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Q2379797 Inglês
'Oh, the Places You'll Go!', 'Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!'

Which form of the verb 'to be' is used and why is it used in this context?
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Q2379796 Inglês
''Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."' In this sentence, which modal verb is used by Atticus to give a recommendation to Jem and what does it indicate?

(‘To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee)

Choose the correct alternative about the text above:
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Q2379795 Inglês
Consider the following excerpt from the poem 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost: 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both'. If the poet were to describe his regular journeys through the woods in the simple present tense, how might he express this? Formulate a sentence in the simple present tense that captures the regularity and frequency of the poet's journeys.
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Q2379794 Inglês
Consider the following dialogue between two friends, Mary and John, discussing their plans for the upcoming holidays.

“Mary is excited about her planned trip to Australia, and John is planning to stay at home to finish his novel.”

Based on their conversation, formulate a sentence that accurately portrays both Mary's and John's future plans using the correct forms of 'going to' and 'will'. Remember to consider the rules of usage for 'going to' and 'will' in expressing future actions and intentions. The correct answer could be:
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Q2372104 Inglês
READ TEXT 4 FOR THE QUESTION:


“(…) Black English (African American Vernacular –AAV), has a distinctive use of be as a main verb, expressing iteration rather than instantaneous or constant states. Although the Standard English phrases will be and would be can have a meaning similar to Black English be, phonological deletion of these modals cannot account for all occurrences of be in Black English. It is argued that the best analysis is one which recognizes only one verb to be, which can occur without tense.”


 (Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/412334)
According to the text, which one of the following presents one example of this distinctive use of verb 'be' as linguistic characteristic?
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Q2372095 Inglês
READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.


TEXT 2


“Children learn, on average, ten to fifteen new word meanings each day, but only one of these words can be accounted for by direct instruction. The other nine to fourteen word meanings need to be picked up in some other way. It has been proposed that children picked up acquire these meanings with the use of processes modeled by latent semantic analysis; that is, when they meet an unfamiliar word, unfamiliar children can use information in its context to correctly guess its rough area of meaning. A child may expand the meaning and use of certain words that are already part of its mental lexicon in order to denominate anything that is somehow related but for which it does not know the specific words yet. For instance, a child may broaden the use of mummy and dada in order to indicate anything that mummy dada belongs to its mother or father, or perhaps every person who resembles its own parents, or say rain while meaning I don't want to go out.”


(Adapted from: Language Acquisition https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/35237)
The phrasal verb “picked up” (line 2can be substituted, without change in meaning, by which one of the following?
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Q2348166 Inglês
     What is agronomy? An agronomist, or crop scientist, studies plants and how they can be grown, modified, and used to benefit society. They use science to carry out experiments that create new techniques for agriculture production. Agronomy has existed and been important for humans since the invention of farming.

Internet: <unity.edu> (with adaptations).


According to the text, judge the item from.

The last period of the text is in the present perfect tense in which “been” is the past participle of the verb to be.
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Q2348164 Inglês
    Agronomy looks at agriculture from an integrated, holistic perspective. Agronomists are specialists in crop and soil science, as well as ecology. Some things they look at are:


• the properties of the soil;
• how the soil interacts with the growing crop;
• what nutrients (fertilizers) the crop needs;
• when and how to apply these nutrients;
• the ways that crops grow and develop;
• how climate and other environmental factors affect the crop at all stages;
• how best to control weeds, insects, fungi, and other crop pests; and,
• how to grow crops effectively and profitably while conserving and protecting the environment.



Internet: <www.agronomy.org> (with adaptations).
According to the text, judge the item from.

There are five occurrences of the verb to be in the text. 
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Q2348002 Inglês
11.30.2023

City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) — even if they didn’t know it at the time.

The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Rosário revealed that it was written by a chatbot, sparking objections and raising questions about the role of artificial intelligence in public policy.

Rosário told The Associated Press that he asked OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to craft a proposal to prevent the city from charging taxpayers to replace water consumption meters if they are stolen. He then presented it to his 35 peers on the council without making a single change or even letting them know about its unprecedented origin. The 36-member council approved it unanimously and the ordinance went into effect on Nov. 23.

The arrival of ChatGPT on the marketplace just a year ago has sparked a global debate on the impacts of potentially revolutionary AI-powered chatbots. While some see it as a promising tool, it has also caused concerns and anxiety about the unintended or undesired impacts of a machine handling tasks currently performed by humans.

Porto Alegre, with a population of 1.3 million, is the second-largest city in Brazil’s south. The city’s council president, Hamilton Sossmeier, found out that Rosário had enlisted ChatGPT to write the proposal when the councilman bragged about the achievement on social media. Sossmeier initially told local media he thought it was a “dangerous precedent.”

The AI large language models that power chatbots like ChatGPT work by repeatedly trying to guess the next word in a sentence and are prone to making up false information, a phenomenon sometimes called hallucination.

All chatbots sometimes introduce false information when summarizing a document, ranging from about 3% of the time for the most advanced GPT model to a rate of about 27% for one of Google’s models, according to recently published research by the tech company Vectara.

In an article published on the website of Harvard Law School’s Center of Legal Profession earlier this year, Andrew Perlman, wrote that ChatGPT “is a machine learning system, it may not have the same level of understanding and judgment as a human lawyer when it comes to interpreting legal principles and precedent. This could lead to problems in situations where a more in-depth legal analysis is required”.

There was no such transparency for Rosário’s proposal in Porto Alegre. Sossmeier said Rosário did not inform fellow council members that ChatGPT had written the proposal.

Rosário told the AP his objective was also to spark a debate. He said he entered a 49-word prompt into ChatGPT and it returned the full draft proposal within seconds, including justifications.

And the council president, who initially decried the method, already appears to have been swayed. “I changed my mind,” Sossmeier said. “I started to read more in depth and saw that, unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend.”


( (<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/30/brazil-artificial-intelligenceporto-alegre/9f576ecc-8fb2-11ee-95e1-edd75d825df0_story.htm>(adapted))
Choose the best alternative: “Person’s use of GPT _____ ”. 
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Q2346539 Inglês

Choose the correct imperative form of the verb for the given statement:



                                "_________ (to mix) the dry ingredients in a bowl."

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Q2346534 Inglês
Read the sentences below and identify the correct form of the verb 'to do' that should be used in the Present Simple tense based on the routine activities:

'I play soccer every Friday', 'She practices the piano after school', 'We go for a walk with the dog', 'He feeds his pet fish before dinner'.
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Q2346528 Inglês
'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. I believe I can guess that,' she added aloud. 

What role does the imperative form play in the given context?
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Q2346522 Inglês
For many people, one of the most challenging aspects of learning English is the use of phrasal verbs. There are, literally, thousands of them, and no shortcuts to make them any easier. Choose the correct alternative about this theme:
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Q2346521 Inglês
Imagine that you are reading about a famous scientist's life, who made significant discoveries in his field. Which of the following sentences correctly uses the simple past tense to describe an event that happened in the scientist's life? 
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Q2346519 Inglês
'The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.' Using the verb 'to be', how could you rephrase the second sentence to maintain its original meaning?
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Q2346517 Inglês
Choose the correct answer:
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Q2346516 Inglês
Based on the following excerpt from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White:

'Wilbur was lonely. The sheep were asleep. His stomach was empty.'
What is the correct form of the verb 'to be' used in these sentences and why? 
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Q2346515 Inglês
How would you use the verb 'to be' to ask a question about Harry's profession?
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Q2345005 Inglês
2023 Theme
Green Skills for Youth: Towards a Sustainable
World


Today, the world is embarking on a green transition. The shift towards an environmentally sustainable and climate-friendly world is critical not only for responding to the global climate crisis but also for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A successful transition towards a greener world will depend on the development of green skills in the population. Green skills are “knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in, develop and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society”. These include technical knowledge and skills that enable the effective use of green technologies and processes in occupational settings, as well as transversal skills that draw on a range of knowledge, values and attitudes to facilitate environmentally sustainable decisions in work and in life. Due to their interdisciplinary nature, the essence of green skills is sometimes expressed, partly if not wholly, through other associated terms such as “skills for the future” and “skills for green jobs”. While green skills are relevant for people of all ages, they have heightened importance for younger people, who can contribute to the green transition for a longer period of time.


https://www.un.org/en/observances/youth-day
Considering the linguistic elements in the text,
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Q2344910 Inglês
Read Text IV and answer the question that follow it 

Text IV


Teaching Reading Strategies


No matter what we are reading there are effective reading strategies we call on in order to make meaning from the text. Many of these strategies can be taught with comics and graphic novels. The ones highlighted below are particularly important when reading graphic texts.


Drawing Inferences


In comics and graphic novels, perhaps more than any other text, readers must build understanding by filling in gaps. A whole world of information is left in the gutter between the panels. The comic artist expects the reader to infer the action that takes place off the page. The more complex and sophisticated the comic, the more important this strategy becomes. If the reader is not making inferences, he is lost. Understanding this strategy and using it effectively will help students read ’between the lines’ in more traditional print narratives.


Visualization


Students who struggle with reading may not understand what should be going on in the reader’s imagination during reading. With comics and other visual texts, the images are there for the reader. Through comics students can be taught how to create their own mental images when reading more traditional texts.

It is important that students understand the visual cues that are provided in the text. Although the words and images work together to tell the story, comics are primarily visual narratives. Therefore readers must draw on and integrate some important background knowledge and understandings about visual texts, comic elements and narrative structures in order to make meaning. The more knowledge readers have about the way visual texts work, the more successful they are likely to be.


Adapted from https://www.literacytoday.ca/home/reading/readingstrategies/reading-visual-texts/reading-comics
The base form, past form, and past participle of the main verb in “he is lost” (2nd paragraph) are: 
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1181: A
1182: B
1183: C
1184: A
1185: E
1186: B
1187: C
1188: E
1189: C
1190: B
1191: E
1192: C
1193: A
1194: C
1195: D
1196: C
1197: B
1198: E
1199: B
1200: B