Tradução: A glass of coffee

12.08.13

A glass of coffee?

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Coffee drinkers can be very particular about their daily cups, writes Tom Stafford, co-author of Mind Hacks: Tips and Tools for Using Your Brain. He demonstrates this by finding someone with a favorite mug and giving them their morning coffee in a glass instead.

The drink tastes exactly the same, but they will be extremely unhappy [. . .] When the brain experiences reward, it triggers a search for the things that might have caused it. You can’t see caffeine directly, so you form a positive attachment to all the things consistently associated with its delivery. First among these is the taste of the drink itself, but they also include things like the place or time of day and, of course, the favourite mug.

BBC Focus magazine. www. Indekx.com (Globe and Mail) Access: Oct. 2006. (Adapted)

5. No texto, a palavra “triggers” (line 5) significa

a) Attaches

b) Conducts

c) Forms

d) Starts

e) Ended

6. “... all the things consistently associated with its delivery” (lines 6-7). Na frase, a palavra its refere-se a

a) Attachment

b) Brain

c) Caffeine

d) Glass

e) Drink

7. “them”, na linha 3, refere-se a

a) Coffee drinkers

b) Cups

c) Tom Stafford

d) Tips and Tools

8. “it”, na linha 5, em “,...it triggers a search…” refere-se a

a) The drink

b) the brain

c) experiences

d) reward

9. na frase “so you form a positive attachment to all the things consistently associated with its delivery”, a palavra em negrito refere-se a

a) You

b) a positive attachment

c) things

d) caffeine