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Q4103521 Inglês
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Today's quick review: Marauders.

    Jeffrey Hubert (Bruce Willis), the president of a national chain of banks, comes under fire when a violent crew of robbers begins targeting his banks. Special Agent Montgomery (Christopher Meloni) of the FBI takes over the investigation f rom Sergeant tr/ims (Johnathon Schaech), a crooked Cincinnati cop. But as he dlgs deeper into the case, Montgomery learns that Hubert is involved in a much larger conspiracy.
    Marauders is an action thriller about a series oÍ bank robberies with an ulterior motive. Marauders places emphasis on its plot. The investigation takes Montgomery and his team (Adrian Grenier, Dave Bautista, and Lydia Hull) through the remains of a years-old conspiracy, uncovering puzzle after puzzle as they dig for the truth. The movie's expansive mystery, moment-to-moment thrills, and solid pacing make it fine choice for the right viewer.
    However, Marauders' main shortcoming is that it is too complicated for the type of story it is trying to tell. Instead of a streamlined investigation with one or two red herrings and a carefully prepared twist, Marauders tries to manage a sprawling conspiracy that involves numerous characters, hidden motives, and coincidences. As a result, the pieces never combine into a compelling whole, and the movie's best ideas have no room to breathe.
    Marauders is a serviceable pick for fans of the action genre. The action scenes are adequate, the mystery is interesting enough to drive the plot, and the cast does a fine job with the material they are given. Still, Marauders has a lot of missed potential when it comes to streamlinging its plot, and it faces stiff competition from other movies in the genre, making it a hard sell for more exacting viewers.
    For a bank robbery action thriller in a similar vein, try Den of Thieves, Triple 9, or Takers. For a more personal crime drama about a bank robbery, try The Town. For a bank job with a smarter plot, try Inside Man. For an action thriller with a better conspiracy, try Shooter. For a more powerful cat-and-mouse game, try Law Abiding Citizen.

Fonte: https://sleig htoffi I m.com/marauders/
Analyze the following statements concerning the grammatical functions and syrrtactic structures of the words used in the movie review and mark T (True) or F (False) for each observation:
( ) In the first paragraph, the word targeting acts as a present participle that introduces a reduced relative clause describing the crew of robbers.
( ) In the second paragraph, the word uncovering functions as a present participle that describes the continuous action performed by Montgomery and his team during their investigation.
( ) In the third paragraph, the word prepared serves as a past participle that functions as an adjective, modifying the noun twist.
( ) In the phrase too complicated for the type of story it is trying to tell, the word that is a relative pronoun that functions as the object of the verb tell and has been omitted through ellipsis.
Which alternative CORRECTLY fills in the parentheses above, from top to bottom?
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Q4101764 Inglês

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Lord of the Plants:
Death Metal Eco-Baron Rewilds Irish Estate

Randal Plunkett, the 21st Baron of Dunsany, strides out of his Irish castle in a T-shirt bearing the name of death metal band "Cannibal Corpse" in bloody lettering.

In the distance, a russet-coloured stag appears for a moment, before dissolving into the 750 acres (300 hectares) of ancestral estate Plunkett has surrendered to the wilderness -- almost half of his lands.

"I felt a sort of sense of duty towards the environment here," said Plunkett, perched on a decaying tree trunk sprouting a clutch of mushrooms.

"I'm a caretaker of this estate for this generation and the estate is not just the castle, it's also the land but it's also the environment," the aristocrat told AFP, his mane of shoulder-length hair rippling in the breeze.

Eight years ago, death metal fan Plunkett, whose family have presided over Dunsany Castle northwest of Dublin for nine centuries, began his "radical" rewilding project.

The 38-year-old vegan, an unlikely successor to ancestors depicted in sober portraits lining the walls of the grey stone castle, evicted livestock and dismissed lawnmowers to allow nature to take its course.

Now, the results are plain. The ultra-rare pine marten has been spotted. Otters and red deer thrive.

Skies are jammed with birds: buzzards, red kites, peregrine falcons, sparrowhawks, kestrels and snipes.

Plunkett says a woodpecker has been sighted in the area for the first time in a century.

Beyond the castle crenellations, the lawn is transformed into a swirling morass of 23 species of grass, fizzing with insect life.

Plunkett lends a hand here and there -- planting 2,500 trees last year was no small feat -- but mostly he is hands-off.

"As I watched it, I began to understand what the land was doing," he said after trudging across a field of knotted undergrowth in a faux leather jacket.

"It became a rewilding project," he said, as two Jack Russell terriers named Beavis and Butt-head gambol around his vegan-friendly Doc Martens boots.

Fonte: https://www.theyouthtimes.com/news-details/21284/

In the fourth paragraph, the text states: 'I'm a caretaker of this estate for this generation and the estate is not just the castle, it's also the land but it's also the environment. Based on this, mark the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4101759 Inglês

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Lord of the Plants:
Death Metal Eco-Baron Rewilds Irish Estate

Randal Plunkett, the 21st Baron of Dunsany, strides out of his Irish castle in a T-shirt bearing the name of death metal band "Cannibal Corpse" in bloody lettering.

In the distance, a russet-coloured stag appears for a moment, before dissolving into the 750 acres (300 hectares) of ancestral estate Plunkett has surrendered to the wilderness -- almost half of his lands.

"I felt a sort of sense of duty towards the environment here," said Plunkett, perched on a decaying tree trunk sprouting a clutch of mushrooms.

"I'm a caretaker of this estate for this generation and the estate is not just the castle, it's also the land but it's also the environment," the aristocrat told AFP, his mane of shoulder-length hair rippling in the breeze.

Eight years ago, death metal fan Plunkett, whose family have presided over Dunsany Castle northwest of Dublin for nine centuries, began his "radical" rewilding project.

The 38-year-old vegan, an unlikely successor to ancestors depicted in sober portraits lining the walls of the grey stone castle, evicted livestock and dismissed lawnmowers to allow nature to take its course.

Now, the results are plain. The ultra-rare pine marten has been spotted. Otters and red deer thrive.

Skies are jammed with birds: buzzards, red kites, peregrine falcons, sparrowhawks, kestrels and snipes.

Plunkett says a woodpecker has been sighted in the area for the first time in a century.

Beyond the castle crenellations, the lawn is transformed into a swirling morass of 23 species of grass, fizzing with insect life.

Plunkett lends a hand here and there -- planting 2,500 trees last year was no small feat -- but mostly he is hands-off.

"As I watched it, I began to understand what the land was doing," he said after trudging across a field of knotted undergrowth in a faux leather jacket.

"It became a rewilding project," he said, as two Jack Russell terriers named Beavis and Butt-head gambol around his vegan-friendly Doc Martens boots.

Fonte: https://www.theyouthtimes.com/news-details/21284/

Analyze the following statements and mark T (True) or F (False):
(  ) In the first paragraph, the word bearing acts as a present participle that introduces a reduced relative clause describing the T-shirt.
(  ) In the sixth paragraph, the verbal forms evicted and dismissed function as past participles in a passive voice structure where the subject receives the action.
(  ) In the phrase occurring in the tenth paragraph, the word fizzing serves as a present participle that modifies the noun morass, describing its active state.
(  ) In the clause appearing in the twelfth paragraph, the word what represents a relative pronoun that functions as the object of the verb doing and cannot be substituted by the word "that" in this speciÍic syntax.
Which alternative CORRECTLY fills in the parentheses above, from top to bottom?
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Q4100909 Inglês
TEXT II

Air Traffic Controllers


        The USA's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched a recruitment campaign aimed at gamers. The FAA wants them to consider becoming air traffic controllers. There is a shortage of workers in the sector, so the government hopes people skilled at gaming could fill the growing number of vacancies. The US currently needs at least 3,000 controllers. Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said: “Our union welcomes innovative approaches to expanding the candidate pool, including outreach to individuals with high-level skills, such as gamers, so long as all pathways maintain the rigorous standards required of this safety-critical profession.” 

        The recruitment drive has a video with an Xbox logo on it. The tag line is explicitly aimed at gamers. It says: “You've been training for this… Become an air traffic controller. It's not a game. It's a career.” The promo adds: “You'll keep millions of people safe every year. And make a lot of money.” The enticing salary is $155,000 a year. US Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said the country needs to tempt “a growing demographic of young adults who have many of the hard skills it takes to be a successful controller”. Some current controllers have said gaming could be a useful skill. They said it had "an influence on their ability to think quickly, stay focused, and manage complexity”.


Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce84rvx0e6do and https://abcnews.com/US/new-air-traffic-control-hiring-campaign-targets-gamers/stor
In the English language, noun phrases often consist of a head noun preceded by a specific sequence of modifiers (determiners, adjectives, etc.). Analyze the underlined nominal structure in the sentence below:
“The aviation authority is looking for several highly talented young candidates to fill the vacancies.”

Regarding the internal structure of the underlined noun phrase, which statement is grammatically and functionally CORRECT?
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Q4080557 Inglês

Match the sentences according to the function of the words in bold:



Function:


1.Highlight key points or critical details.


2.Express information regarding location.


3.Express information regarding time.



Sentences:


A.You must not enter the forest. I'm being serious, you shouldn't enter it under any circumstance, because it is dangerous, John.


B.It is a bit too early for us to have breakfast at the office, is it not?


C.I didn't think he would be able to fit in there. The cave entrance is too narrow.

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Q4071978 Inglês
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The Ringmaster's Advice

        People say, "any publicity is good publicity" allthe time. It's become a modern truism. But people don't seem to give much thought to where it came from.

        While there is no proof that he used exactly those words, the quote is widely attributed to showman P.T. Barnum. I think it's safe to say that even if he never said "any publicity is good publicity," it describes his lived ethos.
    
        P.T. Barnum was the founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, billed as "The Greatest Show on Earth." He advertised fake mermaids and a woman who claimed to be George Washington's 161-year-old nurse. Barnum's traveling shows featured midgets, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, and even "Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy."

        There's no record of him saying these exact words either, but he is also widely credited with the quote, "there's a sucker born every minute."

        P.T. Barnum did describe himself as the "Prince of Humbug," proudly owning his reputation for hoaxes and "harmless" deceptions.

        Barnum was an interesting character, but he's not a man we should be encouraging other men, especially young men, to emulate. Unfortunately, his ethos is more or less what social media has been teaching kids for the past ten years.

        And at the same time, everyone complains that everything is "fake and ghey."

        Well... if you follow the ringmaster's advice, don't be surprised when you end up living in a circus.

Fonte: https://m rjackdonovan.su bstack.com/p/the ringmasters advice
In the sentence Barnum's traveling shows featured midgets, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, and even "Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy", who became one of the most famous circus performers of his time, the phrase "who became one of the most famous circus performers of his time" mainly serves to:
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Q4071949 Inglês
A teacher is preparing a lesson on relative clauses and wants to present students with examples that illustrate correct usage in everyday communication. During the lesson, the teacher writes several sentences on the board and asks students to identify the grammatically correct one according to standard English usage. 
Considering the appropriate use of relative pronouns and their functions in defining clauses, choose the correct sentence: 
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Q4050532 Inglês
The formation of interrogative sentences in English requires the use of auxiliary verbs and specific word order variations depending on the type of information requested. Mark the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4050521 Inglês
The syntax of English is predominantly fixed, but certain structures allow for the repositioning of constituents to create emphasis or stylistic variation. Concerning sentence structure and inversion, mark the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4043675 Inglês
Text 4


The decline of Audiolingualism Audiolingualism reached its period of most widespread use in the 1960s and was applied both to the teaching of foreign languages in the United States and to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language. It led to such widely used courses as English 900 and the Lado English Series, as well as to texts for teaching the major European languages. But then came criticism on two fronts. On the one hand, the theoretical foundations of Audiolingualism were attacked as being unsound in terms of both language theory and learning theory. On the other hand, practitioners found that the practical results fell short of expectations. Students were often found to be unable to transfer skills acquired through Audiolingualism to real communication outside the classroom, and many found the experience of studying through audiolingual procedures to be boring and unsatisfying.


RICHARDS, Jack C. Richards; RODGERS, Theodore S. Rodgers. Approaches and methods in language teaching. 2. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
In the expression “the practical results”, the word practical functions as:
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Q4042728 Inglês

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The Language of Performance

    Well, the word “performative” is generally meant as an insult. It’s meant to trivialize and indicate that someone is play-acting or “faking it.” It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, and not because it represents a sincere interest or enjoyment.


    This is one of those situations in which metaphors are overextended, and language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. It is normal for our species for men and women to “perform” acts to impress both our own sex and the opposite sex. Males and females have different sex “roles,” and we “perform” acts to satisfy those roles.


    The language seems to “portray” us as “actors performing roles” and implies that we are all essentially “lying” or “faking.” This is the kind of wordcel wordtrap that lends itself to Marxist gender theory ideology and postmodernist thinking.


    “Nothing is real, everything is fake. Everything is a performance.”


    That’s a frame, but it isn’t the whole picture.


    Men are primates. We imitate each other. Monkey see, monkey do. And yes, we do things to try to impress each other. You can frame that in a way that seems trivial or superficial, but it is also foundational to human nature and social hierarchy.


    Fonte: https//mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/on-performative-males

In the second paragraph, the author uses the expression rather than in the sentence language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. Considering its grammatical structure and semantic intent, which statement is CORRECT?
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Q4042722 Inglês

To answer question, read the text below.


The Language of Performance

    Well, the word “performative” is generally meant as an insult. It’s meant to trivialize and indicate that someone is play-acting or “faking it.” It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, and not because it represents a sincere interest or enjoyment.


    This is one of those situations in which metaphors are overextended, and language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. It is normal for our species for men and women to “perform” acts to impress both our own sex and the opposite sex. Males and females have different sex “roles,” and we “perform” acts to satisfy those roles.


    The language seems to “portray” us as “actors performing roles” and implies that we are all essentially “lying” or “faking.” This is the kind of wordcel wordtrap that lends itself to Marxist gender theory ideology and postmodernist thinking.


    “Nothing is real, everything is fake. Everything is a performance.”


    That’s a frame, but it isn’t the whole picture.


    Men are primates. We imitate each other. Monkey see, monkey do. And yes, we do things to try to impress each other. You can frame that in a way that seems trivial or superficial, but it is also foundational to human nature and social hierarchy.


    Fonte: https//mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/on-performative-males

In the sentence It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, in the first paragraph, what grammatical role does It play?
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Q4024018 Inglês
Syntactic complexity in English is achieved through coordination and subordination, with specific focus on the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses. Based on the rules of punctuation and the use of relative pronouns in formal English, choose the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4024016 Inglês
Prepositions in English can be simple or complex, the latter consisting of two or three-word phrases that function as a single unit. Based on the syntactic and semantic properties of complex prepositions in formal discourse, choose the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4024014 Inglês
The internal structure of an adverb phrase allows for pre-modification and post-modification, usually to express degree or intensity. Analyze the following statements regarding the constituents of an adverbial phrase:

I. An adverb phrase can be modified by another adverb, as in "quite remarkably," where "quite" functions as a pre-modifier.
II. Post-modification in an adverb phrase is extremely rare but can occur with the adverb "enough," as in "well enough."
III. Adverb phrases function exclusively as adjuncts and can never perform the role of a subject complement in an English sentence.

Which of the following are CORRECT:
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Q4024013 Inglês
The distinction between phrasal verbs (verb + particle) and prepositional verbs (verb + preposition) is based on syntactic tests like particle movement. Based on the transitivity and separability of multi-word verbs, choose the CORRECT alternative. 
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Q4024011 Inglês
The noun phrase in English can reach high levels of complexity through various layers of pre-modification and post-modification. Based on the rules for noun phrase expansion and the use of appositives, choose the CORRECT alternative. 
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Q4024007 Inglês
The syntactic arrangement of multiple attributive adjectives in English is governed by a semantic hierarchy that dictates the distance of each modifier from the head noun. Based on the standard canonical order of adjectives in a complex noun phrase, choose the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4024006 Inglês
The use of "prop-it" and "anticipatory-it" in English involves specific syntactic structures where the pronoun serves as a placeholder for a delayed subject. Based on the rules for using pronouns as formal subjects in complex sentences, choose the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4024001 Inglês
Adverbial placement in English can significantly alter the focus and scope of a sentence, especially regarding negative inversion and focus adverbs like "only." Regarding the syntactic constraints of adverbials in formal written English, mark T for True or F for False:

(__) Negative adverbials such as "seldom" or "under no circumstances" trigger subject-auxiliary inversion when placed in the initial position of a clause.
(__) Focus adverbs should be placed immediately before the constituent they modify to avoid semantic ambiguity in formal registers.
(__) Adverbs of frequency must be positioned before the auxiliary verb "be" in all indicative sentences regardless of the presence of other modals.
(__) Viewpoint adverbs like "theoretically" function exclusively as adjuncts and are strictly prohibited from appearing in the initial sentence position.

After analysis, choose the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence:
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Respostas
21: D
22: B
23: B
24: E
25: C
26: A
27: B
28: D
29: C
30: C
31: C
32: A
33: D
34: C
35: C
36: B
37: C
38: A
39: D
40: A