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Synesthesia is when you hear music, but you see shapes. Or you hear a word or a name and instantly see a color. Synesthesia is a name for when you experience one of your senses through another. For example, you might hear the name "Alex" and see green. Or you might read the word "street" and taste citrus fruit. The word "synesthesia" has Greek roots. It translates to “perceive together.” Synesthesia isn’t a disease or disorder. It won’t harm your health, and it doesn’t mean you’re mentally ill. Some studies suggest people who have it may do better on memory and intelligence tests than those who don’t. One of the most common responses is to see letters, numbers, or sounds as colors. You might also see or hear a word and taste food; hear sounds and see shapes or patterns; feel a touch when seeing someone else being touched. (This is called mirror touch.) It can be an annoyance. But most synesthetes see their condition as a sixth sense, not a drawback. You can’t control it. The response happens right away. For example, if you hear a new piece of music, you may see a color or taste a flavor without any effort. It just happens. It’s internal, mostly. The colors are just in your mind. It stays the same over time. If you see the letter "A" in green today, you’ll see it in green 10 years from now.¬ It often starts in childhood. Studies of kids with synesthesia found that it develops over time. webmd.com. December 17, 2024. Adaptado. De acordo com o texto apresentado, a sinestesia pode ser descrita como

According to the text, what are AI-powered chatbots helping to spread?

Which of the alternatives expresses the verbs in present perfect simple form correctly? 

A second grade teacher decides to work with the book Charlie and The Chocolate Factory , by Roald Dahl, with her students. She asks them to open the book on the first page and tell her the names of the characters from the Bucket family. In this scenario, what kind of reading strategy is the teacher suggesting that students use? 

Which group of words consists only of uncountable nouns?

The Cambridge Dictionary defines "idiom" as "a group of words in a fixed order that has a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own". What does the idiom "to bite off more than you can chew" mean?

Read the excerpt below from the 2022 book Our wives under the sea , by Julia Armfield: "She is a good friend, in as much as she is a present friend, or at least a friend who likes to make plans. And yet too often I find myself stopped by unwillingness to admit to basic frustrations, to look at her across a coffee shop table and respond to her humdrum admissions with a straight me too." Which word from the excerpt has a suffix?

Read the excerpt below from the 1982 short story The body , by Stephen King: "We had a tree house in a big tree which hung over some empty ground in Castle Rock. It was a kind of club, although it had no name. [...] The sides of the tree house were made out of wood, and the roof was metal we had taken from the dump, looking over our shoulders all the time because the manager of the dump had a dog which ate children for breakfast, or so people said." According to the text, "because the manager of the dump had a dog which ate children for breakfast" is the answer to which question? 

A company is offering a job vacancy and requests that candidates send their resumés by e-mail. Which of the following is an appropriate way of signing off at the end of the e-mail? 

Read the following paragraph: Joseph is a little boy who lives with his parents and his three siblings. His grades at school are not great, because he doesn't spend a lot of time doing his homework or reading at home. Today is Sunday and he hasn't done any school work from the week before. His mother is very upset about it. Still, Joseph wants to go out and play with his friends, so he asks his mother: "Mom, can I please go play football?" Which of the following options is the most likely answer from his mother?