Questões Pronouns

(UNIOESTE PR/2015)

Seven portions of fruit and vegetables are better for you

For many years, the nutrition message has been “five a day” – the recommendation that five portions of fruit and vegetables are enough to keep disease at bay and help us to live longer. That advice has been revised upwards. A new study suggests that people who get seven or more portions a day are healthier. Researchers from University College London studied the dietary habits of 65,000 adults over a seven-year period. They concluded that: “A robust inverse association exists between fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality, with benefits seen in up to 7-plus portions daily.” In other words, if you eat more fruit and vegetables, chances are you live longer.

The researchers put people into five different groups, depending on how much fruit and veg they ate. They found that those who ate seven or more portions a day had a 42 percent lower risk of death than those who ate just one portion. They recommended that schools serve healthier meals and that supermarkets put more emphasis on prominently displaying cheaper produce. They warned that frozen and canned fruit was linked to higher mortality rates. Some experts say the findings of the study should be taken with a pinch of salt. One dietician said the findings ignored the fact that people who eat more fruit and veg are generally wealthier and thus lead lifestyles that will help them live longer anyway.

Adapted from: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1404/140403-fruit-and-vegetables.html

Na frase “They found that those who ate seven or more portions a day…”, o pronome “they” refere-se a:

(UNIFOR CE/2001)

Robotic Engineers:

Engineers [TO BE] needed to build robots that do everything from assembling machinery to caring for aging parents.

Tech Teachers:

As technology use increases in all industries, more adulteducation teachers are needed to give workers the skills to survive. About half of all adults are currently enrolled in an adult-education class.

Tech Support:

Technology isn’t infallible, and skilled workers who can fix frustrating problems are rarely needed. Estimates show a 222 percentage boost in computer-support jobs by 2008.

(Newsweek, April 30, 2001)

No texto, o pronome who

Marque, dentre as alternativas abaixo, qual o pronome possessivo adjetivo que substitui corretamente "joana" na frase: Joana's bus is leaving at 4 o'clock.

Complete a frase corretamente com o pronome pessoal do caso oblíquo: Take these books and put _____ in the table.

Escolha a alternativa correta que preenche a lacuna da frase: Mr. John's secretary was ill last week, so he had to type the letters _____.

Complete a lacuna da frase com o Pronome Possessivo Substantivo correto: I've already done my homework. Have you done _____?

(UNESP SP/2006)

Knee repair

New ways of fixing the most troublesome joint

By Daren Briscoe.

Knees are the bane of all athletes, but they’re particularly nettlesome to aging amateurs, whose joints have endured years of pounding. Fortunately, some of the technology inspired by doctors who treat professional athletes is trickling down to weekend warriors. Scientists are working on a number of strategies to coax the body’s healing powers to hasten the repair of damaged knee cartilage.

The knee is particularly tricky because it gets such little blood from the circulatory system, so it’s slow to heal. A technique called microfracture surgery is designed to draw blood to the injury. It involves making tiny holes in the bone on either side of the knee socket so that blood from inside the bone can seep up and nourish torn cartilage, supplying it with stem cells needed to repair. Doctors have been refining the technique for the past decade or so, and it’s now achieving its mainstream. The problem is that it’s difficult to control exactly where cartilage is replaced. With a new technique, called chondrocyte-transplant therapy, doctors avoid this problem by removing cartilage cells from the knee, growing them in a culture and transplanting the new tissue directly in the knee. This procedure, though, calls for opening up the knee twice, which is costly and makes for a long recovery. […]

Os pronomes pessoais it, em negrito no segundo parágrafo do texto, referem-se respectivamente a

(UNITAU SP/2015)

Why National Geographic is a Family Affair

When Gilbert M. Grosvenor retired from the board of trustees of the National Geographic Society on June 21, 2014 – 60 years to the day after he started working here – he left an organization built by five generations of his family. (His daughter, obstetrician Alexandra Grosvenor Eller, continues the tradition: She was elected to the National Geographic board in 2009.)

As the editor in chief of the magazine, president of the Society, and then chairman of the board, Grosvenor has helped broaden National geographic’s reach through chidren’s publications, local-language editions of the magazine and books, television, and geography education.

You should premed at Yale. What made you change course and come to work at the National Geographic Society?

Between my junior and senior years I went to the Netherlands on a summer program to rebuild dikes washed out by the great flood of 1953. I photographed and co-authored a story that was published in the magazine. Although I’m not sure I realized it at the time, it changed my life. I discovered the power of journalism. And that’s what we are all about – recording those chronicles of planet Earth.

Your geography education foundation essentially restored the study of geography to the American classroom. Why is geography so important?

Geography is an essential part of STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathemaics] education. We need to do better with that. To understand environmental issues and the dynamics of Earth you have to understand geography. Why is it that a botlle released off the coast of Florida ends up in Ireland? That’s the Gulf Stream at work. What about global warming, the dramatic shift north of flora and fauna, and the fact that Canada will become the breadbasket of North America? Patterns of immigration are also all about geography.

Your advice to successors?

Always do what we do best, not what others do.

Adapted from National Geographic, march 2015 (printed edition).

Os pronomes pessoais I e WE, destacados no texto, referem-se, respectivamente, a(o)

(UNIFOR CE/2013)

Leia os versos das canções “Blackbird” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney e “Ebony and Ivory” by Paul McCartney.

Blackbird

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these1 broken wings and learn to fly

All your2 life

You were only waiting for this3 moment to arise.

Ebony and Ivory

Paul McCartney

Ebony and Ivory live together in perfect harmony

Side by side on my4 piano keyboard, Oh Lord,

why don’t we?

We all know that5 people are the same where

ever we go

There is good and bad in ev’ryone,

We learn to live, we learn to give

Each other what we need to survive together

alive.

De acordo com os versos das canções, os pronomes enumerados de 1 a 5 têm como referência contextual:

(UNIFRA RS/2006)

Fron: poul. Gill@donawoo.ca

Date: Tue, June 10, 5:36 p.m.

Subject: Nice to see you in D.C.

To: tonsar.holmes@yoohoo.com

Hi Tony and Sarah

GREAT to see you in D.C. last week and catch up on what’s new with you. Wasn’t the Old Church Hotel nice? (Hey, but what about the lousy brealfast service1). The party seemed to go OK. Wonder what the group photo will be like this year? Also, the bottle (or two!) of champagner in the bar after – MOST enjoyable!

Got back to Montreal after a 2 day drive – stopped off at nice 3 star hotel outside of New York. Kids loved the indoor pool and jacuzzi. Came as a welcome break from driving for us.

Hope all is well with you. Pam is off with kids to the lake, swimming. Remember when we went up there with yours once – many moons ago?

Keep in touch. Would be great if you could get out here to visit us.

Lost of love

Paul & Pam& Hannah and Freddie

Identifique a que pessoas do texto o pronome “yours” (_. 11) se refere e, depois, assinale a alternativa correta.

(UEG GO/2003)

I AM THE PEOPLE, THE MOB

I am the people – the mob – the crowd – the mass.

Do you know that all the great work of the world

is done through me?

I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of

the world’s food and clothes.

I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons

come from me and the Lincolns.

They1 die, and then I send forth more Napoleons

and Lincolns.

I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand

for much plowing. Terrible storms pass over

I forget. The best of me is sucked out and

wasted. I forget. Everything but Death comes

to me and makes me work and give up what I

have. And I forget.

Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a

few red drops for history to remember. Then

– I forget.

When I, the People, learn to remember, when I,

the People, use the lessons of yesterday and

no longer forget who robbed me last year,

who played me for a fool, – then there will be

no speaker in all the world say the name:

“The People”, with any fleck of a sneer in his

voice or any far-off smile of derision.

The mob – the crowd – the mass, will arrive

then.

SANDBURG, Carl. In: Carl Sandburg. BODE, Carl. Highlights of American Literature, 1971, p.35.

GLOSSÁRIO

Mob: turba, povo

Witness: testemunhar

Seed: semente

Prairie: planície

Plowing: aragem

Growl: resmungar, grunhir

Spatter: respingar

Fleck: mancha, nódoa

Sneer: ironia, escárnio

Derision: zombaria

Assinale a alternativa INCORRETA:

(UNIMONTES MG/2005)

INSTRUÇÃO: Leia o texto que se segue e responda às questões propostas.

Nun assassinated defending Amazon

Greenpeace: the State government of Para has failed to protect her

Sun 13 February, 2005 BRAZIL/Anapu, Para State 74 year old American missionary Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated on Saturday in the Amazon state of Para, Brazil. Sister Dorothy was travelling to a sustainable development project in Anapu with some olleagues when she was shot three times by two gunmen.

This tragedy occurred 16 years after the murder of Chico Mendes, who was also a defender of rural communities. Mendes was also a colleague of the current Minister for the Environment Marina Silva. Marina Silva is in Anapu meeting with State authorities, following the news of Sister Dorothy’s death.

“Like Chico Mendes, Sister Dorothy refused to be intimidated and she paid an enormous price”, said Paulo Adario, Greenpeace Amazon co-ordinator. “She selflessly worked for many years supporting the rights of rural workers, and defending the Amazon from reckless deforestation and we can’t let her death be in vain.”

Originally from Dayton, Ohio, US, Sister Dorothy was a Brazilian citizen and has worked in the Amazon for the past 37 years, living in Anapu since 1972. For 56 years she has been a member in good standing in the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, an international Catholic religious order of approximately two thousand women who work on five continents. She opposed land grabbers and illegal loggers who use intimidation, violence and guns to force small landowners off their land. She worked in an area that is remote and lawless and she has received many death threats.

“She had been on a death list for years, yet the State government of Para has failed to protect her. She was not alone either, as there are many others fighting against the forest destruction and the rights of local communities, whose lives are in danger”, said Adario. “The violence and intimidation must stop. We cannot accept more martyrs in the Amazon.”

Para is the Amazon state with the highest murder rate related to land disputes. According to the Pastoral Land Commission, a Catholic organisation campaigning for landless people and the poor, 1,237 rural workers died in Brazil from 1985 to 2001, and 40 percent of these occurred in Para.

Para State is responsible for approximately one-third of the deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and plays a leading role in both environmental abuse and human rights violations.

(www.greenpeace.org/international, 09/04/2005 – with adaptations)

“She selflessly worked for many years supporting the rights of rural workers, and defending the Amazon from reckless deforestation and we can’t let her death be in vain.”

O pronome destacado acima we, considerado no âmbito do texto, remete-nos às/aos

(UFGD MS/2016)

Leia um trecho do poema de Edgar Allan Poe e as afirmações a seguir.

The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe)

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.”

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—

Nameless HERE for evermore.

POE, Edgar Allan. The Raven, 1845. Disponível em: <http://www.
poetryfoundation.org/poem/178713>. Acesso em: 23 out. 2015.

I. O poema de Edgar Allan Poe está na primeira pessoa do singular.
II. O trecho “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”, pode ser traduzido como “Certa vez, numa meia-noite lúgubre, enquanto meditava, fraco e cansado”.
III. Bleak in “Distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December” pode ser substituído por black, sem perda do efeito de sentido.
IV. O pronome relativo whom em “For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore refere-se a anjos”.

Está correto apenas o que se afirma em