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Q3928968 Inglês
Syntactic analysis of the English simple sentence requires distinguishing between different types of verb complementation. Analyze the clause below: "The board of directors considered the proposal a significant breakthrough."
The syntactic pattern of this sentence is classified as: 
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Q3928967 Inglês
In the study of truth-conditional semantics, the relationship between two propositions can be defined by the notion of entailment. Consider the following sentences:
1. Julian managed to renovate the old Victorian mansion.
2. Julian renovated the old Victorian mansion.
Based on the semantic properties of the verb "manage", it is correct to assert that:
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Q3928806 Inglês
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    The elevation of scientific discourse to a major component in the project of modernity and the Eurocentrism inherent in the Western scientific enterprise have aided both the development of racial hierarchies and the creation of the long-enduring myth of science as an impartial, pure and value-free endeavour, superior to other peoples’ modes of thinking. It is also to be argued that it is one thing to ‘discover’, identify, categorise and classify plants, beetles as well as peoples, but quite another to transform such categories and classifications into hierarchies that suggest stratification in terms of social and moral inferiority. The process of categorisation would then not in itself be normative, but rather evaluative attributions would be based upon moral and social preferences, subjective value judgements and the striving for political power.
    The conundrum of the conceptual status and the socio-political consequences of the Enlightenment has not been resolved satisfactorily. Yet there now exists agreement on some parameters. The consensus is that scientific racism, racial medicine and colonial rule were for a time closely linked, variously reinforced and justified each other. Claims to racial superiority and Western scientific and medical hegemony are seen to have emerged alongside each other in the wake of the Enlightenment, culminating eventually not only in scientifically based racism in the nineteenth century and racial medicine in the twentieth century, but also in the perceived enhancement and legitimisation of colonial expansion by reference to medical and scientific progress. The interrelatedness of race, science and medicine, and its extension to the colonial realm during the nineteenth century, in particular, therefore constitutes one major focus for work and research.


Waltraud Ernst. Historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and medicine.
In: Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris (eds.) Race, Science and Medicine, 1700–1960.
London: Routledge, 1999.
In Waltraud Ernst’s text, the word “conundrum”, used in the beginning of the second paragraph, could be correctly replaced, without changing the overall meaning of the sentence, with
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Q3928805 Inglês
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    The elevation of scientific discourse to a major component in the project of modernity and the Eurocentrism inherent in the Western scientific enterprise have aided both the development of racial hierarchies and the creation of the long-enduring myth of science as an impartial, pure and value-free endeavour, superior to other peoples’ modes of thinking. It is also to be argued that it is one thing to ‘discover’, identify, categorise and classify plants, beetles as well as peoples, but quite another to transform such categories and classifications into hierarchies that suggest stratification in terms of social and moral inferiority. The process of categorisation would then not in itself be normative, but rather evaluative attributions would be based upon moral and social preferences, subjective value judgements and the striving for political power.
    The conundrum of the conceptual status and the socio-political consequences of the Enlightenment has not been resolved satisfactorily. Yet there now exists agreement on some parameters. The consensus is that scientific racism, racial medicine and colonial rule were for a time closely linked, variously reinforced and justified each other. Claims to racial superiority and Western scientific and medical hegemony are seen to have emerged alongside each other in the wake of the Enlightenment, culminating eventually not only in scientifically based racism in the nineteenth century and racial medicine in the twentieth century, but also in the perceived enhancement and legitimisation of colonial expansion by reference to medical and scientific progress. The interrelatedness of race, science and medicine, and its extension to the colonial realm during the nineteenth century, in particular, therefore constitutes one major focus for work and research.


Waltraud Ernst. Historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and medicine.
In: Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris (eds.) Race, Science and Medicine, 1700–1960.
London: Routledge, 1999.
Waltraud Ernst’s text leads to the conclusion that, for him,
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Q3928804 Inglês
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    The elevation of scientific discourse to a major component in the project of modernity and the Eurocentrism inherent in the Western scientific enterprise have aided both the development of racial hierarchies and the creation of the long-enduring myth of science as an impartial, pure and value-free endeavour, superior to other peoples’ modes of thinking. It is also to be argued that it is one thing to ‘discover’, identify, categorise and classify plants, beetles as well as peoples, but quite another to transform such categories and classifications into hierarchies that suggest stratification in terms of social and moral inferiority. The process of categorisation would then not in itself be normative, but rather evaluative attributions would be based upon moral and social preferences, subjective value judgements and the striving for political power.
    The conundrum of the conceptual status and the socio-political consequences of the Enlightenment has not been resolved satisfactorily. Yet there now exists agreement on some parameters. The consensus is that scientific racism, racial medicine and colonial rule were for a time closely linked, variously reinforced and justified each other. Claims to racial superiority and Western scientific and medical hegemony are seen to have emerged alongside each other in the wake of the Enlightenment, culminating eventually not only in scientifically based racism in the nineteenth century and racial medicine in the twentieth century, but also in the perceived enhancement and legitimisation of colonial expansion by reference to medical and scientific progress. The interrelatedness of race, science and medicine, and its extension to the colonial realm during the nineteenth century, in particular, therefore constitutes one major focus for work and research.


Waltraud Ernst. Historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and medicine.
In: Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris (eds.) Race, Science and Medicine, 1700–1960.
London: Routledge, 1999.
It can be inferred from Waltraud Ernst’s text that scientifically based racism and colonial expansion
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Q3928803 Inglês
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     Space medicine is an emerging field that blends emergency care, physiology, psychology and toxicology to help astronauts manage the health challenges of space flight. Its key focus is understanding how the body responds in the absence of gravity. In space, astronauts live in microgravity, a state of near weightlessness caused by continuous free fall while orbiting the planet.
     Although gravity is still present, its effects are greatly diminished. Fluids move upward, muscles weaken and bones lose mass. These changes can disrupt normal body function in ways that are still being studied.
     “Microgravity is not an environment we evolved for,” says Dr. Lisa McNamee, who works with space medicine. “It acts like a stress test on the body, and that tells us things about human physiology that we’d never discover in a lab,” she adds.
     Other risks include radiation, pressure changes, disrupted sleep cycles, lunar dust and g-forces. These forces, caused by changes in acceleration, can place added strain on the body.

Niamh Shaw. Medicine’s final frontier: How space is changing what we know about health.
Internet: <www.irishtimes.com> (adapted).
With the sentence “Fluids move upward, muscles weaken and bones lose mass” (second sentence of the second paragraph), Niamh Shaw mentions bodily changes that
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Q3928802 Inglês
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     Space medicine is an emerging field that blends emergency care, physiology, psychology and toxicology to help astronauts manage the health challenges of space flight. Its key focus is understanding how the body responds in the absence of gravity. In space, astronauts live in microgravity, a state of near weightlessness caused by continuous free fall while orbiting the planet.
     Although gravity is still present, its effects are greatly diminished. Fluids move upward, muscles weaken and bones lose mass. These changes can disrupt normal body function in ways that are still being studied.
     “Microgravity is not an environment we evolved for,” says Dr. Lisa McNamee, who works with space medicine. “It acts like a stress test on the body, and that tells us things about human physiology that we’d never discover in a lab,” she adds.
     Other risks include radiation, pressure changes, disrupted sleep cycles, lunar dust and g-forces. These forces, caused by changes in acceleration, can place added strain on the body.

Niamh Shaw. Medicine’s final frontier: How space is changing what we know about health.
Internet: <www.irishtimes.com> (adapted).
Niamh Shaw’s main purpose with her text is to
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Q3928326 Inglês

Choose the right option about the sentences below.



I. Does she ever have fish for dinner?


II. My Math teacher usually is late to class.


III. My mother never work on Monday.

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Q3928325 Inglês
Choose the option in which the imperative sentence is INCORRECT.
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Q3928324 Inglês
Answer the question about prepositions. Choose the correct alternatives.
The drugstore is           Third Avenue and Main street. It’s           Mana’s Restaurant. Go ahead two blocks, then turn left and walk down           Main street. Davis’s Drugstore is           the left. You can’t miss it.
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Q3928323 Inglês
Answer the question about prepositions. Choose the correct alternatives.
The English classes here are        Monday and Fridays        7:00 pm        9:00 pm. But don’t forget, we won’t have class        September 7th because it is a holiday.
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Q3928322 Inglês
Answer the question about prepositions. Choose the correct alternatives.
Daniel isn’t           vacation. He’s             a trip           Cuba because he’s traveling           business.
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Q3928321 Inglês
Check the option in which the -ed ending sound of the verbs in the past has the same pronunciation as in the underlined verb of the sentence: “She laughed at him.”
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Q3928320 Inglês
Check the option in which the third person -s ending sound of the verbs has the same pronunciation as in the underlined verb of the sentence, “She dances every day.”
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Q3928319 Inglês
Choose the option that has TWO count nouns and TWO noncount nouns.
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Q3928318 Inglês
Select the item that has the correct way to say the three following times: 5:30, 4:45 and 12:15.
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Q3928317 Inglês
Check the alternative with the correct nationality for the following countries: Italy, Germany, Poland, France and Ireland.
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Q3928316 Inglês
Choose the alternative to complete the following sentence about Sandy’s plan for the weekend. “Sandy              her grandparents next weekend.”
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Q3928315 Inglês
In relation to the simple past tense, check the correct alternative.
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Q3928314 Inglês
What is the negative form of the sentence: “Mark studies English in the evening”?
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Respostas
1121: B
1122: B
1123: D
1124: A
1125: B
1126: C
1127: E
1128: A
1129: A
1130: D
1131: B
1132: C
1133: D
1134: B
1135: D
1136: A
1137: A
1138: D
1139: D
1140: B