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Read the following conversation.
* Lisa, come here. Look carefully. Is ___ your History book?
# Let me see. No, it's not. Mine is on ___ table by the window. Gee, I almost left it there.
Concerning the use of demonstrative pronouns, choose the option that completes the text correctly.
Read the conversation below.
* Can I see ___ blouse over there? I would also like to see ___ blue jeans on that shelf.
# Sure. Just a moment, please.
Considering the use of demonstrative pronouns, choose the option that completes the text correctly.
Consider the following conversation.
# ___did Ray move to London?
* Because he got a good job there.
# ___did he travel?
* Yesterday.
Considering the use of interrogative pronouns, choose the option below that completes the conversation correctly.
Read the next conversation.
* ___does Helen live?
# She lives on Second Avenue.
* ___do I get there?
# Take the subway. It's faster.
* Thanks.
Choose the option that lists two interrogative pronouns that complete the dialogue correctly.
Read the following text.
Sarah and I work for a big company. As a matter of fact, ___ both work for the same person. ___ boss is kind but hardworking. He makes ___ work on weekends. And I hate working on weekends!
Choose the option below with three pronouns that complete the text correctly.
This text refers to questions from 35 through 37
Letters to the editor
1 Dear Editor:
I’m sick and tired of the traffic in this city! It is so bad
that I can never get anywhere on time. There are too many
4 cars on the road, and most of them have only one person in
them. Another problem is the buses. They are so old and slow
that nobody wants to take them. They are noisy and very dirty.
7 You can’t even see out the windows! Also, the taxi drivers are
rude. They never know where they are going, and they take a
long time to get someplace. Taxis are expensive, too. And the
10 subway is just too crowded and dangerous. What are we going
to do?
Jack C. Richards In: New Interchange 2. Interchange activities 2, Cambridge University Press (adapted).
Consider the clause "they take a long time to get someplace" (l.8-9). Its interrogative form is:
This text refers to questions from 30 through 34
Choosing an ecodestination
1 Imagine visiting an uncrowded, beautifully preserved
coastline or rain forest. A local guide is ready and able to
explain the natural wonders before you. Imagine relaxing
4 among local people who are genuinely happy to meet you and
share their world. This vision is no fantasy. Vacations for
environmentally and culturally aware travelers are available
7 in many locations around the world.
In Brazil, an ecoresort on the coast of Bahia helps to
save the Atlantic rain forest, one of the most endangered on
10 earth. Visitors can explore the forest with “mini guides”, local
children who take great pride in the beauty of their forest.
Visitors can also spend time at a sea turtle breeding facility
13 next to the resort. Here they can learn how villagers protect
the nesting sea turtles every night on the beach in front of the
tourists’ hotel.
16 Off the coast of Western Samoa — a Pacific island
known for its unique culture and exotic scenery — lies a very
special small island. On this island, local villagers still fish in
19 the early morning hours and weave their nets during the day.
Villagers warmly welcome visitors by preparing meals of
fresh, local seafood. Later, guests are invited to take part in a
22 ceremonial dance on the beach under the stars. After the
ceremony, guests retire to a locally owned hotel and enjoy the
sounds of the South Sea.
Jack C. Richards e Samuela Eckstut-Didier. In: Strategic Reading 1, Cambridge University Press (adapted).
This text refers to questions from 30 through 34
Choosing an ecodestination
1 Imagine visiting an uncrowded, beautifully preserved
coastline or rain forest. A local guide is ready and able to
explain the natural wonders before you. Imagine relaxing
4 among local people who are genuinely happy to meet you and
share their world. This vision is no fantasy. Vacations for
environmentally and culturally aware travelers are available
7 in many locations around the world.
In Brazil, an ecoresort on the coast of Bahia helps to
save the Atlantic rain forest, one of the most endangered on
10 earth. Visitors can explore the forest with “mini guides”, local
children who take great pride in the beauty of their forest.
Visitors can also spend time at a sea turtle breeding facility
13 next to the resort. Here they can learn how villagers protect
the nesting sea turtles every night on the beach in front of the
tourists’ hotel.
16 Off the coast of Western Samoa — a Pacific island
known for its unique culture and exotic scenery — lies a very
special small island. On this island, local villagers still fish in
19 the early morning hours and weave their nets during the day.
Villagers warmly welcome visitors by preparing meals of
fresh, local seafood. Later, guests are invited to take part in a
22 ceremonial dance on the beach under the stars. After the
ceremony, guests retire to a locally owned hotel and enjoy the
sounds of the South Sea.
Jack C. Richards e Samuela Eckstut-Didier. In: Strategic Reading 1, Cambridge University Press (adapted).
According to the text, we can say that, on the coast of Bahia and off the coast of Western Samoa, local people
This text refers to questions from 30 through 34
Choosing an ecodestination
1 Imagine visiting an uncrowded, beautifully preserved
coastline or rain forest. A local guide is ready and able to
explain the natural wonders before you. Imagine relaxing
4 among local people who are genuinely happy to meet you and
share their world. This vision is no fantasy. Vacations for
environmentally and culturally aware travelers are available
7 in many locations around the world.
In Brazil, an ecoresort on the coast of Bahia helps to
save the Atlantic rain forest, one of the most endangered on
10 earth. Visitors can explore the forest with “mini guides”, local
children who take great pride in the beauty of their forest.
Visitors can also spend time at a sea turtle breeding facility
13 next to the resort. Here they can learn how villagers protect
the nesting sea turtles every night on the beach in front of the
tourists’ hotel.
16 Off the coast of Western Samoa — a Pacific island
known for its unique culture and exotic scenery — lies a very
special small island. On this island, local villagers still fish in
19 the early morning hours and weave their nets during the day.
Villagers warmly welcome visitors by preparing meals of
fresh, local seafood. Later, guests are invited to take part in a
22 ceremonial dance on the beach under the stars. After the
ceremony, guests retire to a locally owned hotel and enjoy the
sounds of the South Sea.
Jack C. Richards e Samuela Eckstut-Didier. In: Strategic Reading 1, Cambridge University Press (adapted).
It is correct to infer from the text that "environmentally and culturally aware travelers" (l.6) are those people who
O texto a seguir é referência para as questões 14 e 15.
William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania. Son of an admiral, he was sent to a Puritan school and was expelled from Oxford as a dissenter in 1660. Sent to Ireland to manage the family estates, he regularly attended the Quaker meeting at Cork, and on his return to England he was twice imprisoned for proselytizing, but nonetheless retained connections with the court. In 1681, Charles II repaid a debt owed to Penn’s father by granting him a large province on the west bank of the Delaware river in North America. Penn drew up a frame of government providing for religious toleration in the new colony, which he named Pennsylvania. After he had supervised the building of Philadelphia (1682-4), he returned to England and, on James II’s accession, secured the release of some 1,200 Quaker prisoners. Out of favour after the Glorious Revolution, he returned to America in 1699, but financial mismanagement forced him to mortgage his rights as proprietor of the colony.
(Gardiner, J., & Wenborn, N. (eds.) (1995). The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown.)
In 1681, Penn became the owner of Pennsylvania because:
O texto a seguir é referência para as questões 14 e 15.
William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania. Son of an admiral, he was sent to a Puritan school and was expelled from Oxford as a dissenter in 1660. Sent to Ireland to manage the family estates, he regularly attended the Quaker meeting at Cork, and on his return to England he was twice imprisoned for proselytizing, but nonetheless retained connections with the court. In 1681, Charles II repaid a debt owed to Penn’s father by granting him a large province on the west bank of the Delaware river in North America. Penn drew up a frame of government providing for religious toleration in the new colony, which he named Pennsylvania. After he had supervised the building of Philadelphia (1682-4), he returned to England and, on James II’s accession, secured the release of some 1,200 Quaker prisoners. Out of favour after the Glorious Revolution, he returned to America in 1699, but financial mismanagement forced him to mortgage his rights as proprietor of the colony.
(Gardiner, J., & Wenborn, N. (eds.) (1995). The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown.)
Penn was imprisoned in England:
O texto a seguir é referência para as questões de 11 a 13.
We are accustomed to thinking of military success as determined by quality of weaponry, rather than by food supply. But a clear example of how improvements in food supply may decisively increase military success comes from the history of Maori New Zealand. The Maori are the Polynesian people who were the first to settle New Zealand. Traditionally, they fought frequent fierce wars against each other, but only against closely neighboring tribes. Those wars were limited by the modest productivity of their agriculture, whose staple crop was sweet potatoes. It was not possible to grow enough sweet potatoes to feed an army in the field for a long time or on distant marches. When Europeans arrived in New Zealand, they brought potatoes, which beginning around 1815 considerably increased Maori crop yields. Maori could now grow enough food to supply armies in the field for many weeks. The result was a 15-year period in Maori history, from 1818 until 1833, when Maori tribes that had acquired potatoes and guns from the English sent armies out on raids to attack tribes hundreds of miles away that had not yet acquired potatoes and guns. Thus, the potato’s productivity relieved previous limitations on Maori warfare, similar to the limitations that low-productivity corn agriculture imposed on Maya warfare.
(Diamond, J. (2006). Collapse. London: Penguin.)
Why does the text mention the Maya?
O texto a seguir é referência para as questões de 11 a 13.
We are accustomed to thinking of military success as determined by quality of weaponry, rather than by food supply. But a clear example of how improvements in food supply may decisively increase military success comes from the history of Maori New Zealand. The Maori are the Polynesian people who were the first to settle New Zealand. Traditionally, they fought frequent fierce wars against each other, but only against closely neighboring tribes. Those wars were limited by the modest productivity of their agriculture, whose staple crop was sweet potatoes. It was not possible to grow enough sweet potatoes to feed an army in the field for a long time or on distant marches. When Europeans arrived in New Zealand, they brought potatoes, which beginning around 1815 considerably increased Maori crop yields. Maori could now grow enough food to supply armies in the field for many weeks. The result was a 15-year period in Maori history, from 1818 until 1833, when Maori tribes that had acquired potatoes and guns from the English sent armies out on raids to attack tribes hundreds of miles away that had not yet acquired potatoes and guns. Thus, the potato’s productivity relieved previous limitations on Maori warfare, similar to the limitations that low-productivity corn agriculture imposed on Maya warfare.
(Diamond, J. (2006). Collapse. London: Penguin.)
Which of the following sentences is NOT true, according to the text?
O texto a seguir é referência para as questões de 11 a 13.
We are accustomed to thinking of military success as determined by quality of weaponry, rather than by food supply. But a clear example of how improvements in food supply may decisively increase military success comes from the history of Maori New Zealand. The Maori are the Polynesian people who were the first to settle New Zealand. Traditionally, they fought frequent fierce wars against each other, but only against closely neighboring tribes. Those wars were limited by the modest productivity of their agriculture, whose staple crop was sweet potatoes. It was not possible to grow enough sweet potatoes to feed an army in the field for a long time or on distant marches. When Europeans arrived in New Zealand, they brought potatoes, which beginning around 1815 considerably increased Maori crop yields. Maori could now grow enough food to supply armies in the field for many weeks. The result was a 15-year period in Maori history, from 1818 until 1833, when Maori tribes that had acquired potatoes and guns from the English sent armies out on raids to attack tribes hundreds of miles away that had not yet acquired potatoes and guns. Thus, the potato’s productivity relieved previous limitations on Maori warfare, similar to the limitations that low-productivity corn agriculture imposed on Maya warfare.
(Diamond, J. (2006). Collapse. London: Penguin.)
How did the arrival of Europeans change Maori warfare?
Leia o texto para responder às questões de números 49 e 50.
Food Supply Worries ofan Agricultural Scientist — Climate Change
People involved in world agriculture have no patience with the supposed “debate” about climate change. We are already seeing the effects, and the projections for the future are not encouraging.
The most troubling feature of this phenomenon (and one that occurs even if you don't believe that it is human-driven) is that we are facing increasing variation in climatic events. The yearly changes in average temperature or even annual rainfall may not be dramatic, but what we are anticipating is that there will be more extreme weather events.
(www.sustainablog.org/category/climate-change/01.10.2009. Adaptado)
The term but in — The yearly changes in average temperature or even annual rainfall may not be dramatic, but what we are anticipating is that there will be more extreme weather events. — is correctly replaced by
Leia o texto para responder às questões de números 49 e 50.
Food Supply Worries ofan Agricultural Scientist — Climate Change
People involved in world agriculture have no patience with the supposed “debate” about climate change. We are already seeing the effects, and the projections for the future are not encouraging.
The most troubling feature of this phenomenon (and one that occurs even if you don't believe that it is human-driven) is that we are facing increasing variation in climatic events. The yearly changes in average temperature or even annual rainfall may not be dramatic, but what we are anticipating is that there will be more extreme weather events.
(www.sustainablog.org/category/climate-change/01.10.2009. Adaptado)
According to the text, the phenomenon of climate change is
Para responder às questões de números 47 e 48, leia o texto.
Petrobras" investments are guaranteed until 2013
SÃO PAULO, 6/30/09 — The financial and investor relations director of Brazilian mixed-capital oil giant Petrobras, Almir Barbassa, said Monday that the company's investment plan is guaranteed until 2013.
Barbassa also mentioned that the company has been cutting down on costs and investments in order to ensure the exploration of the subsalt reserves. The executive pointed out that Petrobras” operating costs fell by 30% in the final quarter of 2008.
“We are also trying to cut down the equipment that will be used in the subsalt platform and lower labor costs by investing in automation”, Barbassa added.
Petrobras already has over US$30 billion in financing for its future oil and gas exploration and refining and gas transport infrastructure projects. “Petrobras expects to produce 5.7 million barrels of oil equivalent a day (boed) by 2020”, he added.
The 2009 production target is 2.7 million boed.
(www.indexet.investimentosenoticias.com.br/arquivo/2009/06/30/26/Petrobras-investments-are-guaranteed-until-2013.html)
The term guaranteed in — Petrobras” investments are guaranteed until 2013 — means that the investments will be
Para responder às questões de números 47 e 48, leia o texto.
Petrobras" investments are guaranteed until 2013
SÃO PAULO, 6/30/09 — The financial and investor relations director of Brazilian mixed-capital oil giant Petrobras, Almir Barbassa, said Monday that the company's investment plan is guaranteed until 2013.
Barbassa also mentioned that the company has been cutting down on costs and investments in order to ensure the exploration of the subsalt reserves. The executive pointed out that Petrobras” operating costs fell by 30% in the final quarter of 2008.
“We are also trying to cut down the equipment that will be used in the subsalt platform and lower labor costs by investing in automation”, Barbassa added.
Petrobras already has over US$30 billion in financing for its future oil and gas exploration and refining and gas transport infrastructure projects. “Petrobras expects to produce 5.7 million barrels of oil equivalent a day (boed) by 2020”, he added.
The 2009 production target is 2.7 million boed.
(www.indexet.investimentosenoticias.com.br/arquivo/2009/06/30/26/Petrobras-investments-are-guaranteed-until-2013.html)
According to the text,
Texto II, para responder às questões 8 e 9.
Criminal Intelligence Analysis
1 Criminal Intelligence Analysis (sometimes called
Crime Analysis) has been recognized by law enforcement as
a useful support tool for over twenty-five years and is
4 successfully used within the international community. Within
the last decade, the role and position of Criminal Intelligence
Analysis in the global law enforcement community has
7 fundamentally changed. Whereas previously there were a few
key countries acting as forerunners and promoters of the
discipline, more and more countries have implemented
10 analytical techniques within their police forces. International
organizations, such as INTERPOL, Europol and the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
13 (ICTY), all have Criminal Intelligence Analysts among their
personnel. The techniques are also widely used within private
sector organizations.
16 There are many definitions of Criminal Intelligence
Analysis in use throughout the world. The one definition
agreed in June 1992 by an international group of twelve
19 European INTERPOL member countries and subsequently
adopted by other countries is as follows: 'The identification of
and provision of insight into the relationship between crime
22 data and other potentially relevant data with a view to police
and judicial practice'.
The central task of Analysis is to help officials — law
25 enforcers, policy makers, and decision makers — deal more
effectively with uncertainty, to provide timely warning of
threats, and to support operational activity by analysing crime.
28 Criminal Intelligence Analysis is divided into
operational (or tactical) and strategic analysis. The basic skills
required are similar, and the difference lies in the level of
31 detail and the type of client to whom the products are aimed.
Operational Analysis aims to achieve a specific law
enforcement outcome. This might be arrests, seizure or
34 forfeiture of assets or money gained from criminal activities,
or the disruption of a criminal group. Operational Analysis
usually has a more immediate benefit. Strategic Analysis is
37 intended to inform higher level decision making and the
benefits are realized over the longer term. It is usually aimed
at managers and policy-makers rather than individual
40 investigators. The intention is to provide early warning of
threats and to support senior decision-makers in setting
priorities to prepare their organizations to be able to deal with
43 emerging criminal issues. This might mean allocating
resources to different areas of crime, increased training in a
crime fighting technique, or taking steps to close a loophole in
46 a process.
Both disciplines make use of a range of analytical
techniques and Analysts need to have a range of skills and
49 attributes.
Internet: <www.interpol.int>.
About operational and strategic analysis, mark the correct alternative.
Texto II, para responder às questões 8 e 9.
Criminal Intelligence Analysis
1 Criminal Intelligence Analysis (sometimes called
Crime Analysis) has been recognized by law enforcement as
a useful support tool for over twenty-five years and is
4 successfully used within the international community. Within
the last decade, the role and position of Criminal Intelligence
Analysis in the global law enforcement community has
7 fundamentally changed. Whereas previously there were a few
key countries acting as forerunners and promoters of the
discipline, more and more countries have implemented
10 analytical techniques within their police forces. International
organizations, such as INTERPOL, Europol and the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
13 (ICTY), all have Criminal Intelligence Analysts among their
personnel. The techniques are also widely used within private
sector organizations.
16 There are many definitions of Criminal Intelligence
Analysis in use throughout the world. The one definition
agreed in June 1992 by an international group of twelve
19 European INTERPOL member countries and subsequently
adopted by other countries is as follows: 'The identification of
and provision of insight into the relationship between crime
22 data and other potentially relevant data with a view to police
and judicial practice'.
The central task of Analysis is to help officials — law
25 enforcers, policy makers, and decision makers — deal more
effectively with uncertainty, to provide timely warning of
threats, and to support operational activity by analysing crime.
28 Criminal Intelligence Analysis is divided into
operational (or tactical) and strategic analysis. The basic skills
required are similar, and the difference lies in the level of
31 detail and the type of client to whom the products are aimed.
Operational Analysis aims to achieve a specific law
enforcement outcome. This might be arrests, seizure or
34 forfeiture of assets or money gained from criminal activities,
or the disruption of a criminal group. Operational Analysis
usually has a more immediate benefit. Strategic Analysis is
37 intended to inform higher level decision making and the
benefits are realized over the longer term. It is usually aimed
at managers and policy-makers rather than individual
40 investigators. The intention is to provide early warning of
threats and to support senior decision-makers in setting
priorities to prepare their organizations to be able to deal with
43 emerging criminal issues. This might mean allocating
resources to different areas of crime, increased training in a
crime fighting technique, or taking steps to close a loophole in
46 a process.
Both disciplines make use of a range of analytical
techniques and Analysts need to have a range of skills and
49 attributes.
Internet: <www.interpol.int>.
Mark the alternative that presents information which cannot be found in the text II.