Questões de Concurso Comentadas sobre aspectos linguísticos | linguistic aspects em inglês

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Q1719855 Inglês
        Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity. Good. His dad had the pickup going. He could get up now. Jess slid out of bed and into his overalls. He didn't worry about a shirt because once he began running he would be hot as popping grease even if the morning air was chill, or shoes because the bottoms of his feet were by now as tough as his worn-out sneakers.
        "Where you going, Jess?" May Belle lifted herself up sleepily from the double bed where she and Joyce Ann slept.
        "Sh." He warned. The walls were thin. Momma would he mad as flies in a fruit jar if they woke her up this time of day.
        He patted May Belle's hair and yanked the twisted sheet up to her small chin. "Just over the cow field," he whispered. May Belle smiled and snuggled down under the sheet.
        "Gonna run?"
        "Maybe."
        Of course he was going to run. He had gotten up early every day all summer to run. He figured if he worked at it – and Lord, had he worked – he could be the fastest runner in the fifth grade when school opened up. He had to be the fastest – not one of the fastest or next to the fastest, but the fastest. The very best.


(Excerpt from Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson. Available on https://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/135126/Patterson_- _Bridge_to_Terabithia.pdf)
“Not one of the fastest, but the fastest.” The word THE is pronounced differently depending on the context. Choose the option that shows the right pronunciation of each underlined word.
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Q1719854 Inglês
        Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity. Good. His dad had the pickup going. He could get up now. Jess slid out of bed and into his overalls. He didn't worry about a shirt because once he began running he would be hot as popping grease even if the morning air was chill, or shoes because the bottoms of his feet were by now as tough as his worn-out sneakers.
        "Where you going, Jess?" May Belle lifted herself up sleepily from the double bed where she and Joyce Ann slept.
        "Sh." He warned. The walls were thin. Momma would he mad as flies in a fruit jar if they woke her up this time of day.
        He patted May Belle's hair and yanked the twisted sheet up to her small chin. "Just over the cow field," he whispered. May Belle smiled and snuggled down under the sheet.
        "Gonna run?"
        "Maybe."
        Of course he was going to run. He had gotten up early every day all summer to run. He figured if he worked at it – and Lord, had he worked – he could be the fastest runner in the fifth grade when school opened up. He had to be the fastest – not one of the fastest or next to the fastest, but the fastest. The very best.


(Excerpt from Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson. Available on https://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/135126/Patterson_- _Bridge_to_Terabithia.pdf)
“He figured if he worked at it – and Lord, had he worked.” What is the purpose of the inversion in this case?
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Q1719246 Inglês
Identify the correct (C) sentences and the incorrect ones (I). Then choose the best alternative.
1 - Is that car faster than this one? 2 - I´ve never being so confused in my life. 3 - She is the most brighter girl in the class. 4 - We bought a new house yesterday.
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Q1719189 Inglês
Future Cars at CES

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) ran in Las Vegas from the 5th to the 8th January 2017, and the big part of the show was about cars that can detect emotion, or are self-driving or are voice controlled. Honda’s latest concept, equipped with a digital assistant named HANA, can detect the driver’s emotions and play appropriate music. It can also function autonomously as a ride-sharing vehicle making money for its owner while the owner is at work or asleep. If you fancy speaking to your car, the Oasis concept car might interest you as it is voice-controlled. Its rear is designed for cargo like parcels or pizzas, and there is a small garden in the dashboard to make the space more personal. If you do not want to interact much with your car, the self-driving ones will do just fine. Nissan’s Seamless Autonomous Mobility system will help autonomous vehicles make decisions in unpredictable situations.
Choose the alternative with the CORRECT phonetic transcription of the highlighted words in the text.
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Q1718416 Inglês
Indicate the statement in which the stressed vowel indicated is wrong::
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Q1718413 Inglês
Tick the following pair of words that does not have the same sound:
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Q1709237 Inglês
Analise as afirmativas a seguir:
I. Em inglês, a frase “to cut a lomg story short”, possui um verbo reflexivo cujo significado principal é equivalente a “reutilizar” ou “reformar”. Assim, essa frase pode ser melhor traduzida como “para reutilizar algo” ou “para reformar algo”. II. O trecho a seguir, em inglês, está corretamente grafado: to keep to oneself (isolar-se dos outros espontaneamente).
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
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Q1709236 Inglês
Analise as afirmativas a seguir:
I. O trecho “there are no get files on him”, em inglês, está corretamente grafado e seu significado equivale a “ele não é bobo e não se deixa enganar”. II. A grafia do trecho a seguir em inglês está correta: you can now rim from his brother. A tradução mais correta para essa frase é: você não pode opinar sobre essa situação; ou você deve permanecer imparcial.
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Q1708865 Inglês
Based on your grammar knowledge, choose the correct alternative
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Q1702406 Inglês
Analise as afirmativas a seguir:

I. O trecho em inglês “five years were to pass” possui a grafia correta e pode ser adequadamente traduzido para: cinco anos teriam de passar.

II. O trecho em inglês “it’s changging to you” possui a grafia correta e pode ser adequadamente traduzido para: isso é com você.

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Q1702405 Inglês
Analise as afirmativas a seguir:

I. O trecho em inglês “as it is” possui a grafia correta e pode ser adequadamente traduzido para: de qualquer maneira.

II. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do seguinte trecho, em inglês: she eating to be 90 (ela viveu 90 anos).

Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
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Q1696790 Inglês
Choose the option where both grammar and vocabulary are correct:

I. “When she did get in, Andrea could see that she was not, in fact, so little.”
II. “It was then that she noticed something worrying about the dog.”
III. “She replaced the receiver, then quickly backed out of the door and ran into the street.”
IV. “At this point I called a plumber to come and fix my drain.”
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Q1696789 Inglês
Choose the option where both grammar and vocabulary are correct:

I. “When I was a child, I use to play on the streets all day long.”
II. “Eating habits today are worse than they used to be.”
III. “You have soccer practice at 2:00, haven’t you?”
IV. “He suffers from a disease that affects his humor.”
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Q1696788 Inglês
Choose the option where both grammar and vocabulary are correct:

I. “Kristin realizes she had done the wrong thing.”
II. “It’s been ages since you taken me out to a nice restaurant.”
III. “I had my place painted by a professional.”
IV. “I wish I were less worrying about not so important things.”
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Q1694823 Inglês
Observe the extracted part of the head of the article and choose the correct alternative for rewriting the date:
Mon 31 Aug 2020
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Q1694816 Inglês
“The current approach is bust,” said Prof Des Thompson, principal science adviser at NatureScot, Scotland’s conservation agency, which contributed to the declaration process run by the Scottish government. “What we need to do is work with local communities, local governments and local communities – that’s how we’re going to meet those targets.” (lines 9 – 12) 
Select the option that shows words that follow the same rules for plural as: “approach”, “community” and “government”.
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Q1692950 Inglês
Mark the correct sentence:
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Q1692532 Inglês
GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
All the words below have the same phonological position as in HAD, except
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Q1692093 Inglês
Which of these sentences are grammatically incorrect:
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Q1689517 Inglês
Text 3A2-I


    “Millions of children, every year, start school excited about what they will learn, but quickly become disillusioned when they get the idea they are not as ‘smart’ as others,” writes Jo Boaler. That’s because parents and teachers inadvertently give out the message that talent is inborn — you either have it or you don’t.
     As a math professor, Boaler has seen this firsthand. Many young adults enter her class anxious about math, and their fear about learning impacts their ability to learn.
     “The myth that our brains are fixed and that we simply don’t have the aptitude for certain topics is not only scientifically inaccurate; it is omnipresent and negatively impacts not only education, but many other events in our everyday lives,” she writes. Even though the science of neuroplasticity — how our brains change in response to learning — suggests learning can take place at any age, this news has not made it into classrooms, she argues.
     Some of our misguided visions of talent have led to racist and sexist attitudes, she writes. For example, many girls get the message early on that math is for boys and that boys are better at it, interfering with their ability to succeed and leading to gender disparities in fields of study related to math. Similarly, people of color may also have to overcome stereotypes about fixed intelligence in order to thrive.

How understanding your brain can help you learn.
Internet: <greatergood.berkeley.edu> (adapted)
The ending ‘-ate’ in ‘inaccurate’ (used in the third paragraph of text 3A2-I) has the same sound as the ending ‘-ate’ in
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201: A
202: B
203: D
204: C
205: A
206: A
207: C
208: D
209: C
210: B
211: B
212: E
213: D
214: B
215: E
216: C
217: D
218: B
219: B
220: E