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The sentence below uses a specific grammar structure, which one? Choose the CORRECT answer.
“Steve said that he was living in London.”
Complete the sentence below with the correct verb. Choose the CORRECT answer.
“Sarah isn’t here at the moment. She ________ to the shop to get a newspaper.”
Complete the sentence below with the correct verb. Choose the CORRECT answer
“Water _______ at 100 degrees Celsius.”
Complete the sentence below with the correct verb. Choose the CORRECT answer.
‘‘They ________ my house this week.’’
Complete the sentence below with the correct verbs. Choose the CORRECT answer.
“Yesterday Susan ________ along the road when she _______ Richard.”
Um clássico do rock, interpretado pela banda Creedence, tem como título “Have you ever seen the rain”. Qual tempo verbal está presente no nome desta canção?
Complete the sentence using the correct phrasal verb:
John started doing a German course, but he ____________after a few words.
Read the text and answer the questions.
What if there was a way to take the things you need without paying for them, and doing it in a way that supports your moral beliefs?
Welcome to the freegan movement.
Basically, the modus operandi is to buck the conventional economy and engage in minimal consumption of resources. This is done by living off of consumer waste – cast-off clothes, restaurant and supermarket trash, street finds – as the New York Times describes them, freegans are “scavengers of the developed world.”
The movement, which has been gaining strength since the mid-1990s, grew out of the antiglobalization and environmental movements. It is a way to boycott, an “economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider,” according to freegan.info, the online hub for all things freegan.
The word freegan is a mashup of the words “free” and “vegan.” Taking the ethos of veganism a step further, freegans go beyond advocating for animals and stand against the industrial economy in general, seeing at its core the abuse of humans, animals and the environment.
Of all the strategies practiced by freegans, the movement probably garners the most attention for the act of dumpster diving; rummaging through garbage in pursuit of usable items. Few places are off-limits – retailers, offices, restaurants, schools, supermarkets, and any other facility that throws out useful items is game.
Freegans, however, aren’t solely dependent on urban scavenging. There is a growing network of places where people can give away, take, share and trade items, like Freecycle and the free section of Craigslist. In addition, there are events like, "Really, Really, Free Markets" and “Freemeets.” In these meet-ups, rather than tossing perfectly good stuff into the waste stream, people can bring the thing they no longer want and share it instead.
Perhaps the best things in life are free, after all.
(Adapted text from: https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsibleliving/stories/what-is-the-freegan-movement)
What is the meaning of the verb “to buck” used in the third paragraph?
(Text 2) NASA are to dough where no man has gone before - by baking chocolate chip cookies in space.
A cargo ship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) took off from the US on Saturday with a special space oven and ingredients on board.
NASA are to dough where no man has gone before - by sending astronauts an oven so they can bake chocolate chip cookies in space
Astronauts on the ISS now hope to test the impact heat and zero gravity have on the shape and consistency of cookies.
The experiment is being dubbed the first instance of baking in space.
The dough was provided by Hilton's Double Tree hotel
chain.
And they reckon the "landmark microgravity experiment" could make long-duration space travel "more hospitable".
The Cygnus capsule was also loaded with other unusual equipment, including sports car parts and a vest to protect against radiation.
ISS astronauts will test the safety vest to gauge its comfort, while Italian carmaker Lamborghini has sent up samples of carbon fibre used in its sports cars to examine the effects of direct space exposure.
They are said to be precursors for trips to the Moon and Mars.
The capsule also contains the equipment needed to complete a series of spacewalks this month to fix a key particle physics detector, as well as a range of research equipment and crew supplies.
The shipment, weighing about 8,200lb (3,700kg), is expected to reach the ISS on Monday.
A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb plus another particle ( preposition, adverb). The phrasal verb: took off that appear in the beginning of the text is closest in meaning to:
Complete the sentences with the appropriate verbs:
I. Stop ______ to me!
II. Theo ______ many headaches the last few days.
Complete the sentences with the appropriate option:
I. He is ______. He needs to rest.
II. I need to change because I´m all _______.
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs to fit the conditional clauses:
I. If Lina _____ hungry, she would have come with us to the restaurant.
II. If he had lived in Italy, he _______ how to speak Italian.
Fill in the blanks with “for” or “since”:
I. Sara has been on a diet ______ years.
II. He has not drunk milk ______ January.
III. The child has not eaten chocolate ______ Easter.
As questões de 31 a 35 foram formuladas e serão respondidas em português. As demais questões foram formuladas e serão respondidas em inglês.
Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:
“One of the dangers we come across in our educational systems is the loss of a feeling of community, not just the loss of closeness among those with whom we work and with our students, but also the loss of a feeling of connection and closeness with the world beyond the classroom.”
The phrasal verb highlighted above means:
As questões de 31 a 35 foram formuladas e serão respondidas em português. As demais questões foram formuladas e serão respondidas em inglês.
Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:
“We must highlight all the positive, life-transforming rewards that have been the outcome of collective efforts to change our society, especially education, so that it is not a site for the enactment of domination in any form.
” Without changing the meaning of the sentences, it is correct to substitute the modal must in the beginning of the sentence for:
Instruction: Answer questions 41 to 53 based on the following text.
Why Learning Is A New Procrastination
- The tremendous world of online courses, blogs, social media, free eBooks, podcasts, and
- webinars provides the best ever opportunity to broaden your knowledge in almost every sphere
- you can imagine. Thanks to technological advancement and the instant access to the internet,
- everyone can now study from home. It seems like it would be foolishly not to seize this
- opportunity and improve your skills and knowledge. Moreover, you are kind of forced to do so
- since the contemporary world has raised the bar higher than ever before. It literally invited you
- to gather the pace and ___________ even more.
- It is not surprising that, ultimately, you try to be everywhere and do everything. No doubt,
- you do your best to constantly gather tiny bits of information from as many channels as
- possible, because you are afraid that you will fall behind if you stop. After all, you enter a
- learning crunch mode. You do not afford to miss anything and try to read every book you could
- get your hands on. You listen to every single podcast your smartphone could download and take
- every online course your paycheck would allow to take.
- All in all, you learn. As much as possible. As intense as you manage to. You learn how to
- write and publish a new book. You learn how to launch a successful blog. You learn how to hit
- your goal on Kickstarter. You learn how to build the next “unicorn”. You learn how to land a job
- of your dream. You learn how to successfully sell thousands of items on Amazon. You learn how
- to make millions of dollars in passive income.
- However, the problem is that you do everything except taking action. All those activities do
- not take you closer to the things you want to accomplish. Better knowledge does not make you
- more influential, powerful, and successful unless you apply it. The key secret to success is not
- ________ expertise, but the ability to use it.
- Knowledge is worthless unless it is applied. Needless to say that studying is crucial.
- However, the thing is that it should take the entirely new form now. You should stop learning
- from someone else’s experiences, knowledge, failures, and wins and start learning from your
- own mistakes, adventures, ___________, and bold actions.
- Learning has become a major trend of the 21st century. Sadly, it has also become a new
- form of procrastination. You consciously postpone the first step justifying this by your eagerness
- to broaden the knowledge and learn new things. You put the start date off justifying this by
- your desire to pick up new skills that would help you succeed faster. You procrastinate over
- chasing your own aspirations because doing the things on your own and creating your own story
- of success is far more complicated than reading about someone else’s one. Meanwhile, no one
- would really reproach you for wasting your time. Also, you feel comfortable about staying within
- this zone of ease and convenience forever.
- However, the point is that you already have and know everything you need to start off. In
- fact, there is nothing more you need to learn in order to take the first step. Embrace the truth.
- No matter how good your theoretical knowledge is, you will face a lot of obstacles while
- applying it. You will have to deal with issues that have never been described or covered in any
- book. You will have to look for the solutions and make the spontaneous decisions that no one
- probably has ever thought of. You will have to design your own road to success.
- Transform your learning process from the continuous the procrastination into an
- unstoppable process of absorbing invaluable expertise based on your own experience. It might
- seem counterintuitive, but the old-fashioned way of learning is what holds you back. This is
- what makes your triumphs suck.
- Constant learning, evaluating of ideas, thinking, and visualizing your journey towards your
- major aspirations will not take you far from the place you are now. Actions will. You can sit and
- research, and research, and research, while someone else is already reaping huge rewards for
- his or her fruitful and hard work. Stop learning now. Become bold enough to take the first step
- and start learning from your own experience.
Source: https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/why-learning-is-a-new-procrastination-104b53107e8b
Consider the following extract from the text and the sentences that follow:
“You will have to deal with issues that have never been described or covered in any book. You will have to look for the solutions and make the spontaneous decisions that no one probably has ever thought of.”
I. ‘have never been described’ is in the past perfect.
II. ‘will have to look for’ is in the future perfect.
III. ‘has ever thought of’ is in the passive voice.
Which ones are INCORRECT?
Instruction: Answer questions 41 to 53 based on the following text.
Why Learning Is A New Procrastination
- The tremendous world of online courses, blogs, social media, free eBooks, podcasts, and
- webinars provides the best ever opportunity to broaden your knowledge in almost every sphere
- you can imagine. Thanks to technological advancement and the instant access to the internet,
- everyone can now study from home. It seems like it would be foolishly not to seize this
- opportunity and improve your skills and knowledge. Moreover, you are kind of forced to do so
- since the contemporary world has raised the bar higher than ever before. It literally invited you
- to gather the pace and ___________ even more.
- It is not surprising that, ultimately, you try to be everywhere and do everything. No doubt,
- you do your best to constantly gather tiny bits of information from as many channels as
- possible, because you are afraid that you will fall behind if you stop. After all, you enter a
- learning crunch mode. You do not afford to miss anything and try to read every book you could
- get your hands on. You listen to every single podcast your smartphone could download and take
- every online course your paycheck would allow to take.
- All in all, you learn. As much as possible. As intense as you manage to. You learn how to
- write and publish a new book. You learn how to launch a successful blog. You learn how to hit
- your goal on Kickstarter. You learn how to build the next “unicorn”. You learn how to land a job
- of your dream. You learn how to successfully sell thousands of items on Amazon. You learn how
- to make millions of dollars in passive income.
- However, the problem is that you do everything except taking action. All those activities do
- not take you closer to the things you want to accomplish. Better knowledge does not make you
- more influential, powerful, and successful unless you apply it. The key secret to success is not
- ________ expertise, but the ability to use it.
- Knowledge is worthless unless it is applied. Needless to say that studying is crucial.
- However, the thing is that it should take the entirely new form now. You should stop learning
- from someone else’s experiences, knowledge, failures, and wins and start learning from your
- own mistakes, adventures, ___________, and bold actions.
- Learning has become a major trend of the 21st century. Sadly, it has also become a new
- form of procrastination. You consciously postpone the first step justifying this by your eagerness
- to broaden the knowledge and learn new things. You put the start date off justifying this by
- your desire to pick up new skills that would help you succeed faster. You procrastinate over
- chasing your own aspirations because doing the things on your own and creating your own story
- of success is far more complicated than reading about someone else’s one. Meanwhile, no one
- would really reproach you for wasting your time. Also, you feel comfortable about staying within
- this zone of ease and convenience forever.
- However, the point is that you already have and know everything you need to start off. In
- fact, there is nothing more you need to learn in order to take the first step. Embrace the truth.
- No matter how good your theoretical knowledge is, you will face a lot of obstacles while
- applying it. You will have to deal with issues that have never been described or covered in any
- book. You will have to look for the solutions and make the spontaneous decisions that no one
- probably has ever thought of. You will have to design your own road to success.
- Transform your learning process from the continuous the procrastination into an
- unstoppable process of absorbing invaluable expertise based on your own experience. It might
- seem counterintuitive, but the old-fashioned way of learning is what holds you back. This is
- what makes your triumphs suck.
- Constant learning, evaluating of ideas, thinking, and visualizing your journey towards your
- major aspirations will not take you far from the place you are now. Actions will. You can sit and
- research, and research, and research, while someone else is already reaping huge rewards for
- his or her fruitful and hard work. Stop learning now. Become bold enough to take the first step
- and start learning from your own experience.
Source: https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/why-learning-is-a-new-procrastination-104b53107e8b
Mark the sentence in which verb ‘reap’ has the same meaning as used in line 47.
Instruction: Answer questions 41 to 53 based on the following text.
Why Learning Is A New Procrastination
- The tremendous world of online courses, blogs, social media, free eBooks, podcasts, and
- webinars provides the best ever opportunity to broaden your knowledge in almost every sphere
- you can imagine. Thanks to technological advancement and the instant access to the internet,
- everyone can now study from home. It seems like it would be foolishly not to seize this
- opportunity and improve your skills and knowledge. Moreover, you are kind of forced to do so
- since the contemporary world has raised the bar higher than ever before. It literally invited you
- to gather the pace and ___________ even more.
- It is not surprising that, ultimately, you try to be everywhere and do everything. No doubt,
- you do your best to constantly gather tiny bits of information from as many channels as
- possible, because you are afraid that you will fall behind if you stop. After all, you enter a
- learning crunch mode. You do not afford to miss anything and try to read every book you could
- get your hands on. You listen to every single podcast your smartphone could download and take
- every online course your paycheck would allow to take.
- All in all, you learn. As much as possible. As intense as you manage to. You learn how to
- write and publish a new book. You learn how to launch a successful blog. You learn how to hit
- your goal on Kickstarter. You learn how to build the next “unicorn”. You learn how to land a job
- of your dream. You learn how to successfully sell thousands of items on Amazon. You learn how
- to make millions of dollars in passive income.
- However, the problem is that you do everything except taking action. All those activities do
- not take you closer to the things you want to accomplish. Better knowledge does not make you
- more influential, powerful, and successful unless you apply it. The key secret to success is not
- ________ expertise, but the ability to use it.
- Knowledge is worthless unless it is applied. Needless to say that studying is crucial.
- However, the thing is that it should take the entirely new form now. You should stop learning
- from someone else’s experiences, knowledge, failures, and wins and start learning from your
- own mistakes, adventures, ___________, and bold actions.
- Learning has become a major trend of the 21st century. Sadly, it has also become a new
- form of procrastination. You consciously postpone the first step justifying this by your eagerness
- to broaden the knowledge and learn new things. You put the start date off justifying this by
- your desire to pick up new skills that would help you succeed faster. You procrastinate over
- chasing your own aspirations because doing the things on your own and creating your own story
- of success is far more complicated than reading about someone else’s one. Meanwhile, no one
- would really reproach you for wasting your time. Also, you feel comfortable about staying within
- this zone of ease and convenience forever.
- However, the point is that you already have and know everything you need to start off. In
- fact, there is nothing more you need to learn in order to take the first step. Embrace the truth.
- No matter how good your theoretical knowledge is, you will face a lot of obstacles while
- applying it. You will have to deal with issues that have never been described or covered in any
- book. You will have to look for the solutions and make the spontaneous decisions that no one
- probably has ever thought of. You will have to design your own road to success.
- Transform your learning process from the continuous the procrastination into an
- unstoppable process of absorbing invaluable expertise based on your own experience. It might
- seem counterintuitive, but the old-fashioned way of learning is what holds you back. This is
- what makes your triumphs suck.
- Constant learning, evaluating of ideas, thinking, and visualizing your journey towards your
- major aspirations will not take you far from the place you are now. Actions will. You can sit and
- research, and research, and research, while someone else is already reaping huge rewards for
- his or her fruitful and hard work. Stop learning now. Become bold enough to take the first step
- and start learning from your own experience.
Source: https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/why-learning-is-a-new-procrastination-104b53107e8b
Choose the alternative that best fill in the blanks of lines 07, 22 and 26.
Instruction: answer questions 48 and 49 based on the text below.
Laura’s testimony about adopting Charley
01 ____We adopted Charley in January of 2019. She was from Texas and had been in a shelter for
02 months before we found her. She ____ my first adult rescue and the most incredible dog I ____
03 ever met. She adores people, loves the snow, and ____ give you the biggest smiles you ____
04 ever seen. She loves ____ next to you and bring you her toys. When we adopted Charley, we
05 didn't know she has some dog reactivity. It was a challenge because we had another dog at the
06 time. We’ve been working on this with her and she’s so much better. She’s intelligent and so
07 loving, and can make anyone smile.
08 ____I cannot thank you [Animal Humane Society] enough for all you do. You're the reason
09 Charley was brought into our lives, and I will never be able to express the gratitude I have for
10 that. She’s become me and my family's whole world.
(Available in: https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/news/our-10-most-heartwarming-dog-adoption-stories-
2021-so-far – text adapted especially for this test).
Which of the alternatives below best fills out the blanks in the first paragraph, respectively?
Instruction: answer questions 48 and 49 based on the text below.
Laura’s testimony about adopting Charley
01 ____We adopted Charley in January of 2019. She was from Texas and had been in a shelter for
02 months before we found her. She ____ my first adult rescue and the most incredible dog I ____
03 ever met. She adores people, loves the snow, and ____ give you the biggest smiles you ____
04 ever seen. She loves ____ next to you and bring you her toys. When we adopted Charley, we
05 didn't know she has some dog reactivity. It was a challenge because we had another dog at the
06 time. We’ve been working on this with her and she’s so much better. She’s intelligent and so
07 loving, and can make anyone smile.
08 ____I cannot thank you [Animal Humane Society] enough for all you do. You're the reason
09 Charley was brought into our lives, and I will never be able to express the gratitude I have for
10 that. She’s become me and my family's whole world.
(Available in: https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/news/our-10-most-heartwarming-dog-adoption-stories-
2021-so-far – text adapted especially for this test).
In the sentence “She was from Texas and had been in a shelter for months before we found her.” (l. 01-02), the verb tenses in the bold structures suggest that:
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