Questões de Concurso Sobre pronome objetivo | objective pronoun em inglês

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Q3175673 Inglês
Instruction: Answer question based on the following cartoon by Jim Davis. 

Mark the alternative that correctly and respectively fills in the blanks in the text: 
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Q3171498 Inglês

Read the text below to answer question


“To read these books, in this way, as an exercise in self-knowledge, carries certain risks. Risks that are both personal and political. Risks that every student of Political Philosophy has known. These risks spring from the fact that philosophy teaches us, and unsettles us, by confronting us with what we already know. There is an irony: the difficulty of this course consists in the fact that it teaches what you already know. It works by taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings, and making it strange. [...] Philosophy estranges us from the familiar, not by supplying new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing.


    But, and here is the risk, once the familiar turns strange, it is never quite the same again. Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. What makes this enterprise difficult, but also riveting, is that Moral and Political Philosophy is a story, and you don't know where the story would lead, but you do know that the story is about You.”


Text taken from: “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?” Introduction Class ― Michael Sandel

In the sentence "But, and here is the risk, once the familiar turns strange, it is never quite the same again," the pronoun "it" most directly refers to:
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Q3158172 Inglês
Choose the correct sentence using an object pronoun: 
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Q3072543 Inglês
For question, choose the best option according to what is asked.

Check the sentence below:


“Let’s go out!”


What is the ’s a contraction of?

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Q3072535 Inglês
For question, choose the best option to fill in the blanks correctly and respectively.
“I asked ______ some questions about ______ new house.”
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Q3010798 Inglês
Pronouns make links to what has already been said and help avoid repetition. Pronouns can be used as cohesive devices in order to create cohesion. A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun, often to avoid the need to repeat the same noun over and over. Like nouns, pronouns can refer to people, things, concepts, and places. Most sentences contain at least one noun or pronoun. Pronouns do more than helping avoid repetitiveness. They provide context, make sentences’ meanings clearer, and shape how we perceive people and things. Read the sentences that follow and do what is required.

I. Her aunt will be vacating next week.
II. That toy on the shelf is mine.
III. Did you do it yourself?
IV. She is the girl I was talking to you about.
V. I am going home today evening.
VI. All my friends are coming home for my birthday party.

In the order they were respectively underlined and written in bold letters, the pronouns written in the sentences above have specific functions, check the answer whose pronouns types are correspondent to the ones read above. 
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Q2962087 Inglês

Mark the only alternative where the word ‘one’ functions as an indefinite personal pronoun.

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Q2956138 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.

How Telecommuting Works

Telecommuting, which is growing in popularity, allows employees to avoid long commutes.

“Brring,” the alarm startles you out of a deep sleep. It’s 8 a.m. on Monday morning. Time to head to the office. You roll out of bed, brush your teeth and stumble your way to the kitchen to grab some coffee.

Moments later, you head to the office, still wearing your pajamas and fluffy slippers. Luckily for you, you don’t have to go far – you work at home. Telecommuting, or working at home, has grown in popularity over the last 20 years.

On an increasing basis, workers are saying “no” to long commutes and opting to work at home. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of employees working from home grew by 23 percent from 1990 to 2000.

Telecommuting workers revel in making their own schedule – allowing them to schedule work around family and personal commitments. With the ready availability of technology tools, like the Internet and home computers, companies are more willing to let employees work from home.

(Adapted from: http://home.howstuffworks.com/telecommuting.htm Access on 18 January, 2014)

The pronoun THEM in the last paragraph of the text refers to:

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Q2934936 Inglês

O texto a seguir refere-se às questões 29, 30, 31 e 32.


Learning to quit


Jodi Hall started smoking at age 9.

By the time she was 16, she was up to a pack a day – and she wanted to quit. A couple of reasons: one, her health; two, a guy named Mony. “He said that when he kissed me, it was like kissing an ashtray”, Jodi says.

Earlier this year, Jodi, along with 25 of her classmates at Johnson High School, in Savannah, GA, enrolled in the school’s first stop-smoking class. During the eight-week Tobacco Free Teen class, they learned what smoking can do to their body, their wallet and their grades (some kids end up cutting class to satisfy their nicotine cravings). But it wasn’t just about scare tactics. The goal is behavior modification, not punishment, so students are taught techniques for handling stress and resisting the urge to light up even when friends or parents do.

According to the American Lung Association (ALA), which sponsors the class, about half the adults who smoke were regular smokers by age 18. “Theses numbers are only going to get worse,” says Kristine Lewis of the ALA. “The tobacco industry is turning to teens.”

How did the students do? Jodi has been cigaretteless for three months. But she’s the only one. Her classmate Adam Cushman is slowly putting his way back to three packs a day. The 16-year-old says he wants to stop, “but the way things are going, I doubt I’ll be able to.”


Seventeen, June 1996.

O pronome they em “they learned what smoking can do to…” refere-se a Jodi e:

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Q2913999 Inglês

THERE ARE 10 QUESTIONS OF MULTIPLE CHOICE IN YOUR TEST. EACH QUESTION HAS 4 ALTERNATIVES (A, B, C, AND D) FROM WHICH ONLY ONE IS CORRECT. CHECK THE CORRECT ONE.


A Framework for Understanding Cross-Cultural Misunderstandings

Successful communication between human beings, either within a culture or between cultures, requires that the message and meaning intended by the speaker is correctly received and interpreted by the listener. Sustainable error free communication is rare, and in most human interactions there is some degree of miscommunication.
The message sent from speaker to listener contains a wide array of features, such as words, grammar, syntax, idioms, tone of voice, emphasis, speed, emotion, and body language, and the interpretation requires the listener to attend to all of these features, while at the same time constructing an understanding of the speaker's intentions, emotions, politeness, seriousness, character, beliefs, priorities, motivations, and style of communicating. In addition, the listener must also evaluate whether the utterance is a question or a statement and how and to what extent a statement matters to the speaker (Maltz and Borker, 1982).
Each of the components of the communication provides one or more kind of information. Words convey abstract logic, tone of voice conveys attitudes, emotions and emphases, and body language communicates "requests versus commands, the stages of greeting, and turn-taking" (Schneller 1988, p. 154).
Even assuming that words and body language were perfectly understood, there is more information necessary to successfully communicate across cultures. For example, in some countries it is polite to refuse the first few offers of refreshment: "Many foreign guests have gone hungry because their U.S. host or hostess never presented a third offer" (Samovar and Porter 1988, p. 326). In understanding communication, a listener must pay attention not just to what is said and when, but also to how many times something is said, under what circumstances, and by whom. Given all this complexity, the reason human communication can often succeed is because people learn how to communicate and understand through interacting with one another throughout their lives. Therefore, it is no surprise that culture and socialization are critical determinants of communication and interpretation. "The entire inference process, from observation through categorization is a function of one's socialization" Detweiler (1975). Socialization influences how input will be received, and how perceptions will be organized conceptually and associated with memories.

The importance of culture to communication

Some theorists have gone so far as to claim that culture not only influences interpretation, but constitutes interpretation. The interpretation of communicative intent is not predictable on the basis of referential meaning alone. Matters of context, social presuppositions, knowledge of the world, and individual background all play an important role in interpretation (Gumperz, 1978b).
Even knowledgeable translators can have difficulty with cross-cultural translations. There may not be corresponding words or equivalent concepts in both cultures, jokes and implications may be overlooked, and literal translations can present a host of difficulties. Some language pairs are very difficult to translate, while others, usually in more similar languages, are much easier (Sechrest, Fay and Zaidi 1988).
While some of the incremental difficulties can be traced to the underlying linguistic commonalities between the languages, there may be a more elusive cultural and ecological basis for difficulty in translation. It would be interesting to test how much of the variance in communication could be accounted for by the ease with which the languages in question could be translated into one another.
Although it may facilitate cross-cultural translations, similarity of languages and cultures also increases the likelihood that communicators will erroneously assume similarity of meanings. This may make them more likely to misunderstand speech and behavior without being aware that they may have misinterpreted the speaker's message.
In general, cross-cultural miscommunication can be thought to derive from the mistaken belief that emics are etics, that words and deeds mean the same thing across cultures, and this miscalculation is perhaps more likely when cultures are similar in surface attributes but different in important underlying ways. In this case miscommunication may occur instead of non-communication.

(http://www.dattnerconsulting.com/cross.html )

The pronoun them in “This may make them more likely to misunderstand speech and behavior without being aware that they may have misinterpreted the speaker's message” refers to

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Q2875947 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.


WELCOME!


And congratulations on your new purchase. You’re now entitled to an unsurpassed service and a number of benefits as part of the Ericsson warranty and service program. Your Ericsson mobile phone was designed to offer you the ultimate in quality, convenience and performance. And of course, we guarantee it. From now on, as the new owner of an Ericsson mobile phone, you’ll have access to a number of exclusive advantages such as: a vast network of Ericsson service centers; a limited 1 year warranty and service agreement, and a toll-free customer service hotline.


WARRANTY CONDITIONS


Dear Customer,


If your Ericsson product needs warranty service, you should send the product to any company authorized service facility. For information contact the store from which you purchased the product. The product in all cases must be accompanied by the following items: your name, address, telephone number, warranty card, bill of sale bearing the serial number, date of delivery, or reasonable proof of these dates, and a detailed description of the problem.


Our warranty


This warranty is extended by Ericsson Inc. (“The Company”) to the original purchaser for use only. Ericsson warrants this product to be free of defects in material and workmanship at the time of its original purchase and for the subsequent period of one (1) year. All accessories for the product are covered for a period of one (1) year from the date of purchase.


What we will do


If, during the period of warranty, this product proves defective under normal use and service due to improper materials or workmanship, the company will repair or replace the defective item with a new or factory rebuilt replacement.

(Taken from Ericsson – One year Warranty and Service Agreement)

The pronoun WE in “And of course, we guarantee it” refers to:

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Q2815876 Inglês

Fill in the blanks with the correct pronoun.


They are late. Can you call ______?

This is the car. Can you fix it for _____?

Claudia is sick. I will make soup for _____.


Select the CORRECT answer.

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Q2815871 Inglês

Complete the following sentences with the correct conjunction.


Give this letter to Anne __________ you see her.

Do you know _______could give me better instructions?

It started to rain _____ I washed the clothes.

We have to work ______ the day before the sun goes down.


Select the CORRECT answer.

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Q2815867 Inglês

Match Column A with Column B to fill in with the appropriate question word.


COLUMN A


I. Where.

II. Who.

III. When.

IV. How.

V. How much.


COLUMN B


( ) ______ do you live? In Icapuí.

( ) ______ is your best friend? It’s Sam.

( ) ______ old are you? I am 19

( ) ______ is your party? Tomorrow morning.

( ) ______ is the ticket? It's free.


Select the CORRECT answer

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Q2808944 Inglês

All1 that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edgar Allan Poe)

“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves2 happened rather than what actually happened.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something3 you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” (Doris Lessing)

“There is nothing4 either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” (William Shakespeare)


In these sentences, the pronouns in bold are, respectively,

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Q2808938 Inglês

“There are four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” (Lord Byron)

“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” (William Shakespeare)


In terms of grammatical features, the two passages above have two aspects in common, which are the use of

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Q2808909 Inglês

“Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which1 the flood did not sweep away.” (William Blake)

“Keep away from people who2 try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” (Mark Twain)

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself3 in.” (W.H. Auden)


The pronouns in bold in the three sentences above are, respectively,

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Q2808869 Inglês

Read the following passage then mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks.


“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.” (John Steinbeck)


This passage contains the recurrent use of a ______1 pronoun and an example of a ______2 adjective.

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Q2799281 Inglês

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the text carefully and then answer the questions from 33 to 38 by choosing the correct alternative.


Brazil corruption scandals: All you need to know

For the past three years, Brazil has been gripped by a scandal which started with a state-owned oil company and grew to encapsulate people at the very top of business - and even presidents.

On the face of it, it is a straightforward corruption scandal - albeit one involving millions of dollars in kickbacks and more than 80 politicians and members of the business elite.

But as the tentacles of the investigation dubbed Operation Car Wash fanned out, other scandals emerged.

It has led to some of those who have found themselves accused claiming they are the victims of political plots, designed to bar them from office.

What is Operation Car Wash?

Operation Car Wash began in March 2014 as an investigation into allegations that Brazil's biggest construction firms overcharged state-oil company Petrobras for building contracts.

Investigators accused directors at the firm - named the world's most ethical oil and gas company in 2008 - of skimming the extra money off the top as a bribe for awarding the contract.

Which is bad enough - but then the Workers' Party found itself dragged into the corruption scandal amid allegations of having funneled some of these funds to pay off politicians and buy their votes and help with political campaigns.

Among those accused in the scandal were dozens of politicians, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - the country's extremely popular former president, known affectionately as "Lula".

The pronouns IT (line 07), THEY (line 07) and ITSELF (line 14), refer respectively to:

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Q2776449 Inglês

“I recall closing the gates behind_________________”

Complete with the right pronoun.

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Respostas
1: C
2: D
3: D
4: D
5: A
6: B
7: D
8: B
9: B
10: B
11: B
12: A
13: E
14: A
15: C
16: D
17: B
18: C
19: B
20: D