Questões de Vestibular de Inglês

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 meaning of “as” in “As the letters continued to pour in, Wolf experienced a growing realization: reading had changed profoundly.” (lines 19 and 20) and in the segments below:

I. “we don’t read the same way online as we do on paper” (lines 28 and 29)

II. “when we scroll, we tend to read faster but less deeply, as a way of coping with an overload of information” (lines 38-40)

III. “As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply in this new environment.” (lines 49-51)

The segment(s) in which the meaning of “as” is closest to the one in lines 19 and 20 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