Text interpretation, news titled “NEW DROGA – Anvisa approves medicine against lung and skin cancer”, aimed at 8th grade students. The proposed questions focus on the different linguistic resources used in the construction of the referred text.
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Carefully read the following news:
Anvisa approves drug against lung and skin cancer
For the circulation of the medicine, the value of the medicine still needs to be defined, a process that takes approximately three months.
The National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) approved, on Monday (4), the drug Opdivo, from pharmaceutical Brisol, the first drug to treat two types of cancer: lung and melanoma (of skin).
Immunotherapeutics are medications that act by activating the immune system to fight the disease. Studies show that these drugs significantly increase survival and have few side effects compared to therapies.
Opdivo's ordeal is important because, among cancers, lung cancer is the one that kills the most in the world. According to estimates by the National Cancer Institute (Inca), there will be 28,220 cases of the disease in Brazil in 2016.
For the circulation of the drug, all that remains is to define the price, which is determined by Anvisa and should take about three months.
In the US, each application costs around US$ 15 thousand (R$ 55 thousand). In Brazil, this cost usually decreases by approximately 40%.
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Question 1 - The purpose of the text is:
a) persuade
b) alert
c) inform
d) disclose
Question 2 - Identify the purpose of using the colon in the following excerpt:
“… the first drug to treat two types of cancer: lung and melanoma (skin).”
Question 3 - Check the alternative in which the term underlined can be replaced by the term in square brackets, without any interference in the sense:
a) “… which is determined by Anvisa …”. [suggested]
b) "... these remedies increase expressively survival …”. [substantially]
c) “…has few side effects in comparison with the therapies.” [in line]
d) "Second estimates of the National Cancer Institute (Inca)…”. [Dice]
Question 4 – The same grammatical reason justifies the accent on the following pair of words:
a) three, application.
b) lung and healthy.
c) cancers and immune.
d) remedy and agency.
Question 5 - Transcribe an example of a comma from the news to:
a) Perform the inversion in the order of the terms:
b) Insert terms:
Question 6 – There are expressions that have the function of taking up ideas. In this way, it becomes possible to establish the articulation between the sentences and/or paragraphs that make up a text. Identify the referents of the highlighted words in:
The) "… the first medicine to treat two types of cancer…”:
b) "Studies show that these remedies increase significantly…”:
c) "... cases of the disease in Brazil in 2016.”:
d) "... this cost usually declines by approximately 40%.”:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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