(UPE 2020) Para o trecho: Many schools and parents push children to engage in excessive extracurricular activities

Text 2 for questions 36 and 37.

Why teenage jobs are good for your kids

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With the fall semester under way, parents and students are choosing extracurricular activities. Hockey? Chess club? Band? Recent research shows that another option — adolescent work experience — can pay big dividends later in life.

Many schools and parents push children to engage in excessive extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, adolescent work has been increasingly categorized as non-desirable and only for those facing the demands of poverty. Yet more than 50 per cent of high school seniors work, suggesting teen work is more than a product of income inequality.

In fact, recent research shows work experience has many positive impacts for all. Students can learn many life skills through working, and if teenage job opportunities are overlooked, they can miss many benefits. The benefits are both short-term and long-term.

Some of these benefits were even stronger when working for a family business rather than a stranger. In fact, working in a family business led to further enhanced career networking and even better matched jobs later in life at the age of 25.

This is an important finding, considering roughly 45 per cent of Canadian youth report having worked in their family‘s business at some point. While this number may appear high, when you take into account that many children work in small family businesses or farms, it highlights the impact such work has on a wide swath of society.

October 26, 2017 5.24pm EDT. Adapted. Acesso em: ago., 2019.

QUESTÃO 37
(UPE 2020) Para o trecho: Many schools and parents push children to engage in excessive extracurricular activities. (2º parágrafo), assinale a alternativa INCORRETA.

a) Os dois verbos são empregados no presente e no infinitivo, respectivamente, indicando uma ideia de que os fatos são atuais.

b) Há uma predominância de ações no passado, portanto se deduz que o verbo 'push' está no Past Simple.

c) Há dois qualificadores para o substantivo que se encontra no final da oração.

d) Foram empregados dois falsos cognatos em sequência.

e) Many é um pronome que indica quantidade indefinida.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:
- (UPE 2020) Da leitura do Texto 2, compreende-se que

GABARITO:
b) Há uma predominância de ações no passado, portanto se deduz que o verbo 'push' está no Past Simple.

PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
- (UPE 2020) The CORRECT sequence to fill in the gaps in Text 3 is

QUESTÃO DISPONÍVEL EM:
- Prova UPE 2020 (1ª fase, 1º dia) com Gabarito