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Comentadas sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Ano: 2019
Banca:
GUALIMP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ
Prova:
GUALIMP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ - Professor - Inglês |
Q1250581
Inglês
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Cocaine and alcohol a 'deadly combination'
“At least 13 "self-inflicted" deaths happened in a year in England among people who took the two
substances, the Victoria Derbyshire programme found. _______, including two contestants on Love
Island, took their own lives between April 2018 and March 2019. Coroners have reported seeing a rise in
such cases”.
(Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49814269.)
The alternative that best completes the empty space found in the text is:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
GUALIMP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ
Prova:
GUALIMP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ - Professor - Inglês |
Q1250578
Inglês
Texto associado
What life might be like in alien oceans.
Recent discoveries have led astrobiologists to think that moons are the most promising places for alien
life to exist in our Solar System. And now several major space missions are being planned over the next
decade to search for hints of life there.
Unlike our neighbouring planets, some of the moons have plenty of liquid water. Jupiter’s moon, Europa,
for example, is thought to contain more liquid water than all of Earth's oceans combined. This water –
and any life in it – is protected from space radiation and asteroid impacts by a thick layer of kilometersdeep surface ice.
The discovery of plumes of water shooting up from Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Europa have suggested
they could have warm interiors that can support liquid oceans, heated not by the Sun, but by an internal
dynamo powered by radioactive decay in their cores or by tidal heating generated by the gravitational
attraction of the planets that they orbit.
There is now evidence for water oceans on several moons, including Europa, Enceladus, Callisto and
Ganymede. One study published this June estimates that the Enceladus ocean is around one billion years
old. Others have suggested it may be billions of years old – plenty of time for life to evolve.
Adapted from: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190926-what-life-might-be-like-in-the-alien-oceans
The negative form of the phrase “space missions are being planned over the next decade” is:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
GUALIMP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ
Prova:
GUALIMP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ - Professor - Inglês |
Q1250577
Inglês
Texto associado
What life might be like in alien oceans.
Recent discoveries have led astrobiologists to think that moons are the most promising places for alien
life to exist in our Solar System. And now several major space missions are being planned over the next
decade to search for hints of life there.
Unlike our neighbouring planets, some of the moons have plenty of liquid water. Jupiter’s moon, Europa,
for example, is thought to contain more liquid water than all of Earth's oceans combined. This water –
and any life in it – is protected from space radiation and asteroid impacts by a thick layer of kilometersdeep surface ice.
The discovery of plumes of water shooting up from Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Europa have suggested
they could have warm interiors that can support liquid oceans, heated not by the Sun, but by an internal
dynamo powered by radioactive decay in their cores or by tidal heating generated by the gravitational
attraction of the planets that they orbit.
There is now evidence for water oceans on several moons, including Europa, Enceladus, Callisto and
Ganymede. One study published this June estimates that the Enceladus ocean is around one billion years
old. Others have suggested it may be billions of years old – plenty of time for life to evolve.
Adapted from: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190926-what-life-might-be-like-in-the-alien-oceans
The word cores in “radioactive decay in their cores” can be replaced by:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
GUALIMP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ
Prova:
GUALIMP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ - Professor - Inglês |
Q1250576
Inglês
Texto associado
What life might be like in alien oceans.
Recent discoveries have led astrobiologists to think that moons are the most promising places for alien
life to exist in our Solar System. And now several major space missions are being planned over the next
decade to search for hints of life there.
Unlike our neighbouring planets, some of the moons have plenty of liquid water. Jupiter’s moon, Europa,
for example, is thought to contain more liquid water than all of Earth's oceans combined. This water –
and any life in it – is protected from space radiation and asteroid impacts by a thick layer of kilometersdeep surface ice.
The discovery of plumes of water shooting up from Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Europa have suggested
they could have warm interiors that can support liquid oceans, heated not by the Sun, but by an internal
dynamo powered by radioactive decay in their cores or by tidal heating generated by the gravitational
attraction of the planets that they orbit.
There is now evidence for water oceans on several moons, including Europa, Enceladus, Callisto and
Ganymede. One study published this June estimates that the Enceladus ocean is around one billion years
old. Others have suggested it may be billions of years old – plenty of time for life to evolve.
Adapted from: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190926-what-life-might-be-like-in-the-alien-oceans
In that places, the existence of life is possible due to the evidence of:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
GUALIMP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ
Prova:
GUALIMP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJ - Professor - Inglês |
Q1250575
Inglês
Texto associado
What life might be like in alien oceans.
Recent discoveries have led astrobiologists to think that moons are the most promising places for alien
life to exist in our Solar System. And now several major space missions are being planned over the next
decade to search for hints of life there.
Unlike our neighbouring planets, some of the moons have plenty of liquid water. Jupiter’s moon, Europa,
for example, is thought to contain more liquid water than all of Earth's oceans combined. This water –
and any life in it – is protected from space radiation and asteroid impacts by a thick layer of kilometersdeep surface ice.
The discovery of plumes of water shooting up from Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Europa have suggested
they could have warm interiors that can support liquid oceans, heated not by the Sun, but by an internal
dynamo powered by radioactive decay in their cores or by tidal heating generated by the gravitational
attraction of the planets that they orbit.
There is now evidence for water oceans on several moons, including Europa, Enceladus, Callisto and
Ganymede. One study published this June estimates that the Enceladus ocean is around one billion years
old. Others have suggested it may be billions of years old – plenty of time for life to evolve.
Adapted from: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190926-what-life-might-be-like-in-the-alien-oceans
According to the text, the existence of alien life is more likely in places such as:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1247588
Inglês
Choose the correct option between British
English and American English:
1. The park is in the center of our town. 2. I got this book at the new bookstore. 3. Mr Barnes, our caretaker, found my key. 4. Tom told me to get off the Underground at Tower Hill.
1. The park is in the center of our town. 2. I got this book at the new bookstore. 3. Mr Barnes, our caretaker, found my key. 4. Tom told me to get off the Underground at Tower Hill.
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1247586
Inglês
Texto associado
Use the following text to answer the question.
TEXT
Summertime is the time of year for the
sandwich. But just how did this famous
food get started? Its history only traces
back a few hundred years!
It was in 1762, and strangely enough, it
involved gambling. The Earl of Sandwich,
John Montagu, was playing cards with his
friends and was hungry - but didn't want to
stop playing. So he asked for his normal
meat and cheese to be brought stuck in bread so that he could eat with one hand
while playing with the other.
His companions thought this was a brilliant
idea, being solid gamblers themselves, and
immediately began ordering their meals
"Sandwich Style". A new craze was begun!
The sandwich hit the US in 1827, when
Elizabeth Leslie published her cookbook
that included a ham sandwich. lt was
immediately popular with the population of
the states, giving a practical, portable meal
for workers and schoolchildren.
By the 1900s, bakeries started selling presliced bread, so that sandwiches were easy
to create. Until that time, consumers would
buy solid loaves - or bake their own bread
at home. Bread portions were often just
torn off the loaf in random shapes. Now,
with perfectly sliced pieces of bread, the
sandwich had come into its glory.
What is the translation of the phrase "by
the 1900s"?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1247585
Inglês
Texto associado
Use the following text to answer the question.
TEXT
Summertime is the time of year for the
sandwich. But just how did this famous
food get started? Its history only traces
back a few hundred years!
It was in 1762, and strangely enough, it
involved gambling. The Earl of Sandwich,
John Montagu, was playing cards with his
friends and was hungry - but didn't want to
stop playing. So he asked for his normal
meat and cheese to be brought stuck in bread so that he could eat with one hand
while playing with the other.
His companions thought this was a brilliant
idea, being solid gamblers themselves, and
immediately began ordering their meals
"Sandwich Style". A new craze was begun!
The sandwich hit the US in 1827, when
Elizabeth Leslie published her cookbook
that included a ham sandwich. lt was
immediately popular with the population of
the states, giving a practical, portable meal
for workers and schoolchildren.
By the 1900s, bakeries started selling presliced bread, so that sandwiches were easy
to create. Until that time, consumers would
buy solid loaves - or bake their own bread
at home. Bread portions were often just
torn off the loaf in random shapes. Now,
with perfectly sliced pieces of bread, the
sandwich had come into its glory.
What does the word “craze” refer to in the
last sentence of the third paragraph?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1247584
Inglês
Texto associado
Use the following text to answer the question.
TEXT
Summertime is the time of year for the
sandwich. But just how did this famous
food get started? Its history only traces
back a few hundred years!
It was in 1762, and strangely enough, it
involved gambling. The Earl of Sandwich,
John Montagu, was playing cards with his
friends and was hungry - but didn't want to
stop playing. So he asked for his normal
meat and cheese to be brought stuck in bread so that he could eat with one hand
while playing with the other.
His companions thought this was a brilliant
idea, being solid gamblers themselves, and
immediately began ordering their meals
"Sandwich Style". A new craze was begun!
The sandwich hit the US in 1827, when
Elizabeth Leslie published her cookbook
that included a ham sandwich. lt was
immediately popular with the population of
the states, giving a practical, portable meal
for workers and schoolchildren.
By the 1900s, bakeries started selling presliced bread, so that sandwiches were easy
to create. Until that time, consumers would
buy solid loaves - or bake their own bread
at home. Bread portions were often just
torn off the loaf in random shapes. Now,
with perfectly sliced pieces of bread, the
sandwich had come into its glory.
What does the word “gambling” refer to in
the first sentence of the second paragraph?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1247583
Inglês
Texto associado
Use the following text to answer the question.
TEXT
Summertime is the time of year for the
sandwich. But just how did this famous
food get started? Its history only traces
back a few hundred years!
It was in 1762, and strangely enough, it
involved gambling. The Earl of Sandwich,
John Montagu, was playing cards with his
friends and was hungry - but didn't want to
stop playing. So he asked for his normal
meat and cheese to be brought stuck in bread so that he could eat with one hand
while playing with the other.
His companions thought this was a brilliant
idea, being solid gamblers themselves, and
immediately began ordering their meals
"Sandwich Style". A new craze was begun!
The sandwich hit the US in 1827, when
Elizabeth Leslie published her cookbook
that included a ham sandwich. lt was
immediately popular with the population of
the states, giving a practical, portable meal
for workers and schoolchildren.
By the 1900s, bakeries started selling presliced bread, so that sandwiches were easy
to create. Until that time, consumers would
buy solid loaves - or bake their own bread
at home. Bread portions were often just
torn off the loaf in random shapes. Now,
with perfectly sliced pieces of bread, the
sandwich had come into its glory.
How and when did the sandwich become
popular in America?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1247582
Inglês
Texto associado
Use the following text to answer the question.
TEXT
Summertime is the time of year for the
sandwich. But just how did this famous
food get started? Its history only traces
back a few hundred years!
It was in 1762, and strangely enough, it
involved gambling. The Earl of Sandwich,
John Montagu, was playing cards with his
friends and was hungry - but didn't want to
stop playing. So he asked for his normal
meat and cheese to be brought stuck in bread so that he could eat with one hand
while playing with the other.
His companions thought this was a brilliant
idea, being solid gamblers themselves, and
immediately began ordering their meals
"Sandwich Style". A new craze was begun!
The sandwich hit the US in 1827, when
Elizabeth Leslie published her cookbook
that included a ham sandwich. lt was
immediately popular with the population of
the states, giving a practical, portable meal
for workers and schoolchildren.
By the 1900s, bakeries started selling presliced bread, so that sandwiches were easy
to create. Until that time, consumers would
buy solid loaves - or bake their own bread
at home. Bread portions were often just
torn off the loaf in random shapes. Now,
with perfectly sliced pieces of bread, the
sandwich had come into its glory.
What kind of ease did the sandwich provide to
the players?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1247581
Inglês
Texto associado
Use the following text to answer the question.
TEXT
Summertime is the time of year for the
sandwich. But just how did this famous
food get started? Its history only traces
back a few hundred years!
It was in 1762, and strangely enough, it
involved gambling. The Earl of Sandwich,
John Montagu, was playing cards with his
friends and was hungry - but didn't want to
stop playing. So he asked for his normal
meat and cheese to be brought stuck in bread so that he could eat with one hand
while playing with the other.
His companions thought this was a brilliant
idea, being solid gamblers themselves, and
immediately began ordering their meals
"Sandwich Style". A new craze was begun!
The sandwich hit the US in 1827, when
Elizabeth Leslie published her cookbook
that included a ham sandwich. lt was
immediately popular with the population of
the states, giving a practical, portable meal
for workers and schoolchildren.
By the 1900s, bakeries started selling presliced bread, so that sandwiches were easy
to create. Until that time, consumers would
buy solid loaves - or bake their own bread
at home. Bread portions were often just
torn off the loaf in random shapes. Now,
with perfectly sliced pieces of bread, the
sandwich had come into its glory.
In the phrase “The Earl of Sandwich, John
Montagu ...” what meaning can be
attributed to Sandwich?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Anhembi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q1247580
Inglês
Texto associado
Use the following text to answer the question.
TEXT
Summertime is the time of year for the
sandwich. But just how did this famous
food get started? Its history only traces
back a few hundred years!
It was in 1762, and strangely enough, it
involved gambling. The Earl of Sandwich,
John Montagu, was playing cards with his
friends and was hungry - but didn't want to
stop playing. So he asked for his normal
meat and cheese to be brought stuck in bread so that he could eat with one hand
while playing with the other.
His companions thought this was a brilliant
idea, being solid gamblers themselves, and
immediately began ordering their meals
"Sandwich Style". A new craze was begun!
The sandwich hit the US in 1827, when
Elizabeth Leslie published her cookbook
that included a ham sandwich. lt was
immediately popular with the population of
the states, giving a practical, portable meal
for workers and schoolchildren.
By the 1900s, bakeries started selling presliced bread, so that sandwiches were easy
to create. Until that time, consumers would
buy solid loaves - or bake their own bread
at home. Bread portions were often just
torn off the loaf in random shapes. Now,
with perfectly sliced pieces of bread, the
sandwich had come into its glory.
It’s inferred from the text that the
sandwich was invented in which country?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CPCON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB
Prova:
CPCON - 2019 - Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB - Professor - Inglês |
Q1242180
Inglês
Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CPCON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB
Prova:
CPCON - 2019 - Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB - Professor - Inglês |
Q1242179
Inglês
In acoustic phonetics, it is CORRECTto say that:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CPCON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB
Prova:
CPCON - 2019 - Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB - Professor - Inglês |
Q1242178
Inglês
Which of the following descriptions indicate the CORRECTsound?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CPCON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB
Prova:
CPCON - 2019 - Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB - Professor - Inglês |
Q1242176
Inglês
The word bough rhymes with:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CPCON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB
Prova:
CPCON - 2019 - Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB - Professor - Inglês |
Q1242174
Inglês
Considering the reasons why studying the online world is crucial for understanding language, proposed by David Barton and Carmen
Lee in “Language online: Investigating digital texts and practices” (2013), which of the following statements is CORRECT?
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CPCON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB
Prova:
CPCON - 2019 - Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB - Professor - Inglês |
Q1242173
Inglês
“Two turtles were slowly crossing the dusty road when we passed by.” The verbal tense in the passage were slowly crossing is
Ano: 2019
Banca:
CPCON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB
Prova:
CPCON - 2019 - Prefeitura de Boa Ventura - PB - Professor - Inglês |
Q1242171
Inglês
Texto associado
TEXT III
BABIES CAN LINK LANGUAGE AND ETHNICITY
A recent study from Canada's University of British Columbia (UBC) suggests that eleven-month-old infants can learn to associate the
language they hear with ethnicity.
The research, published by Developmental Psychobiology, found that 11-month-old infants looked more at the faces of people of
Asian descent compared to those of Caucasian descent when hearing Cantonese but not when hearing Spanish.
“Our findings suggest that by 11 months, infants are making connections between languages and ethnicities based on the individuals
they encounter in their environments. In learning about language, infants are doing more than picking up sounds and sentences—they
also learn about the speakers of language,” said Lillian May, a psychology lecturer at UBC who was lead author of the study.
The research was done in Vancouver, where approximately nine percent of the population can speak Cantonese.
The researchers played English-learning infants of Caucasian ancestry sentences in both English and Cantonese and showed them
pictures of people of Caucasian descent, and of Asian descent. When the infants heard Cantonese, they looked more at the Asian faces
than when they were hearing English. When they heard English, they looked equally to Asian and Caucasian faces.
“This indicates that they have already learned that in Vancouver, both Caucasians and Asians are likely to speak English, but only
Asians are likely to speak Cantonese,” noted UBC psychology professor Janet Werker, the study's senior author.
The researchers showed the same pictures to the infants while playing Spanish, to see whether they were inclined to associate any
unfamiliar language with any unfamiliar ethnicity. However, in that test the infants looked equally to Asian and Caucasian faces. This
suggests young infants pick up on specific language-ethnicity pairings based on the faces and languages they encounter.
“Babies are learning so much about language—even about its social use—long before they produce their first word,” said Werker. “The
link between speaker characteristics and language is something no one has to teach babies. They learn it all on their own.” “The ability
to link language and ethnicity might help babies with language acquisition. We are now probing this possibility. For example, does a
bilingual Chinese-English baby expect Chinese words from a Southeast Asian speaker and English words from a Caucasian speaker?
Our preliminary results indicate that indeed, babies are using their expectations about language and ethnicity as another source of
information in language learning,” added Werker.
Source: “Babies can link language and ethnicity”. Language Magazine <https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/06/28/babiescan-link-language-and-ethnicity/> Language Magazine, June 28, 2019
According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE?
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