Questões de Concurso Comentadas sobre preposições | prepositions em inglês

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Q1651659 Inglês
Embracing Change
I have taught brilliant students of color, many of them seniors, who have skillfully managed never to speak in classroom settings. Some express the feeling that they are less likely to suffer any kind of assault if they simply do not assert their subjectivity. They have told me that many professors never showed any interest in hearing their voices. Accepting the decentering of the West globally, embracing multiculturalism, compels educators to focus attention on the issue of voice. Who speaks? Who listens? And why? Caring about whether all students fulfill their responsibility to contribute to learning in the classroom is not a common approach in what Freire has called the “banking system of education” where students are regarded merely as passive consumers. Since so many professors teach from that standpoint, it is difficult to create the kind of learning community that can fully embrace multiculturalism. Students are much more willing to surrender their dependency on the banking system of education than are their teachers. They are also much more willing to face the challenge of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism compels educators to recognize the narrow boundaries that have shaped the way knowledge is shared in the classroom. It forces us all to recognize our complicity in accepting and perpetuating biases of any kind. Students are eager to break through barriers to knowing. They are willing to surrender to the wonder of relearning and learning ways of knowing that go against the grain. When we, as educators, allow our pedagogy to be radically changed by our recognition of a multicultural world, we can give students the education they desire and deserve. We can teach in ways that transform consciousness, creating a climate of free expression that is the essence of education.
Adapted from hooks, b. Teaching to Transgress: A Education as a Practice of Freedom. London/New York: Routledge, 1994.
Read the highlighted sentence in the text above. The cohesive device “since” can be substituted for:
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Q1649415 Inglês

The difficult journey to Olympic success


For Jessica Morgan, a young athlete New Zealand, a typical day starts early. Most mornings, she gets up 4:30 a.m., while her family is still bed, and trains before school. As an elite rower, she is one the best in her country, and she aims to compete in the next Olympic Games.


Jessica’s weekly schedule is grueling. She trains twice a day, six days a week, and competes in rowing events on the weekends. However, she’s also a normal schoolgirl, and like every other sixteen-year-old at high school, she regularly does her homework, too. Jessica’s motivation is impressive. She never hangs out with friends or takes a vacation. She isn’t only an amazing athlete – she usually gets good grades in school, too. Of course, it isn’t easy to become successful. Being the best at your sport requires hard work, determination, and the help of family and coaches. Young athletes’ relationships with their family and coaches can influence their success in the future. Jessica’s parents usually spend hours every week taking her to training and competitions, and they help her to eat a healthy diet. Her coach plans her training and enters her for competitions. But both parents and coach must offer emotional support, too – for example, when Jessica loses a competition or she gets an injury. Luckily for Jessica, she has a good relationship with both her coach and family. But in other cases, these relationships can place too much pressure on young athletes. For this reason, some of them lose their motivation to do well. For Jessica, the most important factor in her future success is her own desire to win. “I know talented young athletes who give up because they feel lonely without their friends,” she says. “But I prefer not to think negatively.” Jessica believes she is responsible for securing her future success. “It’s my decision to train every morning and go back to it again every afternoon. It’s my decision not to have a social life, and never to take a vacation.” Not everyone can cope with this kind of lifestyle. But each day Jessica moves one step closer to achieving her Olympic dream.

The difficult journey to Olympic success
For Jessica Morgan, a young athlete .....................New Zealand, a typical day starts early. Most mornings, she gets up ............. 4:30 a.m., while her family is still .................. bed, and trains before school. As an elite rower, she is one________ the best in her country, and she aims to compete in the next Olympic Games.
Jessica’s weekly schedule is grueling. She trains twice a day, six days a week, and competes in rowing events on the weekends. However, she’s also a normal schoolgirl, and like every other sixteen-year-old at high school, she regularly does her homework, too.
Jessica’s motivation is impressive. She never hangs out with friends or takes a vacation. She isn’t only an amazing athlete – she usually gets good grades in school, too. Of course, it isn’t easy to become successful. Being the best at your sport requires hard work, determination, and the help of family and coaches.
Young athletes’ relationships with their family and coaches can influence their success in the future. Jessica’s parents usually spend hours every week taking her to training and competitions, and they help her to eat a healthy diet. Her coach plans her training and enters her for competitions. But both parents and coach must offer emotional support, too – for example, when Jessica loses a competition or she gets an injury. Luckily for Jessica, she has a good relationship with both her coach and family. But in other cases, these relationships can place too much pressure on young athletes. For this reason, some of them lose their motivation to do well.
For Jessica, the most important factor in her future success is her own desire to win. “I know talented young athletes who give up because they feel lonely without their friends,” she says. “But I prefer not to think negatively.” Jessica believes she is responsible for securing her future success. “It’s my decision to train every morning and go back to it again every afternoon. It’s my decision not to have a social life, and never to take a vacation.” Not everyone can cope with this kind of lifestyle. But each day Jessica moves one step closer to achieving her Olympic dream.

Choose the alternative which presents the correct prepositions that are missing in the first paragraph of the text:
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Q1640162 Inglês

About the sentence structure, consider the following items:


I. You can only live for a few days without to drink.

II. Are you interested in helping me?

III. He passed the exams instead of bothering you.


The CORRECT item(s) is(are):

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Q1640148 Inglês
Far from being selfless gestures, giving gifts creates a personal debt

    It would be nice to believe that gifts are genuine tokens of affection, given without any expectation of recompense. (Indeed, Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “gift” as something “voluntarily transferred” and “without compensation.”) But if you’ve ever had the niggling sense that something other than selflessness drives the presents you dutifully exchange with friends and family, then sociology has your back.
    Dimitri Mortelmans, sociology professor at Antwerp University in Belgium, explains that there is far more to gifting than meets the eye. “Gift-giving is one of the ancient early topics in sociology,” he says. “There’s a whole world behind gift-giving that goes very close to the basics of living together.” Gift giving, after all, is a physical symbol of a personal relationship and an expression of social ties that bring individuals together.
    Far from being voluntary, the 20th century French sociologist Marcel Mauss argues that presents are tied up with strict obligations. “To refuse to give, to fail to invite, just as to refuse to accept, is tantamount to declaring war; it is to reject the bond of ___________ and ___________,” he wrote in his 1925 essay “The Gift.” A present is a token of a relationship and a wish to continue that relationship and so, in rejecting a gift, the offer of extended friendship is also rebuffed.
    This gift exchange can be summarized by the Latin phrase: Do Ut des: “I give because I expect you to give something back.”
    We see such attitudes among families and friends, where each person gives out presents worth roughly the same price. This behavior is particularly obvious in the more pressured stakes of a new romantic relationship, where buying an overly lavish present (or a particularly stingy one) could send the wrong signal and cause upset.
    A gift doesn’t necessarily have to be exchanged for another gift. “You don’t need to repay the things given to you in a material way. You can also be nice or perform some other kind of behavior,” says Mortelmans. So for example, someone who can’t afford to buy a gift in return might be especially affectionate or helpful.

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The grammatical class of the word “back” in the first paragraph is:
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Q1625029 Inglês
Read the following sentences and analyze them in terms of the use of prepositions of place:
I- My colleague is unfortunately still in the hospital. He has cancer.
II- Susan works in hospital as a nurse.
III- The beer is at the freezer. IV- My favorite singers were on stage. V- Her favorite restaurant in New York is at 945, Madison Ave.
Choose the alternative that presents only accurate sentences:
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Q1625027 Inglês
Analyze the sentences paying attention to the use of prepositions of time:
I- See you on next Friday.
II- I’ll see you on Friday morning.
III- She was born on October 24, 1986.
IV- They arrived at 5 o’clock.
V- Oktoberfest in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, takes place on October.
Choose the alternative that presents only accurate sentences:
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Q1621167 Inglês
“At the risk of sounding like someone ____ my grandmother's generation, I believe that a vast majority of recent eating disorders.”
Indicate the best alternative that completes the context: 
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Q1621165 Inglês
“Patricia is not able to get the job done ____ home, as we know.”
Indicate the best alternative that completes the context above: 
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Q1621164 Inglês
“The delivery of phone books _____ also caused problems _____ the years with numerous old phone books dumped at the postal stations.”
Indicate the best alternative that completes the context: 
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Q1336724 Inglês
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Operations management is important. It is concerned with creating the products and services upon which we all depend. And creating products and services is the very reason for any organization’s existence, whether that organization be large or small, manufacturing or service, for profit or not profit. Thankfully, most companies have now come to understand the importance of operations. This is because they have realized that effective operations management gives the potential to improve revenues and, at the same time, enables goods and services to be produced more efficiently. It is this combination of higher revenues and lower costs which is understandably important to any organization.

Operations management is also exciting. It is at the center of so many of the changes affecting the business world – changes in customer preference, changes in supply networks brought about by internet-based technologies, changes in what we want to do at work, how we want to work, and so on. There has rarely been a time when operations management was more topical or more at the heart of business and cultural shifts.

Operations management is also challenging. Promoting the creativity which will allow organizations to respond to so many changes is becoming the prime task of operations managers. It is they who must find the solutions to technological and environmental challenges, the pressures to be socially responsible, the increasing globalization of markets and the difficult-to-define areas of knowledge management.
The preposition ’upon’, in paragraph 1, can be replaced by which other preposition, without changing its meaning?
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Q1290182 Inglês
Observe the following sentence.

He was angry when we enquired ____ his daughter.

Identify the best alternative that completes the context.
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Q1290179 Inglês
Analyze the sentence below.

The way we portrayed our women _____ a secondary-type role.

Indicate the best option that completes the context.
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Q1277176 Inglês
Complete the sentences with in, at or on and choose the correct alternative.
She lives _____ the countryside. Mark is _____ university. Don´t drop litter ____ the ground. I arrived ____ the USA last week.
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Q1251163 Inglês
Complete the sentences with the appropriate preposition.


I. I asked _____ but nobody has seen my glasses. II. Take ______ your shoes and get into the classroom. III. We are putting ______ our wedding until March because of the hurricane.

Mark the CORRECT arswer.
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Q1251160 Inglês
Complete the sentences with the correct preposition of time: at, on, in, for, from, to or until.

I. I'll call you back ______ about 30 minutes. II. They waited ______ five for her. III. I've been playing golf _____ about four hours.


Mark the CORRECT arswer.
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Q1251159 Inglês

Complete the sentences with the correct preposition of place: at, on, in, to, into or by


I. Get _____ the train! It´s going to leave.

II. They like to travel ______ plane.

III. They got ______ the car and drove off.


Mark the CORRECT arswer.

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Q1250591 Inglês
All the sentences are correct, EXCEPT one. Choose the INCORRECT answer.
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Q1218622 Inglês

Chinua Achebe. The african writer and the english language. In: Patrick Williams & Laura Cristman. Colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, p. 428-9 (adapted).

A respeito do vocabulário e dos aspectos linguísticos do texto 7A2-I, julgue o item seguinte.


In the text, “within” (ℓ.14) is a preposition meaning outside.

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Q1147938 Inglês
A questão verifica o domínio do conhecimento sistêmico da língua inglesa. Em cada uma das questões reproduz-se um trecho de uma breve conversa, que estabelece o contexto. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa a lacuna de maneira adequada quanto ao sentido e ao uso da norma- -padrão da língua inglesa.

“Should I go down this street all the way?”

“No, turn _________ your right after that big tree.”

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Q1147924 Inglês

Para responder à questão, leia o texto a seguir, que exemplifica estratégias de leitura, e assinale a alternativa que melhor completa cada uma das lacunas numeradas, considerando o sentido do texto e a norma-padrão da língua inglesa.


John is a conscientious student. When he is told he will 41 tested on the contents of Chapter 2 in the textbook, he looks 42 every unknown word in the dictionary in an effort to fix the information in his memory. Despite his extended preparations, he doesn’t do very well 43 the test, though he says he spent hours preparing. Lia, on the other 44 , excels on the exam, but she has approached the text in a very different way. Before she reads the chapter, she skims through it, looking at subheadings and graphics so as to give herself a general idea of what the text will be about. 45 she reads, she connects the material in the chapter to what she already knows. She frequently asks herself 46 about the text, looking back or ahead to link one part of the text to another. When she is puzzled by the content, she searches for clues in the 47 , tries to paraphrase, or considers what she knows about text 48 . In short, Lia is reading like an expert, 49 John is relying on just one technique. The difference between the two is in 50 use of reading strategies.


[Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice,

by Jack C. Richards and Willy A. Renandya (Eds.)]

Para responder à lacuna 43, leia o texto associado.
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Respostas
341: C
342: E
343: C
344: D
345: C
346: A
347: C
348: B
349: D
350: C
351: D
352: E
353: B
354: C
355: B
356: E
357: C
358: E
359: C
360: E