Questões de Concurso
Sobre adjetivos | adjectives em inglês
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I. In “AI could provide a better experience” (l. 08), the word “better” is the superlative form of the irregular adjective “good”.
II. In “One of the world’s top 10 most stressful jobs” (l. 11), “most stressful” is a superlative structure and “most” is used because “stressful” is a long adjective.
III. In “It provides faster, more efficient service” (l. 21-22) there are two comparative structures. We add -er to the short adjective “fast”, and “more” to “efficient” because it is an irregular adjective.
Which ones are correct?
Internet: <alexhallat.com> (adapted).
Judge the following item, according to the preceding comic strip.
The words “beautiful” (third box) and “lucky” (fifth box)
belong to the same word class.
In the quest for technological advancements that can revolutionize our world, the scientific community has always been captivated by the elusive phenomenon of superconductivity. For decades, researchers have strived to unlock its full potential, seeking to discover materials that can exhibit superconducting properties at room temperature. And now, the wait might finally be over! Enter LK-99, a groundbreaking potential room-temperature superconductor that has sent shockwaves through the scientific world, spearheaded by a team of brilliant minds from Korea University, led by esteemed researchers Sukbae Lee and Ji-Hoon Kim.
Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with zero resistance, leading to unprecedented energy efficiency and technological advancements. In summary, LK-99 represents an exciting prospect as a potential room-temperature superconductor, but its superconducting properties have yet to be confirmed and independently verified.
Room temperature superconductors could revolutionize the energy sector by enabling lossless power transmission over long distances. With reduced energy dissipation during transmission, electricity could be distributed more efficiently, lowering carbon footprints and electricity costs.
Internet: <dataconomy.com/> (adapted).
According to the preceding text, judge the following items.
The adjective “groundbreaking” (fourth sentence of the first
paragraph) could be correctly replaced by “conventional”,
without changing the meaning of the text.
TEXT II – Tema: Variação linguística no ensino-aprendizagem de inglês
INTERNATIONAL VARIETIES OF ENGLISH
1 The most familiar way to classify the varieties of English around the world was developed by
2 Kachru (1985) and looks like this:
(Available from: https://www.eltconcourse.com/training/common/variety.html Accessed on July 5 , 2023)
“The world’s biggest bull is ________ a small elephant.”
(1) Noun. (2) Present participle. (3) Adjective.
(_) Playing piano is a great pleasure.
(_) That man is drinking.
(_) No parking.
( ) The rising prices are scary.
The adjective “dull”, in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph, could be replaced by boring without changing the meaning of the sentence.
Judge the following item, about the vocabulary and the grammatical features of the text.
In the first paragraph, if the authors qualified “native
language” as Asian, primaeval, guttural and beautiful, the
correct order of such adjectives would be: beautiful Asian
guttural primaeval native language.
1. I shouldn’t have ___ sugar… Sweets are bad for my health. 2. There are too ___ cookies, they won’t all fit in the jar. 3. Only a ___ people came, it was a very small event. 4. It was just an hour! They did a lot in the ___ time they had.
Mark the alternative that fills out, correctly and respectively, the gaps in the sentences above.
Try these expert tips for a safer solo trip
(Available at: https://news.airbnb.com/try-these-expert-tips-for-a-safer-solo-trip/ – text especially adapted for
this text).
Choose the CORRECT answer.
“By far this is _________ car I’ve ever driven in my life.”