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Night flight
"This is your captain, John Cook, speaking. We’ve reached our cruising altitude and I’ve just turned off the Fasten seat belt sign. Our estimated time of arrival in New York is 1:00 a.m., so we’ve got a long flight ahead of us. I hope you enjoy it. Our flight attendants will be serving dinner shortly. Thank you.”
It was Christmas Eve 1959. A lot of the passengers were travelling home to spend the holidays with their families. It was a quiet flight. The flight attendant had just finished picking up the trays when the first buzzers sounded. One of the flight attendants went down the aisle to check. She looked surprised; two people have gotten sick. Twenty minutes later nearly half the passengers were violently sick. Several were moaning and groaning, some were doubled up in pain, and two were unconscious. Fortunately, there was a doctor on board, and he was helping the flight attendants. He said, “I’d better speak to the pilot. This is severe case of food poisoning. We’d better land as soon as possible. I had the beef for dinner, and I’m fine. The passengers who chose the fish are sick.”
The flight attendant led him to the cockpit. The captain and the copilot were lying unconscious, and the engineer was trying to revive them. The plane was on the automatic pilot. A passenger who had been a pilot sat down at the controls and the engineer connected him to Air Traffic Control. An hour later, the lights of New York appeared on the horizon. He could see the lights of runway shining brightly by a lake.
(Adapted from Streamline unit 19– intermediate)
GLOSSARY
buzzer – buzina, alarme
to moan – reclamar, lamentar
to groan – gemer
to double up – dobrar -se, curvar-se
There are two actions in “the flight attendant had just finished picking up the trays when the first buzzers sound.” It means that
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Women in Control
A survey that British men are happy to let their wives make all the decisions in the home and often ask them to control the domestic finances. Women also take the lead in disciplining children, with only ten percent of men now involving themselves in what used to be seen as a male preserve.
Women also dictate where to go on holiday and what friends to see. But when it comes to television and cars, men still want to rule the roost. Nearly a third of the men in this recent survey confessed to deciding what TV programs were watched, regardless of what their partners might want to see, and only 12 per cent of women had a say in buying a new family car.
( Speak up # 137)
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to rule the roost – ditar as regras
Choose the correct verb form to fill in the blank.
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Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente a lacuna da assertiva a seguir.
“ são dispositivos que servem como endereços para os operadores presentes em cada operação, além de outros propósitos especiais.”
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Air traffic controller: orchestrating aerial and ground movements
An airfield in a war zone is like an orchestra of aerial and ground activity. That’s the case at Sather Air Base, Iraq, located next to Baghdad International Airport. It’s one of Iraq’s busiest airfields. An average of 320 transient aircraft and 6,200 passengers pass through the base each week. Needless to say, there’s a lot of activity. Airmen work on aircraft, loading them with munitions or filling their fuel tanks. Of course, there’s always the threat of terrorist attacks. The potential for accidents is high. Conducting the symphony, are air traffic controllers like Sgt. Carter. One wrong direction could result in people dying or the loss of millions of dollars worth of equipment. “It’s a complex job,” he said. “We must make sure aircraft make it to the field so the mission can be performed.” “To do the job well requires great communication skills”, he said. “Initially, I was challenged by the language barrier,” he said. “But I soon learned to be more patient. And I was able to figure out what was being said, so we could complete our mission.”
One major difference for controllers in a war zone is that they have to deal with things they don’t normally deal with at their home bases. At Sather, the challenge was the helicopter traffic, Carter said. “Helicopters were swarming everywhere in that country,” he said. Soon after arriving at the base, the sergeant had to educate himself about how to control helicopters.
Carter admits feeling nervous when he first found out he was deploying to Iraq because of the media attention on terrorist attacks. But, to his surprise, his tour has been relatively calm. Carter said his Sather tour has been extremely rewarding, despite his earlier misgivings.
(Adapted from Air Force News Agency)
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to swarm – apinhar ou aglomerar
to deploy – ir em missão
misgivings – receios ou preocupações
The indirect speech for “I was challenged by the language barrier, he said.” is
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É uma estrutura onde, hoje, se encontram profissionais voltados a dar suporte às atividades de informática que se desenvolvem em todos os segmentos da empresa.
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Night flight
"This is your captain, John Cook, speaking. We’ve reached our cruising altitude and I’ve just turned off the Fasten seat belt sign. Our estimated time of arrival in New York is 1:00 a.m., so we’ve got a long flight ahead of us. I hope you enjoy it. Our flight attendants will be serving dinner shortly. Thank you.”
It was Christmas Eve 1959. A lot of the passengers were travelling home to spend the holidays with their families. It was a quiet flight. The flight attendant had just finished picking up the trays when the first buzzers sounded. One of the flight attendants went down the aisle to check. She looked surprised; two people have gotten sick. Twenty minutes later nearly half the passengers were violently sick. Several were moaning and groaning, some were doubled up in pain, and two were unconscious. Fortunately, there was a doctor on board, and he was helping the flight attendants. He said, “I’d better speak to the pilot. This is severe case of food poisoning. We’d better land as soon as possible. I had the beef for dinner, and I’m fine. The passengers who chose the fish are sick.”
The flight attendant led him to the cockpit. The captain and the copilot were lying unconscious, and the engineer was trying to revive them. The plane was on the automatic pilot. A passenger who had been a pilot sat down at the controls and the engineer connected him to Air Traffic Control. An hour later, the lights of New York appeared on the horizon. He could see the lights of runway shining brightly by a lake.
(Adapted from Streamline unit 19– intermediate)
GLOSSARY
buzzer – buzina, alarme
to moan – reclamar, lamentar
to groan – gemer
to double up – dobrar -se, curvar-se
According to the text,
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Qual é o caminho correto para compactar a pasta prova que está no Disco Local C: ?
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Leia:
Lúcia pediu: “Está em suas mãos arranjar isso para mim.” O vereador quase caiu da cadeira. Ficou transtornado. Como poderia fazer aquilo? Não poderia arriscar o cargo! Então a mulher, espantada com a atitude do vereador, completou, em tom ameaçador, que ele não teria mais o seu voto. E deu-lhe as costas.
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The heaviest rains in decades caused floods and
landslides in Rio de Janeiro
Mudslides swept away shacks in Rio’s hillside slums, turning the city’s main lake and the sea brown during the round-the-clock heavy rains.
Morning flights in and out of the city of six million people – which will host the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics – were canceled or seriously delayed.
Most victims died in more than 180 mudslides, authorities said. A spokesman for Rio’s fire service said at least 40 injured people were taken to hospitals as the search went on for others reported missing.
“The situation is critical. Roads are flooded and blocked,” Mayor Eduardo Paes said. “We recommend people stay at home.”
(Taken from Telegraph Newspaper)
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landslide, mudslide – desmoronamento
hillside – encosta
to sweepy away – destruir completamente
shack – barracão
slum – favela
round-the-clock – o tempo todo (durante o dia e a noite)
Another way to express the same idea as “ …the search went on for others reported missing.” can be:
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Observe:
I- É tensão do Governo realizar um censo ainda este ano.
II- Para ascender socialmente, não hesitava em realizar transações espertas.
III- Todos os dias iam cassar animais selvagens, por isso tinham ouvidos apurados aos paços das presas.
Considerando a frase em que aparecem, há duas palavras com grafia incorreta no mesmo período em
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