Questão 2574261

Instruction: answer questions 46 to 50 based on the following text.

4 easy ways to make your holidays more eco-friendly

1. Green the greenery: Each Christmas, revelers glorify live trees. But later, millions of
2. firs, pines, and spruces end up decomposing in dumps, releasing methane into the
3. environment. Now some green-thumbed companies are renting out trees, _____ they tend the
4. rest of the year. If you prefer to buy, look for local growers with advice on _____ to recycle.
5. To complete the natural look, make ornaments from collected and dried foliage.
6. Go for a healthy glow: Whether illuminating the menorah during Hanukkah, the kinara
7. during Kwanzaa, or tea lights during Diwali, consider how the candles are created. They are
8. often manufactured with paraffin wax, a petroleum-based fossil fuel. Affordable and cleaner
9. alternatives include those made with soy, ethical beeswax, and coconut wax. Using artificial
10. lights? LEDs are eco-friendly.
11. Save on gift wrap: Some 2.3 million pounds of wrapping paper go to landfills every
12. year, according to recycling database Earth911.com. The Japanese tradition of furoshiki,
13. swaddling gifts in reusable squares of cloth, is a festive form of packaging that doesn’t
14. compromise forests. Simpler still: Wrap with brown paper grocery bags.
15. Watch the waste: Holiday traditions often include tables laden with tasty fare. But a include tables laden with tasty fare. But a
16. third of the food produced for human consumption each year goes to waste, the UN World Food
17. Programme reports. Instead of throwing away the excess, find groups _____ redistribute it at
18. epa.gov by searching for “reduce wasted food”. _____ is no longer edible might be
19. compostable.

(Available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/4-easy-ways-to-make-your-holidays-more-eco-friendly – text especially adapted for this test).

Not considering accents, there are some common pronunciation rules in standard English. The final “s” in plural nouns, for example, sounds like /z/ in “trees” (l. 01), like /iz/ in “spruces” (l. 02), and like /s/ “dumps” (l. 02). In which alternative the nouns follow the same pronunciation rules, in the same order as in the example?