(UNIFESP 2020) In the excerpt from the second paragraph “limiting such services might yield health benefits”

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America’s social-media addiction is getting worse

(Sources: Pew Research Centre; e Marketer)

A survey in January and February 2019 from the Pew Research Centre, a think tank, found that 69% of American adults use Facebook; of these users, more than half visit the site “several times a day”. YouTube is even more popular, with 73% of adults saying they watch videos on the platform. For those aged 18 to 24, the figure is 90%. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, is used by 37% of adults. When Pew first conducted the survey in 2012, only a slim majority of Americans used Facebook. Fewer than one in ten had an Instagram account.

Americans are also spending more time than ever on social-media sites like Facebook. There is evidence that limiting such services might yield health benefits. A paper published last year by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, all of the University of Pennsylvania, found that limiting social-media usage to 10 minutes a day led to reductions in loneliness, depression, anxiety and fear. Another paper from 2014 identified a link between heavy social-media usage and depression, largely due to a “social comparison” phenomenon, whereby users compare themselves to others and come away with lower evaluations of themselves.

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2019. Adaptado.)

QUESTÃO 23
(UNIFESP 2020) In the excerpt from the second paragraph “limiting such services might yield health benefits”, the underlined expression may be replaced, without meaning change, by

(A) should impair.
(B) can damage.
(C) must deliver.
(D) could produce.
(E) will bring.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:
- (UNIFESP 2020) According to the second paragraph, the paper published by researchers of the University of Pennsylvania showed that

RESOLUÇÃO:
A expressão destacada “might yield” pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por “could produce”, ou seja, “poderia produzir”.

GABARITO:
(D) could produce.

PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
- (UNIFESP 2020) No trecho do segundo parágrafo “largely due to a ‘social comparison’ phenomenon”, a expressão sublinhada pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por

QUESTÃO DISPONÍVEL EM:
- Prova UNIFESP 2020 (1º dia e 2º dia) com Gabarito e Resolução