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Q2574138 Inglês

Answer question according to TEXT 3 below.


TEXT 3




Available at: https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/evenmore-cartoons-on-technology/. Access on: Apr. 9th, 2024.

In the expressions “your new school-issued laptop” and “In other news”, the words new and news are:
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Q2574132 Inglês
Answer question according to TEXT 1 below.

TEXT 1
TRUE STORIES – The School teacher

1 IT'S HAPPENED TO me half a dozen times, lately. I'm walking home through the Edinburgh Gardens and I see them heading towards me. Heavy kids, eight of them, maybe ten. I keep walking, but I keep my eyes on them, and my feet wait for the sign to take off.
2 They are Greeks and Italians, all adolescents, all wearing green or maroon cardigans with a double black stripe round the chest, Levis or Wranglers that fit just right, showing a bit of sock and reddish shoes with big heels. I move across to the outside of the footpath to let them pass. They spread out a little. They're close enough now in the almost-dark for me to see their faces.
3 And it's all right, because the front one is Chris, from Fitzroy High, and he says, 'Hello, miss!' and the others are kids who have grinned and nodded at me a hundred times in the yard at school.
4 I had taught migrants before, but Fitzroy High is one of those legendary inner-suburban schools which can no longer be properly described as Australian. In none of the classes I took were there more than four kids with Australian names. A blond head was a surprise. The administration battled to assimilate these kids into recognizable moulds. In a hundred subtle ways they were defeated.
5 Most of the girls had pierced ears and had worn gold earrings since they were babies. The line was that plain gold sleepers were the only ear decorations allowed. At the time when it was fashionable, in Australia, to wear a zillion colored plastic bangles up your arm, teachers strove hopelessly to prevent this display of gaiety at school. The girls went on wearing them and pulled their sleeves down when they saw a senior mistress coming. 
6 There were weekly segregated assemblies. I don't know what they told the boys, but at one girls' assembly I actually heard the senior mistress say, 'As girls we must be modest, quiet, hardworking and well-groomed at all times'.
7 What astonished me was the stubbornness of the kids' resistance to the rules. They didn't organize or protest. They defied. If the pressure got too much for them, they stayed away. And yet they hated to be suspended. One boy was suspended for a week, and every day I'd see him leaning against my front fence, staring wistfully at the school where his mates were tight-roping their way dangerously through the day.
8 In the three other schools I'd taught at, I'd been an authoritarian, a good disciplinarian. It wasn't only political or educational thinking that changed my attitude at Fitzroy High. It was the kids themselves. I suppose I fell in love with the whole nine hundred of them. In other schools, I'd known kids who were 'trouble-makers' or 'over-achievers', or ‘irresponsible' or 'antisocial. But somehow the kids at Fitzroy cut right through those categories.
9 To begin with, they made me laugh. I can't remember ever knowing such exuberant, merry kids. Every class had more than its share of natural clowns. The plays they invented were full of hilarious delight. In a second-form class I had for a year, two Italian boys called Claudio and Joseph used to present weekly plays so excruciatingly funny that we lay across the desks aching and wiping our eyes.
10 A kid called Ilya wrote wonderful, magical stories; he could write fairy tales his grandparents had told him in Yugoslavia. Lemonia could break your heart with a story about a lost fountain pen, and Dora with an account of her dreams. Their English may have been rocky, but there was a pure, delicate humour lying bone-deep in them that nothing could corrupt.

GARNER, Helen. True Stories. Melbourne, Australia: The Publishing Company, 2013, pp. 26-28. Adapted.
Exuberant, merry, hilarious and wonderful are some of the adjectives the author uses to describe students at Fitzroy School. These express a highly positive evaluation of Fitzroy’s students, and represent:
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Q2560598 Inglês

Text 4


Hope is the thing with feathers

(Emily Dickinson 1830 –1886)


Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,


And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.


I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.


* This poem is in the public domain. Available in:< https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254>

Analyze the following sentences below about the excerpt of the text 4 “I've heard it in the chillest land; And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity; It asked a crumb of me.”
I. In the structure “I've heard it in the chillest land” is in the present perfect continuous tense.
II. In the structure “And on the strangest sea” has a superlative form.
III. In the structure “Yet, never, in extremity” the word “yet” is an adversative conjunction.
IV. In the expression “It asked a crumb of me” the word “crumb” can be replace by “middle”.

Which ones are correct?
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Q2560588 Inglês

Text 1


The Courage to Be Imperfect

Perfectionism, self-examination and the kissing of frogs


Michael J. Formica

Posted July 9, 2009


Someone once said that there are two kinds of people in the world - those who are right... And nowhere are we more inclined to want to be right than with regard to ourselves. In fact, more often than not, we want to be perfect. What this striving for perfection often leads to is a kind of social paralysis.


If we are constantly focused on making the right decision, we will sometimes find ourselves in a place ranging from morbid indecision to outright fear. Getting it right, making the good choice and avoiding the faux pas endorse in us a rigidity of character and action that is limiting and, in derailing our momentum, deflects our potential evolution.


The willingness to be wrong or, as more properly suggested here, the courage to be imperfect, allows us the opportunity to discover many things about ourselves. Without exercising this courage, we put ourselves into a straightjacket of sorts, setting our thoughts and actions in a dismally fettered pattern.


This line of thinking was prompted by a conversation that I had with a client yesterday where in she had come to the conclusion that she was a bit of a perfectionist. What she had puzzled out for herself was that her perfectionism, rather than serving her, was actually hindering her ability to be flexible, open to new possibilities and clear about what she wanted for herself and her life.


At some point, I suggested that the fairy tale about the princess kissing frogs to find the prince was a good metaphor for stepping outside of one's comfort zone and "trying something on for size' without an overly self-conscious regard for the potential consequences of the choice. She mentioned that a few days earlier she had seen the trailer for a movie in which the princess kissed a frog and turned into a frog herself. Brilliant.

If we are unwilling to kiss a few frogs - to explore the possibilities that are presented to us in anticipation of finding something unexpected - then we, ourselves, may turn into frogs. That is, become stuck in our place and condemned to something that is not us. We can, without the willingness to be open to making mistakes, limit ourselves right into a state of personal inauthenticity.


Available

in:<https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/enlightened-living/200907/the-courage-be-imperfect>

In the excerpt from the last paragraph of the text 1 “If we are unwilling to kiss a few frogs - to explore the possibilities that are presented to us in anticipation of finding something unexpected - then we, ourselves, may turn into frogs. That is, become stuck in our place and condemned to something that is not us. We can, without the willingness to be open to making mistakes, limit ourselves right into a state of personal inauthenticity.”
The underlined words above “unwilling”, “then”, “unwillingness” and “into”, in the text, are respectively: 
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Q2560585 Inglês

Text 1


The Courage to Be Imperfect

Perfectionism, self-examination and the kissing of frogs


Michael J. Formica

Posted July 9, 2009


Someone once said that there are two kinds of people in the world - those who are right... And nowhere are we more inclined to want to be right than with regard to ourselves. In fact, more often than not, we want to be perfect. What this striving for perfection often leads to is a kind of social paralysis.


If we are constantly focused on making the right decision, we will sometimes find ourselves in a place ranging from morbid indecision to outright fear. Getting it right, making the good choice and avoiding the faux pas endorse in us a rigidity of character and action that is limiting and, in derailing our momentum, deflects our potential evolution.


The willingness to be wrong or, as more properly suggested here, the courage to be imperfect, allows us the opportunity to discover many things about ourselves. Without exercising this courage, we put ourselves into a straightjacket of sorts, setting our thoughts and actions in a dismally fettered pattern.


This line of thinking was prompted by a conversation that I had with a client yesterday where in she had come to the conclusion that she was a bit of a perfectionist. What she had puzzled out for herself was that her perfectionism, rather than serving her, was actually hindering her ability to be flexible, open to new possibilities and clear about what she wanted for herself and her life.


At some point, I suggested that the fairy tale about the princess kissing frogs to find the prince was a good metaphor for stepping outside of one's comfort zone and "trying something on for size' without an overly self-conscious regard for the potential consequences of the choice. She mentioned that a few days earlier she had seen the trailer for a movie in which the princess kissed a frog and turned into a frog herself. Brilliant.

If we are unwilling to kiss a few frogs - to explore the possibilities that are presented to us in anticipation of finding something unexpected - then we, ourselves, may turn into frogs. That is, become stuck in our place and condemned to something that is not us. We can, without the willingness to be open to making mistakes, limit ourselves right into a state of personal inauthenticity.


Available

in:<https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/enlightened-living/200907/the-courage-be-imperfect>

Analyze the following sentences below about the excerpt of the text 1 “The willingness to be wrong or, as more properly suggested here, the courage to be imperfect, allows us the opportunity to discover many things about ourselves. Without exercising this courage, we put ourselves into a straightjacket of sorts, setting our thoughts and actions in a dismally fettered pattern.”
I. In the structure “The willingness to be wrong or” the word “willingness” is an adjective formed by suffix.
II. In the structure “many things about ourselves” has a reflexive pronoun and preposition.
III. The word “straightjacket” means a situation in which you feel comfortable and in which your ability and determination are not being tested.
IV. In the expression “dismally fettered pattern” the word “fettered” can be replace by “enchain”.
Which ones are correct? 
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Q2553918 Inglês
In the sentence “Here are a few ways these authentic communicative interactions can be practiced in the classroom”, the highlighted expression can be offset, without prejudice to meaning, by: 
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Q2553914 Inglês
Choose the option that corresponds to use best sequence to complete the sentences below using the alternatives in parenthesis.

I. This is football game isn’t ________ the last one. (more exciting/as exciting as)
II. This is _________ traffic jam I’ve seen in a long time. (badest/ the worst)
III. They say Mr. Johnson is the _________ man in the city. (wealthiest/ most wealthy)
IV. Soccer is _________ sport I know. (most violent/ the most violent) 
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Q2553900 Inglês
JOB INTERVIEW


     Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Person asked the young Engineer fresh out of MIT, “And what starting salary were you looking for?”

      The Engineer said, “In the neighborhood of $75,000 a year, depending on the benefits package.”

      The HR Person said, “Well, what would you say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years say, a red Corvette?”

     The Engineer sat up straight and said, “Wow!!! Are you kidding?” And the HR Person said, “Of course,...but you started it.”

(Adapted from: ITA - 2004)
Which of the adjectives below best describes the initial attitude of the newly graduated engineer?
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Q2548672 Inglês
Direction: Read Text II to answer question.

TEXT II

Count on Me – Bruno Mars



(https://www.vagalume.com.br/bruno-mars/count-on-me.html#print Accessed on March 23rd, 2023)


Glossary:

1. stuck: not able to move

2. to find out: to get some information about something
The sentence that expresses an idea of comparison is:
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Q2547334 Inglês
“Spotify made a lot of money in Q1: yesterday (April 23, 2024), the streaming music giant announced that last quarter its revenue increased by 20%. The smash report comes after Spotify cut costs last year, which included laying off more than a quarter of its workforce. The company also raised prices ___ 2023 for the first time in a decade as it further expanded beyond music into audiobooks and other categories”. (Adapted from: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/issues/whi ffed)
Analyze the assertions below.
I - "In" correctly fills the gap in the text. II - There is a phrasal verb in the sentence “(…) which included laying off more than (…)”. III - The words in italics are respectively: an uncountable noun; a personal pronoun; the comparative form of the adjective “quart”.
It is correct to affirm that:
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Q2547330 Inglês

Read Text I and answer question.


Text I


How to have a healthier relationship with your phone


    A few years ago, a Google employee sent an email to thousands of her co-workers: What if for six weeks straight, you spent one night per week without technology? The email was from Laura Mae Martin, Google’s executive productivity adviser, a role that, among other things, was created to help staff members foster healthier relationships with their gadgets and apps. After she sent the note, Ms. Martin was flooded with responses from coworkers eager for a respite from some of the very products they helped build. Thousands of employees have since participated in the annual “No-Tech Tuesday Night Challenge,” said Ms. Martin.

    The problem she was trying to solve isn’t unique to Google workers. One survey found that Americans say they spend too much time on their phones. But dramatic solutions – a digital detox, a phone downgrade or a complete exit from social media – may feel impractical. 

    Is it possible to have a healthy relationship with technology while still using it daily? Fortunately, according to experts, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’ and here are a few things you can try:

    First, start with one simple question.

    You know that urge you get to reach for your phone without realizing it? And then, before you know it, you’re an hour into a social media binge? If you want to peacefully coexist with technology, you need to get a handle on those impulses, said Richard J. Davidson, the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. According to him, people should start by noticing when they have an urge to lift their phone or open social media on their browser window. By becoming conscious of what you’re about to do, you’re interrupting an automatic behavior and awakening the part of your brain that governs self-control, he added. As one research article suggests, awareness of your actions can help you rein in bad habits.

    Secondly, take the “mobile” out of your mobile devices.

    Dr. Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry and addiction medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, said one of the biggest problems with smartphones is what she calls “texting while running to catch a bus.” Using our devices while we’re on the move – walking from meeting to meeting, taking a child to school or catching a bus – prevents us from being more engaged in our lives, Dr. Lembke said.

    One way to create harmony with technology is to limit your phone use when you’re on the move. Headed out for a walk? Turn off your notifications. Going to grab a coffee? Leave your phone on your desk. If you’re feeling brave, try powering down your phone while in transit. It won’t buzz with notifications, text messages or phone calls, which Dr. Lembke said could help you focus on the world around you.

    Last of all, make technology work for you.

    One thing experts agree on: To forge a healthy relationship with technology, you need to be in control of it and not the other way around. Think about your gadgets as tools that you decide how to use. 

    “Make it work for you, not against you; whether it’s an email program or your dishwasher, it’s the intention behind how you’re using it that really makes the big difference”, said Ms. Martin, the productivity expert at Google.


(Adapted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/well/social-media-phone-addiction.html)

Read the following excerpts from Text I and choose the correct answer.
A - “Is it possible to have a healthy relationship with technology while still using it daily?” B - “According to him, people should start by noticing when they have an urge to lift their phone or open social media on their browser window.” C - “If you want to peacefully coexist with technology, you need to get a handle on those impulses, said Richard J. Davidson, the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Considering the order B-C-A, it is correct to affirm that the words in italics are correctly and respectively:
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Q2545182 Inglês



(Available at: education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/earth-day/– text specially adapted for this test).

Analyze the following statements about the words in bold in the sixth paragraph:

I. The verb “farm” is in its gerund form in line 34 because it follows the preposition “about”.
II. The verb “build” is in its gerund form in line 39 because it serves as an adjective for “techniques”.
III. The verb “recycle” is in its gerund form in line 40 because it follows the verb “encourage”.

Which ones are correct?
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Q2540485 Inglês
Considering the sentence: “I'm looking for a roommate who is not scared of cockroaches ” the clause in bold can be classified as:
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Q2530817 Inglês

Read the text and answer the question. 


What is a consumer society?


A consumer is a person who buys things, and a consumer society is a society that encourages people to buy and use goods. Some people think that a consumer society provides people with better lives. People in consumer societies tend to live more comfortably. They eat a wider variety of food. They go to restaurants more often. They also buy a lot of products, maybe more than they need. Products such as TVs, cell phones, and computers used to be luxuries. Today people can buy these things more easily than ever before. The market for these goods is growing faster all the time. Consumer societies encourage people to buy bigger and better products. For example, “smarter” phones come out every year. In a consumer society, people are often buying newer and more advanced products. This creates a lot of waste. Nowadays, many people are thinking more seriously about the effects of consumer societies on the environment, and they are trying to become more responsible consumers. (https://www.eltngl.com/assets/downloads/grex_pro 0000000538/grex2_su8.pdf).

In the sentence “They also buy a lot of products”, the word “also” belongs to:
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Q2530809 Inglês

IS CHOCOLATE GOOD FOR HEALTH?


Yes, but only bitter and in small doses. Chocolate is one of those foods that, throughout history, has alternated its position in relation to its effects on health. At sometimes, considered beneficial, in others, as harmful to health. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270272


The words “small, its and health” are classified as: 

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Q2529412 Inglês
Qual é a alternativa errada de acordo com a norma culta da língua inglesa?
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Q2517167 Inglês
READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTION:


Artificial intelligence and the future of humanity

Thinking and learning about artificial intelligence are the mental equivalent of a fission chain reaction. The questions get really big, really quickly.

The most familiar concerns revolve around short-term impacts: the opportunities for economic productivity, health care, manufacturing, education, solving global challenges such as climate change and, on the flip side, the risks of mass unemployment, disinformation, killer robots, and concentrations of economic and strategic power.

Each of these is critical, but they’re only the most immediate considerations. The deeper issue is our capacity to live meaningful, fulfilling lives in a world in which we no longer have intelligence supremacy.

As long as humanity has existed, we’ve had an effective monopoly on intelligence. We have been, as far as we know, the smartest entities in the universe.

At its most noble, this extraordinary gift of our evolution drives us to explore, discover and expand. Over the past roughly 50,000 years—accelerating 10,000 years ago and then even more steeply from around 300 years ago—we’ve built a vast intellectual empire made up of science, philosophy, theology, engineering, storytelling, art, technology and culture.

If our civilisations—and in varying ways our individual lives—have meaning, it is found in this constant exploration, discovery and intellectual expansion.

Intelligence is the raw material for it all. But what happens when we’re no longer the smartest beings in the universe? We haven’t yet achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the term for an AI that could do anything we can do. But there’s no barrier in principle to doing so, and no reason it wouldn’t quickly outstrip us by orders of magnitude.

Even if we solve the economic equality questions through something like a universal basic income and replace notions of ‘paid work’ with ‘meaningful activity’, how are we going to spend our lives in ways that we find meaningful, given that we’ve evolved to strive and thrive and compete?


Adapted from https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/artificialintelligence-and-the-future-of-humanity/
The opposite of “the smartest” (4th paragraph) is
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Q2511304 Inglês

READ THE FOLLOWING TEXTTO ANSWER QUESTION.

TEXT 4 


According to the Brazilian National Education Guidelines and Framework Law enacted in 2017, English language teaching is mandatory from the sixth year of elementary school until the last years of high school. However, the curriculum does not guarantee that all Brazilian students will receive English teaching. In 2013, Data Popular, a Brazilian research institute, drafted a report for the British Council analyzing the problems concerning knowledge of English in Brazil. The report claims that the low level of English proficiency amongst Brazilians reflects the educational opportunities available in the country […]. 

To understand the reasons why English teaching does not seem efficient for all students, it is important to highlight the English language teaching provision in Brazil. Formal English teaching in Brazil takes place in four different contexts: English schools, bilingual schools, regular private schools, and public schools. In general, people who wish to learn English believe that effective learning occurs only in private English schools or bilingual schools because the structure (the teaching methods and the quality of support materials) is more likely to provide successful learning. The focus in those institutions is on oral expression. Learners have more exposure to the target language because classes are taught entirely in English, and teachers are usually well trained to comply with that requirement. In addition, groups are smaller, so students can receive personal support and enjoy a comfortable learning environment, not to mention access to multimedia resources. 


(Adapted from: https://academic.oup.com/eltj/75/1/103/6169556)

Considering the word “mandatory” (line 2), which one of the following words represent an opposite idea to the one stated in the text?
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Q2511300 Inglês
In the English language, determiners are used before a noun to introduce it or to provide more information on the noun, such as how many there are. If there are any adjectives before the noun to describe it then the determiner will also come before them.  Which of the following sentences demonstrates the correct use of a determiner in context?
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Q2508885 Inglês

Considering the following sentences, which one of the alternatives presents only the adequate choices of comparison for each sentence?


I- The Beatles are definitely the best British band of all time.


II- I disagree, because I believe Queen was better.


III- There is no point in arguing about that when we all know Led Zepellin was the least appreciated.

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Respostas
81: D
82: A
83: B
84: C
85: E
86: C
87: C
88: A
89: B
90: A
91: E
92: E
93: C
94: A
95: A
96: D
97: C
98: D
99: B
100: B