Simulado Câmara dos Deputados | Analista Legislativo - Arquivista | 2019 pre-edital | Questão 280

Língua Inglesa / Itens gramaticais relevantes para a compreensão do conteúdo


The key problems of society today are rarely
categorized by governments as problems of science and
technology. They are assumed to be socioeconomic and
political problems, such as avoiding war, building the
economy, curbing terrorism, fighting poverty and disease, or
preserving a healthful environment. We can predict, however,
that it will become clear that all social-economic-political
issues intersect and that issues of technological advance are
right in the middle of every intersection, sometimes causing the
problems, more often offering possibilities for their solutions,
and frequently providing opportunities for the world society to
rise to new, higher levels of productivity, satisfaction, and
happiness.
Of course, trying to predict the future with perfection
is not defensible. But if we are active in some field, we are
bound to be aware of important trends in it, and we should take
our anticipations of significant future events seriously. We
should force ourselves to list potential developments regularly,
estimating for each the probability of its occurrence and the
importance of the event should it occur. Then, for those
happenings we consider both highly probable and significant,
we should ask ourselves what we can do early to enhance the
positive and suppress the negative consequences.
At present we see that the impact of advancing
technology on the social-economic-political framework of the
entire globe is growing rapidly, yet its implications are far
from being adequately explored. Moreover, the effects of
technological change are underestimated as short-range;
crisis-dominated problems monopolize the attention of most of
the world’s leaders. A severe mismatch is developing between
accelerating technological advance and lagging social progress.31 Internet: [www.nap.edu] (adapted).

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the expression “At present” (L.24) is an adverb of place.

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Fonte: ANALISTA ADMINISTRATIVO / ANATEL / 2012 / CESPE