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Q4443016 Inglês
    It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the programming languages designed to help scientists and other researchers perform complex mathematical operations and statistical simulations without learning how to code. These programming languages were rigid and slow. 

    The emails turned into a research project at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with the mission of building an easy-to-use, high-performance programming language called Julia, which is designed for scientific research, data analysis, and modeling complex systems such as jet engines, drugs, financial markets, and robots, to name a few examples. 

    That research project turned into a lab at MIT, and the lab turned into the company JuliaHub. Along the way, Julia gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. Today, the free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people working in thousands of companies and universities around the world. 

    It is only a slight exaggeration to say Julia has been used to model everything under the sun, from the behavior of tiny atoms to semiconductors, neural networks, race cars, and airplanes. It has also been used to study much beyond the sun, with astronomers using Julia for imaging black holes. 

Internet: <https://news.mit.edu>  (Adapted). 


Evaluate the following item based on the preceding text.
The expressions "everything under the sun" and "much beyond the sun" (last paragraph) are used to emphasize the all-encompassing nature of Julia’s uses. 
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Q4443015 Inglês
    It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the programming languages designed to help scientists and other researchers perform complex mathematical operations and statistical simulations without learning how to code. These programming languages were rigid and slow. 

    The emails turned into a research project at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with the mission of building an easy-to-use, high-performance programming language called Julia, which is designed for scientific research, data analysis, and modeling complex systems such as jet engines, drugs, financial markets, and robots, to name a few examples. 

    That research project turned into a lab at MIT, and the lab turned into the company JuliaHub. Along the way, Julia gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. Today, the free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people working in thousands of companies and universities around the world. 

    It is only a slight exaggeration to say Julia has been used to model everything under the sun, from the behavior of tiny atoms to semiconductors, neural networks, race cars, and airplanes. It has also been used to study much beyond the sun, with astronomers using Julia for imaging black holes. 

Internet: <https://news.mit.edu>  (Adapted). 


Evaluate the following item based on the preceding text.
The passage "It is only a slight exaggeration" (last paragraph) is used to introduce an overstatement about the programming language Julia, which is not actually capable of modelling the behavior of tiny atoms. 
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Q4443014 Inglês
    Dante, the Italian author, was sort of a linguistic Darwin. He held a heretical theory. Europe’s languages, he thought, had not been made in a single moment, in a biblical Babel, but had evolved. With the care of a Victorian naturalist, he thus split Europe’s languages into families by their words for "yes": those who lived in southern France and said "oc" spoke a "Langue d’oc". 

    He was spot-on. Four centuries later, a British judge and polyglot called Sir William Jones arrived in Calcutta and was struck by the similarities between Latin and Sanskrit words for terms such as house (domus, dam) and god (deus, deva). Clearly they had "sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists". The world’s languages were not a Babel but a brotherhood. 

    Proto, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or rather its parent. For Jones’s "common source" now has a name: "Proto-Indo-European" (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread with rapidity "from Ireland to India". Today, its offshoots include Irish, Hindi—and more or less everything in between. Almost half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of it. 

    PIE is long dead, but traces of it remain caught, like insects in amber, in modern languages, allowing academics to bring it back to life. Scholars know, for example, its speakers found visitors irritating: the PIE word "ghostis" gives English not just "guest" but "ghost", and Latin its word for "host" but also "enemy". 

Internet: <https://www.economist.com>(Adapted)



Evaluate the following item, which relates to the provided text and to new trends in English language teaching.
Proto is the name journalist Laura Spinney gave to the language believed to be spoken roughly 5,000 years ago.  
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Q4443013 Inglês
    Dante, the Italian author, was sort of a linguistic Darwin. He held a heretical theory. Europe’s languages, he thought, had not been made in a single moment, in a biblical Babel, but had evolved. With the care of a Victorian naturalist, he thus split Europe’s languages into families by their words for "yes": those who lived in southern France and said "oc" spoke a "Langue d’oc". 

    He was spot-on. Four centuries later, a British judge and polyglot called Sir William Jones arrived in Calcutta and was struck by the similarities between Latin and Sanskrit words for terms such as house (domus, dam) and god (deus, deva). Clearly they had "sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists". The world’s languages were not a Babel but a brotherhood. 

    Proto, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or rather its parent. For Jones’s "common source" now has a name: "Proto-Indo-European" (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread with rapidity "from Ireland to India". Today, its offshoots include Irish, Hindi—and more or less everything in between. Almost half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of it. 

    PIE is long dead, but traces of it remain caught, like insects in amber, in modern languages, allowing academics to bring it back to life. Scholars know, for example, its speakers found visitors irritating: the PIE word "ghostis" gives English not just "guest" but "ghost", and Latin its word for "host" but also "enemy". 

Internet: <https://www.economist.com>(Adapted)



Evaluate the following item, which relates to the provided text and to new trends in English language teaching.
The mention of the word 'ghostis' and the words it originated in English (fourth paragraph) demonstrates that Proto-Indo- European lives on in modern languages. 
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Q4443012 Inglês
    Dante, the Italian author, was sort of a linguistic Darwin. He held a heretical theory. Europe’s languages, he thought, had not been made in a single moment, in a biblical Babel, but had evolved. With the care of a Victorian naturalist, he thus split Europe’s languages into families by their words for "yes": those who lived in southern France and said "oc" spoke a "Langue d’oc". 

    He was spot-on. Four centuries later, a British judge and polyglot called Sir William Jones arrived in Calcutta and was struck by the similarities between Latin and Sanskrit words for terms such as house (domus, dam) and god (deus, deva). Clearly they had "sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists". The world’s languages were not a Babel but a brotherhood. 

    Proto, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or rather its parent. For Jones’s "common source" now has a name: "Proto-Indo-European" (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread with rapidity "from Ireland to India". Today, its offshoots include Irish, Hindi—and more or less everything in between. Almost half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of it. 

    PIE is long dead, but traces of it remain caught, like insects in amber, in modern languages, allowing academics to bring it back to life. Scholars know, for example, its speakers found visitors irritating: the PIE word "ghostis" gives English not just "guest" but "ghost", and Latin its word for "host" but also "enemy". 

Internet: <https://www.economist.com>(Adapted)



Evaluate the following item, which relates to the provided text and to new trends in English language teaching.
Calling the world’s languages "a brotherhood" (second paragraph) emphasizes the fact that they have similarities and common traces, an idea that is reinforced by the use of "its parent" in the third paragraph. 
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Q4443011 Inglês
    Dante, the Italian author, was sort of a linguistic Darwin. He held a heretical theory. Europe’s languages, he thought, had not been made in a single moment, in a biblical Babel, but had evolved. With the care of a Victorian naturalist, he thus split Europe’s languages into families by their words for "yes": those who lived in southern France and said "oc" spoke a "Langue d’oc". 

    He was spot-on. Four centuries later, a British judge and polyglot called Sir William Jones arrived in Calcutta and was struck by the similarities between Latin and Sanskrit words for terms such as house (domus, dam) and god (deus, deva). Clearly they had "sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists". The world’s languages were not a Babel but a brotherhood. 

    Proto, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or rather its parent. For Jones’s "common source" now has a name: "Proto-Indo-European" (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread with rapidity "from Ireland to India". Today, its offshoots include Irish, Hindi—and more or less everything in between. Almost half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of it. 

    PIE is long dead, but traces of it remain caught, like insects in amber, in modern languages, allowing academics to bring it back to life. Scholars know, for example, its speakers found visitors irritating: the PIE word "ghostis" gives English not just "guest" but "ghost", and Latin its word for "host" but also "enemy". 

Internet: <https://www.economist.com>(Adapted)



Evaluate the following item, which relates to the provided text and to new trends in English language teaching.
The expression "was struck by" (second paragraph) can be correctly replaced with was impressed by or with was battered by without this changing the original meaning of the paragraph. 
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Q4443010 Inglês
    Dante, the Italian author, was sort of a linguistic Darwin. He held a heretical theory. Europe’s languages, he thought, had not been made in a single moment, in a biblical Babel, but had evolved. With the care of a Victorian naturalist, he thus split Europe’s languages into families by their words for "yes": those who lived in southern France and said "oc" spoke a "Langue d’oc". 

    He was spot-on. Four centuries later, a British judge and polyglot called Sir William Jones arrived in Calcutta and was struck by the similarities between Latin and Sanskrit words for terms such as house (domus, dam) and god (deus, deva). Clearly they had "sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists". The world’s languages were not a Babel but a brotherhood. 

    Proto, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or rather its parent. For Jones’s "common source" now has a name: "Proto-Indo-European" (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread with rapidity "from Ireland to India". Today, its offshoots include Irish, Hindi—and more or less everything in between. Almost half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of it. 

    PIE is long dead, but traces of it remain caught, like insects in amber, in modern languages, allowing academics to bring it back to life. Scholars know, for example, its speakers found visitors irritating: the PIE word "ghostis" gives English not just "guest" but "ghost", and Latin its word for "host" but also "enemy". 

Internet: <https://www.economist.com>(Adapted)



Evaluate the following item, which relates to the provided text and to new trends in English language teaching.
In order to fully understand the first paragraph, readers need to be familiarized with specific domains of knowledge, such as history, literature, religion and biology. 
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Q4443009 Inglês
    Dante, the Italian author, was sort of a linguistic Darwin. He held a heretical theory. Europe’s languages, he thought, had not been made in a single moment, in a biblical Babel, but had evolved. With the care of a Victorian naturalist, he thus split Europe’s languages into families by their words for "yes": those who lived in southern France and said "oc" spoke a "Langue d’oc". 

    He was spot-on. Four centuries later, a British judge and polyglot called Sir William Jones arrived in Calcutta and was struck by the similarities between Latin and Sanskrit words for terms such as house (domus, dam) and god (deus, deva). Clearly they had "sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists". The world’s languages were not a Babel but a brotherhood. 

    Proto, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or rather its parent. For Jones’s "common source" now has a name: "Proto-Indo-European" (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread with rapidity "from Ireland to India". Today, its offshoots include Irish, Hindi—and more or less everything in between. Almost half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of it. 

    PIE is long dead, but traces of it remain caught, like insects in amber, in modern languages, allowing academics to bring it back to life. Scholars know, for example, its speakers found visitors irritating: the PIE word "ghostis" gives English not just "guest" but "ghost", and Latin its word for "host" but also "enemy". 

Internet: <https://www.economist.com>(Adapted)



Evaluate the following item, which relates to the provided text and to new trends in English language teaching.
The use of the word "heretical" (first paragraph) helps to situate Dante’s argument in a historical and religious context.
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Q4443008 Inglês
    Dante, the Italian author, was sort of a linguistic Darwin. He held a heretical theory. Europe’s languages, he thought, had not been made in a single moment, in a biblical Babel, but had evolved. With the care of a Victorian naturalist, he thus split Europe’s languages into families by their words for "yes": those who lived in southern France and said "oc" spoke a "Langue d’oc". 

    He was spot-on. Four centuries later, a British judge and polyglot called Sir William Jones arrived in Calcutta and was struck by the similarities between Latin and Sanskrit words for terms such as house (domus, dam) and god (deus, deva). Clearly they had "sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists". The world’s languages were not a Babel but a brotherhood. 

    Proto, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or rather its parent. For Jones’s "common source" now has a name: "Proto-Indo-European" (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread with rapidity "from Ireland to India". Today, its offshoots include Irish, Hindi—and more or less everything in between. Almost half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of it. 

    PIE is long dead, but traces of it remain caught, like insects in amber, in modern languages, allowing academics to bring it back to life. Scholars know, for example, its speakers found visitors irritating: the PIE word "ghostis" gives English not just "guest" but "ghost", and Latin its word for "host" but also "enemy". 

Internet: <https://www.economist.com>(Adapted)



Evaluate the following item, which relates to the provided text and to new trends in English language teaching.
The comparison between Dante and Darwin, made in the first paragraph of the text, highlights the evolution aspect present in the history of languages. 
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Q4443006 Inglês
    Never before have we had such easy access to languages we do not speak. AI translation tools can convert German, French or Japanese text into fluent English or Chinese in a matter of seconds. For many, these tools are a vital part of everyday life. Unfortunately, I have come to realise that the more these tools advance, the less we feel the need to learn foreign languages. 

    There is a misconception behind this. These tools treat languages as fixed channels that deliver the same information. They assume that knowledge exists in a stable, language - independent form and that switching languages simply means substituting one vocabulary for another. 

    This approach falls short. Languages are the key to human cultures. Their vocabularies never completely overlap. Moreover, languages use different methods to organise and pass on knowledge. This linguistic repertoire shapes the way communities communicate in specific situations, influencing how they structure arguments, frame statements and define the roles of author and audience. These patterns are learned. Similarly, language communities often develop their own conventions to convey authority, caution, criticism, belonging or respect. 

Giorgio Iemmolo. Why is it worth learning new languages?
Internet: <https://ethz.ch>.  (adapted). 



Evaluate the following item with regard to the preceding text.
The word "misconception", as used in the second paragraph, refers to the fact that AI translation tools can convert texts from one language into another. 
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Q4443005 Inglês
    Never before have we had such easy access to languages we do not speak. AI translation tools can convert German, French or Japanese text into fluent English or Chinese in a matter of seconds. For many, these tools are a vital part of everyday life. Unfortunately, I have come to realise that the more these tools advance, the less we feel the need to learn foreign languages. 

    There is a misconception behind this. These tools treat languages as fixed channels that deliver the same information. They assume that knowledge exists in a stable, language - independent form and that switching languages simply means substituting one vocabulary for another. 

    This approach falls short. Languages are the key to human cultures. Their vocabularies never completely overlap. Moreover, languages use different methods to organise and pass on knowledge. This linguistic repertoire shapes the way communities communicate in specific situations, influencing how they structure arguments, frame statements and define the roles of author and audience. These patterns are learned. Similarly, language communities often develop their own conventions to convey authority, caution, criticism, belonging or respect. 

Giorgio Iemmolo. Why is it worth learning new languages?
Internet: <https://ethz.ch>.  (adapted). 



Evaluate the following item with regard to the preceding text.
According to the author, language is a complex means of communication, tied to culture and used differently depending on each specific situation. 
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Q4443004 Inglês
    Never before have we had such easy access to languages we do not speak. AI translation tools can convert German, French or Japanese text into fluent English or Chinese in a matter of seconds. For many, these tools are a vital part of everyday life. Unfortunately, I have come to realise that the more these tools advance, the less we feel the need to learn foreign languages. 

    There is a misconception behind this. These tools treat languages as fixed channels that deliver the same information. They assume that knowledge exists in a stable, language - independent form and that switching languages simply means substituting one vocabulary for another. 

    This approach falls short. Languages are the key to human cultures. Their vocabularies never completely overlap. Moreover, languages use different methods to organise and pass on knowledge. This linguistic repertoire shapes the way communities communicate in specific situations, influencing how they structure arguments, frame statements and define the roles of author and audience. These patterns are learned. Similarly, language communities often develop their own conventions to convey authority, caution, criticism, belonging or respect. 

Giorgio Iemmolo. Why is it worth learning new languages?
Internet: <https://ethz.ch>.  (adapted). 



Evaluate the following item with regard to the preceding text.
It can be concluded from the text that AI translation tools are still not able to perfectly translate language in varied communicative situations. 
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Q4443003 Inglês
    Never before have we had such easy access to languages we do not speak. AI translation tools can convert German, French or Japanese text into fluent English or Chinese in a matter of seconds. For many, these tools are a vital part of everyday life. Unfortunately, I have come to realise that the more these tools advance, the less we feel the need to learn foreign languages. 

    There is a misconception behind this. These tools treat languages as fixed channels that deliver the same information. They assume that knowledge exists in a stable, language - independent form and that switching languages simply means substituting one vocabulary for another. 

    This approach falls short. Languages are the key to human cultures. Their vocabularies never completely overlap. Moreover, languages use different methods to organise and pass on knowledge. This linguistic repertoire shapes the way communities communicate in specific situations, influencing how they structure arguments, frame statements and define the roles of author and audience. These patterns are learned. Similarly, language communities often develop their own conventions to convey authority, caution, criticism, belonging or respect. 

Giorgio Iemmolo. Why is it worth learning new languages?
Internet: <https://ethz.ch>.  (adapted). 



Evaluate the following item with regard to the preceding text.
According to the text, AI translation tools make it easier to learn a foreign language.
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Q4443002 Inglês
    Never before have we had such easy access to languages we do not speak. AI translation tools can convert German, French or Japanese text into fluent English or Chinese in a matter of seconds. For many, these tools are a vital part of everyday life. Unfortunately, I have come to realise that the more these tools advance, the less we feel the need to learn foreign languages. 

    There is a misconception behind this. These tools treat languages as fixed channels that deliver the same information. They assume that knowledge exists in a stable, language - independent form and that switching languages simply means substituting one vocabulary for another. 

    This approach falls short. Languages are the key to human cultures. Their vocabularies never completely overlap. Moreover, languages use different methods to organise and pass on knowledge. This linguistic repertoire shapes the way communities communicate in specific situations, influencing how they structure arguments, frame statements and define the roles of author and audience. These patterns are learned. Similarly, language communities often develop their own conventions to convey authority, caution, criticism, belonging or respect. 

Giorgio Iemmolo. Why is it worth learning new languages?
Internet: <https://ethz.ch>.  (adapted). 



Evaluate the following item with regard to the preceding text.
It is possible to infer from the text that, in the author’s opinion, the development of AI translation tools puts foreign language learning at risk.
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Q4437751 Inglês

Consider the following text:



Victoria’s visitor economy is worth A$21.7 billion to the state and generates over 210,000 jobs


    Victoria is Australia’s leader in the visitor economy, thanks to its world-class events, food and wine scene, and stunning tourist destinations – from pristine beaches to striking landscapes and unique animal encounters.


    Our state is Australia’s second most visited destination, and one of the fastest growing in Australia – particularly for Asian tourists.


Visitors from China drive much of our international visitor and expenditure growth, accounting for more than 33% of international overnight visitor expenditure in Victoria.


Available in: https://liveinmelbourne.vic.gov.au.



According to the text, it is correct to say:  

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Q4433682 Inglês

A five-year nationwide decline in apartment prices has wiped out much of the middle class's savings in a country where households typically hold about three-quarters of their assets in real estate.



The pronoun "their", underlined in the excerpt, refers to

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Q4431384 Inglês

According to the comic strip, Charlie Brown:  



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Q4429060 Inglês

Answer question based on Text 5.



Text 5


(1942-)


Who Is Harrison Ford?


Harrison Ford struggled for years as an actor before George Lucas cast him in 1973's American Graffiti. Ford then hit superstardom as Han Solo in the first three Star Wars films and as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels, all huge successes. He has enjoyed leading roles in numerous Hollywood films such as Blade Runner, Witness, Working Girl, Patriot Games, The Fugitive and 42, among many others. Ford later revisited some of his most famous characters in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Blade Runner 2049. 


After graduating high school in 1960, Ford studied English and philosophy at Ripon College in Wisconsin. There, he discovered an interest in performing nearly by accident. Ford signed up for a drama course, hoping for an easy good grade. "I was terrified to get up in front of people, but I really enjoyed the storytelling part," he explained to People. However, Ford wasn't the best student in college, and he ended up leaving before completing his degree. 


With his future wife, Mary Marquardt, he made his way to Hollywood in the mid-1960s. Ford first landed a deal with Columbia Pictures as a contract player, earning $150 a week. He then ended up at Universal. In 1966, Ford made his film debut in a bit part in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round. Studio executives were less than impressed. One studio official said, "You'll never make it in this business," Ford told The Hollywood Reporter. 


Adapted from: https://www.biography.com/actors/harrison-ford

In TEXT 5, the highlighted idiomatic expression “landed a deal” corresponds to the definition presented in the alternative: 
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Q4429059 Inglês

Answer question based on Text 5.



Text 5


(1942-)


Who Is Harrison Ford?


Harrison Ford struggled for years as an actor before George Lucas cast him in 1973's American Graffiti. Ford then hit superstardom as Han Solo in the first three Star Wars films and as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels, all huge successes. He has enjoyed leading roles in numerous Hollywood films such as Blade Runner, Witness, Working Girl, Patriot Games, The Fugitive and 42, among many others. Ford later revisited some of his most famous characters in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Blade Runner 2049. 


After graduating high school in 1960, Ford studied English and philosophy at Ripon College in Wisconsin. There, he discovered an interest in performing nearly by accident. Ford signed up for a drama course, hoping for an easy good grade. "I was terrified to get up in front of people, but I really enjoyed the storytelling part," he explained to People. However, Ford wasn't the best student in college, and he ended up leaving before completing his degree. 


With his future wife, Mary Marquardt, he made his way to Hollywood in the mid-1960s. Ford first landed a deal with Columbia Pictures as a contract player, earning $150 a week. He then ended up at Universal. In 1966, Ford made his film debut in a bit part in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round. Studio executives were less than impressed. One studio official said, "You'll never make it in this business," Ford told The Hollywood Reporter. 


Adapted from: https://www.biography.com/actors/harrison-ford

Observe the underlined lexical terms in TEXT 5 and check the alternative that corresponds to the order they appear in it.
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Q4429055 Inglês

Question are related to Text 03.



Text 03 


“Three little birds sat on my window

And they told me I don't need to worry

Summer came like cinnamon, so sweet

Little girls, double-dutch on the concrete   

Maybe sometimes we got it wrong, but it's all right

The more things seems to change, the more they stay the same  

Ooh, don't you hesitate

Girl, put your records on, tell me your favorite song  

You go ahead, let your hair down

Sapphire and faded jeans 

I hope you get your dreams

Just go ahead, let your hair down 

You're gonna find yourself somewhere, somehow.” 


Put Your Records on, by Corinne Bailey Rae, at

https://lyrics.lyricfind.com/lyrics/corinne-bailey-rae-put-your-records-on 

In “The more things seems to change, the more they stay the same”, we have:
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21: C
22: E
23: E
24: C
25: C
26: E
27: C
28: C
29: C
30: E
31: C
32: C
33: E
34: C
35: B
36: E
37: C
38: D
39: C
40: B