Questões de Concurso Sobre sinônimos | synonyms em inglês

Choose the alternative that substitutes the underlined word without changing the meaning of the sentence.

“You should fix the truck before next week, we’ll need it!” 

Choose the alternative that has the same meaning as the underlined word.

“Why did Pamella travel by herself?”

In the sentence:

‘Pairing two or more emoji together, for instance, can form rudimentary sentences or sentiments for others to understand.’

The best definition for ‘rudimentary’ is:

Match the words with their meanings:

Column 1 Words

1. inelegant

2. devices

3. prevalent

4. surge

Column 2 Meaning

( ) rush

( ) predominant

( ) unrefined

( ) gadgets

Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

The word ‘current’ (l.09)
I. is an adjective. II. should be translated as ‘corrente’. III. could be replaced by ‘real’.
Which ones are INCORRECT?

Analyse the following statements.
I. ‘bitter’ (l.02) could be translated as ‘amargoroso’. II. ‘huts’ (l.29) is a big, refined shelter. III. ‘wondrously’ (l.37) could be replaced by ‘tawdrily’.
Which ones are INCORRECT?

We can infer from the information in paragraph 1 that the word “stagnating” means:

What does the phrasal verb “made do with” in paragraph 6 mean?

Leia as afirmativas a seguir: I. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do seguinte trecho, em inglês: to keep smiling (não desanimar, sorrir sempre). II. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do seguinte trecho, em inglês: to play for keeps (estou com fome). III. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do seguinte trecho, em inglês: to keep to oneself (isolar-se dos outros espontaneamente).
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:

Leia as afirmativas a seguir: I. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do seguinte trecho, em inglês: he is in the know (ele está a par de). II. Um docente deve ignorar a reflexão sobre o conteúdo com os alunos. III. A lei nº 9.394/96 propõe a igualdade de condições para o acesso e permanência na escola.
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:

Leia as afirmativas a seguir: I. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir em inglês: do not shout like that (não grite tanto). II. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir em inglês: to lend a hand (auxiliar, ajudar). III. A avaliação da aprendizagem deve estar desassociada das oportunidades oferecidas aos alunos.
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:

Leia as afirmativas a seguir: I. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir em inglês: and the like etc. (e assim por diante). II. O município deve exercer a ação redistributiva em relação às suas escolas. III. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir em inglês: like master, like man (tal senhor, tal criado).
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:

Leia as afirmativas a seguir: I. No Brasil, educação básica de qualidade é um direito assegurado pela Constituição Federal. II. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir em inglês: in like manner (da mesma maneira). III. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do seguinte trecho, em inglês: to keep one’s end up (prosseguir, não desistir).
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:

Match the words on column 1 with their meanings on column 2:
Column 1 Words           1. foreigners                   2. spread                          3. fairly                            4. throughout
Column 2 Meanings
(  ) reasonably (  ) across
(  ) extended
(  ) strangers

Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

Read the text below and answer the question:
To exercise or not to exercise ...
Are more young people overweight than in the past and do they exercise enough? We decided to ask four young people what they thought about this problem.
1- HEATHEROHURUOGU, aged 14 from Leeds, tells us what she thinks about keeping fit.   “I know there have been a lot of stories in newspapers about how fat young people are getting, but we're not all sitting at home at a computer eating crisps and chocolate. Some of us do actually realise that keeping fit is quite important. If anybody should be blamed, I think schools and parents are the problem. At my school we have fewer hours of PE lessons than we used to have. The school has decided we need to spend more time preparing for our exams. My mum and dad trust me to take a bus home if I stay late at school for hockey training, but my friend Carly can't come because her parents work and they are worried about her travelling alone.”
2- OLIVER MCKENNA, aged 15, Edinburgh, sees things differently.
“I don't like organised sport or spending my time with guys skateboarding. I love computers – programming them, playing games on them, surfing the Internet and in my free time that's what I do. It's true that I do need to lose some weight, though. Next week, Mum's taking me to a doctor so we can ask about going on a diet. Dad wants me to join the gym he goes to, but I think it's a bit boring working out all the time. In fact, there's a computer game now called Wii. I'm thinking of getting it because you actually do the actions of the games – you know, things like swinging your arm to hit the ball in tennis. That'd be a good way to get some exercise!”
3- REECEWILKINS, aged 13, Swansea, has another view.
“I'm an active person and so are most of my friends. We all like to spend some time on our Nintendos, PlayStations or whatever – all young people enjoy computer games – but we also belong to football teams or some kind of sports club. We don't have to make an effort to be fit – young people like active games. No, our problem is that we eat too much rubbish. In fact, we drink a lot of bad things – sweet, fizzy drinks which are full of sugar and very unhealthy. Also, we all love fast food and often eat hamburgers and chips. If we ate better, I think most of us would lose the extra weight we have.”

4- HANK DARROW, aged 14, London, shares his opinions with us.
“I've spent the last four years trying to lose weight, and it hasn't been easy. My problem started when I was a baby – it wasn't really my fault. You see, I wasn't very interested in food, and so my mum made all kinds of delicious things to get me to eat. Of course, all those tasty foods were very fattening. My mum used to carry a bowl of food everywhere we went and would follow me around the house or playground trying to get me to eat just one more bite. Well, I got used to eating constantly and, by the time we all realised that I had gained too much weight, the damage had been done. Now I follow a special diet – it was hard at first, but once I got used to it, I actually like it.And I look and feel so much better – I don't want to go back to the way I was.”
Taken from: CHAPMAN, Joanne. Laser B1 +. Teacher's book. Macmillan, 2008.
In the sentence: “Some of us do actually realise that keeping fit is quite important” (Heather's opinion), ACTUALLY means:

Read the text to answer the following question.
Cultural diversity and cultural identity in globalization
In the process of globalization winners are the countries with highly developed mass media as complex systems which are able to broadcast and receive diverse information which are used as basic development resource. On the other side are the developing countries which suffer their impact. Their characteristic is the small capacity to adapt to innovations that came from outside and that is why their cultural identity is called into question. Mass media are not only instruments for spreading popular culture and industries, but at the same time, their use enables cultural hegemony. Mass media, society, local culture, and media content are closely related. By exhibiting TV shows, movies, dramas etc. media will reflect values specific to local culture. So, we can talk about displaying commerciality as feature of American culture, Japanese aesthetic values, French tendency to philosophize... One of the main functions of mass media is to transfer cultural inheritance, information about the past, values of a given society, and to furnish cultural directive for life, action, and behavior. Despite the globalization of the economy, and the emergence of international political institutions, global dissemination of culture (mass media, education, modernization, urbanization, the spread of literacy) from the late 20th century has strengthened national identities. Modern nationalism is less focused on defending the country and more inclined to defend the established cultural identity. The identities represent the defense against unpredictability, disorder, and changes of globalization. In the last three decades there is strong trend to resisting globalization and cosmopolitanism as a form of defense of cultural identity. “God, nations, families and communities will ensure eternal figures that cannot be broken down and around which society will develop a counter-culture of real virtuality”. Castells considers that individuals carry with them the eternal truth, the values that cannot be virtualized or destroyed. As the globalization process strengthens the coming of cultural integrity and identity problems are more prevalent. Dominant monoculture stands against local, national and traditional cultures with the progressive disintegration of traditional culture value patterns.
(Available: www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2013. Adapted.)
“Enables” (line 5) means

Many teachers base their lessons on a mixture of methods and approaches to meet the different needs of their learners and the different aims of lessons or courses. Factors in deciding how to teach include the age and experience of learners, lesson and course objectives, expectations and resources.
The wordAIMS in this text means:

From question, identify the phrasal verb that best replace the word in bold type. 
They had to explain all the money that had gone missing. 

In the area of telecommunication, the English words may have different meanings from those literal meanings they bear into the language. Taking that into account, it is correct to state that the term Gateway refers to:

In information systems, it is necessary that the user has an access name to use the system. Thus, it is correct to state that login refers to: