UNICAMP 2007 Inglês - Questões

Uma mãe cujos filhos adolescentes não se empenham nos afazeres domésticos redigiu algumas regras familiares que estão reproduzidas no quadro abaixo. Segundo o quadro, o que ela espera que seus filhos façam?

HOUSE RULES

If you drink out of it, WASH IT!

If you sleep on it, MAKE IT UP!

If you wear it, HANG IT UP!

If it rings, ANSWER IT!

If it barks, FEED IT!

O texto abaixo se refere a um manual que acompanha um gravador digital. Considere-o para responder a questão.

Care and use

• To reduce risk of radio interference caused by headphone-, earphone- or microphone cable, only use adequate accessories with cable length less than 3 m.

• To avoid product damage, do not store this unit in humid or dusty areas.

• Keep objects that are sensitive to magnetic fields (such as bank cards) away from this unit. Such items may lose data or stop working.

• Do not attempt to disassemble this unit. Disassembly may result in high-voltage electrical shock.

• Do not peel off the covering on batteries and do not use if its covering has been peeled off.

• Align the poles (+) and (-) correctly when inserting the batteries.

• Avoid placing this unit in trunks of cars. Exposure to intense heat may cause the batteries to leak or explode.

• Misshaping of batteries can cause electrolyte leakage which can damage items the fluid contacts and may cause a fire. If electrolyte leaks from the batteries, consult your dealer.

Care And Use - Panasonic RR-US490 Operating Instructions Manual.

Por que não se recomenda deixar o gravador em porta-malas de carros?

O texto abaixo se refere a um manual que acompanha um gravador digital. Considere-o para responder a questão.

Care and use

• To reduce risk of radio interference caused by headphone-, earphone- or microphone cable, only use adequate accessories with cable length less than 3 m.

• To avoid product damage, do not store this unit in humid or dusty areas.

• Keep objects that are sensitive to magnetic fields (such as bank cards) away from this unit. Such items may lose data or stop working.

• Do not attempt to disassemble this unit. Disassembly may result in high-voltage electrical shock.

• Do not peel off the covering on batteries and do not use if its covering has been peeled off.

• Align the poles (+) and (-) correctly when inserting the batteries.

• Avoid placing this unit in trunks of cars. Exposure to intense heat may cause the batteries to leak or explode.

• Misshaping of batteries can cause electrolyte leakage which can damage items the fluid contacts and may cause a fire. If electrolyte leaks from the batteries, consult your dealer.

Care And Use - Panasonic RR-US490 Operating Instructions Manual.

1. a) Em que circunstância o usuário do gravador pode levar um choque elétrico?
   

2. b) Além do porta-malas, onde mais o gravador não deve ser guardado?
   

3. c) Caso o gravador seja mantido próximo a um cartão de crédito, por exemplo, o que pode ocorrer com o cartão?
   

O trecho abaixo, adaptado de Henry V, de Shakespeare, mostra um diálogo entre Henry, rei da Inglaterra, e Katherine, filha do rei da França. Henry aproveita o fato de Katherine não dominar o inglês para lhe fazer um galanteio baseado em um jogo de palavras.

Katherine: Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your English.

King Henry: Oh fair Katherine, if you will love me soundly with your French heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do you like me, Kate?

Katherine: Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell you what is ’like me’.

King Henry: An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.

Vocabulário de apoio:

• Pardonnez-moi: pardon me

1. a) Por que o jogo de palavras presente no texto é possível?
   

2. b) Katherine receia que Henry zombe dela devido ao seu pouco conhecimento da língua inglesa. Que argumento ele usa para tranquilizá-la?
   

He asked me what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another. I answered they were innumerable, but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the ambitions of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war in order to stifle the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. [...] Sometimes the one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbours want the things which we have, or have the things which we want, and we both fight, till they take ours or give us theirs. It is a very justifiable cause of war to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves. If a prince sends forces into a nation where the people are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of them to death, and make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize and reduce them from their barbarous way of living.

Segundo o narrador, de que forma ministros corruptos podem provocar uma guerra?