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Q3825680 Inglês

Text 11A1-II 

Kathryn LeMieux. When English teachers snap.

Internet:<https://engl3202lsu.weebly.com>  (adapted).

Text 11A1-II shows a teacher being arrested after correcting a sentence on a billboard. Considering the grammatical rules and the humorous meaning of the text, it is correct to conclude that its comic effect results from the fact that
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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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Q3821062 Inglês
Mark the correct statement about the excerpt “After the samples were returned to Earth” (l. 25). 
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Q3821061 Inglês
Mark the alternative that presents the correct statement about the highlighted word “While” (l. 10) in the context presented in the text. 
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Q3821060 Inglês
Mark the alternative that fills in, correctly and respectively, the blanks in the first paragraph. 
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Q3821059 Inglês
Analyze the statements below about the text and mark T, if true, or F, if false.
( ) Moss resilience is not new to scientists, but it was the first time samples were sent to the ISS.
( ) Syntrichia caninervis species was exposed to conditions that are similar to the environment on Mars.
( ) Dr. Zupanska believes Dr. Fujita’s study was the first of this kind and allowed many new findings.
The correct order of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is: 
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Q3821058 Inglês
Mark the INCORRECT statement about Dr. Tomomichi Fujita’s study.
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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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Respostas
1881: C
1882: B
1883: E
1884: B
1885: D
1886: C
1887: E
1888: A
1889: B
1890: B
1891: C
1892: A
1893: C
1894: B
1895: A
1896: C
1897: B
1898: C
1899: B
1900: E