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Q4155948 Inglês

Based on the text below, answer the question.

TEXT III

The English schools looking to dispel ‘doom and gloom' around Al

Charles Darwin chatting with students about evolution, primary school pupils seeing their writing transformed into images, Luton reimagined as a cool automobile - artificial intelligence is invading schools across England in surprising ways.

While Bridget Philipson, the education secretary, in January called for a “digital revolution” involving Al in schools, it has already begun in places such as Willowdown primary school in Bridgwater, Somerset.

Matt Cave, Willowdown's head teacher, said his pupils improve their descriptive writing by feeding their work into an Al client to generate images.

“All of a sudden they've got all these pictures from different people’s descriptions, and they can then discuss with their classmates whether that was the image they expected to be in the reader’s head,” Cave said.

“It was really stimulating and thought-provoking for them to have a different audience.” The results, according to Cave, have been "brilliant” and a contrast to the “doom and gloom” he had heard from worried school leaders.

“I wouldn't want anyone to think we weren't aware of the potential hazards - we emphasise that to the children continually. But it's going to be a tool that they are going to need to use all their lives,” Cave said.

Marina Wyatt, head of science for key stage 3 at Furze Platt senior school in Maidenhead, said that she has found teacher-led use of Al useful for engaging students in discussions, including with a virtual Charles Darwin.

In the prompt we tell it to respond as Charles Darwin, and stay in the role. And it works. It came up with some brilliant stuff.

 

Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/06/theenglish-schools-looking-to-dispel-doom-and-gloom-around-ai

Besides the semantic interpretation of “head” in “Matt Cave, Willowdown's head teacher [..]" and in “they expected to be in the reader's head [...]”, such noun may also be related to quantities forming phrases such as a head of:
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Q4155945 Inglês

Based on the text below, answer the question.

TEXT II

Impact over income: a striking number of gen Zers are becoming teachers

Joseph Curatolo was studying architecture four years ago when he took a summer job, teaching music to middle school students. When he told them he might leave the program to focus on his studies, he said, they burst into tears.

“The fact that I had such an impact on these kids led me to reconsider my career,” said Curatolo, 22. He is now a seventh-and eighth-grade social studies teacher, based in New York City.

Amid a nationwide decline of teaching, Curatolo is not alone: a striking number of gen Z graduates are entering the classroom, despite longstanding concerns over pay and conditions.

Teach For America (TFA), a non-profit education organization, experienced a near 43% increase in its teaching fellows - which TFA refers to as corp members - over the past three years. A generation whose formative years were spent in isolation during the Covid-19 lockdown is “craving human connection and experiences that feel real’, suggested Whitney Petersmeyer, TFA's chief growth and program officer.

Gen Z is “responding to the opportunity for purpose and responsibility at a time where many entry jobs feel uncertain or disconnected from impact’, she added. During periods of economic uncertainty and turbulence, college graduates have been known to turn to industries fields with major shortages, like education.

This generation came of age “in a rapidly changing world,” Randi Weingarten, president of American Teachers Federation, said in a statement, “and that lived experience helps them relate to students in powerful ways.” New arrivals in the classroom are bringing a new perspective, according to Weingarten. “They're reimagining how we teach, bringing new approaches to technology and social-emotional learning.”

 

Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/janf02/gen-z-teachers-profession

In the following extract: “Amid a nationwide decline of teaching, [...]", “amid” is synonym of: 
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Q4155943 Inglês

Based on the text below, answer the question.

TEXT I

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic 

It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being billed as the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.

Sources for the dictionary will range from Julius Caesar's account of his conquest of parts of northern Europe to ancient memorial stones.

Dr Simon Rodway, a senior lecturer in the department of Welsh and Celtic studies at Aberystwyth, said it was exciting to be involved in compiling the first dictionary of its kind.

He said: “These disparate sources have never before been brought together in a way that offers such an insight into the nature of Celtic languages spoken in these islands at the dawn of the historical period.

“The picture of the linguistic landscape of Britain and Ireland will be of interest not only to linguists but to historians, archaeologists and archaeogeneticists.”

The team compiling the dictionary say that while modern Celtic languages are often different from each other, similarities can be seen between words.

Rodway said: “With the exception of a very small number of inscriptions from Roman Britain in Celtic languages, we're dependent on documents that are written either in Latin or Greek, but which contain names of places, ethnic groups or individuals that we can say are Celtic.

“People have studied, place names before and a few inscriptions but we're going to try and get everything together and see what patterns emerge.”

He said the bulk of the material would come from the Roman period in Britain, from the first to the fourth centuries AD, and from the middle of the second century onwards in Ireland. Another source is inscriptions on stones in places such as Cornwall and Ireland that use the Ogham alphabet, a system of straight lines designed to be carved on to stone, metal, bone or wood.


Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/08/linguists-start-compiling-first-ever-complete-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic

The alternative in which the word is synonym of “hefty” in “It's not likely to be a hefty volume [...]" is:  
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Q4149832 Inglês
Choose the ONLY alternative in which all the words refer to nouns in English language:
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Q4149830 Inglês
The sentence “Tighten the screws securely” is a typical example of the imperative language and technical vocabulary found in which of the following textual genres? 
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Q4149824 Inglês
Identify the alternative that contains ONLY true cognates:
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Q4149823 Inglês
Which alternative CORRECTLY presents the nouns derived from the verbs "develop", "refuse", and "inform", respectively? 
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Q4141017 Inglês

Instruction: Refer to Text III to answer the question.



TEXT III


                                                        



Available on https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/20-inspiring-quotes-feel-best-

160900819.html Accessed on: December 17 th 2025. 

The word “yesterdays” implies: 
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Q4141013 Inglês

Instruction: Refer to Text II to answer the question.



TEXT II 


Tiger Eyes


                                          


Available on: https://electricliterature.com/7-books-about-

coming-of-age-in-a-small-town/. Accessed on: December 17 th 2025.  

What option expresses an idea that is similar to the meaning of the word “sojourn” (line 18)?
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Q4141010 Inglês

Instruction: Refer to Text II to answer the question.



TEXT II 


Tiger Eyes


                                          


Available on: https://electricliterature.com/7-books-about-

coming-of-age-in-a-small-town/. Accessed on: December 17 th 2025.  

The sentence “Her mother Gwen opts to whisk the family away for a change of scenery” (lines 4-6) means that:
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Q4141008 Inglês

Instruction: Refer to Text I to answer the question.



TEXT I


The Ugly Duckling  




Adapted from: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32571/pg32571-

images.html#Page_30. Accessed on: December 17 th 2025.

What sentence from Text I best illustrates the meaning of the word “graceful”?
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Q4141007 Inglês

Instruction: Refer to Text I to answer the question.



TEXT I


The Ugly Duckling  




Adapted from: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32571/pg32571-

images.html#Page_30. Accessed on: December 17 th 2025.

In the sentence “and the fragrant elders bent …” (line 5), the word in bold refers to: 
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Q4139557 Inglês
Com base na situação apresentada no Texto 7 e no uso do termo anecdote, qual alternativa descreve o sentido contextual de anecdote utilizado na história?
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Q4139550 Inglês




Texto 5



Colin McIntosh, Cambridge Dictionary Chief Editor, said:


Parasocial stood out in 2025 for several reasons. Public interest in the term increased massively this year, as we can see from our data: the number of searches for it in the Cambridge Dictionary as well as on Google spiked on several occasions. It’s interesting from a language point of view because it has made the transition from an academic term to one used by ordinary people in their social media posts. And it also captures the zeitgeist of 2025, as the public’s fascination with celebrities and their lifestyles continues to reach new heights.



Disponível em: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/editorial/word-of-the-year. Acesso em: 19 nov. 2025. [Adaptado].

De acordo com a explicação de Colin McIntosh no Texto 5, as buscas pelo termo ‘parasocial’ aumentaram porque 
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Q4126086 Inglês

TEXT






Adapted from: BBC Ideas and The Open University (2026) Would you want to be cared for by a robot when you are older? [video]. Instagram. Available at: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX_03WVle-- /?igsh=MXhhdHJ4NzlpeGE5dA%3D%3D. (Accessed: May 31, 2026). 



ANSWER QUESTION ACCORDING TO THE TEXT ABOVE.

Identify the option containing pairs of semantically related words within the text.
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Q4126085 Inglês

TEXT






Adapted from: BBC Ideas and The Open University (2026) Would you want to be cared for by a robot when you are older? [video]. Instagram. Available at: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX_03WVle-- /?igsh=MXhhdHJ4NzlpeGE5dA%3D%3D. (Accessed: May 31, 2026). 



ANSWER QUESTION ACCORDING TO THE TEXT ABOVE.

The word exoskeleton (line 05) can be defined as
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Q4125813 Inglês

False cognates are words with similar spelling or pronunciation in two languages, but with distinct meanings in current use. Regarding false cognates between English and Portuguese, mark T for the true statements and F for the false statements:



(__)The word "actually", in English, means "in fact" or "in truth", differing from the Portuguese word "atualmente".


(__)The word "pretend", in English, means "to feign" or "to simulate", differing from the Portuguese verb "pretender".


(__)The word "parents", in English, corresponds to relatives in general, including uncles and cousins, in equivalent use to the Portuguese term "parentes".


(__)The word "college", in English, corresponds to "colégio" in the sense of a secondary school of Basic Education, in equivalent use to the Portuguese term. 



After analysis, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom: 

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Q4120689 Inglês
        A new study suggests that the number of children a woman has might affect her rate of ageing and her lifespan. Research from the University of Helsinki in Finland found that women who had five children or more, or no children, aged faster than those who had a small number of kids. Researcher Mikaela Hukkanen said: "From an evolutionary biology perspective, organisms have limited resources, such as time and energy. When a large amount of energy is invested in reproduction, it is taken away from bodily maintenance and repair mechanisms, which could reduce lifespan." She added that the finding of shorter lifespans of women who never gave birth was "surprising".

        The researchers used historical data in their analysis of parenthood and ageing. They analysed the health data on 14,836 women. Researchers examined DNA data and blood samples, then modelled the effects of reproduction on women’s rates of ageing and longevity. Ms. Hukkanen postulated that having a smaller number of pregnancies could have favourable effects on a mother’s health. One benefit is a possible lower risk of breast and ovarian cancer. However, the "wear and tear" and physical demands of multiple childbirths can negate this lowered risk. Another factor that could increase longevity is the increased social support a mother receives from the state for having children.

Internet:<breakingnewsenglish.com>  (adapted). 

Based on the preceding text, judge the following item.


The expression 'wear and tear' (second paragraph) is used in the text to describe the gradual physical damage caused by repeated childbirths.

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Q4120571 Inglês
        As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware. These "biocomputers" are still in their early days. They can play simple games such as Pong, and perform basic speech recognition.

        But the excitement is fueled by three converging trends. First, venture capital is flowing into anything adjacent to AI, making speculative ideas suddenly fundable. Second, techniques for growing brain tissue outside the body have matured, with the pharmaceutical industry jumping on board. Third, rapid advances in brain‒computer interfaces have seen growing acceptance of technologies that blur the line between biology and machines.

        Nevertheless, plenty of questions remain. Are we witnessing genuine breakthroughs, or another round of tech-driven hype? And what ethical questions arise when human brain tissue becomes a computational component? For almost 50 years, neuroscientists have grown neurons on arrays of tiny electrodes to study how they fire under controlled conditions.

        By the early 2000s, researchers attempted rudimentary two-way communication between neurons and electrodes, planting the first seeds of a bio-hybrid computer. But progress stalled until another strand of research took off: brain organoids.

        In 2013, scientists demonstrated that stem cells could self-organise into three-dimensional brain-like structures. These organoids spread rapidly through biomedical research, increasingly aided by “organ-on-a-chip” devices designed to mimic aspects of human physiology outside the body.

        Today, using stem-cell-derived neural tissue is commonplace ⸺ from drug testing to developmental research. Yet the neural activity in these models remains primitive, far from the organised firing patterns that underpin cognition or consciousness in a real brain. While complex network behaviour is beginning to emerge even without much external stimulation, experts generally agree that current organoids are not conscious, nor close to it.

Internet:<https://www.sciencealert.com>  (adapted). 

About the previous text, judge the following item.


In the fragment "growing acceptance of technologies that blur the line between biology and machines" (second paragraph), the expression "blur the line" is used figuratively to indicate increasing integration between technological and biological systems.

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Q4117244 Inglês

Texto 7


Lesson plan:

Aims:

1. to listen for the main idea of the text and for specific information.. to guess vocabulary from context and learn new vocabulary.

3. to discuss reations to the lyrics of a song.

4. to write a letter to a penfriend.

5. to develop critical thinking skills (making inferences, analysing).

6. to foster learner independence and cooperative learning.


Green, C.; Tanner, R. Tasks for Teacher Education: a reflective approach, Harlow, UK: Addison Wesley Longman Publishing. 1998. p. 78. [Adaptado].

“To foster” in “to foster learner independence and cooperative learning” means
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181: B
182: C
183: A
184: D
185: C
186: D
187: B
188: A
189: C
190: D
191: A
192: C
193: D
194: A
195: C
196: A
197: B
198: C
199: C
200: A