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RESPONDA ÀS QUESTÕES DE Nº 36 A 40 CORRESPONDENTES À OPÇÃO DE Read the text below and choose the best alternative for each question. Chicago, July 29: On a Sunday morning at a Roman Catholic church here, Mary Hallan Fiorito glanced at a nearby pew to see a woman drinking a can of Coke™ at Mass. At a musical in a Broadway theater, Alex Wang turned to the row behind him to discover people eating corn on the cob. In schools that once forbade chewing gum, students now bring doughnuts and candy to class – along with chewing gum. Americans seem to be eating all the time, and wherever they please. “Consumers now see eating as something to be done while you do something else,” said Bobby 13 Calder, a marketing professor at Northwestern University. “Everybody wants to save time by multitasking. So you don’t just sit down and eat. You work, while you’re warching TV, while you drive.” The automobile, among the favorite places for people to snack, is well on its way to becoming a rolling dining room. A car is scarcely considered worth driving now without cup holders in the front and back. Some cars now have refrigerated glovebo xes. And within the next six months, the Samsung Corporation plans to market the first microwave for cars and miniv ans. The microwave will plug into the cigarette lighter. Reprinted from the New York Times National Edition, July 30, 1999 36. According to the passage, Mary Hallan Fiorito: a) Was sitting in the back row of a Roman Catholic church when she saw a woman drinking a Coke™ beside her. b) Caught sight of a woman drinking a Coke™ While attending Mass in a Roman Catholic church. c) Was standing nearby a Roman Catholic church when a woman drinking a Coke™ glanced at her d) Was attending Mass at a Roman Catholic church when a woman drinking a Coke™ stared at her. 37. The passage tells us that: a) American churchgoers have become used to snacking at mass. b) Americans regard their cars as better places for snacking than their dining rooms. c) Chewing gum used to be forbidden in some American schools. d) Americans have been using automobiles as rolling dining rooms. Mark the correct option for each question below: 38. Mark the correct alternative which corresponds to the indirect speech of the sentence: He said to her: “Don’t wait too long.” a) He said to her not wait too long. b) He told to her not wait too long. c) He told her not to wait too long. d) He said her to wait not too long. 39. The passive transformation of “They permitted him to go to Rio”, is: a) He has been permitted to go to Rio. b) He had been permitted to go to Rio. c) He was permitted to go to Rio. d) He is permitted to go to Rio. 40. Using the conditional: If he . .a good scientist he would have won a prize. a) Was. b) Will be. c) Had been. d) Would be. 14 ESPANHOL ¿Cómo ser más inteligente? Según los expertos, el cerebro necesita una serie de cuidados para alcanzar su rendimiento óptimo. Éstas son las cinco claves básicas que aseguran su salud. Protección contra lesiones. Aunque el cráneo es como una coraza, la masa encefálica que contiene es delicada. Para optimizar su funcionamiento, tenga presente las siguientes recomendaciones: I – Los traumas severos pueden dañar con más facilidad las áreas del cerebro involucradas en la memoria, el aprendizaje y la estabilidad emocional. Al andar en moto y practicar ciertos deportes, protéjase la cabeza con un casco. II – La privación del sueño o dormir menos de 7 horas diarias merma la actividad cerebral y limita las facultades de aprendizaje, memorización y concentración. III – Experimentos en animales de laboratorio indican que las hormonas de estrés intoxican literalmente los centros de la memoria. Además, el estrés continuo mata las neuronas. IV – La ingesta excesiva de alcohol, nicotina y cafeína, así como el abuso de drogas, reduce el flujo sanguíneo en el cerebro. Por ejemplo, queda reducido un 25 por ciento en los adictos a la cocaína, según una investigación de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles. Y un reciente estudio indica que la actividad de los lóbulos temporales decae un 85 por ciento en las personas que abusan de la marihuana. V – En palabras de doctor Chris Williams, experto en ciencias sociales de la Universidad de Birmingham, ciertos contaminantes, como el plomo y los bifelinos policlorinados – hidrocarburos que se emplean en la fabricación de transformadores , afectan negativamente a la capacidad de aprendizaje. Fuente: Revista Muy interesante. Editorial García Ferre. Número 230, diciembre 2004.