CIENCIAS E EXATAS

CONCURSO PÚBLICO
ANALISTA EM CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA JÚNIOR I
LÍNGUA INGLESA
01 - O principal problema focalizado no texto é o/a:
Leia o Texto I e responda às questões 01 a 06:
Texto I
Loss of Amazon Rain Forest May Come Sooner Than
Expected
EDINBURGH, Scotland -- While many environmental issues today are highly contentious, there’s one cause that seems to unite nearly everyone: pleas to save the world’s rapidly disappearing rain forests. Yet a new mathematical model suggests we may not be acting fast enough.
According to projections by a Penn State professor,
Amazonian rain forests could reach a “point of no return” in as little as 10 to 15 years from now if deforestation continues at the present rate of about one percent a year.

(A) variedade de opiniões sobre a preservação do meio-ambiente; (B) necessidade de se encontrar unidade na diversidade;
(C) urgência em se estimular o desflorestamento;
(D) desaparecimento acelerado da Floresta Amazônica;
(E) singularidade do ecossistema das florestas tropicais.

02 - De acordo com estudos anteriores, a Floresta
Amazônica desapareceria:
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)

no final do século XX; dentro de dez a quinze anos; nos últimos 25 anos deste século; na primeira metade do século XXI; em um período de 40 a 50 anos.

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model further shows that the rain forest in Brazil could be wiped out entirely within 40 to 50 years -- much sooner than predicted in other studies, which have led many researchers to estimate that total rain forest loss won’t happen until the end of this century, 75 or 100 years away. James (Bud) Alcock, a professor of environmental sciences at the Abington campus of Penn State, reached these conclusions by constructing a mathematical model that used the two million-square-mile Amazon River Basin
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as an example.
Because moisture is critical to rain forest ecosystems,
Alcock studied how the ecosystem responds to change in natural climate cycles that occur