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Q3803573 Inglês
Considering the semantic groups — approaching, happening/creating, preparing, and disrupting/damaging — and the nuanced meanings of the phrasal verbs presented, which option best misinterprets the phrasal verb in context, creating a semantic mismatch with the intended meaning of the original sentence? 
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Q3803572 Inglês
In articulatory phonetics, the classification of English consonants depends on multidimensional parameters—voicing, place, manner of articulation, velic position, and lip configuration. Considering this framework and the descriptive conventions adopted by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which alternative best exemplifies a misalignment between the articulatory description provided and the phonetic symbol used?
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Q3803570 Inglês
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of Victory!

As he, defeated — dying —
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

(c. 1859)
– Emily Dickinson –
Throughout the poem “Success is counted sweetest”, Emily Dickinson explores a subjective experience regarding the value of success and victory. Considering the poetic devices employed by the author, the imagery constructed, and the dramatic perspective adopted, which human interiorization is conveyed in the poem? 
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Q3795587 Inglês
What is the main idea of the passage?
“In our everyday lives, much of what we do is driven by habits. From brushing our teeth in the morning to the way we tie our shoelaces or greet a friend — habits shape our routines, decisions, and even the direction of our lives. But have you ever paused to think about how powerful habits can be in shaping your personality, mindset, and success? Let’s explore what habits truly are, how they can benefit your life, and practical ways to build habits that stick.”
Source: https://www.makemebetter.net/the-powerof-habits-how-small-actions-shape-your-life/ (28/09/2025)
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Q3795586 Inglês
Choose the incorrect option: 
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Q3795585 Inglês
Choose the correct option:
I - Bob stopped eating at two.
II - They regret telling you they were going to enter that competition!
III - Jason wants to visit a museum on Friday.
IV - Mary stopped to eat at six. 
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Q3795584 Inglês
Choose the incorrect option: 
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Q3795583 Inglês
Choose the correct linking words of contrast: 
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Q3795582 Inglês
Choose the group of words with the same “ed” sound: 
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Q3795581 Inglês
Choose the incorrect option:
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Q3795580 Inglês
Choose the correct opition.
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Q3795579 Inglês
Choose the correct option:
I - I had my room cleaned.
II- Tom had his car washed.
III- She had the electrician look at her broken light.
IV- I have cleaned my house.
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Q3795578 Inglês
Choose the correct option to complete the text.
“The United Nations ______ is one part of the UN System. Cooperation between the UN and the other entities of the UN system is essential in order to achieve the purposes of the Organization laid out in the UN Charter. Since _____ Charter was written, the United Nations has been mandated to do new work which was not envisioned at the time of its creation. The Organization has set goals to build a more sustainable world, and _____ has agreed to collective action to slow down climate change.”
Source: https://www.un.org/en/our-work (28/09/2025)
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Q3794579 Inglês
Digital communication, including emails, chats, and social media posts, has blurred the traditional boundaries between written and spoken English. Online discourse frequently combines informal vocabulary, abbreviations, and multimodal elements (emojis, hyperlinks, hashtags), leading to new textual genres. Considering this linguistic evolution, which statement best characterizes the impact of technology on English language use?
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Q3794578 Inglês
In modern English, phrasal verbs such as bring up, turn down, and carry on exemplify the blending of verbs with adverbial or prepositional particles that alter the base verb's meaning. The semantic relationship between the verb and the particle often produces idiomatic constructions that cannot be interpreted literally. Considering the syntactic behavior of these structures, which option below correctly identifies a true phrasal verb rather than a prepositional verb?
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Q3794577 Inglês
In academic and professional English, prepositions such as in spite of, according to, and with regard to are classified as complex prepositions, playing a crucial role in written discourse cohesion. They often indicate relationships of contrast, conformity, and reference. Based on this understanding, which of the following sentences uses a complex preposition correctly?
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Q3794576 Inglês
In English syntax, adjective phrases can function as modifiers either before or after the noun, and their position affects both meaning and emphasis. Predicative adjectives occur after linking verbs, while attributive ones precede nouns within noun phrases. Analyze the examples below and select the sentence that contains an adjective phrase functioning predicatively.
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Q3794575 Inglês
Textual cohesion depends on the appropriate use of grammatical devices such as reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunctions. In written communication, the connector nevertheless signals contrast, while pronouns like this and those maintain referential chains across sentences. Which of the following short texts demonstrates both cohesive reference and a contrastive connector effectively?
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Q3794574 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder às questão.


Italians


The peak period of Italian immigration to the United States occurred between 1880 and 1921, when approximately 4.2 million Italians came to America. The vast majority of these immigrants, about 80 percent, hailed from the Mezzogiorno in southern Italy, a region in the midst of great tumult and hardship. Having only been officially unified in 1860, political tension between the government in the north and the rural peasants in the south increased in the 1870s, when the government placed an onerous tax on wheat and salt, which were necessities for southern farmers and fishermen. In the 1880s, disease ravaged both staple and cash crops; malaria and other epidemics also devastated southern Italy during this period. Additionally, a series of earthquakes and the eruptions of Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius in the early 1900s destroyed cities and killed tens of thousands of people.

Conditions in the United States during this era appeared to be very favorable to many in southern Italy. Wages for both skilled and unskilled laborers in the industrialized US could be three times greater than wages for the same work in the depressed Italian economy. Even illiterate day laborers could find better paying jobs with better working conditions in cities like Boston. In the late nineteenth century, Italian immigrants were often referred to as "birds of passage"−young men who migrated alone, earning money to buy land and support their families at home and eventually returning to Italy. After World War I, however, immigration patterns changed and more Italian immigrants began to bring their families over and put down permanent roots in the region.

Patterns of Settlement

Boston's North End neighborhood became the locus of Italian settlement in eastern New England. Once the home of English colonists and revolutionaries like Paul Revere, Irish and Jewish immigrants settled in the North End before the wave of Italian immigration in the late 1800s. By the early 20th century, the North End was densely filled with tenements, in which tens of thousands of Italians lived. Much of the appeal of the North End for immigrant groups was its proximity to work opportunities on the waterfront and in downtown Boston. By 1920, over 50 percent of Italian immigrants in Boston lived in the North End. Those who could afford more spacious dwellings moved across the harbor to East Boston, which by the mid-twentieth century became the city's largest Italian-American community. Others moved to nearby suburbs such as Somerville, Revere and Saugus, especially after World War II. But even as immigrants and their children moved to these areas, many Italian small businesses and restaurants remained in the North End, and it is still an important center of Italian culture in New England.

Workforce Participation

Most Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked menial, unskilled jobs upon their arrival in Boston, as day laborers, dockworkers, or fruit sellers. Others opened shops and small businesses, and some skilled workers (like tailors) found higher-paying jobs. In neighborhoods like the North End and East Boston, immigrants operated Italian restaurants that attracted a growing clientele from across the city. For the earlier "birds of passage," though, assimilating into the wider American culture was not a priority; for more permanent Italian settlers, cultural obstacles such as the language barrier and lower levels of education made upward mobility difficult. Within a few generations, however, Italian Americans in Boston became better educated and were able to move into middle-class and professional occupations, including some of the highest echelons of business and politics.


https://globalboston.bc.edu/index.php/home/ethnic-groups/italians/ 
The word industrialized in "industrialized US" derives from the noun industry and expresses a process of transformation. Which of the following options correctly mirrors this morphological pattern?
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Q3794573 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder às questão.


Italians


The peak period of Italian immigration to the United States occurred between 1880 and 1921, when approximately 4.2 million Italians came to America. The vast majority of these immigrants, about 80 percent, hailed from the Mezzogiorno in southern Italy, a region in the midst of great tumult and hardship. Having only been officially unified in 1860, political tension between the government in the north and the rural peasants in the south increased in the 1870s, when the government placed an onerous tax on wheat and salt, which were necessities for southern farmers and fishermen. In the 1880s, disease ravaged both staple and cash crops; malaria and other epidemics also devastated southern Italy during this period. Additionally, a series of earthquakes and the eruptions of Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius in the early 1900s destroyed cities and killed tens of thousands of people.

Conditions in the United States during this era appeared to be very favorable to many in southern Italy. Wages for both skilled and unskilled laborers in the industrialized US could be three times greater than wages for the same work in the depressed Italian economy. Even illiterate day laborers could find better paying jobs with better working conditions in cities like Boston. In the late nineteenth century, Italian immigrants were often referred to as "birds of passage"−young men who migrated alone, earning money to buy land and support their families at home and eventually returning to Italy. After World War I, however, immigration patterns changed and more Italian immigrants began to bring their families over and put down permanent roots in the region.

Patterns of Settlement

Boston's North End neighborhood became the locus of Italian settlement in eastern New England. Once the home of English colonists and revolutionaries like Paul Revere, Irish and Jewish immigrants settled in the North End before the wave of Italian immigration in the late 1800s. By the early 20th century, the North End was densely filled with tenements, in which tens of thousands of Italians lived. Much of the appeal of the North End for immigrant groups was its proximity to work opportunities on the waterfront and in downtown Boston. By 1920, over 50 percent of Italian immigrants in Boston lived in the North End. Those who could afford more spacious dwellings moved across the harbor to East Boston, which by the mid-twentieth century became the city's largest Italian-American community. Others moved to nearby suburbs such as Somerville, Revere and Saugus, especially after World War II. But even as immigrants and their children moved to these areas, many Italian small businesses and restaurants remained in the North End, and it is still an important center of Italian culture in New England.

Workforce Participation

Most Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked menial, unskilled jobs upon their arrival in Boston, as day laborers, dockworkers, or fruit sellers. Others opened shops and small businesses, and some skilled workers (like tailors) found higher-paying jobs. In neighborhoods like the North End and East Boston, immigrants operated Italian restaurants that attracted a growing clientele from across the city. For the earlier "birds of passage," though, assimilating into the wider American culture was not a priority; for more permanent Italian settlers, cultural obstacles such as the language barrier and lower levels of education made upward mobility difficult. Within a few generations, however, Italian Americans in Boston became better educated and were able to move into middle-class and professional occupations, including some of the highest echelons of business and politics.


https://globalboston.bc.edu/index.php/home/ethnic-groups/italians/ 
 In the sentence "Having only been officially unified in 1860, political tension between the government in the north and the rural peasants in the south increased in the 1870s," the use of a non-finite participial clause creates a temporal and causal relationship with the main clause. From a syntactic perspective, this structure exemplifies a form of subordination typical of academic and historical discourse. Which sentence below reproduces an equivalent syntactic pattern?
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2121: C
2122: D
2123: A
2124: B
2125: C
2126: A
2127: D
2128: C
2129: A
2130: B
2131: D
2132: B
2133: C
2134: B
2135: D
2136: A
2137: B
2138: A
2139: C
2140: B