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GLOBAL 2º ANO 3ª ETAPA 2012Read the text below to answer QUESTIONS 01 and 02.
How to increase Brainpower
Exercise does more than build muscles and helps prevent heart disease. New science shows that it also increases brainpower – and may offer hope in the battle against Alzheimer´s.
BY MARY CARMICHAEL
The stereotype of the “dumb jock” has never sounded right to Charles Hillman. A jock himself, he plays hockey four times a week, but when he isn’t body checking his opponents on the ice, he’s giving his mind a comparable workout in his neuroscience and kinesiology lab at the University of Illinois. Nearly every semester in his classroom, he says, students on the women’s cross-country team set the curve on his exams. So recently he started wondering if there was a vital and overlooked link between brawn and brains – if long hours at the gym could somehow build up not just muscles, but minds. With colleagues, he rounded up 259 Illinois third and fifth graders measured their body mass index and put them through classic PE routines: the “sit-and-reach”, a brisk run and timed pushups and sit-ups. Then he checked their physical abilities against their math and reading scores on a statewide standardized test. Sure enough, on the whole, the kids with the fittest bodies were the ones with the fittest brains, even when factors such as socioeconomic status were taken into account. Sports, Hillman concluded, might indeed be increasing the students’ intellect – and also, as long as he didn’t “take the puck to the head”. (…) Source: (Newsweek, April 9th, 2011.)
QUESTION 01(1,5)
De acordo com o texto, Charles Hillman é
A) atleta do laboratório da Universidade de Illinois. B) técnico do laboratório da Universidade de Illinois.