Text interpretation, entitled “Work and mental health”, aimed at students in the 1st year of high school. The proposed questions are from multiple schools and contemplate the theme, as well as the linguistic resources used in the construction of the cited text.
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Rosicler Martins Rodrigues
The carpenter imagines a piece of furniture, makes the drawing with measurements, cuts wood, gives it the shape he imagined and then assembles, varnishes and polishes the piece of furniture he has built. He admires the work he accomplished with his creative work. He has a result that gives you satisfaction, even if it doesn't give you many millions in cash a month. The bus conductor, on the other hand, sits all day, doesn't talk to anyone, barely looks at people, just takes the money and gives change for 8 hours a day. In the end, he is depressed and tired of doing this repetitive, monotonous work. Not many millions in cash would be enough to pay for such thankless work.
A worker on the television assembly line puts a little piece in a device that is immediately transported by the assembly conveyor to another worker, who puts another piece, and so on against. And one day passes: a device, a piece, another device, another piece, month after month, year after year.
This is how millions of people all over the world work today: no taste, no joy, no pleasure. So it is no exaggeration to say that the modern world, with its technology, has taken from most human beings something they need and enjoy: creative work, which gives pleasure.
Those who do what they like while working feel little difference between work and leisure. In this case, work is good for health.
Whoever does what he hates is all the time looking at the clock and time does not pass; anxiously awaits the last workday of the week and gets irritated when the return to work approaches; he dreams of a vacation and, more than anything, he dreams of winning the lottery to do just what he likes. With so much suffering, working ends up being bad for your health.
The dream of most young people is to find a job that makes a lot of money, but that is not enough. Work must be pleasurable. Work done against one's will cause discouragement, self-doubt, boredom, sadness. This negative state of mind ends up creating illnesses and losing health is not worth any money in the world.
Life and health. São Paulo: Modern, 1993.
Question 1 - Read the following statements about the text:
I. Well-being at work is closely related to the pleasure that comes from doing it.
II. Jobs that require a higher level of education are those that provide greater job satisfaction.
III. Professional practice, based on creativity, generates pleasure and, consequently, is good for health.
Only what is stated in:
there
b) II
c) I and III
d) I, II and III.
Question 2 - According to the 2nd paragraph of the text, the work of a worker on the television assembly line can be characterized as:
a) pleasant
b) repetitive
c) creative
d) healthy
Question 3 - Watch:
And one day passes: a device, a piece, another device, another piece, month after month, year after year.
The function of the colon in this excerpt is:
a) indicate an enumeration.
b) insert a quote.
c) introduce an explanation.
d) include examples.
Question 4 – The item below in which the highlighted element has its semantic value correctly indicated in the square brackets is:
a) "... puts a piece in a device that immediately is transported…” [time]
b) “Who does what he likes While work feels little difference…” [alternation]
ç) "That is why, it is no exaggeration to say that the modern world, with its technology…” [conclusion]
d) “… is finding a job that earns a lot of money, but that's not enough." [addition]
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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