Questões de Língua Inglesa

In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

In mad cow disease, misfolded proteins prions punch holes in the brain causing the tissue to develop a spongy architecture eventually destroying it.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Which piece of information can be found in the text II?

• A. Some tips to save water in the taps.
• B. The shortage of water is starting to affect the three countries with the biggest populations in the world.
• C. A variety of measures to reuse water.
• D. It shows how insignificant is the water charge everywhere.
• E. The amount of groundwater employed in agriculture.

In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

The abnormal protein builds up in the brain, forming clumps that damage or annihilate neurons.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

According to text II, mark the correct alternative.

• A. In the sentence “Water security is the gossamer that links together the web of food” (lines 1 and 2), the word “gossamer” can be correctly replaced by source with no difference in meaning.
• B. The sentence “The volatility in food prices in 2008 should be treated as an early warning sign of what is to come.” (lines 9 and 10) is in the passive voice. In the active voice, it can be written like this: As an early warning sign of what is to come should treat the volatility in food prices in 2008.
• C. In the fragment “over the past 50 years or so” (lines 15 and 16), the expression “or so” means in an accurate manner.
• D. In the sentence “This set of regional challenges becomes a fast-approaching global crisis” (lines 23 and 24), the word “crisis” is in its singular form. In fact, in its plural form, it will show the same spelling.
• E. The word “stark”, in the sentence “The financial crisis gives us a stark warning” (lines 42 and 43), implies that the financial crisis gives us a complete warning.

In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

The lack of healthy cells creates crevices inside the brain that produce the mental and behaviourial features of prior diseases.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

Mutations in the PRNP gene cause prion disease.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

In the title, the "new twist" refers to a feature of pathogenesis in the prion disease that consists of the conversion of a normal pre-existing molecule into a pathogenic abnormally structured form rather than replication of an agent.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

All known prion diseases, collectively called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are untreatable and fatal.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 due to his studies in the detections of prion infection, its transmission track, and type the different strains.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In relation to the text above, judge the items from 11 through 20.

Some accounts of the pathogenic prion disease seem to bear out a basic tenet that any agent that increases in titer must involve replication of nucleic acid.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado