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Q3406124
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2025 Banca: FGV Órgão: SEPLAN-SE Prova: FGV - 2025 - SEPLAN-SE - Especialista em Políticas Públicas e Gestão Governamental |
Q3406124 Inglês
READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTION


The importance of assessing the social and economic impacts of environmental policies


Policymakers face the challenge of supporting both inclusive and sustainable economic development and a healthy environment. While the most desirable policy outcome is one that achieves the greatest environmental benefits while also advancing socioeconomic goals, it is important for policymakers to fully understand the possible trade-offs between these objectives. A better understanding of the broader impacts of environmental policies is crucial to mitigate their adverse effects on competing goals, especially as countries are faced with the arduous task of responding to mounting environmental challenges in economically turbulent times.


Governments are under pressure to scale up and accelerate their ambition on climate and environmental goals. But in taking such action forward, they have to carefully navigate a number of headwinds. These include the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on both the economy and society, cost-of-living crisis, political tensions and geopolitical crises such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Low-income people and the poorest economies are the hardest hit, primarily due to the steep increases in the price of energy and food.


The level of environmental policy stringency can have an impact on a variety of policy outcomes. Empirical research is crucial to shed light on these interlinkages. Previous research has shown that more stringent environmental policy has achieved significant environmental benefits with little aggregate effect on economic performance. However, localized effects may generate winners and losers, with significant losses for certain sectors, firms or individuals and benefits for others. Nonetheless, at present, the empirical evidence on these distributional aspects is still scarce, despite its crucial role in supporting good policy design. More than ever, regulators need better tools and insights to assess the consequences of environmental policies on the economy and on social outcomes.


Adapted from the brochure downloaded from https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/social-and-economic-impacts-ofenvironmental-policies.html
In the first paragraph, the word that means “a situation in which you balance two opposing situations or qualities”.

(in https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english) is:
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Q3405435
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC - Professor(a) de Inglês |
Q3405435 Inglês

O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.



Vianden Castle History


(1º§) The rocky outcrop above the modern town of Vianden was first fortified in late antiquity. Excavations at the foot of the castle chapel in 1994 led to the discovery that parts of the crumbling masonry of the Late Antique tower must have existed in Merovingian times and that this square building, the only surviving structure from the period known as Late Antiquity, was incorporated into the first medieval castle.


(2º§) The first fortification was built at the beginning of Late Antiquity on the castle hill at an ancient crossroads, where a branch of the great Roman road Reims-Cologne through the Ardennes and the valley of Our led to the valley of the Sauer and through Echternach to Bitburg and Trier, at that time a thriving metropolis.


(3º§) After the Vianden fort was abandoned around 430/440 AD, the Roman Tower seems to have been sufficiently usable to remain a decisive element in the subsequent periods of castle building up to the High Middle Ages.


(4º§) The first medieval fortification was erected on the rocky spur overlooking Vianden around the year 1000. The main part of this fortification consisted of an oval ring wall. This defensive wall, meticulously reinforced with small slabs of slate, was exactly one meter wide. As with the ancient wall, this special construction technique allowed archaeologists to retrace it virtually its entire length. The old late antique moat also remained in use during this period. The entire inner surface of the fortification was leveled by filling the lower defensive wall with stones and earth. This complex also included a hall, used for administrative purposes, and a chapel, which was installed in the remains of the late antique tower.


(5º§) Vianden Castle was extensively rebuilt around 1170. The remains of the wooden scaffolding found in the new residential tower made it possible to determine the date of construction using the three-ring dating technique.


(6º§) Important architectural contributions were made, in Gothic style, between the 13th and 14th centuries by the Counts of Vianden. In 1417 the castle became a possession of the Orange-Nassau family who made changes in the Renaissance style. The castle was long in the possession of the grand-ducal family until it became state property in 1977. After this date, it was restored and shines in its former glory. Today, Vianden Castle is one of the most important architectural monuments in Europe being one of the largest and most beautiful feudal residences of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. In the entrance area there is a modern interactive visitor center.


https://www.histouring.com/en/historical-places/vianden-castle/

The term "crumbling" is used in the first paragraph to describe the state of the masonry. What does "crumbling" best imply in this context?
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Q3405432
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC - Professor(a) de Inglês |
Q3405432 Inglês

O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.



Vianden Castle History


(1º§) The rocky outcrop above the modern town of Vianden was first fortified in late antiquity. Excavations at the foot of the castle chapel in 1994 led to the discovery that parts of the crumbling masonry of the Late Antique tower must have existed in Merovingian times and that this square building, the only surviving structure from the period known as Late Antiquity, was incorporated into the first medieval castle.


(2º§) The first fortification was built at the beginning of Late Antiquity on the castle hill at an ancient crossroads, where a branch of the great Roman road Reims-Cologne through the Ardennes and the valley of Our led to the valley of the Sauer and through Echternach to Bitburg and Trier, at that time a thriving metropolis.


(3º§) After the Vianden fort was abandoned around 430/440 AD, the Roman Tower seems to have been sufficiently usable to remain a decisive element in the subsequent periods of castle building up to the High Middle Ages.


(4º§) The first medieval fortification was erected on the rocky spur overlooking Vianden around the year 1000. The main part of this fortification consisted of an oval ring wall. This defensive wall, meticulously reinforced with small slabs of slate, was exactly one meter wide. As with the ancient wall, this special construction technique allowed archaeologists to retrace it virtually its entire length. The old late antique moat also remained in use during this period. The entire inner surface of the fortification was leveled by filling the lower defensive wall with stones and earth. This complex also included a hall, used for administrative purposes, and a chapel, which was installed in the remains of the late antique tower.


(5º§) Vianden Castle was extensively rebuilt around 1170. The remains of the wooden scaffolding found in the new residential tower made it possible to determine the date of construction using the three-ring dating technique.


(6º§) Important architectural contributions were made, in Gothic style, between the 13th and 14th centuries by the Counts of Vianden. In 1417 the castle became a possession of the Orange-Nassau family who made changes in the Renaissance style. The castle was long in the possession of the grand-ducal family until it became state property in 1977. After this date, it was restored and shines in its former glory. Today, Vianden Castle is one of the most important architectural monuments in Europe being one of the largest and most beautiful feudal residences of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. In the entrance area there is a modern interactive visitor center.


https://www.histouring.com/en/historical-places/vianden-castle/

The text mentions "scaffolding" found during renovations of Vianden Castle. What does "scaffolding" refer to? 
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Q3403869
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary , Sinônimos | Synonyms ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403869 Inglês
Read Text II for the question:

TEXT II

It’s hard to overstate the benefits of a night’s rest for human memory, and neuroscientists are just beginning to understand why.

Jakke Tamminen has plenty of students who do that very studenty thing of staying up all night right before an exam, in the hope of stuffing in as much knowledge as they can. But “that’s the worst thing you can do”, the psychology lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway University warns them.

He should know. Tamminen is an expert on how sleep affects memory, specifically the recall needed for language. Sleep learning – another idea beloved of students, in the hope that, say, playing a language-learning recording during sleep would imprint itself into the brain subliminally and they’d wake up speaking Latin – is a myth. But sleep itself is essential for embedding knowledge in the brain, and the research of Tamminen and others shows us why that is.

In Tamminen’s ongoing research project, participants learn new vocabulary, then stay awake all night.

Tamminen compares their memory of those words after a few nights, and then after a week. Even after several nights of recovery sleep, there is a substantial difference in how quickly they recall those words compared to the control group of participants who didn’t face sleep deprivation. “Sleep is really a central part of learning,” he says. “Even though you’re not studying when you sleep, your brain is still studying. It’s almost like it’s working on your behalf. You can’t really get the full impact of the time you put into your studies unless you sleep.” […]

But more critical to Tamminen’s current research – and to sleep’s role in language development more generally – is a non-REM phase of deep sleep known as slow-wave sleep (SWS). SWS is important for forming and retaining memories, whether of vocabulary, grammar, or other knowledge. The interaction of different parts of the brain is key here. During SWS, the hippocampus, which is good at quick learning, is in constant communication with the neocortex, to consolidate it for long term recall.

So the hippocampus might initially encode a new word learned earlier that day, but to truly consolidate that knowledge – spotting patterns and finding connections with other ideas that allow for creative problem-solving – the neocortical system needs to get involved.

This information expressway between the hippocampus and the neocortex is populated by sleep spindles – spikes in brain activity that are no more than three seconds long.

“Sleep spindles are somehow associated with linking new information with existing information,” Tamminen says. And the data from his research participants suggests that people with more sleep spindles have more consolidation of the words they have learned. […]

Children have more slow-wave sleep than adults – which may be one factor explaining how quickly kids learn, in both language and other areas. The child sleep lab at Germany’s University of Tuebingen investigates the role of sleep in consolidating children’s memory. Monitoring what happens in children’s brains during sleep, and how much information they retain before and after sleep, shows that sleep helps with accessing implicit knowledge (procedural memory) and making it explicit (declarative memory).

“The effects are stronger in early childhood because the brain is developing,” says Dominique Petit, the coordinator of the Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network, who has also explored the circadian rhythm in children. In practical terms, this means that “children need to sleep during the day to remember everything that they have to learn”.

“Daytime naps in young children have been shown to be really important for vocabulary growth, generalization of the meaning of words and abstraction in language learning,” she says. “Sleep continues to be important for memory and learning throughout the lifetime, though.” […]

Not only does sleep help with accessing this information, it also changes the way this information is accessed. This makes brains more flexible at retrieving information (or able to access it in more ways).

But it also makes them better at extracting the most significant parts of it.

“It’s actually an active process of strengthening and changing the memory trace,” Zinke says. “Memory gets transferred in a way that the most important information (the gist) is remembered.”

Clearly, for children as well as adults, prolonged sleep isn’t a sign of laziness in a language learner. It’s critical for our brains’ connections and our bodies’ rhythms.

Available at: https://www.bbc.com/future/ article/20180815-why-sleep-should-be-everystudents-priority (adapted)
In the context of the text, what does the term “embedding” most closely mean? 
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Q3403868
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403868 Inglês
Read Text II for the question:

TEXT II

It’s hard to overstate the benefits of a night’s rest for human memory, and neuroscientists are just beginning to understand why.

Jakke Tamminen has plenty of students who do that very studenty thing of staying up all night right before an exam, in the hope of stuffing in as much knowledge as they can. But “that’s the worst thing you can do”, the psychology lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway University warns them.

He should know. Tamminen is an expert on how sleep affects memory, specifically the recall needed for language. Sleep learning – another idea beloved of students, in the hope that, say, playing a language-learning recording during sleep would imprint itself into the brain subliminally and they’d wake up speaking Latin – is a myth. But sleep itself is essential for embedding knowledge in the brain, and the research of Tamminen and others shows us why that is.

In Tamminen’s ongoing research project, participants learn new vocabulary, then stay awake all night.

Tamminen compares their memory of those words after a few nights, and then after a week. Even after several nights of recovery sleep, there is a substantial difference in how quickly they recall those words compared to the control group of participants who didn’t face sleep deprivation. “Sleep is really a central part of learning,” he says. “Even though you’re not studying when you sleep, your brain is still studying. It’s almost like it’s working on your behalf. You can’t really get the full impact of the time you put into your studies unless you sleep.” […]

But more critical to Tamminen’s current research – and to sleep’s role in language development more generally – is a non-REM phase of deep sleep known as slow-wave sleep (SWS). SWS is important for forming and retaining memories, whether of vocabulary, grammar, or other knowledge. The interaction of different parts of the brain is key here. During SWS, the hippocampus, which is good at quick learning, is in constant communication with the neocortex, to consolidate it for long term recall.

So the hippocampus might initially encode a new word learned earlier that day, but to truly consolidate that knowledge – spotting patterns and finding connections with other ideas that allow for creative problem-solving – the neocortical system needs to get involved.

This information expressway between the hippocampus and the neocortex is populated by sleep spindles – spikes in brain activity that are no more than three seconds long.

“Sleep spindles are somehow associated with linking new information with existing information,” Tamminen says. And the data from his research participants suggests that people with more sleep spindles have more consolidation of the words they have learned. […]

Children have more slow-wave sleep than adults – which may be one factor explaining how quickly kids learn, in both language and other areas. The child sleep lab at Germany’s University of Tuebingen investigates the role of sleep in consolidating children’s memory. Monitoring what happens in children’s brains during sleep, and how much information they retain before and after sleep, shows that sleep helps with accessing implicit knowledge (procedural memory) and making it explicit (declarative memory).

“The effects are stronger in early childhood because the brain is developing,” says Dominique Petit, the coordinator of the Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network, who has also explored the circadian rhythm in children. In practical terms, this means that “children need to sleep during the day to remember everything that they have to learn”.

“Daytime naps in young children have been shown to be really important for vocabulary growth, generalization of the meaning of words and abstraction in language learning,” she says. “Sleep continues to be important for memory and learning throughout the lifetime, though.” […]

Not only does sleep help with accessing this information, it also changes the way this information is accessed. This makes brains more flexible at retrieving information (or able to access it in more ways).

But it also makes them better at extracting the most significant parts of it.

“It’s actually an active process of strengthening and changing the memory trace,” Zinke says. “Memory gets transferred in a way that the most important information (the gist) is remembered.”

Clearly, for children as well as adults, prolonged sleep isn’t a sign of laziness in a language learner. It’s critical for our brains’ connections and our bodies’ rhythms.

Available at: https://www.bbc.com/future/ article/20180815-why-sleep-should-be-everystudents-priority (adapted)
The term “spikes” in the context of brain activity refers to what?
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Q3403861
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary , Sinônimos | Synonyms ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Ápice Consultoria Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB Prova: Ápice Consultoria - 2024 - Prefeitura de São João do Tigre - PB - Professor B - Letras/Inglês |
Q3403861 Inglês
Read Text I to answer the question:

TEXT I

“Fundamental breakthroughs in the neurosciences, combined with technical innovations for measuring brain activity, are shedding new light on the neural basis of second language (L2) processing, and on its relationship to native language processing (L1). The long-held assumption that L1 and L2 are necessarily represented in different brain regions in bilinguals has not been confirmed. On the contrary, the available evidence indicates that L1 and L2 are processed by the same neural devices. The neural differences in L1 and L2 representations are only related to the specific computational demands, which vary according to the age of acquisition, the degree of mastery and the level of exposure to each language. Finally, the acquisition of L2 could be considered as a dynamic process, requiring additional neural resources in specific circumstances.”

Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438805000395 (adapted)
What does the term “breakthroughs” most closely mean in the context of this text? 
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Q3403558
Inglês Substantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403558 Inglês
Select the option that completes the dialogue with appropriate vocabulary and syntax:

A: "Could you explain the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'?"
B: "Certainly. ___________ is usually a noun, meaning the result of something, while ___________is a verb meaning to influence something. For example, 'The drug has no known side __________.' 
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Q3403538
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403538 Inglês

Read the poem to answer question.



The Road Not Taken



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;




Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,



And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.



I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.


- Robert Frost

In the poem, what does the word "diverged" in the first line imply? 
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Q3403537
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: Avança SP Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP Prova: Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçapava - SP - Professor II Substituto - Inglês |
Q3403537 Inglês

Read the poem to answer question.



The Road Not Taken



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;




Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,



And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.



I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.


- Robert Frost

What is the meaning of the word "trodden" as used in the line "In leaves no step had trodden black"?
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Q3400257
Inglês Verbos | Verbs , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: IDESG Órgão: Prefeitura de Nova Venécia - ES Prova: IDESG - 2024 - Prefeitura de Nova Venécia - ES - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q3400257 Inglês
Analyze the following sentences.

I. Every summer, Anna ____ on a beach and reads.
II. John _____ me he would come to my party.
III. Are you ______________________ Japanese food?
IV. Our last meeting achieved absolutely nothing; it was a complete _______ of time.

Mark the alternative that fills out, correctly and respectively, the gaps in the sentences:
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Q3400253
Inglês Determinantes e quantificadores | Determiners and quantifiers , Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: IDESG Órgão: Prefeitura de Nova Venécia - ES Prova: IDESG - 2024 - Prefeitura de Nova Venécia - ES - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q3400253 Inglês
Read the following dialogue.

Bree: Could I lend one of your dresses? I have nothing to wear, and the party is already tomorrow.
Lucy: Yeah! Pick at whatever you like.
Bree: Thanks!
[The next day - Bree arrives at the party]
Bree: Wow! Look at this place. There are too much people here.
Alex: Absolutely! This party is very crowded.

Based on this dialogue, choose the correct alternative.
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Q3400252
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary , Falso Cognatos | False Cognates ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: IDESG Órgão: Prefeitura de Nova Venécia - ES Prova: IDESG - 2024 - Prefeitura de Nova Venécia - ES - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q3400252 Inglês
Mark the alternative in which all three words are NOT false friends.
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Q3400250
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: IDESG Órgão: Prefeitura de Nova Venécia - ES Prova: IDESG - 2024 - Prefeitura de Nova Venécia - ES - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q3400250 Inglês
Read Text I and answer question.


Text I


Stat: Young Americans have been securing the bag since the pandemic, largely thanks to their portfolios popping off. The combined wealth of adults under forty has shot up 80% since 2019, compared to 10% for people 40–54 and 30% for the over-55 set, according to economists at the New York Fed. That’s in part because they were poorer than their elders to start with, so they got more Covid stimulus cash that they put into stocks, which have since had a good run. But money from stocks leaves young people exposed to a volatile asset, since the market…doesn’t always go up.


(Source: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/issues/slime-bowl)
Which of the verbs below has an opposite meaning of the phrasal verb “shoot up” in the sentence “The combined wealth of adults under forty has shot up (…)”?
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Q3398366
Inglês Tradução | Translation , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2025 Banca: EVO Concursos Órgão: Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG Prova: EVO Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG - Professor II - Inglês |
Q3398366 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta que em representa Português a tradução de “String”: 
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Q3398365
Inglês Tradução | Translation , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2025 Banca: EVO Concursos Órgão: Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG Prova: EVO Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG - Professor II - Inglês |
Q3398365 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta que representa em Português a tradução de “Straighten”: 
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Q3398364
Inglês Tradução | Translation , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2025 Banca: EVO Concursos Órgão: Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG Prova: EVO Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG - Professor II - Inglês |
Q3398364 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta que representa em Português a tradução de “Queue”: 
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Q3398363
Inglês Tradução | Translation , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2025 Banca: EVO Concursos Órgão: Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG Prova: EVO Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG - Professor II - Inglês |
Q3398363 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta que representa em Português a tradução de “Jitter”: 
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Q3397953
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: FURB Órgão: Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC Prova: FURB - 2024 - Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q3397953 Inglês
The Role of the Teacher in Promoting Intercultural Approaches


Today, it would be an exaggeration to say that cultural diversity is perceived as a problem within education systems, since the teachers, in general, accept it and have positive attitudes towards the contribution of diversity. However, even if it is not a problem within the school, one must nevertheless address its complexity. Cultural diversity is not only an auspicious resource for extra-curricular activities; it has a social dimension with an impact on the life of the pupils and their parents. From this point of view, it seems important to us that teachers are aware of the issues concerning such themes as integration, openness, social justice and equality. Otherwise, it should be said that a certain number of stereotypes persist and their effects should be thoroughly examined within the school.

One of the theoretical foundations which seems productive for us in promoting cultural diversity is culturally relevant teaching. Indeed, further to exploiting otherness as a resource, it subjects it to critical analysis and in this way addresses inequalities connected with cultural, social or ethnic affiliations. This form of teaching addresses inequalities, but also takes the form of an approach to combat them.

Finally, research has demonstrated the advantage of opening the teaching profession to people from diverse origins. Indeed, their knowledge and the resemblance between their own experiences and those of their pupils, particularly those with cultural minority origins, contribute an educational added-value. Furthermore, we believe that the experiences of these teachers may represent a resource for the educational enterprise, while accepting its limits: the need for each individual to choose their own affiliation and not to be assigned an identity that could be detrimental.


(Based and adapted from AKKARI, Abdeljalil; RADHOUANE, Myriam. Intercultural approaches to education: From theory to practice. Springer Nature, 2022.) 
Complete the sentence with the appropriate phrasal verb: "Teachers, in general, ____________ cultural diversity within education systems, demonstrating positive attitudes towards its contribution":
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Q3393782
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2025 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP Prova: VUNESP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP - Professor da Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q3393782 Inglês
Read the following text to answer question:


The Missing Ingredient in Education? Curiosity.


    It’s easy to forget how important individual passion is in education; too often it can feel like it’s a game of just painting by the numbers. But if we all think about it for a moment, isn’t learning actually meant to be a joyous experience? If you think about your own life, haven’t you had an afternoon fly past because you’ve been gripped by a certain task, a particular lesson, a specific train of thought? School education is no different. If we make room for young people’s individual curiosities, notice and nurture them, we can make learning a natural experience.


    Once we find that individual spark in a child, in many ways, the hard part is over. They can lead the way with their learning and they don’t have to be coaxed into it. Curiosity can be utilized through inquiry-based learning and schools all over the world are already making the most of this type of learning. 


    For instance, children are driven to the museums where they are engaged in stories, games and activities. To develop curiosity, children identify an exhibit on a particular topic and are encouraged to ask questions about the exhibits to fill in the gaps in their own knowledge. Along with utilizing manmade resources such as museums, nature itself has an important part to play in inquiry-based learning. The world is full of natural wonders which can spark curiosity in children. 


    Not only is identifying and encouraging curiosity pivotal in a child’s educational career, but it will be useful for them in the working world too. By instilling these behaviours early on we can help kids to become lifelong learners, which they will need to be, as single-track careers become an antiquated idea and we’ll potentially find ourselves working several different careers within our lifetime. Curiosity may have killed the cat in decades past, but it could be the key to a more stable future for the next generation.


(Josephine Lister. Disponível em: https://hundred.org. Adaptado)
In the context of the text, the expression from the first paragraph “painting by the numbers” means
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Q3393768
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary , Sinônimos | Synonyms ,
Ano: 2025 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP Prova: VUNESP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP - Professor da Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q3393768 Inglês
Read the following extract to answer question.


    A friend of mine who is an orchestral conductor was asking me (early in our acquaintance) about what I did for a living. When I told him that apart from other activities, I wrote books about how to teach English he said ‘Books in the plural? Surely once you’ve written one, there’s nothing more to say!’ I wanted to reply that he had just argued himself out of a job (I mean, how many performances of Beethoven symphonies have there been in the twenty-first century alone?), but someone else laughed at his question, another musician made a different comment, the conversation moved on, and so Martin-the-conductor’s flippant enquiry evaporated in the convivial atmosphere of a British pub.


    But his question was a good one. Surely we know how to teach languages? After all, people have been doing it successfully for two thousand years or more, and some aspects of teaching in the past have probably not changed that much. But other things have, and continue to change. Which is (I suppose) why every time I re-examine past assumptions about teaching, I find myself questioning and reinterpreting things I thought were fixed. And of course, I am not alone in this. We all do it all the time – or at least we do if we haven’t closed our minds off from the possibility of change and renewal.


   Language teaching, perhaps more than many other activities, reflects the times it takes place in. Language is about communication, after all, and perhaps that is why philosophies and techniques for learning languages seem to develop and change in tune with the societies which give rise to them. Teaching and learning are very human activities; they are social just as much as they are (in our case) linguistic.


    But it’s not just society that changes and evolves. The last decades have seen what feels like unprecedented technological change. The Internet has seen to that, and other educational technology has not lagged behind. And it’s exciting stuff. I’ve tried to reflect that excitement and newness in parts of this new edition.


(Jeremy Harmer, How to teach English. Adaptado)
In the sentence from the last paragraph “The last decades have seen what feels like unprecedented technological change.”, the word in bold can be replaced, without meaning change, by
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581: D
582: B
583: C
584: D
585: C
586: A
587: A
588: A
589: D
590: A
591: B
592: C
593: A
594: D
595: C
596: A
597: B
598: B
599: E
600: E
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