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Q3869486 Inglês
Lençóis Maranhenses looks like a desert, but
it's alive with shimmering pools, remote
villages and ancient paths that only local
guides know how to read. 



I was at least 20 steps behind my group – and another 30 behind our guide – when he suddenly stopped, checked his watch and tilted his face toward the sky, as if taking cues from the Sun.


"We must be lost," I thought. Smooth, pale slopes rose and fell in every direction, with glistening teal pools woven between them. It was a landscape with no obvious beginning or end. Then, as if reassured, our guide carried on, following a trail only he could see.


My three friends and I were a few hours into a three-day trek across Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, a humbling expanse of sand in north-eastern Brazil, and I had already lost all sense of direction. I walked in silence, listening to the wind, the rippling water, the sand crunching beneath my feet.


With each step, I sank a few centimetres, forcing my foot to work twice as hard. I kept falling behind, switching from flip-flops to water shoes and finally bare feet as the sand shifted from soft powder to a rock-hard surface baking in the heat. A friend back home had done a similar trek; "You'll feel bones you never knew existed in your feet," they'd warned. I was starting to believe them.



BBC News. Brazil’s lagoon-filled desert you can hike
barefoot. BBC Travel, 12 dez. 2025. Disponível em:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20251212-brazils-lagoonfilled-desert-you-can-hike-barefoot. 
Based on the text, analyze the statements below.

I. Lençóis Maranhenses is described as a true desert with no presence of water.
II. The guide followed a clearly marked path that everyone could see.
III. The narrator experienced physical difficulty during the trek.
IV. The narrator wore flip-flops throughout the entire journey.

The correct sequence is: 
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Q3866494 Inglês
Leia o texto a seguir.

“In recent years, English language teaching has shifted toward assessment practices that focus on learning rather than only measuring outcomes. Teachers are encouraged to use continuous feedback, self-assessment tools, and learning portfolios to monitor progress. These strategies help learners understand their strengths, recognize gaps, and make informed decisions about how to improve their linguistic performance.”
BRITISH COUNCIL. Assessment for Learning in English Language Teaching. Londres, 2023. Disponível em: https://www.britishcouncil.org. Acesso em: 10 fev. 2025.

De acordo com o texto, as práticas avaliativas contemporâneas no ensino de Língua Inglesa privilegiam
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Q3866492 Inglês
Leia o texto a seguir.

Digital tools powered by AI are increasingly used to support language learning classrooms. Instead of replacing communicative activities, these tools offer new opportunities for students to engage in simulated dialogues, receive instant feedback, and experiment with multiple forms of expression. Teachers report that AI expands the possibilities for personalized tasks, reinforcing the principles of communicative and task-based approaches.
EDUTOPIA. How AI tools support language learning in the classroom. 2024. Disponível em: https://www.edutopia.org. Acesso em: 10 fev. 2025. (Fonte inspirada: Edutopia / TESOL Blog, 2024).


Com base no excerto, o uso de ferramentas digitais, impulsionadas por inteligência artificial, se relaciona a abordagens de ensino que
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Q3866488 Inglês
Leia o texto a seguir.

Literacy plays a key role in learners’ ability to participate fully in society. Current educational policies emphasize not only reading and writing skills, but also critical thinking, digital literacy, and the development of autonomous learning strategies. Teachers are expected to create learning environments in which students interpret texts, collaborate, and make informed decisions about how to express ideas.
UNESCO. Literacy and Education: Global Literacy Outlook 2024. Paris: UNESCO, 2024. Disponível em: https://www.unesco.org/en/literacy. Acesso em: 10 fev. 2025.

O texto destaca que, no processo contemporâneo de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas, o desenvolvimento da autonomia do estudante está relacionado à
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Q3865164 Inglês
Em um texto argumentativo em língua inglesa, a presença recorrente de conectores como however, therefore e moreover contribui diretamente para:
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Q3865162 Inglês
Considere o excerto abaixo:
"Learning a language means engaging with different worldviews and negotiating meanings across cultures."
A partir do texto, a estratégia de leitura mais adequada para explorar seu sentido global em sala de aula é:
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Q3862514 Inglês
In paragraph 5, the sentence “Financial inclusion has remained out of reach for far too many, for far too long” means that
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Q3862511 Inglês
In the excerpt of paragraph 1, “Globally, 1.4 billion adults have no access to formal financial services because they lack a credit history”, the pronoun they refers to
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Q3862510 Inglês
The main purpose of the text is to
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Q3862009 Inglês

Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows.

‘‘The committee’s decision was met not with overt resistance, but with a subtle form of acquiescence that concealed deep-seated dissent. Beneath the veneer of compliance lay a quiet determination to subvert the policy through procedural inertia rather than direct confrontation’’.

In the context of the passage, the expression “procedural inertia” most nearly conveys the idea of:

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Q3862002 Inglês

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Liberating Adult Education, Animation and People Centred Democracy
Marjorie Mbilinyi

Adopting Issa Shivji’s paradigm, “The philosopher in Nyerere was informed by, and in constant search for, human equality and freedom, while the king in him was driven by the imperatives of building a nation-state” [Shivji 2020 Book Three: 2]. Mwalimu Nyerere advocated transformative pedagogy and liberating adult education, which he linked to nation building and people-centred participatory development, especially at grassroots level. He argued that adult learners have knowledge to share. They need to be encouraged to think, analyse critically and act on their own behalf so as to improve their situation. They thereby became active subjects, and participated equally in making key decisions on resource allocations at all levels and benefited equally. While referring to individual demands for freedom and dignity, Mwalimu emphasized the collective nature of these demands, and argued that the African people can only realize real democracy and freedom by uniting together so as to fight against neo-colonialism and corporate globalisation and to struggle for equitable, just development and economic liberation. At the same time, he was a powerful ruler who established an Executive with no checks and balances and focused on nation building and African liberation, not socialism. He denounced global elites and Northern based imperialism, but in the early years he rarely took action against the growth of a bureaucratic bourgeoisie in his own state and party. The failure to translate his ideals of equality and justice into a popular mass movement of workers, peasants, students and others contributed to the ultimate downfall of ujamaa. At the same time, he succeeded in sustaining national unity in an increasingly hostile context during the 1980s debt crisis and confrontation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demands for Structural Adjustment (SAP) and neoliberalism [Shivji 2020 Book Three].

Fonte: Mbilinyi, Marjorie. "Liberating Adult Education, Animation and People Centred Democracy." Convergence 44.1: 3-16. 

Consider the following statements in light of the text.



I. The transformative pedagogy defended by Nyerere assumed that adults should be encouraged to think critically, share knowledge, and act politically to improve their own conditions.


II. Although he denounced imperialism and global elites, Nyerere established a highly centralized Executive with limited checks and balances, revealing a tension between democratic discourse and political practice.


III. The failure of ujamaa was partly due to the inability to translate ideals of equality and justice into a sustained, mass-based popular movement.



It is correct to state that: 

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Q3862001 Inglês

READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE THREE QUESTIONS BELOW


Liberating Adult Education, Animation and People Centred Democracy
Marjorie Mbilinyi

Adopting Issa Shivji’s paradigm, “The philosopher in Nyerere was informed by, and in constant search for, human equality and freedom, while the king in him was driven by the imperatives of building a nation-state” [Shivji 2020 Book Three: 2]. Mwalimu Nyerere advocated transformative pedagogy and liberating adult education, which he linked to nation building and people-centred participatory development, especially at grassroots level. He argued that adult learners have knowledge to share. They need to be encouraged to think, analyse critically and act on their own behalf so as to improve their situation. They thereby became active subjects, and participated equally in making key decisions on resource allocations at all levels and benefited equally. While referring to individual demands for freedom and dignity, Mwalimu emphasized the collective nature of these demands, and argued that the African people can only realize real democracy and freedom by uniting together so as to fight against neo-colonialism and corporate globalisation and to struggle for equitable, just development and economic liberation. At the same time, he was a powerful ruler who established an Executive with no checks and balances and focused on nation building and African liberation, not socialism. He denounced global elites and Northern based imperialism, but in the early years he rarely took action against the growth of a bureaucratic bourgeoisie in his own state and party. The failure to translate his ideals of equality and justice into a popular mass movement of workers, peasants, students and others contributed to the ultimate downfall of ujamaa. At the same time, he succeeded in sustaining national unity in an increasingly hostile context during the 1980s debt crisis and confrontation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demands for Structural Adjustment (SAP) and neoliberalism [Shivji 2020 Book Three].

Fonte: Mbilinyi, Marjorie. "Liberating Adult Education, Animation and People Centred Democracy." Convergence 44.1: 3-16. 

According to the text, analyze the statements below and mark (T) for True or (F) for False.



I. (T / F) Nyerere argued that real democracy and freedom could only be achieved through collective action by African peoples against neocolonialism and corporate globalization.


II. (T / F) Nyerere’s political project fully succeeded in transforming ideals of equality and justice into a broad popular mass movement of workers, peasants, students, and other social groups.


III. (T / F) Despite internal contradictions, Nyerere managed to preserve national unity during a hostile period marked by the 1980s debt crisis and pressures from the International Monetary Fund.



Choose the correct alternative. 

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Q3862000 Inglês

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Liberating Adult Education, Animation and People Centred Democracy
Marjorie Mbilinyi

Adopting Issa Shivji’s paradigm, “The philosopher in Nyerere was informed by, and in constant search for, human equality and freedom, while the king in him was driven by the imperatives of building a nation-state” [Shivji 2020 Book Three: 2]. Mwalimu Nyerere advocated transformative pedagogy and liberating adult education, which he linked to nation building and people-centred participatory development, especially at grassroots level. He argued that adult learners have knowledge to share. They need to be encouraged to think, analyse critically and act on their own behalf so as to improve their situation. They thereby became active subjects, and participated equally in making key decisions on resource allocations at all levels and benefited equally. While referring to individual demands for freedom and dignity, Mwalimu emphasized the collective nature of these demands, and argued that the African people can only realize real democracy and freedom by uniting together so as to fight against neo-colonialism and corporate globalisation and to struggle for equitable, just development and economic liberation. At the same time, he was a powerful ruler who established an Executive with no checks and balances and focused on nation building and African liberation, not socialism. He denounced global elites and Northern based imperialism, but in the early years he rarely took action against the growth of a bureaucratic bourgeoisie in his own state and party. The failure to translate his ideals of equality and justice into a popular mass movement of workers, peasants, students and others contributed to the ultimate downfall of ujamaa. At the same time, he succeeded in sustaining national unity in an increasingly hostile context during the 1980s debt crisis and confrontation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demands for Structural Adjustment (SAP) and neoliberalism [Shivji 2020 Book Three].

Fonte: Mbilinyi, Marjorie. "Liberating Adult Education, Animation and People Centred Democracy." Convergence 44.1: 3-16. 
Based on Marjorie Mbilinyi’s text, the concept of liberating adult education advocated by Mwalimu Nyerere is primarily characterized by: 
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Q3857884 Inglês
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia (Part II)


“Wedlock suits you,” he remarked. “I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you.” “Seven!” I answered.

“Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not tell me that you intended to go into harness.”

“Then, how do you know?”

“I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?”

“My dear Holmes,” said I, “this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can’t imagine how you deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.”

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.

“It is simplicity itself,” said he; “my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.

From: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/advs.pdf. Accessed on 12/15/2025.
What is the main reason Holmes concludes that Watson has been out in bad weather recently? 
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Q3857883 Inglês
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia (Part II)


“Wedlock suits you,” he remarked. “I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you.” “Seven!” I answered.

“Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not tell me that you intended to go into harness.”

“Then, how do you know?”

“I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?”

“My dear Holmes,” said I, “this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can’t imagine how you deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.”

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.

“It is simplicity itself,” said he; “my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.

From: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/advs.pdf. Accessed on 12/15/2025.
What does the passage mainly reveal about Holmes’s method of reasoning?
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Q3857882 Inglês
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia (Part II)


“Wedlock suits you,” he remarked. “I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you.” “Seven!” I answered.

“Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not tell me that you intended to go into harness.”

“Then, how do you know?”

“I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?”

“My dear Holmes,” said I, “this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can’t imagine how you deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.”

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.

“It is simplicity itself,” said he; “my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.

From: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/advs.pdf. Accessed on 12/15/2025.
After reading the text, one can conclude that Mary Jane is
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Q3857876 Inglês
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia (Part I)


    I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, Blank I in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I Blank II some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion.

One night – it was on the twentieth of March, 1888 – I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I Blank III the well-remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had formerly been in part my own.

His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion.

From: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/advs.pdf. Accessed on 12/15/2025.
After reading the text, it is right to state that: 
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Q3857875 Inglês
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia (Part I)


    I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, Blank I in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I Blank II some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion.

One night – it was on the twentieth of March, 1888 – I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I Blank III the well-remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had formerly been in part my own.

His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion.

From: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/advs.pdf. Accessed on 12/15/2025.
 The pronoun It (third paragraph) is classified as and refers to, respectively: 
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Q3850663 Inglês
A leitura em língua inglesa exige o domínio de diferentes estratégias cognitivas para processar textos de forma eficiente, variando conforme o objetivo do leitor, seja para captar a ideia geral ou buscar informações específicas. Acerca das estratégias de leitura conhecidas como Skimming e Scanning, marque V, para as afirmativas verdadeiras, e F, para as falsas.
(__)Skimming é uma estratégia de leitura rápida que visa obter a essência ou a ideia principal do texto (gist), sem se deter em detalhes minuciosos.
(__)Scanning consiste em correr os olhos pelo texto para localizar informações específicas, como datas, nomes ou números, ignorando as partes não relevantes para a busca.
(__)A inferência lexical é uma técnica que depende exclusivamente do uso de dicionários, sendo impossível deduzir o significado de palavras desconhecidas apenas pelo contexto.
(__)O Skimming exige uma leitura linear e detalhada de cada palavra do texto, garantindo que nenhuma informação gramatical seja perdida durante o processo.
Após análise, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência correta dos itens acima, de cima para baixo:
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Q3849873 Inglês
In English, changing the stressed word can alter the implied meaning of a sentence. Choose the option that expresses the idea that ‘she’ told another person, not the speaker.
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Respostas
761: C
762: D
763: A
764: A
765: B
766: A
767: A
768: B
769: C
770: B
771: D
772: B
773: D
774: C
775: D
776: A
777: B
778: D
779: B
780: D