Questões de Concurso

Before students read the section entitled "AI lowers barriers to entry," an English teacher asks them to predict which relationships between AI and entrepreneurship may appear. After reading, students must identify textual evidence that confirms, modifies, or rejects their initial hypotheses.

Which reading procedure is primarily developed by this activity? 

The article repeatedly condenses information through participial constructions, allowing the writer to specify characteristics without creating a complete finite clause. One example occurs in the discussion of business applications.

Consider the expression.

"business applications filed by Gen Zers"

The highlighted sequence is appropriately analyzed as:

Conteúdo:

The article combines Herbert's personal experience with broader evidence about employment, artificial intelligence, income, and entrepreneurship. Based exclusively on information presented in the text, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__)Herbert's early interest in healthcare communication was influenced by experiences she had as a patient.
(__)The article presents artificial intelligence as the sole explanation for the recent rise in entrepreneurship among Gen Z.
(__)Difficulty obtaining traditional employment is mentioned as one factor that may influence some young people's decisions to create businesses.
(__)The entrepreneurial trend discussed in the article includes people outside prestigious university environments.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.

The article employs several expressions from economic and business discourse whose meanings depend on their contextual use. The candidate should relate each expression to the concept it conveys within the article.
Match the expressions in Column I with their meanings in Column II.

COLUMN I
1.Fuel a surge.
2.Barriers to entry.
3.Economic backdrop.
4.Job dislocation.

COLUMN II
(__)Conditions or obstacles that make beginning participation in a market or activity more difficult.
(__)The broader economic circumstances surrounding a particular development. 
(__)Contribute to or intensify a rapid increase in something.
(__)Disruption or displacement affecting jobs, functions, or patterns of employment.

Select the alternative that presents the CORRECT association, from top to bottom.

The opening section explains that Herbert created Sync Labs during an early stage of her academic career. The sentence specifies the temporal relationship between launching the company and her status at the University of Pennsylvania.

Consider the excerpt.

"The experience informed her decision years later to launch Sync Labs [...] while she was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania."

What function does the clause introduced by "while" perform?