Carol bought a new pair of pants on a big sale. The problem is that they don´t fit her because they should be smaller on her waist. She even tried to wash them in order to get them shrunk, but it didn´t work.

So, the service she needs is:

O texto a seguir aborda a segurança de usuários de redes sociais online. Após a leitura, responda ao que se pede.

The database included details from many of the most popular social networks

More than two million stolen passwords used for sites such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo and other web services have been posted online.

The details had probably been uploaded by a criminal gang, security experts said.

It is suspected the data was taken from computers infected with malicious software that logged key presses.

It is not known how old the details are - but the experts warned that even out-dated information posed a risk.

"We don't know how many of these details still work," said security researcher Graham Cluley. "But we know that 30-40% of people use the same passwords on different websites”.

"That's certainly something people shouldn't do."

Besides that, analysis of the passwords showed a familiar picture - the most popular password, found in the database over 15,000 times, was "123456".

Such predictable combinations made passwords completely ineffective, said Mr Cluley.

Disponível em: . Acesso em: 04 dez. 2013.

A fim de proteger suas contas na Internet, uma recomendação simples dada pelos especialistas consultados pela reportagem é que os usuários:

Read the following text about an innovative youngster whose invention can help low income people with hearing disability.

High school student invents a cheaper hearing aid

1 When Mukund Venkatakrishnan was 14, he visited India and was tasked with helping his grandfather get tested and fitted for a hearing aid. He saw what a costly and difficult process it was and resolved to find an alternative.

2 Venkatakrishnan said they spent about $400 or $500 on doctor's appointments and about $1,900 on the hearing aid itself.

3 He realized that hearing is a luxury many people in developing countries can't afford. "In India, the median household income is $616 a year," Venkatakrishnan said. "If someone in India saves all year without spending a penny, they still can't afford a hearing aid."

4 Venkatakrishnan's device is unique because it not only tests a person's hearing with a series of beeps, but it also programs itself to become a hearing aid. It only costs about $50 to make and can be used with even the cheapest set of headphones.

5 In its current form, the device is about two inches and looks like a computer processor. Venkatakrishnan is planning to bring it down to about one inch and encase the operating system. He envisions the device, which has a standard headphone port, fitting into someone's pocket.

6 Venkatakrishnan even created a way for users to calibrate the device themselves.

7 Each device has an audio file of the sound of hands rubbing together. To calibrate it, a person just has to rub their own hands together and match the volume of the audio file with the volume of their own hands.

8 If the user can't hear their own hands, someone else can calibrate it for them.

Disponível em: http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/09/technology/mukund-venkatakrishnan-cheaper-hearing-aid/index.html. Acesso em: 14 abr. 2016.

According to the text, Venkatakrishnan had the insight to create an alternative hearing aid when he realized:

The following text tells the story of June Davis, a woman with ups and downs in life.

June Davis - From lemons to lemonade

MANY of us would prefer to forget grief and get on with our lives, but for June Davis it’s about turning lemons into lemonade and inspiring others to deal with the curve balls that life may throw their way.

Born and raised in Jamaica, Davis, 67 — who holds a Bachelor’s in Health Care Management — was always inspired by books and the motivating words of people around her and was determined to achieve.

“I never stopped reading because it makes a full person. The characters in books taught me that life is full of risks. If one never takes risks they will never know how far they can go,” she told.

And so Davis, also a retired registered nurse, set out on a career path that saw her getting certified in areas such as labour/delivery, intensive care, paediatrics, neonatal nursing, medical/surgical nursing, outpatient care and private-duty nursing.

But amidst her success she has had some painful encounters, like losing her father at age two, her mother as soon as she migrated to the United States and her son — her only child — in 2006, when he was 18 years old.

Instead of shutting away her sorrows, she has decided to embrace her happiness in the form of poems which she has compiled in a book titled A Song in the Dark, available on Amazon.

“The book is about the grace of God that shields us for His purpose in life. No matter what happens to us we will be alright. There is so much encouragement that I can offer to others, cheering them on life’s journey of love, pain and suffering,” she said.

Disponível em: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/allwoman/June-Davis---From-lemons-to-lemonade_52814. Acesso em: 29 fev. 2016.

According to the previous text, reading plays a key role in Davis´ life because it:

The following text tells the story of June Davis, a woman with ups and downs in life.

June Davis - From lemons to lemonade

MANY of us would prefer to forget grief and get on with our lives, but for June Davis it’s about turning lemons into lemonade and inspiring others to deal with the curve balls that life may throw their way.

Born and raised in Jamaica, Davis, 67 — who holds a Bachelor’s in Health Care Management — was always inspired by books and the motivating words of people around her and was determined to achieve.

“I never stopped reading because it makes a full person. The characters in books taught me that life is full of risks. If one never takes risks they will never know how far they can go,” she told.

And so Davis, also a retired registered nurse, set out on a career path that saw her getting certified in areas such as labour/delivery, intensive care, paediatrics, neonatal nursing, medical/surgical nursing, outpatient care and private-duty nursing.

But amidst her success she has had some painful encounters, like losing her father at age two, her mother as soon as she migrated to the United States and her son — her only child — in 2006, when he was 18 years old.

Instead of shutting away her sorrows, she has decided to embrace her happiness in the form of poems which she has compiled in a book titled A Song in the Dark, available on Amazon.

“The book is about the grace of God that shields us for His purpose in life. No matter what happens to us we will be alright. There is so much encouragement that I can offer to others, cheering them on life’s journey of love, pain and suffering,” she said.

Disponível em: . Acesso em: 29 fev. 2016.

Based on the previous text, consider the following statements about June Davis.

(I) She wrote poems about the negative side of loss.

(II) She lost her parents as soon as she went abroad.

(III) She wrote a book that can be purchased online.

(IV) She has demonstrated courage to suceed in life.

It is only correct what is stated on:

Algumas pessoas têm o hábito de fazer listas das obrigações que têm a cumprir. Leia o texto a seguir e descubra o efeito que isso tem em nossas mentes:

The psychology of the to-do list

Your mind loves it when a plan comes together – the mere act of planning how to do something frees us from the burden of unfinished tasks.

Rather than remove things from our sight by doing them, […] the research suggest[s] we merely need to have a good plan of when and how to do them. The mere act of planning how to finish something satisfies the itch that keeps uncompleted tasks in our memory.

Disponível em: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130129-the-psychology-of-the-to-do-list. Acesso em: 21 maio 2018.

De acordo com o texto, pode-se afirmar que:

Read the following sentence:

“That restaurant across the street is the place _____ they make the best steak in town.”

The relative pronoun that completes the sentence is:

Read the situation below:

Sarah: “You had an appointment to see your dentist, ______?”

Ben: “Yes. She told me my gums are swollen.”

The tag question that completes the sentence is:

Leia a seguir uma reportagem da revista Newsweek sobre um dos mais celebrados eventos da história: os cinquenta anos da conquista do Everest pela dupla de alpinistas Edmund Hillary, neozelândes, e Tenzig Norgay, nepalês, em maio de 1953. Com base nesse texto, responda à questão proposta.

The Day Hillary and Norgay Climbed Everest

By Rob Verger

1 On 29 May 1953, two men became the first people to stand on top of the tallest point in the world, Mount Everest. After setting off from camp at 6:30 in the morning, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay managed to scale the 40-foot rocky precipice now called the Hillary Step, and make it to the highest point on Earth. Famously, Hillary didn’t take a selfie, but trained his camera on Norgay, a member of the Sherpa ethnic group, instead.

2 “Tenzing and I shook hands and he so far forgot himself as to embrace me. It was quite a moment! We took off our O2 and for ten minutes I photographed [Tenzing] holding flags, the various angles of Everest and the general view,” he recalled in his diary, adding: “We ate a Kendal Mint Cake* and then put back on our O2. I was a little worried by the time factor so after 15 min on top we turned back at 11.45 a.m.”

3 Newsweek didn’t seem to spill too much ink on the Everest expedition, which was led by Colonel John Hunt. Before Hillary and Norgay made it to the top, a brief story described the equipment the mountaineers would be using, which included boots with “thick soles of microcellular rubber” and a “special aluminum shield that will conserve the criticalheat of cookstoves.” The short article ended on a sensational note, reporting that “Himalayan natives offered terrible predictions about what might happen if the climbers ran across any of the ‘abominable snowmen’ which are clearly known by the natives to frequent the towering snow fields and to devour yaks and human beings.” (Hillary and Norgay were not eaten.)

4 After they made it to the top, Newsweek reported the success as part of its coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, saying that she’d been notified of the accomplishment; it “seemed an omen of the British glories to be unfolded in the second Elizabethan Age. A flash from remote Nepal told how a British expedition had succeeding in conquering the highest mountain in the world, the 29,002-foot summit of Mount Everest, where failure of the will is a more terrible risk than cold, ice, wind, and lack of oxygen.”

5 We now know the summit to be actually 29,035 feet high, and that claim, about “failure of the will” being more dangerous than the mountain’s elements, doesn’t feel quite right. It’s impossible to think about Everest today without taking into account the dangerous Khumbu Icefall. It’s a section of the mountain that, as one climber told me, “induces the most absolute terror in people.… There’s the constant threat of something falling on your head or collapsing beneath your feet.”

6 This highlights the risks that the Nepali expedition workers, who are usually referred to as Sherpas even though not all of them are from the Sherpa ethnic group, face. “The Sherpas are being asked to go through the icefall many more times than a Western guide or client would go through, and consequently they’re more likely to get hit and caught in accidents”, Freddie Wilkinson, a climber and journalist, told me.

7 In 1999, Hillary revealed that he’d actually made it to the top of the mountain first, before Norgay. But for a long time that information wasn’t known, even if it seems a very silly distinction to make. Newsweek touched on that question in a July 1953 article, writing that John Hunt “diplomatically settled the controversy as to which one had first scaled the peak. ‘They did it together,’ he said. ‘It is not a matter of who is first, second, or last on the rope.’”

*Kendal Mint Cake – confeito à base de hortelã e chocolate e que é popular entre montanhistas por ser de fácil conservação e fonte de calorias. 

Disponível em: . Acesso em: 30 jun. 2014.

Releia a seguinte passagem do 6º parágrafo, observando a expressão em negrito, “even though”, que ligou duas partes da sentença: This highlights the risks that the Nepali expedition workers, who are usually referred to as Sherpas even though not all of them are from the Sherpa ethnic group, face.

No contexto em que foi empregada, essa expressão:

Na atualidade, os meios de comunicação de que dispomos são vários e nos conectam uns aos outros com facilidade. No entanto, nunca nos sentimos tão sozinhos. A esse respeito, leia o texto a seguir:

Is modern life making us lonely?

It can be hard to admit to feelings of loneliness, but one in 10 Britons is lonely. It's not just an issue for the elderly - loneliness is rising among the young. [...] Loneliness not only makes us unhappy, but it is bad for us. It can lead to a lack of confidence and mental health problems like depression, stress and anxiety.

Texto adaptado. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 05 set. 2013.

Com base no texto anterior, avalie as asserções a seguir e a relação proposta entre elas:

I. It is estimated that loneliness affects 10% of the British population

because

II. it can be associated with mental conditions such as depression, stress and anxiety.

Acerca dessas duas asserções, assinale a opção correta: