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Sobre formação de palavras (prefixos e sufixos) | word formation (prefix and suffix) em inglês
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Q3231806
Inglês
Word formation refers to the process of creating new words or forming words from existing ones by adding affixes (prefixes or suffixes), compounding, blending, or other methods. According to this, choose the alternative that presents the correct information about word formation.
Q2280157
Inglês
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Read Your Way Through Salvador
By Itamar Vieira Junior and translated by Johnny Lorenz. July 19, 2023.
I was born in Salvador, in the Brazilian state of Bahia, and lived in the general vicinity until I
reached the age of 15. But it was when I left that I really came to know my city. How was I
able to discover more about my birthplace while traveling far from home? It might sound
rather clichéd but, I assure you, literature made this possible: It took me on a journey, long
and profound, back home, enveloping me in words and imagination.
To understand the formation of our unique society and, consequently, the cityscape of
Salvador, one should read, before anything else, “The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom
and Islam in the Black Atlantic,” by João José Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes and Marcus
J.M. de Carvalho. Rufino was an alufá, or Muslim spiritual leader, born in the Oyo empire in
present-day Nigeria and enslaved during his adolescence. “The Story of Rufino” is an epic
tale, encapsulating the life of one man in search of freedom as well as the history of the
development of Salvador itself, a place inextricably linked with the diaspora across the Black
Atlantic. Another book for which I have deep affection is “The City of Women,” by the
American anthropologist Ruth Landes. It offers an intriguing perspective, focusing on
matriarchal power in candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian sacred practice, and revealing how the
social organization of its spiritual communities reverberates across the city.
If you want to feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador, these two books, both by
Amado, are indispensable: “Captains of the Sands” and “Dona Flor and Her Two
Husbands.” The first is a coming-of-age story in which we follow a group of children and
adolescents living on the streets and on the beaches around the Bay of All Saints. Written
more than 80 years ago, the book was banned and even burned in the public square during
the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas in the first half of the 20th century. As a portrait of
Salvador, it is still relevant and reveals our deep inequalities. “Dona Flor and her Two
Husbands” is one of Amado’s most popular novels, translated into more than 30 languages
and adapted many times for theater, cinema, and television. The book is a kind of manifesto
for a woman’s liberation. Dona Flor possesses great culinary talent, and oppressed by a
patriarchal society, finds herself divided between two men, one being her deceased
husband. While the novel captures the daily life of the city in the 1940s, it is also a wonderful
guide to the cuisine of Salvador, with its African and Portuguese influences.
I invite readers to travel into the interior of Bahia, many hours by car from Salvador to the
region known as the Sertão, whose name translates loosely to “backwoods.” Two books can
also transport you there, and they are sides of the same story: “Backlands: The Canudos
Campaign,” by Euclides da Cunha, and “The War of the End of the World,” by Mario
Vargas Llosa.
“Backlands” is one of the most important works in the history of Brazilian literature. It is a
journalistic telling that introduces us not only to the brutal War of Canudos, but also to the
intriguing landscape of the Sertão, a place so full of contradictions. In his writing of the
conflict, da Cunha tells the story of the genesis of the tough sertanejo: a mythic,
cowboyesque figure of the drought-stricken, lawless interior. “The War of the End of the
World” is an essential epic that amplifies the narrative of “Backlands,” bringing a more imaginative, creative aspect to the story of Antônio Conselheiro, the spiritual leader of a
rebellion, and of the multitude that followed him to their deaths.
[Fonte: “Read Your Way Through Salvador”. In: The New York Times, 19/07/2023,<http://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/books/salvador-bahia-brazil-books.html> . Adaptado. Data
de acesso: 01/09/2023.]
No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “As a portrait of Salvador, it is still relevant and
reveals our deep inequalities”, o termo sublinhado contém um prefixo de negação. Assinale
a alternativa que apresenta o termo que NÃO contém prefixo de negação.
Ano: 2023
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
EsFCEx
Prova:
VUNESP - 2023 - EsFCEx - Oficial - Magistério em Inglês |
Q2259759
Inglês
Texto associado
Many assumptions of a communicative orientation
towards language teaching need questioning in a global
context. Ozóg (1989) discusses the idea of the ‘information
gap’, which is supposed to induce students to speak. ‘Are we
as Europeans’, he asks, ‘not making a cultural assumption
that speakers the world over are uneasy in silence and that
they have an overwhelming desire to fill gaps which occur
in natural discourse?’ (p.399). Silence is a salient feature of
conversation in the Malay world, he points out, a feature that
has also been noted in Japan and a number of other cultures.
Indeed, the whole question of requiring others to speak
needs to be questioned in terms of both cultural and gender
differences. The point here is not to exoticize some notion
of cultural difference, but rather to suggest that language is
a cultural practice, that both language and thinking about
language are always located in very particular social,
cultural and political contexts. How language (including
silence, paralanguage, and so on) is used, therefore, differs
extensively from one context to another, and thus any
approach to language teaching based on one particular
view of language may be completely inapplicable in another
context. If particular language teaching practices (advertised
and exported as the best, newest and most scientific) support
certain views of language, then such practices clearly present
a particular cultural politics and make the English language
classroom a site of struggle over different ways of thinking
about and dealing with language.
(A. Pennycook, The Cultural Politics of English as an International
Language.London and New York: Routledge. 2017. Adaptado)
Knowledge of word formation processes in the English
language helps to understand the meaning of the verb in
bold in “The point here is not to exoticize some notion of
cultural difference” (paragraph 2) as
Q1989741
Inglês
Texto associado
Multilingualism needs to be understood not so much in terms of separate monolingualisms (adding English to one or more other languages) but rather in much more fluid terms. We can start to think of ELT classrooms in terms of principled polycentrism (Pennycook, 2014). This is not the polycentrism of a World Englishes focus, with its established or fixed norms of regional varieties of English, but a more fluid concept, based on the idea that students are developing complex repertoires of multilingual and multimodal resources. This enables us to think in terms of ELT as developing resourceful speakers who are able to use available language resources and to shift between styles, discourses, registers and genres. This brings the recent sociolinguistic emphasis on repertoires and resources into conversation with a focus on the need to learn how to negotiate and accommodate, rather than to be proficient in one variety of English. So an emerging goal of ELT may be less towards proficient native-speaker-like speakers (which has always been a confused and misguided goal), and to think instead in terms of resourceful speakers (Pennycook, 2012) who can draw on multiple linguistic and semiotic resources.
(Pennycook, A. The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language. London and New York: Routledge. 2017. Adaptado)
The word “misguided”, in the last sentence of the text, has
a negative connotation due to the prefix mis-. Negative
prefixes have also been added to the words in alternative:
Ano: 2020
Banca:
Marinha
Órgão:
EFOMM
Prova:
Marinha - 2020 - EFOMM - Oficial da Marinha Mercante - Primeiro Dia |
Q1695465
Inglês
Choose the option with the correct prefixes to
complete the sentences below.
I. Computing systems often deliberately _____ classify sensitive information.
II. Since then, every time I felt stressed, _____ aligned, or dissatisfied, I would refer back to them to get the source of my frustration." ·
III. My son-in-law was talking and acting in an ____ appropriate manner at the party.
IV. Crooks sometimes ____ run the police.
V. She had difficulty in writing anything but scribbles because she was ____ patient.
VI. Her latest article is quite ____ similar from the previous one.
I. Computing systems often deliberately _____ classify sensitive information.
II. Since then, every time I felt stressed, _____ aligned, or dissatisfied, I would refer back to them to get the source of my frustration." ·
III. My son-in-law was talking and acting in an ____ appropriate manner at the party.
IV. Crooks sometimes ____ run the police.
V. She had difficulty in writing anything but scribbles because she was ____ patient.
VI. Her latest article is quite ____ similar from the previous one.
Q949366
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto a seguir é referência para a questão.
More than 100 South African gold miners treated for smoke inhalation
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Hundreds of South African gold mine workers were rescued and over 100 treated for smoke
inhalation after an underground fire, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday.
Safety is a huge issue in South Africa’s dangerous deep-level mines and a focus for investors. A spate of deaths at SibanyeStillwater’s
gold operations, including a seismic event that killed seven miners in early May, has highlighted the risks.
In the latest incident, more than 600 miners were initially trapped after a fire broke out at a mine east of Johannesburg operated
by unlisted Gold One, NUM said.
This comes almost two weeks after five miners died in an underground fire at a South African copper mine operated by unlisted
Palabora Mining Company in Limpopo.
Company officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
“As the NUM, we vehemently condemn this kind of incident as it is becoming a trend”, the union said in a statement.
(Disponível em: <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-mining-fire/more-than-100-south-african-gold-miners-treated-for-smoke-inhalation-idUS KBN1KG294>.)
Gold One and Palabora Mining Company operate South African mines. Both companies have one aspect in common:
they are unlisted. This means that these companies:
Ano: 2017
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2017 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q848699
Inglês
Choose the alternative in which the prefix ‘in-’ was used to
form an opposite.
Ano: 2015
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2015 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q679299
Inglês
The only word that has the same suffix as in “astronomer”
(line 5) is
Ano: 2015
Banca:
Marinha
Órgão:
EFOMM
Prova:
Marinha - 2015 - EFOMM - Oficial da Marinha Mercante - Primeiro Dia |
Q543128
Inglês
In lines 2 – 3: “(…) and despite an unresolved
lawsuit that has delayed the project (...)”, the word
in bold is formed by the prefix 'un'. In which
option below the word is not correctly formed by
the same prefix ?
Ano: 2015
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2015 - EEAR - Sargento - Controlador de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 1) |
Q537363
Inglês
The words “efficiency” and “brevity” (both in line 13)
follow, respectively, the same rule of word formation as in
Q504244
Inglês
Texto associado
Born on October 23, 1940, in Três Corações, Brazil, soccer legend Pelé became a superstar with his performance in the 1958 World Cup. Pelé played professionally in Brazil for two decades, (35)__________ three World Cups along the way, before joining the New York Cosmos late in his career. Named FIFA co-Player of the Century in 1999, he is a global ambassador for soccer and other (36)____________ causes.
The world was officially introduced to Pelé in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Displaying (37)_____________ speed, athleticism and field vision, the 17-year-old erupted to score three goals in a 5-2 semifinal win over France, then netted two more in the finals, a 5-2 win over the host country.
Retirement did little to diminish the public profile of Pelé, who (38)______________ a popular pitchman and active in many professional arenas.
In 1978, Pelé was awarded the International Peace Award for his work with UNICEF. He has also served (39) __________ Brazil's Extraordinary Minister for Sport and a United Nations ambassador for ecology and the environment.
The world was officially introduced to Pelé in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Displaying (37)_____________ speed, athleticism and field vision, the 17-year-old erupted to score three goals in a 5-2 semifinal win over France, then netted two more in the finals, a 5-2 win over the host country.
Retirement did little to diminish the public profile of Pelé, who (38)______________ a popular pitchman and active in many professional arenas.
In 1978, Pelé was awarded the International Peace Award for his work with UNICEF. He has also served (39) __________ Brazil's Extraordinary Minister for Sport and a United Nations ambassador for ecology and the environment.
Para a questão, escolha a alternativa que complete a sentença CORRETAMENTE
Ano: 2013
Banca:
Marinha
Órgão:
EFOMM
Prova:
Marinha - 2013 - EFOMM - Oficial da Marinha Mercante - Primeiro Dia |
Q644672
Inglês
The prefix un as in ‘unclear’ (line 17) is used
correctly in all alternatives EXCEPT:
Ano: 2013
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EPCAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2013 - EPCAR - Cadete da Aeronáutica |
Q380573
Inglês
Mark the option in which only one question is grammatically correct.
Ano: 2012
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2012 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo - ME |
Q669210
Inglês
“unborn baby”, the underlined word means
Ano: 2011
Banca:
Exército
Órgão:
EsFCEx
Prova:
Exército - 2011 - EsFCEx - Oficial - Magistério Inglês |
Q267211
Inglês
Choose the alternative in which all the words make opposites with the same preffix:
Ano: 2011
Banca:
Marinha
Órgão:
ESCOLA NAVAL
Prova:
Marinha - 2011 - ESCOLA NAVAL - Aspirante - 2º Dia |
Q244842
Inglês
Which of the alternatives below completes the sentence correctly?
"Because he was driving so ____(1) he was________ (2) hurt in the accident . "
"Because he was driving so ____(1) he was________ (2) hurt in the accident . "
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 2) |
Q670073
Inglês
Texto associado
A terrible thing happened to teacher Emma Rodriguez last year.
Her little son, Edgar, drank some floor cleaner. She took him to
the hospital. Edgar was OK and out of danger. But Emma
decided that she wanted to make her home safer and happier.
In “teacher”, underlined in the paragraph, the suffix –“er”
has the same function as the one in
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q668171
Inglês
If the treatments are unproven, (line 3), it means that they
_________________.
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 1) |
Q668082
Inglês
In “researchers”, (line 3), the suffix – “er ” has the same
function as the one in
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Marinha
Órgão:
EFOMM
Prova:
Marinha - 2010 - EFOMM - Oficial da Marinha Mercante - Primeiro Dia |
Q645313
Inglês
In which option all the suffixes are correctly used?
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