Simulado Agência de Desenvolvimento do Distrito Federal - TERRACAP | Analista de Sistemas | 2019 pre-edital | Questão 26

Língua Inglesa / Itens gramaticais relevantes para compreensão dos conteúdos semânticos


Tequila sunset On September 16th, 2012, at the height of the summer1
melt, the Arctic Ocean’s ice sheet had shrunk to an area of
3.41m square kilometres, half what it was in 1979. And its
volume had shrunk faster still, to a quarter of what it was in4
1979, as the sheet is getting thinner as well as smaller. One
culprit is global warming, which is fiercer at the poles than
elsewhere. The world’s average temperature in 2012 was nearly7
0.5 °C above the average for 1951-80. In the Arctic, it was up
almost 2 °C.
This sudden warming is like the peeling back of a lid10
to reveal a new ocean underneath. That prospect is spreading
alarm (among greens) and excitement (at the natural resources
and other economic opportunities that could be unveiled).13
Though most of the excitement has been about oil and gas, and
the opening of sea routes between the Atlantic and the Pacific,
some people hope for a fishing bonanza, too, for warmth and16
light bring ecological renewal to what is now an icy desert. But
they may be disappointed.
At the moment, the waters around the Arctic account19
for a fifth of the world’s catch. There are few fish, however,
under the ice itself. A fishing bonanza would require big
ecological change. A conference organised at the University of22
Tromso, in January, looked at how warming will change the
ecology. The consensus was that it won’t — not because the
Arctic will change too little, but because it will change too25
much. Internet: <www.economist.com> (adapted).

The word "for", in "for warmth and light bring ecological renewal
to what is now an icy desert" (R.16-17), is used to introduce

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Fonte: ANALISTA DE LICITAçãO / MME / 2013 / CESPE_ME