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Q3825687 Inglês
Text 11A2-I

        The exploration of bilingual education in Brazil reveals a landscape filled with significant challenges and promising possibilities. Inequalities between private institutions and the public sector perpetuate socioeconomic gaps and limited access to it.

        Despite the increasing presence of bilingual education, many programs continue to operate under a monolingual mindset that emphasizes strict separation between languages and prioritizes linguistic accuracy over communicative practices. This perspective limits students’ opportunities to engage dynamically with multiple languages and hinders their development of linguistic mobility. To move beyond these limitations, it is crucial to foster intercultural competences. To do so, creating spaces where students can appreciate and interact with cultural and linguistic diversity becomes essential.

        Central to this discussion is the concept of “funds of perezhivanie”, which integrates various theoretical and practical elements, encompassing experiences, knowledge, potentials, values, and emotions of individuals or groups accumulated throughout their lives. By recognizing these diverse experiences, educators can create a more inclusive and responsive educational environment that values the cultural and experiential diversity of students.

        The concept of “interculturality” is also significant for our context. By exploring strategies for intercultural education, we conceive bilingual education as a possibility for the formation of subjects with an intercultural stance and with greater willingness and knowledge to face the inequalities imposed by our society. Crafting bilingual identities, in this sense, means forging spaces for the construction of intercultural and critical curricula. So interculturality, from the perspective we adopt, is not a theoretical position or a dialogue between cultures or philosophical traditions but a “position” or “disposition,” a “way of life”. An attitude of willingness to live “our” identity references in relation to “others” that opens the human experience toward a process of relearning and of cultural and contextual relocation, which allows us to perceive cultural illiteracies.

        This leads us to the second challenge faced by public bilingual schools that can contribute to the formation of empowered and agentive global citizens: the need to move toward heteroglossic perspectives.

        Heteroglossia is here understood in a broad sense, drawing on Bakhtin’s view of language as inherently plural, layered, and dynamic. According to Busch, this concept encompasses three interrelated dimensions: 1) Multidiscursivity refers to the coexistence of distinct speech types or discourses associated with particular social spheres, time periods, professions, or communities; 2) Multivoicedness highlights the presence of diverse individual voices within these discursive spaces. Every utterance is situated on the boundary between self and other and becomes meaningful only when appropriated and reaccentuated by the speaker; and 3) Linguistic diversity points to the multiplicity of languages and language varieties shaped by social differentiation.

        Framing bilingual education through heteroglossic lenses challenges dominant monolingual and homogenizing ideologies. It invites schools to cultivate spaces where varied discourses, voices, and languages can coexist, interact, and contribute to the construction of knowledge.

Internet: <jstor.org/stable>  (adapted).
Considering text 11A2-I, choose the option that presents a major negative feature of the “monolingual mindset” (first sentence of the second paragraph) often found in current Brazilian bilingual programs.
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Q3825686 Inglês
        In July, colleagues in Ecuador shared how the coronavirus pandemic affected teaching in the country and how students adapted. They also showed how rooting a course in the local context increases learner engagement.

        Learners in Ecuador take English from first grade, but disconnection from the language and culture can reduce engagement.

         Lester Pereddo examined the effects of covid-19 on teaching English in Ecuador, identifying barriers such as the depressed economy, poor internet in rural highlands, work obligations at home, and lack of devices. These challenges reflected local realities, and Lester shared lessons and suggestions for teachers.

Catherine Rayson. Local contexts can make a difference in learning and adapting.
September 10th, 2021. Internet:<https://www.cambridge.org>  (adapted). 
Considering the challenges described by Lester Pereddo in the previous text, choose the option that presents a correct inference about the access to English learning during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Q3825685 Inglês

Text 11A1-IV


The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Dr. Seuss. I can read with my eyes shut! New York: Random House, 1987.

The comparative construction used in both sentences of text 11A1-IV
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Q3825684 Inglês

Text 11A1-IV


The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Dr. Seuss. I can read with my eyes shut! New York: Random House, 1987.

Considering text 11A1-IV, which presents a famous Dr. Seuss quote, choose the correct option regarding the grammatical class of the words “know” and “go”.
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Q3825679 Inglês
Text 11A1-I

        “Newspeak,” the “official language of Oceania” in the novel 1984, comes from “new speak” and was created to supersede “Oldspeak,” or Standard English. Newspeak isn’t just buzzwords, but the deliberate replacement of one set of words in the language for another. Its transition, expected to be completed “by about the year 2050,” appears not through history or social change, but through the will of the Party. The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but also to make all other modes of thought impossible.

         Orwell discusses the “perfected” form of Newspeak, with grammatical “peculiarities,” such as “an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech.” Its vocabulary is divided into the A, B, and C classes. The A class contains “everyday life” words mutated with prefixes and intensifiers like “uncold,” “pluscold,” and “doublepluscold.” The B class contains doublethink coinages like “joycamp” and “Minipax,” similar to “the characteristic features of political language (…) in totalitarian countries.” The citizens of Oceania must have “an outlook” shaped by these restricted words; even sexual life was regulated by “sexcrime” and “goodsex.”

        The C class “consisted entirely of scientific and technical terms,” defined rigidly and stripped of meanings. There was no vocabulary for science as a habit of mind; any meaning it could bear was “already sufficiently covered by the word Ingsoc.” This linguistic control made translating the past nearly impossible. “All mans are equal” could exist only as “a palpable untruth,” and Jefferson’s preamble could only be swallowed by the single word “crimethink.”

        The phrase “alternative facts” could fit easily into the “Newspeak Dictionary,” showing how such language can sink into discourse and become Newspeak itself.

Josh Jones. George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works,
the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984.
January 25th, 2017. Internet:https://www.openculture.com>  (adapted). 
Based on text 11A1-I, choose the option that most accurately reflects a logical consequence of the linguistic policy imposed on the citizens of Oceania.
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Q3825678 Inglês
Text 11A1-I

        “Newspeak,” the “official language of Oceania” in the novel 1984, comes from “new speak” and was created to supersede “Oldspeak,” or Standard English. Newspeak isn’t just buzzwords, but the deliberate replacement of one set of words in the language for another. Its transition, expected to be completed “by about the year 2050,” appears not through history or social change, but through the will of the Party. The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but also to make all other modes of thought impossible.

         Orwell discusses the “perfected” form of Newspeak, with grammatical “peculiarities,” such as “an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech.” Its vocabulary is divided into the A, B, and C classes. The A class contains “everyday life” words mutated with prefixes and intensifiers like “uncold,” “pluscold,” and “doublepluscold.” The B class contains doublethink coinages like “joycamp” and “Minipax,” similar to “the characteristic features of political language (…) in totalitarian countries.” The citizens of Oceania must have “an outlook” shaped by these restricted words; even sexual life was regulated by “sexcrime” and “goodsex.”

        The C class “consisted entirely of scientific and technical terms,” defined rigidly and stripped of meanings. There was no vocabulary for science as a habit of mind; any meaning it could bear was “already sufficiently covered by the word Ingsoc.” This linguistic control made translating the past nearly impossible. “All mans are equal” could exist only as “a palpable untruth,” and Jefferson’s preamble could only be swallowed by the single word “crimethink.”

        The phrase “alternative facts” could fit easily into the “Newspeak Dictionary,” showing how such language can sink into discourse and become Newspeak itself.

Josh Jones. George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works,
the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984.
January 25th, 2017. Internet:https://www.openculture.com>  (adapted). 
Considering text 11A1-I, choose the option that presents a word that, in the text, functions as an abstract noun denoting a non-concrete concept.
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Q3825677 Inglês
Text 11A1-I

        “Newspeak,” the “official language of Oceania” in the novel 1984, comes from “new speak” and was created to supersede “Oldspeak,” or Standard English. Newspeak isn’t just buzzwords, but the deliberate replacement of one set of words in the language for another. Its transition, expected to be completed “by about the year 2050,” appears not through history or social change, but through the will of the Party. The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but also to make all other modes of thought impossible.

         Orwell discusses the “perfected” form of Newspeak, with grammatical “peculiarities,” such as “an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech.” Its vocabulary is divided into the A, B, and C classes. The A class contains “everyday life” words mutated with prefixes and intensifiers like “uncold,” “pluscold,” and “doublepluscold.” The B class contains doublethink coinages like “joycamp” and “Minipax,” similar to “the characteristic features of political language (…) in totalitarian countries.” The citizens of Oceania must have “an outlook” shaped by these restricted words; even sexual life was regulated by “sexcrime” and “goodsex.”

        The C class “consisted entirely of scientific and technical terms,” defined rigidly and stripped of meanings. There was no vocabulary for science as a habit of mind; any meaning it could bear was “already sufficiently covered by the word Ingsoc.” This linguistic control made translating the past nearly impossible. “All mans are equal” could exist only as “a palpable untruth,” and Jefferson’s preamble could only be swallowed by the single word “crimethink.”

        The phrase “alternative facts” could fit easily into the “Newspeak Dictionary,” showing how such language can sink into discourse and become Newspeak itself.

Josh Jones. George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works,
the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984.
January 25th, 2017. Internet:https://www.openculture.com>  (adapted). 
Using reading strategies to obtain a global understanding of text 11A1-I, choose the option that best synthesizes the central idea conveyed by the text.
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Q3819002 Inglês
Subject-verb agreement can be complex when dealing with collective nouns, proximity principles, and specific quantifiers. Analyze the statements below.

I.In the sentence "Neither the director nor the actors __ aware of the change," the verb should be "were" following the principle of proximity.
II.The phrase "A number of problems" takes a singular verb, whereas "The number of problems" takes a plural verb.
III.The noun "criteria" is plural and requires a plural verb, while "criterion" is the singular form.

Choose the alternative that indicates the correct statement(s).
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Q3819001 Inglês
Dependent prepositions often pose significant challenges for advanced learners as they do not always follow a logical spatial paradigm. In the context of the sentence "His views are completely at variance ___ the established facts, yet he remains oblivious ___ the evidence," identify the pair of prepositions that correctly completes the collocations.
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Q3819000 Inglês
Conversion (or zero derivation) is a word-formation process in which a word changes its grammatical class without any change in form. Identify the sentence in which a word functions as a verb derived from a noun by means of conversion.
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Q3818999 Inglês
Reporting verbs often require complex passive constructions, especially when referring to the past. Transform the sentence "People allege that he stole the funds" into the passive voice using the personal structure.
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Q3818998 Inglês
Negative inversion is a syntactic phenomenon used for emphasis where the auxiliary verb precedes the subject after certain negative or restrictive adverbials. Choose the alternative that correctly applies this rule.
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Q3818997 Inglês
The Mandative Subjunctive is a mood used in formal English to express necessity, demand, or recommendation after specific verbs or adjectives. Considering the sentence "The board requires that the motion ___ immediately so that further discussion ___ avoided," select the option that correctly completes the sentence maintaining the formal subjunctive mood. 
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Q3818996 Inglês
Advanced grammar involves understanding the nuances of epistemic modality and the restrictive nature of relative clauses. Mark T (True) or F (False) for the statements regarding these structures.

(__)The modal verb "must" in "He must be exhausted after the marathon" expresses epistemic necessity (logical deduction), not obligation.
(__)In the sentence "The theory, that I described earlier, is complex," the use of "that" is grammatically correct for a non-restrictive clause.
(__)The pronoun "whom" is mandatory, in formal English, when it functions as the complement of a preposition (e.g., "The person to whom I spoke").
(__)The conjunction "lest" is followed by the subjunctive mood or "should", expressing a negative purpose (e.g., "Lest he forget").

Select the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
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Q3818995 Inglês
The "the... the..." construction (correlative comparative) creates a relationship of proportionality between two clauses. Analyze the sentence "The more sophisticated the technology becomes, the more vulnerable to cyberattacks ___." Select the option that correctly completes the syntactic structure involving the subject and verb placement.
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Q3818994 Inglês
The use of articles in English is governed by complex rules regarding the nature of the noun phrase, specifically concerning generic versus specific reference. In the sentence "___ history of ___ Middle Ages is often misunderstood, as ___ history in general is subject to revisionism," the correct sequence of articles depends on the modification of the abstract nouns. Choose the option that correctly fills the blanks according to standard grammatical rules.
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Q3818993 Inglês
Adverb placement can radically alter the semantic scope and meaning of a sentence. Analyze the placement of "only" in the sentences below.

I."Only I tasted the wine" implies that no one else tasted it.
II."I only tasted the wine" implies that I did nothing else with the wine (e.g., I didn't drink it all).
III."I tasted only the wine" implies that I tasted nothing else but the wine.
Choose the alternative that indicates the correct interpretation(s). 
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Q3818262 Inglês
Select the sentence that uses the comparative form correctly. 
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Q3818261 Inglês
Choose the alternative with the correct grammar structure. 
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Q3818260 Inglês
Select the sentence that uses a reflexive pronoun correctly.
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Respostas
1461: B
1462: B
1463: C
1464: C
1465: B
1466: E
1467: B
1468: B
1469: C
1470: A
1471: C
1472: B
1473: A
1474: C
1475: B
1476: C
1477: B
1478: E
1479: B
1480: C