Questões de Concurso Público Prefeitura de Flores da Cunha - RS 2022 para Professor de Inglês

Analyse the statements below and mark T, if true, or F, if false, according to the text.

( ) Billie and Finneas had dreamed about writing a Bond theme song long before they had the chance to do it.

( ) The song writers were surprised when the producer invited them to compose the song.

( ) The song is about smoke, mirrors, and betrayal.

( ) Billie and Finneas wanted to write something that people could relate to, not a song that was just about the movie.

The correct order of filling the parentheses, from top to bottom, is: 

Which topic was NOT mentioned in the article?

Analyse the contractions 1 to 4 indicated by the apostrophes in the excerpts below and the context of the sentences in the article:

•  We'd (1) always wanted to write a Bond song. (l. 04).

•  We'd (2) been writing motifs and thinking of melodies for a couple of years (l. 05).

•  We're (3) writing about something that's (4) happened (l. 15).

Choose the alternative with the options that correctly correspond to each contracted word.

Analyse the statements below about the excerpt “I think that actually made it easier for us. We always write the quickest when we have a story or we're writing about something that's happened.” (l. 14-15).

I. “Easier” is a comparative form of the adjective “easy”, and it is written this way because the spelling rule for short adjectives ending in consonant + y is to drop the y and add ier.

II. “Quickest” is a comparative form of the adverb “quick”, and it is written this way because the spelling rule for short adverbs in general is to add est.

III. If “easier” were replaced by a long adjective like “beautiful,” its comparative form would be “more beautiful”.

Which statements are correct?

Local accents aside, standard American English has a rule that guides the pronunciation of simple past regular verbs. According to this rule, the “ed” may be pronounced as listed in Column 1. About that, match the correct pronunciation of “ed” in Column 1 to the verbs in Column 2.

Column 1

1. /t/.

2. /d/.

3. /ɪd/.

Column 2

( ) started (l. 11).

( ) happened (l. 15).

( ) finished (l. 29).

The correct order of filling the parentheses, from top to bottom, is: 

In which of the following sentences the ‘s is used with the same function as in the sentence “We wanted to make a song that made sense in the world and in people's lives” (l. 26-27)?

Considering meaning, which of the sentences below best represents another way of saying “We're not allowed to say anything about it.” (l. 19)? 

Consider the word order of the highlighted question “Was I stupid to love you?”, find the alternative below that follows the same word order in terms of subject / main verb / auxiliary verb, etc.

What does the use of the highlighted word “yet” in the sentence “another lesson yetto learn” suggest?

The highlighted sentence “You’ll never see me cry” is an example of one of the uses of the simple future: to make promises. Choose the INCORRECT statement about the uses of future tenses.