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Q2645081
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNATEC Órgão: Prefeitura de Palmeirante - TO Prova: FUNATEC - 2023 - Prefeitura de Palmeirante - TO - Professor de Letras/Inglês |
Q2645081 Inglês

...I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. / have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.


A ideia central do texto é:

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Q2643561
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: Prefeitura de Iomerê - SC Prova: FUNDATEC - 2023 - Prefeitura de Iomerê - SC - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q2643561 Inglês

Scientists study the world’s oldest person


  1. After being bewildered by the “super grandmother’s” great health at 116 years old,
  2. scientists are studying Maria Branyas, the world’s oldest person, in an attempt to unearth the
  3. secret to a long life. Mr. Branyas was born __ San Francisco __ 1907, and __ the age of eight,
  4. she moved __ Catalonia, Spain, where her family was originally from. Ms. Branyas, known to her
  5. X followers as the “Super Catalan Grandma”, has lived in the region ever since and has resided
  6. in the same nursing home, Residència Santa María del Tura, for the last 22 years.
  7. She has agreed to undergo scientific testing, which researchers hope will further their
  8. understanding of certain illnesses associated with old age, such as neurodegenerative or
  9. cardiovascular diseases. Despite her age, Ms. Branyas has no health complications other than
  10. mobility issues and hearing (she suffered permanent hearing loss when she was a child). She also
  11. still has a great memory: “She has a completely lucid head,” scientist Manel Esteller told ABC, a
  12. Spanish outlet. “She remembers with impressive clarity episodes of her when she was only four
  13. years old, and she does not present any cardiovascular disease, common in elderly people.”
  14. Esteller, who studies genetics and how it applies to health conditions, became curious about how
  15. Ms. Branyas’ genetic makeup might affect her aging. After a long talk with Ms. Branyas, Mr.
  16. Esteller believes there must be more to her longevity than meets the eye.
  17. The remarkable woman has not had an easy life; she survived an earthquake while she
  18. was in the US, a major fire, both world wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish Flu pandemic,
  19. and more recently, COVID-19 in 2020. Despite the various pandemics, wars, and family losses
  20. she has endured, her longevity has made scientists question what her secret could be. “We know
  21. Maria’s chronological age, 116 years, but we must determine her biological age,” Esteller said to
  22. ABC, believing that “she is much younger” physically. The scientist has taken biological samples
  23. of saliva, blood, and urine from Ms. Branyas, which are thought to be the “longest-lived” biological
  24. samples and have great scientific value, Josep Carreras, the head of a leukemia research institute,
  25. said to ABC. The samples will be compared with the 116-year-old’s middle daughter, who is 79
  26. years old.
  27. Ms. Branyas often has been asked what her secret is to her long life, and she uses her X
  28. account to post her advice for others. She attributed her longevity to “order, tranquillity, good
  29. connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no
  30. regrets, lots of positivity, and staying away from toxic people”. However, she also credits a great
  31. amount of luck. “It is clear that there is a genetic component because there are several members
  32. of her family who are over 90 years old,” said Esteller. The rare biological samples will assess her
  33. genes, which will hopefully advance the research of drugs that could help diseases associated
  34. with age and cancer. As for Ms. Branyas, she said on her X account that she is “very happy she
  35. can be useful for research and progress”.


(Available in: https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/lifestyle/maria-branyas-oldest-person-alive-spain-b2436228.html – text especially adapted for this test).

Which of the following statements about Ms. Branyas is INCORRECT?

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Q2639813
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: IFC-SC Prova: FUNDATEC - 2023 - IFC-SC - Professor - Área: Português/Inglês |
Q2639813 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 sentence “Masks therefore have often an apotropaic meaning” (lines 47-48) can be rewritten with no significative changes in meaning as in:

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Q2639804
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: IFC-SC Prova: FUNDATEC - 2023 - IFC-SC - Professor - Área: Português/Inglês |
Q2639804 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).

Analyze the following statements about the article:


I. Carnival is a festival with religious roots celebrated in countries of Catholic tradition.

II. The etymology of the word carnival, from the Latin carnem levare refers to the pagan Roman tradition of abstaining from meat in Lent.

III. Carnival has its origins in pagan festivals, and it was related to the temporary dissolution of social hierarchies and cycles of nature.


Which ones are correct?

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Q2639798
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: IFC-SC Prova: FUNDATEC - 2023 - IFC-SC - Professor - Área: Português/Inglês |
Q2639798 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).

Which of the following sentences best summarizes the article?

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Respostas
791: A
792: E
793: D
794: E
795: B
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