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Ano: 2019
Banca:
Instituto Excelência
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Lucélia - SP
Prova:
Instituto Excelência - 2019 - Prefeitura de Lucélia - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1719856
Inglês
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Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity,
baripity, baripity. Good. His dad had the pickup going. He
could get up now. Jess slid out of bed and into his overalls.
He didn't worry about a shirt because once he began
running he would be hot as popping grease even if the
morning air was chill, or shoes because the bottoms of his
feet were by now as tough as his worn-out sneakers.
"Where you going, Jess?" May Belle lifted herself
up sleepily from the double bed where she and Joyce Ann
slept.
"Sh." He warned. The walls were thin. Momma
would he mad as flies in a fruit jar if they woke her up this
time of day.
He patted May Belle's hair and yanked the
twisted sheet up to her small chin. "Just over the cow field,"
he whispered. May Belle smiled and snuggled down under
the sheet.
"Gonna run?"
"Maybe."
Of course he was going to run. He had gotten up
early every day all summer to run. He figured if he worked
at it – and Lord, had he worked – he could be the fastest
runner in the fifth grade when school opened up. He had to
be the fastest – not one of the fastest or next to the fastest,
but the fastest. The very best.
(Excerpt from Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson. Available on
https://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/135126/Patterson_-
_Bridge_to_Terabithia.pdf)
What could be a synonym for the underlined word?
“He patted May Belle's hair and yanked the twisted
sheet up to her small chin.”
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Instituto Excelência
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Lucélia - SP
Prova:
Instituto Excelência - 2019 - Prefeitura de Lucélia - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1719848
Inglês
“When old friends are gathered, that’s the best
time to take a walk down memory lane.” What can be a
synonym for the underlined idiom?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Instituto Excelência
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Lucélia - SP
Prova:
Instituto Excelência - 2019 - Prefeitura de Lucélia - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1719847
Inglês
“When Andy got home, he found the door ajar.”
Choose the option that defines the underlined word.
Ano: 2019
Banca:
IPEFAE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Campos do Jordão - SP
Prova:
IPEFAE - 2019 - Prefeitura de Campos do Jordão - SP - Professor Ensino Fundamental II - Inglês |
Q1719243
Inglês
What’s the correct synonym for the underlined
word.
To sharp a sword, grind it against a rough stone.
To sharp a sword, grind it against a rough stone.
Ano: 2017
Banca:
Instituto Excelência
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Porto Feliz - SP
Prova:
Instituto Excelência - 2017 - Prefeitura de Porto Feliz - SP - PAEB II - Inglês |
Q1719186
Inglês
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Iranian President
Dies
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former Iranian
president, suffered a heart attack and died at the
age of 82. Tens of thousands gathered at Tehran
University to attend the funeral and mourn the
man, who was their president from 1989 to 1997.
Iran has undergone three days of official mourning.
Rafsanjani was buried next to Iranian revolutionary
leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
In the sentence ‘’and mourn the man’’ the
highlighted word can be replaced by: choose the
CORRECT alternative.
Ano: 2020
Banca:
GS Assessoria e Concursos
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Romelândia - SC
Prova:
GS Assessoria e Concursos - 2020 - Prefeitura de Romelândia - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q1718400
Inglês
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Read the text below and answer the question:
CHINA PLANS TO REDUCE SINGLE-USE PLASTICS
China has unveiled ambitious plans to drastically reduce single-use plastics by 2025.
China's National Development and Reform Commission is fast-tracking a number of
measures designed to slash the production and use of plastics over the next five years. It
announced that by the end of 2020, non-biodegradable plastic bags will be banned in
supermarkets and shopping malls in major cities. The ban will also apply to food
delivery services, which use vast amounts of the plastics. Single-use plastic straws and
cutlery used by food takeaway services will be banned nationwide by the end of this year. China will encourage the use of alternative materials such as non-plastic products
and biodegradable shopping bags.
Single-use plastics are one of the world's biggest sources of plastic pollution. They have
become a ubiquitous part of daily life and a part of our throwaway culture. The Chinese
authorities set a goal of reducing the "intensity of consumption" in order to reverse our
reliance on single-use plastics. Previous regulations to curb plastic use, in 2008, led to
an estimated cut in plastic bag production of 67 billion bags. The United Nations said it
is urgent that all countries adopt policies similar to those China is introducing. It said:
"We are already unable to cope with the amount of plastic waste we generate, unless we
rethink the way we manufacture, use and manage plastics."
Available on: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2001/200122-single-use-plastics.html.
Accessed on January, 22nd 2020.
“...a part of our throwaway culture.” The underlined word has as a synonym:
Q1709979
Inglês
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The Literary Influences of Superstar Musician David Bowie
BY JOHN O'CONNELL ON 10/31/19 AT 5:00 AM EDT
David Bowie was a pop star for most of his career from the 1960s until his death in 2016. He was known for his flamboyant style, songwriting and the ability to artistically turn on a dime. But Bowie, who died of cancer at 69, was more than a multi-platinum rock and roller. He was also one of the more literate composers in the business.
So much so, in fact, that in conjunction with a career retrospective in 2013 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Bowie issued a list of the one hundred books he considered the most important and influential. British music columnist John O'Connell linked this list to Bowie's prolific music. The result? A book called Bowie's Bookshelf out this month from Gallery Books.
William S. Burroughs first made the link between Bowie's lyrics and T. S. Eliot's poetry. In a Rolling Stone interview, Burroughs asked if Hunky Dory's "Eight Line Poem" had been influenced by Eliot's "The Hollow Men." Bowie's reply: "Never read him." But Bowie was definitely exposed to Eliot's influence. "Goodnight Ladies" on Transformer, the album Bowie produced for Lou Reed in 1972, is a riff on the end of the second section, "A Game of Chess," from Eliot's poem "The Waste Land." Eliot, for his part, is deliberately quoting Ophelia's "Good night, sweet ladies" speech from Hamlet. Eliot's method established a new protocol for artistic theft—the modern poet in dialogue with his or her predecessors. Bowie, too, was candid about how much he took from other artists. "You can't steal from a thief," he said when LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy admitted to stealing from Bowie's songs.
Avaiable in : https://www.newsweek.com/2019/11/15, accessed on
February 20th, 2020. Adapted.
The word closest in meaning to ABILITY as in
“the ability to artistically turn on a dime”
Q1709975
Inglês
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TEXT
REFERS TO QUESTION
Available in: https://www.gocomics.com, accessed on February 18th,
2020. Garfield by Jim Davis
Choose the only word that CAN´T replace PAL in this
sentence “ Mouse, cat, man... we´re all in the same boat,
pal.”
Ano: 2020
Banca:
IBADE
Órgão:
SEE-AC
Provas:
IBADE - 2020 - SEE-AC - Professor PNS P2 - Língua Inglesa
|
IBADE - 2020 - SEE-AC - PNS P2 - Língua Inglesa |
Q1709969
Inglês
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Lessons for Americans, From a Chines Classroom
Observing how Chinese 2- and 3-year-olds navigated a second language, I wondered whether I could have done this for my children.
SHANGHAI — We sat in toddler-size wooden chairs around an orderly circle of Chinese 2-year-olds, busy with circle time. As a parent of three children who collectively spent 15 years in American day care, I am very familiar with circle time.
But I was in this Shanghai classroom as a professor, with college students from many different countries in a class I’m teaching here on children and childhood.
We were observing in a private kindergarten, designed to provide young children — starting at age 2 — with a carefully structured, fully bilingual curriculum, especially important because English language skills are vital for educational success in China.
Visits to Chinese educational institutions allow the college students in my course to get a look at real children and the ways that they learn, while also thinking about Chinese society today. They get windows onto certain slices of this complex country: a high-end private bilingual program that starts with toddlers; a city high school for academically gifted students; a middle school created for the children of the rural migrants who have come by the millions from China’s poorer provinces to work in Shanghai, but whose rights to social benefits are severely limited in the city.
These visits offer the college students insights into many of the social issues facing China, and we spend time in class discussing questions like the huge role that the annual gaokao college entrance exam plays in determining a child’s educational destiny (English is one of the required subjects), the pressures on families that create a culture of cram schools, and the controversies over reserving spots in colleges for kids from rural areas.
But all of those questions have powerful resonances when you think about the issues of childhood education and child development, which have to be addressed in every country. As my college students discuss the different facets of childhood around the world, visiting the Chinese schools also helps them in remembering and thinking about what children look like at different ages, and how they play and interact and learn.
Available in : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/, accessed on
February 26th, 2020. Adapted
Todas as palavras a seguir são cognatas, EXCETO:
Ano: 2020
Banca:
IBADE
Órgão:
SEE-AC
Provas:
IBADE - 2020 - SEE-AC - Professor PNS P2 - Língua Inglesa
|
IBADE - 2020 - SEE-AC - PNS P2 - Língua Inglesa |
Q1709967
Inglês
Texto associado
REFERS TO QUESTION
Lessons for Americans, From a Chines Classroom
Observing how Chinese 2- and 3-year-olds navigated a second language, I wondered whether I could have done this for my children.
SHANGHAI — We sat in toddler-size wooden chairs around an orderly circle of Chinese 2-year-olds, busy with circle time. As a parent of three children who collectively spent 15 years in American day care, I am very familiar with circle time.
But I was in this Shanghai classroom as a professor, with college students from many different countries in a class I’m teaching here on children and childhood.
We were observing in a private kindergarten, designed to provide young children — starting at age 2 — with a carefully structured, fully bilingual curriculum, especially important because English language skills are vital for educational success in China.
Visits to Chinese educational institutions allow the college students in my course to get a look at real children and the ways that they learn, while also thinking about Chinese society today. They get windows onto certain slices of this complex country: a high-end private bilingual program that starts with toddlers; a city high school for academically gifted students; a middle school created for the children of the rural migrants who have come by the millions from China’s poorer provinces to work in Shanghai, but whose rights to social benefits are severely limited in the city.
These visits offer the college students insights into many of the social issues facing China, and we spend time in class discussing questions like the huge role that the annual gaokao college entrance exam plays in determining a child’s educational destiny (English is one of the required subjects), the pressures on families that create a culture of cram schools, and the controversies over reserving spots in colleges for kids from rural areas.
But all of those questions have powerful resonances when you think about the issues of childhood education and child development, which have to be addressed in every country. As my college students discuss the different facets of childhood around the world, visiting the Chinese schools also helps them in remembering and thinking about what children look like at different ages, and how they play and interact and learn.
Available in : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/, accessed on
February 26th, 2020. Adapted
A synonym for the word HUGE in “the huge role” is:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CONTEMAX
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Orobó - PE
Prova:
CONTEMAX - 2019 - Prefeitura de Orobó - PE - Professor de Inglês |
Q1708861
Inglês
Texto associado
Text
CrashDetech: The app that could save your life in
a car crash
(CNN) It's the killer that, by some measures,
takes more young lives each year than conflict or
some forms of cancer. Every 30 seconds a person is
killed in a road crash, according to figures from the
Global Road Safety Partnership. That's more than
3,400 people per day and 1.25 million people per
year. Perhaps even more arresting is World Health
Organization (WHO) analysis which says that 90% of
all road based fatalities occur in low to middle income
countries, despite such nations having only half of the
world's vehicles. It's a tragedy that even takes a toll
on development costing some nations up to 5% of
GDP, according to the International Road
Assessment Programme (iRAP). The problem is so pressing that the U.N. declared the years between
2011 and 2020 as the "Decade of Action for Road
Safety," with over 100 countries pledging to reduce
killer car accidents. Some of the highest rates of road
deaths can be found in Africa. According to the
WHO's 2015 Global Status on Road safety report,
Libya is at the top of the table (73 deaths per 100,000
people), followed by Thailand (36) and Malawi (35).
Automatic detection
Yet one South African company has
designed a system that it believes can help cut
Africa's dismal rate of road fatalities. CrashDetech is
a smartphone application designed by
Johannesburg- based entrepreneur Jaco Gerrits. It
operates while a user is driving and detects the
sudden motion and G-forces of a car crash. The app
then pinpoints the location of the accident and
automatically calls an emergency response center,
which will dispatch the nearest medical emergency
team. CrashDetechs also sends personal medical
information, such as allergies and blood type, to
enable doctors and paramedics to offer more
effective treatment. The aim is to reduce waiting
times, and in doing so, save lives.
Race against time
In South Africa, the WHO estimate that
roughly 38 people are killed in road accidents each
day. "It's a major global public health problem,"
Gerrits told CNN. "They [the WHO] have identified
that how quickly you respond to a crash and how
effectively obviously can make a massive difference‖.
Let's say in a rural area you're involved in a crash
and you're off the road. There's a good chance that
nobody might even notice the crash. You can't speak
for yourself, and those patients will probably never
get the right kind of treatment to them in time."
According to Dr Pieter Venter of the Global Road
Safety partnership, mobile technology start-up's like
CrashDetech have exciting potential. "A number of
providers of such services have launched both here
in South Africa and right around the world, and there
is a growing body of anecdotal evidence which
supports the position that this technology can play a
key role in helping to save lives," Venter said. But
Venter also states that changing attitudes to the
wearing of seatbelts and highlighting the dangers of
drink-driving are also important factors in reducing
road fatalities in the likes of South Africa.
One of the app's key advantages is it has
grouped together 113 different private emergency
medical providers in South Africa, meaning its
customers have a greater chance of accessing an
ambulance that's near. "You might be familiar with
one specific [ambulance] number, for example ER24, [but] there's a good chance they're half an hour away.
Whereas let's say Netcare 911 might be 5 minutes
away," Gerrits continued "If you've got medical aid
[insurance], it normally has a relationship with one of
the private companies. They'll typically try and
dispatch the company's resources that they have a
relationship with," said Gerrits.
Adaptado de
(http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/08/africa/crashdetech-appcar-crash/index.html)
In the statement from the text: ―There's a good
chance that nobody might even notice the crash.‖
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CONTEMAX
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Orobó - PE
Prova:
CONTEMAX - 2019 - Prefeitura de Orobó - PE - Professor de Inglês |
Q1708860
Inglês
Texto associado
Text
CrashDetech: The app that could save your life in
a car crash
(CNN) It's the killer that, by some measures,
takes more young lives each year than conflict or
some forms of cancer. Every 30 seconds a person is
killed in a road crash, according to figures from the
Global Road Safety Partnership. That's more than
3,400 people per day and 1.25 million people per
year. Perhaps even more arresting is World Health
Organization (WHO) analysis which says that 90% of
all road based fatalities occur in low to middle income
countries, despite such nations having only half of the
world's vehicles. It's a tragedy that even takes a toll
on development costing some nations up to 5% of
GDP, according to the International Road
Assessment Programme (iRAP). The problem is so pressing that the U.N. declared the years between
2011 and 2020 as the "Decade of Action for Road
Safety," with over 100 countries pledging to reduce
killer car accidents. Some of the highest rates of road
deaths can be found in Africa. According to the
WHO's 2015 Global Status on Road safety report,
Libya is at the top of the table (73 deaths per 100,000
people), followed by Thailand (36) and Malawi (35).
Automatic detection
Yet one South African company has
designed a system that it believes can help cut
Africa's dismal rate of road fatalities. CrashDetech is
a smartphone application designed by
Johannesburg- based entrepreneur Jaco Gerrits. It
operates while a user is driving and detects the
sudden motion and G-forces of a car crash. The app
then pinpoints the location of the accident and
automatically calls an emergency response center,
which will dispatch the nearest medical emergency
team. CrashDetechs also sends personal medical
information, such as allergies and blood type, to
enable doctors and paramedics to offer more
effective treatment. The aim is to reduce waiting
times, and in doing so, save lives.
Race against time
In South Africa, the WHO estimate that
roughly 38 people are killed in road accidents each
day. "It's a major global public health problem,"
Gerrits told CNN. "They [the WHO] have identified
that how quickly you respond to a crash and how
effectively obviously can make a massive difference‖.
Let's say in a rural area you're involved in a crash
and you're off the road. There's a good chance that
nobody might even notice the crash. You can't speak
for yourself, and those patients will probably never
get the right kind of treatment to them in time."
According to Dr Pieter Venter of the Global Road
Safety partnership, mobile technology start-up's like
CrashDetech have exciting potential. "A number of
providers of such services have launched both here
in South Africa and right around the world, and there
is a growing body of anecdotal evidence which
supports the position that this technology can play a
key role in helping to save lives," Venter said. But
Venter also states that changing attitudes to the
wearing of seatbelts and highlighting the dangers of
drink-driving are also important factors in reducing
road fatalities in the likes of South Africa.
One of the app's key advantages is it has
grouped together 113 different private emergency
medical providers in South Africa, meaning its
customers have a greater chance of accessing an
ambulance that's near. "You might be familiar with
one specific [ambulance] number, for example ER24, [but] there's a good chance they're half an hour away.
Whereas let's say Netcare 911 might be 5 minutes
away," Gerrits continued "If you've got medical aid
[insurance], it normally has a relationship with one of
the private companies. They'll typically try and
dispatch the company's resources that they have a
relationship with," said Gerrits.
Adaptado de
(http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/08/africa/crashdetech-appcar-crash/index.html)
In the passage: ―Let’s say in a rural area you're
involved in a crash and you're off the road.‖ The word
―rural” can be replaced by:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CONTEMAX
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Orobó - PE
Prova:
CONTEMAX - 2019 - Prefeitura de Orobó - PE - Professor de Inglês |
Q1708859
Inglês
Texto associado
Text
CrashDetech: The app that could save your life in
a car crash
(CNN) It's the killer that, by some measures,
takes more young lives each year than conflict or
some forms of cancer. Every 30 seconds a person is
killed in a road crash, according to figures from the
Global Road Safety Partnership. That's more than
3,400 people per day and 1.25 million people per
year. Perhaps even more arresting is World Health
Organization (WHO) analysis which says that 90% of
all road based fatalities occur in low to middle income
countries, despite such nations having only half of the
world's vehicles. It's a tragedy that even takes a toll
on development costing some nations up to 5% of
GDP, according to the International Road
Assessment Programme (iRAP). The problem is so pressing that the U.N. declared the years between
2011 and 2020 as the "Decade of Action for Road
Safety," with over 100 countries pledging to reduce
killer car accidents. Some of the highest rates of road
deaths can be found in Africa. According to the
WHO's 2015 Global Status on Road safety report,
Libya is at the top of the table (73 deaths per 100,000
people), followed by Thailand (36) and Malawi (35).
Automatic detection
Yet one South African company has
designed a system that it believes can help cut
Africa's dismal rate of road fatalities. CrashDetech is
a smartphone application designed by
Johannesburg- based entrepreneur Jaco Gerrits. It
operates while a user is driving and detects the
sudden motion and G-forces of a car crash. The app
then pinpoints the location of the accident and
automatically calls an emergency response center,
which will dispatch the nearest medical emergency
team. CrashDetechs also sends personal medical
information, such as allergies and blood type, to
enable doctors and paramedics to offer more
effective treatment. The aim is to reduce waiting
times, and in doing so, save lives.
Race against time
In South Africa, the WHO estimate that
roughly 38 people are killed in road accidents each
day. "It's a major global public health problem,"
Gerrits told CNN. "They [the WHO] have identified
that how quickly you respond to a crash and how
effectively obviously can make a massive difference‖.
Let's say in a rural area you're involved in a crash
and you're off the road. There's a good chance that
nobody might even notice the crash. You can't speak
for yourself, and those patients will probably never
get the right kind of treatment to them in time."
According to Dr Pieter Venter of the Global Road
Safety partnership, mobile technology start-up's like
CrashDetech have exciting potential. "A number of
providers of such services have launched both here
in South Africa and right around the world, and there
is a growing body of anecdotal evidence which
supports the position that this technology can play a
key role in helping to save lives," Venter said. But
Venter also states that changing attitudes to the
wearing of seatbelts and highlighting the dangers of
drink-driving are also important factors in reducing
road fatalities in the likes of South Africa.
One of the app's key advantages is it has
grouped together 113 different private emergency
medical providers in South Africa, meaning its
customers have a greater chance of accessing an
ambulance that's near. "You might be familiar with
one specific [ambulance] number, for example ER24, [but] there's a good chance they're half an hour away.
Whereas let's say Netcare 911 might be 5 minutes
away," Gerrits continued "If you've got medical aid
[insurance], it normally has a relationship with one of
the private companies. They'll typically try and
dispatch the company's resources that they have a
relationship with," said Gerrits.
Adaptado de
(http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/08/africa/crashdetech-appcar-crash/index.html)
In this piece from the text: ―The aim is to reduce
waiting times, and in doing so, save lives.‖
Ano: 2020
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Itatiba - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2020 - Prefeitura de Itatiba - SP - Professor de Educação Básica - PEB II - inglês |
Q1696784
Inglês
Choose the option that best replaces the
words in bold:
“... Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school...”
“... Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school...”
Ano: 2020
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Itatiba - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2020 - Prefeitura de Itatiba - SP - Professor de Educação Básica - PEB II - inglês |
Q1696783
Inglês
Choose the option that best replaces the
words in bold:
“...His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...”
“...His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...”
Ano: 2020
Banca:
IDIB
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Jaguaribe - CE
Prova:
IDIB - 2020 - Prefeitura de Jaguaribe - CE - Professor - Inglês |
Q1692536
Inglês
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GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’
Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.
HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?
“George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.
“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”
The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
“[...]a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom
he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade
[...]”
What is the synonym for the word in bold?
What is the synonym for the word in bold?
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEED-PR
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEED-PR - Professor - Inglês |
Q1689532
Inglês
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Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapeted)
Text 3A03-III
The World’s Largest Tropical Wetland
Has Become an Inferno
This year, roughly a quarter of the vast Pantanal wetland
in Brazil, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has burned
in wildfires worsened by climate change. What happens to a rich
and unique biome when so much is destroyed?
The unprecedented fires in the wetland have attracted less
attention than blazes in Australia, the Western United States and
the Amazon, its celebrity sibling to the north. But while the
Pantanal is not a global household name, tourists in the know
flock there because it is home to exceptionally high
concentrations of breathtaking wildlife: Jaguars, tapirs,
endangered giant otters and bright blue hyacinth macaws. Like a
vast tub, the wetland swells with water during the rainy season
and empties out during the dry months. Fittingly, this rhythm has
a name that evokes a beating heart: the flood pulse.
The wetland, which is larger than Greece and stretches
over parts of Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, also offers unseen
gifts to a vast swath of South America by regulating the water
cycle upon which life depends. Its countless swamps, lagoons
and tributaries purify water and help prevent floods and droughts.
They also store untold amounts of carbon, helping to stabilize the
climate.
For centuries, ranchers have used fire to clear fields and
new land. But this year, drought worsened by climate change
turned the wetlands into a tinderbox and the fires raged out of
control.
Catrin Einhorn, Maria Magdalena Arréllaga, Blacki Migliozzi
and Scott Reinhard. Oct. 13, 2020.
Without changing the meaning of text 3A3-III, the verb “swell”,
in the sentence "Like a vast tub, the wetland swells with water
during the rainy season and empties out during the dry months",
could be replaced by
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEED-PR
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEED-PR - Professor - Inglês |
Q1689520
Inglês
Texto associado
It was Maria’s first day at school, her first week in the United States. Her middle school in San Francisco was the biggest building she’d ever seen. It was bigger than the entire Best Buy store she’d walked through in awe on her first day in the city.
Text 3A2-II
It was Maria’s first day at school, her first week in the United States. Her middle school in San Francisco was the biggest building she’d ever seen. It was bigger than the entire Best Buy store she’d walked through in awe on her first day in the city.
Eventually, Maria found her way to class, a special setting
for Spanish-speaking newcomers. There she would practice
English words for colors and numbers, learn how to introduce
herself and how to say thank you. By eighth grade she was
moved into mainstream classes, where she struggled. It didn’t
help that her math teacher started each class by saying, “Okay,
my little dummies.” He spoke really fast. Maria never raised her
hand in his class.
One day Maria stopped by the administrative office,
looking for someone to help her with multiplication. She took her
spot in line behind a middle-aged woman who chatted with her in
Spanish as they waited. Maria said school was really hard for
her. The woman told her not to worry. “Latinas usually don’t
finish high school,” she said. “They go to work or raise kids.”
The woman was right, statistically speaking, and Maria’s
middle-school experience all but ensured she’d join the 52
percent of foreign-born Latinos who drop out of high school. She
graduated from eighth grade without learning to speak English.
She had a hard time writing in Spanish and didn’t know how to
multiply.
Everything you’ve heard about failing schools is wrong.
Internet: <www.motherjones.com> (adapted).
The meaning of the word “struggle”, in the third sentence of the
second paragraph of text 3A2-II, is close to the meaning
conveyed by
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEED-PR
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEED-PR - Professor - Inglês |
Q1689514
Inglês
Texto associado
“Millions of children, every year, start school excited about what they will learn, but quickly become disillusioned when they get the idea they are not as ‘smart’ as others,” writes Jo Boaler. That’s because parents and teachers inadvertently give out the message that talent is inborn — you either have it or you don’t.
Text 3A2-I
“Millions of children, every year, start school excited about what they will learn, but quickly become disillusioned when they get the idea they are not as ‘smart’ as others,” writes Jo Boaler. That’s because parents and teachers inadvertently give out the message that talent is inborn — you either have it or you don’t.
As a math professor, Boaler has seen this firsthand. Many
young adults enter her class anxious about math, and their fear
about learning impacts their ability to learn.
“The myth that our brains are fixed and that we simply
don’t have the aptitude for certain topics is not only scientifically
inaccurate; it is omnipresent and negatively impacts not only
education, but many other events in our everyday lives,” she
writes. Even though the science of neuroplasticity — how our
brains change in response to learning — suggests learning can
take place at any age, this news has not made it into classrooms,
she argues.
Some of our misguided visions of talent have led to racist
and sexist attitudes, she writes. For example, many girls get the
message early on that math is for boys and that boys are better at
it, interfering with their ability to succeed and leading to gender
disparities in fields of study related to math. Similarly, people of
color may also have to overcome stereotypes about fixed
intelligence in order to thrive.
How understanding your brain can help you learn.
Internet: <greatergood.berkeley.edu> (adapted)
In the second sentence of the third paragraph of text 3A2-I,
“Even though” can be correctly replaced with
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEED-PR
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEED-PR - Professor - Inglês |
Q1689513
Inglês
Texto associado
“Millions of children, every year, start school excited about what they will learn, but quickly become disillusioned when they get the idea they are not as ‘smart’ as others,” writes Jo Boaler. That’s because parents and teachers inadvertently give out the message that talent is inborn — you either have it or you don’t.
Text 3A2-I
“Millions of children, every year, start school excited about what they will learn, but quickly become disillusioned when they get the idea they are not as ‘smart’ as others,” writes Jo Boaler. That’s because parents and teachers inadvertently give out the message that talent is inborn — you either have it or you don’t.
As a math professor, Boaler has seen this firsthand. Many
young adults enter her class anxious about math, and their fear
about learning impacts their ability to learn.
“The myth that our brains are fixed and that we simply
don’t have the aptitude for certain topics is not only scientifically
inaccurate; it is omnipresent and negatively impacts not only
education, but many other events in our everyday lives,” she
writes. Even though the science of neuroplasticity — how our
brains change in response to learning — suggests learning can
take place at any age, this news has not made it into classrooms,
she argues.
Some of our misguided visions of talent have led to racist
and sexist attitudes, she writes. For example, many girls get the
message early on that math is for boys and that boys are better at
it, interfering with their ability to succeed and leading to gender
disparities in fields of study related to math. Similarly, people of
color may also have to overcome stereotypes about fixed
intelligence in order to thrive.
How understanding your brain can help you learn.
Internet: <greatergood.berkeley.edu> (adapted)
In the last paragraph of text 3A2-I, the verbs “to overcome” and
“to thrive” are synonymous with, respectively,
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