Questões de Concurso Sobre vocabulário | vocabulary em inglês

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Q1110364 Inglês
In the text, “unlike” (l.8) means:
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Q1060513 Inglês
In text 9A4AAA, the word
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Q1060511 Inglês
In text 9A3CCC, a pronoun that introduces a relative clause is
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Q1060507 Inglês
In text 9A3BBB, the word “thought”, both in line 4 and line 6, is
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Q1060504 Inglês
The word “from” is used in the first sentence of text 9A3AAA to specify
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Q987420 Inglês
Active readers make use of different reading strategies to help them save time and cover a lot of ground. Their purpose for reading should determine which strategy or strategies to use.
Avery useful strategy involves running our eyes very quickly over large chunks of a text. It allows us to pick up some of the main ideas of the text without paying attention to detail. It is a fast process. We do not actually read the text in total. We may read a few words of each paragraph, perhaps the first and last sentences, in order to get the main ideas of the text.
The above definition refers to the following reading strategy:
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Q987418 Inglês
In the sentence “South Korean students mustn't sleep in the classroom”, the modal verb MUSTN'T in this context indicates:
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Q987411 Inglês
In the sentence “However, the biggest challenge for the government is the hagwons.” (last paragraph), the word HOWEVER could be correctly replaced in this context, without change of meaning, by:
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Q987410 Inglês
Read the text below and answer the questions that
follow.

When is it time to stop studying?

It's 10 p.m. and six government employees are out checking the streets of Seoul, South Korea. But these are not police officers searching for teenagers who are behaving badly. Their mission is to find children who are still studying. And stop them.
Education in South Korea is very competitive. The aim of almost every schoolchild is to get into one of the country’s top universities. Only the students with the best grades get a place. The school day starts at 8 a.m. and the students finish studying somewhere between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. at night. This is because many go to private academies called hagwon after school. Around 74 percent of all students attend a hagwon after their regular classes finish. A year’s course costs, on average, $2,600 per student. In Seoul, there are more private tutors than schoolteachers, and the most popular ones make millions of dollars a year from online and in-person classes. Most parents rely on private tutoring to get their children into a university. 
With so much time spent in the classroom, all that students in South Korean high schools do is study and sleep. Some of them are so exhausted that they cannot stay awake the next day at school. It is a common sight to see a teacher explaining the lesson while a third of the students are asleep on their desks. The teachers don’t seem to mind. There are even special pillows for sale that fit over the arms of the chairs to make sleeping in class more comfortable. Ironically, the students spend class time sleeping so that they can stay up late studying that night.
The South Korean government has been aware of the faults in the system for some time, but now they have passed some reforms. Today, schoolteachers have to meet certain standards or take additional training courses. 
However, the biggest challenge for the government is the hagwons. Hagwons have been banned from having classes after 10 p.m., which is why there are street patrols searching for children who are studying after that time. If they find any in class, the owner of the hagwon is punished and the students are sent home. It's a strange world, where some children have to be told to stop studying while others are reluctant to start. 

Adapted from: LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina & OXENDEN, Clive. American English File 3 - Workbook. 2"“ edition. Oxford: OUP, 2014.

In "If they find any in class, the owner of the hagwon is punished ...” (last paragraph) the words THEY and ANY refer in the context, respectively, to:
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Q947097 Inglês

Cow Threat


Cows are walking machines. They transform materials (grass, hay, water, and feed) into finished products (milk, beef, leather, and so on).

As any factory, cows produce waste. Solid waste is eliminated through the rear end of these ‘complex machines’, and it is used as fertilizer.

The fermentation process in their four stomachs produces gas. These walking machines have two chimneys: one in the front end, and other in the rear end. Gaseous emissions through the front end chimney are called burps. Cows burp a lot. Every minute and half these burps release methane gas. Methane is dangerous to the planet because it contributes to the greenhouse effect.

The world population is growing very fast. That means there are more people eating beef. Consequently, there is more cattle – more walking machines – producing more methane gas.

This is the problem, but very few people want to change their eating habits. What about you? 

Match the words on column 1 with their meanings on column 2.


Column 1 Words

1. hay

2. waste

3. rear

4. burp

5. cattle


Column 2 Meanings

( ) the back part of something.

( ) cows and bulls that are kept for their milk or meat.

( ) grass that is cut and dried and used as animal food.

( ) unwanted matter or material of any type.

( ) to allow air from the stomach to come out through the mouth in anoisy way.


Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence:

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Q865126 Inglês
In the fragment of the text “people have managed to live with such unpredictable and destructive occurrences”, the adjectives unpredictable and destructive can be replaced with no change in meaning, by:
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Q865122 Inglês
In the fragment of the text “the researchers discovered a range of microscopic organisms from the ocean”, the word range is closest in meaning to:
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Q860563 Inglês

Based on the text, judge the items below.


In “The challenges for law enforcement officials are legion” (lines 13 and 14), the word “legion” means legend.

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Q847413 Inglês
In text 6A6AAA, the word “endeavors” (ℓ.4) is synonymous with
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Q843173 Inglês
In the fragment of Text I “In arriving at a solution many issues must be addressed, including the resolution of conflicting claims to land considered to be in the public domain” (lines 94-97) the terms issues, addressed, claims correspond to the following meanings:
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Q843169 Inglês
In the fragment of Text I “The simplest and most reliable way to mitigate damage from oil operations would be to prohibit oil extraction in the tropical rainforest” (lines 18-20), the word mitigate can be replaced, with no change in meaning, by
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Q836240 Inglês
Mark the alternative that correctly and respectively fills in the blanks (l.04, l.13 and l.17) of the text.
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Q833774 Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).


The word “enjoined” (l.27) cannot be replaced by endorsed in this particular context.

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Q833773 Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).


The word “contingent” (l.34) is synonymous with necessary.

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Q833771 Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).


The expression ““on a par” (l. 20 and 21) means competing.

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2121: A
2122: C
2123: C
2124: C
2125: D
2126: D
2127: E
2128: E
2129: C
2130: C
2131: D
2132: D
2133: E
2134: A
2135: C
2136: D
2137: B
2138: C
2139: E
2140: E