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   Let’s start by discussing smoking. It continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in many countries. The highest percent of smoking tends to be seen among people with a high school diploma (or not even that!), and the lowest is among those with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Trends in efforts to quit smoking habits also vary by educational level. Adults with only a high school diploma historically have had the lowest rates of quitting smoking compared to adults overall. But these data document the relationship when it is too late: Adults don’t drop out of school, children do.


   The field of public health recognizes education is a social determinant of health and an indicator of well-being. National efforts in North America are currently focused on promoting literacy, and increasing high school completion and college enrollment. It is critical to ensure that children have positive learning experiences while they are still young so that they can achieve educational success. This is one of the best ways to ensure that they can live healthier lives as adults.


   A human baby’s brain is not fully developed at birth. Rapid brain developments and the acquisition of foundation skills occur in the first few years of life and then steady into childhood and adolescence. Abuse, neglect, poverty and related stressful exposures can put children at risk for problems with healthy cognitive, social and emotional development, which can interfere with learning.


   To effectively address the problem, learning environments must include staff who have knowledge about trauma and symptoms of trauma. Most importantly, the school ecosystems, which include the schools’ staff, must be prepared and able to provide children, and each other, safe, supportive and trusting environments. Thus, creating effective solutions will require a multigenerational approach – that is, one that focuses on the children affected as well as on the adults dealing with them. In order to promote well-being across the lifespan, we must collectively invest in meeting the needs of future generations.



(Shanta R. Dube. 07.02.2018, https://theconversation.com. Adaptado) 


Pronouns are important reference elements contributing to the cohesion in texts. In the fragment from the second paragraph “This is one of the best ways to”, the bolded pronoun refers to the following idea in the two sentences that precede it: 
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   Let’s start by discussing smoking. It continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in many countries. The highest percent of smoking tends to be seen among people with a high school diploma (or not even that!), and the lowest is among those with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Trends in efforts to quit smoking habits also vary by educational level. Adults with only a high school diploma historically have had the lowest rates of quitting smoking compared to adults overall. But these data document the relationship when it is too late: Adults don’t drop out of school, children do.


   The field of public health recognizes education is a social determinant of health and an indicator of well-being. National efforts in North America are currently focused on promoting literacy, and increasing high school completion and college enrollment. It is critical to ensure that children have positive learning experiences while they are still young so that they can achieve educational success. This is one of the best ways to ensure that they can live healthier lives as adults.


   A human baby’s brain is not fully developed at birth. Rapid brain developments and the acquisition of foundation skills occur in the first few years of life and then steady into childhood and adolescence. Abuse, neglect, poverty and related stressful exposures can put children at risk for problems with healthy cognitive, social and emotional development, which can interfere with learning.


   To effectively address the problem, learning environments must include staff who have knowledge about trauma and symptoms of trauma. Most importantly, the school ecosystems, which include the schools’ staff, must be prepared and able to provide children, and each other, safe, supportive and trusting environments. Thus, creating effective solutions will require a multigenerational approach – that is, one that focuses on the children affected as well as on the adults dealing with them. In order to promote well-being across the lifespan, we must collectively invest in meeting the needs of future generations.



(Shanta R. Dube. 07.02.2018, https://theconversation.com. Adaptado) 


The same word may be a noun, a verb or an adjective, depending on the context. Identify the alternative in which the bolded word acts as a noun in the context.
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Q3456336 Inglês

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   Let’s start by discussing smoking. It continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in many countries. The highest percent of smoking tends to be seen among people with a high school diploma (or not even that!), and the lowest is among those with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Trends in efforts to quit smoking habits also vary by educational level. Adults with only a high school diploma historically have had the lowest rates of quitting smoking compared to adults overall. But these data document the relationship when it is too late: Adults don’t drop out of school, children do.


   The field of public health recognizes education is a social determinant of health and an indicator of well-being. National efforts in North America are currently focused on promoting literacy, and increasing high school completion and college enrollment. It is critical to ensure that children have positive learning experiences while they are still young so that they can achieve educational success. This is one of the best ways to ensure that they can live healthier lives as adults.


   A human baby’s brain is not fully developed at birth. Rapid brain developments and the acquisition of foundation skills occur in the first few years of life and then steady into childhood and adolescence. Abuse, neglect, poverty and related stressful exposures can put children at risk for problems with healthy cognitive, social and emotional development, which can interfere with learning.


   To effectively address the problem, learning environments must include staff who have knowledge about trauma and symptoms of trauma. Most importantly, the school ecosystems, which include the schools’ staff, must be prepared and able to provide children, and each other, safe, supportive and trusting environments. Thus, creating effective solutions will require a multigenerational approach – that is, one that focuses on the children affected as well as on the adults dealing with them. In order to promote well-being across the lifespan, we must collectively invest in meeting the needs of future generations.



(Shanta R. Dube. 07.02.2018, https://theconversation.com. Adaptado) 


For his exposition in the first paragraph, the writer makes use of information deriving from 
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   Let’s start by discussing smoking. It continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in many countries. The highest percent of smoking tends to be seen among people with a high school diploma (or not even that!), and the lowest is among those with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Trends in efforts to quit smoking habits also vary by educational level. Adults with only a high school diploma historically have had the lowest rates of quitting smoking compared to adults overall. But these data document the relationship when it is too late: Adults don’t drop out of school, children do.


   The field of public health recognizes education is a social determinant of health and an indicator of well-being. National efforts in North America are currently focused on promoting literacy, and increasing high school completion and college enrollment. It is critical to ensure that children have positive learning experiences while they are still young so that they can achieve educational success. This is one of the best ways to ensure that they can live healthier lives as adults.


   A human baby’s brain is not fully developed at birth. Rapid brain developments and the acquisition of foundation skills occur in the first few years of life and then steady into childhood and adolescence. Abuse, neglect, poverty and related stressful exposures can put children at risk for problems with healthy cognitive, social and emotional development, which can interfere with learning.


   To effectively address the problem, learning environments must include staff who have knowledge about trauma and symptoms of trauma. Most importantly, the school ecosystems, which include the schools’ staff, must be prepared and able to provide children, and each other, safe, supportive and trusting environments. Thus, creating effective solutions will require a multigenerational approach – that is, one that focuses on the children affected as well as on the adults dealing with them. In order to promote well-being across the lifespan, we must collectively invest in meeting the needs of future generations.



(Shanta R. Dube. 07.02.2018, https://theconversation.com. Adaptado) 


Though not very recent, the text discusses one topic of major relevance today. One of the text’s main discussions has to do with the
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Cantaloupes – a variety of melon

The fragment “Only in Math problems can you buy 60 cataloupes”
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Cantaloupes – a variety of melon

The character in the cartoon implicitly criticizes 
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https://screenrant.com/most-heartwarming-calvin-and-hobbes-comics/ 

The tiger’s words in the final frame are: “Don’t worry”. In a reporting situation, one would say that the tiger
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The boy reports his mother’s words to the tiger using the expression “she says”. Read the following sentence and decide the most adequate reporting verb to fill in the blank with appropriate meaning and structure.

After calling an emergency meeting to happen in the situation room, Mr. President _________________ the ministers that the state of affairs might become critical.
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https://screenrant.com/most-heartwarming-calvin-and-hobbes-comics/ 

The bolded parts in the extracts “we just have to do the best we can” (frame 2), and “I guess that makes sense” (frame 3) are examples of collocations – a combination of two or more words that often go together. Collocations with “make” and “do” are a difficulty Brazilian learners frequently face. The sentence with a correct collocation among the ones below is
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Q3439639 Inglês
In the image, the idea of affection between the child and the tiger stands out. The word that best describes the relationship between the two characters is

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Q3439638 Inglês
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    AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate” and offer up falsehoods as if they were hard facts.

Yet people are relying more and more on AI to answer their questions. Half of all people in the U.S. between the ages of 14 and 22 now use AI to get information, according to a 2024 Harvard study.


https://theconversation.com/heres-how-researchers-are-helping-ais-gettheir-facts-straight-245463
The word “Yet”, in the beginning of the second paragraph, is polysemic and its meaning depends on the context. In the sentences below, the one in which the word carries the same meaning as the one used in the text is
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Q3439637 Inglês
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    AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate” and offer up falsehoods as if they were hard facts.

Yet people are relying more and more on AI to answer their questions. Half of all people in the U.S. between the ages of 14 and 22 now use AI to get information, according to a 2024 Harvard study.


https://theconversation.com/heres-how-researchers-are-helping-ais-gettheir-facts-straight-245463
From the alternatives, choose the one in which the pronunciation of the plural form of the words given follows the sequence /s/, /z/, /iz/.
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Q3439636 Inglês
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    AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate” and offer up falsehoods as if they were hard facts.

Yet people are relying more and more on AI to answer their questions. Half of all people in the U.S. between the ages of 14 and 22 now use AI to get information, according to a 2024 Harvard study.


https://theconversation.com/heres-how-researchers-are-helping-ais-gettheir-facts-straight-245463
A palavra “information” é um substantivo incontável em inglês e não recebe plural. Das palavras a seguir, a que acompanha a mesma regra é
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Q3439635 Inglês
Read the quote.

    “If the teacher is indeed wise, he does not bid you into the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”

Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet (in HARMER, Jeremy. How to teach English. Pearson Education Limited 2007.

Gibran’s quote is an instance of use of conditionals in a sentence. Complete the blank spaces to make the sentence an improbable past condition.

“If the teacher ____________ indeed wise, he __________you into the house of his wisdom, but rather ____________you to the threshold of your own mind.” 
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Is other a verb?


    Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
Forms of other can be used as either adjectives or pronouns – besides the more recent verb form. They include others, the other, the others, another. Indicate the correct use of one of these forms:
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Is other a verb?


    Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
The stretch of text “many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion” is an example of impersonal passive voice – which shows, for instance, what an unspecified group of people say or believe. One instance of this type of passive is
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Is other a verb?


    Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
In the sentence taken from the text “Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun”, the pronoun in bold letters refers to the word “other”. Sometimes, though, “it” does not have a referent and serves a grammatical function only, thus being named, for example, “dummy it”. Mark the alternative in which “it” has a referent. 
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    Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of possible sentences. These rules comprise the grammar of a language, which is learned when you acquire the language and includes the sound system, the structure of words, how words may be combined into phrases and sentences, the ways in which sounds and meanings are related, and the words or lexicon. The sounds and meanings of these words are related in an arbitrary fashion. And so are the gestures used by deaf signers. Language, then, is a system that relates sounds (or hand and body gestures) with meanings; when you know a language you know this system.


FROMKIN, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N. An Introduction to Language. 10th edition Wadsworth Cengage. Learning. 2013. Adaptado
In the fraction of the text “Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of possible sentences.”, the words in bold carry opposite meaning because of the prefix “in”. The word which results in opposite meaning because of the same prefix is 
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    Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of possible sentences. These rules comprise the grammar of a language, which is learned when you acquire the language and includes the sound system, the structure of words, how words may be combined into phrases and sentences, the ways in which sounds and meanings are related, and the words or lexicon. The sounds and meanings of these words are related in an arbitrary fashion. And so are the gestures used by deaf signers. Language, then, is a system that relates sounds (or hand and body gestures) with meanings; when you know a language you know this system.


FROMKIN, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N. An Introduction to Language. 10th edition Wadsworth Cengage. Learning. 2013. Adaptado
Os verbos regulares a seguir foram retirados do texto e estão no tempo presente. Marque a alternativa em que os dois verbos têm seu sufixo -ed do passado e particípio passado pronunciado com /d/.
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Q3439628 Inglês
A student who does not know the meaning of the acronym A.D. would correctly ask for clarification from the teacher using the question 
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4241: C
4242: A
4243: C
4244: D
4245: A
4246: C
4247: A
4248: C
4249: D
4250: A
4251: E
4252: A
4253: D
4254: E
4255: B
4256: A
4257: E
4258: E
4259: C
4260: D