Questões de Vestibular UECE 2010 para Vestibular - Inglês
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Q238870
Inglês
According to the text, the Swedish Academy is an institution that
Q238871
Inglês
As to the policy adopted by the Swedish Academy during the First World War, the text states that it
Q238872
Inglês
As to the French poet Paul Valéry, it is stated in the text that he was not awarded the Nobel Prize because of
Q238873
Inglês
The choice of Gabriel García Márquez for the Nobel in 1982 is mentioned in the text as an example of a criterion which focused on
Q238874
Inglês
As to criticism toward the Academy, the author of the text says that they tend not to take into account
Q238875
Inglês
With the secretary Anders Osterling at the Academy, the so-called Laureates would be writers who could
Q238876
Inglês
The writer who won the Prize in 1988
Q238877
Inglês
An Academy’s principle that has frequently been misunderstood is the one concerning
Q238878
Inglês
The policy of pragmatic consideration
Q238879
Inglês
A prize-deserving serious literature should not only further people’s knowledge and their condition, but also try to
Q238880
Inglês
The period that could be considered as “The Great Style”
Q238881
Inglês
According to the text, one of the things the Swedish Academy should not do is to
Q238882
Inglês
The sentences
“I will offer a few arguments in favor of the view of literature as one of the most primary and necessary undertakings of the mind, an irreplaceable activity for the formation of citizens in a modern and democratic society, a society of free individuals.”
and
"Literature has been, and will continue o be, as long as it exists, one of the common denominators of human experience through which human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other, no matter how different their professions, their life plans, their geographical and cultural locations, their personal circumstances.”
should be classified respectively as
“I will offer a few arguments in favor of the view of literature as one of the most primary and necessary undertakings of the mind, an irreplaceable activity for the formation of citizens in a modern and democratic society, a society of free individuals.”
and
"Literature has been, and will continue o be, as long as it exists, one of the common denominators of human experience through which human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other, no matter how different their professions, their life plans, their geographical and cultural locations, their personal circumstances.”
should be classified respectively as
Q238883
Inglês
The sentences “No other discipline or branch of the arts can substitute for literature in crafting the language that people need to communicate.”, “Without it (literature), the critical mind, which is the real engine of historical change and the best protector of liberty, would suffer an irreparable loss.” and “…this world without literature, this nightmare that I am delineating, would have as its principal traits conformism and the universal submission of humankind to power.” contain, respectively, relative clauses of the following types
Q238884
Inglês
In the sentences “as readers of Cervantes, Shakespeare, Dante, and Tolstoy, we understand each other across space and time as members of the same species…” and “in the works of these writers, we learn what we share as human beings, what remains common in all of us under the broad range of differences that separate us.” one finds respectively
Q238885
Inglês
In terms of voice, the verbs in these three sentences “Literary works are born, as shapeless ghosts, in the intimacy of a writer's consciousness, projected into it by the combined strength of the unconscious, and the writer's sensitivity to the world around him, and the writer's emotions…”, “literature has been relegated--like some hidden vice--to the margins of social and personal life, and transformed into something like a sectarian cult…” and “Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably appears in great literature: that men and women of all nations and places are essentially equal.” are respectively in the
Q238886
Inglês
The extract “A community without a written literature expresses itself with less precision, with less richness of nuance, and with less clarity than a community whose principal instrument of communication, the word, has been cultivated and perfected by means of literary texts. … A person who does not read, or reads little, or reads only trash, is a person with an impediment: he can speak much but he will say little, because his vocabulary is deficient in the means for self-expression.” contains verbs in the following tenses (irrespective of the sequence)
Q238887
Inglês
In the sentences “Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure, of course; but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are,” and “In today's world, this totalizing and living knowledge of a human being may be found only in literature.”, the -ing words reading, learning, totalizing and living play the function respectively of
Q238888
Inglês
The alternative which correctly completes the sentence “We learn how to speak ………. – and ………., ………., and ………. – from good literature, and only from good literature.” is
Q238889
Inglês
The alternative which correctly completes the sentence “Without rebellion against the mediocrity and the squalor of life, we would still live in a primitive state, and history …… .” is
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