Questões de Concurso Sobre verbos | verbs em inglês

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Ano: 2013 Banca: FUNCAB Órgão: SEPOG - RO
Q1228027 Inglês
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.
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Ano: 2013 Banca: AOCP Órgão: Prefeitura de Seropédica - RJ
Q1219695 Inglês
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:
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Q1015033 Inglês
Concerning the verb phrases will be looking for / will expect (L. 3) and is being made / is losing (L. 5; L. 6), one can say that the difference in either set of examples is, respectively, grounded in
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Q1015019 Inglês
Indicate which of the following verbs, combined with the same preposition, is similar in meaning to the underlined expression in “[…] different social and cultural environments will call for different strategies […]” (L. 8,9):
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Q1015014 Inglês
On paraphrasing the underlined words in “Whole communities, such as several in the Basquespeaking parts of northern Spain, have had their linguistic identity deliberately eliminated.” (L. 41,42) one might say that someone/ something
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Q866987 Inglês
In the sentence “I truly think she will always be full of enthusiasm!” (ℓ.16-17), “will” is
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Q866983 Inglês
The clauses in “places she’s been or people she’s met” (ℓ.5) are in the
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Q866982 Inglês
In the clause ‘the greatest guy you could meet’ (ℓ.4), the modal verb “could” expresses
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Q866981 Inglês
If the clause “she was the luckiest woman alive” (ℓ.2) had been used in the simple present tense, the verbal form “was” should be replaced by
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Q866980 Inglês
In the clause “When I first met my friend Carol” (ℓ.1), the verbal form is in the
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Q866979 Inglês
In the sentence “The rainbow troops must constantly defend their extremely poor school against plans to close it” (ℓ.15-16), the modal verb “must” expresses
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Q866978 Inglês
The verb form “written” in “written in simple, conversational prose” (ℓ.8-9) is in the
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Ano: 2013 Banca: FGV Órgão: AL-MT Prova: FGV - 2013 - AL-MT - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q789413 Inglês
The modal in “They can perfectly practice” (lines 12 and 13) implies
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Ano: 2013 Banca: FGV Órgão: AL-MT Prova: FGV - 2013 - AL-MT - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q789409 Inglês
The word “teaching” in the phrase “language teaching problems” (lines 2 and 3) is used in the same way as in
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Ano: 2013 Banca: FGV Órgão: AL-MT Prova: FGV - 2013 - AL-MT - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q789408 Inglês
The noun “growth” in the title is related, respectively, to the base form, the simple past, and the past participle in
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Ano: 2013 Banca: FGV Órgão: AL-MT Prova: FGV - 2013 - AL-MT - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q789403 Inglês
The underlined word in "to simply stand in a room and mind  rowdy teens" (l. 41 anda 42) is a 
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Ano: 2013 Banca: FGV Órgão: AL-MT Prova: FGV - 2013 - AL-MT - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q789401 Inglês
The verb phrase in "lLots of schools that have embraced the transition" (lines 35) is in the :
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Ano: 2013 Banca: FGV Órgão: AL-MT Prova: FGV - 2013 - AL-MT - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q789398 Inglês

Read the following fragment:

"the internet has created new possibilities for those _____ studies all over the globe" (lines 20 and 21).

The alternative that is compatible with the original meaning of the sentence is

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Q642189 Inglês

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.

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Q642183 Inglês

              Anxiety Medication: Over Prescribed and

                              Causing Overdoses

      According to a story on NBC New York, more and more patients are ending up in New York City hospitals having over dosed on Xanax. Xanax is in the benzodiaziepine family of drugs and it’s used to treat anxiety, nervousness, and panic attacks by decreasing brain activity.

Xanax Overdoses Way Up

NBC New York reports:

      Between 2004 and 2009, New York City emergency room visits involving Xanax and other anti-anxiety prescription drugs known as benzodiazepines increased more than 50 percent. That’s up from 38 out of 100,000 New Yorkers in 2004 to 59 out of 100,000 New Yorkers.

      It’s not the drug by itself that causes the overdoses, but used in combination with other drugs and alcohol, it creates a toxic cocktail which isn’t easily metabolized in the body.

      The drug is habit forming and withdrawal symptoms can include sweating, shaking, difficulty falling asleep, difficulty concentrating, depression, and nervousness. Many fear that the drug is being over prescribed. 

      “I don’t believe they take the time with the patients to figure out what the problems are,” Cali Estes, a drug counselor said to NBC New York. “A doctor who is running short on time and nurses and probably isn’t paid as much as he or she used to be finds it easier to say, ‘OK, this person has a problem, here’s your script, have a nice day. Where’s my next patient?’” 

Whitney Houston’s Death Tied to Xanax and Other Drugs

      Whitney Houston’s recent death is raising questions as to this and other sedatives. Xanax is most often criticized by those in the psychiatric community because it only lasts 6 to 20 hours.

Forbes reports: 

      On the face of it, this seems like a great combination – you get a quick hit of anxiety relief and the drug leaves your system within a 24-hour period. But in practice what often happens is that because the drug acts so quickly and dissipates quickly, the patient begins taking more of it to maintain the effect. Two pills a day turns into four, which turns into six and so forth.

      According to the CDC, prescription drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., topping automobile accidents for the first time in 30 years. Currently, Xanax is the 11th most widely prescribed drug in the nation.

                                                     Available in: http://blogs.discovery.com

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)

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2841: E
2842: A
2843: A
2844: B
2845: C
2846: A
2847: E
2848: A
2849: E
2850: D
2851: D
2852: D
2853: B
2854: D
2855: C
2856: A
2857: D
2858: A
2859: B
2860: D