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Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police in which he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried any more.
At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Ted was most surprised when he heard the news and he was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen!
(Louis George Alexander. Practice and progress,1970. Adaptado.)De acordo com o texto, a lacuna em “Ted had already __________________ trying to find his bicycle” é corretamente preenchida por
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Doctors, Patients Embrace Technology in Medicine
By Brenda Goodman, MA
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Arefa Cassoobhoy, MD, MPH
Sept. 22, 2014 -- Technology is quickly changing many parts of medicine, giving people more power to take charge of their health care. Many patients and doctors are embracing these changes, a new Medscape/WebMD survey finds.
The findings are part of the WebMD/Medscape Digital Technology Survey, which included more than 1,100 patients and 1,400 health professionals, including 827 doctors. Questions focused on issues related to the evolution of medical care -- including using smartphones to assist in the diagnostic process, clearness about what a procedure costs, the right to review medical records, radiation risks from imaging tests, and genetic testing.
Eric Topol, MD, editor-in-chief of Medscape and the chief academic officer of Scripps Health, says the report is unique. There hasn’t been a large survey that’s asked the same questions of doctors and patients. “Technology is really democratizing all aspects of the doctor’s visit,” Topol says. Today, people can use smartphones to track their blood sugar. And soon, apps and accessories may be available that check cholesterol or track the heart’s electrical activity. Instead of the doctor’s office or lab being a place to begin gathering information about their health, people could soon be showing up for checkups with the info already in hand.
In the survey:
- A majority of both groups -- 84% of patients and 69% of doctors -- said they embrace technology to enhance and aid the diagnostic process.
- Both groups -- 64% of patients and 63% of doctors -- agreed that the smartphone can be a useful diagnostic tool in regard to blood tests.
About 40% of patients liked the idea of using technology to identify health concerns without a trip to the doctor, while only 17% of doctors endorsed that method.
Available at : http://www.webmd.com/news/20140922/doctors-patients-embrace-technology-medicine. Acess on October 22nd, 2014.Consider the extract “Technology is really democratizing all aspects of the doctor’s visit,” Topol says. The INDIRECT form of the sentence is:
LENS
Alanis Morissete
You and I are in the same room
We both think we’re fair
We both live for truths
But then how
Are we to define
Something so subjective
Living under the same roof
So here these battles of wills
They beg for some proof
Of right versus wrong
Your approach seems better than mine
Though it’s working for you
All I feel is disconnection
Chorus:
So now it’s your, your religion
Against my, my religion
My humble opinion against yours
This does not feel like love
It’s your, your conviction
Against my, my conviction
And I’d like to know what we’ve seen
Through the lens of love
And so now your grand assessment
Is that I’m not in your group
That I’m not your kind
And so we’re locked in a stalemate
With you in your corner and me
dismayed in mine
(Disponível em: . Acesso em: 17 set. 2014.)Assinale a alternativa que apresenta, corretamente, o tema central da música.
According to the English language grammar, in which one of the following cases is the object position NOT acceptable?
From the comic strip above, we feel that…
Examine o quadrinho. The boy
With the Internet, the World is yours!
Worldwide,more than 500 million people use the Internet. On the Net, you can send electronic mail (e-mail), find information in distant libraries and museums, play games, shop, and much, much more. The World Wide Web (www) is a part of the Internet that lets you see information using pictures, colors, and sounds. Most people just call it the Web. You can have your favorite Web sites. It’s your choice. With the Internet, the world is yours!
These are just some of the things you can do:
- You can watch movie trailers, download free music and books, and discover about your interests and
favorite things.
- You can meet people from other countries. The Internet is global, so you can make friends from all
over the world.
- You can give your opinion on message boards, build your own site about foot-volley or beach soccer
or put your poems on the Net.
- You can get legal music. There are plenty of legal places to get music downloads.
- You can listen to music on-line too. For example, you can listen to music shows on the BBC site
whenever you want.
- You can use search engines, like Google, Yahoo or Alltheweb to look for any subject under the sun.
In a word, with the Internet the world is yours!
(MARQUES, Amadeu. Inglês Série Brasil. Editora Ática, São Paulo-SP, 2007. P. 54)The expression: “more than 500 million people” in line 1 is the same of:
Considere as formas linguísticas 1, 2 e 3. 1. Once upon a time, a princess... 2. Hello! Hang on, please! 3. Today‘s theme will be The French Revolution Essas formas linguísticas são utilizadas, respectivamente, nos seguintes gêneros textuais:
1 According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the
Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian
aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument
4 goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to
resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after
the rest of Ukraine, as well as other countries in eastern
7 Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for
Putin’s decision to order Russian forces to seize part of
10 Ukraine. But this account is wrong: the United States and its
European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis.
Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly
13 opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have
made it clear that they would not stand by while their
strategically important neighbor turned into a Western bastion.
Internet: <www.foreignaffairs.com> (adapted).Choose the option which represents the statement supported by the text.
The trip that transformed me: The university graduate By Mia Simon
Australian Vanessa Costanzo expected her university
experience to prepare her for adulthood, but in reality, she
said, it prepared her only for a job. So after she graduated
from Curtin University in Western Australia in February
2013, she decided to travel.
Costanzo hoped to gain worldly knowledge that she
craved by spending seven months exploring Europe and
parts of the Middle East. Starting in 2014, the lessons
came fast and furious.
Her first stop was Dubai. Not long after she arrived,
she recalled watching men from Pakistan and India in blue
jumpsuits working tirelessly in the sweltering heat1 to
manage the upkeep of Sheikh Zayed Road, a major city
thoroughfare2.
Unlike Costanzo, they were not in a foreign country on
holiday. A cab driver told her that most were working for
minimal pay and living in substandard conditions. Much of
the money they earned they sent home to their families.
How did he know? He had a wife and child back home
in his native India. He hadn’t seen them in a year.
The lesson hit her hard: If you have the means to
travel, as she did, you’re fortunate. And you don’t need
material possessions to be happy.
Glossary:
1. sweltering heat: oppressively hot
2. thoroughfare: a main road
Source: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20150224-the-trip-that-transformed-me-the-universitygraduate. Adapted.It is CORRECT to say that the first place Vanessa Constanzo visited was: