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Leonardo Da Vinci		Alberto Santos Dumont
Birds can fly...		The fist plane with an engine
Leonardo was an incredible		Alberto santos Dumont was a
Italian artist and inventor. He		famous pilot, and he lived in
lived in Florence in the 15th		Brazil and France. He understood
century. He was an artist and		that an engine was necessary.
a scientist, and he designed lots		He experimented with different
of machines.		ideas. He built the first flying
One of the machines was a flying		machine with an engine...and
machine. Leonardo studied birds,		it flew in 1898! In 1908, the
and he saw how they flew. His		American Wright brothers flew in
machine had big wings, and		a plane with an engine.
these wings moved like a bird.		This was the beginning of the
But the machine was very		Space Age!
heavy and it didn't have an
engine. It couldn't fly.

Choose one of the three people and read the facts about them:
	Mahatma Gandhi	Martin Luther King	Nelson Mandela
Birth in	1869	1929	1918
Country	India	The USA (Atlanta)	South Africa
University	London	Boston	Fort Hare
Job	Lawyer	Preacher	Lawyer
Problems	Inequality and politics	Inequality and politics for blacks	Inequality for black Africans
Government	British	US	South African
(Source: Great!, level 3, Ed. Macmillan, pg36, 40 - Susan Holden & Renata Cardoso)

THE SIZE OF YOUR DREAMS / Texto II
1. Dreams provide an interesting yardstick,	So, it's better to have several dreams, to live
but one detail makes all the difference: the	life to the max, to be wrong, to be right, and to
dreamer is the one who sets the unit of measure-	start over again. After all, everything that is
ment. What may seem small to another person,	stablished in life was first built in the soul.
5. could be immensely valuable to you. And what's	Whether your dreams are big are small, may they 25
small to you could be the all-consuming dream of	give you a chance to invent your future. When in
someone else.	doubt, always remember:
The dimensions are inside each person, the	* The dream is yours, and it's inside you.
evaluation is totally individual and personal,	* Dream with your eyes open.
10.whether others praise or criticize.	* Have many dreams, not just one, and work 30
It would be terrible to be a slave to one's	for balance.
dreams, always obligated to imagine monumen-	* Express your dream. Secrecy is no longer
tal fears that change the nation or leave a mark	the heart of a business.
on history. But the truth is that even a prelimi-	* Encourage others to dream. Don´t be a
15.nary and small effort is worthwhile. The impor-	wet blanket for their dreams. 35
tant thing is to be conscious of what one is doing	* No one is born lucky. Luck requires belief.
and to be satisfied. To be bound to the approval of	* Transform your dreams into projects.
others is to waste time attempting to live out the	* Transform your projects into action.
dreams of others. The true measure of success is	* You're as big as your dreams.
20.within each of us.	(Revista Ícaro, dez. 2004. Vol. 244, p.26)
(Prova de acompanhamento I / 2006 / PEIES / UFSM / RS)

Leia o texto acima para responder as questões de 23 a 28:
Questão 23:
O texto é melhor enquadrado, quer pela forma quer pelo conteúdo, como
a) texto publicitário.	b) reportagem jornalística
c) manual de instrução	d) texto de divulgação científica
e) texto de auto-ajuda

Questão 24:
O texto indica que cabe ao sonhador determinar a medida do seu sonho. Essa idéia é reforçada
nos trechos a seguir, EXCETO:
a) The dreamer is the one who sets the unit of measurement. (l. 2-4)
b) What may seem small to another person, could be immensely valuable to you.(l. 4-5)
c) The dimensions are inside each person, the evaluation is totally individual and personal (l.8-9)
d) To be bound to the approval of others is to waste time. (l. 17-18)
e) The dream is yours, and it's inside you. (l. 28)

Questão 25:
Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente as lacunas do período a seguir:
You're as big as your dreams, but ....................just come true if ...............work for.................
a) you - it - they	b) it - you - it
c) they - you - them	d) you - they - they
e) it - they - it

Questão 26:
Os conselhos ou lembretes a seguir são verdadeiros de acordo com o texto, EXCETO:
a) o sonho é seu.	b) expresse seus sonhos.
c) trabalhe para realizar seus sonhos.	d) jamais sonhe de olhos abertos.
e) não desestimule o sonho dos outros.

Questão 27:
A expressão "the all - consuming dream" (l. 6) quer dizer
a) o sonho de consumir tudo.	b) o sonho de todo consumidor.
c) o consumidor de todo sonho.	d) o sonho mais importante.
e) o sonho consumindo tudo.

Questão 28:
O segmento "to live out the dream of others" (l. 18 - 19) quer dizer
a) valorizar o sonho dos outros.	b) viver o sonho dos outros
c) contrariar o sonho dos outros	d) conviver com o sonho dos outros
e) subestimar o sonho dos outros


My life is my message!	I have a dream...	We are the rainbow colored nation!