Questões de Língua Inglesa da Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

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.

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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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

Although kuru has been controlled by a change in cultural habits, humans contamination runs down cattle disease pattern causing deterioration of the brain.

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

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are a family of uncommon progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect humans and are caused by a prion which typically infects cattle and is transmitted through infected meat.

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According to the text, judge the following items.

According to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, the boundaries of an exclusive economic zone exceed territorial waters.

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Text for items from 25 through 30

According to the text, it is correct to affirm that

an Indian warship attacked a supposed pirate mother ship which was, nevertheless, a fishing vessel.

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Judge the following items according to the text.

Although the international community may know where the pirates are or the ports they use, interdicting them would be quite expensive for the U.S. at this moment.

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This text refers to questions from 14 through 20.

In the text, "one" (l.25) is

• A.

  a numeral.

• B.

  a pronoun.

• C.

  an adjective.

• D.

  a nour.

• E.

  a verb.