Questões de Concurso Público AEB 2014 para Tecnologista - Desenvolvimento Técnológico - Pleno 1

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Q482189 Inglês
Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks in the sentences below with the missing preposition.

The Boomerang Nebula, a strange and extremely frigid object 5,000 light years away, gradually gives up its secrets

     Space is cold. Very cold. ______ 1 fact, empty space, far ______ 2 any star or other hot object, is about -270 degrees C.

    While downright frigid – a temperature low enough to freeze hydrogen ______ 3 Earth – that's still about 2.7 degrees ______ 4 absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature. The source _______ 5 those couple ________ 6 degrees is primordial: the leftover glow _______ 7 the big bang that gave birth _______ 8 our universe.

   The entire cosmos is bathed ________ 9 this radiation, called the cosmic microwave background. As a result, it's hard to avoid this bit of heat, meaning that _______ 10 most of the cosmos, -270 degrees is as cold as it gets.
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Q482190 Inglês
Read the paragraphs below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks with the comparative of equality, the comparative of superiority or the superlative of the given adjectives in parentheses.

                                      This is how stars die

        5,000 light years away in Centaurus, a large constellation in the southern sky, is the Boomerang Nebula, a cloud of gas being expelled from a dying star.

        This cloud is one of _________ (bizarre) 1 and ___________ (mysterious) 2 objects in the universe. Here, within the gas streaming outwards, astronomers have found that the temperature drops ___________ (low) 3 nearly absolute zero.

         It is, ___________ (far) 4 anyone knows, the coldest place in the universe.

         It may also prove to be quite important. Because this ____________ (frigid) 5 place, and objects like it, albeit a tad ___________ (warm) 6– may help astronomers unravel a host of cosmic conundrums, from the violent yet spectacular deaths of stars and the formation of galaxies to cosmic explosions and the origin of life itself.

         Death of stars, birth of life


         In many respects the Boomerang Nebula is unremarkable. All stars have to die some day. When ___________ (small) 7 stars end, those about eight times _____________ (massive) 8 our own sun, they produce a similar display of gas and dust.

display of gas and dust.
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Q482191 Inglês
Choose the alternative that best translates the following sentences taken from the text “Biggest observed meteorite impact” hits Moon, published by BBC World Service.

“The team believes the impact has left behind a 40m- wide crater.

‘That’s the estimation we have made according to current impact models. We expect that soon Nasa could observe the crater and confirm our prediction,’ said Prof Madiedo.

It would be one of many scars on the lunar surface. Unlike Earth, the Moon has no atmosphere to shield it from meteorite collisions, and its surface shows a record of every strike.”
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Q482192 Inglês
Choose the alternative that defines, grammatically and respectively, the verbs in bold in the sentences below.

I would1 look to generate in my friends, and across my generation, a commitment to serving. Whether in schools, hospitals, or on wilderness trails, I’d hope 2 to create in each of us a new, expanded sense of citizenship. We’d spend 3 a year of our lives, before jobs, children, and mortgages complicate our options, building an America where serving is not the obligation of a few – or a possibility only to the privileged.

It would be 4 a real choice for everyone. If I were 22 I’d want to give 5 myself an answer to the question: “Where did you serve?”
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Q482193 Inglês
Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks in the sentences below with the correct modal verb.

Notion of an 'event horizon', from which nothing _____________ 1 escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, physicist claims.

The defining characteristic of a black hole _____________ 2 have to give, if the two pillars of modern physics – general relativity and quantum theory – are both correct.

Most physicists foolhardy enough to write a paper claiming that “there are no black holes” – at least not in the sense we usually imagine – ____________ 3 probably be dismissed as cranks. But when the call to redefine these cosmic crunchers comes from Stephen Hawking, it’s worth taking notice. In a paper posted online, the physicist, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of the creators of modern black-hole theory, does away with the notion of an event horizon.

But on analysing the situation in detail, Polchinski’s team came to the startling realization that the laws of quantum mechanics, which govern particles on small scales, change the situation completely. Quantum theory, they said, dictates that the event horizon _____________ 4 actually be transformed into a highly energetic region, or 'firewall', that _______________ 5 burn the astronaut to a crisp.
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Q482194 Inglês
Choose the alternative that rewrites correctly the excerpt below, taken from the text “Cat Watch 2014: What’s it like being a cat?” published by the BBC News, using the past simple.

Cats are at a crucial point in their evolutionary journey as they transform from solitary hunters to domestic pets, a study by the BBC and the Royal Veterinary College has revealed.

Cats see the world in muted colours, making it easier for them to see movement without distractions. They also have large eyes for their size, allowing them to see well in low-level light.

However, they can’t focus on anything less than a foot away, so use their whiskers for detecting objects closer to their bodies.
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Q482195 Inglês
Read the excerpt below, taken from the text “World Cup 2014: Golden goals, golf carts and other innovations” published by BBC Sport, and choose the alternative that only has cognate words.

The 2014 World Cup has seen innovations such as goal-line technology and vanishing spray introduced to football’s showpiece global event for the first time.

France benefited from the use of goal-line technology in their opening win over Honduras.

With language barriers no longer a problem, red and yellow cards were introduced at the 1970 World Cup and have been adopted worldwide since, with variants appearing in many other sports.
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Q482196 Inglês
Building a Practical College Degree for the New Economy

This is not a great time to be a recent college graduate.

Average student-loan debt is $29,400. The underemployment rate is 44 percent for graduates ages 22 to 27, meaning they are holding jobs that don’t require bachelor’s degrees. And the average age of financial independence for college graduate these days is 30.

Such statistics have given rise to the narrative that a college degree is no longer worth it, although volumes of economic studies on lifetime earnings prove otherwise. Even so, given the number of college graduates struggling to launch their careers, a wide gap has emerged between what the workforce needs in employees and what colleges are producing in graduates.

Part of the problem is that we have high expectations for the bachelor’s degree today. Thirty years ago, when fewer people required a higher education to get ahead in life, the bachelor’s degree was seen as a vehicle for broad learning. The training part came later by going to graduate school or getting a job where the new employer trained you.

Now we demand that skills training move in tandem with broad learning, and expect both to be completed in the four years of an undergraduate education. For too many students, however, the bachelor’s degree is not providing that dual experience - high-impact, in-classroom learning and out-of-the- classroom, experiential, and hands-on learning necessary for success in today’s economy.

Because of student loan debt, graduate or professional school is no longer an option for many recent college graduates. They’re searching for quick and cheap add- on boot camps that give them what they’re missing. And a whole new set of providers are emerging outside of the traditional higher-education ecosystem to provide that lift.

Last year, General Assembly, which offers courses of a few hours to a few weeks in everything from digital marketing to web development, expanded to Washington, DC, where it is selling out of nearly all of its offerings. Its average student is in his mid-20s and just a few years out of college.

Choose the alternative that could correctly and respectively substitute the words in bold from the text.
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Q482197 Inglês
Building a Practical College Degree for the New Economy

This is not a great time to be a recent college graduate.

Average student-loan debt is $29,400. The underemployment rate is 44 percent for graduates ages 22 to 27, meaning they are holding jobs that don’t require bachelor’s degrees. And the average age of financial independence for college graduate these days is 30.

Such statistics have given rise to the narrative that a college degree is no longer worth it, although volumes of economic studies on lifetime earnings prove otherwise. Even so, given the number of college graduates struggling to launch their careers, a wide gap has emerged between what the workforce needs in employees and what colleges are producing in graduates.

Part of the problem is that we have high expectations for the bachelor’s degree today. Thirty years ago, when fewer people required a higher education to get ahead in life, the bachelor’s degree was seen as a vehicle for broad learning. The training part came later by going to graduate school or getting a job where the new employer trained you.

Now we demand that skills training move in tandem with broad learning, and expect both to be completed in the four years of an undergraduate education. For too many students, however, the bachelor’s degree is not providing that dual experience - high-impact, in-classroom learning and out-of-the- classroom, experiential, and hands-on learning necessary for success in today’s economy.

Because of student loan debt, graduate or professional school is no longer an option for many recent college graduates. They’re searching for quick and cheap add- on boot camps that give them what they’re missing. And a whole new set of providers are emerging outside of the traditional higher-education ecosystem to provide that lift.

Last year, General Assembly, which offers courses of a few hours to a few weeks in everything from digital marketing to web development, expanded to Washington, DC, where it is selling out of nearly all of its offerings. Its average student is in his mid-20s and just a few years out of college.

According to the text,

I. colleges are not producing in graduates what the workforce needs in employees.

II. nowadays, the bachelor’s degree is seen only as a vehicle for broad learning.

III. nearly 44% of graduates ages 22 to 27 hold jobs that require bachelor’s degree.

IV. colleges are expected to give students not only skills training, but also broad learning.

V. economic studies on lifetime earnings prove a college degree is no longer worth it.

The correct assumption(s) is(are)
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Q482198 Inglês
Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks in the sentences below with the correct verb tense and form.

“When I _____________ (meet) 1 Serge, it ____________ (be) 2 love at first sight for me – I absolutely adored him, he was this wonderful mad, extrovert Russian Jew who _____________ (spend) 3 half of World War II up a tree, according to him. I _____________ (think) 4 he actually spent a couple of nights up a tree, although he’d worn the yellow star for years in occupied France. For a project, I met Hitler’s architect Albert Speer at his Heidelberg eyrie in 1971, and he asked if Jane and Serge would sign a copy of Je t’aime] for him. Serge did so, probably relishing the irony, and when he made his Rock Around The Bunker album a few years later [featuring lyrics about Nazi Germany], he gave me a copy _______________ (send) 5 to Speer. His parents had arrived in Paris after _____________ (flee) 6 the 1917 Russian Revolution, and his father – who was a brilliant pianist – had to perform in casinos.”
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Respostas
1: B
2: A
3: B
4: E
5: C
6: D
7: A
8: A
9: D
10: E