidos | Advérbios e Conjunções
Fill in the blanks with the right group of words.
We are having a fantastic time. Yesterday we spent a day at the beach. I only spent a ____minutes in the sun, because I didn't want to get burnt. However, there were ____ people who were badly burnt, but they carried sunbathing!
In the evening, we went to the disco. There w ere____ people at first but after midnight they all started to arrive. I met a nice girl, but we couldn't talk____because there was____. I hope she is there tonight!
Ano: 2021Banca: Avança SPOrganização: Prefeitura de Rio Claro - SPDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Pronomes | Adjetivo Possessivo
Investment in primary health care urgently needed to ensure COVID-19 recovery in the
Americas.
Increased public health spending must continue to improve hardest-hit primary care services such as
routine immunization programs, says PAHO Director.
Washington, DC, November 10, 2021 (PAHO) – With countries in the Americas reporting severe
disruptions in essential primary health care services, urgent investment is key to improving health
systems continuously weakened by the pandemic, said Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Director Carissa F. Etienne.
With cases rising in some parts of the region following a two-month decline, it is vital that countries
remain vigilant and prioritize public spending in heath so that no one is left behind.
“Few countries invest as much public spending in their health services as they should, leaving them
prone to shortages in health personnel and essential supplies.”
With the pandemic siphoning off financial and human resources, many countries have reported
interruptions in vital areas, such as routine immunization programs, support for chronic conditions
and mental- and reproductive health services.
Despite these disruptions, public investment in health has risen in many countries to ramp up ICU
capacity, increase hospital services, and deploy COVID-19 vaccines. But these increases cannot be a
short-term trend, the Director said.
All countries should increase public expenditures in their health systems to the recommended 6% of
national GDP or higher and should ensure that 30% of this funding goes to first level care.
“Primary care, as you have heard us say over and over again, is the backbone of our health systems,”
Dr. Etienne said, and more important than ever. “It’s at the primary care level that COVID testing,
contact tracking and tracing and immunizations take place.”
As economies remain strained, countries face difficult choices about how to spend limited funds. “We
cannot forget that health is an investment, not an expense,” the Director said. “As we learned with
COVID-19, health is at the core of vibrant societies. It keeps people working, kids in schools,
companies productive and economies growing.”
Turning to the COVID-19 situation in the region, Dr. Etienne said that in the past week countries
reported 700,000 new COVID infections and 13,000 deaths.
Several countries, including parts of Colombia and Bolivia and the Southern Cone countries, are
seeing upward trends after relaxing public health measures.
In the Caribbean, Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico have reported a drop in new infections while cases
are rising in the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. High numbers of cases are
also being seen in the Cayman Islands and Dominica.
Vaccination rates, however, continue to pick up pace, reaching an overall coverage of 48% in Latin
America and the Caribbean.
PAHO continues to work with manufacturers to secure additional doses, the Director added. The
organization has signed supply agreements with three manufacturers of WHO Emergency Use Listing
(EUL) vaccines and is in final negotiations with a fourth supplier of mRNA vaccines.
Available at: https://www.paho.org/en/news/10-11-2021-investment-primary-health-care-urgentlyneeded-ensure-covid-19-recovery-americas
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta um trecho do texto em que o uso do possessive adjectives é
aplicado, corretamente:
Ano: 2018Banca: AMEOSCOrganização: Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Pronomes | Adjetivo Possessivo | Pronome Demonstrativo
Analyze the fragment below.
Though the bright scene before us betrayed ____ words, I was nevertheless certain of ___ place on the
calendar.
Identify the option that completes the context given.
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is one of the rare writers who has completely transcended pop culture to become a more or less permanent
fixture in the literary filament. Most authors — even best-selling authors who won awards and enjoyed huge sales of their
books — fade away shortly after they die, their work falling out of fashion. A favorite example is George Barr McCutcheon,
who had several bestsellers in the early 20th century — including "Brewster’s Millions," which has been adapted to film seven
times — and was quite the literary star. A hundred years later, few people know his name, and if they know the title of his
most famous work, it’s probably because of Richard Pryor.
But Christie is something else entirely. [...] Christie’s works are protected from the sort of rot that makes most non-literary
classics fade from the public mind, of course, because they are generally quite clever, and the mysteries they describe and
solve are crimes and schemes that could still be attempted today despite the march of time and technology. That makes
Christie’s stories very adaptable, and indeed they are still adapting her most famous novels for television and film. Whether
as period pieces or with effortless updates, these stories remain the gold standard for a “whodunnit.” On top of that, despite
being a writer of paperback mysteries, a traditionally low-rent genre, Christie injected a certain thrilling literary adventure
into her writing, ignoring the rules quite often and setting new standards [...].
And that’s likely the reason for Christie’s continued popularity. Despite writing what could have been tossed-off novels that
sold like hotcakes and were then forgotten, Christie managed a perfect balance between intelligent artistry and the red meat
of surprise twists, sudden reveals, and convoluted murder plots. Tha t literary intelligence, in fact, means that there’s a lot
more than just clues to the mystery at hand in Christie’s stories — in fact, there are clues to Agatha Christie herself hidden in
her prose.
(Adapted from: https://www.thoughtco.com/agatha-christie-secrets-4137763)
Relative pronouns are: that, who, whom, which, and whose. They refer to terms quoted previously and must be used to introduce a subordinated and main sentence.
(Source: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/ingles/relative-pronouns.htm)
The pronoun “who” underlined in the first paragraph of Agatha Christie’s biography is:
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Choose the correct alternative according to the
pronouns:
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INSTRUCTIONS: Read the text carefully and then answer the questions from 33 to 38 by choosing the correct alternative.
Brazil corruption scandals: All you need to know
For the past three years, Brazil has been gripped by a scandal which started with a state-owned oil company and grew to encapsulate people at the very top of business - and even presidents.
On the face of it, it is a straightforward corruption scandal - albeit one involving millions of dollars in kickbacks and more than 80 politicians and members of the business elite.
But as the tentacles of the investigation dubbed Operation Car Wash fanned out, other scandals emerged.
It has led to some of those who have found themselves accused claiming they are the victims of political plots, designed to bar them from office.
What is Operation Car Wash?
Operation Car Wash began in March 2014 as an investigation into allegations that Brazil's biggest construction firms overcharged state-oil company Petrobras for building contracts.
Investigators accused directors at the firm - named the world's most ethical oil and gas company in 2008 - of skimming the extra money off the top as a bribe for awarding the contract.
Which is bad enough - but then the Workers' Party found itself dragged into the corruption scandal amid allegations of having funneled some of these funds to pay off politicians and buy their votes and help with political campaigns.
Among those accused in the scandal were dozens of politicians, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - the country's extremely popular former president, known affectionately as "Lula".
The pronouns IT (line 07), THEY (line 07) and ITSELF (line 14), refer respectively to:
Ano: 2019Banca: IBADEOrganização: SEE-ACDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Pronomes | Pronomes Interrogativos
Fay finished school and went on to higher education.
Choose the only question that is grammatically correct.
Ano: 2021Banca: CETREDEOrganização: Prefeitura de Icapuí - CEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Pronome Objetivo | Pronomes
Match Column A with Column B to fill in with the appropriate question word.
COLUMN A
I. Where.
II. Who.
III. When.
IV. How.
V. How much.
COLUMN B
( ) ______ do you live? In Icapuí.
( ) ______ is your best friend? It’s Sam.
( ) ______ old are you? I am 19
( ) ______ is your party? Tomorrow morning.
( ) ______ is the ticket? It's free.
Select the CORRECT answer
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