Questões de Concurso Sobre preposições | prepositions em inglês

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Q2353156 Inglês
Identify the correct preposition to complete the sentence:

"The detective was determined to find clues that would lead him _____ solving the mysterious case." 
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Q2350984 Inglês
“I have to work with computers and phones all the time in my work, either sitting in front of a screen or living by the apps on my mobile. I think the number of voice-to-voice phone calls has gone down a lot in the last few years, but with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and so on, I feel sort of chained to technology the entire length of the working week. So when the weekend comes, there’s nothing I like better than switching off the computer, the mobile and the landline and enjoying real peace and quiet. We live near to some fields and open country, and I can listen to the birds sing, go for long walks, maybe drop in at our local pub and have a drink with some of the locals. It’s not exciting, I grant you, but it’s very relaxing and helps me remember I’m a human being, not a part of some computerised machine. Of course, by Sunday night I’m already thinking about the working week ahead, but never mind. I’ve had those two days to recharge my batteries, as they say.”


Teaching English. The British Council, 2016. Adapted.
Based on the above extract, it is correct to say:

I. The person enjoys spending weekends away from technology, shutting off the computer, mobile, and landline to embrace peace and quiet in nature.
II. The number of voice-to-voice phone calls has significantly increased in the last few years, according to the person's observation.
III. The person prefers spending the weekends in a more relaxed and nature-oriented setting.
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Q2847375 Inglês

              

Analyze the propositions and select the wrong alternative:


I- ‘many things’ (l. 6) is a countable example;


II- ‘something’ (l.9) can be also, used to offer something to somebody.


III- In the sentence ‘In this world, I love several things.’ ‘several’ (l.20) is uncountable. 

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Q2847374 Inglês

              

Taking into account that (T) means True and (F) means False, the correct sequence of propositions is, respectively:


(__) ‘worse’ (l.4) is a comparative form of bad;


(__) ‘higher’ (l.10) and ‘older’ (l.12) are used to characterize passages of equality;


(__) ‘better’ (l.13) is an exception to the rules of the nouns’ comparison. 

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Q2847372 Inglês

              

Analyze the propositions and select the right alternative:

I- ‘age-related’ (l.8) is a hyphenated compound word;
II- ‘middle age’ (l.4, 5) is working as a noun;
III- ‘healthfully’ (l.18) is an adverb built by prefixation;
IV- ‘outside’ (l.6) is a preposition. 
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Q2808868 Inglês

Read the following quotes and mark the alternative that fills in the blanks with the appropriate preposition.


“A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard ______ 1 midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face.” (Billy Collins)

“My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow ______ 2 the sky.” (William Wordsworth)

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread ______3 my dreams.” (William Butler Yeats)

“When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid ______4 them.” (Katherine Mansfield)

“You have been the last dream ______5 my soul.” (Charles Dickens)

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Q2661641 Inglês

The Rise of the “Bike Bus” Movement

01 On Earth Day* 2022, Sam Balto, a physical education teacher in Portland, convinced a few

02 dozen parents to send their kids to school on their bikes and posted the first in a series of videos

03 that turned his “bike bus” into a viral sensation. Balto has continued documenting his weekly

04 bike buses with joyous videos that show students rolling to school while he blasts music from an

05 eclectic collection of artists, including AC/DC, Metallica, and OneRepublic. Over time, these

06 boisterous bike buses have grown to more than 150 kids. “The more these kids practice riding

07 bikes, the more confident they become. And now they want to keep riding on non-bike bus days,

08 and even on rainy days!” said Balto.

09 Balto’s bike bus is much more than a fad. His TikTok and Twitter videos have raked in

10 millions of views, inspiring similar initiatives in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Utah, Ohio, and

11 Texas. Bike buses previously existed in European cities such as Barcelona and London, but new

12 ones in cities like Cape Town are now joining the trend. Nancy Pullen-Seufert, the director of the

13 National Center for Safe Routes to School, said biking and walking to school have myriad benefits,

14 including “improving air quality, improving safety for walkers and bicyclists, increasing physical

15 activity, and making it easier for school buses and others who can’t actively travel to school to

16 arrive to school on time.”

17 Balto has also triggered real political change by working with lawmakers to pass a so-called

18 “Bike Bus Bill”, that was signed into law by Oregon Governor Tina Kotek in August. “The bill

19 brings flexibility so school districts can now use student transportation funds, which were

20 previously only for school buses, to pay for crossing guards or adults to lead walking school buses

21 or bike buses. It’s awesome.” Balto said. And he is not the only bike bus leader driving positive

22 change in Oregon… Last year, Megan Ramey, who has been organizing a bike bus ___ 2020, was

23 named the Safe Routes to School Manager at Hood River County School District and since then,

24 she has secured nearly $11 million in funding to make it safer for kids to walk and bike to school.

25 “I feel like I'm in a cash-grabbing machine. We just got $7 million to create an off-road trail to

26 the high school. This means kids will be able to bike to high school on a green trail instead of a

27 car-centered road,” said Ramey.

28 Nearly 90% of kids walked to school in 1969. Half a century later, in 2017, that number

29 had fallen to just 10%. That year, a third of students took the school bus and more than half

30 were driven in a private vehicle. This has led to more pollution, with researchers finding that

31 toxic car fumes have an adverse effect on attention, reasoning, and academic performance

32 among school children. In New York, the Open Schools Program has helped increase biking and

33 walking in the 65 schools that restricted traffic during drop-off and pick-up times this year, said

34 Sabina Sethi Unni, who works at Open Plans, a non-profit that supports the shift to walkable

35 cities. “This program makes kids more comfortable with walking and biking at a young age. When

36 they get older, they will be cyclists instead of car users,” said Unni.

(Available in: https://www.distilled.earth/p/the-rise-of-the-bike-bus-movement – text especially adapted for this test).

*Earth Day: a day in April designated for promoting concern for the environment (Merriam-Webster).

The word that correctly completes the gap in line 22 is:

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Q2645233 Inglês

In terms of the use of prepositions, which sentence is wrong?

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Q2645230 Inglês

Read the text and answer the question.


Technology is the driving force behind the rapid evolution of our modern world. From the smallest gadgets to the ________________ systems, technology permeates every aspect _________ our daily lives. It enables instant communication across the globe, facilitates breakthroughs in medical science, ______ automates tasks for increased efficiency.


Mark the alternative that fills in, correctly and respectively, the gaps in lines 2, 3 and 4 with superlative structures and prepositions.

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Q2645055 Inglês

Complete corretamente a frase:


They decided to meet on the corner of 27th and third.

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Q2645054 Inglês

Complete corretamente a frase:


Sandra is _____ work at the moment.

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Q2645053 Inglês

Complete corretamente a frase:


My sister lives _______Washington D.C.

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Q2645052 Inglês

Complete corretamente a frase:


I want you ________ my side whenever I’m sad.

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Q2645051 Inglês

Complete corretamente a frase:


When I was young, I fell _______ the pool.

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Q2643562 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).

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the gaps in lines 03-04.

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Q2639860 Inglês

Analyze the following sentences:


Please, be ______ time. Don’t be late.

I intend to be home _____ time for dinner.

They’re going away _____ the end of January.

The 8:00 train arrived ______ time.

At first we didn’t get along, but ____ the end we became good friends.


Mark the alternative that correctly and respectively fills the blancks:

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Q2639822 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 alternative that best fills in the blank that follows the verb ‘abstain’ in line 07 is:

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Q2433576 Inglês

“As preposições devem ser usadas para conectar substantivos, pronomes ou ainda outras palavras em uma determinada oração. Para usá-las corretamente, é importante lembrar que elas cumprem uma função específica na frase, isto é, indicam uma relação de espaço, de tempo ou de direção.”


Adaptado de: <https://exercicios.brasilescola.uol.com.br/exercicios-ingles/exercicios-sobre-prepositions.htm> acesso em: 7 jun. 2023



Complete the sentence:


1. They Always go out ______ Fridays.

2. He is waiting for you ______ the living room.

3. My nephew was born ______ 2012.

4. My children usually go to bed _____ 11pm.

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Q2431202 Inglês

Instruction: answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.


He donated blood and saved the lives of 2.4 million babies


01 Most people get a gold watch when they retire. James Harrison deserves so much more than

02 that. Known as the “Man With the Golden Arm,” Harrison has donated blood nearly every week

03 for 60 years, and after all those donations, the 81-year-old Australian man “retired” Friday.

04 According to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, he has helped save the lives of more than

05 2.4 million Australian babies because his blood has unique, disease-fighting antibodies.

06 Harrison’s antibodies have been used to develop an injection called Anti-D, which helps

07 fight against rhesus disease. This disease is a condition where a pregnant woman has rhesus-

08 negative blood (RhD negative) and the baby in her womb has rhesus-positive blood (RhD

09 positive), inherited from its father. If the mother has been sensitized to rhesus-positive blood,

10 usually during a previous pregnancy with a rhesus-positive baby, she may produce antibodies

11 that destroy the baby’s “foreign” blood cells. In the worst cases, it can result in brain damage,

12 or death, for the babies.

13 Harrison’s remarkable gift of giving started when he had major chest surgery when he was

14 just 14. Blood donations saved his life, so he pledged to become a blood donor. A few years

15 later, doctors discovered his blood contained the antibody which could be used to create Anti-D

16 injections, so he switched over to making blood plasma donations to help as many people as

17 possible. Doctors aren’t exactly sure why Harrison has this rare blood type, but they think it

18 might be from the transfusions he received when he was 14, after his surgery. He’s one of no

19 more than 50 people in Australia known to have the antibodies, according to the blood service.

20 “In Australia, up until about 1967, there were literally thousands of babies dying each year,

21 doctors didn’t know why, and it was awful.” Jemma Falkenmire, of the Australian Red Cross

22 Blood Service, told CNN. “Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with

23 this antibody, so it was quite revolutionary at the time.”

24 The blood service estimates Harrison saved more than two million lives, and for that, he is

25 considered a national hero in Australia. He’s won numerous awards for his generosity, including

26 the Medal of the Order of Australia, one of the country’s most prestigious honors. Now that

27 Harrison has given his last blood donation (in Australia you can’t donate blood past the age of

28 81), Falkenmire and others hope people with similar antibodies in their blood will step up and

29 donate.


(Available at: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd/index.html – text especially adapted for this test).

Mark the correct alternative about the word “its” (line 09).

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Q2426090 Inglês

In the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," what is the syntactic function of the word "over"?

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Respostas
101: C
102: B
103: C
104: C
105: C
106: A
107: B
108: B
109: C
110: B
111: A
112: C
113: B
114: D
115: A
116: B
117: D
118: E
119: E
120: A