Questões sobre Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

#Questão 1020656 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2022, Prefeitura de Joinville - SC, Professor - Ensino Fundamental - Especialidade: Lingua Inglesa

Text 4A1-II

You know a nun when you see one. The uniform, known as a habit, is a dead giveaway. But the outfit you’re picturing in your head might look very different from the one worn by the sisters at your local convent. And yet, each ensemble’s meaning is immediately clear. That’s because nuns abide by a sartorial system that is at once endlessly adaptable and instantly recognizable.

That’s an impressive feat for any visual system. In the case of nuns’ habits, that system relies on a standardized combination of symbolic elements. “It’s really a kit of parts”, says Lucienne Roberts, cofounder of a British publishing house devoted to design’s more esoteric subjects. For their latest book, Looking Good: A Visual Guide to the Nun’s Habit, Roberts worked with her team to dissect the dress of nuns from some 40 Catholic orders. The result is a fascinating work of reference on a subject to which you've almost certainly never paid much mind.

The book begins by cataloguing the various components that typically comprise a nun's habit. These may include things like veils, rosaries, tunics, medals, coifs (the cap worn under the veil), and sandals. It's a collection from which each religious order draws some, but not all, of its impeccable elements. This section provides the reader with a visual framework which relies on simple cues to distinguish between religious families.

For instance, many orders of nuns wear some form of girdle, be it a belt, a cord, or a cincture. Each type and subtype of garment carries specific connotations. Franciscan nuns, for instance, favor a cord over a leather belt, to reflect their order's devotion to poverty. Its four knots, plainly visible in the book as an illustration of the Franciscan garb, represent the order's vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and enclosure.

These are the kinds of minutiae encoded in the book's pages, which the authors color code to differentiate between the various orders. Even the nuns' orientation on the page is significant; some face towards the reader, while others face away. This is to distinguish between sisterhoods that are active in their communities from ones that live cloistered lives, respectively. The book itself, like the habits it analyzes, is a form of information design.

Internet: <www.wired.com>(adapted).

According to text 4A1-II, it is correct to affirm that

A) more than ten accessories have been cited as being worn together with the nuns’ habit.

B) the clothes nuns wear are the same all over the world.

C) nuns wear a habit, which is a kind of plain dress, with some mandatory items like veils and rosaries.

D) besides the habit, the different components worn by nuns can help people tell which religious denomination they belong to.

E) one of the Franciscan order’s vows says that a nun cannot have any kind of contact with another human being.

#Questão 1020659 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2022, Prefeitura de Joinville - SC, Professor - Ensino Fundamental - Especialidade: Lingua Inglesa

Text 4A1-I

President Joe Biden predicted Thursday that student loan borrowers will start receiving relief – which is currently on hold over a court challenge – within weeks, projecting confidence that his administration will win the challenge. “We’re going to win that case. I think in the next two weeks you’re going to see those checks going out”, Biden told a TV news correspondent.

The Biden administration started taking student debt forgiveness applications on October 14 and officials have said it could take weeks to process and grant relief. Eligible borrowers won’t be receiving actual checks. Instead, they will see up to a $ 20,000 reduction in their student debt balances. The Department of Education has told borrowers who are eligible for automatic debt relief, without filing an application, not to expect the debt cancellation before November 14.

A federal appeals court put a temporary hold on the administration’s student loan forgiveness program last week, which barred the government from canceling loans covered under the new policy while the court considers a challenge brought by six Republican-led states. The Biden administration is also facing lawsuits from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and conservative groups such as the Job Creators Network Foundation and the Cato Institute.

Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, first announced in August, aims to deliver debt relief to millions of borrowers before federal student loan payments resume in January after a nearly three-year, pandemic-related pause.

The President made his comments during an interview with a local TV station network during his visit to Syracuse, New York, to tout a new deal on semiconductor manufacturing. With less than two weeks until the midterm elections Biden took questions on the economy, his message to voters, and the stalled student debt relief program. President Joe Biden is canceling some federal student loan debt, making a once pie-in-the-sky idea a reality. The application officially opened Monday, allowing low- and middle-class federal student loan borrowers to apply for up to $ 20,000 in debt relief.

https: <www.edition.cnn.com> (adapted).

From the sentence “Instead, they will see up to a $ 20,000 reduction in their student debt balances” (second paragraph), it can be concluded that

A) students may be eligible for more than $ 20,000 in debt reductions.

B) all students who have debt balances of $ 20,000 will be compensated.

C) the higher the students’ debt is, the more money they will receive from their government to pay off their loan.

D) regardless of how much money students owe, they will have a $ 20,000 discount on their student loan debt balances.

E) the reductions in student loan debt balances could reach as much as $ 20,000, but no more than that.

#Questão 1021023 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2022, TRT - 8ª Região (PA e AP), Técnico Judiciário - Tecnologia da Informação

From the excerpt “The more data it deals with in its deep learning algorithms, the more choices it will make and the faster those choices will be” (last paragraph of text 20A12-I), it can be concluded that

A) if a self-driving car deals with more data in its deep learning algorithms, it will make more but slower choices.

B) the speed at which self-driving cars make choices is mostly affected by the number of dates on which these vehicles are put to use.

C) the large amount of data available in deep learning algorithms can undermine the quality of the choices made by self-driving cars.

D) self-driving cars will have more data in its deep learning algorithms if they make faster choices.

E) the technology in self-driving cars will make more and faster choices as it deals with more data in its deep learning algorithms.

#Questão 1020660 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2022, Prefeitura de Joinville - SC, Professor - Ensino Fundamental - Especialidade: Lingua Inglesa

Text 4A1-I

President Joe Biden predicted Thursday that student loan borrowers will start receiving relief – which is currently on hold over a court challenge – within weeks, projecting confidence that his administration will win the challenge. “We’re going to win that case. I think in the next two weeks you’re going to see those checks going out”, Biden told a TV news correspondent.

The Biden administration started taking student debt forgiveness applications on October 14 and officials have said it could take weeks to process and grant relief. Eligible borrowers won’t be receiving actual checks. Instead, they will see up to a $ 20,000 reduction in their student debt balances. The Department of Education has told borrowers who are eligible for automatic debt relief, without filing an application, not to expect the debt cancellation before November 14.

A federal appeals court put a temporary hold on the administration’s student loan forgiveness program last week, which barred the government from canceling loans covered under the new policy while the court considers a challenge brought by six Republican-led states. The Biden administration is also facing lawsuits from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and conservative groups such as the Job Creators Network Foundation and the Cato Institute.

Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, first announced in August, aims to deliver debt relief to millions of borrowers before federal student loan payments resume in January after a nearly three-year, pandemic-related pause.

The President made his comments during an interview with a local TV station network during his visit to Syracuse, New York, to tout a new deal on semiconductor manufacturing. With less than two weeks until the midterm elections Biden took questions on the economy, his message to voters, and the stalled student debt relief program. President Joe Biden is canceling some federal student loan debt, making a once pie-in-the-sky idea a reality. The application officially opened Monday, allowing low- and middle-class federal student loan borrowers to apply for up to $ 20,000 in debt relief.

https: <www.edition.cnn.com> (adapted).

According to text 4A1-I, it is correct to affirm that

A) the president has the power, on his own, to forgive student loan borrowers’ debt.

B) Joe Biden was interviewed by a local TV station in spite of it being broadcast worldwide.

C) although the president’s student debt forgiveness program has been challenged in court, he seems positive it is going to happen soon.

D) students who borrowed money from the government to pay for their college tuition will have to pay by check.

E) as soon as students apply for debt forgiveness, their debt will be paid off.

#Questão 1021024 - Inglês, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2022, TRT - 8ª Região (PA e AP), Técnico Judiciário - Tecnologia da Informação

Text 20A12-I

As technology advances, the car industry has developed new ways to improve user experience. One of these ways includes using artificial intelligence to make cars self-driving. A self-driving car (also known as an autonomous car or driverless car) is a vehicle that uses a different number of sensors, radars, cameras, and artificial intelligence to travel to destinations without needing a human driver. Many companies have already started to manufacture self-driving cars, which are put through many tests to ensure they are eligible to be on the road without making any errors. To qualify as fully autonomous, a car must navigate routes to predetermined destinations without any human intervention.

Artificial intelligence powers self-driving vehicle frameworks. Self-driving vehicle engineers utilize a great deal of information from image recognition systems, AI and neural networks to assemble frameworks that can drive self-sufficiently. The neural networks distinguish patterns in the data, which is fed to the AI calculations. That data include images from cameras for self-driving vehicles. The neural networks figure out how to recognize traffic lights, trees, pedestrians, road signs, and different parts of any random driving environment.

As an example, Google has started to develop self-driving cars, which use a mix of sensors, light detectors, and other technology, like GPS and cameras. All the input data are combined and the artificial system predicts what those objects might do next. This whole process happens in a matter of milliseconds. Similar to any human driver, the more experience these systems gain, the better they become at driving. The more data it deals with in its deep learning algorithms, the more choices it will make and the faster those choices will be.

Internet: <www.eescorporation.com> (adapted).

The main purpose of the second paragraph of text 20A12-I is to explain

A) why AI is important to make autonomous cars more powerful.

B) how self-driving cars work through artificial intelligence.

C) how AI helps to recognize elements like traffic signs, trees, and any other random changes in the driving environment.

D) what kinds of networks are used to feed the AI calculations.

E) how crucial images captured by cameras are for autonomous vehicles.

Questões sobre Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Pesquise questões de concurso nos filtros abaixo