Escola Secundria Padre Benjamim Salgado Exame de Equivalncia Frequncia de INGLS Ensino Secundrio

Ano lectivo 2003/2004 PROVA ESCRITA 2 Fase Durao da prova: 90 minutos

permitido o uso de dicionrios unilingues e bilingues

I A. Before reading the text below, answer the following question in no more than 40 words. In what ways has technology influenced your life and your lifestyle? (16p.)

Man s New Best Friends Are Machines

There once was a fear in the land: that machines would eventually replace people, that all the functions performed by hard-working men and women would be taken over by faceless, soulless mechanical devices. Well, it s happened not completely, but it s happened. The reason we don t discuss it at all that often is that instead of hating what has taken place, Americans seem to like it. The fear, it appears, was unfounded. The machines took over and they were embraced like new lovers. You see it everyday. On airplanes and on pay phones, businessmen and businesswomen conduct their on-the-road tasks without having to speak to a single human being. What s instructive about this is not simply that it s happening but that, more and 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 the line tend to waste time with idle chatter, tend to ask questions and misunderstand what is said and require names and numbers to be repeated. It s so much more precise, doing business with a machine. This has evolved over the last 15 or 20 years. At first people were exasperated to reach automatic phone systems they felt lost, anonymous. Now the machines are beginning to seem like friends, eager-to-please and efficient. People who were angry when the machines first began to dominate our world have been soothed not only into submission, but into approval. The cash machines that seemed so strange and forbidding are now accepted as vastly preferable to bank tellers who 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 your frequent-flier program are much speedier than human airline employees; when you make a credit-card phone call it is so much quicker to just punch your number in instead of telling it to an operator, the old way. Machines and the coded data within them are never late to work; machines and their data never have grumpy days. Machines, with their digital voices, seem always glad to serve you. Machines are accurate and intelligent and to the point. When you deal with a machine, as opposed to dealing with a human, you can be sure the machine does not wish it was somewhere else, doing something else. A frightening thought? That all of this can be true? It s not the machines that are frightening. It s that we have learned to be happily married to them.
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B. Find evidence of the following by quoting from the text the sentences with the equivalent 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 = 24 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 It s that we have learned to be happily married to them ? Justify your answer. (3 x 10 = 30 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 (1st paragraph) 2. substitute (1st paragraph) 3. appliances (1st paragraph) 4. handling (4th paragraph) 5. futile (4th paragraph) (5 x 2 = 10 p.)

E. Say who/ what the words below refer to. (These words are underlined in the text.) 1. they (line 7) 2. you (line 8) 3. their (line 9) 4. it (line 28) 5. them (line 29) (5 x2 = 10 p.)

II Rewrite these sentences beginning them as indicated and keeping their meaning 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. People s life and work have changed because there have been so many advances in technology. If there 6. It has at no time been easy to find a good job. At no time... (6 x 10 = 60 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 20th century? OR: 2. Becoming a member of the European Community has brought the Portuguese varied advantages. Comment. OR: 3. Write a psychological, as well as, a physical profile of the main character of one of the works of the extensive reading programme. (50 p.) TOTAL: 200p.

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