In Text I, the idea stated in italics corresponds to the meaning expressed by the boldfaced verb phrase in

The road sign above means that you _____ reduce speed.

A synonym for earn, as the verb is used in the text, is

According to the context, the MODAL that adequately fills the blank is

Choose the correct verb form that completes the sentence below.          If the teenagers ________________ (not , drink) so much beer last night, they wouldn't have had an accident.

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter (By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE) 1. SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. 
2. This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development. 
3. They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles. (…) 
4. The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving. (…) 
5. The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.” In a study comparing German-Italian bilinguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his colleagues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but they also did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicating that they were more efficient at it. (…) 
6. Bilingualism’s effects also extend into the twilight years. In a recent study of 44 elderly Spanish-English bilinguals, scientists led by the neuropsychologist Tamar Gollan of the University of California, San Diego, found that individuals with a higher degree of bilingualism — measured through a comparative evaluation of proficiency in each language — were more resistant than others to the onset of dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset. 
7. Nobody ever doubted the power of language. But who would have imagined that the words we hear and the sentences we speak might be leaving such a deep imprint? 
(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/thebenefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=0. Acesso: 04/02/2013)
The words globalized (paragraph 01), considered (paragraph 02), blessing (paragraph 03), and like (paragraph 04), are respectively presented in text as:

Read the sentences below.

I. The Food and Drug Administration had approved marketing of the weight-loss drug lorcaserin, the first prescription anti-obesity medication to win the FDA’s blessing since the agency approved orlistat in 1999.

II. The U.S. Justice Department’s civil fraud division is investigating claims that CVS Caremark wrongly refilled prescriptions and billed insurers without the knowledge or the approval of its customers.

III. Warning signs of a heart attack often includes discomfort at the center of the chest that last more than a few minutes or comes and goes; also possible are pain or discomfort in the arms, back, neck, jaw or stomach; a cold sweat; and shortness of breath.

According to the context, choose the alternative in which the underlined verb is used correctly.

Read the sentence below taken from the text and analyze the assertions.

“Two pills a day turns into four, which turns into six and so forth.”

I. The phrasal verb “to turn into” can be replaced by “in turn”.

II. “Which” refers to the last quantity of pills mentioned.

III. The expression “so forth” infers that, after having 6 pills, the patient restarts taking four pills.

The correct assertion(s) is(are)

Choose the correct part of speech for found in the sentence “A whale found dead on the Southern Spanish coast (...)”

The verb tense in the following sentences is:

“(...) some regions have already moved (...)”
“The packaging industry has responded by (...)”

In the excerpts of Text II: “The US economic and social systems are set up to provide opportunity for immigrants to prosper” (lines 10-12) and “if immigrants are instead brought in as low-wage replacements for American workers” (lines 60-61) set up and brought in mean, respectively,

In Text II, the sentence that expresses the idea of absolute certainty in the future is

In “because hiring and training new employees is costly” (l.6-7), the verb to hire means.

The verb form “impair” (l.10) is synonymous with

Leia os excertos a seguir, retirados do texto:

1. “ the first global football championship held in South America”

2. “roads are being built”

3. “people are being employed and trained”

As formas infinitivas dos verbos destacados acima se encontram dispostas, correta e respectivamente, na alternativa:

Read the text below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks.

The inflectional {-ing} morpheme is found in the underlined word in alternative

In the sentence “Vertical Farm must be efficient…” (paragraph 1) the modal “must” indicates:

Complete the sentence “When I was a child, my parents never imagined that I ___________ mother of five kids”.

Complete the sentences below, then choose an alternative:

I _________________ (to smoke) for years.