USP 1996 Inglês - Questões

Spiders on marijuana are so laid back, they weave just so much of their webs and then... well it just doesn’t seem to matter any more. On the soporific drug chloral hydrate, they drop off before they even get started.

A spider’s skill at spinning its web is so obviously affected by the ups and downs of different drugs that scientists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama think spiders could replace other animals in testing the toxicity of chemicals.

(New Scientist, April 29, 1995.)

According to the text, spiders

Spiders on marijuana are so laid back, they weave just so much of their webs and then... well it just doesn’t seem to matter any more. On the soporific drug chloral hydrate, they drop off before they even get started.

A spider’s skill at spinning its web is so obviously affected by the ups and downs of different drugs that scientists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama think spiders could replace other animals in testing the toxicity of chemicals.

(New Scientist, April 29, 1995.)

Segundo o texto, para os cientistas da NASA no Alabama, as aranhas:

London was more prepared for the outbreak of the second world war than the central government let on. After all, if you were seeking peace through diplomacy, it was unwise to tell the citizenry how far you feared the worst.

For London, the worst was aerial bombing on a scale not previously known. If not quite the greatest city in the world in 1939, London was certainly among the most expansive. Over 8 million people - about one fifth of the British population - lived there, concentrated in an area of some 750 square miles. It was an inviting target for anything that the Germans could drop on it, and the government knew it.

(Financial Times, May 6/7, 1995)

Segundo o texto, o governo central

London was more prepared for the outbreak of the second world war than the central government let on. After all, if you were seeking peace through diplomacy, it was unwise to tell the citizenry how far you feared the worst.

For London, the worst was aerial bombing on a scale not previously known. If not quite the greatest city in the world in 1939, London was certainly among the most expansive. Over 8 million people - about one fifth of the British population - lived there, concentrated in an area of some 750 square miles. It was an inviting target for anything that the Germans could drop on it, and the government knew it.

(Financial Times, May 6/7, 1995)

Em 1939, Londres:

London was more prepared for the outbreak of the second world war than the central government let on. After all, if you were seeking peace through diplomacy, it was unwise to tell the citizenry how far you feared the worst.

For London, the worst was aerial bombing on a scale not previously known. If not quite the greatest city in the world in 1939, London was certainly among the most expansive. Over 8 million people - about one fifth of the British population - lived there, concentrated in an area of some 750 square miles. It was an inviting target for anything that the Germans could drop on it, and the government knew it.

(Financial Times, May 6/7, 1995)

De acordo com o texto,