Select the alternative that best completes the extract below.

Workplace Accident Statistics

Every year, millions of people in United States are hurt on the job. Each day 16 workers die from injuries at work and more than 17,000 are injured. Accidents also cause the companies to spend more. Last year, total cost was more than $121 billion.

Will’s experience at the airport

After his return Rome, Will couldn’t find his luggage in the airport baggage area. He went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that his bags hadn’t arrived on the carousel.

She smiled and told him not to worry because they were trained professionals and he was in good hands.

Then she asked Will, “Has your plane arrived yet?”

(Adapted from academictips.org)

The correct preposition that fills in the blank in the text is

Os ângulos !$ \hat B !$ e !$ \hat A !$ são congruentes. Sendo !$ \hat A = 2x+ 15^\circ !$ e !$ \hat B = 5x-9º !$. Assinale a alternativa que representa, corretamente, o valor de x.

Em relação à classificação das conjunções coordenativas destacadas, coloque C para certo ou E para errado. A seguir, assinale a sequência correta.

( ) O pai muito chateado disse a filha que não aprovava nem permitiria o casamento dela. (alternativa)

( ) Não brinque com arma de fogo, que pode ser perigoso. (explicativa)

( ) Você já estudou bastante, contudo precisa se concentrar mais. (adversativa)

( ) Ora você chora, ora você ri, a vida sempre continua. (aditiva)

Choose the alternative that fills in the blank in the sentence below.

Scientists say that when a person stops very soon, the chances of getting cancer and other diseases reduce.

Considere um cubo de gelo de massa 1kg que se encontra à temperatura de - 2 ºC. Colocado ao sol, recebe 14 J de calor a cada segundo. Dados o calor específico do gelo igual a 0,5 cal/g.ºC e 1 cal igual a 4,2J. Quantos minutos o gelo deverá ficar ao sol para começar a se fundir?

As a scientist working in Antarctica, I spend most of my time in the lab studying ice. (…) Antarctica is the center of important scientific research, and it must be preserved for this purpose. (…) When tourists groups came here, they take us away from our research. Our work is difficult, and some of our projects can be damaged by such simple mistakes as opening a wrong door or bumping into a small piece of equipment.

Taken from BARTON et al. Northstar. New York: Longman, 2004, p. 22.

Write (T) for the true statements or (F) for the false statements.

( ) Antarctica must be preserved for research purposes.

( ) Tourists don’t need the scientists to visit Antarctica.

( ) Simple mistakes can be damaged by opening the wrong door.

( ) Tourists can make simple mistakes and damage some of the researchers’ projects.

Choose the correct alternative.

The story of a blind girl

There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her boyfriend. Her boyfriend asked her, “Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?”

The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying: “Just take care of my eyes dear.”

Fonte: http://academictips.org/

The underlined verbs, in the text, are in the

According to the cartoon, Leo is having an uncomfortable flight

As a scientist working in Antarctica, I spend most of my time in the lab studying ice. (…) Antarctica is the center of important scientific research, and it must be preserved for this purpose. (…) When tourists groups came here, they take us away from our research. Our work is difficult, and some of our projects can be damaged by such simple mistakes as opening a wrong door or bumping into a small piece of equipment.

Taken from BARTON et al. Northstar. New York: Longman, 2004, p. 22.

According to the text, the word “it”, in line 3, refers to