Questões de Concurso
Sobre adjetivos | adjectives em inglês
Foram encontradas 551 questões
Running is a refreshingly uncomplicated way to get your heart pumping. You can do it nearly anywhere, and you don’t need much to make it happen (other than the motivation to go). That said, functional gear that speaks to your specific needs can enhance your experience. We’ve spent hundreds of hours researching and testing, enlisting the help of a collegiate track coach (and former podiatrist), a former Runner’s World editor, and several of the most passionate runners on our staff. Here are our recommendations for the best gear to get you up and running.
Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-running-gear/.
Adjectives, both common and demonstrative, serve to modify nouns, providing additional description or details. They improve the clarity and specificity of language, allowing speakers to convey precise images or ideas. Therefore, select the alternative that correctly uses common and demonstrative adjectives.
Three Dogs Are Rebuilding Chilean Forests Once Devastated By Fire By
Desirée Kaplan
(Available at: www.greenmatters.com/news/2018/02/19/2m3wBf/border-collies-forest – text especially adapted for this test).
“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us; and if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two. Nor is this, the most striking phenomenon, incidental to such a state. It is an undoubted fact, that although our senses of touch and sight be for the time dead, yet our sleeping thoughts, and the visionary scenes that pass before us, will be influenced, and materially influenced, by the mere silent presence of some external object: which may not have been near us when we closed our eyes: and of whose vicinity we have had no waking consciousness. ”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
What sentence uses the CORRECT antonym for the word "lucid" as used in the sentence above?
(1) Phonetics
(2) Adjective
(3) Vocabulary
(4) Syntax
( ) All the words known and used by a particular person.
( ) The study of the sounds made by the human voice in speech.
( ) A word that describes a person or thing.
( ) The grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence.
In the order presented in the second column, the correct sequence is:
Read Text I and answer question.
Text I: The speed of sound
Some music fans now know 15-second sped up snippets of songs better than the real thing. It’s thanks to an emerging trend on social media, particularly TikTok, of creators changing the tempo of popular songs by 25-30%, to accompany short viral videos of dances or other themes. This phenomenon presents a very modern challenge – how can singers create the next hit tune when the one people actually listen to might sound so different?
Sped-up listening emerged in the early 2000s as “Nightcore”, launched by a Norwegian DJ duo of the same name, who sped up a song’s pitch and speed. This is now commonplace on social media apps, where the speed of podcasts, voice notes, movies and more can be increased so that people can consume them in less time. But what people might not know is that unofficial sped-up or slowed down tunes are different to a professional remix because they are far shorter and can be easily made by anyone, including on TikTok, Instagram Reels and other apps.
In 2023, more than a third of Spotify listeners in the US sped up podcasts and nearly two-thirds played songs at a quicker tempo. The streaming service recently confirmed to the BBC that it was testing a new and more widespread feature that could potentially allow its customers to remix the tempo of songs and share them. In addition, some popstars are embracing this phenomenon. In November 2022, for example, fan-made sped-up versions of RAYE’s single “Escapism” helped the artist to achieve her first ever number one on the UK Official Singles Chart, nearly three months after its original release. Furthermore, Billie Eilish has also released official fast and slow versions of songs and Sabrina Carpenter’s hits “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” received similar treatment.
Dr Mary Beth Ray, an author focused on digital music culture, says short-form video platforms like TikTok “constrain our ways of listening into snippets, but those constraints also let you experience a track in a new way”. She also said that “short clips provide a quicker line to that dopamine rush social media wants us to feel – so there is an addictive element which we’re pushed towards.”
BBC Radio 1 DJ Maia Beth feels it's now getting hard for established labels and musicians to ignore this trend because it can sometimes feel like if they don't release the sped up version, then someone else will. Beth, who admits she can't imagine sitting and listening to a sped-up version of a song the whole way through, believes the trend shouldn't necessarily be a major distraction for musicians though. “Sped-up versions of tracks can help artists break through or go viral, although that initial success may not last,” she added.
TikTok says it has noticed an increase in the number of sped-up and slowed down versions of catalogue tracks taken off the platform, then become officially released. These official changed-tempo releases are now grouped together with the original song in the UK Official Singles Chart, along with remixes, acoustic and live versions, helping artists to climb the ranks.
That said, not everyone is happy with the trend. The popularity of speed-altered versions can make it harder to distinguish original from remix while altering an artist's intended pacing, mood and tone. However, while some artists like them and others less so, it seems they are here to stay.
Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqv5x2qe8q6o Published: August 17, 2024
“It’s thanks to an emerging trend on social media, particularly TikTok, of creators changing the tempo of popular songs by 25-30%, to accompany short viral videos of dances or other themes.”
Instruction: answer the question based on the following text.
HBO posts casting call for next-generation Harry Potter TV series
By Vivian Ho
(Available at: www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/sep/10/hbo-posts-casting-call-for-nextgeneration-harry-potter-tv-series – text especially adapted for this test)
Person A: "I'm really enjoying my time here in Brazil. The weather is so nice!"
Person B: "Yes, the weather is ______________ better in the summer."
Text 2
Autism Teaching Methods: Applied
Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior
Applied Behavior Analysis, or ABA, is a method of teaching children with autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders. It is based on the premise that appropriate behavior – including speech, academics and life skills – can be taught using scientific principles.
ABA assumes that children are more likely to repeat behaviors or responses that are rewarded (or “reinforced”), and they are less likely to continue behaviors that are not rewarded. Eventually, the reinforcement is reduced so that the child can learn without constant rewards.
Research shows that ABA works for kids with autism. “Thirty years of research demonstrated the efficacy of applied behavioral methods in reducing inappropriate behavior and in increasing communication, learning, and appropriate social behavior,” according to a U.S. Surgeon General’s Report.
The most well-known form of ABA is discrete trial training (DTT). Skills are broken down into the smallest tasks and taught individually. Discrete, or separate, trials may be used to teach eye contact, imitation, fine motor skills, self-help, academics, language and conversation. Students start with learning small skills, and gradually learn more complicated skills as each smaller one is mastered. […]
Source adapted from:
www.teaching-methods-childrens-with-autism
Read the sentences below and determine whether they are true ( T ) or false ( F ) according to structure and grammar use in Text 2.
( ) The underlined words in “The most wellknown…” and “the smallest tasks…” (4th paragraph) are examples of adjectives in the superlative of superiority degree.
( ) The word Eventually in “Eventually, the reinforcement is reduced so that the child can learn without constant rewards.” (2nd paragraph), can be replaced by Finally without changing its meaning.
( ) In “… according to a U.S. Surgeon General’s Report.” (3rd paragraph), the apostrophe ’s is the reduced form of the verb to be: is.
( ) The verbs: “taught” and “broken” (4th paragraph), has their correct infinitive forms as teaches and breaks.
Select the option that presents the correct sequence from top to bottom.
I.The phrase "more significantly fostered" is an example of comparative form, with "more" indicating a comparative degree.
II.The text includes "the most respects" in the phrase "in most respects," where "most" serves as the superlative form, indicating the greatest extent among different respects.
III.However, the text does not include any examples of typical "-er" comparative forms or "-est" superlative forms; it relies on "more" and "most" as indicators of comparison.
Choose the correct alternative based on the statements:
Four types of English exist in Africa, identifiable in terms of history, functions, and linguistic characteristics. West African Pidgin English has a history going back to the 15th century, 400 years before formal colonization. Creole varieties of English have a history going back to repatriation of enslaved people from the Caribbean and the United States of America in the 19th century. Second language varieties, which are the most widespread on the continent, are prototypically associated with British colonization and its education systems. L1 (first language) English occurred mostly in Southern and East Africa and is best represented in South Africa. The latter shows significant similarities with the other major Southern Hemisphere varieties of English, spoken in Australia and New Zealand.
African Englishes From a Sociolinguistic Perspective.
Internet: <oxfordre.com> (adapted).
Considering the previous text, its ideas and linguistic features, as well as the reading strategies that apply to it, judge the following item.
The phrase “the most widespread”, in the fourth sentence of the text, is a superlative construction, with “most” modifying the adjective “widespread”.
Conheça nossos planos