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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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According to the text:
I. Lady Gaga‘s genes are being disputed by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Myriad Genetics (MYGN).
II. II. The U.S. Patent Office is prosecuting ACLU.
III. III. The notion of patenting genes seems as absurd as patenting the air we breath.
IV. IV. The author suggests that the policy of DNA codes patenting must be changed to something similar to what happens to the radio stations.
Mark the CORRECT answer:
I. Tahiti can be seen from the shores of Peru.
II. The access to the outer part of Tahiti is not difficult.
III. The inner part of Tahiti presents a sharp contrast to its shores.
IV. The natives of Tahiti are hostile and dangerous.
Mark the CORRECT answer:
The word "shuddered" in the text indicates that Case feels:
The Economist, December 19th ,2009.
According to the text, the point of view of the Fowler‘s Guide is that:
I. The sentences “There have been attempts to reform English spelling” and “She has never eaten Chinese food” are in the same verb tense.
II. The words “explains”, “differences” and “speakers” are, respectively, the plural forms of “explain”, “difference” and “speaker”.
III. The comparative form of the word “easy” is “easier” while the comparative form of the word “rational” is “more rational”.
IV. The sentences “The great American lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843) tried to create a more rational system” and “The first spelling bee was held in the USA in 1825…” are both in the past tense.
Mark the CORRECT answer:
I. “Websters „spelling books” are books that you can access on the Internet to help you with the spelling of words.
II. The spelling of the word “colour” in British English is correct while the spelling of the word “color” in American English is wrong.
III. The word “bea” means, at the same time, a four winged insect that produces honey, and a special kind of spelling competition.
IV. Italian and Spanish words are relatively easy to spell because these languages are phonetic while English is not.
Considering the text, it is CORRECT to state that:
Read the statements below and mark the INCORRECT one according to the text:
Read the statements below and mark the CORRECT answer:
I. The hijackers were the only people who tried to stop the planes from crashing against the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
II. Nakeira‘s teacher made her stay home watching the horrific scenes over and over again.
III. Genaro says he does not remember a thing related to September 11.
IV. Paris is only seven years old now and has not learned much about 9/11 yet.
V. Nancy‘s father was one of the victims of the collapse of the Twin Towers, that‘s why 9/11 became a frightening day for her.
VI. Lola witnessed the crash of the planes against the New York City buildings and understood immediately the meaning of the tragedy of 9/11.
According to the text, mark the CORRECT answer:
Judge the sentences according to the text:
I. Fiona is an example of someone who became ill because of a relationship breaking down.
II. In the sentence "She ended up weighing just six stone when she passed away when I was 21," the expression "passed away" can be replaced by died.
III. To the experts, the growing numbers of women developing anorexia or bulimia in adulthood is due to the fact that some women in their 40s or 50s refuse to look young like Madonna and Sharon Stone do.
IV. Bulimia and anorexia are examples of crippling conditions that threaten adults‘ health if they are under these vulnerable conditions: moving to another place, starting a new career, or seeing children become homeless people.
V. In the following extract "In one case the husband‘s parting words to her were a derogatory comment about her weight," the underlined words are used, respectively, as an object pronoun and as a possessive adjective.