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TEXTO

“Researchers and public-health officials have long understood that to maintain a given weight, energy in (calories consumed) must equal energy out (calories expended). But then they learned that genes were important, too, and that for some people this formula was tilted in a direction that led to weight gain. Since the discovery of the first obesity gene in 1994, scientists have found about 50 genes involved in obesity. Some of them determine how individuals lay down fat and metabolize energy stores. Others regulate how much people want to eat in the first place, how they know when they’ve had enough and how likely they are to use up calories through activities ranging from fidgeting to running marathons. People who can get fat on very little fuel may be genetically programmed to survive in harsher environments. When the human species got its start, it was an advantage to be efficient. Today, when food is plentiful, it is a hazard.”

(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/magazine/13obesity.html.)

01. QUESTÃO - According to the text,

a) today’s obesity may be linked to evolutionary factors.
b) the human species is programmed to eat as much as possible to survive.
c) the ingestion of large quantities of food was an advantage in the past.
d) obese people have some advantages over slim people.
e) very little food is necessary to survive in some environments.

02. QUESTÃO - Choose the auxiliary verb which best completes the question:

When ______ you leave for Europe?

a) Will

b) Are

c) Have

d) Does

e) Had

03. QUESTÃO - Match the columns below so that the words in the second column fit the sentences provided in the first one:

1.Tom and Mary love their _____.

2. Put the oranges inside those _____.

3. I can't walk. My _____ are aching a lot.

4. The _____ are flying south.

5. The cat is hunting the _____.

6. When Jane fell over, she broke two of her _____.

( ) feet

( ) teeth

( ) children

( ) geese

( ) mice

( ) boxes

Choose the correct alternative:

a) 6 – 3 – 1 – 4 – 5 – 2

b) 3 – 6 – 1 – 4 – 5 – 2

c) 3 – 6 – 2 – 4 – 5 – 1

d) 5 – 3 – 4 – 2 – 6 – 1

e) 3 – 6 – 4 – 1 – 2 – 5

04. QUESTÃO - He couldn’t find ________ wrong with the food.

a) some

b) nothing

c) anything

d) every

e) no

05. QUESTÃO - He can’t talk to us now because he ________ a bath.

a) has

b) has having

c) have

d) having

e) is having

06. QUESTÃO - Which pair is not correctly presented?

a) heavy luggage

b) nice binoculars

c) sweet juice

d) wise advices

e) expensive taste

07. QUESTÃO - Choose the correct sentence:

If he were a young man, he ______ able to walk faster.

a) will be

b) would be

c) was

d) is

e) will

08. QUESTÃO - In the sentence “MANY thinkers have tried to give us answers,” the capital word has a meaning close to:

a) a few.

b) few.

c) little.

d) several.

e) much.

09. QUESTÃO - My uncle was about to sit down when he had a surprise: a cat ________ in his chair!

a) Is sleeping

b) Sleeps

c) Slept

d) Was sleeping

e) Are sleeping

10. QUESTÃO - Check the alternative that corresponds to the sequence of pronouns that most adequately complete the following sentence:

_____ cat is sick because _____ ate _____ spoiled food over there.

a) Its; he; that

b) Its; he; this

c) His; its; this

d) Its; it; that

e) His; it; that

01 - A

02 - A

03 - B

04 - C

05 - E

06 - D

07 - B

08 - D

09 - D

10 - E

COMENTÁRIO 1ª QUESTÃO

De acordo com o texto, a obesidade pode estar ligada a fatores evolutivos.

No texto: “People who can get fat on very little fuel may be genetically programmed to survive in harsher environments. When the human species got its start, it was an advantage to be efficient. Today, when food is plentiful, it is a hazard.”

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