Questões de Vestibular de Inglês

The pronoun “it” in the fragment “and it contains cancer-promoting properties” (lines 10-11) refers to

The writer implies in paragraph 2 (lines 5-14) that

The main purpose of the text is to

Read the lyrics below.

Don’t laugh at me

Mark Wills

I’m a little boy with glasses

The one they call the geek

A little girl who never smiles

’Cause I’ve got braces on my teeth

And I know how it feels

To cry myself to sleep

I’m that kid on every playground

Who’s always chosen last

A single teenage mother

Tryin’ to overcome my past

You don’t have to be my friend

But is it too much to ask

Don’t laugh at me

Don’t call me names

Don’t get your pleasure from my pain

In God’s eyes we’re all the same

Someday we’ll all have perfect wings

Don’t laugh at me (…)

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We can conclude that, as a whole, it is about:

Read the following article, ignoring the empty spaces (1-5) for the time being. Then, check the alternative in which all the spaces have been CORRECTLY filled:

Will human beings ever live on other planets?

(1) __________ we have become accustomed to the idea of space travel, and in films and fiction it seems as tough space travel is inevitable, it appears unlikely that human beings will ever get any further than Mars, our nearest neighbor. No matter how many films we make about space travel, the fact is that it remains technologically challenging, and extremely expensive. (2) __________ the distances involved are immense, any voyage outside the solar system would take hundreds of years using current technology. Wherever human beings went into space, they would have problems of how to eat and breathe, and their spaceship would have to carry vast amounts of fuel (3) __________ cover the distance. Even Mars is so far away that it would take about six months to get there. (4) __________ the distance between Earth and Mars varies, astronauts would have to wait for nearly two years before they could return using the shortest journey time. (5) __________ it could cost as much as $ 100 billion, a manned mission to Mars is planned for sometime between 2010 and 2020.


VINCE, M. Macmillan English grammar in context. Macmillan, London. 2008. p. 165.

Check the CORRECT alternative.