READING COMPREHENSION EXERCICES - 3 ANO
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BRAZIL’S GROWING POWER
With the help of clever agronomists, modern technology and the callused hands of pioneers in scores of towns, Brazil has become the world’s newest agricultural superpower. Last year, while the national economy struggle, Brazilian farmers reaped another bountiful harvest of commodity crops. Grain production, for example, topped 123 million tons – double the figure of a decade ago. While Brazil’s overall jobless rate spiked to 8 percent last year, rural employment grew by 6.5 percent, and 10 percent in the frontier states of Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Goiás.
Brazil has long been a powerhouse producer of
coffee and sugar. But now the country’s farmers and agribusinesses are
extending their global reach, grabbing market share with new crops and lapping
the competition in industrialized farm goods like orange juice, alcohol,
tobacco and leather hides. Led by the cerrado pioneers, Brazil in 2002
surpassed the United States as the world’s largest exporter of soybeans, soybean
oil and soybean meal. In addition, the country recently became the world’s
largest exporter of beef, passing Australia. And while quantity is important,
so is quality. Brazil’s cattle herds eat only grass and soymeal, not feed made
from ground animal parts that some experts suspect is responsible for the
general spread of madcow disease. Agribusiness now accounts for more than a
quarter of the country’s 4600 billion gross domestic product, and employs
around 20 million people, roughly 37 percent of Brazil’s total work force.
Brazilian farmers have boosted crop production so
high that the country now ranks as the world’s fourth leading exporter of
agricultural products. (…) Brazilian President
has made agricultural-trade liberalization a key policy objective for
his administration.
1. According
to the text
A) Brazil is
an old agricultural superpower.
B) Brazilian
economy is struggled.
C) Brazilian
commodity crops failed.
D) Mato
Grosso, Tocantins and Goiás don’t help the Brazilian job rate.
E) Agronomists, technology and pioneers have helped Brazil to become the
world’s newest agricultural superpower.
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2. Which
products have helped Brazil’s farmers to increase their world spread?
A) Orange juice, alcohol, tobacco and leather hides.
B) Just
coffee.
C)
Industrialized farm goods.
D) Just sugar.
E)
Agribusinesses.
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3. Which is
the Brazilian world crop production rank?
A) Leading
exporter.
B) So high.
C) First.
D) Fourth.
E) Exporter of
agricultural products.
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Brain Rays
For
years cancer patients have had recourse to a noninvasive surgical technique in which
doctors zap tumors with focused beams of radiation. The technology was first
used on brain-cancer patients because doctors can easily clamp the head in 3 place, keeping the tumor rock
steady. More recently the machines have gotten better at compensating for the patient's
movement – from breathing, say – allowing doctors to treat tumors elsewhere in 6 the body. Now doctors at Korea's
St. Mary's Hospital are using a device called CyberKnife, made by Accuray in
Sunnyvale, California, to treat patients with severe depression and obsessive-compulsive
disorder. Other doctors think the technique could be useful to treat 9 Parkinson's and epilepsy patients.
Since the radiation creates permanent lesions in the brain, the method is
controversial and may take years to win acceptance.
4. Há médicos utilizando-o em pacientes
que apresentam:
B) transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo.
C) tumor
bronco-pulmonar.
D) dificuldade de
locomoção.
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5.O dispositivo teve origem:
A) num hospital do sistema público de saúde.
B) na Coréia do Sul.
C) nos Estados Unidos.
D) numa universidade da
rede privada
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