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Q3989984 Inglês

In English pronunciation, the definite article “the” has two possible pronunciations:



• It is pronounced /ðə/ (“thuh”) before consonant sounds.


• It is pronounced /ðiː/ (“thee”) before vowel sounds.



Choose the alternative in which “the” must be pronounced /ðiː/ in all the expressions below. 

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Q3989983 Inglês

The base verbs below are all regular verbs:



I. to play


II. to study


III. to stop


IV. to travel



Choose the alternative in which all the verbs are correctly written in the Simple Past tense, respectively. 

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Q3989982 Inglês

In the Simple Past tense, the ending -ed can be pronounced as /t/, /d/, or /ɪd/.



Choose the alternative in which all the verbs have their -ed ending pronounced as /t/.

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Q3989981 Inglês

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentences below with the appropriate prepositions, respectively.



I. She is waiting ___ the bus stop.


II. There is a clock ___ the wall.


III. My sister works ___ a hospital.

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Q3989980 Inglês

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence. The correct answer must be a possessive pronoun that replaces the noun and avoids repetition.



That house is not ours; it is ______. 

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Q3989979 Inglês

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence. The correct answer must express the idea of formal prohibition.



Employees ______ enter the restricted area without proper authorization.

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Q3989978 Inglês

Select the alternative that correctly completes the sentence.



The office closes ______ midnight.

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Q3989977 Inglês

Select the alternative that correctly completes the sentence.



She ______ to Paris three times since 2020.

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Q3989976 Inglês

Read the text to answer question.


The Tipping Point.


Last week at my neighborhood coffee shop, the barista flipped that dreaded tablet toward me. Three tip options glared back: 18%. 22%. 25%. For a $3.50 latte I was picking up. That took thirty seconds to make. I’ve hit my breaking point with tipping culture.


Growing up, tipping was simple: 15–20% for sitdown restaurants, maybe your hairdresser. Now it’s an expected tax on every transaction. The frozen yogurt shop where I serve myself wants 20%. Self-checkout kiosks are asking for tips. This is insane.


When I traveled Europe last summer, I paid exactly what was on the menu. No guilt, no calculations, no awkward pressure. Servers were paid living wages and the service was excellent.


Meanwhile, I’m expected to subsidize corporate America’s refusal to pay fair wages while their CEOs pocket millions in bonuses.


It’s 2025, and American tipping culture has spiraled out of control. It’s hurting workers, stressing customers, and letting profitable businesses guilt-trip their own customers into covering payroll. When I worked retail years ago, my employer paid my full wage. I didn’t expect customers to subsidize my paycheck because my boss decided to pocket the difference. Yet somehow in 2025, we’ve normalized corporations outsourcing their payroll responsibility to guilt-ridden customers. 72% of U.S. adults say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. But even as Americans say they’re being asked to tip more often, only about a third say it’s extremely or very easy to know whether (34%) or how much (33%) to tip for various services.


[...] The confusion is real and it’s intentional. Companies benefit from our uncertainty because confused customers tend to over-tip rather than risk social judgment.


Murdock, Jeff. Why Is Tipping Culture Out of Control in 2025? Medium. 16 Jun. 2025. Disponível em:<https://medium.com/@frat1309/why-is-tipping-cultureout-of-control-in-2025-im-done-subsidizing-corporategreed-76ba74887b82>

Based on the text, how does the author's experience in Europe contrast with his experience in America?
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Q3989975 Inglês

Read the text to answer question.


The Tipping Point.


Last week at my neighborhood coffee shop, the barista flipped that dreaded tablet toward me. Three tip options glared back: 18%. 22%. 25%. For a $3.50 latte I was picking up. That took thirty seconds to make. I’ve hit my breaking point with tipping culture.


Growing up, tipping was simple: 15–20% for sitdown restaurants, maybe your hairdresser. Now it’s an expected tax on every transaction. The frozen yogurt shop where I serve myself wants 20%. Self-checkout kiosks are asking for tips. This is insane.


When I traveled Europe last summer, I paid exactly what was on the menu. No guilt, no calculations, no awkward pressure. Servers were paid living wages and the service was excellent.


Meanwhile, I’m expected to subsidize corporate America’s refusal to pay fair wages while their CEOs pocket millions in bonuses.


It’s 2025, and American tipping culture has spiraled out of control. It’s hurting workers, stressing customers, and letting profitable businesses guilt-trip their own customers into covering payroll. When I worked retail years ago, my employer paid my full wage. I didn’t expect customers to subsidize my paycheck because my boss decided to pocket the difference. Yet somehow in 2025, we’ve normalized corporations outsourcing their payroll responsibility to guilt-ridden customers. 72% of U.S. adults say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. But even as Americans say they’re being asked to tip more often, only about a third say it’s extremely or very easy to know whether (34%) or how much (33%) to tip for various services.


[...] The confusion is real and it’s intentional. Companies benefit from our uncertainty because confused customers tend to over-tip rather than risk social judgment.


Murdock, Jeff. Why Is Tipping Culture Out of Control in 2025? Medium. 16 Jun. 2025. Disponível em:<https://medium.com/@frat1309/why-is-tipping-cultureout-of-control-in-2025-im-done-subsidizing-corporategreed-76ba74887b82>

In the excerpt “72% of U.S. adults say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago.”, the comparative structure expresses:
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Q3989974 Inglês

Read the text to answer question.


The Tipping Point.


Last week at my neighborhood coffee shop, the barista flipped that dreaded tablet toward me. Three tip options glared back: 18%. 22%. 25%. For a $3.50 latte I was picking up. That took thirty seconds to make. I’ve hit my breaking point with tipping culture.


Growing up, tipping was simple: 15–20% for sitdown restaurants, maybe your hairdresser. Now it’s an expected tax on every transaction. The frozen yogurt shop where I serve myself wants 20%. Self-checkout kiosks are asking for tips. This is insane.


When I traveled Europe last summer, I paid exactly what was on the menu. No guilt, no calculations, no awkward pressure. Servers were paid living wages and the service was excellent.


Meanwhile, I’m expected to subsidize corporate America’s refusal to pay fair wages while their CEOs pocket millions in bonuses.


It’s 2025, and American tipping culture has spiraled out of control. It’s hurting workers, stressing customers, and letting profitable businesses guilt-trip their own customers into covering payroll. When I worked retail years ago, my employer paid my full wage. I didn’t expect customers to subsidize my paycheck because my boss decided to pocket the difference. Yet somehow in 2025, we’ve normalized corporations outsourcing their payroll responsibility to guilt-ridden customers. 72% of U.S. adults say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. But even as Americans say they’re being asked to tip more often, only about a third say it’s extremely or very easy to know whether (34%) or how much (33%) to tip for various services.


[...] The confusion is real and it’s intentional. Companies benefit from our uncertainty because confused customers tend to over-tip rather than risk social judgment.


Murdock, Jeff. Why Is Tipping Culture Out of Control in 2025? Medium. 16 Jun. 2025. Disponível em:<https://medium.com/@frat1309/why-is-tipping-cultureout-of-control-in-2025-im-done-subsidizing-corporategreed-76ba74887b82>

In “Servers were paid living wages and the service was excellent.”, the verbs are in the passive voice. The active voice equivalent would be:
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Q3989973 Inglês

Read the text to answer question.


The Tipping Point.


Last week at my neighborhood coffee shop, the barista flipped that dreaded tablet toward me. Three tip options glared back: 18%. 22%. 25%. For a $3.50 latte I was picking up. That took thirty seconds to make. I’ve hit my breaking point with tipping culture.


Growing up, tipping was simple: 15–20% for sitdown restaurants, maybe your hairdresser. Now it’s an expected tax on every transaction. The frozen yogurt shop where I serve myself wants 20%. Self-checkout kiosks are asking for tips. This is insane.


When I traveled Europe last summer, I paid exactly what was on the menu. No guilt, no calculations, no awkward pressure. Servers were paid living wages and the service was excellent.


Meanwhile, I’m expected to subsidize corporate America’s refusal to pay fair wages while their CEOs pocket millions in bonuses.


It’s 2025, and American tipping culture has spiraled out of control. It’s hurting workers, stressing customers, and letting profitable businesses guilt-trip their own customers into covering payroll. When I worked retail years ago, my employer paid my full wage. I didn’t expect customers to subsidize my paycheck because my boss decided to pocket the difference. Yet somehow in 2025, we’ve normalized corporations outsourcing their payroll responsibility to guilt-ridden customers. 72% of U.S. adults say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. But even as Americans say they’re being asked to tip more often, only about a third say it’s extremely or very easy to know whether (34%) or how much (33%) to tip for various services.


[...] The confusion is real and it’s intentional. Companies benefit from our uncertainty because confused customers tend to over-tip rather than risk social judgment.


Murdock, Jeff. Why Is Tipping Culture Out of Control in 2025? Medium. 16 Jun. 2025. Disponível em:<https://medium.com/@frat1309/why-is-tipping-cultureout-of-control-in-2025-im-done-subsidizing-corporategreed-76ba74887b82>

The sentence “If companies paid fair wages, customers wouldn’t feel pressured to tip.” is an example of:
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Q3989972 Inglês

Read the text to answer question.


The Tipping Point.


Last week at my neighborhood coffee shop, the barista flipped that dreaded tablet toward me. Three tip options glared back: 18%. 22%. 25%. For a $3.50 latte I was picking up. That took thirty seconds to make. I’ve hit my breaking point with tipping culture.


Growing up, tipping was simple: 15–20% for sitdown restaurants, maybe your hairdresser. Now it’s an expected tax on every transaction. The frozen yogurt shop where I serve myself wants 20%. Self-checkout kiosks are asking for tips. This is insane.


When I traveled Europe last summer, I paid exactly what was on the menu. No guilt, no calculations, no awkward pressure. Servers were paid living wages and the service was excellent.


Meanwhile, I’m expected to subsidize corporate America’s refusal to pay fair wages while their CEOs pocket millions in bonuses.


It’s 2025, and American tipping culture has spiraled out of control. It’s hurting workers, stressing customers, and letting profitable businesses guilt-trip their own customers into covering payroll. When I worked retail years ago, my employer paid my full wage. I didn’t expect customers to subsidize my paycheck because my boss decided to pocket the difference. Yet somehow in 2025, we’ve normalized corporations outsourcing their payroll responsibility to guilt-ridden customers. 72% of U.S. adults say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. But even as Americans say they’re being asked to tip more often, only about a third say it’s extremely or very easy to know whether (34%) or how much (33%) to tip for various services.


[...] The confusion is real and it’s intentional. Companies benefit from our uncertainty because confused customers tend to over-tip rather than risk social judgment.


Murdock, Jeff. Why Is Tipping Culture Out of Control in 2025? Medium. 16 Jun. 2025. Disponível em:<https://medium.com/@frat1309/why-is-tipping-cultureout-of-control-in-2025-im-done-subsidizing-corporategreed-76ba74887b82>

In the sentence “I’ve hit my breaking point with tipping culture.”, the expression “hit my breaking point” is closest in meaning to:
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Q3988646 Inglês
“In many Brazilian public universities, English instruction has historically prioritized the development of strategic reading abilities, enabling learners to extract relevant information from academic texts in their fields, rather than pursuing full oral fluency.” (Excerpt adapted from: Celani [1988]; Ramos [2005]. “Brazilian ESP tradition”)
The pedagogical orientation described aligns most closely with:
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Q3988645 Inglês
“An adequate theory of language pedagogy must extend beyond grammatical mastery and account for the sociocultural rules governing appropriateness, discourse cohesion, and strategic resourcefulness in real-life interaction.” (Excerpt adapted from: Hymes, 1972, On Communicative Competence; Canale & Swain, 1980, Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing.)
The theoretical construct being operationalized in the excerpt is:
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Q3988644 Inglês
“In structurally oriented classrooms influenced by audiolingual principles, language is conceptualized primarily as a system of habits to be formed through pattern drills, repetition, and controlled manipulation of grammatical structures, with minimal emphasis on spontaneous interaction.” (Excerpt adapted from: Richards & Rodgers [2001]. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching)
The pedagogical orientation most accurately characterized in the excerpt corresponds to:
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Q3988643 Inglês
During a policy symposium on digital governance in education, a senior advisor stated: “Teachers are navigating unprecedented epistemological shifts, and we must ensure that they receive sustained institutional support if AI is to enhance rather than erode pedagogical integrity.” (Excerpt adapted from: MIT Technology Review [2023].
“How Generative AI Is Reshaping Education”) In formally reporting the advisor’s statement within an academic article written after the event, the grammatically accurate and contextually appropriate transformation would be: 
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Q3988642 Inglês
“In policy roundtables, numerous educators have articulated that they wish institutional investment in sustained AI training ______ more systematic, less episodic, and insulated from shifting political agendas.” (Excerpt adapted from: Harvard Graduate School of Education [2023]. “Preparing Teachers for an AI-Driven Future”) The verb form that correctly expresses present regret concerning an unreal state is:
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Q3988641 Inglês
“Teachers, ______ professional discernment and pedagogical autonomy remain indispensable within AI-augmented classrooms, must be regarded not as peripheral implementers of policy but as central agents in shaping ethically responsible digital futures.” (Excerpt adapted from: The Conversation [2024]. “Teachers Are Key to Students’ AI Literacy”)
The correct relative determiner that completes the clause is:  
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Q3988640 Inglês
“It has been widely acknowledged that, in the absence of robust regulatory oversight, vast repositories of student-generated data ______ in ways that neither educators nor families are able to scrutinize effectively.” (Excerpt adapted from: World Economic Forum [2020]. “Shaping the Future of Learning”)
The grammatically accurate passive construction expressing epistemic possibility is:  
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Respostas
321: A
322: C
323: D
324: B
325: D
326: A
327: B
328: C
329: D
330: E
331: A
332: B
333: D
334: D
335: A
336: C
337: B
338: D
339: C
340: B