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Q3405442
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC - Professor(a) de Inglês |
Q3405442 Inglês
When writing a complaint letter to your local council about a recurring problem with street lighting in your neighborhood, which of the following strategies is least effective in achieving a prompt and positive response?
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Q3405436
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC - Professor(a) de Inglês |
Q3405436 Inglês

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Vianden Castle History


(1º§) The rocky outcrop above the modern town of Vianden was first fortified in late antiquity. Excavations at the foot of the castle chapel in 1994 led to the discovery that parts of the crumbling masonry of the Late Antique tower must have existed in Merovingian times and that this square building, the only surviving structure from the period known as Late Antiquity, was incorporated into the first medieval castle.


(2º§) The first fortification was built at the beginning of Late Antiquity on the castle hill at an ancient crossroads, where a branch of the great Roman road Reims-Cologne through the Ardennes and the valley of Our led to the valley of the Sauer and through Echternach to Bitburg and Trier, at that time a thriving metropolis.


(3º§) After the Vianden fort was abandoned around 430/440 AD, the Roman Tower seems to have been sufficiently usable to remain a decisive element in the subsequent periods of castle building up to the High Middle Ages.


(4º§) The first medieval fortification was erected on the rocky spur overlooking Vianden around the year 1000. The main part of this fortification consisted of an oval ring wall. This defensive wall, meticulously reinforced with small slabs of slate, was exactly one meter wide. As with the ancient wall, this special construction technique allowed archaeologists to retrace it virtually its entire length. The old late antique moat also remained in use during this period. The entire inner surface of the fortification was leveled by filling the lower defensive wall with stones and earth. This complex also included a hall, used for administrative purposes, and a chapel, which was installed in the remains of the late antique tower.


(5º§) Vianden Castle was extensively rebuilt around 1170. The remains of the wooden scaffolding found in the new residential tower made it possible to determine the date of construction using the three-ring dating technique.


(6º§) Important architectural contributions were made, in Gothic style, between the 13th and 14th centuries by the Counts of Vianden. In 1417 the castle became a possession of the Orange-Nassau family who made changes in the Renaissance style. The castle was long in the possession of the grand-ducal family until it became state property in 1977. After this date, it was restored and shines in its former glory. Today, Vianden Castle is one of the most important architectural monuments in Europe being one of the largest and most beautiful feudal residences of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. In the entrance area there is a modern interactive visitor center.


https://www.histouring.com/en/historical-places/vianden-castle/

Which of the following features was NOT mentioned as part of the first medieval fortification built around the year 1000 at Vianden Castle?
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Q3405434
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC - Professor(a) de Inglês |
Q3405434 Inglês

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Vianden Castle History


(1º§) The rocky outcrop above the modern town of Vianden was first fortified in late antiquity. Excavations at the foot of the castle chapel in 1994 led to the discovery that parts of the crumbling masonry of the Late Antique tower must have existed in Merovingian times and that this square building, the only surviving structure from the period known as Late Antiquity, was incorporated into the first medieval castle.


(2º§) The first fortification was built at the beginning of Late Antiquity on the castle hill at an ancient crossroads, where a branch of the great Roman road Reims-Cologne through the Ardennes and the valley of Our led to the valley of the Sauer and through Echternach to Bitburg and Trier, at that time a thriving metropolis.


(3º§) After the Vianden fort was abandoned around 430/440 AD, the Roman Tower seems to have been sufficiently usable to remain a decisive element in the subsequent periods of castle building up to the High Middle Ages.


(4º§) The first medieval fortification was erected on the rocky spur overlooking Vianden around the year 1000. The main part of this fortification consisted of an oval ring wall. This defensive wall, meticulously reinforced with small slabs of slate, was exactly one meter wide. As with the ancient wall, this special construction technique allowed archaeologists to retrace it virtually its entire length. The old late antique moat also remained in use during this period. The entire inner surface of the fortification was leveled by filling the lower defensive wall with stones and earth. This complex also included a hall, used for administrative purposes, and a chapel, which was installed in the remains of the late antique tower.


(5º§) Vianden Castle was extensively rebuilt around 1170. The remains of the wooden scaffolding found in the new residential tower made it possible to determine the date of construction using the three-ring dating technique.


(6º§) Important architectural contributions were made, in Gothic style, between the 13th and 14th centuries by the Counts of Vianden. In 1417 the castle became a possession of the Orange-Nassau family who made changes in the Renaissance style. The castle was long in the possession of the grand-ducal family until it became state property in 1977. After this date, it was restored and shines in its former glory. Today, Vianden Castle is one of the most important architectural monuments in Europe being one of the largest and most beautiful feudal residences of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. In the entrance area there is a modern interactive visitor center.


https://www.histouring.com/en/historical-places/vianden-castle/

What historical evidence was used to determine the exact construction period of the new residential tower at Vianden Castle?
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Q3405433
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC - Professor(a) de Inglês |
Q3405433 Inglês

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Vianden Castle History


(1º§) The rocky outcrop above the modern town of Vianden was first fortified in late antiquity. Excavations at the foot of the castle chapel in 1994 led to the discovery that parts of the crumbling masonry of the Late Antique tower must have existed in Merovingian times and that this square building, the only surviving structure from the period known as Late Antiquity, was incorporated into the first medieval castle.


(2º§) The first fortification was built at the beginning of Late Antiquity on the castle hill at an ancient crossroads, where a branch of the great Roman road Reims-Cologne through the Ardennes and the valley of Our led to the valley of the Sauer and through Echternach to Bitburg and Trier, at that time a thriving metropolis.


(3º§) After the Vianden fort was abandoned around 430/440 AD, the Roman Tower seems to have been sufficiently usable to remain a decisive element in the subsequent periods of castle building up to the High Middle Ages.


(4º§) The first medieval fortification was erected on the rocky spur overlooking Vianden around the year 1000. The main part of this fortification consisted of an oval ring wall. This defensive wall, meticulously reinforced with small slabs of slate, was exactly one meter wide. As with the ancient wall, this special construction technique allowed archaeologists to retrace it virtually its entire length. The old late antique moat also remained in use during this period. The entire inner surface of the fortification was leveled by filling the lower defensive wall with stones and earth. This complex also included a hall, used for administrative purposes, and a chapel, which was installed in the remains of the late antique tower.


(5º§) Vianden Castle was extensively rebuilt around 1170. The remains of the wooden scaffolding found in the new residential tower made it possible to determine the date of construction using the three-ring dating technique.


(6º§) Important architectural contributions were made, in Gothic style, between the 13th and 14th centuries by the Counts of Vianden. In 1417 the castle became a possession of the Orange-Nassau family who made changes in the Renaissance style. The castle was long in the possession of the grand-ducal family until it became state property in 1977. After this date, it was restored and shines in its former glory. Today, Vianden Castle is one of the most important architectural monuments in Europe being one of the largest and most beautiful feudal residences of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. In the entrance area there is a modern interactive visitor center.


https://www.histouring.com/en/historical-places/vianden-castle/

According to the text, which architectural style dominated the enhancements made to Vianden Castle between the 13th and 14th centuries?
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Q3403868
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403868 Inglês
Read Text II for the question:

TEXT II

It’s hard to overstate the benefits of a night’s rest for human memory, and neuroscientists are just beginning to understand why.

Jakke Tamminen has plenty of students who do that very studenty thing of staying up all night right before an exam, in the hope of stuffing in as much knowledge as they can. But “that’s the worst thing you can do”, the psychology lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway University warns them.

He should know. Tamminen is an expert on how sleep affects memory, specifically the recall needed for language. Sleep learning – another idea beloved of students, in the hope that, say, playing a language-learning recording during sleep would imprint itself into the brain subliminally and they’d wake up speaking Latin – is a myth. But sleep itself is essential for embedding knowledge in the brain, and the research of Tamminen and others shows us why that is.

In Tamminen’s ongoing research project, participants learn new vocabulary, then stay awake all night.

Tamminen compares their memory of those words after a few nights, and then after a week. Even after several nights of recovery sleep, there is a substantial difference in how quickly they recall those words compared to the control group of participants who didn’t face sleep deprivation. “Sleep is really a central part of learning,” he says. “Even though you’re not studying when you sleep, your brain is still studying. It’s almost like it’s working on your behalf. You can’t really get the full impact of the time you put into your studies unless you sleep.” […]

But more critical to Tamminen’s current research – and to sleep’s role in language development more generally – is a non-REM phase of deep sleep known as slow-wave sleep (SWS). SWS is important for forming and retaining memories, whether of vocabulary, grammar, or other knowledge. The interaction of different parts of the brain is key here. During SWS, the hippocampus, which is good at quick learning, is in constant communication with the neocortex, to consolidate it for long term recall.

So the hippocampus might initially encode a new word learned earlier that day, but to truly consolidate that knowledge – spotting patterns and finding connections with other ideas that allow for creative problem-solving – the neocortical system needs to get involved.

This information expressway between the hippocampus and the neocortex is populated by sleep spindles – spikes in brain activity that are no more than three seconds long.

“Sleep spindles are somehow associated with linking new information with existing information,” Tamminen says. And the data from his research participants suggests that people with more sleep spindles have more consolidation of the words they have learned. […]

Children have more slow-wave sleep than adults – which may be one factor explaining how quickly kids learn, in both language and other areas. The child sleep lab at Germany’s University of Tuebingen investigates the role of sleep in consolidating children’s memory. Monitoring what happens in children’s brains during sleep, and how much information they retain before and after sleep, shows that sleep helps with accessing implicit knowledge (procedural memory) and making it explicit (declarative memory).

“The effects are stronger in early childhood because the brain is developing,” says Dominique Petit, the coordinator of the Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network, who has also explored the circadian rhythm in children. In practical terms, this means that “children need to sleep during the day to remember everything that they have to learn”.

“Daytime naps in young children have been shown to be really important for vocabulary growth, generalization of the meaning of words and abstraction in language learning,” she says. “Sleep continues to be important for memory and learning throughout the lifetime, though.” […]

Not only does sleep help with accessing this information, it also changes the way this information is accessed. This makes brains more flexible at retrieving information (or able to access it in more ways).

But it also makes them better at extracting the most significant parts of it.

“It’s actually an active process of strengthening and changing the memory trace,” Zinke says. “Memory gets transferred in a way that the most important information (the gist) is remembered.”

Clearly, for children as well as adults, prolonged sleep isn’t a sign of laziness in a language learner. It’s critical for our brains’ connections and our bodies’ rhythms.

Available at: https://www.bbc.com/future/ article/20180815-why-sleep-should-be-everystudents-priority (adapted)
The term “spikes” in the context of brain activity refers to what?
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Q3403867
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403867 Inglês
Read Text II for the question:

TEXT II

It’s hard to overstate the benefits of a night’s rest for human memory, and neuroscientists are just beginning to understand why.

Jakke Tamminen has plenty of students who do that very studenty thing of staying up all night right before an exam, in the hope of stuffing in as much knowledge as they can. But “that’s the worst thing you can do”, the psychology lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway University warns them.

He should know. Tamminen is an expert on how sleep affects memory, specifically the recall needed for language. Sleep learning – another idea beloved of students, in the hope that, say, playing a language-learning recording during sleep would imprint itself into the brain subliminally and they’d wake up speaking Latin – is a myth. But sleep itself is essential for embedding knowledge in the brain, and the research of Tamminen and others shows us why that is.

In Tamminen’s ongoing research project, participants learn new vocabulary, then stay awake all night.

Tamminen compares their memory of those words after a few nights, and then after a week. Even after several nights of recovery sleep, there is a substantial difference in how quickly they recall those words compared to the control group of participants who didn’t face sleep deprivation. “Sleep is really a central part of learning,” he says. “Even though you’re not studying when you sleep, your brain is still studying. It’s almost like it’s working on your behalf. You can’t really get the full impact of the time you put into your studies unless you sleep.” […]

But more critical to Tamminen’s current research – and to sleep’s role in language development more generally – is a non-REM phase of deep sleep known as slow-wave sleep (SWS). SWS is important for forming and retaining memories, whether of vocabulary, grammar, or other knowledge. The interaction of different parts of the brain is key here. During SWS, the hippocampus, which is good at quick learning, is in constant communication with the neocortex, to consolidate it for long term recall.

So the hippocampus might initially encode a new word learned earlier that day, but to truly consolidate that knowledge – spotting patterns and finding connections with other ideas that allow for creative problem-solving – the neocortical system needs to get involved.

This information expressway between the hippocampus and the neocortex is populated by sleep spindles – spikes in brain activity that are no more than three seconds long.

“Sleep spindles are somehow associated with linking new information with existing information,” Tamminen says. And the data from his research participants suggests that people with more sleep spindles have more consolidation of the words they have learned. […]

Children have more slow-wave sleep than adults – which may be one factor explaining how quickly kids learn, in both language and other areas. The child sleep lab at Germany’s University of Tuebingen investigates the role of sleep in consolidating children’s memory. Monitoring what happens in children’s brains during sleep, and how much information they retain before and after sleep, shows that sleep helps with accessing implicit knowledge (procedural memory) and making it explicit (declarative memory).

“The effects are stronger in early childhood because the brain is developing,” says Dominique Petit, the coordinator of the Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network, who has also explored the circadian rhythm in children. In practical terms, this means that “children need to sleep during the day to remember everything that they have to learn”.

“Daytime naps in young children have been shown to be really important for vocabulary growth, generalization of the meaning of words and abstraction in language learning,” she says. “Sleep continues to be important for memory and learning throughout the lifetime, though.” […]

Not only does sleep help with accessing this information, it also changes the way this information is accessed. This makes brains more flexible at retrieving information (or able to access it in more ways).

But it also makes them better at extracting the most significant parts of it.

“It’s actually an active process of strengthening and changing the memory trace,” Zinke says. “Memory gets transferred in a way that the most important information (the gist) is remembered.”

Clearly, for children as well as adults, prolonged sleep isn’t a sign of laziness in a language learner. It’s critical for our brains’ connections and our bodies’ rhythms.

Available at: https://www.bbc.com/future/ article/20180815-why-sleep-should-be-everystudents-priority (adapted)
How does sleep affect children’s learning, according to the text?
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Q3403866
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403866 Inglês
Read Text II for the question:

TEXT II

It’s hard to overstate the benefits of a night’s rest for human memory, and neuroscientists are just beginning to understand why.

Jakke Tamminen has plenty of students who do that very studenty thing of staying up all night right before an exam, in the hope of stuffing in as much knowledge as they can. But “that’s the worst thing you can do”, the psychology lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway University warns them.

He should know. Tamminen is an expert on how sleep affects memory, specifically the recall needed for language. Sleep learning – another idea beloved of students, in the hope that, say, playing a language-learning recording during sleep would imprint itself into the brain subliminally and they’d wake up speaking Latin – is a myth. But sleep itself is essential for embedding knowledge in the brain, and the research of Tamminen and others shows us why that is.

In Tamminen’s ongoing research project, participants learn new vocabulary, then stay awake all night.

Tamminen compares their memory of those words after a few nights, and then after a week. Even after several nights of recovery sleep, there is a substantial difference in how quickly they recall those words compared to the control group of participants who didn’t face sleep deprivation. “Sleep is really a central part of learning,” he says. “Even though you’re not studying when you sleep, your brain is still studying. It’s almost like it’s working on your behalf. You can’t really get the full impact of the time you put into your studies unless you sleep.” […]

But more critical to Tamminen’s current research – and to sleep’s role in language development more generally – is a non-REM phase of deep sleep known as slow-wave sleep (SWS). SWS is important for forming and retaining memories, whether of vocabulary, grammar, or other knowledge. The interaction of different parts of the brain is key here. During SWS, the hippocampus, which is good at quick learning, is in constant communication with the neocortex, to consolidate it for long term recall.

So the hippocampus might initially encode a new word learned earlier that day, but to truly consolidate that knowledge – spotting patterns and finding connections with other ideas that allow for creative problem-solving – the neocortical system needs to get involved.

This information expressway between the hippocampus and the neocortex is populated by sleep spindles – spikes in brain activity that are no more than three seconds long.

“Sleep spindles are somehow associated with linking new information with existing information,” Tamminen says. And the data from his research participants suggests that people with more sleep spindles have more consolidation of the words they have learned. […]

Children have more slow-wave sleep than adults – which may be one factor explaining how quickly kids learn, in both language and other areas. The child sleep lab at Germany’s University of Tuebingen investigates the role of sleep in consolidating children’s memory. Monitoring what happens in children’s brains during sleep, and how much information they retain before and after sleep, shows that sleep helps with accessing implicit knowledge (procedural memory) and making it explicit (declarative memory).

“The effects are stronger in early childhood because the brain is developing,” says Dominique Petit, the coordinator of the Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network, who has also explored the circadian rhythm in children. In practical terms, this means that “children need to sleep during the day to remember everything that they have to learn”.

“Daytime naps in young children have been shown to be really important for vocabulary growth, generalization of the meaning of words and abstraction in language learning,” she says. “Sleep continues to be important for memory and learning throughout the lifetime, though.” […]

Not only does sleep help with accessing this information, it also changes the way this information is accessed. This makes brains more flexible at retrieving information (or able to access it in more ways).

But it also makes them better at extracting the most significant parts of it.

“It’s actually an active process of strengthening and changing the memory trace,” Zinke says. “Memory gets transferred in a way that the most important information (the gist) is remembered.”

Clearly, for children as well as adults, prolonged sleep isn’t a sign of laziness in a language learner. It’s critical for our brains’ connections and our bodies’ rhythms.

Available at: https://www.bbc.com/future/ article/20180815-why-sleep-should-be-everystudents-priority (adapted)
What role does slow-wave sleep (SWS) play in memory?
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Q3403865
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403865 Inglês
Read Text II for the question:

TEXT II

It’s hard to overstate the benefits of a night’s rest for human memory, and neuroscientists are just beginning to understand why.

Jakke Tamminen has plenty of students who do that very studenty thing of staying up all night right before an exam, in the hope of stuffing in as much knowledge as they can. But “that’s the worst thing you can do”, the psychology lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway University warns them.

He should know. Tamminen is an expert on how sleep affects memory, specifically the recall needed for language. Sleep learning – another idea beloved of students, in the hope that, say, playing a language-learning recording during sleep would imprint itself into the brain subliminally and they’d wake up speaking Latin – is a myth. But sleep itself is essential for embedding knowledge in the brain, and the research of Tamminen and others shows us why that is.

In Tamminen’s ongoing research project, participants learn new vocabulary, then stay awake all night.

Tamminen compares their memory of those words after a few nights, and then after a week. Even after several nights of recovery sleep, there is a substantial difference in how quickly they recall those words compared to the control group of participants who didn’t face sleep deprivation. “Sleep is really a central part of learning,” he says. “Even though you’re not studying when you sleep, your brain is still studying. It’s almost like it’s working on your behalf. You can’t really get the full impact of the time you put into your studies unless you sleep.” […]

But more critical to Tamminen’s current research – and to sleep’s role in language development more generally – is a non-REM phase of deep sleep known as slow-wave sleep (SWS). SWS is important for forming and retaining memories, whether of vocabulary, grammar, or other knowledge. The interaction of different parts of the brain is key here. During SWS, the hippocampus, which is good at quick learning, is in constant communication with the neocortex, to consolidate it for long term recall.

So the hippocampus might initially encode a new word learned earlier that day, but to truly consolidate that knowledge – spotting patterns and finding connections with other ideas that allow for creative problem-solving – the neocortical system needs to get involved.

This information expressway between the hippocampus and the neocortex is populated by sleep spindles – spikes in brain activity that are no more than three seconds long.

“Sleep spindles are somehow associated with linking new information with existing information,” Tamminen says. And the data from his research participants suggests that people with more sleep spindles have more consolidation of the words they have learned. […]

Children have more slow-wave sleep than adults – which may be one factor explaining how quickly kids learn, in both language and other areas. The child sleep lab at Germany’s University of Tuebingen investigates the role of sleep in consolidating children’s memory. Monitoring what happens in children’s brains during sleep, and how much information they retain before and after sleep, shows that sleep helps with accessing implicit knowledge (procedural memory) and making it explicit (declarative memory).

“The effects are stronger in early childhood because the brain is developing,” says Dominique Petit, the coordinator of the Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network, who has also explored the circadian rhythm in children. In practical terms, this means that “children need to sleep during the day to remember everything that they have to learn”.

“Daytime naps in young children have been shown to be really important for vocabulary growth, generalization of the meaning of words and abstraction in language learning,” she says. “Sleep continues to be important for memory and learning throughout the lifetime, though.” […]

Not only does sleep help with accessing this information, it also changes the way this information is accessed. This makes brains more flexible at retrieving information (or able to access it in more ways).

But it also makes them better at extracting the most significant parts of it.

“It’s actually an active process of strengthening and changing the memory trace,” Zinke says. “Memory gets transferred in a way that the most important information (the gist) is remembered.”

Clearly, for children as well as adults, prolonged sleep isn’t a sign of laziness in a language learner. It’s critical for our brains’ connections and our bodies’ rhythms.

Available at: https://www.bbc.com/future/ article/20180815-why-sleep-should-be-everystudents-priority (adapted)
What is the main topic of this passage?
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Q3403862
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403862 Inglês
Read Text I to answer the question:

TEXT I

“Fundamental breakthroughs in the neurosciences, combined with technical innovations for measuring brain activity, are shedding new light on the neural basis of second language (L2) processing, and on its relationship to native language processing (L1). The long-held assumption that L1 and L2 are necessarily represented in different brain regions in bilinguals has not been confirmed. On the contrary, the available evidence indicates that L1 and L2 are processed by the same neural devices. The neural differences in L1 and L2 representations are only related to the specific computational demands, which vary according to the age of acquisition, the degree of mastery and the level of exposure to each language. Finally, the acquisition of L2 could be considered as a dynamic process, requiring additional neural resources in specific circumstances.”

Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438805000395 (adapted)
 In the passage, the term “neural basis” refers to:
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Q3403860
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403860 Inglês
Read Text I to answer the question:

TEXT I

“Fundamental breakthroughs in the neurosciences, combined with technical innovations for measuring brain activity, are shedding new light on the neural basis of second language (L2) processing, and on its relationship to native language processing (L1). The long-held assumption that L1 and L2 are necessarily represented in different brain regions in bilinguals has not been confirmed. On the contrary, the available evidence indicates that L1 and L2 are processed by the same neural devices. The neural differences in L1 and L2 representations are only related to the specific computational demands, which vary according to the age of acquisition, the degree of mastery and the level of exposure to each language. Finally, the acquisition of L2 could be considered as a dynamic process, requiring additional neural resources in specific circumstances.”

Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438805000395 (adapted)
Considering the extract: “Finally, the acquisition of L2 could be considered as a dynamic process, requiring additional neural resources in specific circumstances” it is CORRECT to infer that the acquisition of L2 in the text:
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Q3403559
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403559 Inglês
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Based on the premise in the dialogue between Frodo and Gandalf in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring", which of the following best describes the moral lesson conveyed?
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Q3403557
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403557 Inglês
In the realm of educational psychology, consider the following statements about learning theories.

I. Constructivism posits that learners construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences.
II. Behaviorism asserts that learning is largely invisible, focusing on internal thought processes, and emphasizes how students think and feel about the learning process.
III. Social Learning Theory suggests that people learn from one another, via observation, imitation, and modeling.

Which of the statements above is(are) correctly described?
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Q3403555
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403555 Inglês
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Available at: https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2019/04/10

What does the use of the word "likely" in the phrase "and likely kill us all" suggest about the event's certainty? 
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Q3403554
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403554 Inglês
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The comic strip presents a humorous misunderstanding based on the phrase "beer belly". What does the phrasal verb "get rid of" mean in this context?
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Q3403552
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403552 Inglês
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Based on the context of the second sentence in the comic strip, what does the phrase "past due" imply?
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Q3403548
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403548 Inglês
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What is the underlying reason for the shepherd's comment in the comic?
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Q3403547
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403547 Inglês
"This American-born poet, playwright, and literary critic, born at the end of the 19th century, is considered one of the most significant figures in 20th-century modernist literature. After moving to England early in his adult life, he became a British citizen in 1927, deeply embedding himself in the literary scene there. His work is known for its complex symbolism, deep exploration of human despair, and innovative use of language and form. Perhaps his most famous work is a long poem that presents a haunting vision of post-World War I society. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry. This writer is best known for being a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943)."

About the author described, choose the correct alternative: 
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Q3403546
Inglês Palavras conectivas | Connective words , Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403546 Inglês
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

In this sentence, the word "consequently" suggests a relationship between the first and the second part of the sentence. What is this relationship?
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Q3403545
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403545 Inglês
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What does the student's response in the comic strip suggest about his understanding of 'global warming'?" 
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Q3403543
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403543 Inglês
Select the option in which all countries have English as their primary or official language.
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Respostas
2481: A
2482: B
2483: C
2484: C
2485: C
2486: A
2487: E
2488: A
2489: C
2490: A
2491: D
2492: C
2493: A
2494: C
2495: B
2496: E
2497: E
2498: C
2499: D
2500: E
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