Texto para a questão.

Como relatado por Giuseppe Montalenti em um adendo ao artigo de 1949, ele, informado da alta frequência de heterozigotos da talassemia em regiões endêmicas de malária no sul da Itália, propôs que, como as hemácias dos heterozigotos para a talassemia eram menores, esse fato os tornaria mais resistentes à parasitose. Nascia assim a “hipótese da malária”.

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A baby born infected with human immunodeficiency
virus in Los Angeles, who received treatment within a
few hours after birth, is still showing no signs of the
disease a year later, doctors announced at the
[5] Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
in Boston. The child’s mother was not taking her HIV
medication while she was pregnant.
Although it’s too early to know for certain whether
the child is just in remission, doctors say the baby’s
[10] vitals are displaying differently compared with patients
with suppressed HIV. The baby is currently in foster care.
This is the second baby doctors believe to be cured
of the disease with very early treatment. Another child
from Mississippi received similar treatment when her

[15] mother was discovered to be HIV-positive during labor.
The child is now 3 1/2 years old and appears to be cured,
even though her mother was not administering the baby
her HIV medication at follow-up.

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The Truth About Life As A Digital Nomad

Over the years – thanks to the advent of online communication – a new type of working professional has emerged: the "digital nomad." Digital nomads are individuals whose daily routine is to keep moving, travelling and trying out new things.

They require only a laptop and an internet connection to be able to work from practically anywhere in the world: on the sands of a quiet beach in an exotic island, from a well-reviewed restaurant or even a hotel room halfway across the world. For many, the unshackled lifestyle of the digital nomad compensates for the lack of stable employment and benefits that a regular employee would be entitled to.

The freedom to travel keeps perspectives fresh, the creative juices and imagination flowing, the soul uninhibited – the kind of thing paper-pushing office employees can only dream of.

TEXT 1

The Truth About Life As A Digital Nomad

Over the years – thanks to the advent of online communication – a new type of working professional has emerged: the "digital nomad." Digital nomads are individuals whose daily routine is to keep moving, travelling and trying out new things.

They require only a laptop and an internet connection to be able to work from practically anywhere in the world: on the sands of a quiet beach in an exotic island, from a well-reviewed restaurant or even a hotel room halfway across the world. For many, the unshackled lifestyle of the digital nomad compensates for the lack of stable employment and benefits that a regular employee would be entitled to.

The freedom to travel keeps perspectives fresh, the creative juices and imagination flowing, the soul uninhibited – the kind of thing paper-pushing office employees can only dream of.

The Road Not Taken

[1] Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

[5] To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

[10] Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

[15] I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

[20] And that has made all the difference.

Considere as seguintes afirmações a respeito do conteúdo do texto.

I - A palavra sigh (l. 16) enfatiza o tom melancólico do poema.

II - A primeira estrofe fala da precipitação com que o eu lírico optou pelo caminho a ser seguido.

III- A estrofe final sugere satisfação do eu lírico com a escolha feita, pois o caminho percorrido foi o menos trilhado.

From earliest childhood, Ned Lawrence knew that his family

was different, in some unspoken way, from other families, and

that he was not at all like his four brothers. Such tough

beginnings can either inhibit a personality or stimulate its

[5] growth. As is well explained in “The Young T.E. Lawrence”, a

quirky but rigorous biographical study by Anthony Sattin, a

British travel-writer, the man best known as Lawrence of Arabia

fell firmly in the second category.

Other books about Lawrence, and a famous film, present

[10] him as a hero of the first world war who rallied the Arabs to rise

against the Ottoman empire, guided them to great victories and

lobbied for the Arab cause, with disappointing results, in post –

war negotiations. Mr. Sattin, whose book came out in Britain

last October and is only now being published in America, looks

[15] instead at Lawrence´s life before that: growing up and studying

in Oxford, then excelling as an archaeologist in Syria and

Palestine.

As a middle-class boy growing up in Oxford at the turn of

the 20th century, young Lawrence was secretive as well as

[20] inquisitive, skeptical of received truths, easily bored by mentors

but passionate about medieval history. Piecing together clues

was something he learned early. He knew there was something

odd about his parents´ relationship but could not divine what;

only later did he learn that, scandalously for those times, they

[25] had never married. His father was an Anglo-Irish baronet who

had left his legal wife for Lawrence´s mother, a governess.

His letters from teenage cycling trips round France

contained lots of information about castles, but only

intermittent signs of real feelings. The same might be said of

[30] the letters he wrote from the Levant. As a result, posterity

is still guessing about what was probably the most important

relationship in Lawrence´s life: an Arab youth, Dahoum, who

was just 13 or 14 when they met. If Lawrence ever gave a full

account of his friendship with Dahoum, it may have been in the

[35] memoirs he burned in august 1914.

Mr. Sattin avoids adding to the speculation about the exact

nature of this friendship, but he is defensive about it. “There

was more than paternal care; there was love,” he writes. Like

their subject matter, biographers have to be diggers and

[40] restorers, sifting a mass of evidence and gluing the bits

together. But these bits never quite constitute a whole,

comprehensible human being; much about Lawrence remains

an enigma because he wanted it that way.

Fortaleza, como toda metrópole, está sofrendo com os inúmeros engarrafamentos provocados pela necessidade e facilidade na aquisição de veículos.

Complete o texto abaixo com os adjetivos entre parênteses usando comparações contextualizadas.

Nowadays many people can afford to buy cars because some models are ________1 (cheap) today than years ago. In addition, they are much ________2 (fast) because they are able to run approximately 180km/h. They are ________3 (reliable) and people can exchange them to a new one ________4 (often) due to the amount of car agency’s offers and financial plans. Once you have a car, more dependent you become of it. Thus, ________5 (soon) you get one ________6 (easy) your life will be.

INSTRUCTION: Answer question according to text.

TEXT

Reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is
like discovering a new letter in the alphabet, or a new note in
the musical scale. His writings are fictions filled with private
jokes and esoterica, historiography and sardonic footnotes.
[5] They are brief, often with abrupt beginnings. Borges’ use
of labyrinths, mirrors, chess games and detective stories
creates a complex intellectual landscape, yet his language is
clear, with ironic undertones. He presents the most fantastic
of scenes in simple terms, seducing us into the forking
[10] pathway of his seemingly infinite imagination.

Half a century ago, when Borges’ ground-breaking collection
Ficciones was first published in English translation, he was
virtually unknown outside literary circles in Buenos Aires,
where he was born in 1899, and Paris, where his work was
[15] translated in the 1950s. In 1961, he was catapulted onto the
world stage when international publishers awarded him the
first Formentor Prize for outstanding literary achievement.
He shared the prize with Samuel Beckett (the other authors
on the shortlist were Alejo Carpentier, Max Frisch and Henry
[20] Miller). The award spurred English translations of Ficciones
and Labyrinths and brought Borges widespread fame and
respect.

Over the decades since his death in 1986, Borges’ global
stature has continued to grow. “Today one could consider
[25] Borges the most important writer of the 20th Century,” says
Suzanne Jill Levine, translator and general editor of the
Penguin Classics five-volume Borges series. Why? “Because
he created a new literary continent between North and South
America, between Europe and America, between old worlds
[30] and modernity. In creating the most original writing of his
time, Borges taught us that nothing is new, that creation is
recreation, that we are all one contradictory mind, connected
amongst each other and through time and space, that human
beings are not only fiction makers but are fictions themselves,
[35] that everything we think or perceive is fiction, that every
corner of knowledge is a fiction.”