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Escola Secundria Padre Benjamim Salgado

Exame de Equivalncia Frequncia de INGLSEnsino SecundrioAno l ecti vo 2003/2004

PROVA ESCRITA 2Fase Durao da prova: 90 minutos

permitido o uso de dicionrios unilingues e bilingues

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A. Before reading the text below, answer the following question in no morethan 40 words.

In what ways has technology influenced your life and your lifestyle?

(16p.)

Mans New Best Friends Are Machines

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There once was a fear in the land: that machines would eventually replacepeople, that all the functions performed by hard-working men and women would betaken over by faceless, soulless mechanical devices.

Well, its happened not completely, but its happened. The reason we dontdiscuss it at all that often is that instead of hating what has taken place, Americansseem to like it. The fear, it appears, was unfounded. The machines took over andtheywere embraced like new lovers.

You see it everyday. On airplanes and on pay phones, businessmen andbusinesswomen conduct their on-the-road tasks without having to speak to a singlehuman being.

Whats instructive about this is not simply that its happening but that, moreand more, people appear to prefer dealing with machines to dealing with other people.You can see it in the faces at the pay phones human beings on the other end of theline tend to waste time with idle chatter, tend to ask questions and misunderstand whatis said and require names and numbers to be repeated. Its so much more precise,doing business with a machine.

This has evolved over the last 15 or 20 years. At first people were exasperatedto reach automatic phone systems they felt lost, anonymous. Now the machines arebeginning to seem like friends, eager-to-please and efficient.

People who were angry when the machines first began to dominate our worldhave been soothed not only into submission, but into approval. The cash machines thatseemed so strange and forbidding are now accepted as vastly preferable to bank tellerswho can make mistakes and take coffee breaks and not be able to find your account

number. The automated voice recordings that tell you how many miles you have in yourfrequent-flier program are much speedier than human airline employees; when youmake a credit-card phone call it is so much quicker to just punch your number ininstead of telling itto an operator, the old way.

Machines and the coded data within themare never late to work; machines andtheir data never have grumpy days. Machines, with their digital voices, seem alwaysglad to serve you. Machines are accurate and intelligent and to the point. When youdeal with a machine, as opposed to dealing with a human, you can be sure the machinedoes not wish it was somewhere else, doing something else.

A frightening thought? That all of this can be true? Its not the machines that arefrightening. Its that we have learned to be happily married to them.

In Chicago Tribune (adapted)


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B. Find evidence of the following by quoting from the text the sentences with theequivalent meanings:

1. People used to fear that machines could put their jobs at risk.

2. Nowadays people seem to like machines better than human contact.

3. Some years ago people felt strange when dealing with automatic phone systems.

( 3 x 8 = 2 4 p .)

C. Based on the text answer these questions using your own words.

1.In the past people were apprehensive that machines would replace human functions.Why is this fear nowadays unfounded?

2.Why do people nowadays prefer voice recordings to people on the other end of the

line?

3. Do you agree with the last sentence of the text Its that we have learned to behappily married to them? Justify your answer.

( 3 x 1 0 = 3 0 p .)

D. Reread the text to find words that mean the same as the following:

(Note: provide only one word for each item)

1. in the end (1stparagraph)

2. substitute (1stparagraph)

3. appliances (1stparagraph)

4. handling (4thparagraph)

5. futile (4thparagraph)

( 5 x 2 = 1 0 p .)

E. Say who/ what the words below refer to. ( T h e s e w o r d s a r e u n d e r l in e d i n t h et e x t . )

1. they (line 7)

2. you (line 8)

3. their (line 9)

4. it (line 28)

5. them (line 29) ( 5 x 2 = 1 0 p . )


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II

Rewrite these sentences beginning them as indicated and keeping theirmeaning unchanged.

1.Computers attract a lot of people nowadays.

A lot of people...

2.John told Mary: My friend received a prize for his computer programme last week.

John told Mary that

3.Although computer technology improves our lives, it also creates unemployment.

In spite of

4.They expect that the company will become profitable in the New Year.

It ...

5.Peoples life and work have changed because there have been so many advances intechnology.

If there

6. It has at no time been easy to find a good job.

At no time...

( 6 x 1 0 = 6 0 p .)

III

Decide for ONE of the following topics and develop it in 100-120 words.

1.In your opinion, what was the greatest invention of the 20thcentury?

OR:

2.Becoming a member of the European Community has brought the Portuguese variedadvantages. Comment.

OR:

3. Write a psychological, as well as, a physical profile of the main character of one of theworks of the extensive reading programme.

( 5 0 p . )

TOTAL: 200p.


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CHAVE e CRITRIOS de CORRECO

do Exame de Equivalncia Frequncia de INGLS 2fase Ensino Secundrio

GRUP. CHAVE CRITRIOS/COTAES

Em pontos, por alneaI .A Sero aceites quaisquer respostas desde que coerentes, bem

expressas e fundamentadas.16 pontos

desc.max.err.for. 4p.

B.

1. There once was a fear in the land: that machines wouldeventually replace people, that all the functions performedby men and women would be taken over by faceless,soulless mechanical devices.

2. people appear to prefer dealing with machines to dealingwith other people.

3. At first people were exasperated to reach automatic phonesystems they felt lost, anonymous.

certo: 8parc. certo:4

errado: 0

C. Sero aceites quaisquer respostas desde que estejam de acordocom a mensagem do texto, sejam lgicas e adequadas.

Resposta adequada, semerros ortogrficos e

estruturais: 10 pontos.Devero ser atribudasclassificaes intermdias arespostas parcialmente

adequadas consoante o graude incorreco.

D.

1. eventually2. replace3. devices4. dealing5. idle

certo: 2errado: 0

E.

1. the machines2. the reader(s)/ we/ I3. businessmen and businesswomen4. your number5. the machines

certo: 2errado: 0

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1. A lot of people are attracted by computers nowadays.2. John told Mary that his friend had received a prize for

his computer programme the week before.

3. In spite of improving our lives, computer technologyalso creates unemployment.

4. It is expected that the company will become profitablein the New Year.

5. If there hadnt been so many advances in technology,peoples life and work wouldnt have changed.

6. At no time has it been easy to find a good job.

Resoluo totalmentecorrecta:10 p.Em caso de respostasparcialmente incorrectas

devero ser descontadospontos consoante agravidade dos erros.

? Muito boa expresso escrita com nenhuns ou muito poucoserros ortogrficos e estruturais; boa ordenao de ideias;elevada capacidade de sntese.

de 37 a 50pontos

? Expresso escrita razovel com um nmero relativo deerros ortogrficos e estruturais; boa ordenao de ideias erazovel capacidade de sntese.

de 21 a 36pontosI I I

? (Muito) deficiente expresso escrita; ordenao de ideiasincoerente; mensagem pouco/nada perceptvel. de0 a 20pontos

Total: 200 pontos

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