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Q2316857 Inglês

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Syntactic ambiguity, arising from grammatical structures that allow for multiple interpretations, is an intriguing linguistic phenomenon. Recognizing and mitigating syntactic ambiguity requires a profound understanding of the structural nuances of language, highlighting the underlying complexity in the formation of sentences in contemporary English.

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Q2316856 Inglês

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Gradable adjectives in American English often take modifiers like “very,” “quite” or “rather” to express different degrees of intensity. Understanding how to use these modifiers enhances language proficiency and allows for more nuanced and precise expression.

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Q2316855 Inglês

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Coordinating conjunctions, including “and,” “but,” and “or,” serve to connect elements of equal grammatical rank within a sentence. These conjunctions facilitate the formation of compound structures, enabling a concise and organized expression of ideas in American English. Understanding their application enhances syntactical clarity and coherence in written and spoken communication. 

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Q2316852 Inglês

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Prepositions of movement, such as “to,” “from,” and “through”, elucidate the direction of action within a sentence. Proper application of these prepositions ensures precise communication, allowing speakers and writers to convey movement and spatial relationships with accuracy. Proficiency in using prepositions of movement enhances overall language proficiency.

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Q2316851 Inglês

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Irregular plural forms, such as “children” and “geese,” deviate from standard rules for creating plurals in English. Recognizing these irregularities is crucial for accurate usage, as these unique forms contribute to the richness and diversity of the language. Mastery of irregular plurals enhances language proficiency and writing skills. 

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Q2316850 Inglês

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The phenomenology of word order in syntax transcends surface grammatical rules, delving into intricate underlying semantic and pragmatic relationships. In this context, understanding variations in word order requires not only syntactic knowledge but also a sophisticated appreciation of communicative intentions and idiomatic expression. 

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Q2316849 Inglês

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Countable and uncountable nouns present distinct challenges in English grammar. Countable nouns refer to individual items that can be enumerated, while uncountable nouns denote substances or concepts without clear boundaries. Mastery of these distinctions is crucial for accurate article usage and grammatical agreement.

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Q2316848 Inglês

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Correlative conjunctions, exemplified by pairs like “either...or” and “neither...nor,” work together to connect grammatically parallel elements. The correct usage of correlative conjunctions ensures a balanced and harmonious structure within sentences, promoting effective communication in American English. Understanding the interplay between these paired conjunctions facilitates the construction of well-formed and logically connected expressions in both written and spoken contexts.

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Q2316847 Inglês

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The zero article, the absence of any article, is used in specific contexts, such as with plural and uncountable nouns or when referring to things in general. Understanding when to omit articles is essential for precise communication in American English.

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Q2316206 Inglês

Read Text II and answer the question that follows.



Text II



      June 15, 2023 - Debates over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts are currently thriving, including debates over the degree to which corporate diversity efforts are valuable, whether chief diversity officers can succeed, and whether corporate diversity commitments can produce lasting change.



      Over the past year, at least a dozen U.S. state legislatures have proposed or passed laws targeting DEI efforts, including laws aimed at limiting DEI roles and efforts in businesses and higher education and laws eliminating DEI spending, trainings, and statements at public institutions. Moreover, with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to address affirmative action in two cases involving the consideration of race in higher education admissions this summer, debates in the U.S. regarding DEI initiatives are likely far from over.



      At the same time, DEI-related legal requirements continue to grow in other jurisdictions, and with global financial institutions facing expanding environmental, social, and governance (ESG)- related trends and regulations in the EU and other jurisdictions, as well as global expectations regarding their role in ESG, including DEI-related corporate developments and initiatives, these matters are likely to continue to work their way into capital allocations and the costs of doing business, as well as into the expectations of certain stakeholders.



      This widening gap between global expectations and regulation regarding DEI-related matters and the concerns of some constituents in the U.S. over the role of DEI in corporate decision-making is likely to continue growing for the foreseeable future, putting companies between the proverbial rock and hard place.



      What these developments make clear is that corporate DEI efforts are, and likely have been for some time, riskier than many companies may initially appreciate. And the risks associated with DEI initiatives are only positioned to grow and expand as companies look to thread the DEI needle and make a broader and potentially more divergent set of stakeholders happy, or at least less annoyed, with their DEI-related commitments and initiatives. In this article, we discuss the top four legal risks that companies often fail to address in their DEI efforts.



[…]



(From https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/diversity-matters-four-scarylegal-risks-hiding-your-dei-program-2023-06-15/)

The sentence “Putting companies between the proverbial rock and hard place” (4th paragraph) indicates that the companies may be in a
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Q2316205 Inglês

Read Text II and answer the question that follows.



Text II



      June 15, 2023 - Debates over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts are currently thriving, including debates over the degree to which corporate diversity efforts are valuable, whether chief diversity officers can succeed, and whether corporate diversity commitments can produce lasting change.



      Over the past year, at least a dozen U.S. state legislatures have proposed or passed laws targeting DEI efforts, including laws aimed at limiting DEI roles and efforts in businesses and higher education and laws eliminating DEI spending, trainings, and statements at public institutions. Moreover, with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to address affirmative action in two cases involving the consideration of race in higher education admissions this summer, debates in the U.S. regarding DEI initiatives are likely far from over.



      At the same time, DEI-related legal requirements continue to grow in other jurisdictions, and with global financial institutions facing expanding environmental, social, and governance (ESG)- related trends and regulations in the EU and other jurisdictions, as well as global expectations regarding their role in ESG, including DEI-related corporate developments and initiatives, these matters are likely to continue to work their way into capital allocations and the costs of doing business, as well as into the expectations of certain stakeholders.



      This widening gap between global expectations and regulation regarding DEI-related matters and the concerns of some constituents in the U.S. over the role of DEI in corporate decision-making is likely to continue growing for the foreseeable future, putting companies between the proverbial rock and hard place.



      What these developments make clear is that corporate DEI efforts are, and likely have been for some time, riskier than many companies may initially appreciate. And the risks associated with DEI initiatives are only positioned to grow and expand as companies look to thread the DEI needle and make a broader and potentially more divergent set of stakeholders happy, or at least less annoyed, with their DEI-related commitments and initiatives. In this article, we discuss the top four legal risks that companies often fail to address in their DEI efforts.



[…]



(From https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/diversity-matters-four-scarylegal-risks-hiding-your-dei-program-2023-06-15/)

The word “poised” in “with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to address affirmative action” (2nd paragraph) is equivalent to
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Q2316203 Inglês
Read Text I and answer the question that follows.


Text I


‘It’s dangerous work’: new generation of Indigenous

activists battle to save the Amazon


      The medicine man flashed a mischievous grin as he dabbed his warriors’ eyeballs with a feather soaked in malagueta pepper and watched them grimace in pain. “They’re going into battle and this will protect them,” José Delfonso Pereira said as he advanced on his next target with a jam jar of his chilli potion.


      “It hurts and it burns,” the Macuxi shaman admitted. “But it will help them see more clearly and stop them falling ill.”


      It was a crisp August morning and a dozen members of an Indigenous self-defence team had assembled in the hillside village of Tabatinga to receive Pereira’s blessing before launching their latest mission into one of the Amazon’s most secluded corners, near Brazil’s border with Guyana and Venezuela.


      Some of the men clutched bloodwood truncheons as they prepared to journey down the Maú River in search of illegal miners; others held bows and arrows adorned with the black feathers of curassow birds. Marco Antônio Silva Batista carried a drone.


      “If I die, it will be for a good cause – ensuring our territory is preserved for future generations,” said the 20-year-old activistjournalist, whose ability to spy on environmental criminals from above has made him a key member of GPVTI, an Indigenous patrol group in the Brazilian state of Roraima.


      Batista, who belongs to South America’s Macuxi people, is part of a new generation of Indigenous journalists helping chronicle an age-old battle against outside aggression. For centuries, non-Indigenous writers and reporters have flocked to the rainforest region to tell their version of that ancestral fight for survival. Now, a growing cohort of Indigenous communicators are telling their own stories, providing first-hand dispatches from some of the Amazon’s most inaccessible and under-reported corners.


      “It’s dangerous work and we suffer a lot when we’re out in the field,” said Batista, one of about 26,000 inhabitants of Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil’s second most populous Indigenous territory. “But it really gives me strength because I’m showing the reality of our lives to the world.” (…)


(Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/03/its-

dangerous-work-new-generation-of-indigenous-activists-battle-to-save-the-amazon)

When the men “clutched bloodwood truncheons” (4th paragraph), they
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Q2316202 Inglês
Read Text I and answer the question that follows.


Text I


‘It’s dangerous work’: new generation of Indigenous

activists battle to save the Amazon


      The medicine man flashed a mischievous grin as he dabbed his warriors’ eyeballs with a feather soaked in malagueta pepper and watched them grimace in pain. “They’re going into battle and this will protect them,” José Delfonso Pereira said as he advanced on his next target with a jam jar of his chilli potion.


      “It hurts and it burns,” the Macuxi shaman admitted. “But it will help them see more clearly and stop them falling ill.”


      It was a crisp August morning and a dozen members of an Indigenous self-defence team had assembled in the hillside village of Tabatinga to receive Pereira’s blessing before launching their latest mission into one of the Amazon’s most secluded corners, near Brazil’s border with Guyana and Venezuela.


      Some of the men clutched bloodwood truncheons as they prepared to journey down the Maú River in search of illegal miners; others held bows and arrows adorned with the black feathers of curassow birds. Marco Antônio Silva Batista carried a drone.


      “If I die, it will be for a good cause – ensuring our territory is preserved for future generations,” said the 20-year-old activistjournalist, whose ability to spy on environmental criminals from above has made him a key member of GPVTI, an Indigenous patrol group in the Brazilian state of Roraima.


      Batista, who belongs to South America’s Macuxi people, is part of a new generation of Indigenous journalists helping chronicle an age-old battle against outside aggression. For centuries, non-Indigenous writers and reporters have flocked to the rainforest region to tell their version of that ancestral fight for survival. Now, a growing cohort of Indigenous communicators are telling their own stories, providing first-hand dispatches from some of the Amazon’s most inaccessible and under-reported corners.


      “It’s dangerous work and we suffer a lot when we’re out in the field,” said Batista, one of about 26,000 inhabitants of Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil’s second most populous Indigenous territory. “But it really gives me strength because I’m showing the reality of our lives to the world.” (…)


(Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/03/its-

dangerous-work-new-generation-of-indigenous-activists-battle-to-save-the-amazon)

The two first sentences in the 4th paragraph indicate the men anticipate a(n)
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Q2316201 Inglês
Read Text I and answer the question that follows.


Text I


‘It’s dangerous work’: new generation of Indigenous

activists battle to save the Amazon


      The medicine man flashed a mischievous grin as he dabbed his warriors’ eyeballs with a feather soaked in malagueta pepper and watched them grimace in pain. “They’re going into battle and this will protect them,” José Delfonso Pereira said as he advanced on his next target with a jam jar of his chilli potion.


      “It hurts and it burns,” the Macuxi shaman admitted. “But it will help them see more clearly and stop them falling ill.”


      It was a crisp August morning and a dozen members of an Indigenous self-defence team had assembled in the hillside village of Tabatinga to receive Pereira’s blessing before launching their latest mission into one of the Amazon’s most secluded corners, near Brazil’s border with Guyana and Venezuela.


      Some of the men clutched bloodwood truncheons as they prepared to journey down the Maú River in search of illegal miners; others held bows and arrows adorned with the black feathers of curassow birds. Marco Antônio Silva Batista carried a drone.


      “If I die, it will be for a good cause – ensuring our territory is preserved for future generations,” said the 20-year-old activistjournalist, whose ability to spy on environmental criminals from above has made him a key member of GPVTI, an Indigenous patrol group in the Brazilian state of Roraima.


      Batista, who belongs to South America’s Macuxi people, is part of a new generation of Indigenous journalists helping chronicle an age-old battle against outside aggression. For centuries, non-Indigenous writers and reporters have flocked to the rainforest region to tell their version of that ancestral fight for survival. Now, a growing cohort of Indigenous communicators are telling their own stories, providing first-hand dispatches from some of the Amazon’s most inaccessible and under-reported corners.


      “It’s dangerous work and we suffer a lot when we’re out in the field,” said Batista, one of about 26,000 inhabitants of Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil’s second most populous Indigenous territory. “But it really gives me strength because I’m showing the reality of our lives to the world.” (…)


(Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/03/its-

dangerous-work-new-generation-of-indigenous-activists-battle-to-save-the-amazon)

In the 3rd paragraph, the August morning is described as being
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Q2316197 Inglês
Read Text I and answer the question that follows.


Text I


‘It’s dangerous work’: new generation of Indigenous

activists battle to save the Amazon


      The medicine man flashed a mischievous grin as he dabbed his warriors’ eyeballs with a feather soaked in malagueta pepper and watched them grimace in pain. “They’re going into battle and this will protect them,” José Delfonso Pereira said as he advanced on his next target with a jam jar of his chilli potion.


      “It hurts and it burns,” the Macuxi shaman admitted. “But it will help them see more clearly and stop them falling ill.”


      It was a crisp August morning and a dozen members of an Indigenous self-defence team had assembled in the hillside village of Tabatinga to receive Pereira’s blessing before launching their latest mission into one of the Amazon’s most secluded corners, near Brazil’s border with Guyana and Venezuela.


      Some of the men clutched bloodwood truncheons as they prepared to journey down the Maú River in search of illegal miners; others held bows and arrows adorned with the black feathers of curassow birds. Marco Antônio Silva Batista carried a drone.


      “If I die, it will be for a good cause – ensuring our territory is preserved for future generations,” said the 20-year-old activistjournalist, whose ability to spy on environmental criminals from above has made him a key member of GPVTI, an Indigenous patrol group in the Brazilian state of Roraima.


      Batista, who belongs to South America’s Macuxi people, is part of a new generation of Indigenous journalists helping chronicle an age-old battle against outside aggression. For centuries, non-Indigenous writers and reporters have flocked to the rainforest region to tell their version of that ancestral fight for survival. Now, a growing cohort of Indigenous communicators are telling their own stories, providing first-hand dispatches from some of the Amazon’s most inaccessible and under-reported corners.


      “It’s dangerous work and we suffer a lot when we’re out in the field,” said Batista, one of about 26,000 inhabitants of Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil’s second most populous Indigenous territory. “But it really gives me strength because I’m showing the reality of our lives to the world.” (…)


(Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/03/its-

dangerous-work-new-generation-of-indigenous-activists-battle-to-save-the-amazon)

Based on Text I, mark the statements below as true (T) or false (F).
( ) Indigenous reporters have been currently keen on providing their eye-witness accounts.
( ) The patrollers put themselves in jeopardy when they undertake their fact-finding missions.
( ) The activist journalist mentioned is incognizant of modern surveillance technology.
The statements are, respectively
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Q2315666 Inglês
The BNCC brings forward some concepts as support for a new approach to the English language perception and its teaching. The following views support the BNCC, EXCEPT:
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Q2315665 Inglês
The use of high-stakes language tests

         English’s rise as an international language has been accompanied by an increase in emphasis on English language education in traditionally EFL setting. Learners worldwide are often accustomed to taking mandatory English language classes within their national school systems, and assessing practices used within these educational systems are often positioned as gatekeepers for further educational progression. In Japan, for example, English is compulsory for all students, and is often the only foreign language taught in school. Success in English language tests in high school directly impacts learners’ access to higher education due to the fact that English tests make up a large component of junior high school, high school, and university entrance examinations. Upon entering university, undergraduate students take at least two years of English classes, even in unrelated majors. In China, English education is compulsory in primary schools from Grade 3, although many schools start earlier than this. Like Japan, it’s also compulsory in most Chinese colleges and universities for the first two years, and the College English Test is becoming an increasingly predominant measure of success in these programs, with some universities requiring it for graduation. South Korea also tests English in the national College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), which is necessary to enter South Korean universities. Neighboring countries in Asia are also starting to follow suit; in Vietnam, over 90 percent of children are engaged in English language study, and it is compulsory in most secondary schools, where all students must pass an English test in order to graduate. Similar situations can be found across Europe and Latin America. In Italy, for example, English language has been promoted in educational policy that encourages Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), where students are taught subjects such as history, mathematics, sciences and sport through English. Thus English knowledge not only affects performance on language tests but also the teaching of other subjects of study.

(Available on: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328643382_Assessment_Practices_in_Teaching_English_as_an_International_Language.)
As ING forms may have different employment situations in a text, analyse the use of the highlighted ING forms to choose the pair in which both share the same usage pattern.
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Q2315664 Inglês

Read the advertising text to answer question


Learn a language in 2 week


“There has never been a _____________ way to learn a new language! Just spend an hour a day following Babel, a new online language course, based on the very _____________ language teaching theories. Most people can expect to reach fluency within six months, although the more time you spend on it, _______________ your progress will be. And at only $150 Babel is certainly _________________ most other similar courses, which often cost over $300. Apply online for Babel, the language course described as ‘________________ method to have been invented in the past decade, judging by its results’. And remember, we`re offering a 10% discount for the first 200 orders, so ________________ you apply, the better your chance of paying less!” 



Mark the option that fills in the advertisement’s blanks with the correct adjetive forms.

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Q2315663 Inglês

Choose the verb form that fits in the sentence.



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“The little boy has a fever, a sore throat, and he is also coughing a lot, so it is recommended that he __________ home.” 

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Q2315662 Inglês

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Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist and genetic epistemologist. You may have heard of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, for which he is famous. This theory looks at how children develop intellectually throughout the course of childhood. Prior to Piaget's theory, children were often thought of simply as mini-adults. Piaget's theory had a tremendous influence on the emergence of developmental psychology as a distinctive subfield within psychology and contributed greatly to the field of education. He is also credited as a pioneer of the constructivist theory, which suggests that people actively construct their knowledge of the world based on the interaction between their ideas and experiences. In a 2002 survey of 1,725 American Psychological Society members, Piaget was named the second most influential psychologist of the 20th century.


(Available on: https://www.verywellmind.com/jean-piaget-biography-1896-1980-2795549.)



The word MAY (L1), is used to indicate:

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4601: C
4602: C
4603: C
4604: C
4605: C
4606: C
4607: C
4608: C
4609: C
4610: D
4611: E
4612: B
4613: D
4614: A
4615: A
4616: B
4617: C
4618: C
4619: A
4620: B