8 Questões de Língua Inglesa do MACKENZIE 2010

TIME Adventures in Sub-Consciousness By Sarah Modlock __(I)__ you fancy a little underwater exploration without the hassle of learning to scuba dive, you’ll love the sub-scooter. It’s a battery-powered moped that propels you through water at a depth of 10 ft. (3 m), __(II)__ compressed air is pumped into a tiny glass cockpit from a boat on the surface — the resulting air pressure keeping water out of the hood. Pelagic treasures can be seen without even getting your hair wet. The sub-scooter’s downside is that it is only found in Mauritius. But the upside is that you have another excuse — __(III)__ the deep-sea fishing, the beaches and the tranquility — to visit this beautiful island nation in the Indian Ocean. Part of the vessel’s charm is that it offers an underwater encounter with no need for heavy oxygen cylinders or uncomfortable mouthpieces and masks. __(IV)__, the motor is virtually soundless, leaving sea creatures undisturbed and preserving a sense of the exotic. It won’t take you long to get a feel for the acceleration and steering, and you won’t need brakes: the coral is low-lying, and there’s nothing to bump into apart from other sub-scooters (__(V)__ there’s little chance of that with scuba-diving guides pointing the way). Sure, the sub-scooter is too sedate for James Bond and probably rather restrictive for experienced divers, but it’s still a thrilling experience for visiting water babies. A two-hour excursion, including 30 minutes on a sub-scooter, costs about $160 for two people. Visit www.blue-safari.com for details. Choose the alternative that best completes the blank (I) in the text. (Mackenzie 2010)

1. A) If
2. B) Although
3. C) Unless
4. D) Despite
5. E) Because

TIME Adventures in Sub-Consciousness By Sarah Modlock __(I)__ you fancy a little underwater exploration without the hassle of learning to scuba dive, you’ll love the sub-scooter. It’s a battery-powered moped that propels you through water at a depth of 10 ft. (3 m), __(II)__ compressed air is pumped into a tiny glass cockpit from a boat on the surface — the resulting air pressure keeping water out of the hood. Pelagic treasures can be seen without even getting your hair wet. The sub-scooter’s downside is that it is only found in Mauritius. But the upside is that you have another excuse — __(III)__ the deep-sea fishing, the beaches and the tranquility — to visit this beautiful island nation in the Indian Ocean. Part of the vessel’s charm is that it offers an underwater encounter with no need for heavy oxygen cylinders or uncomfortable mouthpieces and masks. __(IV)__, the motor is virtually soundless, leaving sea creatures undisturbed and preserving a sense of the exotic. It won’t take you long to get a feel for the acceleration and steering, and you won’t need brakes: the coral is low-lying, and there’s nothing to bump into apart from other sub-scooters (__(V)__ there’s little chance of that with scuba-diving guides pointing the way). Sure, the sub-scooter is too sedate for James Bond and probably rather restrictive for experienced divers, but it’s still a thrilling experience for visiting water babies. A two-hour excursion, including 30 minutes on a sub-scooter, costs about $160 for two people. Visit www.blue-safari.com for details. Choose the alternative that best completes the blank (II) in the text. (Mackenzie 2010)

1. A) so
2. B) because
3. C) when
4. D) while
5. E) since

panic throughout the industry. “This is certainly a lesson for us all,” says Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman. “We, like everybody else, thought our system was secure.” Yet, on April 1, there it was: an unfinished version of the movie, available online a full month before its release date. (Since then, the file has been accessed 100,000 times, and the blogosphere buzz has been mixed at best.) Fox is working with the FBI to find the culprit — “Somebody’s going to end up in jail for a long time,” insists Rothman — but no arrests had been made as of press time. Hollywood bigwigs, who have taken their case for tougher antipiracy laws all the way to Congress, are certainly out for blood. “You have to find the [thief] and you’ve got to give him serious time,” says director Tony Scott (The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3). In fact, when he first heard of the theft, “I said, shoot him!” That harsh brand of justice has swept up those even tangentially involved in the scandal: Fox News columnist Roger Friedman was fired for downloading the movie and posting a positive review. When the smoke clears, what impact will any of this have on the movie’s box office haul? Hard to say. When Ang Lee’s Hulk was pirated in 2003, Universal Pictures claimed the theft — of a close-to-finished print — cost it $100 million. (That could have been posturing: The movie was also leveled by brutal reviews. Universal had no comment for this story.) At least one industry insider thinks the exposure may boost ticket sales. “Everyone was talking about Star Trek before this happened,” he notes. “Now everyone’s focused on Wolverine.” With additional reporting by Chris Nashawaty and Christine Spines (www.ew.com) The article explains that (Mackenzie 2010)

1. A) the criminal responsible for stealing a copy of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” before its release date is still at large.
2. B) “Wolverine” has been playing in American movie theaters since April 1, yet unfinished.
3. C) antipiracy laws in the US only punish people whose files have been accessed 100,000 times or more.
4. D) director Tony Scott has been accused of threatening columnist Roger Friedman and badmouthing him.
5. E) according to chairman Tom Rothman, the movie has been reviewed by a Fox News columnist, which made the film available online a month ahead of time.

According to the text, culprit probably means (Mackenzie 2010)

1. A) a person in charge of reviewing recently made movies.
2. B) a person that prints official reports related to movies and TV series.
3. C) a person that deals with movie tickets sold to the public online.
4. D) a person who has committed a crime or done something wrong.
5. E) a movie producer who is also involved with online advertisement.

Reader's Digest Breadwinner As a single mom, Cordia Harrington just needed to bring home the bacon. She ended up rolling in dough. By Margaret Heffernan Cordia Harrington was tired __( I )__ standing up all day and smelling like french fries __( II )__ night. A property developer, she also owned and operated three McDonald’s franchises in Illinois, but as a divorced mother __(III)__ three boys, she yearned __( IV )__ a business that would provide __( V )__ her children and let her spend more time __(VI )__ them. Her aha moment struck, strangely enough, after she was nominated in 1992 to be on the McDonald’s bun committee. “The other franchisees, all men, thought that was hilarious because of the word bun,” she recalls. “But the joke was on them: They didn’t know the company would be picking me up in a corporate jet to see bakeries around the world. Every time I went to a meeting, I loved it. This was global!” The experience opened her eyes to business possibilities. When McDonald’s decided it wanted a new bun supplier, Harrington became determined to win the contract, even though she had no experience running a bakery. “You see a tiny crack in the door, and you have to run through it,” she says. “I really believed I could do this.” Harrington studied the bakery business and made sure she was never off executives’ radar. “If you have a dream, you can’t wait for people to call you,” she says. “So I’d visit a mill and send them photos of myself in a baker’s hat and jacket, holding a sign that said ‘I want to be your baker.’” After four years and 32 interviews, her persistence paid off. Harrington sealed the deal with a handshake, sold her franchises, invested everything she owned, and borrowed $13.5 million. She was ready to build the fastest, most automated bakery in the world. "Her aha moment" refers to (Mackenzie 2010)

1. A) the moment she yearned for a profitable business.
2. B) the moment she got pregnant.
3. C) the time when she decided to be a bun supplier.
4. D) the moment she was off executives’ radar.
5. E) one time in her life when she reached triumph, recognition or satisfaction.

The following text refers to questions 14 and 15. The Economist Brazil’s presidential biopic Lula, sanitised SÃO PAULO A film for the campaign trail ONCE upon a time it was considered indecent to turn living people into myths, or even into films, with too much haste. The cycle seems to be shorter now. Gandhi had to wait until 34 years after his death before he appeared on cinema screens around the world. George Bush junior, by contrast, was the victim of an Oliver Stone biopic during the last year of his presidency. Now a Brazilian director, Fábio Barreto, has done the same for Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as he starts his final year of office. “Lula, Son of Brazil” is the tale of a poor boy made good, his flaws left on the cutting table and his virtues in close-up. Since Lula hopes to secure the election of his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, in October, it is controversial. The film “promotes the worship of a political myth,” said Eugênio Bucci, a critic and journalism professor. Before it was even released Veja, a magazine, pointed out that many of the companies that funded its production (the most expensive in the history of Brazilian cinema) have either won or hope to win contracts from the government. For all that, the film is very watchable. It opens in the poor north-east, where Lula was born into a landscape of bright red soil and cacti, and ends with his rise as a metalworkers’ union leader in the industrial belt of São Paulo in the 1970s. This is a candyfloss version of the story, however. Lula’s reverses are shown: the little finger lost to a lathe, the death of his first wife and child in childbirth. But he is too good to be true: a perfect student, perfect husband and political moderate who abhorred violence. The book on which the film is based, by contrast, quotes Lula as approving of an incident in which a director of a factory that is on strike is thrown out of a window. In the film he runs from the factory appalled. That is a shame. A more nuanced telling would not detract from Lula’s remarkable life story and achievement. The film is doing well at the box office. Its producers say it is running more strongly in the north-east than in the populous south-east, which means it mirrors Ms Rousseff’s fortunes in the polls. There are plans to show the film on mobile screens in places with no cinema. It may get an airing on television, though there is no such deal in place yet. All this helps a process of mythmaking around Lula that is already well under way. Catching some of Lula’s stardust is Ms Rousseff’s best hope for capturing the presidency in October, and there are some signs that this is happening. The gap between her and José Serra, her main rival, halved between March and December last year and now stands at 14 points. Competing against a celluloid legend is not easy. According to the text, “Lula, Son of Brazil” (Mackenzie 2010)

1. A) shows how a metalworkers’ union leader hits the big time during the last year of his presidency.
2. B) has been considered responsible for favoring specific companies in the government as well as Veja magazine.
3. C) tells an exaggeratedly sentimental side of Lula’s story.
4. D) was based on a book co-written by the president.
5. E) is watchable due to its expensive production, superb cinematography and actors’ work.