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Q2639865 Inglês

Consider the situation below and analyze the following sentences:


Sarah has a daughter. Her name is Martha, and she is ten years old. Every day she goes to school. She stays there from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. She’s at school now. Today Martha’s mother wants to speak to her daughter’s teacher. So she has gone to the school to see her. She’s at the school now.


I. We say Martha “goes to school” and “is at school” because we are not thinking of a specific school.

II. We say Martha’s mother “has gone to the school” and “is at the school” because we refer to a specific building (Martha’s school).

III. We say Martha’s mother “has gone to the school” and “is at the school” because we refer to one of many schools (Martha’s school).


Which ones are correct?

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Q2639864 Inglês

Analyze the following sentences:


I. They’re in the kitchen making coffee.

II. Having found a hotel, we looked for somewhere to eat.

III. Feeling tired, I went to bed early.


Which of the following alternatives is correct?

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Q2639862 Inglês

Consider the following situation:


Last week I saw a friend of mine at the bus stop on my way home. She was waiting for the bus. So, I can say:

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Q2639861 Inglês

Consider the following situation and mark the correct alternative.


This morning my father got up at 7 a.m., had a shower, had breakfast and afterwards went to work. More precisely at 8:30 a.m. he got into the car and drove off. I saw it. So, I can say:

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Q2639858 Inglês

Consider the following situation:


“Last summer Paul and Sarah went on vacation to the beach. It rained a lot, but they had a good time.”


Choose the alternative that CAN’T be replaced with “... but they had a good time”:

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Q2639854 Inglês

In which of the sentences “have to” isn’t usually replaced with “must”? Choose the correct option.

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Q2639847 Inglês

In the sentence “I was so tired I could sleep for twenty hours” what the speaker infers is that:

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Q2639845 Inglês

Analyze the following statements about the sentence “I _______ come and see you tomorrow”:


I. If we fill in the gap with “can” it means something is possible or somebody has the ability to do it.

II. If we fill in the gap with “may” it means there’s a probability of something to happen.

III. If we fill in the gap with “should” it means it is a good or the right thing to do.


Which one are correct?

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Q2639839 Inglês

Analyze the following statements about the sentence “The fire spread quickly, but fortunately everyone was able to escape”:


I. We can replace “was able to escape” with “managed to escape”.

II. We can replace “was able to escape” with “could escape”.

III. We can replace “was able” with “succeded in” followed by “escaping”.


Which ones are correct?

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Q2639827 Inglês

Analyze the following statements about the sentence “They have lived in London for twenty years”:


I. They moved to London twenty years ago.

II. They moved to London in 2003.

III. They moved to London twenty years ago, but now they live in Cambridge.


Which ones are correct?

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Q2639826 Inglês

Analyze the following sentence: “Yesterday evening I left work at 6 p.m. and went straight home. When I arrived home last night my parents had had dinner and were watching a movie”. Choose the alternative that IS NOT correct.

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Q2639825 Inglês

Analyze the following sentence and choose the correct alternative: “Ann has lost her cell phone”.

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Q2639821 Inglês

Instruction: answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.


Carnival


  1. ______ Carnival is ____ festival celebrated in _____countries of Catholic tradition, often
  2. with public parades of playful, imaginative wagons typically called "floats, masking, jokes and
  3. feasts”.
  4. Etymology
  5. The word carnival comes from the Latin "carnem levare" (=eliminate meat) and
  6. originally indicated the banquet that was held on the last day of Carnival (Mardi Gras),
  7. immediately before Lent, the period of fasting and abstinence when Christians would abstain
  8. _____ meat. The first evidence of the use of the word "carnevale" (or "carnevalo") are the texts
  9. of minstrel Matazone da Caligano of the late 13th century and writer Giovanni Sercambi around
  10. 1400.
  11. Carnival period
  12. In Catholic countries, traditionally Carnival begins on the Septuagesima Sunday (70
  13. days to Easter, it was the first of the nine Sundays before the Holy Week in the Gregorian
  14. calendar), and in the Roman rite ends on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the
  15. beginning of Lent. The climax is usually from Thursday until Tuesday, the last day of Carnival.
  16. Being connected with Easter which is a moveable feast, the final dates of Carnival vary each
  17. year, though in some places it may begin already on 17th January. Since Catholic Easter is on
  18. the Sunday after the 17first full moon of spring, therefore from 22 March to 25 April, and since
  19. there are 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, then in non-leap years the last day of
  20. Carnival, Mardi Gras, can fall any time within February 3 to March 9.
  21. In the Ambrosian rite, which is followed in the Archdiocese of Milan and in some
  22. neighboring dioceses, Lent begins with the first Sunday of Lent, therefore the last day of
  23. Carnival is on Saturday, four days later than the Mardi Gras in other areas of Italy.
  24. Carnival in antiquity
  25. Although present in the Catholic tradition, Carnival has its origins in much older
  26. celebrations, such as the Greek Dionysian festivals ("Anthesteria") or the Roman "Saturnalia".
  27. During these ancient rites a temporary dissolution of the social obligations and hierarchies took
  28. place in favor of chaos, jokes and even debauchery. From a historical and religious point of
  29. view Carnival represented, therefore, a period of renewal, when chaos replaced the established
  30. order, but once festive period was over, a new or the old order re-emerged for another cycle
  31. until the next carnival.
  32. In Babylon, shortly after the vernal equinox the process of the foundation of the cosmos
  33. was re-enacted, described with the myth of the struggle of Marduk, the savior-god with Tiamat
  34. the dragon, which ended with the victory of the former. During these ceremonies a procession
  35. was held in which the forces of chaos were allegorically represented fighting the recreation of
  36. the universe, that is the myth of the death and resurrection of Marduk, the savior. In the parade
  37. there was a ship on wheels where the deities Moon and Sun were carried along a large avenue
  38. - a symbol of the Zodiac - to the sanctuary of Babylon, symbol of the earth. This period was
  39. accompanied by an unbridled freedom and a reversal of social order and morality.
  40. In the Roman world the feast in honor of the Egyptian goddess Isis involved the presence
  41. of masked groups, as told by Lucius Apuleius in the Metamorphoses (Book XI). Among the
  42. Romans the end of the old year was represented by a man covered with goat skins, carried in
  43. procession, hit with sticks and called Mamurius Veturius.
  44. Carnival is therefore a moment in a mythic cycle, it is the movement of spirits between
  45. heaven, earth and the underworld. In the spring, when the earth begins to show its power,
  46. Carnival opens a passage between the earth and the underworld, whose souls must be honored
  47. and for a short period the living lend them their bodies wearing masks. Masks therefore have
  48. often an apotropaic meaning, as the wearer takes on the features of the spirit represented.
  49. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Medici in Florence organized large masked carts
  50. called "Trionfi" accompanied by carnival songs and dances one, the "Trionfo di Bacco e Arianna"
  51. also written by Lorenzo the Magnificent. In Rome under the Popes horse races took place and
  52. a called the "race of moccoletti" where runners bearing lit candles tried to blow out each other's
  53. candles.


(Available at: http://www.italyheritage.com/traditions/carnival/2023/04/14/ – text especially adapted for this test).

The use of the underlined verb ‘would’ (line 07) indicates:

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Q2639815 Inglês

Instruction: answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.


Carnival


  1. ______ Carnival is ____ festival celebrated in _____countries of Catholic tradition, often
  2. with public parades of playful, imaginative wagons typically called "floats, masking, jokes and
  3. feasts”.
  4. Etymology
  5. The word carnival comes from the Latin "carnem levare" (=eliminate meat) and
  6. originally indicated the banquet that was held on the last day of Carnival (Mardi Gras),
  7. immediately before Lent, the period of fasting and abstinence when Christians would abstain
  8. _____ meat. The first evidence of the use of the word "carnevale" (or "carnevalo") are the texts
  9. of minstrel Matazone da Caligano of the late 13th century and writer Giovanni Sercambi around
  10. 1400.
  11. Carnival period
  12. In Catholic countries, traditionally Carnival begins on the Septuagesima Sunday (70
  13. days to Easter, it was the first of the nine Sundays before the Holy Week in the Gregorian
  14. calendar), and in the Roman rite ends on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the
  15. beginning of Lent. The climax is usually from Thursday until Tuesday, the last day of Carnival.
  16. Being connected with Easter which is a moveable feast, the final dates of Carnival vary each
  17. year, though in some places it may begin already on 17th January. Since Catholic Easter is on
  18. the Sunday after the 17first full moon of spring, therefore from 22 March to 25 April, and since
  19. there are 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, then in non-leap years the last day of
  20. Carnival, Mardi Gras, can fall any time within February 3 to March 9.
  21. In the Ambrosian rite, which is followed in the Archdiocese of Milan and in some
  22. neighboring dioceses, Lent begins with the first Sunday of Lent, therefore the last day of
  23. Carnival is on Saturday, four days later than the Mardi Gras in other areas of Italy.
  24. Carnival in antiquity
  25. Although present in the Catholic tradition, Carnival has its origins in much older
  26. celebrations, such as the Greek Dionysian festivals ("Anthesteria") or the Roman "Saturnalia".
  27. During these ancient rites a temporary dissolution of the social obligations and hierarchies took
  28. place in favor of chaos, jokes and even debauchery. From a historical and religious point of
  29. view Carnival represented, therefore, a period of renewal, when chaos replaced the established
  30. order, but once festive period was over, a new or the old order re-emerged for another cycle
  31. until the next carnival.
  32. In Babylon, shortly after the vernal equinox the process of the foundation of the cosmos
  33. was re-enacted, described with the myth of the struggle of Marduk, the savior-god with Tiamat
  34. the dragon, which ended with the victory of the former. During these ceremonies a procession
  35. was held in which the forces of chaos were allegorically represented fighting the recreation of
  36. the universe, that is the myth of the death and resurrection of Marduk, the savior. In the parade
  37. there was a ship on wheels where the deities Moon and Sun were carried along a large avenue
  38. - a symbol of the Zodiac - to the sanctuary of Babylon, symbol of the earth. This period was
  39. accompanied by an unbridled freedom and a reversal of social order and morality.
  40. In the Roman world the feast in honor of the Egyptian goddess Isis involved the presence
  41. of masked groups, as told by Lucius Apuleius in the Metamorphoses (Book XI). Among the
  42. Romans the end of the old year was represented by a man covered with goat skins, carried in
  43. procession, hit with sticks and called Mamurius Veturius.
  44. Carnival is therefore a moment in a mythic cycle, it is the movement of spirits between
  45. heaven, earth and the underworld. In the spring, when the earth begins to show its power,
  46. Carnival opens a passage between the earth and the underworld, whose souls must be honored
  47. and for a short period the living lend them their bodies wearing masks. Masks therefore have
  48. often an apotropaic meaning, as the wearer takes on the features of the spirit represented.
  49. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Medici in Florence organized large masked carts
  50. called "Trionfi" accompanied by carnival songs and dances one, the "Trionfo di Bacco e Arianna"
  51. also written by Lorenzo the Magnificent. In Rome under the Popes horse races took place and
  52. a called the "race of moccoletti" where runners bearing lit candles tried to blow out each other's
  53. candles.


(Available at: http://www.italyheritage.com/traditions/carnival/2023/04/14/ – text especially adapted for this test).

Select the alternative that defines correctly the bold word “Lent” (line 07):

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Q2639811 Inglês

Instruction: answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.


Carnival


  1. ______ Carnival is ____ festival celebrated in _____countries of Catholic tradition, often
  2. with public parades of playful, imaginative wagons typically called "floats, masking, jokes and
  3. feasts”.
  4. Etymology
  5. The word carnival comes from the Latin "carnem levare" (=eliminate meat) and
  6. originally indicated the banquet that was held on the last day of Carnival (Mardi Gras),
  7. immediately before Lent, the period of fasting and abstinence when Christians would abstain
  8. _____ meat. The first evidence of the use of the word "carnevale" (or "carnevalo") are the texts
  9. of minstrel Matazone da Caligano of the late 13th century and writer Giovanni Sercambi around
  10. 1400.
  11. Carnival period
  12. In Catholic countries, traditionally Carnival begins on the Septuagesima Sunday (70
  13. days to Easter, it was the first of the nine Sundays before the Holy Week in the Gregorian
  14. calendar), and in the Roman rite ends on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the
  15. beginning of Lent. The climax is usually from Thursday until Tuesday, the last day of Carnival.
  16. Being connected with Easter which is a moveable feast, the final dates of Carnival vary each
  17. year, though in some places it may begin already on 17th January. Since Catholic Easter is on
  18. the Sunday after the 17first full moon of spring, therefore from 22 March to 25 April, and since
  19. there are 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, then in non-leap years the last day of
  20. Carnival, Mardi Gras, can fall any time within February 3 to March 9.
  21. In the Ambrosian rite, which is followed in the Archdiocese of Milan and in some
  22. neighboring dioceses, Lent begins with the first Sunday of Lent, therefore the last day of
  23. Carnival is on Saturday, four days later than the Mardi Gras in other areas of Italy.
  24. Carnival in antiquity
  25. Although present in the Catholic tradition, Carnival has its origins in much older
  26. celebrations, such as the Greek Dionysian festivals ("Anthesteria") or the Roman "Saturnalia".
  27. During these ancient rites a temporary dissolution of the social obligations and hierarchies took
  28. place in favor of chaos, jokes and even debauchery. From a historical and religious point of
  29. view Carnival represented, therefore, a period of renewal, when chaos replaced the established
  30. order, but once festive period was over, a new or the old order re-emerged for another cycle
  31. until the next carnival.
  32. In Babylon, shortly after the vernal equinox the process of the foundation of the cosmos
  33. was re-enacted, described with the myth of the struggle of Marduk, the savior-god with Tiamat
  34. the dragon, which ended with the victory of the former. During these ceremonies a procession
  35. was held in which the forces of chaos were allegorically represented fighting the recreation of
  36. the universe, that is the myth of the death and resurrection of Marduk, the savior. In the parade
  37. there was a ship on wheels where the deities Moon and Sun were carried along a large avenue
  38. - a symbol of the Zodiac - to the sanctuary of Babylon, symbol of the earth. This period was
  39. accompanied by an unbridled freedom and a reversal of social order and morality.
  40. In the Roman world the feast in honor of the Egyptian goddess Isis involved the presence
  41. of masked groups, as told by Lucius Apuleius in the Metamorphoses (Book XI). Among the
  42. Romans the end of the old year was represented by a man covered with goat skins, carried in
  43. procession, hit with sticks and called Mamurius Veturius.
  44. Carnival is therefore a moment in a mythic cycle, it is the movement of spirits between
  45. heaven, earth and the underworld. In the spring, when the earth begins to show its power,
  46. Carnival opens a passage between the earth and the underworld, whose souls must be honored
  47. and for a short period the living lend them their bodies wearing masks. Masks therefore have
  48. often an apotropaic meaning, as the wearer takes on the features of the spirit represented.
  49. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Medici in Florence organized large masked carts
  50. called "Trionfi" accompanied by carnival songs and dances one, the "Trionfo di Bacco e Arianna"
  51. also written by Lorenzo the Magnificent. In Rome under the Popes horse races took place and
  52. a called the "race of moccoletti" where runners bearing lit candles tried to blow out each other's
  53. candles.


(Available at: http://www.italyheritage.com/traditions/carnival/2023/04/14/ – text especially adapted for this test).

The expression “chaos, jokes and even debauchery” (line 28) refers to:

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Q2638402 Inglês

How were the first 'voice mails' sent? In envelopes


“Hello Mother, Dad, and Blanche,” a quiet voice says above the cracks and pops of an old vinyl record, which has clearly been played many times over. “How’s everything at home? I’m recording this from Dallas…from this very little place where there are pinball machines and many other things like that…”

The disc is small, seven inches across, dated ___________ 1954. The faded green label shows that the speaker’s name is “Gene,” the recording addressed to “Folks.” Gene suggests in his minute-long message that he is traveling—“seeing America”—and tells his family not to worry about him.

“I should complete my trip sometime around Thanksgiving. I hope you received my letter and I, in turn, hope to receive some of the letters that you sent me.”

This largely forgotten sound is one of the world’s early “voice mails.” During the first half of the 20th century, these audio letters and other messages were recorded largely in booths, pressed onto metal discs and vinyl records, and mailed in places all over the world. Best known today for playing music at home, record players were then being used as a means of _____________ over long distances.

The idea of transporting a person’s voice had _________ large in the human imagination for some three centuries before it was finally achieved with the invention of the phonograph in the late 19th century. Historical documents from the Qing Dynasty in 16th-century China suggest the existence of a mysterious device called the “thousand-mile speaker,” a wooden cylinder that could be spoken into and sealed, such that the recipient could still hear the reverberations when opening it back up.


(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)

In “‘Hello Mother, Dad, and Blanche,’ a quiet voice says above the cracks and pops of an old vinyl record [...]”, the underlined word can be substituted without loss of meaning by:

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Q2638401 Inglês

How were the first 'voice mails' sent? In envelopes


“Hello Mother, Dad, and Blanche,” a quiet voice says above the cracks and pops of an old vinyl record, which has clearly been played many times over. “How’s everything at home? I’m recording this from Dallas…from this very little place where there are pinball machines and many other things like that…”

The disc is small, seven inches across, dated ___________ 1954. The faded green label shows that the speaker’s name is “Gene,” the recording addressed to “Folks.” Gene suggests in his minute-long message that he is traveling—“seeing America”—and tells his family not to worry about him.

“I should complete my trip sometime around Thanksgiving. I hope you received my letter and I, in turn, hope to receive some of the letters that you sent me.”

This largely forgotten sound is one of the world’s early “voice mails.” During the first half of the 20th century, these audio letters and other messages were recorded largely in booths, pressed onto metal discs and vinyl records, and mailed in places all over the world. Best known today for playing music at home, record players were then being used as a means of _____________ over long distances.

The idea of transporting a person’s voice had _________ large in the human imagination for some three centuries before it was finally achieved with the invention of the phonograph in the late 19th century. Historical documents from the Qing Dynasty in 16th-century China suggest the existence of a mysterious device called the “thousand-mile speaker,” a wooden cylinder that could be spoken into and sealed, such that the recipient could still hear the reverberations when opening it back up.


(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)

Concerning the parts of speech, the underlined word in “How’s everything at home?” is classified as a/an:

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Q2638399 Inglês

How were the first 'voice mails' sent? In envelopes


“Hello Mother, Dad, and Blanche,” a quiet voice says above the cracks and pops of an old vinyl record, which has clearly been played many times over. “How’s everything at home? I’m recording this from Dallas…from this very little place where there are pinball machines and many other things like that…”

The disc is small, seven inches across, dated ___________ 1954. The faded green label shows that the speaker’s name is “Gene,” the recording addressed to “Folks.” Gene suggests in his minute-long message that he is traveling—“seeing America”—and tells his family not to worry about him.

“I should complete my trip sometime around Thanksgiving. I hope you received my letter and I, in turn, hope to receive some of the letters that you sent me.”

This largely forgotten sound is one of the world’s early “voice mails.” During the first half of the 20th century, these audio letters and other messages were recorded largely in booths, pressed onto metal discs and vinyl records, and mailed in places all over the world. Best known today for playing music at home, record players were then being used as a means of _____________ over long distances.

The idea of transporting a person’s voice had _________ large in the human imagination for some three centuries before it was finally achieved with the invention of the phonograph in the late 19th century. Historical documents from the Qing Dynasty in 16th-century China suggest the existence of a mysterious device called the “thousand-mile speaker,” a wooden cylinder that could be spoken into and sealed, such that the recipient could still hear the reverberations when opening it back up.


(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)

Check the alternative that CORRECTLY fills the gaps in the text:

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Q2638354 Inglês

Considere a situação a seguir:


O(a) professor(a) de Língua Inglesa de uma escola pública municipal começa a aula pedindo aos alunos que escutem um diálogo em inglês e repitam após ele(a). Os alunos começam a se familiarizar com a pronúncia correta das palavras e a entonação da língua. Em seguida, a(o) professor(a) pede que os alunos realizem exercícios de repetição, para fixar o vocabulário aprendido. Ao final da aula, os alunos estão empolgados e confiantes para praticar a língua inglesa em situações cotidianas.


Podemos afirmar que o método empreendido pelo(a) professor(a) é o:

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Q2638353 Inglês

What is the process called when two sounds merge into one in connected speech, and which sound is often deleted or weakened in English phonology?

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Respostas
141: E
142: B
143: B
144: A
145: C
146: B
147: C
148: E
149: D
150: E
151: D
152: A
153: C
154: C
155: A
156: C
157: D
158: A
159: D
160: E