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SIMULADO SSA - PRACTICE
MR. GLAUCO SOUZA
1. No cartum, um humano caminha
ao lado de uma forma de
Inteligência Artificial (IA),
interagindo com ela. Pode-se
afirmar que o sentido humorístico
do texto é produzido pelo/a
a) proposta um tanto absurda
da própria Inteligência
Artificial, em pleno século XXI,
que chega a parecer uma
grande ironia.
b) complexidade da pergunta
formulada, já que a IA ainda
não consegue dominar todos
os sentidos da comunicação
humana.
equipe de inteligência do
Google, só manifestado após a
empresa ter tido problemas
com a IA.
d) “reação” um tanto
indiferente da personagem IA,
para quem essa informação é
conhecida, mas sem qualquer
valor.
e) ambiguidade da situação,
em que o humano indaga a
própria IA acerca do futuro
dela, contudo não parece ter
uma resposta.
Driving an electric car in
New Zealand
I'm just back from a trip to
Timaru in the shared electric
car. It turns out that Timaru is
about as far as you can get
from Lyttelton on a single
charge. I hadn't realized that
even having the air blower
on does reduce the range (I
knew not to use the AC), so I
drove into the campground
with only 10% battery. I'd also
forgotten that campgrounds
require you to have those
weird blue plug things but
luckily the owner lent me

one for free. He also let me
charge for free which was
very generous. I left the car
parked up for most of the
weekend, as we were able to
walk to a dog friendly park
and a very dog friendly beach
(where we launched the
paddleboard).
On the way back, Molly and I
stopped in Rakaia for a fast
charger and a coffee. It was
so efficient I charged it up
more than I expected to.
When I got home, I made the
most of the extra charge by
heading over the hill for a
surf. A nice way to end a
holiday weekend.
2) O Texto consiste num
pequeno relato de viagem.
Considerando as informações
nele apresentadas, é
CORRETO afirmar que
a) o narrador usou um carro
elétrico na Nova Zelândia,
porém encarou grandes
desafios, principalmente
quando se deslocou para as
cidades mais distantes e/ou
praias isoladas.
b) as férias poderiam ser mais
divertidas na Nova Zelândia se
não fosse pelo tempo que os
turistas levam para chegar de
carro elétrico às cidades
costeiras e/ou às praias onde
são permitidos animais.
c) o(a) turista/narrador, após
uma viagem de fim de
semana, considerou que usar
um carro elétrico
compartilhado na Nova
Zelândia é positivo, sendo esse
tipo de veículo mais eficiente
do que ele(a) esperava.
d) um(a) escritor(a) aprovou
dirigir um carro, por
experiência, nas ilhas do
território da Nova Zelândia e
compartilhá-lo com alguns
turistas, enquanto se
aventurava por praias e
vilarejos isolados.
e) alguns turistas
consideraram que o uso do
carro elétrico seria dispensável
na Nova Zelândia, já que os
barcos são seguros e fazem
melhor a travessia dos mares,
além de ser economicamente
viáveis.
READ THE TEXT 3, 4, 5.
How bike-friendly, slow
streets' are changing cities
19th November 2020.
Moving around Bogotá can
be a bit of a Jekyll-or-Hyde
experience. On one hand, the
city is infamous for having
the world’s worst traffic. Yet,
on the other, its cycling
infrastructure is considered
an exemplary model of
sustainable urban mobility,
according to the
Copenhagenize Index, which
ranks bike-friendly cities. The
Colombian capital even
spawned a now-international
movement in the 1970s
called Ciclovía, which sees 1.5
million people pedal across
128km (80 miles) of car-free
streets each Sunday
morning.
So, when the pandemic
reached its shores in mid-
March, Bogotá Mayor Claudia
López, an avid cyclist herself,
enacted one of the world’s
first plans to encourage bike
travel, using traffic cones to
create 76km of temporary
lanes.
“Everyone started using a
bicycle, and they already
knew how to get around on
one because we have this
bike culture thanks to the
Ciclovía,” says Carlos Pardo, a
local cycling advocate at the
New Urban Mobility Alliance.
He got involved at the outset
of the pandemic by
partnering with a local
bikeshare company to
provide 400 free e-bikes to
health workers. He’s busy
persuading the public that
the government’s new bike
lanes should become
permanent fixtures in
Bogotá.
Biking has enjoyed a In Europe, Paris fast-tracked
renaissance around the
world as urbanites shun
public transport for the
relative safety of a two-
wheeled commute. Now,
many advocates are working
with local governments in
the hope of turning these
pandemic-response
measures into lasting
changes – ones that are
more plausible now than
ever after lockdowns
provided an unprecedented
opportunity to fast-track
infrastructure trials.
Tabitha Combs, a lecturer at
the University of North
Carolina, has been
crowdsourcing data on local
actions affecting walking and
cycling during the pandemic.
She‟s identified at least 365
global cities that have
allocated new street space
for these activities since
March. “This was clearly a
phenomenon that was
taking place in cities all
around the world at roughly
the same time,” she recalls of
her decision to document
the movement. “It was like a
simultaneous global
brainwave.”
Some cities created pop-up
bike lanes. Others
implemented slow streets‟
by erecting makeshift
barriers and reducing speed
limits so that walkers and
bikers could safely share the
road with necessary vehicles.
a plan to create 650km of
temporary and permanent
bikeways, while Rome
introduced 150km of its own.

But these measures have not
been without their
detractors. Berlin was forced
to remove eight hastily
implemented bike paths in
September, and New York
City also struggled with its
implementation, which relied
either on community
members or law
enforcement to police new
configurations, neither of
which were particularly
welcomed.
New biking infrastructure
has played a key role in
incentivising distanced open-
air travel. At the outset of the
pandemic, sales for bikes
were up 75% in the US and
63% in the UK. Advocates
have long touted biking‟s
ability to increase public
health and reduce
automobile traffic. Of course,
getting urbanites on bikes is
an easy sell in the current
climate. Next comes the
question of how cities can
keep them in the saddle
once the coronavirus passes,
particularly as enthusiasm
has already waned in places
such as the UK, where a new
report shows having access
to a car is more important
than ever.
There are signs that
governments around the
world are actively capitalizing
on this moment. Some are
rolling out experimental pilot
programmes that, in normal
times, could take a decade of
meticulous planning. “During
the pandemic, cities tried to
shrink that process down to a
couple of months or a couple
of weeks in some places,”
says Tabitha Combs. “I can‟t
stress how revolutionary this
is in the field of
transportation planning.”
Disponível em:
https://www.bbc.com/worklif
e/article/20201112-how-bike-
friendly-slow-streets-are-
changing-cities. Por Mark
Johanson. Acesso em: 08 jul.
2021. Texto adaptado.
3) De acordo com o texto, é
CORRETO afirmar que
a) no período mais crítico da
Pandemia, algumas
metrópoles reestruturaram
suas ciclovias, a exemplo de
Roma, Berlim e Nova Iorque,
que passaram a oferecer, em
articulação com fabricantes de
bicicletas, transporte seguro e
economicamente sustentável
aos trabalhadores.
b) em várias cidades da
Europa e dos Estados Unidos,
quase não há espaços para a
criação de novas ciclovias, por
isso, leva-se muito tempo e
planejamento, para a
aprovação de projetos que
possibilitem melhorias
significativas ao trânsito e, ao
mesmo tempo, que protejam
o meio ambiente.
c) o ciclismo desfruta de um razão da boa estrutura viária
renascimento em todo o das cidades, mas, em seguida,
mundo, já que os habitantes houve desinteresse, porque as
das cidades evitam o pessoas encararam a crise
transporte público pela pandêmica e voltaram a
segurança de fazer seu valorizar os carros de luxo.
percurso diário de bicicleta, e b) O parágrafo 5 informa que,
muitos defensores estão durante a Pandemia, houve
trabalhando com os governos grande adesão ao transporte
na esperança de transformar coletivo nas maiores
algumas medidas de resposta metrópoles do mundo,
à pandemia em mudanças fenômeno que ocorre
duradouras. principalmente na Europa e
d) em todo o mundo, nas Américas, segundo uma
governantes estão coletando pesquisa da Universidade da
dados previamente para Virgínia do Norte.
implantar novas ciclovias e c) De acordo com o parágrafo
elaborando projetos de alto 9, a implementação de
investimento, visando programas de mobilidade nas
solucionar problemas de cidades pequenas é urgente e,
urbanização e saúde pública segundo Tabitha Combs, a
causados pela Pandemia. bicicleta é a mais
e) quando a Pandemia atingiu revolucionária forma de
a costa de Bogotá (Colômbia), transporte atualmente, seja
em meados de março, a para uso diário do trabalhador,
prefeita Claudia López seja para lazer.
elaborou um dos melhores d) No parágrafo 1, entende-se
planos do mundo para mudar que o trânsito em Bogotá,
o transporte urbano, porém, capital colombiana, é um dos
logo retrocedeu, restringindo o piores do mundo, porém sua
uso de bicicletas aos infraestrutura cicloviária é
trabalhadores da saúde. considerada um modelo
exemplar de mobilidade
4) Considerando a ideia urbana sustentável, segundo o
central de cada parágrafo Índice Copenhagenize.
citado, marque a alternativa e) Segundo o parágrafo 7, as
CORRETA grandes cidades sofreram
embargo jurídico na criação de
a) De acordo com o parágrafo ciclovias, e os governantes
8, as vendas de bicicletas tiveram de buscar apoio da
aumentaram na Europa em comunidade jovem para ativar
velhas pistas, fato que os
motivou a construírem
autoestradas em tempo
recorde.
5) Assinale a alternativa
CORRETA.
a) Em: “Moving around Bogotá
can be a bit of a Jekyll-or-Hyde
experience.” (1 st paragraph), a
expressão em destaque indica
uma ideia de contraste, algo
que é esclarecido no trecho
seguinte: “On one hand, the
city is infamous for having the
world’s worst traffic. Yet, on
the other, its cycling
infrastructure is considered an
exemplary model (...)”.
b) No trecho: “Everyone started
using a bicycle, and they
already knew how to get
around on one because we
have this bike culture thanks
to the Ciclovía,” says Carlos
Pardo...” (3rd paragraph)”, os
verbos sublinhados são,
ambos, irregulares, e o termo
destacado em negrito faz
referência ao sujeito da oração
seguinte – we.
c) De acordo com o contexto e
a gramática, as palavras
grifadas ability, easy e b) salvar.
particularly (8 th paragraph)
são, respectivamente,
advérbio, substantivo e e) acolher.
adjetivo.
d) No trecho: “But these
measures have not been
without their detractors.” (7th
paragraph), os termos
sublinhados referem-se aos
fatos narrados a seguir, no
mesmo parágrafo.
e) Na frase: “I can’t stress how
revolutionary this is in the field
of transportation planning.”
(9th paragraph), Tabitha
Combs expressa frustração
diante dos acontecimentos.
6) According to the text, the
word ITS is a
a) noun.
b) subject.
c) verb.
d) possessive adjective.
e) possessive pronoun.
7) According to the situation
in the cartoon, WIPE OUT is a
verb, and the CORRECT
translation in the context is
a) destruir.
c) socorrer.
d) humanizar.
8. Adut Akech is a young South
Sudanese-Australian model. Read
 this interview with her, which
was published in an Italian
magazine, and fill in the blankets
with an appropriate verb from the
box below. Use the simple past.
example, is still too rare. […]
2. Based on the previous text,
choose the correct sentences
about Adut Akech.

be • do • dream • have • take a) She lived in a refugee camp.

• teach
b) Her older sister didn’t go to
school.
c) She’s doing an online course in
Interview
Economics.
with Adut
d) She believes there is enough
Akech diversity in fashion.

[…] What was 3. Write 4 sentences about your

your idea of a past experiences. Use verbs and
‘dream life’ time expressions from the boxes
during those difficult times? below to help you
I ______________ of an education, a
Verbs Past time
home, and enough food for my family.
expressions

And now what is your dream life? • was / wasn’t • yesterday

Finishing my studies, first of all. I • learned / didn’t • when I was a
_________________ my diploma and I’ve learn child
• went / didn’t • two days/years
just started in Economics. Online,
go ago
though, because of all the traveling. […] • did / didn’t do • last
week/month/ye
Who ______________ you to write? ar
My older sister, the only one of us who
was able to attend school, which 1.
______________ expensive in the refugee 2.
camp. We _________________ advantage 3.
of the daylight because at night we 4.
only ___________________ one oil lamp.
[…] 4. Get to know some inspiring
women who grew up to be
Do you think there’s enough diversity scientists. Fill in the blankets with
in fashion? an appropriate verb from the
I think there could be more. Seeing a boxes to complete the texts. Use
non-white woman selling perfume, for the simple past.
 former Brazilian soccer player.
Read it and do exercises 8 and 8
advance • design • develop •
develop • serve discover • implement • be • be • join • persist • start • want
found revolutioniz
e

JOAN SYLVIA INGRID

BEAUCHAMP EARLE DAUBECHIE
PROCTER Achievem S
Achievement: ent: Achievemen
Zoologist who Oceanogra t: Physicist
_______________ pher who and
_ ___________ mathematici When Sisleide “Sissi” Lima do Amor
understanding _ new an who ____________ young, it was against
of reptiles and species, _____________ the law for girls to play soccer in
amphibians, made __ wavelet Brazil. But Sissi ______________ to play,
_______________ record- theory, which even if she got in trouble. So, she
___ as curator setting _____________ ________________ , first in secret,
at the London dives, ___ audio turning other toys into soccer balls
Zoo, pioneered ___________ and visual and practicing whenever she could.
humane design _____ processing, Eventually, Sissi’s parents got her a
for zoo habitats, pioneering medical soccer ball. When she ______________
and undersea imaging, fourteen, two years after Brazil made
______________ exploratio seismology, it legal for girls to play soccer, Sissi
innovative n and ________________ playing
veterinary technologi surveillance, professionally and then
surgical es, and among many __________________ the first Brazilian
techniques ___________ other women’s national soccer team. At
__________ technologies. the height of her career, Sissi was
Mission As president called the “Queen of Brazilian
Blue to of the football” and today is credited with
champion International inspiring a generation of Brazilian
creation of Mathematics girls to be unafraid to take the field.
marine Union,
sanctuarie _____________
6. Based on the previous text,
s ____
worldwide. innovative answer the questions below
initiatives to
support a. Was it possible for women to play
teaching soccer in Brazil when Sissi was
math around young?
the world.
b. How old was Sissi when she
5. The text below is about another started playing soccer
inspiring woman, Sissi, who is a professionally?
 c. What did people call Sissi at the recognized for her persistent struggle
height of her career? for democracy, human rights and
environmental conservation. She has
addressed the UN on several occasions
and spoke on behalf of women at
special sessions of the General
Assembly for the five-year review of the
earth summit. She served on the
commission for Global Governance and
Commission on the Future. She and the
7. Answer the questions below Green Belt Movement have received
about Wangari Maathai. numerous awards, most notably The
2004 Nobel Peace Prize. […]
Wangari
Maathai chair: chefe • on behalf of: em nome de
Biographical

Wangari Muta a. Where was she born?

Maathai was
born in Nyeri, b. When was she born?
Kenya (Africa)
in 1940. The
first woman in c. What is she internationally
East and famous for?
Central Africa
to earn a d. What award did she receive in
doctorate degree. Wangari Maathai 2004?
obtained a degree in Biological
Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica
9) Based on the text about
College in Atchison, Kansas (1964). She
subsequently earned a Master of Wangari Maathai, fill in the
Science degree from the University of blanket with an appropriate
Pittsburgh (1966). She pursued doctoral word/expression in order to
studies in Germany and the University complete the timeline below.
of Nairobi, obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from
the University of Nairobi where she also
taught veterinary anatomy. She 1940 Wangari Maathai ______________
became chair of the Department of born in Nyeri, Kenya.
Veterinary Anatomy and an associate
professor in 1976 and 1977 respectively. 1964 ____________ a degree in
In both cases, she was the first woman Biological Sciences.
to attain those positions in the region. _____ Earned a Master of Science
Wangari Maathai was active in the ____ degree from the University of
National Council of Women of Kenya in Pittsburgh.
1976-87 and was its chairman in 1981-87.
[…] Wangari Maathai is internationally 1971 Obtained a Ph.D. from the
 University of Nairobi where she
also _________________ veterinary
anatomy.

1976 ______________ chair of the

Department of Veterinary
Anatomy.

_____ Became an associate professor.

_____

1981 Became the chair of the

_____________________.

2004 ________________ the Nobel Peace

Prize.

10) Reorder the words in the

items below to write sentences
about Wangari Maathai.

a) to obtain a Ph.D. / She / the first

woman in East and Central Africa /
was

b) was / the first female professor /

She / at the University of Nairobi

c)for environmental conservation /

became / She / famous for fighting