UNICAMP 2013 Inglês - Questões

So long, Facebook!

Andrea Bennett, 18 August 2012.

I’ve deleted my Facebook: I was tired of having to check my profile all the time and I just felt overexposed and ready to trade my computer for sunshine. I don’t need Facebook, and Facebook probably doesn’t need me. Right? Right... But those of us without Facebook run the risk of being considered abnormal or eccentric, or not being hired by potential employers who distrust people who don’t use the site.

(Adaptado de http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/so-long-facebook.html. Acessado em 12/09/2016)

1. a) Como a autora do texto acima estava se sentindo antes de fechar sua conta no Facebook?
   

2. b) Quais são, segundo o texto, os riscos de não ter uma conta no Facebook?
   

On the road

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won’t bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead. With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road. Before that I’d often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off. First reports of Dean came to me through Chad King, who’d shown me a few letters from him written in a New Mexico reform school. I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about Nietzsche and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew. At one point Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if we would ever meet the strange Dean Moriarty.

(Adaptado de J.Kerouac, On the road. Londres: Penguin Books, 1972, p. 3.)

1. a) Cite dois acontecimentos na vida do narrador que antecederam o encontro com Dean Moriarty.
   

2. b) O que fazia frequentemente o narrador antes desse encontro?
   

How to feed a hungry world

With the world’s population expected to grow from 6.8 billion today to 9.1 billion by 2050, a certain Malthusian alarmism has set in: how will all these extra mouths be fed? The world’s population more than doubled from 3 billion between 1961 and 2007, yet agricultural output kept pace — and current projections suggest it will continue to do so. Producing enough food for the world’s population in 2050 will require a wholesale realignment of priorities in agricultural research. There is an urgent need for new seed varieties that offer higher yields but use less water, fertilizers or other inputs and are more resistant to drought, heat and pests. Equally crucial is lower-tech research into basics such as crop rotation, soil management and curbing waste - between one-quarter and one-third of the food produced worldwide is lost or spoiled.

(Adaptado de Nature, n. 466, p. 531-532, jul. 2010.)

1. a) No período de 1961 a 2007, qual foi, segundo o texto, a relação entre o crescimento da população e a produção agrícola?
   

2. b) Além de investigações sobre novas variedades de sementes, que outras pesquisas seriam necessárias, segundo o texto, para garantir uma produção suficiente de alimentos em 2050?