Text interpretation, aimed at 2nd year high school students, requires the activation of diverse reading skills. The various questions are about the text Owork and the environment, by Marcelo Nunes Mestriner.
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When we think about work, the idea of our effort to do it or the time we are going to spend doing this activity comes to mind. Which reveals a somewhat selfish view, as we always turn to ourselves; if it involves money or bills, then yes the myself speak louder. Before we continue this "chat", let's try to define what it is work.
Work can be understood as the result of an action on the environment, which modifies it in such a way as to bring some kind of benefit to those who carry out this action.
See that in this conceptualization the terms action, means, modification and benefit appear. Human concerns: effort, time and appreciation are not part of this concept, not because they are not important, but because the meaning of the word is broader and more comprehensive and is not aimed only at our "belly button". The current human vision of what work is has contributed to an individual posture, in which what matters is the self-benefit, with changes imposed on the environment being ignored.
In a job, labor, raw material, tools, product and waste are always involved. This work can be something very complex, like the production of a car on an assembly line or even the execution of an activity mathematics proposal: in this case, the workforce is the student, the raw material is their knowledge, the tools are pencils, erasers, paper, etc., the product is the work itself and the residues are the scraps of rubber, the wooden strips of sharpened pencils, the nails gnawed, etc.
See that we are concerned, before doing the work, basically, with the long hours "lost" to do it and with the mental and physical effort to do it. After execution, we are simply concerned with the delivery and valuation (grade given to the product of our effort).
Marcelo Nunes Mestriner. work and consumption. São Paulo: Icon, 2000, p.27-8.
Question 1 - In the construction of the text, the author does not:
a) criticizes the human view of work.
b) compares the activities performed by a professional and the activities performed by a student.
c) conceptualizes “work” in a comprehensive way.
d) presents suggestions for a change in posture at work.
Question 2 - Direct dialogue with readers is recorded in the following passage:
a) "Work can be understood as the result of an action on the environment [...]"
b) "The current human vision of what work is has contributed to an individual attitude […]"
c) "In a job, they are always involved: labor, raw material [...]"
d) "See that we are concerned, before carrying out the work, basically with the long […]"
Question 3 - “[…] is not only aimed at our “belly button”. The term underlined was placed in quotation marks because:
a) consists of a metaphor.
b) is a quote by someone else.
c) signals a grammatically incorrect form.
d) has a double meaning.
Question 4 – "[…] being ignored the modifications […]”. This word could be replaced by:
a) mistaken
b) belittled
c) ephemeral
d) privileged
Question 5 - In the segment "This job can be something very complex like the production of an automobile on an assembly line […]”, the highlighted connector introduces a:
a) comparison
b) observation
c) illustration
d) conclusion
Question 6 – In all alternatives, the underlined pronoun returns to "work", except in:
a) “[…] soon the idea of our effort to carry outit […]”
b) “[…] that O modifies in order to bring some kind of benefit […]"
hundred what what matters is the benefit itself […]"
d) “[…] with the long hours “lost” to executeit […]”
Question 7 – In the excerpt “[…] not because they are not important, but because the meaning of the word is broader and more encompassing and does not aim only at our “navel”., the term underlined establishes the idea of:
a) addition
b) opposition
c) cause
d) explanation
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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