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Q2680734 Inglês

Instruction: answer questions 48 and 49 based on the text below.


Laura’s testimony about adopting Charley


01 ____We adopted Charley in January of 2019. She was from Texas and had been in a shelter for

02 months before we found her. She ____ my first adult rescue and the most incredible dog I ____

03 ever met. She adores people, loves the snow, and ____ give you the biggest smiles you ____

04 ever seen. She loves ____ next to you and bring you her toys. When we adopted Charley, we

05 didn't know she has some dog reactivity. It was a challenge because we had another dog at the

06 time. We’ve been working on this with her and she’s so much better. She’s intelligent and so

07 loving, and can make anyone smile.

08 ____I cannot thank you [Animal Humane Society] enough for all you do. You're the reason

09 Charley was brought into our lives, and I will never be able to express the gratitude I have for

10 that. She’s become me and my family's whole world.


(Available in: https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/news/our-10-most-heartwarming-dog-adoption-stories-

2021-so-far – text adapted especially for this test).

Which of the alternatives below best fills out the blanks in the first paragraph, respectively?

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Q2680732 Inglês

Instruction: answer questions 48 and 49 based on the text below.


Laura’s testimony about adopting Charley


01 ____We adopted Charley in January of 2019. She was from Texas and had been in a shelter for

02 months before we found her. She ____ my first adult rescue and the most incredible dog I ____

03 ever met. She adores people, loves the snow, and ____ give you the biggest smiles you ____

04 ever seen. She loves ____ next to you and bring you her toys. When we adopted Charley, we

05 didn't know she has some dog reactivity. It was a challenge because we had another dog at the

06 time. We’ve been working on this with her and she’s so much better. She’s intelligent and so

07 loving, and can make anyone smile.

08 ____I cannot thank you [Animal Humane Society] enough for all you do. You're the reason

09 Charley was brought into our lives, and I will never be able to express the gratitude I have for

10 that. She’s become me and my family's whole world.


(Available in: https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/news/our-10-most-heartwarming-dog-adoption-stories-

2021-so-far – text adapted especially for this test).

In the sentence “She was from Texas and had been in a shelter for months before we found her.” (l. 01-02), the verb tenses in the bold structures suggest that:

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Q2679881 Inglês

O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder às questões de 28 a 32.


Popular hot drink 'lowers blood glucose levels in weeks - and could help prevent diabetes and silent killers'


(1º§) Drinking more green tea made significant improvements to health - a finding which surprised US researchers. They believe the brew could offset risk factors that are linked to metabolic syndrome.


(2º§) Metabolic syndrome, according to the NHS, is the medical term for a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure (hypertension) and obesity. Therefore, people are more likely to have metabolic syndrome if they are overweight, and have poor or high levels of cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar.


(3º§) However, the new study, by Ohio State University, suggests green tea could improve all these factors. And in turn, it could slash the odds of deadly complications related to metabolic syndrome - coronary heart disease and stroke. A group of 40 people were recruited for the study. For one part of the study, they took green tea supplements for 28 days.


(4º§) The gummy sweets contained the compound catechinsdose and was the equivalent of five cups of green tea. ___ another 28 days, they had dummy pills, according to the findings published in Current Developments in Nutrition. In both parts of the experiments they ate a diet that was low in fruit and veg to make sure any positive results could be attributed to green tea, and not a healthy diet.


(5º§) The results showed that fasting blood glucose levels for all participants were significantly lower during the green-tea phase. Poo samples showed fewer markers of gut inflammation, and "leaky gut" was reduced. Leaky gut, or gut permeability, is when the gut lining has cracks or holes in, allowing bacteria to enter the bloodstream and cause inflammation.


(6º§) This is thought to be an "initiating factor for obesity and insulin resistance, which are central to all cardiometabolic disorders", according to Richard Bruno, senior study author and professor of human nutrition. He said: "If we can improve gut integrity and reduce leaky gut, the thought is we'll be able to not only alleviate low-grade inflammation that initiates cardiometabolic disorders, but potentially reverse them."


(7º§) All the participants - half healthy and half with metabolic syndrome - saw benefits, an unexpected finding for the research team. Prof Bruno said: "What this tells us is that within one month we're able to lower blood glucose ___ both people with metabolic syndrome and healthy people.


(8º§) "The lowering of blood glucose appears to be related to decreasing leaky gut and decreasing gut inflammation - regardless of health status." But Prof Bruno added: "We did not attempt to cure metabolic syndrome with a one-month study. "But based on what we know about the causal factors behind metabolic syndrome, there is potential for green tea to be acting at least in part ___ the gut level to alleviate the risk for either developing it or reversing it if you already have metabolic syndrome."


(9º§) Most often, doctors will tell people at risk of metabolic syndrome to improve their lifestyle habits - eat healthier and exercise more. "Unfortunately, we know most persons can't comply with lifestyle modifications for various reasons," Prof Bruno said. Green tea isn't as popular in the Western world as it is in the East, where it has origins in China.


(10º§) It's touted as a healthy drink because studies have found evidence it helps with weight loss, heart disease risk and even cancer. But the findings aren't very strong and are often observational, have small sample sizes or other limitations.


(adapted) https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/19350396/green-tea-lowers-bloodglucose-levels-prevent-silent-killers/

(4º§) "In both parts of the experiments they ate a diet [...]."

Which verb tense the sentence above is?

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Q2676934 Inglês

Complete a frase abaixo com o past tense CORRETO:


When their she got home, the boys ____ TV for four hours.


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Q2671022 Inglês

According to the uses of the conditional structures, which option best completes the sentence in the cartoon below? Consider grammar and context.


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Q2671021 Inglês

The following sentence represents the prince’s thoughts in the cartoon below. Find the alternative that correctly completes the text.


“She ____ smart, she ____ funny, she ____ beautiful, but she ____ her shoes all over the place.”


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Q2671017 Inglês

Instruction: answer questions 51 to 58 based on the following text.


Eve Rodsky’s deck of cards could help you find domestic bliss


  1. Eve Rodsky was fed up. For years she, like many other women, had shouldered the burden
  2. of invisible labor at home. Rodsky, a Harvard-educated lawyer and organizational management
  3. specialist who advises families and charitable foundations, was tired of being the “she-fault”
  4. parent. So, she started a spreadsheet titled “Shit I do.” “After months and months of
  5. crowdsourcing this beautiful, giant spreadsheet, I sent this to my husband and said, ‘Can’t wait
  6. to discuss.'”
  7. Rodsky shared the spreadsheet on Facebook. Soon, she was receiving messages from
  8. strangers who had seen it, detailing the domestic indignities they faced. She wanted to channel
  9. that frustration into something productive, and then Rodsky realized she could apply
  10. organizational management principles to the home. When Sarah Harden, the CEO of the media
  11. and production company Hello Sunshine, met Rodsky, she realized Rodsky was onto something
  12. novel. “After 40 to 50 years of talking about the problems, she was working on a solution. [At
  13. Hello Sunshine], (...) We like to be on the problem-solving end of the conversation rather than
  14. wallowing” said Harden.
  15. The result is Rodsky’s book, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too
  16. Much to Do (and More Life to Live), which came out in October. (Hello Sunshine inked a unique
  17. deal with Rodsky as a venture partner, which means the company helped sell the book to a
  18. publisher and will take a cut of its profits.) A key piece of Rodsky’s solution is gamifying the
  19. notion of fair play with a set of cards. “So this is based on a 100 card game. You’re holding cards
  20. that represent all that you do for your home and family.”
  21. The author believes the cards can help couples navigate their domestic balance by helping
  22. them to talk about home life (which most people don’t do) and take full ownership of the tasks
  23. (concept, planning, and execution). The ultimate goal of redistributing domestic work, according
  24. to Rodsky, is to free up time for what she calls “unicorn space” — the stuff that might feel like a
  25. luxury or pipe dream to most parents. “This is about making time for the things we actually care
  26. about — who we were before we had kids,” she said. “What are our passions and purpose,
  27. beyond being a parent and a partner and a worker? The more we spend time arguing about who
  28. does what, the less time we have for the things that truly matter.”


Adapted from: https://www.fastcompany.com/90425669/eve-rodskys-deck-of-cards-could-help-you-find-domestic-bliss

These are excerpts from the text:


1. Eve Rodsky was fed up. For years she, like many other women, had shouldered the burden of invisible labor at home. (l. 01-02).

2. Rodsky shared the spreadsheet on Facebook. Soon, she was receiving messages from strangers who had seen it, detailing the domestic indignities they faced. (l. 07-08).


Consider the statements bellow about excerpts 1 and 2:


I. In 1, the use of past perfect suggests that Rodsky doesn’t “shoulder the burden” anymore.

II. In 2, the past perfect was used because there is reference to two actions in the past, and one happened before the other.

III. In 1, if the past perfect structure were replaced by present perfect continuous it would imply the continuity of the action up to nowadays.


Which statements are correct?

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Q2126228 Inglês
Choose the option that is according to the English Grammar.
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Q2126222 Inglês
For question choose the option that correctly completes the sentences.
Richard’s bookstore_____ for sale for ten months. Apparently, it_____ down soon.
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Q2104973 Inglês

Music Enabling Cognitive Work



(Avaliable in: ASHLEY, R. and TIMMERS, R. (Editors) The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition. New York: Routledge, 2017 – text adapted specially for this test). 

Analyze the following statements about the sentence “In the early-twentieth century music was sometimes broadcast in factories to increase productivity and morale”
(l. 01-02): I. “Music was sometimes broadcast” is in the simple present, in a passive voice structure.
II. The adverb “sometimes” could be replaced by “rarely” with no changes in meaning.
III. The word “increase” could be translated as “aumentar”.

Which ones are correct?
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Q2021557 Inglês

A Mayor on Easter Island Is Up in Arms After a Runaway Pickup Truck Knocked Over a Sacred Statue


(1º§)Archaeologists have long assumed that the ancient society that erected the colossal Moai figures on Chile's Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, collapsed many centuries ago. Now, a new study indicates that the islanders' civilization was still going strong when Europeans arrived in 1722.
(2º§)The island was settled in the 13th century by Polynesians, and is known __ the famed Easter Island "heads" (many of the bodies have been buried by erosion over the centuries).
(3º§)The research, which appears in the Journal of Archaeological Science, contests the accepted timeline that the Easter Island society was already in decline by the year 1600 and its massive stone statues left to fall into disrepair.
(4º§)Conducting radiocarbon dating on 11 sites __ Easter Island, the authors determined the timeline of each monument's construction. Their findings indicate that Easter Islanders were still actively building new Moai figures, and maintaining existing ones, up until at least 1750.s of fresh water-a precious resource. As well as moments to their ancestors, it turns out they may have also served a more utilitarian purpose.
(5º§)Further supporting these results are historical documents __ the island's first European visitors. Written accounts from the Dutch explorers who arrived in 1722 found that the monuments were in active ritual use, with no signs of decline, and the same goes for the Spaniards who landed in 1770. It was only in 1774 that James Cook found the giant statues in ruins and the figures knocked over.
(6º§)"The way we interpret our results and this sequence of historical accounts is that the notion of a pre-European collapse of monument construction is no longer supported," lead author Robert DiNapoli told Archaeology & Arts.
(7º§)"Once Europeans arrive on the island, there are many documented tragic events due to disease, murder, slave raiding and other conflicts," added co-author Carl Lipo. "The degree to which [the Rapa Nui people's] cultural heritage was passed on-and is still present today through language, arts, and cultural practices-is quite notable and impressive. I think this degree of resilience has been overlooked due to the collapse narrative and deserves recognition."

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"[...] (many of the bodies have been buried by erosion over the centuries)." (2º§)
Which verb tense the sentence above is?
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Q2016698 Inglês
Critical Literacy

    Critical literacies are not new among scholars and researchers in literacy education. However, due to different theoretical bases, there is no unique definition of “critical literacy”. In their broadest sense, critical literacies refer to the ability to read texts going beyond their superficial meaning. That is, it implies approaching texts in a reflective way to understand working ideologies such as power, inequality, and injustice. In the realm of critical literacy, text is understood as a “vehicle through which individuals communicate with one another using the codes and conventions of society” (Robinson & Robinson, 2003, p. 3). Texts, in this sense, can be either songs, novels, poems, conversations, pictures, movies, and so on. […]

    Hence, the critical literacies approach is generally contrasted with functional literacy. The former views literacy as a social practice, while the latter views literacy as the mastery of linguistic skills. In addition, Manning (1999) developed a framework to distinguish critical literacies from functional literacy by establishing the difference between their respective ideology purpose, literacy curriculum, and instruction. On the one hand, the main objective of functional literacy is to produce skilled workers for the marketplace. Consequently, the curriculum is restrictive and the instruction is individualistic and competitive. On the other hand, for critical literacies, texts are not neutral but marked by power messages, dominating interests, and hidden agendas. In order to deconstruct these texts and unveil their ideological messages and power relationships, the curriculum is to employ materials from the everyday world as text and analytic tools.

    Critical scholars have overtly supported the idea that there is not a single procedure for incorporating critical literacies into the classroom, given that the particularities of the context where the foreign language is taught differ from one another. Thus, an approach to critical literacies “needs to be continually redefined in practice” (Comber, 2001, p. 274).


Adapted from: Jiménez, M.C. G. and Gutiérrez, C.P. “Engaging English as a Foreign Language Students in Critical Literacy Practices: The Case of a Teacher at a Private University” available at http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script= sci_arttext&pid=S1657-07902019000100091&lng=en&nrm=iso
The verb phrase in “where the foreign language is taught” (3rd paragraph) is in the
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Q2013444 Inglês
Identify the alternatives below as ( T ) true or ( F ) false.
( ) The underlined word in “… it helps to know more about hot air balloons themselves.“ is a relative pronoun.
( ) The preposition in the following sentence “…keeping the balloon floating above the ground.” means that the balloon is floating over the ground.
( ) The words ‘actually’, ‘push’, and ‘major’ mean in Portuguese: ‘atualmente’, puxar’ and ‘maior’.
( ) The negative form of “A hot air balloon has three major parts: the basket, the burner, and the envelope.” is “A hot balloon doesn’t have three major parts: the basket, the burner, and the envelope.”
( ) The tense used in the question “Have you ever wondered what keeps a hot air balloon flying?”, is an example of Past Perfect.

Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
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Q2005953 Inglês

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Internet: <www.nortechplus.com>.

Choose the alternative that presents extracts from the text in the simple past and in the present perfect tenses, respectively. 
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Q1918292 Inglês

Text for the items from.



Judge the items from.


There are examples of the present simple and present perfect in the following sentence: “The bulletin also informs that 365 municipalities have reported cases, of which 287 had confirmed cases” (lines from 24 to 26).  

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Q4355187 Inglês
Find the mistakes and choose the option that best corrects the sentence:

“Lobsters are a kinds of ocean creature call crustaceans. Crabs and shrimp are crustaceans to. Lobsters, and most other crustaceans, are found thought the world's oceans, often under rocks or in cracks on the sea floor.’’
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Q4182188 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based on the following text.



The Ultimate Packing List for Expatriates Moving Abroad


(Available in: https://www.internationalcitizens.com/moving-abroad/ultimate-packing-list.php – text specially adapted for this test).

Mark the alternative which correctly fills the blanks in paragraph one with the verb “be”:
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Q2815886 Inglês

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs.


This is the best vacation we ______ (ever have).

I have _______ such a beautiful baby (never see).

A great opportunity ______ (have been / miss).


Select the CORRECT answer.

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Q2815879 Inglês

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.


Once upon a time there ____(is) a little prince who _____ (live) on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who _____(have) a need for a friend. He _____ (find) a fox who ____ (ask) him to be _____ (tame).


Select the CORRECT answer.

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Q2815877 Inglês

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.


James ______ got only one car (have).

My parents ______ in New York City (live).

She is ______ at the moment (dance).

Paul ______ to play in the best league (want).


Select the CORRECT answer.

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Respostas
141: A
142: D
143: B
144: C
145: C
146: A
147: E
148: D
149: C
150: C
151: D
152: C
153: C
154: C
155: C
156: D
157: E
158: B
159: A
160: B