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Q1112255
Inglês Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions , Advérbios de: lugar, modo, tempo e freqüência | Adverbs of: place, manner, time and frequency ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos) Órgão: Prefeitura de Uberaba - MG Prova: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos) - 2016 - Prefeitura de Uberaba - MG - Professor - Inglês |
Q1112255 Inglês
INSTRUCTIONS: Read the following text carefully and then answer the question.

What are the origins of the English Language?

The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, and Modern English. The earliest period begins with the migration of certain Germanic tribes from the continent to Britain in the fifth century A.D., though no records of their language survive from before the seventh century, and it continues until the end of the eleventh century or a bit later. By that time Latin, Old Norse (the language of the Viking invaders), and especially the Anglo-Norman French of the dominant class after the Norman Conquest in 1066 had begun to have a substantial impact on the lexicon, and the well-developed inflectional system that typifies the grammar of Old English had begun to break down.
The period of Middle English extends roughly from the twelfth century through the fifteenth. The influence of French (and Latin, often by way of French) upon the lexicon continued throughout this period, the loss of some inflections and the reduction of others (often to a final unstressed vowel spelled -e) accelerated, and many changes took place within the phonological and grammatical systems of the language.
The period of Modern English extends from the sixteenth century to our own day. The early part of this period saw the completion of a revolution in the phonology of English that had begun in late Middle English and that effectively redistributed the occurrence of the vowel phonemes to something approximating their present pattern.
Other important early developments include the stabilizing effect on spelling of the printing press and the beginning of the direct influence of Latin and, to a lesser extent, Greek on the lexicon. Later, as English came into contact with other cultures around the world and distinctive dialects of English developed in the many areas which Britain had colonized, numerous other languages made small but interesting contributions to our word-stock.
The historical aspect of English really encompasses more than the three stages of development just under consideration. English has what might be called a prehistory as well. As we have seen, our language did not simply spring into existence; it was brought from the Continent by Germanic tribes who had no form of writing and hence left no records. Philologists know that they must have spoken a dialect of a language that can be called West Germanic and that other dialects of this unknown language must have included the ancestors of such languages as German, Dutch, Low German, and Frisian. They know this because of certain systematic similarities which these languages share with each other but do not share with, say, Danish. However, they have had somehow to reconstruct what that language was like in its lexicon, phonology, grammar, and semantics as best they can through sophisticated techniques of comparison developed chiefly during the last century.
Similarly, because ancient and modern languages like Old Norse and Gothic or Icelandic and Norwegian have points in common with Old English and Old High German or Dutch and English that they do not share with French or Russian, it is clear that there was an earlier unrecorded language that can be called simply Germanic and that must be reconstructed in the same way. Still earlier, Germanic was just a dialect (the ancestors of Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit were three other such dialects) of a language conventionally designated Indo-European, and thus English is just one relatively young member of an ancient family of languages whose descendants cover a fair portion of the globe.

Available on: <http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/ history.htm> (Edited).
Read the following sentence from the text.
“The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, and Modern English.”
Adverbs can be used in different positions in a sentence. For example, adjuncts of indefinite frequency such as “usually” most typically occupy mid position when they take the form of adverb phrases.
Choose the following alternative which presents an adverb of indefinite frequency being used in its most typical position.
Alternativas
Q1110372
Inglês Adjetivos | Adjectives , Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions , Substantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds , Preposições | Prepositions , Verbos | Verbs
Ano: 2017 Banca: IBFC Órgão: SEDUC-MT Prova: IBFC - 2017 - SEDUC-MT - Professor de Educação Básica - Língua Estrangeira Inglês |
Q1110372 Inglês


There are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The part of speech indicates how the word functions in meaning as well as grammatically within the sentence. Based on the statement above, the words considered, naïve and especially (l. 9 and 10) can be respectively classifed as:
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Q1110365
Inglês Adjetivos | Adjectives , Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions , Substantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds , Preposições | Prepositions , Verbos | Verbs
Ano: 2017 Banca: IBFC Órgão: SEDUC-MT Prova: IBFC - 2017 - SEDUC-MT - Professor de Educação Básica - Língua Estrangeira Inglês |
Q1110365 Inglês

In the text, the word “thought” (l.25) can be described as:
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Q1109967
Inglês Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions ,
Ano: 2018 Banca: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos) Órgão: Prefeitura de São João del Rei - MG Prova: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos) - 2018 - Prefeitura de São João del Rei - MG - Professor de Educação Básica - Língua Inglesa |
Q1109967 Inglês
INSTRUCTION: Now read carefully the next text; then mark the alternatives that answer the questions or complete the sentences in the question.

As it turned out, there were more than enough strawberries for supper. Julie didn’t come back.
The dinner, though delicious, could hardly be said to be festive. It was as if all the accumulated tensions of the last days had gathered that evening at the dining-table, building slowly up like the thunderheads that stood steadily on the horizon outside.
Con had come in early, rather quiet, with watchful eyes, and lines from nostril to chin that I hadn’t noticed before. Grandfather seemed to have recruited his energies with his afternoon rest: his eyes were bright and a little malicious as he glanced round the table, and marked the taut air of waiting that hung over the meal. It was his moment of power, and he knew it.
If it had needed anything to bring the tensions to snapping-point, Julie’s absence provided it. At first it was only assumed that she was late, but, as the meal wore through, and it became apparent that she wasn’t coming, Grandfather started making irritatingly frequent remarks about the forgetfulness and ingratitude of young people, that were intended to sound pathetic, but only managed to sound thoroughly bad-tempered.
Con ate more or less in silence, but a silence so unrelaxed as to be almost aggressive. It was apparent that Grandfather thought so, for he kept casting bright, hard looks under his brows, and once or twice seemed on the verge of the sort of edged and provocative remark with which he had been prodding his great-nephew for days.
I drew what fire I could, chattering shamelessly, and had the dubious satisfaction of attracting most of the old man’s attention to myself, some of it so obviously affectionate – pointedly so – that I saw, once or twice, Con’s glance cross mine like the flicker of blue steel. Afterwards, I thought, when he knows, when that restless, torturing ambition is settled at last, it will be all right …
As Grandfather had predicted, Donald’s presence saved the day. He seconded my efforts with great gallantry, making several remarks at least three sentences long; but he, too, was unable to keep his eyes from the clock, while Lisa, presiding over a magnificent pair of ducklings à la Rouennaise, and the strawberries hastily assembled into whipped cream Chantilly, merely sat unhelpfully silent and worried, and, in consequence, looking sour.
The end of the meal came, and the coffee, and still no Julie. We all left the dining-room together.
STEWART, Mary. The Ivy Tree.
Great Britain: Coronet Edition, 1987 (Adapted).
The suffix ly, used after adjectives, is formative of adverbs of manner. One of the following words, all found in the text, is not an adverb formed with the suffix.
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Q1109506
Inglês Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos) Órgão: Prefeitura de Ibirité - MG Prova: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos) - 2016 - Prefeitura de Ibirité - MG - Professor - Português / inglês |
Q1109506 Inglês

Brain Development: Can Teaching Make a

Difference?

It has long been known that different regions of the brain have specialized functions. For example, the frontal lobes are involved in abstract reasoning and planning, while the posterior lobes are involved in vision. Until recently, it was believed that these specialized regions developed from a genetic blueprint that determined the structure and function of specific areas of the brain. That is, particular areas of the brain were designed for processing certain kinds of information from birth.

New evidence suggests that the brain is much more malleable than previously thought. Recent findings indicate that the specialized functions of specific regions of the brain are not fixed at birth but are shaped by experience and learning. To use a computer analogy, we now think that the young brain is like a computer with incredibly sophisticated hardwiring, but no software. The software of the brain, like the software of desktop computers, harnesses the exceptional processing capacity of the brain in the service of specialized functions, like vision, smell, and language. All individuals have to acquire or develop their own software in order to harness the processing power of the brain with which they are born.

A number of studies support this view. However, all were carried out on animals, because it is not possible to do such research with humans. Caution is called for when extrapolating these findings to humans.

These findings may have implications for language educators: for one thing, that teaching and teachers can make a difference in brain development, and that they shouldn’t give up on older language learners.

Source: http://carla.umn.edu/immersion/acie/vol5/Nov2001_

BrainResearch.html (Edited.)

Read this sentence from the text and analyze its structure:

However, all were carried out on animals, because it is not possible to do such research with humans.

Now, consider the following statements about the use of the word “because” in English language and choose the correct alternative.

I) “Because” can be used as a subordinating conjunction which introduces clauses of cause.

II) “Because” is a conjunction that can be used when giving the reason for something.

III) “Because” can always be replaced without change of meaning by “in the event that”.

Alternativas
Respostas
386: A
387: E
388: C
389: A
390: B
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