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Q1147203
Inglês Discurso direto e indireto | Reported speech ,
Ano: 2020 Banca: IBADE Órgão: Prefeitura de Vila Velha - ES Prova: IBADE - 2020 - Prefeitura de Vila Velha - ES - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q1147203 Inglês

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How being bilingual can boost your career


Whether you’re fresh out of college or a seasoned executive, insiders agree that fluency in a second language can not only help you stand out among prospective employers, it can also open doors to opportunities that those without foreign language skills might miss. 


In today’s global economy, the ability to communicate in another language has become a significant advantage in the workforce. Research has found that people who speak at least one foreign language have an average annual household income that’s $10,000 higher than the household income of those who only speak English. And about 17 percent of those who speak at least one foreign language earn more than $100,000 a year. 


A recent survey found that nearly 9 out of 10 headhunters in Europe, Latin America, and Asia say that being at least bilingual is critical for success in today’s business environment. And 66 percent of North American recruiters agreed that being bilingual will be increasingly important in the next 10 years. 


“In today’s global economy you really have to understand the way business is done overseas to maximize your potential. A second language equips you for that,” says Alister Wellesley, managing partner of a Connecticut-based recruiting firm. “If you’re doing business overseas, or with someone from overseas, you obtain a certain degree of respect if you’re able to talk in their native language.” 


Language skills can also be key for service industries. At the Willard InterContinental Washington, a luxury hotel a few blocks from the White House, a staff of about 570 represents 42 nations, speaking 19 languages. The Willard’s front-of-house employees such as the concierge speak at least two languages. Bilingualism is not an absolute requirement, but it is desirable, according to Wendi Colby, director of human resources. 


Workers with skills in a second language may have an edge when it comes to climbing Willard’s professional ladder. “The individual that spoke more languages would have a better chance for a managerial role, whatever the next level would be,” Colby says. “They are able to deal with a wide array of clients, employees.” 


So which languages can give you a leg up on the job market? Insiders agree the most popular – and marketable – languages are Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian and Japanese, with a growing emphasis on Mandarin, given China’s booming economy. So let’s learn Mandarin!


“We see demand from a full range of industries,” says Wellesley. “Actually it depends on which company you’re working for and the country in which they’re located.” 


Adapted from: LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina & OXENDEN, Clive. American English File 5. 2nd edition. Oxford: OUP, 2018. 

Wendy told John, one of her coworkers: “Don’t be late!” Choose, among the options below, the correct sentence in reported speech: 
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Q1142887
Inglês Discurso direto e indireto | Reported speech ,
Ano: 2020 Banca: Instituto Ânima Sociesc Órgão: Prefeitura de Jaraguá do Sul - SC Prova: Instituto Ânima Sociesc - 2020 - Prefeitura de Jaraguá do Sul - SC - Professor de Ensino Fundamental - Inglês |
Q1142887 Inglês

Australia fires: What's being done to fight the flames?

Large parts of Australia __________ (devastate) by the worst wildfires the country __________ (see) in decades, with huge blazes tearing through bush, woodland and national parks. Record-breaking temperatures and months of drought __________ (help) the fires burn an estimated 10 million hectares (100,000 sq km) of land since 1 July.

Bushfire conditions EASED over the weekend, giving fire crews a period of temporary respite. But authorities __________ (say) the huge fires will persist until there is substantial rainfall. More hot weather is __________ (expect) next week and the risk was far from over, they said. Thousands of firefighters are still battling blazes across large swathes of Australia - ranging in size from small fires to infernos burning across hectares of land. Entire towns have been engulfed and residents across several states have lost their homes. At least 28 people have died.

State and federal authorities have been working together to try to stem the spread. While they have managed to contain some within a matter of days, the biggest blazes have been burning for months.

At least 3,700 firefighters are on the ground at any one time across the country during the worst periods, according to the country's state fire services. Most are in the worst-hit states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria. When fires have been at their worst, about 2,700 firefighters have been battling the blazes at any one time in NSW alone. Ben Shepherd, of the NSW Rural Fire Service, said his colleagues had dealt with 4.2m hectares of burning land this season, compared with the typical 300,000 hectares. "It's been an incredibly long campaign," he said.

Fire crews across the country have been joined by 3,000 army, navy and air force reservists who are assisting with search and rescue and clean-up efforts. Further support coming from the US, Canada, and New Zealand, who have sent additional teams and equipment to help.

                                         (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51008051 )

Choose the correct passive voice for the sentence: Ben Shepherd, of the NSW Rural Fire Service, (…) "It's been an incredibly long campaign," he said.
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Q1139132
Inglês Discurso direto e indireto | Reported speech ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: CONSULPAM Órgão: Prefeitura de Viana - ES Prova: CONSULPAM - 2019 - Prefeitura de Viana - ES - Professor de Educação Básica - Língua Inglesa |
Q1139132 Inglês
“Once a week, we had a family time called “Book club”. My mom would stop everything she was doing to go to my bedroom and read a book. Sometimes she liked to pretend she was actually inside the book and started making some funny voices, to best suit each character. Once I started get sleepy, she always kissed me in my forehead and said “I love you so much. You are the light of my life.” before she went to her bed. This is by far the best memory I have from my childhood.”
The sentence “I love you, baby girl. You are the light of my life” can be correctly reported as:
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Q1139130
Inglês Discurso direto e indireto | Reported speech ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: CONSULPAM Órgão: Prefeitura de Viana - ES Prova: CONSULPAM - 2019 - Prefeitura de Viana - ES - Professor de Educação Básica - Língua Inglesa |
Q1139130 Inglês
“She was always reclaiming that nobody recognized her skills. She never admitted any deception but we all knew our coordinator had a comprehensive list of sources and several reasons not to promote her. I pretend not to be aware and I’m very adept to make myself invisible when I need to.”
Choose the option in which the underlined word is wrongly classified:
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Q1118371
Inglês Discurso direto e indireto | Reported speech ,
Ano: 2018 Banca: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos) Órgão: Prefeitura de Pará de Minas - MG Prova: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos) - 2018 - Prefeitura de Pará de Minas - MG - Professor - Inglês |
Q1118371 Inglês
INSTRUCTIONS: This test comprises fifteen questions taken from the text below. Read the text carefully and then mark the alternatives that answer the questions or complete the sentences presented after it.

The whole affair began so very quietly. When I wrote, that summer, and asked my friend Louise if she would come with me on a car trip to Provence, I had no idea that I might be issuing an invitation to danger. And when we arrived one afternoon, after a hot but leisurely journey, at the enchanting little walled city of Avignon, we felt in that mood of pleasant weariness mingled with anticipation which marks, I believe, the beginning of every normal holiday.

I even sang to myself as I put the car away, and when I found they had given me a room with a balcony. And when, later on, the cat jumped on to my balcony, there was still nothing to indicate that this was the beginning of the whole strange, uneasy, tangled business. Or rather, not the beginning, but my own cue, the point where I came in. And, though the part I was to play in the tragedy was to break and re-form the pattern of my whole life, yet it was a very minor part, little more than a walk on in the last act. For most of the play had been played already; there had been love and lust and revenge and fear and murder – all the blood-tragedy – and now the killer, with blood enough on his hands, was waiting in the wings for the lights to go up again, on the last kill that would bring the final curtain down.

Louise is tall and fair and plump, with long legs, a pleasant voice, and beautiful hands. She is an artist, has no temperament to speak of, and is unutterably and incurably lazy. Before my marriage to Johnny Selbourne, I had taught at the Alice Private School for Girls in the West Midlands. Louise was still Art Mistress there, and owed her continued health and sanity to the habit of removing herself out of the trouble zone. 

When Louise had gone to her own room, I washed, changed into a white frock with a wide blue belt, and did my face and hair very slowly. It was still hot, and the late sun’s rays fell obliquely across the balcony, through the half-opened shutter, in a shaft of copper-gold. Motionless, the shadows of the thin leaves traced a pattern across it as delicate and precise as a Chinese painting on silk, the image of the tree, brushed in like that by the sun, had a grace that the tree itself gave no hint of, for it was merely one of the nameless spindly affairs, parched and dustladen, that struggled up towards the sky from their pots in the hotel out below. 

The courtyard was empty: people were still resting, or changing, or, if they were the mad English, walking out in the afternoon sun. A white-painted trellis wall separated the court on one side from the street, and beyond it people, mules, cars, occasionally even buses, moved about their business up and down the narrow thoroughfare. But inside the vine-covered trellis it was very still and peaceful.

Then fate took a hand. The first cue I had of it was the violent shaking of the shadows on the balcony. Then the ginger cat shot on to my balcony and sent down on her assailant the look to end all looks, and sat calmly down to wash. From below a rush and a volley of barking explained everything.

Then came a crash, and the sound of running feet.

The courtyard, formerly so empty and peaceful, seemed all of a sudden remarkably full of a boy and a large, nondescript dog. The latter, with his earnest gaze still on the balcony, was leaping futilely up and down, pouring out rage, hatred and excitement, while the boy tried with one hand to catch and quell him and with the other to lift one of the tables which had been knocked on to its side. It was, luckily, not one of those which had been set for dinner.

The boy looked up and saw me. He straightened, pushed his hair back from his forehead, and grinned.

“My French isn’t terribly good,” I said. “Do you speak English?”

He looked immensely pleased.

“Well, as a matter of fact, I am English,” he admitted. ”My name’s David,” he said. “David Shelley.”

Well, I was into the play.

I judged him to be about thirteen – who was lucky enough to be enjoying a holiday in the South of France.

Before I could speak again we were interrupted by a woman who came in through the vine-trellis, from the street. She was, I guessed, thirty-five. She was also blonde, tall, and quite the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. The simple cream dress she wore must have been one of Dior’s favourite dreams, and the bill for it her husband’s nightmare.

She did not see me at all, which again was perfectly natural. She paused a moment when she saw the boy and the dog, then came forward with a kind of eyecompelling glance which would have turned heads in Piccadilly on a wet Monday morning.

She paused and spoke. Her voice was pleasant, her English perfect, but her accent was that of a Frenchwoman.

              “David.”
No reply.
      “Mon fils... “

Her son? He did not glance up. “Don’t you know what time it is? Hurry up and change. It’s nearly dinner time.”

Without a word the boy went into the hotel, trailing a somewhat subdued dog after him on the end of a string. His mother stared after him for a moment, with an expression half puzzled, half exasperated. Then she gave a smiling little shrug of the shoulders and went into the hotel after the boy.

I picked my bag up and went downstairs for a drink.

STEWART, Mary. Madam, will you talk?. Hodder and
Stoughton: Coronet Books, 1977, p. 5-14 (Edited).

Mark the correct form for the reported speech of the sentence found in the text: “Well, as a matter of fact, I am English,” he admitted.
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Respostas
51: D
52: A
53: B
54: A
55: B
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