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TEST 2
A.
Before reading the text below answer the following question in about 50 words. What kind of consumer are you? Refer to your shopping habits and lifestyle in general. WHY OVERCOME OVERCOME CONSUMERI CONSUMERISM SM
PART 1
Imagine yourself living in this world: You live live in a safe safe pleasant pleasant and and unpollute unpolluted d community community where where you you actually actually know know your neighb neighbors ors and interact with them, be it a small town, a suburb or a city neighborhood. You can easily walk, bicycle or take effective mass transit to your nearby job, giving you time to think or read as you get there. The work that you do improves our future, future, benefits benefits your community community and means something something to you and those with whom you interact. You look forward to Monday. Your work schedule leaves you sufficient time to enjoy your friends, family and outside interests. Money isn’t a controlling influence in your life because your needs are easily met. Your possessions are few, yet of high quality, thus allowing your home to be smaller and less expensive to own or rent. Your interests, the things that you really like to do with your mind and your hands, all the possibilities of your life, are there to be explored because you have the time. PART 2
There are growing forces making this way of life almos almostt impossible impossible to attai attain n or maintain, maintain, even for the wealthy. If you are among the lucky few who still have the kind of life outlined above, these same forces threaten you. Whether Whet her you live in an isola isolated ted small town or a big city and prefe preferr your anonymity anonymity as well as the multiplicity of things available to you, these same forces will erode your security and ability to make choices for yourself. These forces are manifested as consumerism. At first a growin growingg numb number er of pleasa pleasant nt conve convenience niencess for house housewives wives in the 1950s, then a car for everyone with the gradual erosion of transport, then the ubiquitousness of things and chemical products technologically unimaginable a few decades earlier, then growing availability of consumer credit and debt, the over-dependence on labor-saving devices, total dependence on the car and absolute necessity of full time work, the two income household to pay for more and more. PART 3
We shouldn’t shouldn’t allow this or anything like this to happen. Things may be start starting ing to turn around in our favor. But it takes work and time and attention to details and a willingness to try new things for our own and our children’s benefit. There are serious changes ahead. We can control some of these for our benefit or we can just react to them after they have happened.
B.
1.
The text is divided into three parts. Give a title to each of them and support your choice of titles by quoting from the text.
2.
Refer to PART 1. TR TRUE UE or FALS ALSE? E? Support your answer by quoting from the text. a.
In an ideal world you work to earn a lot of money and afford lots of luxuries.
You don’t need to spend hours in a car because you can use public transport or walk to work.
b.
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3.
4.
c.
The work you do gives you self-satisfaction because it is useful to the community.
d.
Your home is sophisticated and you are constantly modernizing it by acquiring new gadgets.
e.
As you save money, you don’t need to work so much.You relax much more.
Refer to PART 2. Complete the sentences using your own words. a.
Nowadays ideal societies are threatened by
b.
Consumerism began in the 50s when
c.
The total dependence on the car and full time work
Answer the following questions in no more than 40 words. a. What b.
factors have transformed a simple society into a consumer on? Name some.
In your opinion who gains the most from this transformation?
C. Fill in the gaps in the paragraph below with suitable words. Research has shown that 1. between the ages of two and five cannot differentiate between regular TV 2. and commercials. Young children are especially vulnerable to 3. advertising and don’t begin to understand that advertisements are not always 4. until they’re eight. Parents of young children have an 5. role to play in protecting their kids from 6. marketing, and in educating them about advertising from an early age.
D. Rephrase the following sentences beginning with the words given. a.
Children can seldom differentiate TV programmes from commercials. Seldom
b.
I never bought expensive dolls when I was a child. Never
c.
I won’t give you a PlayStation under any circumstances. Under no circumstances
E. Write a composition about the topic below in no more than 150 words. Don’t forget to organize it, starting with an introduction and ending with a conclusion. From the time I was a child, I have been told that good looks are not important, that the important thing is inner beauty. But as I grow older, I am beginning to feel good looks are a very important factor for success. Christine (16)
COTAÇÕES A
15
B1
3x8
24
B2
5x5
25
B3
3x6
18
B4
2 x 10
20
C1
6x4
24
C2
3x8
24
D
1 x 50
50
Total
200
