Questões de Inglês - Preposições | Prepositions para Concurso

Choose the best option in order to complete the paragraph below.
Because there was a fight _______ Julie, Mike and Josh, their parents decided to make an auction _______ the conference, which happens _______ December 8th _______ 5 PM, and share the profit _______ the orphanages in the city.

It’s that time of the year when people are asking themselves: What shall I do with those unwanted Christmas presents, like that pullover which is the wrong size, or that terrible teapot? The answer is ‘regifting’, which means ‘re-giving’ or recycling. But is regifting rude? Is it wrong? Let’s see what the experts say. Canadian etiquette consultant Louise Fox, for example, has seven golden rules:
1. The gift must be brand new. Not last year’s brand new, this year’s brand new. It should be unopened, never played with, never worn or washed. 2. Be sure the person who gave you the gift doesn’t know the person receiving the gift! 3. Never regift something you’ve kept in your closet for a few years. 4. The regift should not be something horrible you’re regifting just to get rid of it. Remember, what you give is a reflection of you and your taste. 5. Never regift things someone has hand-made for you. Those items are heartfelt and should be always kept. 6. Rewrap the gift and attach new ribbons. Always be sure you have removed any original gift cards. 7. Only you can decide whether regift something you have received. The basis good manners is respect, care and consideration others. If doubt, don’t do it!
Choose the alternative that presents the correct words to complete the blanks in rule number 7.

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter (By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE) 1. SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. 
2. This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development. 
3. They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles. (…) 
4. The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving. (…) 
5. The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.” In a study comparing German-Italian bilinguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his colleagues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but they also did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicating that they were more efficient at it. (…) 
6. Bilingualism’s effects also extend into the twilight years. In a recent study of 44 elderly Spanish-English bilinguals, scientists led by the neuropsychologist Tamar Gollan of the University of California, San Diego, found that individuals with a higher degree of bilingualism — measured through a comparative evaluation of proficiency in each language — were more resistant than others to the onset of dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset. 
7. Nobody ever doubted the power of language. But who would have imagined that the words we hear and the sentences we speak might be leaving such a deep imprint? 
(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/thebenefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=0. Acesso: 04/02/2013)
The words globalized (paragraph 01), considered (paragraph 02), blessing (paragraph 03), and like (paragraph 04), are respectively presented in text as:

Complete the sentences below with the appropriate word and choose the best alternative:

_____ Paris Hotel is ___ the corner ____ Avenida Paulista and ___ Rua Augusta. I was there and I go for a walk when I stopped ___ ask ___informations about ___ pizzeria and I knew about ____ very good one ____ the same street.