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Q3623260 Inglês

Reasons To Make A ‘Reverse Bucket List’, By A Psychologist


By Mark Travers







(Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2025/07/18/3-reasons-to-make-a-reverse-bucketlist-by-a-psychologist – text specially adapted for this test.) *Bucket list: a list of the things that a person would like to do or achieve before they die. (Available at: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bucket-list) 

In which of the sentences below is the word “rather” used with the same meaning as in line 8? 
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Q3610246 Inglês
Which sentence avoids a comma splice and uses the linker appropriately to join two independent clauses?
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Q3598103 Inglês
In the sentence below, put the adverb ever in the right place then find an alternative: “Have you been to South Africa?” 
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Q3583514 Inglês
In the sentence "She had studied for hours; nevertheless, she still found the test extremely difficult," what is the function of the linking word "nevertheless"?
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Q3510302 Inglês

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DODGER DILEMMA 

Jammie Dodgers unveils new flavour with an 'exotic twist'... and fans are divided


Biscuit lovers had mixed reactions upon learning there was a new Mango and Passionfruit flavour available to buy at supermarkets.


The 140g packet of biccies is 90p at Sainsbury's and just one of a range of new flavours of the iconic brand.

The flavour is mango and passionfruit. Credit: Facebook


A photo of the mango and passionfruit Jammie Dodgers was shared to the Newfoods UK social media pages where reactions where mixed.


"Wish they would just stick to original!!!! More jam!!!!!!!!" wrote one person.


Another added: "Oh yum."


A third commented: "Tasteless."


And a fourth reacted: "We need to get these."


A spokesperson for Fox Burton's which makes Jammie Dodgers said they expect the new flavours to fly off the shelf.


"We are very excited about these new flavours and expect them to do well in market," the spokesperson told The Sun.


Another of the unique flavours available at supermarkets is cherry, apple and blackcurrant, and strawberry Jammie Dodgers.


Last year, the brand raised eyebrows when shoppers found a re-released banana version of Jammie Dodgers.


The banana flavouring replaces the classic jam filling that Brits have grown to love over the years.


The yellow-flavoured biscuits were first launched in the UK in July 2022 inspired by the Minions film, The Rise of Gru.


It was not the first new flavour the biscuit company has tried - other tempting flavours have been launched such as cherry and apple.


https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/35361009/jammie-dodgers-unveils-new-flavour-exotic-twist/

Consider the sentence: "We are very excited about these new flavours and expect them to do well in market." Which phrase functions as an adverbial modifier of place?
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Q3503697 Inglês
For question, read the text below and select which answers best fit the question.


Professional sport


When I talk about practice, I mean something individual. If you look at professional golfers or tennis players, you will observe that the practice composes the basis of their preparation for tournaments. Of course it does, (1) for these are individual sports. [...] Part of what is fascinating, and slightly repellent, about sports lies in that curious inversion of values (2) insofar much that we admire in ordinary life - humility, compassion, unwillingness to take advantage of the weakness of others - is reversed on the field of play. Professional sport is all about winning. And, within reason the more you practice (and the more you train) the better your chances of doing so.


Adapted from: WALLACE, David Foster. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis. Little, Brown and Company, 2011. 
The conjunction "insofar" is the correct choice for the following sentence: "Part of what is fascinating, and slightly repellent, about sports lies in that curious inversion of values (2) insofar much that we admire in ordinary life - humility, compassion, unwillingness to take advantage of the weakness of others - is reversed on the field of play." because
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Q3503696 Inglês
For question, read the text below and select which answers best fit the question.


Professional sport


When I talk about practice, I mean something individual. If you look at professional golfers or tennis players, you will observe that the practice composes the basis of their preparation for tournaments. Of course it does, (1) for these are individual sports. [...] Part of what is fascinating, and slightly repellent, about sports lies in that curious inversion of values (2) insofar much that we admire in ordinary life - humility, compassion, unwillingness to take advantage of the weakness of others - is reversed on the field of play. Professional sport is all about winning. And, within reason the more you practice (and the more you train) the better your chances of doing so.


Adapted from: WALLACE, David Foster. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis. Little, Brown and Company, 2011. 
In the sentence "Of course it does, (1) for these are individual sports.", the word "for"
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Q3502698 Inglês
In the sentence “Last week, during the intense storm that caused power outages across the city, I decided to stay indoors and reorganize my entire bookshelf, which I hadn’t touched in years”, the adverb of time is 
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Q3498922 Inglês
Context: Anny and Lizzie are two friends who study at NY University. There'll be a long holiday and they are trying to decide what to do. Anny is American, Lizzie is British and both of them love to make fun of each other's accent.


Read the dialogue below and answer the question.


- What are you up to this weekend?

- I've got no idea, actually… What about you? Maybe football?

- No, no. Soccer is not my thing. Maybe… dancing?

- I'm keen to dance. Why not?

- Alright, let's call Martha and Susie. Maybe they wanna join us.

- Absolutely.
Which word would be an antonym for “maybe”?
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Q3492027 Inglês
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TEXTO III - How the Minnesota Shootings Suspect Was Caught12


   After an intense two-day manhunt, Minnesota police captured Vance Boelter, 57, the suspect accused of shooting two state lawmakers and their spouses. The arrest took place on Sunday evening in a rural field near Minneapolis. Despite being armed at the time, Mr. Boelter was taken into custody without the use of force, according to official reports.

   The case began early Saturday morning when police responded to a shooting at the home of State Senator John Hoffman. Concerned that the suspect might target other political figures, officers quickly went to the residence of Representative Melissa Hortman. Upon their arrival, Mr. Boelter opened fire on them before escaping on foot through a golf course located behind the house. This incident marked the beginning of what authorities called the largest manhunt in Minnesota's history.

   Throughout the weekend, more than 100 officers and nearly 20 SWAT teams were deployed across Sibley County, a largely rural area southwest of Minneapolis. Law enforcement agencies worked together, setting up a temporary command center in a nearby parking lot to coordinate search operations.

   The breakthrough in the search came on Sunday afternoon when officers discovered Mr. Boelter’s car and hat abandoned on a remote stretch of road. This discovery significantly narrowed the search area. Later, an officer reported seeing someone, believed to be the suspect, running into a wooded area nearby.

   Further confirmation came when a local resident provided footage from a trail camera installed on private property. The image captured on the camera showed a person matching Mr. Boelter’s description. Acting on this evidence, police established a one-square-mile perimeter, deploying drones and police dogs to assist in tracking the suspect’s movements.

   Using aerial surveillance, officers spotted Mr. Boelter crawling through thick shrubs. Drones tracked him from above, allowing SWAT teams to converge on his location without engaging in a violent confrontation. Authorities emphasized that despite the suspect being armed, the arrest was made peacefully and without incident.

  Following the capture, a photo was released showing Mr. Boelter standing in the field where he was apprehended. The image was edited to obscure the faces of the arresting officers for privacy and security reasons. At the command center, law enforcement officials celebrated the successful end to the operation.

  Investigators later praised the rapid response and coordination among different police departments. Officials noted that the quick decision by Brooklyn Park officers to check Representative Hortman’s home shortly after the first shooting may have prevented further violence and shortened the duration of the manhunt.


1 Fonte: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/minnesota-shooting-suspect-caught-how.html

Acesso em: 16 de junho de 2025

2 (Adapted from: "How the Minnesota Shootings Suspect Was Caught", The New York Times, June 16, 2025)
Which option contains an adverb?
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Ano: 2025 Banca: IESES Órgão: SCGás Prova: IESES - 2025 - SCGás - Analista Organizacional |
Q3476975 Inglês
 Complete the sentences. Use OUT or AWAY or BACK or AROUND or OVER.

Wait a minute. Don’t go _____. I want to ask you something.
I am going _____ now to do some shopping.
Marcie heard a noise behind her, so she looked _______ to see what it was.
When you have read this page, turn _____ and read the other side.
Choose the correct alternative: 
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Q3439638 Inglês
Leia o texto a seguir para responder à próxima questão.

    AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate” and offer up falsehoods as if they were hard facts.

Yet people are relying more and more on AI to answer their questions. Half of all people in the U.S. between the ages of 14 and 22 now use AI to get information, according to a 2024 Harvard study.


https://theconversation.com/heres-how-researchers-are-helping-ais-gettheir-facts-straight-245463
The word “Yet”, in the beginning of the second paragraph, is polysemic and its meaning depends on the context. In the sentences below, the one in which the word carries the same meaning as the one used in the text is
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Q3430807 Inglês
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    CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is an approach which is neither language learning nor subject learning, but an amalgam of both and is linked to the processes of convergence – the fusion of elements which may have been previously fragmented, such as subjects in the curriculum. This is where CLIL is groundbreaking.


    To give a parallel example common in recent times, we can take studies on the environment. A seminal publication on the subject in the 1960s later led to a need to educate young people in schools so as to both inform and, perhaps more crucially, influence behavior. Topics relating to the environment could already be found in chemistry, economics, geography, physics, and even psychology. Yet, as climate change became increasingly worrying, education responded with the introduction of a new subject: “Environmental studies”.


    In order to structure this new subject, teachers of different disciplines would have needed to climb out of their respective mindsets grounded in physics, chemistry, geography, psychology and so on, to explore ways of building an integrated curriculum, and to develop alternative methodologies by which to implement it. Climate change is a global and local phenomenon, so the increasing availability in some countries of information and communication technologies during the 1990s provided tools by which to make some of these methodologies operational.


    If we return to languages and CLIL, we have a similar situation. The late 1990s meant that educational insight was firmly set on achieving a high degree of language awareness. Appropriate methodologies were to be used to attain the best possible results in a way which accommodated diverse learning styles.


(D. Coyle, P. Hood, D. Marsh. CLIL: content language integrated learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2010.)
The word “yet” is polysemic (has more than one meaning) in English. Choose the alternative in which it is being used with the same meaning as in the excerpt from the second paragraph “Yet, as climate change became increasingly worrying…”. 
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Q3412597 Inglês
TEXT 1

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TODAY

Until a few years ago, learning a foreign language took place largely in the classroom, within an education system. It usually meant learning grammar rules and vocabulary, doing written exercises, reading specially written texts and answering comprehension questions and - possibly - listening to recorded texts (and answering further comprehension questions about these, too). A lot of people learned the language this way; in fact, you may have done so yourself.

However, some adults who first experienced a foreign language at school in the past did not have much success with it. This was often because they could only see the difficulties, such as the differences between the L1 and the target language (L2). They often became demotivated and decided that English was too difficult, that it had no real use for them, and many of them gave it up as soon as they could. They joined the large worldwide community of unsuccessful foreign language learners.

Today, however, because English is so widely available on the web, and in social media, as well as in many workplaces, it has become a reality - and even a requirement - for a great many people. As a result, it is much easier to see the connection between what is done in the classroom and the use of the language in the outside world, and to ensure that the first can be seen to be a practical preparation for the second.

Excerpt extracted and adapted from: HOLDEN, Susan; NOBRE, Vinícius. Teaching English today: Contexts and objectives. São Paulo: HUB Editorial, 2028 p. 3-4. 
In the sentence “However, some adults who first experienced a foreign language at school in the past did not have much success with it” (2nd paragraph), the word “However” can be correctly classified as: 
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Q3393783 Inglês
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The Missing Ingredient in Education? Curiosity.


    It’s easy to forget how important individual passion is in education; too often it can feel like it’s a game of just painting by the numbers. But if we all think about it for a moment, isn’t learning actually meant to be a joyous experience? If you think about your own life, haven’t you had an afternoon fly past because you’ve been gripped by a certain task, a particular lesson, a specific train of thought? School education is no different. If we make room for young people’s individual curiosities, notice and nurture them, we can make learning a natural experience.


    Once we find that individual spark in a child, in many ways, the hard part is over. They can lead the way with their learning and they don’t have to be coaxed into it. Curiosity can be utilized through inquiry-based learning and schools all over the world are already making the most of this type of learning. 


    For instance, children are driven to the museums where they are engaged in stories, games and activities. To develop curiosity, children identify an exhibit on a particular topic and are encouraged to ask questions about the exhibits to fill in the gaps in their own knowledge. Along with utilizing manmade resources such as museums, nature itself has an important part to play in inquiry-based learning. The world is full of natural wonders which can spark curiosity in children. 


    Not only is identifying and encouraging curiosity pivotal in a child’s educational career, but it will be useful for them in the working world too. By instilling these behaviours early on we can help kids to become lifelong learners, which they will need to be, as single-track careers become an antiquated idea and we’ll potentially find ourselves working several different careers within our lifetime. Curiosity may have killed the cat in decades past, but it could be the key to a more stable future for the next generation.


(Josephine Lister. Disponível em: https://hundred.org. Adaptado)
Indicate the sentence in which the word “once” is being used with the same meaning as the word in bold in the excerpt from the second paragraph “Once we find that individual spark in a child, in many ways, the hard part is over”. 
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Q3393025 Inglês
Which of the following sentences uses an adverb of place?
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Q3393014 Inglês
    Hypatia (born c. 355 CE—died March 415, Alexandria) was a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists. Hypatia was the daughter of Theon of Alexandria, himself a mathematician and astronomer and the last attested member of the Alexandrian Museum. Hypatia continued his program, which was essentially a determined effort to preserve the Greek mathematical and astronomical heritage in (1) extremely difficult times. She is credited with commentaries on geometry, number theory, as well as an (2) astronomical table. These works, the only ones she is listed as having written, have been lost, although there have been attempts to (3) reconstruct aspects of them. She was, in her time, the world’s leading mathematician and astronomer, the only woman for (4) whom such claim can be made.
    She was also a popular teacher and lecturer on philosophical topics of a less-specialist nature, attracting many loyal students and large audiences. Her philosophy was Neoplatonist and was thus seen as “pagan” at a time of bitter religious conflict between Christians (both orthodox and “heretical”), Jews, and pagans. Her philosophy also led her to embrace a life of dedicated virginity. The climate of tolerance lapsed, and shortly afterward Hypatia became the victim of a particularly brutal murder at the hands of a gang of Christian zealots.
    The affair made Hypatia a powerful feminist symbol and a figure of affirmation for intellectual endeavor in the face of ignorant prejudice. Her intellectual accomplishments alone were quite ______ to merit the preservation and respect of her name, but, sadly, the manner of her death added to it an even greater emphasis.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica. Adapted.
The words numbered in the first paragraph are classified, in order, as:
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Q3376524 Inglês
Text 1

ABSTRACT

The impact of streaming services on youth television viewing habits and media literacy


Streaming services have revolutionized the entertainment industry, playing an important role in attracting young people for movies and television series. The availability of streaming services such as NetFlix, Amazon, Apple TV and other platforms have drastically reduced traditional television viewing. Because of the availability of the shows at any time, youth are used to “marathoning”, resulting in a single session watching complete seasons of different shows in one sitting.
Streaming watching has helped the youth to increase their knowledge about various cultures, beliefs, and perspectives, which has helped in improving their overall understanding of the world. However, this has also led to exposure to inappropriate content, resulting in parental monitoring of the content viewed.
The present research has identified that streaming services have beneficial effects on the media literacy of the youth. Nevertheless, the exposure to inadequate content needs to be monitored, so that the beneficial aspects of streaming viewing outweigh the harm it might cause.


Available at: 10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i1.2024.946. Access 28 Nov. 2024. 
The two connectors however and nevertheless, underlined in the text, indicate an idea of:
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Q3361770 Inglês
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'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that made me go blind'


Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF, but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen out the very gene that made her blind.


"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.


Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there are complications to consider.


Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just months after meeting Ollie.


The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her great-aunt was blind in one eye.


Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may not have survived.


The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome. Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more catastrophic in male pregnancies.


"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.


This is one of the facts that played into the complicated decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are created outside of the body and screened for the genetic condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by the condition are placed back into the womb.


Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe brain damage or an affected girl.


She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't it? That's me."


And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist, advocate, author and broadcaster.


It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known conversation is around Down's syndrome and the number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the condition. The question is around the value people place on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.


In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth. She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a good life. She lost the case and the subsequent argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law overturned.


It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her husband have spent a long time considering.


"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the right reasons."


Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to limit any future traumatic load.


She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider having a baby naturally once she knew the science was available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.


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"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous, gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene? That's why we're having IVF."


IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having the option to ensure complications were not passed on felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous generations did not have.


"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is just our decision."


In response to their openness around this decision comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans which she thinks might be because she is so "disability positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she frequently states.


But Lucy says responses have been different around the world. When she was working in Japan and her content was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.


"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just going to block them.


"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers that have come before me who are competent, capable and resilient."


Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl... series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but she has also been frank about the fact she currently does not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.


NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI) must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.


"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg." 


Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.


"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online because it's all about this blinking jab," she says, referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and just smile and run."


Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three rounds of IVF on the NHS.


She will contact her consultant, after which she has to "spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing and analysis.


Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will "make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs," Lucy explains.


Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.


The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby to term. 


Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her arms.


"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very happy in my decision."


A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller and fit. 


"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her followers.


"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from ringing the clinic."


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o 
In the text, Lucy is described as "so excited" to undergo IVF and "very open" about her health journey. Which statement best explains the grammatical role of "so" and "very" in these examples? 
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Q3331729 Inglês
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     Inside the classroom, some learners seem to take advantage of what is going on more than others. Aware of this, teachers will frequently say that successful students possess some or all of the following characteristics.


1. A willingness to listen: good learners listen to what is going on – not just in the sense of paying attention, but also in terms of really listening to the English that is being used, soaking it up with eagerness and intelligence.

2. A willingness to try new things: many good learners are not afraid to ‘have a go’. They are prepared to try things out and see how it works. Of course, not all successful language learners are extroverts, but the urge to use the language (loudly or quietly) is an important one.

3. A willingness to think about how to learn: good learners bring or invent their own study skills when they come to a lesson. They think about the best way to memorize vocabulary, the best way to read a text (slowly, translating every word? Or quickly, trying to get a general understanding?), the best method of drafting and re-drafting a piece of writing.

4. A willingness to ask questions: although some teachers can become irritated by students who are constantly asking difficult (and sometimes irrelevant) questions, the urge to find out why is part of a successful learner’s equipment.

5. A willingness to accept correction: good learners are prepared to accept corrections if it helps them. They are keen to get feedback from the teacher and act upon what they are told. But this only works where teachers are able to offer constructive criticism. It involves teachers in judging their students’ responses to correction so that they can act accordingly.


(Jeremy Harmer. How to teach English, 1998. Adaptado)
In the text’s final sentence “It involves teachers in judging their students’ responses to correction so that they can act accordingly”, the conjunction so that introduces a
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121: E
122: C
123: C
124: D
125: B
126: A
127: A
128: B
129: D
130: A
131: D
132: E
133: C
134: D
135: C
136: C
137: C
138: A
139: A
140: A