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Globetrotter Unit 4 Test

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: ___________________ Grade: ____________ / 100 points
Reading Strategy (25 points 5 each) (FATEC -ADAPTED) Attention, E-Commerce Shoppers: Your days of being tied to the PC for your product needs may soon be over. In the near future, currently being envisaged by engineers, youll go shopping via Palm Pilot, via TV with cable-modem hookup, via game machine, via intelligent refrigerator via any means, it seems, other than a good old-fashioned desktop and keyboard. A new kind of consumer is about to emerge as the Internet revolution spills over the edges of the computer revolutions territory. The next wave is people who never wanted to buy a PC, says Barry Parr, an analyst at International Data Corp. Even as early as 2003, analysts expect, a third of online households will be spending around $50 billion through non-PC devices. Many of them wont even have to open a Web browser to go shopping. Internet-ready cell phones already have e-commerce capabilities. Sonys latest terminal for WebTV offers split-screen shopping, so you can buy Christmas presents without taking your eyes off the tube. Excite@Homes broadband cable service will launch an undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say youre watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and its coming to your door. Excite@Home already knows your credit-card details and address. Just sit back and wait for the calories. Glossary tied -amarrado / households -famlias / envisaged - encarado split -separada / hookup - conexo / undertaking - empreendimento means - meios / floats -flutua / old-fashioned - antigo 1. Segundo o texto: a) no prximo ano, os consumidores podero adquirir instantaneamente, com entrega imediata, produtos como uma simples pizza, anunciados na tela de seus computadores; b) em um futuro prximo, os consumidores podero fazer suas compras utilizando-se de vrios meios tais como um refrigerador inteligente; c) em breve, todos os consumidores faro suas compras por meio de computadores; d) at 2003, um tero dos consumidores de comrcio on-line estariam gastando 50 bilhes de dlares por meio de seus computadores.

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2. Esta nova maneira de fazer compras est surgindo devido: a) ao aumento sbito de pessoas com computadores que preferem fazer suas compras sem mesmo sair de casa; b) facilidade encontrada pelo PalmPilot de proporcionar ao consumidor preos baixos e acesso rpido Internet; c) a um novo tipo de consumidor: aquele que nunca teve vontade de adquirir um computador; d) superlotao das lojas em pocas como natal, dias dos namorados, etc. 3. A palavra near na primeira linha do texto pode ser traduzida como a) precisar b) necessrio c) novos d) prximo (UFBA -ADAPTED) The End Of Privacy Computer technology is developing so rapidly that it is hard to predict how it will be applied. But some trends are unmistakable. The volume of data recorded about people will continue to expand dramatically. Disputes about privacy will become more bitter. Efforts to control the surveillance society through new laws will intensify. Consumers will pay more for services that offer a privacy pledge. And the market for privacy-protection technology will grow. Yet here is a prediction: any effort to hold back the electronic intrusion into privacy will fail. Privacy protection services may offer a brief pause for those determined, whatever the trouble or cost, to protect themselves. But 20 years from now most people will find that the privacy they take for granted today will be just as elusive as the privacy of the 1970s now seems. Some will simply say: Who cares? I have nothing to hide. But others will be disturbed that most of their behavior leaves a permanent and easily traceable record. People will have to assume that they have no privacy. This will constitute one of the greatest social changes of modern times. Glossary applied - aplicado / pledge -garantia / trends - tendncias / fail -falhar / unmistakeable -inconfundveis / brief -breve / surveillance - vigilncia / elusive - evasivo / hide -esconder / bitter - amarga

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4. De acordo com o texto, so previses decorrentes dos avanos da tecnologia eletrnica: a) A sociedade desfrutar dos benefcios do mundo informatizado, sem lutar por certo grau de privacidade; b) Os rgos oficiais sero responsveis pelas maiores violaes de privacidade; c) Informaes pessoais podero ser divulgadas revelia das pessoas envolvidas; d) Os consumidores daro preferncia aos servios que ofeream proteo privacidade individual. 5. A palavra cost, no segundo pargrafo do texto, poderia ser substituda sem alterao de sentido, por qual das palavras abaixo? a) price b) count c) problem d) difficulty Word Study (25 points 5 each) I. Choose the appropriate word to complete the sentences below. 1. Can I send you your part of the project via _________? It takes less time than taking the bus to your house. Of course! a) mail b) e-mail c) telephone d) railway 2. A lot of information travels through cyberspace _________, the imaginary space where e-mails, etc. pass through between computers. a) www b) e.g. c) a.m. d) i.e. 3. I like to use the Internet __________ with my friends from Australia. a) to understand b) to help c) to chat d) to dispute II. What do these words mean? Find the best definition for each cognate. 4. Parents are: a) all the members of a family; b) a social group of people consisting of husband / wife and children or your brothers and sisters; c) father and mother; d) close friends. 5. Actually means: a) really b) at the present time c) very big d) extreme

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Using Grammar (25 points 5 each) Choose the correct option. 1. Who did you go to the concert with yesterday? With Paula, this friend of _________. a) her b) he c) mine d) its 2. ________ picture is this? It looks horrible! Er, its ________. a) who / his b) whose / my c) how / mine d) whose / mine 3. Is this book Jessicas? Yes, its _______, why? a) hers b) her c) she d) his 4. Stuart: Marcos, can _____ give ______ Paulas e-mail address, please? Marcos: Sure, its paulinha@netinter.com. a) you / me b) she / you c) you / you d) he / her 5. Victor and Daniel can give you ________ e-mail address. a) him b) their c) yours d) hers Think and Write (25 points) Read this short story of Sean Connery the superstar! Thomas Sean Connerys birthday in on August 25. In 1950 he was Mr. Scotland in the Mr-Universe contest, but he did not win! He also played soccer very well, and in 1953, the manager of Manchester United invited him to play for the club! In 1987, Connery finally won an Oscar for the Untouchables, with Kevin Costner. He doesnt play soccer anymore, but he really likes to play golf. And he is a very popular actor in the world. Think of a famous Brazilian person you really like. Suppose you are chatting with an English girl, on the Internet, who doesnt know him / her at all. Explain who he / she is to her. Try to include: his / her birthday; sports he /she plays; what he / she does ( profession ).

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ANSWER KEY
Reading Strategy 1. b Encontra-se a resposta logo no incio do texto In the near future (...) youll go shopping via PalmPilot, (...) via intelligent refrigerator (...). 2. c L-se a resposta no seguinte trecho A new kind of consumer is about to emerge (...) The next wave is people who never wanted to buy a PC,. 3. d Near pode ter outras tradues alm de prximo: perto, por exemplo. A alternativa que traz a melhor traduo para a palavra no contexto pedido a d. 4. d L-se no texto Consumers will pay more for services that offer a privacy pledge. 5. a A nica palavra que no modificaria o sentido da frase e que, portanto, poderia substituir cost no texto price. Word Study 1. b 2. d Using Grammar 1. c 2. d 3. c 3. a 4. c 4. a 5. a

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