Questões de Concurso Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês

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Q1729067 Inglês
Read the fragment below and answer the following question.

Addressing human trafficking and slavery in the classroom
[…] The good news is that already thousands of teachers, students and school directors around the world are confronting trafficking and slavery today. For many years, in collaboration with The NO Project, I have had the privilege of working with diverse groups of ELT (English Learning Teaching) learners, primarily 16–25 years old, and in many different settings. The bold, powerful, student-driven actions are inspirational. In fact, even today I received an email from a wonderful 18-year-old student, Nadeen, originally from Libya, currently based in Spain. She writes, ‘Ever since The NO Project came to my school, I never see daily items that I use the same ever again. Modern slavery is always at the back of my mind which makes me constantly question the origin and story behind every product and drives me to always go for the better option.’
(By Judy Boyle, in: teachingenglihs.org.uk)
According to the context above, it may be correct to understand that:
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Q1725582 Inglês
Read the fragment below.

I think I need to take my car to the mechanic because it's acting up again.

According to the context, it is correct to say that:
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Q1725579 Inglês
Read the sentence below.

Electric overhead signs urged people to avoid ____________________ bicycles and other large items.

Choose the correct alternative that completes the context.
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Q1725575 Inglês
Read the text below and identify the wrong alternative according to the context.

In 1972, a new language course was proposed in Europe which aims to make communicative competence the goal of language teaching. Here the focus was on what the learner needed to understand and express through the target language and not on the accumulation of grammatical items and structures.
Objectives:
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Q1725574 Inglês
Read the fragment below.

I. Acquisition is the act of ignoring something especially knowledge, skill etc, by your own efforts, ability or behavior, in order to learn something that is totally new;
II. Learning is gaining knowledge or skill by studying, from experience, from being taught etc;
III. Language acquisition is the process by which the language capability develops in a human.

(https://pt.scribd.com/document/362143861/METHODS-AND-APPROACHES-OF-TEACHING-ENGLISH-pdf)

Identify the correct option according to the context.
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Q1725573 Inglês
Read the text below and identify the wrong alternative according to the context.

In general, we may classify language acquisition activities as those in which the focus is on the message, i.e., meaning. These may be of four types:
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Q1725572 Inglês
Read the text below.

THE NATURAL APPROACH IN THE CLASSROOM: SPEECH EMERGENCE

I. In the Speech Emergence Stage, speech production will normally improve in both quantity and quality. The sentences that the students produce become longer, more complex and they use a wider range of vocabulary.
II. Finally, the number of errors will slowly increase. Students need to be given the opportunity to use oral and written language whenever possible.
III. When they reach the stage in which speech is emerging beyond the two-word stage, there are many sorts of activities which will foster more comprehension and speech.

(http://employees.oneonta.edu/thomasrl/YaTeachTech.pdf)

Identify the correct alternative according to the context.
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Q1725013 Inglês
Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise


    “Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish.
     While nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse. Around 700 ocean sites are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with 45 in the 1960s.
    Researchers say the depletion is threatening species including tuna, marlin and sharks.
     The scientists estimate that between 1960 and 2010, the amount of the gas dissolved in the oceans declined by 2%. That may not seem like much as it is a global average, but in some tropical locations the loss can range up to 40%.
    If countries continue with a business-as-usual approach to emissions, the world's oceans are expected to lose 3-4% of their oxygen by the year 2100.
    This is likely to be worse in the tropical regions of the world. Much of the loss is expected in the top 1,000m of the water column, which is richest in biodiversity.
    "Ocean oxygen depletion is menacing marine ecosystems already under stress from ocean warming and acidification," said Dan Laffoley, also from IUCN and the report's co-editor. "To stop the worrying expansion of oxygen-poor areas, we need to decisively curb greenhouse gas emissions as well as nutrient pollution from agriculture and other sources."”

(Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50690995)
According to the text, are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with the number in the 1960s:
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Q1725012 Inglês
Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise


    “Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish.
     While nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse. Around 700 ocean sites are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with 45 in the 1960s.
    Researchers say the depletion is threatening species including tuna, marlin and sharks.
     The scientists estimate that between 1960 and 2010, the amount of the gas dissolved in the oceans declined by 2%. That may not seem like much as it is a global average, but in some tropical locations the loss can range up to 40%.
    If countries continue with a business-as-usual approach to emissions, the world's oceans are expected to lose 3-4% of their oxygen by the year 2100.
    This is likely to be worse in the tropical regions of the world. Much of the loss is expected in the top 1,000m of the water column, which is richest in biodiversity.
    "Ocean oxygen depletion is menacing marine ecosystems already under stress from ocean warming and acidification," said Dan Laffoley, also from IUCN and the report's co-editor. "To stop the worrying expansion of oxygen-poor areas, we need to decisively curb greenhouse gas emissions as well as nutrient pollution from agriculture and other sources."”

(Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50690995)
According to the text:
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Q1724857 Inglês
Analyze the sentence given and choose the sentence that corresponds to it. Choose the CORRECT answer.

“You walk home completely dirty. What does your _________ mom say to you?
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Q1723850 Inglês
Answer question according to the text below.

A scientific paper led by two researchers at Harvard University made a splash this week by claiming that a cigar-shaped rock zooming through our solar system may have been sent by aliens. Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "messenger" or "scout", was first viewed by telescopes in October 2017. It is the first interstellar object known to enter our solar system.
"There is an unexplained phenomena: the excess acceleration of Oumuamua, which we show may be explained by the force of radiation pressure from the sun. However this requires the body to have a very large surface and be very thin, which is not encountered in nature", co-author and Harvard astrophysicist Shmuel Bialy said.
Their suggestion of an alien force at work went viral. But other astronomy experts aren't buying it Asked if he believed the hypothesis he put forward, Bialy pointed: "I wouldn't say I 'believe' it is sent by aliens, as I am a scientist, and not a believer, I rely on evidence to put forward possible physical explanation for observed phenomena."
Their paper was accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
(Fonte: Adapted from https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/07/18/scientists-push-back-against-harvard-alien-spacecraft-theory.)
Asked if he believed the hypothesis he presented, Bialy answered that:
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Q1723849 Inglês
Answer question according to the text below.

A scientific paper led by two researchers at Harvard University made a splash this week by claiming that a cigar-shaped rock zooming through our solar system may have been sent by aliens. Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "messenger" or "scout", was first viewed by telescopes in October 2017. It is the first interstellar object known to enter our solar system.
"There is an unexplained phenomena: the excess acceleration of Oumuamua, which we show may be explained by the force of radiation pressure from the sun. However this requires the body to have a very large surface and be very thin, which is not encountered in nature", co-author and Harvard astrophysicist Shmuel Bialy said.
Their suggestion of an alien force at work went viral. But other astronomy experts aren't buying it Asked if he believed the hypothesis he put forward, Bialy pointed: "I wouldn't say I 'believe' it is sent by aliens, as I am a scientist, and not a believer, I rely on evidence to put forward possible physical explanation for observed phenomena."
Their paper was accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
(Fonte: Adapted from https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/07/18/scientists-push-back-against-harvard-alien-spacecraft-theory.)
According to the text, Oumuamua:
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Q1723847 Inglês
Answer question according to the text below.

As Hannah Campbell happily runs around in the park with her little daughter Milly, passers-by glance in wonder at her running-blade leg. Some kind of accident? Maybe a car crash? A tragedy, whatever it was. They pass on by with no idea that they have just witnessed the only mum in the British Army to lose a limb in a war zone now bravely rebuilding her life. (…) Doctors battled to save her shattered leg through 19 painful operations but in the end she needed a final op to remove it below the knee... and that left her on the brink of death.
Now, 18 months after the amputation, Hannah is happy and smiling as she plays with seven-year-old Milly. Her left leg is gone, but her life is back. “It may be hard to believe, but losing it has enabled me to become a mother again,” says Hannah, who is back down to a fighting-fit 10 stone and will be running in the London Marathon on Sunday.
(Fonte: Adapted from https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/army-corporal-hannah-campbell-reveals-795424.)
In the text, the expression “running-blade leg” refers to:
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Q1723846 Inglês
Answer question according to the text below.

As Hannah Campbell happily runs around in the park with her little daughter Milly, passers-by glance in wonder at her running-blade leg. Some kind of accident? Maybe a car crash? A tragedy, whatever it was. They pass on by with no idea that they have just witnessed the only mum in the British Army to lose a limb in a war zone now bravely rebuilding her life. (…) Doctors battled to save her shattered leg through 19 painful operations but in the end she needed a final op to remove it below the knee... and that left her on the brink of death.
Now, 18 months after the amputation, Hannah is happy and smiling as she plays with seven-year-old Milly. Her left leg is gone, but her life is back. “It may be hard to believe, but losing it has enabled me to become a mother again,” says Hannah, who is back down to a fighting-fit 10 stone and will be running in the London Marathon on Sunday.
(Fonte: Adapted from https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/army-corporal-hannah-campbell-reveals-795424.)
According to the text: I. Hannah Campbel had a serious car accident. II. The doctors could not save her leg, so limb amputation was performed. III. After 18 months, Hannah is happy and smiling as she plays with her daughter.
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Q1723845 Inglês
Answer question according to the text below.

As Hannah Campbell happily runs around in the park with her little daughter Milly, passers-by glance in wonder at her running-blade leg. Some kind of accident? Maybe a car crash? A tragedy, whatever it was. They pass on by with no idea that they have just witnessed the only mum in the British Army to lose a limb in a war zone now bravely rebuilding her life. (…) Doctors battled to save her shattered leg through 19 painful operations but in the end she needed a final op to remove it below the knee... and that left her on the brink of death.
Now, 18 months after the amputation, Hannah is happy and smiling as she plays with seven-year-old Milly. Her left leg is gone, but her life is back. “It may be hard to believe, but losing it has enabled me to become a mother again,” says Hannah, who is back down to a fighting-fit 10 stone and will be running in the London Marathon on Sunday.
(Fonte: Adapted from https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/army-corporal-hannah-campbell-reveals-795424.)
According to the text, Hannah Campbell lost her:
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Q1721800 Inglês

Read the text and choose the option according to it:


People are often surprised to learn just how long some varieties of trees can live. If asked to estimate the age of the oldest living trees on Earth, they often come up with guesses in the neighborhood of two or perhaps three hundred years. The real answer is considerably larger than that, more than five thousand years. The tree that wins the prize for its considerable maturity is the bristlecone pine of California. This venerable pine predates wonders of the ancient world such as the pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and the Colossus of Rhodes. It is not nearly as tall as the giant redwood that is also found in California, and in fact it is actually not very tall compared with many other trees, often little more than five meters in height. This relatively short height may be one of the factors that aid the bristlecone pine in living to a ripe old age-high winds and inclement weather cannot easily reach the shorter trees and cause damage. An additional factor that contributes to the long life of the bristlecone pine is that this type of tree has a high percentage of resin, which prevents rot from developing in the tree trunk and branches.


(PHILLIPS, Deborah. Longman. Preparation for the Toefl Test)


According to the text, the author mentions the Egyptian pyramids as an example of someting that is

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Q1719853 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)
Which figure of speech can be found in the first sentence of the text?
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Q1719852 Inglês
        Miss Lucy was the only guardian present. She was leaning over the rail at the front, peering into the rain like she was trying to see right across the playing field. I was watching her as carefully as ever in those days, and even as I was laughing at Laura, I was stealing glances at Miss Lucy’s back. I remember wondering if there wasn’t something a bit odd about her posture, the way her head was bent down just a little too far so she looked like a crouching animal waiting to pounce. And the way she was leaning forward over the rail meant drops from the overhanging gutter were only just missing her – but she seemed to show no sign of caring. I remember actually convincing myself there was nothing unusual in all this – that she was simply anxious for the rain to stop – and turning my attention back to what Laura was saying. Then a few minutes later, when I’d forgotten all about Miss Lucy and was laughing my head off at something, I suddenly realised things had gone quiet around us, and that Miss Lucy was speaking.


(Excerpt from Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Available on https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2017/ishiguro/prose/) 
Mark the option that could replace the idiom in the sentence. “When I’d forgotten all about Miss Lucy and was laughing my head off at something.”
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Q1719249 Inglês
Read the article and choose the correct alternative.

     ALBANY — New York State lawmakers have agreed to impose a statewide ban on most types of single-use plastic bags from retail sales, changing a way of life for millions of New Yorkers as legislators seek to curb an unsightly and omnipresent source of litter.
     The plan, proposed a year ago by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, would be the second statewide ban, after California, which banned bags in 2016. Hawaii also effectively has a ban in place, since all the state’s counties bar such single-use bags.
     New York’s ban, which would begin next March, would forbid stores to provide customers with single-use plastic bags, which are nonbiodegradable and have been blamed for everything from causing gruesome wildlife deaths to thwarting recycling efforts.
     The ban, which is expected to be part of the state’s budget bills that are slated to be passed by Monday, would have a number of carveouts, including food takeout bags used by restaurants, bags used to wrap deli or meat counter products and bags for bulk items. Newspaper bags would also be exempted, as would garment bags and bags sold in bulk, such as trash or recycling bags. (…)
     “There was a real understanding that there should be a ban on plastic,” said Todd Kaminsky, a Democratic state senator from Nassau County, who is the chairman of the environmental conservation committee. “And that if people go to paper rather than reusables, we are not that better off.”

Fonte: JESSE, M. Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York; Second Statewide Ban, After California. The New York Times, 2019. Disponível em:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/nyregion/plastic-bag-ban-
.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
According to the article the State of New York wants to…
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Q1719247 Inglês
Look at the sentences and check the one that has the same meaning as the example.
“This is the most expensive holiday I’ve ever had.”
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Respostas
3781: C
3782: D
3783: C
3784: A
3785: C
3786: D
3787: B
3788: C
3789: D
3790: B
3791: C
3792: B
3793: D
3794: C
3795: A
3796: A
3797: B
3798: D
3799: C
3800: B