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There is no agent of ecological imperialism more
ferocious than the wild pig. Wherever Europeans invaded,
from the Americas to Australia, so did their pigs, many
of which escaped into the countryside to wreak havoc.
The beasts tear through native plants and animals, they
spread disease, they destroy crops, and they reconstruct
whole ecosystems in their wake. They’re not so much
pests as they are chaos embodied.
Now add climate change to the wild pig’s résumé of
destruction. In their never-ending search for food, the pigs
root through soils, churning the dirt like a farmer tills
fields. Scientists already knew, to some extent, that this
releases the carbon that’s locked in the soil, but
researchers in Australia, New Zealand, and the US have
now calculated how much soil wild pigs may be
disturbing worldwide. The carbon dioxide emissions that
they produce annually, the authors concluded, equal that
of more than a million cars.
It’s yet another piece of an increasingly worrisome
puzzle, showing how modification of the land has — in
this case, inadvertently — exacerbated climate change.
“Anytime you disturb soil, you’re causing emissions,”
says University of Queensland ecologist Christopher
O’Bryan, lead author on a new paper describing the
research in the journal Global Change Biology. “When
you till soil for agriculture, for example, or you have
widespread land-use change — urbanization, forest loss.”
Given their domination of whole landscapes, pigs had
to be making things worse, the researchers knew, but no
one had modeled it worldwide. “We started to realize
there’s a big gap at the global scale looking at this
question,” O’Bryan adds.
(Matt Simon. www.wired.com, 19.07.2021. Adaptado.)
01. QUESTÃO - The text intends to
a) raise awareness about cruelty to wild pigs.
b) draw attention to the impact of climate change on wild
pigs populations.
c) suggest practical methods for wild pig populations
management.
d) show that wild pigs pose a big threat to the
environment.
e) find strategies to reduce the number of wild pigs.
02. QUESTÃO - In the excerpt from the first paragraph “many of which
escaped into the countryside to wreak havoc”, the
underlined expression can be replaced, without meaning
change, by
a) steal properties.
b) feel safe.
c) live more sustainably.
d) create chaos.
e) conquer new lands.
03. QUESTÃO - According to the second paragraph, the invasive swine
produces as much CO2 as
a) the soil.
b) a million cars.
c) the climate change.
d) the farmers.
e) the US.
04. QUESTÃO - No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “in this case,
inadvertently”, o termo sublinhado pode ser entendido
como:
a) por negligência.
b) em vão.
c) sem querer.
d) de propósito.
e) aos poucos.
05. QUESTÃO - In the excerpt from the fourth paragraph “Given their
domination”, the underlined word was used to indicate
a) the condition for something to happen.
b) a contrasting idea.
c) a distressful situation.
d) a logical explanation.
e) something that is being considered.
06. QUESTÃO - No trecho do quarto parágrafo “We started to realize
there’s a big gap at the global scale looking at this
question”, o termo sublinhado equivale, em português, a
a) perceber.
b) falar.
c) valorizar.
d) acreditar.
e) explicar.
O texto pretende mostrar que os porcos selvagens
representam uma grande ameaça ao meio ambiente.
No excerto do primeiro parágrafo “many of which
escaped into the countryside to wreak havoc”, a
expressão sublinhada pode ser substituída, sem
alterar o significado por “create chaos”.
*wreak havoc = create chaos = criar caos
De acordo com o segundo parágrafo, o suíno invasor
produz tanto CO2 (gás carbônico) quanto um milhão
de carros.
Lê-se no texto:
“The carbon dioxide emissions that they produce
annually, the authors concluded, equal that of more
than a million cars.”
No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “ in the case,
inadvertently”, o termo sublinhado pode ser
entendido como sem querer.
*inadvertently = inadvertidamente, acidentalmente
No excerto do quarto parágrafo “Given their
domination”, a palavra grifada foi usada para indicar
algo que está sendo considerado.
No trecho do quarto parágrafo “We started to realize
there’s a big gap at the global scale looking at this
question”, o termo sublinhado equivale, em
português, a perceber.
*to realize – Falso Cognato
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