SANTA CASA 2021: The excerpt from the first paragraph “As the day wears on” has the same meaning as

SANTA CASA 2021: The excerpt from the first paragraph “As the day wears on” has the same meaning as

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It’s probable you’ve already replied to a couple of emails today, sent some chat messages and maybe performed a quick internet search. As the day wears on you will doubtless spend even more time browsing online, uploading images, playing music and streaming video.

Each of these activities you perform online comes with a small cost — a few grams of carbon dioxide are emitted due to the energy needed to run your devices and power the wireless networks you access. Less obvious, but perhaps even more energy intensive, are the data centres and vast servers needed to support the internet and store the content we access over it.

Although the energy needed for a single internet search or email is small, approximately 4.1 billion people, or 53.6% of the global population, now use the internet. Those scraps of energy, and the associated greenhouse gases emitted with each online activity, can add up.

If we were to rather crudely divide the 1.7 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions estimated to be produced in the manufacture and running of digital technologies between all internet users around the world, it means each of us is responsible for 400 g of carbon dioxide a year.

But things are not that simple — this figure can vary depending where in the world you are. Internet users in some parts of the globe will have a disproportionately large footprint. One study estimated that 10 years ago, the average Australian internet user was responsible for the equivalent of 81 kg of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere.

Improvements in energy efficiency, economies of scale and use of renewable energy will doubtless have reduced this, but it is clear that people in developed nations still account for the majority of the internet’s carbon footprint.

(Sarah Griffiths. www.bbc.com, 05.03.2020. Adaptado.)

QUESTÃO 13

SANTA CASA 2021: The excerpt from the first paragraph “As the day wears on” has the same meaning as:

(A) day in day out.

(B) as soon as the day breaks.

(C) on a day-to-day basis.

(D) as the day goes on.

(E) by the end of the day.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:

- SANTA CASA 2021: According to the context, the internet is posing a threat to the

RESOLUÇÃO (Cursos Objetivo):

O excerto do primeiro parágrafo “As the day wears on” tem o mesmo significado de “as the day goes on” = A medida que o dia passa.

GABARITO:

(D) as the day goes on.

PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:

- SANTA CASA 2021: In the excerpt from the third paragraph “Although the energy needed for a single internet search”, the underlined word indicates

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