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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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What’s the meaning of the expression “hard to swallow”?
A BNCC aponta seis competências específicas da Língua Inglesa para o Ensino Fundamental, dentre elas:
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I. Identificar similaridades e diferenças entre a língua inglesa e a língua materna/outras línguas, articulando-as a aspectos sociais, culturais e identitários, em uma relação intrínseca entre língua, cultura e identidade.
II. Conhecer diferentes patrimônios culturais, materiais e imateriais, difundidos na língua inglesa, com vistas ao exercício da fruição e da ampliação de perspectivas no contato com diferentes manifestações artístico-culturais.
III. Utilizar novas tecnologias, com novas linguagens e modos de interação, para pesquisar, selecionar, compartilhar, posicionar-se e produzir sentidos em práticas de letramento na língua inglesa, de forma ética, crítica e responsável.
IV. Identificar o lugar de si e o do outro em um mundo plurilíngue e multicultural, refletindo, criticamente, sobre como a aprendizagem da língua inglesa contribui para a inserção dos sujeitos no mundo globalizado, inclusive no que concerne ao mundo do trabalho.
V. Comunicar-se na língua inglesa, por meio do uso variado de linguagens em mídias impressas ou digitais, reconhecendo-a como ferramenta de acesso ao conhecimento, de ampliação das perspectivas e de possibilidades para a compreensão dos valores e interesses de outras culturas e para o exercício do protagonismo social.
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Assinale a alternativa CORRETA:
What is customer experience management?
(Available at: www.dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/marketing/what-is-customer-experience-management-cxm/
– text specially adapted for this test).
British troops move black rhinos to Malawi
British troops have helped to move a group of critically endangered black rhinos from South Africa to Malawi to protect them against poaching. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles moved 17 of the animals, which are hunted for their horns, in the hope they can be better protected. They were transported by air and road from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to Liwonde National Park in Malawi.
The troops then spent three months training rangers to keep them safe. Major Jez England, the officer commanding the British Army counter-poaching team in Liwonde, said the operation had been “hugely successful”. “Not only do we share skills with the rangers, improving their efficiency and ability to patrol larger areas, but it also provides a unique opportunity for our soldiers to train in a challenging environment”, he said.
The UK government says it has committed more than £36m to tackle the illegal wildlife trade between 2014 and 2021. Part of this is to help support trans-boundary work to allow animals to move more safely between areas and across national borders.
(Site: BBC - adaptado.)
Judge the following items as true (C) or false (E) and mark the alternative that presents the CORRECT order:
( ) Poaching (first paragraph) means illegally hunting.
( ) The word “which” (first paragraph) refers to “animals”.
( ) The verb “to tackle” (third paragraph) is synonymous with “to prevent”.
British troops move black rhinos to Malawi
British troops have helped to move a group of critically endangered black rhinos from South Africa to Malawi to protect them against poaching. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles moved 17 of the animals, which are hunted for their horns, in the hope they can be better protected. They were transported by air and road from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to Liwonde National Park in Malawi.
The troops then spent three months training rangers to keep them safe. Major Jez England, the officer commanding the British Army counter-poaching team in Liwonde, said the operation had been “hugely successful”. “Not only do we share skills with the rangers, improving their efficiency and ability to patrol larger areas, but it also provides a unique opportunity for our soldiers to train in a challenging environment”, he said.
The UK government says it has committed more than £36m to tackle the illegal wildlife trade between 2014 and 2021. Part of this is to help support trans-boundary work to allow animals to move more safely between areas and across national borders.
(Site: BBC - adaptado.)
According to the text, choose the CORRECT alternative:
U.S. Thaws Relations With “Europe’s Last Dictatorship”
As ties between the West and Russia wallow at the worst point since the end of the Cold War, the Trump administration has been forging closer ties with one of the last countries fully in Moscow’s orbit. President Donald Trump’s then-national security advisor, John Bolton, visited Belarus earlier this year, and U.S. officials say Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to follow suit and travel to Minsk in January. Belarus, which has been referred to as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” expelled the U.S. ambassador in 2008 after Washington slapped sanctions on it over human rights abuses. But now, the United States is expected to revive diplomatic ties with Belarus—sending an ambassador to Minsk for the first time in over a decade—even as Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to subdue it.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/25/10-important... - adaptado
According to the text, choose the CORRECT alternative:
Read the text below and answer questions 35 to 40
- A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon
- Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence
- to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo‐Saxons?" New
- findings based on studying skeletal remains clearly indicate the Anglo‐
- Saxons were a melting pot of people from both migrant and local
- cultural groups and not one homogenous group from Western Europe.
- Professor Keith Dobney said the team’s results indicate that "the
- Anglo‐Saxon kingdoms of early Medieval Britain were strikingly similar
- to contemporary Britain ‐‐ full of people of different ancestries sharing
- a common language and culture." The collaborative study looked at the
- three‐dimensional shape of the base of the skull. "Baased on this, we
- collected 3D data from suitably dated skeletal collections from Britain
- and Denmark, and then analysed the data to estimate the ancestry of
- the Anglo‐Saxon individuals in the sample."
- The researchers found that between two‐thirds and three‐quarters of
- early Anglo‐Saxon individuals were of continental European ancestry,
- while between a quarter and one‐third were of local ancestry. When
- they looked at skeletons dated to the Middle Anglo‐Saxon period
- (several hundred years after the original migrants arrived), they found
- that 50 to 70 percent of the individuals were of local ancestry, while
- 30 to 50 percent were of continental European ancestry, which
- probably indicates a change in the rate of migration and/or local
- adoption of culture over time. "These findings tell us that being Anglo‐
- Saxon was more likely a matter of language and culture, not genetics."
- Although Anglo‐Saxon origins can clearly be traced to a migration of
- Germanic‐speaking people from mainland Europe between the 5th
- and 7th centuries AD, the number of individuals who settled in Britain
- is still contested, as is the nature of their relationship with the pre-
- existing inhabitants of the British Isles, who were Romano‐Celts.
- The ongoing and unresolved argument is whether hordes of European
- invaders largely replaced the existing Romano‐British inhabitants, or
- did smaller numbers of migrants settle and interact with the locals,
- who then rapidly adopted the new language and culture of the Anglo‐
- Saxons? "The reason for the ongoing confusion is the apparent
- contradiction between early historical texts (written sometime after
- the events that imply that the newcomers were both numerous and
- replaced the Romano‐British population) and some recent
- biomolecular markers directly recovered from Anglo‐Saxon skeletons
- that appears to suggest numbers of immigrants were few," said
- Professor Dobney. "Our new data sits at the interface of this debate
- and implies that early Anglo‐Saxon society was a mix of both
- newcomers and immigrants and, instead of wholesale population
- replacement, a process of acculturation resulted in Anglo‐Saxon
- language and culture being adopted wholesale by the local
- population." "It could be this new cultural package was attractive,
- filling a vacuum left at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain.
- Whatever the reason, it lit the fuse for the English nation we have today
- ‐‐ still comprised of people of different origins who share the same
- language," Professor Dobney said.
Adapted from article available at:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210623144901.htm
Accessed on: July 13, 2021.
The text brings the verb “analysed” (l.13) spelled out according to the British spelling. The fact that this verb, such as other verbs, has more than one acceptable spelling in the English language is considered an example of:
Read the text below and answer questions 35 to 40
- A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon
- Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence
- to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo‐Saxons?" New
- findings based on studying skeletal remains clearly indicate the Anglo‐
- Saxons were a melting pot of people from both migrant and local
- cultural groups and not one homogenous group from Western Europe.
- Professor Keith Dobney said the team’s results indicate that "the
- Anglo‐Saxon kingdoms of early Medieval Britain were strikingly similar
- to contemporary Britain ‐‐ full of people of different ancestries sharing
- a common language and culture." The collaborative study looked at the
- three‐dimensional shape of the base of the skull. "Baased on this, we
- collected 3D data from suitably dated skeletal collections from Britain
- and Denmark, and then analysed the data to estimate the ancestry of
- the Anglo‐Saxon individuals in the sample."
- The researchers found that between two‐thirds and three‐quarters of
- early Anglo‐Saxon individuals were of continental European ancestry,
- while between a quarter and one‐third were of local ancestry. When
- they looked at skeletons dated to the Middle Anglo‐Saxon period
- (several hundred years after the original migrants arrived), they found
- that 50 to 70 percent of the individuals were of local ancestry, while
- 30 to 50 percent were of continental European ancestry, which
- probably indicates a change in the rate of migration and/or local
- adoption of culture over time. "These findings tell us that being Anglo‐
- Saxon was more likely a matter of language and culture, not genetics."
- Although Anglo‐Saxon origins can clearly be traced to a migration of
- Germanic‐speaking people from mainland Europe between the 5th
- and 7th centuries AD, the number of individuals who settled in Britain
- is still contested, as is the nature of their relationship with the pre-
- existing inhabitants of the British Isles, who were Romano‐Celts.
- The ongoing and unresolved argument is whether hordes of European
- invaders largely replaced the existing Romano‐British inhabitants, or
- did smaller numbers of migrants settle and interact with the locals,
- who then rapidly adopted the new language and culture of the Anglo‐
- Saxons? "The reason for the ongoing confusion is the apparent
- contradiction between early historical texts (written sometime after
- the events that imply that the newcomers were both numerous and
- replaced the Romano‐British population) and some recent
- biomolecular markers directly recovered from Anglo‐Saxon skeletons
- that appears to suggest numbers of immigrants were few," said
- Professor Dobney. "Our new data sits at the interface of this debate
- and implies that early Anglo‐Saxon society was a mix of both
- newcomers and immigrants and, instead of wholesale population
- replacement, a process of acculturation resulted in Anglo‐Saxon
- language and culture being adopted wholesale by the local
- population." "It could be this new cultural package was attractive,
- filling a vacuum left at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain.
- Whatever the reason, it lit the fuse for the English nation we have today
- ‐‐ still comprised of people of different origins who share the same
- language," Professor Dobney said.
Adapted from article available at:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210623144901.htm
Accessed on: July 13, 2021.
According to the text, consider the following items:
I. There was a new study using the skeleton remains of the Anglo‐Saxons.
II. Skulls and skeletons were analyzed in a new study.
III. The number of Anglo‐Saxons that settled in Britain is not debatable.
IV. The Anglo‐Saxons came to Britain before the Romans.
The CORRECT item(s) is(are):
Read the text below and answer questions 35 to 40
- A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon
- Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence
- to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo‐Saxons?" New
- findings based on studying skeletal remains clearly indicate the Anglo‐
- Saxons were a melting pot of people from both migrant and local
- cultural groups and not one homogenous group from Western Europe.
- Professor Keith Dobney said the team’s results indicate that "the
- Anglo‐Saxon kingdoms of early Medieval Britain were strikingly similar
- to contemporary Britain ‐‐ full of people of different ancestries sharing
- a common language and culture." The collaborative study looked at the
- three‐dimensional shape of the base of the skull. "Baased on this, we
- collected 3D data from suitably dated skeletal collections from Britain
- and Denmark, and then analysed the data to estimate the ancestry of
- the Anglo‐Saxon individuals in the sample."
- The researchers found that between two‐thirds and three‐quarters of
- early Anglo‐Saxon individuals were of continental European ancestry,
- while between a quarter and one‐third were of local ancestry. When
- they looked at skeletons dated to the Middle Anglo‐Saxon period
- (several hundred years after the original migrants arrived), they found
- that 50 to 70 percent of the individuals were of local ancestry, while
- 30 to 50 percent were of continental European ancestry, which
- probably indicates a change in the rate of migration and/or local
- adoption of culture over time. "These findings tell us that being Anglo‐
- Saxon was more likely a matter of language and culture, not genetics."
- Although Anglo‐Saxon origins can clearly be traced to a migration of
- Germanic‐speaking people from mainland Europe between the 5th
- and 7th centuries AD, the number of individuals who settled in Britain
- is still contested, as is the nature of their relationship with the pre-
- existing inhabitants of the British Isles, who were Romano‐Celts.
- The ongoing and unresolved argument is whether hordes of European
- invaders largely replaced the existing Romano‐British inhabitants, or
- did smaller numbers of migrants settle and interact with the locals,
- who then rapidly adopted the new language and culture of the Anglo‐
- Saxons? "The reason for the ongoing confusion is the apparent
- contradiction between early historical texts (written sometime after
- the events that imply that the newcomers were both numerous and
- replaced the Romano‐British population) and some recent
- biomolecular markers directly recovered from Anglo‐Saxon skeletons
- that appears to suggest numbers of immigrants were few," said
- Professor Dobney. "Our new data sits at the interface of this debate
- and implies that early Anglo‐Saxon society was a mix of both
- newcomers and immigrants and, instead of wholesale population
- replacement, a process of acculturation resulted in Anglo‐Saxon
- language and culture being adopted wholesale by the local
- population." "It could be this new cultural package was attractive,
- filling a vacuum left at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain.
- Whatever the reason, it lit the fuse for the English nation we have today
- ‐‐ still comprised of people of different origins who share the same
- language," Professor Dobney said.
Adapted from article available at:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210623144901.htm
Accessed on: July 13, 2021.
Select the alternative that contains the correct title for the text:
Question tags are the small question that often comes at end of sentences in speech, and sometimes in informal writing.
The sentences bellow can be completed correctly by:
Complete the gaps bellow.
The film wasn’t very good, _______?
You’re the new secretary, _______?
You never say what you’re thinking, _______?
The question tags that complete, correctly and respectively, the gaps are:
Celse-Murcia, in her book Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, stablishes central principles of four current approaches to language teaching.
The four approaches are:
According to Leffa, the ideal foreign language teacher needs to have certain characteristics.
The ideal foreign language teacher characteristics’ are:
SRID values must be in the range of 32-bit unsigned integers, with these restrictions:
- SRID 0 is a valid SRID but cannot be used with DROP SPATIAL REFERENCE SYSTEM.
- If the value is in a reserved SRID range, a warning occurs. Reserved ranges are [0, 32767] (reserved by EPSG), [60,000,000, 69,999,999] (reserved by EPSG), and [2,000,000,000, 2,147,483,647] (reserved by MySQL). EPSG stands for the European Petroleum Survey Group.
- Users should not drop SRSs with SRIDs in the reserved ranges. If system-installed SRSs are dropped, the SRS definitions may be recreated for MySQL upgrades.
Available at: <https://dev.mysql.com>. Access on: 6 Mar. 2021.
According to the presented excerpt from the documentation, mark the correct alternative.
ALTER TABLE changes the structure of a table. For example, you can add or delete columns, create or destroy indexes, change the type of existing columns, or rename columns or the table itself. You can also change characteristics such as the storage engine used for the table or the table comment. To use ALTER TABLE, you need ALTER, CREATE, and INSERT privileges for the table. Renaming a table requires ALTER and DROP on the old table, ALTER, CREATE, and INSERT on the new table. Following the table name, specify the alterations to be made. If none are given, ALTER TABLE does nothing.
Available at: . Accessed on: 6 Mar. 2021.
According to the text, what are all of the permissions necessary on the new table for the user to rename it?
Text 4 to answer questions 21 and 22.
1 -------Enterprise-class firewalls, such as those made by
----FORTINET, Cisco Systems and NetScreen Technologies,
----have long been marketplace commodities. Out of the box,
4 --they provide reliable, relatively easy-to-use security
----solutions. Buying some licenses from vendors can also
----provide 24/7 support and ongoing maintenance. In
7 --addition, commercial firewalls have configuration
----facilities, usually through graphical interfaces, and
----facilitated interaction with other security technologies such
10 --as SIEM, EDR, DRP, etc.
---------But commercial firewalls have a problem: many
----would say that they are expensive. That is why some IT
13 --teams consider the use of other options like open-source
----firewalls. iptables®, for example, is a freeware Linux tool
----developed by NetFilter that isn’t nearly as easy to use, but
16 --it’s quickly catching up in features and functionality.
---------iptables® firewall boasts many features normally
----found only in commercial firewalls, including packet
19 --defragmentation, rate limiting, integration of VPNs, scale
----up and scale down, packet content inspection and protocol
----state tracking.
22 -------So why don't we always use iptables® firewall instead
----of proprietary applications or devices? In addition to the
----support from manufacturers that the more traditional choice
25 --has, we can highlight iptables’® need for professional
----training, and also the need for hiring large support teams,
27--which could cost even more money in some scenarios.
Disponível em:<https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/opinion/Commercialfirewalls-vs-Open-source-firewalls>. Acesso em 20 mar. 2021, com adaptações.
Regarding the acquisition of security devices such as firewalls, and based on the text, it is correct to state that
Text 4 to answer questions 21 and 22.
1 -------Enterprise-class firewalls, such as those made by
----FORTINET, Cisco Systems and NetScreen Technologies,
----have long been marketplace commodities. Out of the box,
4 --they provide reliable, relatively easy-to-use security
----solutions. Buying some licenses from vendors can also
----provide 24/7 support and ongoing maintenance. In
7 --addition, commercial firewalls have configuration
----facilities, usually through graphical interfaces, and
----facilitated interaction with other security technologies such
10 --as SIEM, EDR, DRP, etc.
---------But commercial firewalls have a problem: many
----would say that they are expensive. That is why some IT
13 --teams consider the use of other options like open-source
----firewalls. iptables®, for example, is a freeware Linux tool
----developed by NetFilter that isn’t nearly as easy to use, but
16 --it’s quickly catching up in features and functionality.
---------iptables® firewall boasts many features normally
----found only in commercial firewalls, including packet
19 --defragmentation, rate limiting, integration of VPNs, scale
----up and scale down, packet content inspection and protocol
----state tracking.
22 -------So why don't we always use iptables® firewall instead
----of proprietary applications or devices? In addition to the
----support from manufacturers that the more traditional choice
25 --has, we can highlight iptables’® need for professional
----training, and also the need for hiring large support teams,
27--which could cost even more money in some scenarios.
Disponível em:<https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/opinion/Commercialfirewalls-vs-Open-source-firewalls>. Acesso em 20 mar. 2021, com adaptações.
According to the text and to the knowledge concerning firewall technology, mark the correct alternative.
Reading is one of the four basic learning skills.
“Reading will help you to improve your .................. of the language and build your ................. .”
Choose the alternative which correctly completes the empty spaces in the sentence (in the right order).
With the advent of technology, which attracts students to learn, many devices and forms of it have come to make teaching interesting, focused and accurate.
It is correct to say that technology:
Match the following Methods to their characteristics.
Column 1 Methods
1. Total Physical Response (TPR).
2. Suggestopidea.
3. The Direct Method.
Column 2 Characteristics
( ) This method of teaching English focused on translating the texts in Latin to the native language.
( ) This Method of teaching English provides a relaxed atmosphere for the mind to learn and retain that information.
( ) This method involves acting out language rather than speaking. It is also a fun way of learning language.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
Read the article and answer the questions
Tokyo 2020 Olympics
In 1964, Tokyo became the first ever Asian city to host the Olympic Games and it was a triumph which propelled Japan into the modern era. Now, the city is preparing to host the games once more in summer 2021, exactly one year after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were originally due to begin.
The Tokyo games will take place over 17 action-packed days from July 24 to August 8 2021.Tokyo is the host city, and The Opening Ceremony will be held at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium.
Most events will be staged throughout the Japanese capital. However, several sports will be held in other Japanese cities and towns. Road cycling, for example, will take place in the foothills of Mount Fuji; surfing will be held 40 minutes outside of Tokyo on the country’s eastern coast; and the men’s and women’s marathons, as well as the race walking events, will take place in Sapporo, which is located 500 miles north of Tokyo. The soccer matches will be played in six cities, and baseball and softball games will be held in Fukushima and Yokohama.
The Olympics typically draw together more than 11,000 athletes and 25,000 journalists from more than 200 countries. Overall there will be 21 different sports and 339 medal events across dozens of different sports. Four new sports were added to the Tokyo Olympics: surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing and karate.
One of the most exciting events is the marathon which is one of the last sporting events. Unfortunately, it will be lonelier this year as there will be no spectators. However, millions of people will be watching and cheering on the runners on TV.
Decide if the statements below are true ( T ) or false ( F ) according to the PCN (Brazilian National Curricular Parameters).
( ) The learning of reading in a Foreign Language may not help develop the student’s literacy as a whole.
( ) In Brazil only a small portion of the population has the opportunity of using foreign languages as an instrument of oral communication.
( ) People from touristic centers use the knowledge of the oral skills of a foreign language as an instrument of oral communication.
( ) Reading has a primary function at school.
( ) Learning to read in another language must decrease the performance of the student as a reader in her/his mother tongue.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
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