Complete correctly the blank spaces:

Tom graduated three years ______, ______ 2012.

Read the sentences below:

I. The disadvantage OF working as an actor is that you can’t find a steady job.
II. We have just received an invitation TO her wedding.
III. The greatest difference BETWEEN both restaurants is their prices.
IV. Would you like to come FOR a walk? V. She lost weight after she went ON a severe diet.

Choose the only correct option, considering the use of correct prepositions:

American Universities and Colleges In general, American universities have four main academic goals: firstly, to establish a permanent relationship learning among their students; secondly, to disseminate knowledge through teaching and research; thirdly, to prepare students careers of leadership and service; fourthly, to provide them with useful research techniques. In sum, all these four objects are consonant with the interests the students, who are always assigned an advisor department. A college education in the USA is very expensive. The costs are so high that most families begin to save for a future education when their children are still babies. Even so, many people cannot afford to pay the expenses of full-time college work. There are actually many expenses such as books, dormitory costs and laboratory fees. The cost of a college education increases every year. Some of the students have scholarships or money grants, but many do not. How do the rest of the students manage? There are two obvious answers to the money difficulties of college students. They can borrow money, or they can find jobs and earn it. Many students work in shops, movie houses, and restaurants. They have parttime jobs in the evenings or on weekends. Some plan their schedules so their classes are in blocks of time. For example, if students have all their classes in the morning, they can take afternoon and evening jobs. Students from other countries have financial problems to overcome, too. Because students in most international programs need to have a sponsor ( a person, organization, or government that pays for them), they frequently work hard to earn scholarships or special loans. International students understand the value of going to school in another country. They also know that this is s difficult task. Many foreign students choose to attend American universities in spite of the difficulty.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct words that are missing in the text:

Complete the sentence (prepositions): When did they __________ the hotel?

Complete the sentences with on, in or at:

Please write your name _____ block capitals.

The train was travelling _____ 120 miles an hour.

Look! That car is _____ fire.

The correct sequence is: 

Read the text below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks.

A pair ____ astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Tuesday ____ a planned 6.5-hour spacewalk to perform maintenance work including putting an old cooling pump into storage.

                                                                                                Available in: http://www.theguardian.com

Read the sentence below and then choose the alternative that fills in correctly the blank.

“____ October 8^th , interested skywatchers should attempt to see the total eclipse of the moon and the rising sun simultaneously.”

                                                                                                            Available in: http://www.livescience.com

Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks in the sentences below with the missing preposition.

The Boomerang Nebula, a strange and extremely frigid object 5,000 light years away, gradually gives up its secrets

     Space is cold. Very cold. ______ ¹ fact, empty space, far ______ ² any star or other hot object, is about -270 degrees C.

    While downright frigid – a temperature low enough to freeze hydrogen ______ ³ Earth – that's still about 2.7 degrees ______ ⁴ absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature. The source _______ ⁵ those couple ________ ⁶ degrees is primordial: the leftover glow _______ ⁷ the big bang that gave birth _______ ⁸ our universe.

   The entire cosmos is bathed ________ ⁹ this radiation, called the cosmic microwave background. As a result, it's hard to avoid this bit of heat, meaning that _______ ¹⁰ most of the cosmos, -270 degrees is as cold as it gets.

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter (By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE) 1. SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. 
2. This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development. 
3. They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles. (…) 
4. The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving. (…) 
5. The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.” In a study comparing German-Italian bilinguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his colleagues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but they also did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicating that they were more efficient at it. (…) 
6. Bilingualism’s effects also extend into the twilight years. In a recent study of 44 elderly Spanish-English bilinguals, scientists led by the neuropsychologist Tamar Gollan of the University of California, San Diego, found that individuals with a higher degree of bilingualism — measured through a comparative evaluation of proficiency in each language — were more resistant than others to the onset of dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset. 
7. Nobody ever doubted the power of language. But who would have imagined that the words we hear and the sentences we speak might be leaving such a deep imprint? 
(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/thebenefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=0. Acesso: 04/02/2013)
The words globalized (paragraph 01), considered (paragraph 02), blessing (paragraph 03), and like (paragraph 04), are respectively presented in text as:

Read the abstract taken from an article written by Professor Dr. Reinildes Dias and answer question.     INTEGRAÇÃO DAS TIC AO ENSINO E APRENDIZAGEM DE LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA E O APRENDER COLABORATIVO ONLINE    ABSTRACT: My main focus is to discuss and reflect ____ the importance of the integration of information and communication technology resources with the aim of creating online learning communities to extend time and give more opportunities for interactions among participants in the target language. These online communities can be seen as collaborative networks for the joint construction of knowledge about the foreign language. Examples of both web and web 2.0 resources as well as of the application of principles related to DeskTop publishing are also provided throughout the article. Theoretical and practical aspects based on the collaborative learning approach give support to my work, also including vygostskian learning principles. 
(http://www.reinildes.com.br/incorporacaodasticsmoara2008.pdf. Acessed on March 2nd, 2013.)     The preposition that correctly completes the sentence: “My main focus is to discuss and reflect ____ the importance of the integration of information” is 

Read the paragraph below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks below.

“Ketamine, ________ is also a drug used recreationally to achieve a sort ______ “out of body” high, “is not ______ all ready for prime time”, said Dr. James Murrough, an associate professor of psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. But it is approved ______ use in anesthesia, so it’s available legally. And years of small and preliminary trials have offered tantalizing evidence of its powerful and fast-acting antidepressant effect ______ patients whose depression has failed to yield to other treatments.”

Ketamine: a potential rescue drug for depression takes a step forward. Available in: http://www.latimes.com

Read the text below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks.

What Food Labels Really Mean

Walk _______ any supermarket and you’ll find rows of packaged foods boasting how healthy they are. _______ “fat-free” to “natural” _______ “helps your immune system”, front-ofthe-box labels may give the appearance _______ good nutrition, but the reality is a bit more complicated. Unlike the Nutrition Facts panel, which is tightly regulated, front-of-the-package food labels aren’t as closely monitored. ________ addition, food companies tend ________ “stretch the envelope” of what’s permitted, says Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health _________ New York University. The result, she says: “Many of the health claims you see are misleading.”

Available in: http://health.usnews.comnews

Read the three sentences below and choose the preposition which fills the three gaps correctly:

Can you see her? She’s standing____ the door.
His car was broken, so he got home_____ taxi.
Celebrities get emails and letters____ the thousands or even millions!

Read the sentence below, considering the context of the text, and choose the alternative that best fills in correctly and respectively the blanks.

“When we eat, the food is _________ down into glucose (blood sugar), the body’s main energy source. As blood flows through the pancreas, this organ detects the high levels of glucose and knows to release insulin, a hormone that it produces in order to allow the cells _____________ the body to use the glucose. The cells have insulin receptors that allow glucose to enter. Then the cell either uses the glucose to make energy right away or __________ it as a future energy source.”

Read the text below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks.

In each of the following sentences, a preposition is missing.

As he is an elderly man, he has a difficulty ________ using the computer.

This is a simple method ________ searching suitable solutions.

She was in trouble _________ robbing a car.

The alternative that respectively brings the correct preposition for each one is

Complete the sentences below with the appropriate word and choose the best alternative:

_____ Paris Hotel is ___ the corner ____ Avenida Paulista and ___ Rua Augusta. I was there and I go for a walk when I stopped ___ ask ___informations about ___ pizzeria and I knew about ____ very good one ____ the same street.

The word that best complete the gap 3 is:

There are several important differences _____ cricket and football.