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Half a century after hunting was banned, saltwater crocodiles have returned to rivers where nobody alive remembers seeing one. Wildlife officers describe the recovery as a textbook success and, in the same breath, as their most difficult daily problem. The ani…
A fala de um agente, "Coexistence, one officer says, is not a feeling. It is a set of habits people have to relearn", indica que
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Birds in noisy cities do not simply sing louder. Recordings gathered across eleven European cities show that several species have shifted the pitch of their songs upward, above the low rumble of traffic, and that some now sing earlier, before the morning rush …
Ao afirmar que "Adaptation, in other words, is not the same as thriving", o texto pretende
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The perfect lawn is one of the strangest inheritances of suburban life. It demands water in August, chemicals in spring and a machine that wakes the whole street on Sunday morning, and it feeds almost nothing. Campaigns encouraging people to mow less have ther…
O texto dirige sua crítica a certas campanhas ambientais por elas
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The case for mining the deep ocean floor rests on a straightforward claim: the metals required for batteries must come from somewhere, and taking them from four kilometres down disturbs no farms and displaces no communities. It is a persuasive argument until o…
Nesse editorial, a defesa de uma moratória apoia-se principalmente no argumento de que
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Every February, lorries arrive at the northern end of the bay and unload sand dredged from four kilometres offshore. The operation costs the municipality a substantial sum and lasts, on average, two winters. Hotel owners regard it as essential; without a beach…
De acordo com a reportagem, a reposição anual de areia na baía continua sendo feita porque
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There is a particular sadness in a computer that still works but can no longer be used. The processor is adequate, the screen is bright, the keyboard has years left in it, and yet the machine is declared obsolete because an operating system will not install an…
A expressão "We have grown used to describing this as progress, which is generous" revela que o autor
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Tiger numbers in parts of South Asia have risen for the first time in decades, and the figure is usually presented as an unambiguous success. In the villages bordering the reserves, the arithmetic looks different. More tigers means more livestock killed, more …
O texto sugere que a recuperação duradoura das populações de tigres depende principalmente de
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Interviewer: Recruitment campaigns keep describing teaching as a vocation. Does that help? Marta Alves: It helps the campaign. Vocation is a lovely word that costs nothing. The teachers leaving my school are not short of vocation; they are short of time, suppo…
Na entrevista, Marta Alves sustenta que a saída de professores de sua escola se explica sobretudo por
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Ask most teachers why their pupils sit in rows facing the front, and the honest answer is that the room came that way. Furniture is inherited, and inherited furniture carries an argument. Rows assume that knowledge travels in one direction, from a person stand…
A ressalva feita em "I am not claiming that clusters teach algebra by themselves" cumpre, no texto, a função de
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Last October, three schools in the eastern district sent pupils home before lunch. The reason was not illness or a strike but temperature: classrooms built in the nineteen-sixties, with wide south-facing windows and no shading, reached thirty-four degrees by m…
Segundo a reportagem, o principal ponto de discordância entre os envolvidos diz respeito a
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I read your article about restaurants that ask customers to lock their phones in a box at the door, and I confess I expected to disagree with it. I run a small place with eleven tables, and I have watched, for years, families sit in complete silence while four…
No contexto da carta, a afirmação "That is a design problem, not a moral one" indica que o autor
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Four years after offices half-emptied, the kitchen table has quietly become a piece of industrial equipment. Employers who once measured chair height and screen distance now send an email reminding staff to take breaks, and consider the matter settled. It is n…
Esse editorial tem por objetivo principal
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Few subjects turn neighbours against each other faster than the question of whether cats should be allowed outdoors. The ecological case is not really in dispute. Cats hunt efficiently, they hunt even when well fed, and in places where local birds evolved with…
Ao afirmar que "The argument would advance considerably if it stopped being framed as a trial", o autor defende que o debate sobre gatos ao ar livre
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The exhibition Small Bodies, now at the city museum, does something braver than nostalgia. It lines up three hundred dolls from the past century and lets the visitor notice what changes and what does not. The waists narrow, then widen slightly, then narrow aga…
A avaliação que o resenhista faz da exposição pode ser descrita como
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No human activity has generated more confident advice than getting a small child to sleep. Bookshops carry shelves of it, each volume promising a method, and each method contradicting the one beside it. Parents are told to respond immediately, or to wait preci…
Nesse ensaio, a crítica do autor aos manuais sobre o sono infantil recai principalmente sobre
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When the city council voted last spring to end horse-drawn carriage rides in the old quarter, the decision was reported as a straightforward victory for animal welfare. For the drivers, it was something more complicated. Most had inherited the licence from a p…
De acordo com a reportagem, a diretora do centro rural evita comemorar a chegada dos cavalos porque
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Every few years someone announces that television is dying. The announcement is always premature. What has died is a particular ritual: the family gathered at eight o'clock because the schedule said so. Everything else survived, and then multiplied. We now wat…
A ironia contida no trecho "and we call it something else so that we can feel modern" sugere que, para o autor,
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Walk into any supermarket and you will find apples that look almost identical: glossy, deep red and perfectly round. That uniformity is not an accident. Over the past century, growers have narrowed their attention to a handful of varieties that travel well, re…
Nesse texto, o autor argumenta que a aparência uniforme das maçãs vendidas nos supermercados
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Long before they say a word, babies are studying language. Experiments with babies who are only a few months old show that they can distinguish sounds from any language in the world. Around the first birthday, this ability narrows: the brain keeps the sounds i…
De acordo com o texto, o que ocorre por volta do primeiro ano de vida é que
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Flying is responsible for a small percentage of global emissions, and this figure is often used to end the discussion. The number, however, hides two facts. First, a very small part of the world population takes most of the flights, so the emissions per passen…
Depreende-se do texto que a taxação de passageiros frequentes se justifica porque
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I visited the new city zoo expecting the sad cages of my childhood, and I was wrong. Most enclosures are wide, with real vegetation, and information panels explain where each species comes from and why it is threatened. The staff are clearly well trained. My c…
De acordo com a resenha, a avaliação do autor sobre o zoológico é
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Reporter: You removed forty parking spaces from Aurora Street. Why? Architect: Because the street belonged to cars, not to people. We widened the pavement, planted trees and added benches. Reporter: Shopkeepers protested. Architect: They did, and I understand …
No contexto da entrevista, a frase "People who walk stop and buy; people who drive pass by" indica que
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In northern Australia, crocodiles were almost extinct in the 1970s. Hunting was then banned, and the population recovered so well that the animals are now common in rivers close to towns. This success created an unusual problem. Authorities cannot remove every…
No trecho "so they invested in education instead", o pronome "they" refere-se
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Dear Editor, Last week I found a small bird dead on the pavement below my office. It was not the first. The building where I work is covered in glass, and birds cannot see it; they simply fly into the reflection of the sky. A colleague told me that millions of…
A pergunta final da carta, "why are we still waiting?", cumpre a função de
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