By Richard Corliss
- Stars do it. Sports do it. Judges in the highest courts do it. Let's do it:
- that yoga thing. A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years
- in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very
- this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium,
- one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out.
- Is yoga more than the power of positive breathing? Can’t it, say, cure
- cancer? Is yoga, in other words, a science?
- By even asking the question, we provoke a clash of two powerful cultures,
- two very different ways of looking at the world. The Indian tradition
- develops metaphors and ways of describing the body (life forces, energy
- centers) as it is experienced, from the inside out. The Western tradition
- looks at the body from the outside in. The East treats the person; the West
- treats the disease. "Our system of medicine is very fragmented," says Dr.
- Carrie Demers, who runs the Center for Health and Healing at the
- Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy of the
- USA in Honesdale, Pa. "We send you to different specialists to look at
- different parts of you. Yoga is more holistic; it's interested in the
- integration of body, breath and mind"
01. 0 texto
a) lista os prós e contras da Yoga.
b) leva ao descrédito as práticas da Yoga.
c) questiona a origem da Yoga.
d) elogia os métodos da medicina ocidental.
e) enfatiza a força positiva da Yoga para o bem-estar do ser humano.
02. Considere as afirmações a seguir.
I- Há um crescente interesse pela Yoga.
II- A Yoga não é uma prática milenar.
III- A visão da prática médica oriental é fragmentada.
Está(ão) correta(s)
a) apenas I.
b) apenas I e II.
c) apenas II e III.
d) apenas II. e) I, II e III.
03. A expressão "so very this minute" (l. 3 e 4) tem sentido semelhante a
a) energetic.
b) gradual.
c) fashionable.
d) fast.
e) powerful.
04. A expressão "Let's do it" (l. 1) está relacionada à idéia de.
a) contraste
b) exemplificação.
c) dúvida.
d) exigência. e) convite.
05. Se o sujeito da oração “ that winds back 5,000 years in its native India" (l. 2-3) se referisse a uma expressão no plural e fosse mantido o tempo verbal, os termos sublinhados
a) ficariam inalterados.
b) seriam trocados para "winded" e'their'.
c) se transformariam em "winded" e "it".
d) seriam substituídos por "wind" e 'their'.
e) passariam para "wind" e 'theirs".
06. Observe que, na linha 1, o "it" se repete. A que se refere?
a) Stars. b) Sports. c) Judges. d) India. e) Yoga.
07. A melhor tradução para o termo bliss out em " ... one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out" (l. 5) é
a) auxilia.
b) alegra.
c) transforma.
d) adequa.
e) capacita
08. Assinale a alternativa que melhor completa o sentido do período: There is great evidence of the benefits of Yoga, ______________ some people still question this practice.
a) consequenfly
b) thus
c) however
d) despite
e) while
1 e 2 a 3 c 4 e 5 d 6 e 7 b 8 c
