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Q1113996 Pedagogia
A divergência entre as teorias curriculares deve fazer com que a escola discuta qual currículo quer adotar para se chegar ao objetivo desejado. Essa escolha deve ser pensada a partir da concepção do seu Projeto Político-Pedagógico (PPP) e do conhecimento das características mais marcantes sobre as teorias curriculares. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta uma característica das teorias críticas.
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Q1113995 Pedagogia

A escola é o lugar onde se concretiza o objetivo máximo do sistema escolar, ou seja, o atendimento direto de seus usuários nas relações de ensino-aprendizagem. É nela que as metas governamentais são atingidas ou não, e que as políticas educacionais se realizam tal como o previsto ou sofrem distorções. Ao discutir autonomia da escola, Veiga destaca algumas dimensões consideradas básicas para o bom funcionamento de uma instituição educativa e que, segundo ela, devem ser relacionadas e articuladas entre si:

I. Autonomia administrativa: consiste na possibilidade de elaborar e gerir seus planos, programas e projetos e autonomia jurídica – diz respeito à possibilidade de a escola elaborar suas normas e orientações escolares.

II. Autonomia financeira: refere-se à disponibilidade de recursos financeiros capazes de dar à instituição educativa condições de funcionamento efetivo.

III. Autonomia pedagógica: consiste na liberdade de propor modalidades de ensino e pesquisa. Está estreitamente ligada à identidade, à função social, à clientela, à organização curricular, à avaliação, bem como aos resultados e, portanto, à essência do projeto pedagógico da escola.

Estão corretas as afirmativas

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Q1113994 Pedagogia
No caderno currículo, conhecimento e cultura da série indagações sobre o currículo, Moreira e Candau propõem que se evidenciem, no currículo, a construção social e os rumos subsequentes dos conhecimentos, cujas raízes históricas e culturais tendem a ser usualmente “esquecidas”, o que faz com que costumem ser vistos como indiscutíveis, neutros, universais, intemporais. Isso significa
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Q1113993 Pedagogia

“Toda escola tem objetivos que deseja alcançar, metas a cumprir e sonhos a realizar. O conjunto dessas aspirações, bem como os meios para concretizá-las, é o que dá forma e vida ao chamado Projeto Político-Pedagógico – o famoso PPP. Podemos conceituar o PPP definindo as próprias palavras que compõem o documento. É projeto porque _______________; é político porque _______________; é pedagógico porque _______________.” Assinale a alternativa que completa correta e sequencialmente a afirmativa anterior.

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Q1113992 Pedagogia
De acordo com as DCNs para o ensino médio, construir a qualidade social pressupõe conhecimento dos interesses sociais da comunidade escolar para que seja possível educar e cuidar mediante interação efetivada entre princípios e finalidades educacionais, objetivos, conhecimentos e concepções curriculares. Isso abarca mais que o exercício político-pedagógico que se viabiliza mediante atuação de todos os sujeitos da com unidade educativa. A escola de qualidade social adota como centralidade o diálogo, a colaboração, os sujeitos e as aprendizagens, o que pressupõe, sem dúvida, atendimento a requisitos tais como, EXCETO:
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Q1113991 Pedagogia
De acordo com a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional nº 9.394/96, o dever do Estado com a educação escolar pública será efetivado mediante, entre outras providências, a garantia de oferta da educação básica. Esta oferta deverá ser:
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Q1113990 Pedagogia
Boa parte das reflexões sobre a função social da escola no Brasil foi canalizada em torno do debate acerca das tendências pedagógicas. Assim, tomando como mote as discussões de Libâneo, é possível identificar papéis propostos para a instituição escolar nas diferentes pedagogias. Estão corretas as correlações entre o papel da escola e as tendências pedagógicas:
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Q1113988 Pedagogia
A partir da criação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA), crianças e adolescentes brasileiros, sem distinção de raça, cor ou classe social, passaram a ser reconhecidos como sujeitos de direitos e deveres, considerados como pessoas em desenvolvimento a quem se deve prioridade absoluta do Estado. De acordo com o texto do ECA, à criança e ao adolescente serão assegurados para garantia do Direito à educação, à cultura, ao esporte e ao lazer, EXCETO:
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Q1113987 Atualidades

As medidas de combate ao tabagismo poderão ser ampliadas. Está pronto para ser votado na Comissão de Assuntos Sociais (CAS) o projeto que proíbe a venda de fumígenos para menores de 21 anos (PLS 236/2016). O autor do projeto, o ex-senador Ricardo Franco (DEM-SE), argumenta que uma restrição mais rigorosa é uma questão de saúde pública e também um direito dos jovens brasileiros. Ele destaca que a proibição alcança o uso e a venda de cigarros, cigarrilhas, charutos, cachimbos ou qualquer outro produto fumígeno, derivado ou não do tabaco.”

(Disponível em: http://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2016/09/06/projeto-proibe-venda-de-cigarros-para-menores-de-21-anos.)

Conforme a legislação brasileira atual, a proibição de venda de fumígenos atinge menores de

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Q1113986 Atualidades

“A desaceleração da economia da China terá consequências negativas na economia mundial em 2016, especialmente nos países emergentes, afirmou a agência de classificação Moody's. O enfraquecimento mais pronunciado do que o antecipado da economia chinesa é atualmente um dos maiores riscos para a economia global, avaliou a agência no documento. O mundo olha atento para a desaceleração do ritmo de crescimento econômico da China, que pode afetar as economias de diversos países, inclusive o Brasil.”

(Disponível em: http://economia.uol.com.br/noticias/efe/2016/05/19/desaceleracao-da-china-mais-aos-paises-emergentes-avalia moodys.htm.)

Apesar dessa crise, a China continua sendo a segunda maior economia do mundo. Esse crescimento acelerado teve início principalmente a partir

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Q1113985 Conhecimentos Gerais


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A imagem mostra uma importante pintura do modernismo brasileiro que será exibida pela primeira vez no Brasil desde que foi pintada, em 1927. Trata-se de “Samba”, uma tela de quase 2 m x 1,60 m pertencente ao marchand uruguaio Martin Castillo e pintada por:

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Q1113984 Atualidades
“A Receita Federal libera, a partir das 9 h desta quinta-feira (08/09/16), a consulta ao quarto lote de restituições do Imposto de Renda 2016 e a lotes residuais, de quem caiu na malha fina, de 2008 a 2015. Estão incluídos nesse 4º lote de restituição do IR deste ano 2.106.171 contribuintes, totalizando R$ 2,5 bilhões em restituições. O pagamento será feito no dia 15 de setembro.”
(Disponível em: http://g1.globo.com/economia/imposto-de-renda/2016/noticia/2016/09/receita-abre-consulta-ao-4-lote-do-ir-2016-nestaquinta.html.)
No fim de abril, a Receita Federal informou que 716 mil declarações já estavam retidas na malha fina do IR devido a inconsistências das informações prestadas. Sobre a “Malha Fina”, assinale a afirmativa correta.
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Q1113983 Atualidades

“Todo presidente dos Estados Unidos se dedica a duas tarefas simultâneas: governar o dia a dia e preparar seu lugar na história. Quanto mais próximo o fim do mandato, mais se fala do legado. Que marca deixará? Barack Obama, presidente desde janeiro de 2009, deixará a Casa Branca depois do fim do seu segundo mandato. Em uma entrevista à revista The New Yorker, publicada em 2014, Obama refletiu sobre a limitada capacidade dos presidentes de mudar o mundo e disse: ‘Nós só tentamos que o nosso legado seja correto’.”

(Disponível em: http://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2016/01/11/internacional/1452533002_110738.html.)

Assinale a alternativa que contém uma ou mais ações marcantes do governo de Obama.

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Q1113980 Raciocínio Lógico

Uma empresa de telefonia oferece planos com junção de até três tipos de serviços: telefone fixo, TV por assinatura e telefone móvel. Após um lavamento, a empresa constatou que dos seus clientes:


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Sabendo que a empresa possui 50.000 clientes, então o número de clientes que assinam o plano que contém os três tipos de serviços é:

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Q1112257 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 this sentence from the text.
“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 word “word-stock” could be replaced without change of meaning by
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Q1112256 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).
Prepositions express a relation in time between two events or a relation in space between two (or more) things or people. They can also express a variety of abstract relations.
Read this sentence from the text.
“The earliest period begins with the migration of certain Germanic tribes from the continent to Britain in the fifth century A.D. [...]”
From” is one of the most common prepositions in English and it was used in this example to indicate the starting point in a movement. Choose the following alternative in which the preposition “from” is being used to express the same idea as in the example above.
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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.
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Q1112254 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).
According to the text, there was an earlier unrecorded language called simply Germanic.
Which fact from the text supports this claim?
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Q1112253 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).
The history of English language also includes some sort of prehistoric period. All the following alternatives about this period are correct, EXCEPT:
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Q1112252 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).
The printing press had an important role in the history of English. How did the printing press affect the English language?
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Respostas
10901: C
10902: A
10903: B
10904: C
10905: C
10906: A
10907: D
10908: D
10909: D
10910: A
10911: A
10912: B
10913: B
10914: B
10915: C
10916: B
10917: A
10918: A
10919: C
10920: D