Questões de Vestibular de Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Consider these segments and their paraphrase in parentheses.

I. “the more reading moved online, the less students seemed to understand” (lines 06-08) (the amount of digital texts increased so much that only a small number of students showed understanding)

II. “they were unprepared to address basic problems on-site” (lines 11 and 12) (they were not able to deal with difficulties in the digital world)

III. “all these variables translate into a different reading experience” (lines 35 and 36) (these aspects mean reading online brings about a particular mental operation)

The segment(s) adequately paraphrased in parentheses is/are only

Consider the question below.

“Was the digital format to blame for their superficial approaches, or was something else at work?” (lines 24-26).

From this question we can infer that

Read the statements below.

I. Good reading in print doesn’t necessarily mean good reading on-screen.

II. Wolf does not believe that we can learn to read online as deeply as we once did on paper.

III. Scrolling encourages readers to skim through the text.

IV. Wolf herself has experienced the effects of the digital media.

According to the text, the only correct statements are

After reading text 1 we can say that its main aim is to show

The sentence that would end paragraph 5 is

INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto, que apresenta comentários de especialistas sobre o gráfico.

Comment 1 – (…) the proportion of the population living in their own home has gone into decline. It peaked around the middle of the last decade, at just over 70 per cent.

Comment 2 – Owner occupiers spend an average of 18 per cent on their mortgage. That average may be misleading – those who’ve paid off their mortgage will be zilch. At least they’re building up an asset.

Comment 3 – The proportion in council homes has fallen too, thanks largely to Right to Buy. As a result, the proportion renting their own home has more than doubled in the last two decades, from under 10 per cent to over 20.

Comment 4 – (…) housing which costs more than 30 per cent of your income should count as unaffordable. This is a problem faced overwhelmingly by young renters.

Comment 5 – Soon, the rates of the population living in their own home will be back under 60 per cent, for the first time since the mid 1980s.

Adapted from: http://www.citymetric.com/politics/british-housing-crisis-five-charts

Read these assertions.

I. The word “living”, in the context of comment 1, plays the same grammatical function as in How do young people make a living in London?

II. If the grammatical structure “may be misleading” (comment 2) were in reported speech, it would be: The expert said that average might mislead.

III. By reading comment 3, one can say that some people who had the opportunity to buy their houses from the council are now renting them to others.

IV. “(…) should count as unaffordable”. (comment 4) means are to be considered financially unfeasible.

V. By reading comment 5, one can say that the population living in their own home did not reach 60 per cent in the mid 1980s.

The correct assertions are only

INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto , que apresenta comentários de especialistas sobre o gráfico.

Comment 1 – (…) the proportion of the population living in their own home has gone into decline. It peaked around the middle of the last decade, at just over 70 per cent.

Comment 2 – Owner occupiers spend an average of 18 per cent on their mortgage. That average may be misleading – those who’ve paid off their mortgage will be zilch. At least they’re building up an asset.

Comment 3 – The proportion in council homes has fallen too, thanks largely to Right to Buy. As a result, the proportion renting their own home has more than doubled in the last two decades, from under 10 per cent to over 20.

Comment 4 – (…) housing which costs more than 30 per cent of your income should count as unaffordable. This is a problem faced overwhelmingly by young renters.

Comment 5 – Soon, the rates of the population living in their own home will be back under 60 per cent, for the first time since the mid 1980s.

Adapted from: http://www.citymetric.com/politics/british-housing-crisis-five-charts

The comments conveying ideas that have a representation on the graph are only

Read paragraph 6 and mark the following sentences T (true) or F (false).

( ) Scots used to see Middlesbrough and Ipswich as Tony Travers did.

( ) The SNP and Ukip despise London’s decision power.

( ) Alex Salmond and Tony Travers do not share the same opinion.

( ) The author thinks that not all views are concerned about how much London is eating itself.

Choose the alternative that presents the correct answers, from top to bottom, for the sentences above.

The sentence that would end paragraph 4 is

Which alternative below explains the idea underlined in the sentence “This would matter less if the city were making new places with the qualities of those now packaged up and commodified...” (lines 41 to 43)?

The word “eroded” (line 40) refers to

The reading of the text allows us to say that the author _________ in the _________ paragraph.

I. states that one can make a profit in London – second

II. describes London’s thriving housing situation – third

III. tackles some of London’s crisis outcomes – fourth

IV. admits that the attempt to recover what London has been losing is failing – fifth

The correct statements are only

The alternative that presents all the correct forms to fill in the blanks between lines 43 and 47 are, respectively,

What does the title of the text mean?
Dreaming brain rhythms lock in memories It is the clearest evidence to date that REM sleep is critical for memory. By switching off certain brain cells, the researchers silenced a particular, rhythmic type of brain function - without waking the mice. If they did this during REM sleep, the mice failed subsequent memory tests. The research is reported in the journal Science. REM sleep is the phase during which, at least in humans, dreams take place - but the question of whether it is important for settling new memories has been difficult to answer. Recent studies have tended to focus on deep, non-REM sleep instead, during which brain cells fire in various patterns that reflect memory consolidation and "re-play" of the day's experiences. During REM sleep, while our eyes flicker and our muscles relax, exactly what the brain is doing is something of a mystery. But it is a type of sleep seen across the animal kingdom, in mammals and birds and even lizards.

Read the text and choose the CORRECT alternative.
Big Ben’s Culture
Big Ben is a focus of New Year celebrations in the UK, with radio and TV stations tuning to its chimes to welcome the 'official' start of the year. Similarly, on Remembrance Day, the chimes of Big Ben are broadcast to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month and the start of two minutes silence.
For many years ITN's "News at Ten" began with an opening sequence which featured Big Ben with the chimes punctuating the announcement of the news headlines. This has since been dropped, but all ITV1 and ITV News Channel bulletins still use a graphic based on the Westminster clock face. Big Ben can also be heard striking the hour before some news bulletins on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, a practice that began on December 31, 1923.
The clock features in John Buchan's spy novel The Thirty-Nine Steps and makes for a memorable climax in Don Sharp's 1978 film version, although not in Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 original adaptation. A similar scene is recreated in the 2003 film, Shanghai Knights which culminates with Jackie Chan hanging from the hands of the clock. The clock also appears in the animated cartoon Basil, the Great Mouse Detective.
An earlier film climax on the clock face of Big Ben appears in Will Hay's 1943 film My Learned Friend, although the scene is more slapstick than thriller. Available in: <http://saberingles.com.ar/reading/big-ben.html> Access in: julho de 2015.
( ) People can watch and listen to Big Ben’s chimes for New Year celebrations on radio and TV stations in the UK. ( ) All news channels start with an opening sequence from Big Ben’s chimes. ( ) Big Ben is featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Thirty-nine Steps. ( ) You can see Big Ben in the Great Mouse Detective. ( ) A thriller scene from My Learned Friend shows the face of Big Ben.
The CORRECT alternative is:

What does this text aim to?
Zika virus makes Rio Olympics a threat in Brazil and abroad, health expert says
Amir Attaran calls for postponement or moving of Games and says biggest risk is spreading the virus to countries without adequate healthcare infrastructure. As Brazil reels from a spiraling political crisis and its deepest recession in decades, a public health specialist in Canada has added to the country’s woes with a high-profile call for the 2016 summer Olympics – slated to kick off in Rio de Janeiro in early August – to be postponed or moved due to the Zika outbreak. Speaking to the Guardian on Thursday, Attaran described the idea of going ahead with the games as both “indescribably foolish” and “monstrously unethical”. The potential risks to visitors range from brain-damaged children to death in rare instances, he added. “Is this what the Olympics stand for?” Adapted from: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/12/rio-olympics-zika-amir-attaran-public-health-threat

Read the text and answer the question.
Coca-Cola history began in 1886 when the curiosity of an Atlanta pharmacist, Dr. John S. Pemberton, led him to create a distinctive tasting soft drink that could be sold at soda fountains. He created a flavored syrup, took it to his neighborhood pharmacy, where it was mixed with carbonated water and deemed “excellent” by those who sampled it. Dr. Pemberton’s partner and bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, is credited with naming the beverage “Coca-Cola” as well as designing the trademarked, distinct script, still used today. Prior to his death in 1888, just two years after creating what was to become the world’s #1-selling sparkling beverage, Dr. Pemberton sold portions of his business to various parties, with the majority of the interest sold to Atlanta businessman, Asa G. Candler. Under Mr. Candler’s leadership, distribution of Coca-Cola expanded to soda fountains beyond Atlanta. In 1894, impressed by the growing demand for Coca-Cola and the desire to make the beverage portable, Joseph Biedenharn installed bottling machinery in the rear of his Mississippi soda fountain, becoming the first to put Coca-Cola in bottles. Large scale bottling was made possible just five years later, when in 1899, three enterprising businessmen in Chattanooga, Tennessee secured exclusive rights to bottle and sell Coca-Cola. The three entrepreneurs purchased the bottling rights from Asa Candler for just $1. Benjamin Thomas, Joseph Whitehead and John Lupton developed what became the Coca-Cola worldwide bottling system. Available in: <http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/coca-cola-facts/coca-cola-history/> Access in: agosto de 2014.
Select the alternative that is TRUE according to the text.

Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore—

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over—

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1990).Disponível em http://www.poetryfoundation.org/.

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