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Q2103102 Inglês
Reality Television

Reality television is a genre of television programming which, it is claimed, presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people rather than professional actors. It could be described as a form of artificial or “heightened” documentary. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the current explosion of popularity dates from around 2000.

Reality television covers a wide range of television programming formats, _____________game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning programmes produced in Japan _____________ the 1980s and 1990s (a modern example is Gaki no tsukai), _____________surveillance-focused productions such __________ Big Brother.

Critics say that the term “reality television” is somewhat of a misnomer and that such shows frequently portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes coached to act in certain ways by off-screen handlers, and with events on screen manipulated through editing and other post-production techniques.

Part of reality television’s appeal is due to its ability to place ordinary people in extraordinary situations. For example, on the ABC show, The Bachelor, an eligible male dates a dozen women simultaneously, travelling on extraordinary dates to scenic locales. Reality television also has the potential to turn its participants into national celebrities, outwardly in talent and performance programs such as Pop Idol, though frequently Survivor and Big Brother participants also reach some degree of celebrity.

Some commentators have said that the name “reality television” is an inaccurate description for several styles of program included in the genre. In competition-based programs such as Big Brother and Survivor, and other special-living-environment shows like The Real World, the producers design the format of the show and control the day-to-day activities and the environment, creating a completely fabricated world in which the competition plays out. Producers specifically select the participants, and use carefully designed scenarios, challenges, events, and settings to encourage particular behaviours and conflicts. Mark Burnett, creator of Survivor and other reality shows, has agreed with this assessment, and avoids the word “reality” to describe his shows; he has said, “I tell good stories. It really is not reality TV. It really is unscripted drama.
Analyze the sentences according to structure and grammar use.
1. The words in bold, in the text, are, pronouns.
2. The underlined word in: ‘Part of reality television’s appeal is due to its ability to place….’, can be replaced by the word ‘because’ without changing its meaning.
3. In the following sentence: “Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television…” the words in bold, are being used to express a past action.
4. The negative form of the following sentence: ‘Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television…’, is Although the genre doesn’t have existed in some form or another since the early years of television…’.

Choose the alternative which contains the correct affirmative.
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Q2101808 Inglês
The Bizarre Story of the Swedish Warship “Vasa”

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(Available at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/ – text especially adapted for this test). 
To rewrite the sentence “It is the only preserved 17th-century ship in the world” from the text in the interrogative simple present structure, the correct word order is: 
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Q2101807 Inglês
The Bizarre Story of the Swedish Warship “Vasa”

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(Available at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/ – text especially adapted for this test). 
The underlined structure in the excerpt “the reasons behind the instability have remained a point of debate over the centuries” (l. 11-12) is in the present perfect tense. Considering this verb tense uses and the context in the article, we can say the action is/was: 
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Q2101805 Inglês
The Bizarre Story of the Swedish Warship “Vasa”

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(Available at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/ – text especially adapted for this test). 
Mark the alternative that best fills out the blanks in the text in order, using the simple past form of the verbs in the braces. 
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Q2101331 Inglês
Investment in primary health care urgently needed to ensure COVID-19 recovery in the Americas.

Increased public health spending must continue to improve hardest-hit primary care services such as routine immunization programs, says PAHO Director.

Washington, DC, November 10, 2021 (PAHO) – With countries in the Americas reporting severe disruptions in essential primary health care services, urgent investment is key to improving health systems continuously weakened by the pandemic, said Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne.

With cases rising in some parts of the region following a two-month decline, it is vital that countries remain vigilant and prioritize public spending in heath so that no one is left behind.

“Few countries invest as much public spending in their health services as they should, leaving them prone to shortages in health personnel and essential supplies.”

With the pandemic siphoning off financial and human resources, many countries have reported interruptions in vital areas, such as routine immunization programs, support for chronic conditions and mental- and reproductive health services. 

Despite these disruptions, public investment in health has risen in many countries to ramp up ICU capacity, increase hospital services, and deploy COVID-19 vaccines. But these increases cannot be a short-term trend, the Director said.

All countries should increase public expenditures in their health systems to the recommended 6% of national GDP or higher and should ensure that 30% of this funding goes to first level care.

“Primary care, as you have heard us say over and over again, is the backbone of our health systems,” Dr. Etienne said, and more important than ever. “It’s at the primary care level that COVID testing, contact tracking and tracing and immunizations take place.”

As economies remain strained, countries face difficult choices about how to spend limited funds. “We cannot forget that health is an investment, not an expense,” the Director said. “As we learned with COVID-19, health is at the core of vibrant societies. It keeps people working, kids in schools, companies productive and economies growing.”

Turning to the COVID-19 situation in the region, Dr. Etienne said that in the past week countries reported 700,000 new COVID infections and 13,000 deaths.

Several countries, including parts of Colombia and Bolivia and the Southern Cone countries, are seeing upward trends after relaxing public health measures.

In the Caribbean, Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico have reported a drop in new infections while cases are rising in the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. High numbers of cases are also being seen in the Cayman Islands and Dominica.

Vaccination rates, however, continue to pick up pace, reaching an overall coverage of 48% in Latin America and the Caribbean.

PAHO continues to work with manufacturers to secure additional doses, the Director added. The organization has signed supply agreements with three manufacturers of WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL) vaccines and is in final negotiations with a fourth supplier of mRNA vaccines.

Available at: https://www.paho.org/en/news/10-11-2021-investment-primary-health-care-urgentlyneeded-ensure-covid-19-recovery-americas
Em qual desses trechos do texto é possível encontrar uma estrutura verbal no Present Perfect Simple?
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Q2096257 Inglês
Text II

Global commerce 

    Driverless vehicles whizz across five new berths at Tuas Mega Port, which sits on a swathe of largely reclaimed land at the western tip of Singapore. Unmanned cranes loom overhead, circled by camera-fitted drones. The berths are the first of 21 due by 2027. When it is completed in 2040, the complex will be the largest container port on Earth, boasts PSA International, its Singaporean owner.
   Tuas is a vision of the future on two fronts. It illustrates how port operators the world over are deploying clever technologies to meet the demand for their services in the face of obstacles to the development of new facilities, from lack of space to environmental concerns. More fundamentally, the city-state’s investment, with construction costs estimated at $15bn, is part of a wave of huge bets by the broader logistics industry on the rising importance of Asia, and South-East Asia in particular. The IMF expects the region’s five largest economies—Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand—to be the fastest-growing bloc in the world by trade volumes between 2022 and 2027. The result is that the map of global commerce and the blueprints for its critical nodes are being simultaneously redrawn.

From: The Economist, January 14, 2023, pp. 57-58
The use of the verb “loom” in “Unmanned cranes loom overhead” (1st paragraph) helps build an atmosphere that is rather
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Q2086819 Inglês

The Story Behind TIME’s ‘Resilience of Ukraine’ Cover


(Artwork by JR; Photograph by Artem Iurchenko. A drone was used to capture the cover image on March 14 in Lviv.)


    Since Russia’s invasion began, dozens of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children have been killed and thousands of others have fled in search of safety. Among those thousands is 5-year-old Valeriia from Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown in central Ukraine. Her image – a smiling child – appears on one of this issue’s covers.

    If you met Valeriia, you might think she’s shy, her mother Taisiia told TIME, but don’t be fooled; at home, she commands attention. She loves the same things as many little girls – her stuffed bunny; her Elsa doll fromCold Heart(which English speakers know as Frozen); and her pink backpack, which she had to leave behind as she ran off her country. Valeriia also has big dreams: in particular, starting her first year of school on Sept. 1. Now, it’s hard to say when and where Valeriia will be able to do so. On March 9, mother and daughter fled to Poland; for safety, they asked that TIME use only their first names. In an interview, Taisiia explained her decision to leave home to keep her child safe. “She is my sunshine, my joy.”

    According to Taisiia they woke up early in the morning of Feb. 24 to learn the occupying army had started bombing military bases. “I thought about my daughter, Valeriia; for her safety, I knew we had to go. We left Ukraine before we were bombarded, so we had a chance.” Even though Valeriia is with her now, husband and son stayed in Ukraine and therefore, it was very hard to leave. The day they left, the lines for buses and trainsstretched 3 km, mostly women and children, she says, “We were packed together and had to stand for 18 hours on the train to Lviv”.

    The Russians still haven’t come to their city. The people from Kryvyi Rih have fought them off. But they are closer and closer, and you can see them approaching. In the media, Russia says they aren’t at war in Ukraine. But the war is real. People are dying for real. “And here I am, with my sister, my nephew, and my mother in Poland, in a hotel near Warsaw. They take care of us and even in this difficult situation, it was a warm reception. I cannot find the words to express how grateful I am to everyone who has helped”, ends up a crying Taisiia.

(Available: https://time.com/magazine/europe. Adapted.)

In “If you met Valeriia, you might think she’s shy, her mother Taisiia told TIME, but don’t be fooled; at home, she commands attention.”, the use of MIGHT indicates:
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Q2086272 Inglês
She __________ never _________ a car before.
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Q2086271 Inglês
The companies are expanding their business and they __________ all the help they can get. So they _____________ a lot of people.
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Q2086270 Inglês

Jane! I shouted... Where are you dear?

I am here, near the gas station… she replied.

The verbs “shouted” and “replied” underlined in the text refer to: 

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Q2086269 Inglês

Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb.

I always ________________ tired in the morning. 

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Q2082361 Inglês



Available at: https://newh.org/news/back-to-school/. Accessed on: April 26, 2022. 

The teacher told the coordinator that students ____________ the entire summer texting. She explained that it ______________    a while to wean them. The correct verb tenses to complete the sentences are respectively
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Q2082357 Inglês

Why can group work be a challenge in monolingual classes?


[1] Firstly, and most obviously, the lack of a need to communicate in English means that any communication between learners in that language will seem artificial and arguably even unnecessary. Secondly, the fact that all the learners in the class share a common culture (and are often all from the same age group) will mean that there will often be a lack of curiosity about what other class members do or think, thus making questionnaire-based activities superfluous. Thirdly, there is the paradox that the more interesting and motivating the activity is (and particularly if it involves a competitive element of some sort), the more likely the learners are to use their mother tongue in order to complete the task successfully or to finish first. Finally, the very fact that more effort is involved to communicate in a foreign language when the same task may be performed with much less effort in the mother tongue will also tend to ensure that very little English is used.


Is group work worth the effort?


[2] Taken as a whole, these factors will probably convince many teachers that it is simply not worth bothering with pair and group work in monolingual classes. This, however, would be to exclude from one’s teaching a whole range of potentially motivating and useful activities and to deny learners the opportunity to communicate in English in class time with anyone but the teacher.


[3] Simple mathematics will tell us that in a one-hour lesson with 20 learners, each learner will speak for just 90 seconds if the teacher speaks for half the lesson. In order to encourage learners in a monolingual class to participate in pair and group work, it might be worth asking them whether they regard speaking for just three per cent of the lesson to be good value and point out that they can increase that percentage substantially if they try to use English in group activities.


[4] At first, learners may find it strange to use English when communicating with their peers but this is, first and foremost, a question of habit and it is a gradual process. For the teacher to insist that English is used may well be counter-productive and may provoke active resistance. If the task is in English, on the other hand, and learners have to communicate with each other about the task, some English will inevitably be used. It may be very little at first but, as with any habit, it should increase noticeably as time goes by. Indeed, it is not unusual to hear more motivated learners in a monolingual situation communicating with each other in English outside the classroom. 


Conclusion


[5] If the benefits of using English to perform purposeful communicative tasks are clearly explained to the class and if the teacher is not excessively authoritarian in insisting that English must be used, a modest and increasing success rate can be achieved. It is far too much to expect that all learners will immediately begin using English to communicate with their peers all the time. But, if at least some of the class use English some of the time, that should be regarded as a significant step on the road to promoting greater use of English in pair and group work in the monolingual classroom.


Available at: https://www.onestopenglish.com/methodologytips-for-teachers/classroom-management-pair-and-group-workin-efl/esol/146454.article. Accessed on: April 26, 2022.

In the sentence: “In order to encourage learners in a monolingual class to participate in pair and group work, it might be worth asking them…”, the modal verb might is used 
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Q2081999 Inglês
Read the following sentences and complete, respectively, with the appropriate verbs.
I. We _____ ourselves to be extremely lucky. II. How about _____ to the circus tonight? III. I could barely _____ when I was a baby. IV. Apart from Spanish, she also _____ Math. 
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Q2081998 Inglês
Read the following sentences and complete, respectively, with the appropriate verbs.
I. Despite_______ hard, he was insulted by his boss. II. We’ve _______ on this project since 9am. III. They _______ about money when I called. IV. The probability of ________ that match is not much. 
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Q2081991 Inglês
Read the following sentences and match each one to the correct option:
I. Rob Woodward has taught English since 1997. II. I had already spoken to Jack when I came here. III. While Margot was cooking, we were setting the table. IV. Terry worked in a bank from 1990 to 1995.
( ) Past Simple ( ) Past Continuous ( ) Past Perfect ( ) Present Perfect
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Q2081990 Inglês
Read the following sentences and match each one to the correct option:
I. She has worked in this company for about 7 years II. Emily was looking for her coat this morning. III. A woman impersonated a nurse and tried to steal a newborn from a hospital IV. You hadn't changed your clothes before the end of the party.
( ) Past Simple ( ) Past Continuous ( ) Past Perfect ( ) Present Perfect
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Q2074621 Inglês

Ten critical actions needed to address four major cybersecurity challenges:



In the sentence “4. Ensure the security of emerging technologies...”, the word emerging functions as 
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Q2074615 Inglês

Cybersecurity: An overview of cyber challenges facing the nation, and actions needed


Federal agencies and the nation’s critical infrastructure — such as energy, transportation systems, communications, and financial services — depend on Information Technology (IT) systems to carry out operations and process essential data. However, the risks to these IT systems are increasing—including insider threats from witting or unwitting employees, escalating and emerging threats from around the globe, and the emergence of new and more destructive attacks. Rapid developments in new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and ubiquitous Internet and cellular connectivity, can also introduce security issues. Over 28,000 security incidents were reported by federal civilian agencies to the Department of Homeland Security in FY 2019.

Additionally, since many government IT systems contain vast amounts of personally identifiable information (PII), federal agencies must protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this information—and effectively respond to data breaches and security incidents. Likewise, the trend in the private sector of collecting extensive and detailed information about individuals needs appropriate limits.

To highlight the importance of these issues, Government Accountability Office (GAO) has designated information security as a government-wide high-risk area since 1997. This high-risk area was expanded in 2003 to include the protection of critical cyber infrastructure and, in 2015, to include protecting the privacy of PII.

GAO has made about 3,300 recommendations to federal agencies to address cybersecurity shortcomings—and we reported that more than 750 of these had not been fully implemented as of December 2020. We designated 67 as priority, meaning that we believe they warrant priority attention from heads of key departments and agencies.

Adapted from: https://www.gao.gov/cybersecurity. Available on November 16th, 2022

The use of the modal verb can in “can also introduce security issues” indicates that 
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Q2070722 Inglês
Complete the sentence below.
"I X the exam if I Y hard."
Mark the CORRECT alternative that corresponds to X and Y respectively.
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Respostas
561: C
562: B
563: A
564: E
565: C
566: D
567: A
568: C
569: A
570: D
571: B
572: C
573: D
574: C
575: C
576: D
577: E
578: C
579: D
580: B