Simulado de véspera Senado

Olá pessoal,

O texto do simulado  é de um artigo do Economist que tem tudo a ver com leis, Congresso e Senado. Aproveitem:

The only promising aspect of the new code, thinks Roberto Smeraldi of Amazônia Brasileira, a green NGO, is that it offers benefits such as subsidised loans to landowners who have always stuck by the rules, or who are reforesting faster than the law demands. But he laments the missed opportunity for a grand bargain to align opposed interests. A cap-and-trade system like those used to limit industrial pollution in rivers could have helped farmers short of set-aside to comply with the law by paying neighbours with more than the legal minimum to maintain it. That would both have spared farmers from costly replanting and cut future deforestation by making standing forests financially valuable.

Ms Rousseff promises to veto any amnesty for illegal deforesters. But the figleaf of the “environmental recovery programme” may give her scope to temporise, and with a heavy legislative schedule she may be tempted to do so. If she does, the Amazon’s best hope will lie with the enlightened farmers and indigenous tribes who care for their land better than the state is willing to.

For Mr Ferrarin, the way to halt deforestation is to use existing farmland better. Almost half his farm of 13,350 hectares (33,000 acres) is set aside as forest; the rest supports 3,000 cattle as well as soya and several other crops, farmed in rotation. Innovative no-till methods cut carbon emissions, fertiliser use and labour. The Ferrarins run workshops to teach other farmers about such “integrated farming” techniques. Mr Ferrarin’s daughter, Valkiria, runs a cattle–breeding programme, with an on-site IVF clinic where embryos from prize animals are implanted in surrogates. A productive farm can support an extended family for several generations, he says.

Cassio Carvalho do Val’s father settled in Redenção in Pará in 1959. It was then virgin rainforest: the last 150km of the journey was by donkey, carrying dried meat, rice and beans. Nine-tenths of the 300,000 hectares he was granted has since been sold, but the farm is still vast (the average farm in the United States comprises around 160 hectares), and unproductive, with just one cow per hectare of pasture. But his son has started to fatten his cows with grain and plans to try integrated farming. “It’s the dream of every crop farmer to be a rancher,” he says with a laugh. “It’s so much easier.” But he thinks he needs to keep up with the times.

The Suruí set an example
Some of Brazil’s indigenous peoples are redoubling their efforts to protect the standing forest. The 1,300 Suruí have moved their 25 villages to the borders of their territory to get early warning of incursions. With help from Kanindé and others, since 2005 they have started to reforest where intruders have cleared. To the inexperienced eye, the new trees already look ancient (though to the Suruí the sparser cover is still obvious). Next year the tribe will host other indigenous peoples who want to repair deforestation on their own lands. They hope to start teaching non-indigenous folk, too.

The Suruí are the first Brazilian tribal people to set up a REDD project, an international aid scheme to prevent deforestation. Up to 10% of the income generated will go to local non-Indians, to show them that standing forest can create jobs and income. “We are not saying, don’t use the forest,” explains the chief, Almir Narayamoga Suruí. “We are saying you should think about the medium and long term when you decide how to use it.” That will be easier if the politicians approve a Forest Code that looks to the future, not the past—and then provide the means to enforce it.

Fonte: http://www.economist.com/node/21541033

21. In the first paragraph the word loans means:

(A) The land where the Indians live
(B) An item that sells extremely well
(C) The temporary provision of money
(D) An offensive word
(E) A scolding

22. In the second paragraph, the word amnesty can be replaced by
(A) imprisonment
(B) pardon
(C) bondage
(D) thraldom
(E) restraint

23. The term cattle-breeding , in paragraph 3 means

(A) reproduction of cows
(B) production of plants
(C) miscegenation of ostriches
(D) procreation of dogs
(E) raising of locusts

24. In paragraph 5, the adverb already implies

(A) choice
(B) time.
(C) denial.
(B) contrast.
(C) addition.

Bem, hoje eu já vou postar o gabarito lá abaixo do meu nome. Mas resistam à tentação de olhar antes de responder…;) Gostaria de agradecer aos alunos que me ajudaram a tornar possível esta maratona de simulados essa semana: quer por sugestões, quer por doces palavras de agradecimento e encorajamento.

E que amanhã vocês tenham um lindo dia!

Ena Gláucia.
enagláucia@estrategiaconcursos.com.br            enaglaucia@euvoupassar.com.br         enaglaucia@gmail.com

Gabarito: 21 –C; 22-B; 23- A; 24- B