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Q1117447 Inglês

Analyse the sentence.

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The item that contains an inconsistency and its corresponding correction is:

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Q1117021 Inglês

Read and analyse the sentence to answer.

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Mark the item which contains an inconsistency and its corresponding correction:

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Q1117015 Inglês
Mark the item whose sentence is in the causative form.
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Q1102350 Inglês

Read and analyse the sentence.


As we were walking along the street, we saw a little Chinese girl play.

A B C D


Mark the item which contains an inconsistency and its corresponding correction.

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Q1102348 Inglês
Mark the item which contains an inconsistency and its corresponding correction.
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Q1102340 Inglês
Read the text to answer 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30.

Sadiq Khan vs. Donald Trump

    The most important political event of recent weeks was not the emergence of Donald J. Trump as the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party but the election of Sadiq Khan, the Muslim son of a London bus driver, as mayor of London.
  Trump has not won any kind of political office yet, but Khan, the Labour Party candidate, crushed Zac Goldsmith, a Conservative, to take charge of one of the world’s great cities, a vibrant metropolis where every tongue is heard. In his victory, a triumph over the slurs that tried to tie him to Islamist extremism, Khan stood up for openness against isolationism, integration against confrontation, opportunity for all against racism and misogyny. He was the anti-Trump. Before the election, Khan said “I’m a Londoner, I’m a European, I’m British, I’m English, I’m of Islamic faith, of Asian origin, of Pakistani heritage, a dad, a husband”.
    The world of the 21st century is going to be shaped by such elided, many-faceted identities and by the booming cities that celebrate diversity, not by some bullying, brash, bigoted, “America first” white dude who wants to build walls. It is worth noting that under the ban on Muslim noncitizens entering the country that Trump proposes, Khan would not be allowed to visit the United States. To use one of Trump’s favorite phrases, this would be a “complete and total disaster”.
    Khan’s election is important because it gives the lie to the facile trope that Europe is being taken over by jihadi Islamists. It underscores the fact that terrorist acts hide a million quiet success stories among European Muslim communities. One of seven children of a Pakistani immigrant family, Khan grew up in public housing and went on to become a human rights lawyer and government minister. He won more than 1.3 million votes in the London election, a personal mandate unsurpassed by any politician in British history. His election is important because the most effective voices against Islamist terrorism come from Muslims, and Khan has been prepared to speak out. After the Paris attacks last year, he said in a speech that Muslims had a “special role” to play in countering the terrorism, “not because we are more responsible than others, as some have wrongly claimed, but because we can be more effective at tackling extremism than anyone else”.
    Trump as a politician is a product of American fear and anger above all. In the past several weeks, a U.C. Berkeley student has been escorted off a Southwest Airlines flight because he was heard speaking Arabic, and an olive-skinned, curly haired Italian Ivy League economist was taken off an American Airlines flight because he was spotted scribbling mathematical calculations that his seatmate found suspicious. When Trump declares, “America First will be the major and overriding theme of my administration,” the rest of the world hears an angry nation flexing its muscles.
    Khan has argued that greater integration is essential and “too many British Muslims grow up without really knowing anyone from a different background”.
    Put together an egotist, a bully, immense power and you have a dangerous brew that could put civilization at risk. Those small fingers would have access to the nuclear codes if Trump was elected. In this context, Sadiq Khan’s victory is reassuring because he represents currents in the world — toward global identity and integration — that will prove stronger over time than the tribalism and nativism of Trump.
(Roger Cohen May 9, 2016 – The New York Times. Adapted.)
In “It underscores the fact that ... communities.” (L 16-17) UNDERSCORES does NOT mean
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Q1068725 Inglês

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Trial with migrants

        The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is against migration there. He says that the EU risks losing another country if the migration is not stopped. Nine men were sentenced to nearly a year in jail; however, they were released at the judge’s discretion due to time already served. One of the group was kept behind bars after receiving a three-year sentence for issuing instructions to the rioters through a loudspeaker. After the trial, a United Nations spokesman said that he was worried that a country would criminalize people who are fleeing war zones.

(www.ondemandnews.com – Adaptado)

No trecho – due to time already served –, a expressão em destaque pode ser substituída, sem alteração do sentido do texto, por
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Q1068722 Inglês

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Trial with migrants

        The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is against migration there. He says that the EU risks losing another country if the migration is not stopped. Nine men were sentenced to nearly a year in jail; however, they were released at the judge’s discretion due to time already served. One of the group was kept behind bars after receiving a three-year sentence for issuing instructions to the rioters through a loudspeaker. After the trial, a United Nations spokesman said that he was worried that a country would criminalize people who are fleeing war zones.

(www.ondemandnews.com – Adaptado)

Na primeira frase do texto – The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is against migration there. –, a palavra em destaque tem sentido semelhante, em português, a

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Q1068719 Inglês

O texto a seguir apresenta lacunas numeradas das quais foram omitidas uma ou mais palavras. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa corretamente cada uma das lacunas numeradas, tanto quanto à correção gramatical como quanto ao sentido e à estruturação do texto.


What is Communicative Language Teaching?

   Not long ago, when American structural linguistics and behaviorist psychology were the prevailing influences in language teaching methods and materials, second/foreign language teachers talked about communication in terms of four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 41  skill categories were widely accepted and provided a ready-made framework for methods manuals, learner course materials, and teacher education programs. Speaking and writing were collectively 42 as active skills, reading and listening as passive skills.

    Today, listeners and readers no longer are regarded as passive. They are seen as active participants in the negotiation of 43 . Schemata, expectancies, and top-down/bottom-up processing are among the terms now used to capture the necessarily complex, interactive nature of this negotiation. Yet full and widespread understanding of 44 as negotiation has been made difficult by the terms that came to replace the earlier active/passive dichotomy. The skills needed to engage in speaking and writing activities were described subsequently as productive,  45   listening and reading skills were said to be receptive. While certainly an improvement over the earlier active/passive representation, the terms “productive” and “receptive” fall short of capturing the interactive nature of communication.

    The inadequacy of a four-skills model of language use is now recognized. And the  46  of audiolingual methodology are widely acknowledged. There is general acceptance of the complexity and interrelatedness of skills in both  47  and oral communication and of the need for learners to have the experience of communication, to participate in the negotiation of meaning rather than memorizing and repeating words and sentences. Newer, more comprehensive theories of language and language behavior have  48  those that looked to American structuralism and behaviorist psychology for support. The expanded, interactive view of language behavior they offer presents a number of  49  for teachers. Among them, how should form and function be integrated in an instructional sequence? What is an appropriate norm for learners? How is it determined ?What is an error? And what, if anything, should be done when one  50 ? How is language learning success to be measured? Acceptance of communicative criteria entails a commitment to address these admittedly complex issues.


(Communicative Language Teaching for the Twenty-First Century, by Sandra J. Savignon in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, by Marianne Celce-Murcia (ed.). Adaptado)

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa corretamente cada uma das lacunas numeradas, tanto quanto à correção gramatical como quanto ao sentido e à estruturação do texto
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Q1068718 Inglês

O texto a seguir apresenta lacunas numeradas das quais foram omitidas uma ou mais palavras. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa corretamente cada uma das lacunas numeradas, tanto quanto à correção gramatical como quanto ao sentido e à estruturação do texto.


What is Communicative Language Teaching?

   Not long ago, when American structural linguistics and behaviorist psychology were the prevailing influences in language teaching methods and materials, second/foreign language teachers talked about communication in terms of four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 41  skill categories were widely accepted and provided a ready-made framework for methods manuals, learner course materials, and teacher education programs. Speaking and writing were collectively 42 as active skills, reading and listening as passive skills.

    Today, listeners and readers no longer are regarded as passive. They are seen as active participants in the negotiation of 43 . Schemata, expectancies, and top-down/bottom-up processing are among the terms now used to capture the necessarily complex, interactive nature of this negotiation. Yet full and widespread understanding of 44 as negotiation has been made difficult by the terms that came to replace the earlier active/passive dichotomy. The skills needed to engage in speaking and writing activities were described subsequently as productive,  45   listening and reading skills were said to be receptive. While certainly an improvement over the earlier active/passive representation, the terms “productive” and “receptive” fall short of capturing the interactive nature of communication.

    The inadequacy of a four-skills model of language use is now recognized. And the  46  of audiolingual methodology are widely acknowledged. There is general acceptance of the complexity and interrelatedness of skills in both  47  and oral communication and of the need for learners to have the experience of communication, to participate in the negotiation of meaning rather than memorizing and repeating words and sentences. Newer, more comprehensive theories of language and language behavior have  48  those that looked to American structuralism and behaviorist psychology for support. The expanded, interactive view of language behavior they offer presents a number of  49  for teachers. Among them, how should form and function be integrated in an instructional sequence? What is an appropriate norm for learners? How is it determined ?What is an error? And what, if anything, should be done when one  50 ? How is language learning success to be measured? Acceptance of communicative criteria entails a commitment to address these admittedly complex issues.


(Communicative Language Teaching for the Twenty-First Century, by Sandra J. Savignon in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, by Marianne Celce-Murcia (ed.). Adaptado)

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa corretamente cada uma das lacunas numeradas, tanto quanto à correção gramatical como quanto ao sentido e à estruturação do texto.
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Q1068716 Inglês

O texto a seguir apresenta lacunas numeradas das quais foram omitidas uma ou mais palavras. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa corretamente cada uma das lacunas numeradas, tanto quanto à correção gramatical como quanto ao sentido e à estruturação do texto.


What is Communicative Language Teaching?

   Not long ago, when American structural linguistics and behaviorist psychology were the prevailing influences in language teaching methods and materials, second/foreign language teachers talked about communication in terms of four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 41  skill categories were widely accepted and provided a ready-made framework for methods manuals, learner course materials, and teacher education programs. Speaking and writing were collectively 42 as active skills, reading and listening as passive skills.

    Today, listeners and readers no longer are regarded as passive. They are seen as active participants in the negotiation of 43 . Schemata, expectancies, and top-down/bottom-up processing are among the terms now used to capture the necessarily complex, interactive nature of this negotiation. Yet full and widespread understanding of 44 as negotiation has been made difficult by the terms that came to replace the earlier active/passive dichotomy. The skills needed to engage in speaking and writing activities were described subsequently as productive,  45   listening and reading skills were said to be receptive. While certainly an improvement over the earlier active/passive representation, the terms “productive” and “receptive” fall short of capturing the interactive nature of communication.

    The inadequacy of a four-skills model of language use is now recognized. And the  46  of audiolingual methodology are widely acknowledged. There is general acceptance of the complexity and interrelatedness of skills in both  47  and oral communication and of the need for learners to have the experience of communication, to participate in the negotiation of meaning rather than memorizing and repeating words and sentences. Newer, more comprehensive theories of language and language behavior have  48  those that looked to American structuralism and behaviorist psychology for support. The expanded, interactive view of language behavior they offer presents a number of  49  for teachers. Among them, how should form and function be integrated in an instructional sequence? What is an appropriate norm for learners? How is it determined ?What is an error? And what, if anything, should be done when one  50 ? How is language learning success to be measured? Acceptance of communicative criteria entails a commitment to address these admittedly complex issues.


(Communicative Language Teaching for the Twenty-First Century, by Sandra J. Savignon in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, by Marianne Celce-Murcia (ed.). Adaptado)

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa corretamente cada uma das lacunas numeradas, tanto quanto à correção gramatical como quanto ao sentido e à estruturação do texto.
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Q1068713 Inglês

O texto a seguir apresenta lacunas numeradas das quais foram omitidas uma ou mais palavras. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa corretamente cada uma das lacunas numeradas, tanto quanto à correção gramatical como quanto ao sentido e à estruturação do texto.


What is Communicative Language Teaching?

   Not long ago, when American structural linguistics and behaviorist psychology were the prevailing influences in language teaching methods and materials, second/foreign language teachers talked about communication in terms of four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 41  skill categories were widely accepted and provided a ready-made framework for methods manuals, learner course materials, and teacher education programs. Speaking and writing were collectively 42 as active skills, reading and listening as passive skills.

    Today, listeners and readers no longer are regarded as passive. They are seen as active participants in the negotiation of 43 . Schemata, expectancies, and top-down/bottom-up processing are among the terms now used to capture the necessarily complex, interactive nature of this negotiation. Yet full and widespread understanding of 44 as negotiation has been made difficult by the terms that came to replace the earlier active/passive dichotomy. The skills needed to engage in speaking and writing activities were described subsequently as productive,  45   listening and reading skills were said to be receptive. While certainly an improvement over the earlier active/passive representation, the terms “productive” and “receptive” fall short of capturing the interactive nature of communication.

    The inadequacy of a four-skills model of language use is now recognized. And the  46  of audiolingual methodology are widely acknowledged. There is general acceptance of the complexity and interrelatedness of skills in both  47  and oral communication and of the need for learners to have the experience of communication, to participate in the negotiation of meaning rather than memorizing and repeating words and sentences. Newer, more comprehensive theories of language and language behavior have  48  those that looked to American structuralism and behaviorist psychology for support. The expanded, interactive view of language behavior they offer presents a number of  49  for teachers. Among them, how should form and function be integrated in an instructional sequence? What is an appropriate norm for learners? How is it determined ?What is an error? And what, if anything, should be done when one  50 ? How is language learning success to be measured? Acceptance of communicative criteria entails a commitment to address these admittedly complex issues.


(Communicative Language Teaching for the Twenty-First Century, by Sandra J. Savignon in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, by Marianne Celce-Murcia (ed.). Adaptado)

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que completa corretamente cada uma das lacunas numeradas, tanto quanto à correção gramatical como quanto ao sentido e à estruturação do texto.
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Q1068710 Inglês

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Learning and Teaching

    What is learning and what is teaching and how do they interact? Consider again some traditional definitions. A search in contemporary dictionaries reveals that learning is “acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or instruction.” A more specialized definition might read as follows: “Learning is a relatively permanent change in a behavioral tendency and is the result of reinforced practice” (Kimble and Garmezy 1963:133). Similarly, teaching, which is implied in the first definition of learning, may be defined as “showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instructions, guiding in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or understand.” How awkward these definitions are! Isn’t it rather curious that learned lexicographers cannot devise more precise scientific definitions? More than perhaps anything else, such definitions reflect the difficulty of defining complex concepts like learning and teaching.

    These concepts can also give way to a number of subfields within the discipline of psychology: acquisition processes, perception memory (storage) systems, recall, conscious and subconscious learning, learning styles and strategies, theories of forgetting, reinforcement, the role of practice. Very quickly the concept of learning becomes every bit as complex as the concept of language. Yet the second language learner brings all these and more variables into play in the learning of a second language.

    Teaching cannot be defined apart from learning. Nathan Gage (1964:269) noted that “to satisfy the practical demands of education, theories of learning must be ‘stood on their head’ so as to yield theories of teaching.” Teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learner to learn, setting the conditions for learning. Your understanding of how the learner learns will determine your philosophy of education, your teaching style, your approach, methods, and classroom techniques. If, like B. F. Skinner, you look at learning as a process of operant conditioning through a carefully paced program of reinforcement, you will teach accordingly. If you view second language learning basically as a deductive rather than an inductive process, you will probably choose to present copious rules and paradigms to your students rather than let them “discover” those rules inductively. An extended definition—or theory—of teaching will spell out governing principles for choosing certain methods and techniques. A theory of teaching, in harmony with your integrated understanding of the learner and of the subject matter to be learned, will point the way to successful procedures on a given day for given learners under the various constraints of the particular context of learning.

(Principles of language learning and teaching, H. Douglas Brown. Adaptado)

No fragmento do terceiro parágrafo – An extended definition –, o sufixo “-ed” contido em extended é pronunciado em inglês seguindo o mesmo padrão fonológico da palavra
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Q1068709 Inglês

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Learning and Teaching

    What is learning and what is teaching and how do they interact? Consider again some traditional definitions. A search in contemporary dictionaries reveals that learning is “acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or instruction.” A more specialized definition might read as follows: “Learning is a relatively permanent change in a behavioral tendency and is the result of reinforced practice” (Kimble and Garmezy 1963:133). Similarly, teaching, which is implied in the first definition of learning, may be defined as “showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instructions, guiding in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or understand.” How awkward these definitions are! Isn’t it rather curious that learned lexicographers cannot devise more precise scientific definitions? More than perhaps anything else, such definitions reflect the difficulty of defining complex concepts like learning and teaching.

    These concepts can also give way to a number of subfields within the discipline of psychology: acquisition processes, perception memory (storage) systems, recall, conscious and subconscious learning, learning styles and strategies, theories of forgetting, reinforcement, the role of practice. Very quickly the concept of learning becomes every bit as complex as the concept of language. Yet the second language learner brings all these and more variables into play in the learning of a second language.

    Teaching cannot be defined apart from learning. Nathan Gage (1964:269) noted that “to satisfy the practical demands of education, theories of learning must be ‘stood on their head’ so as to yield theories of teaching.” Teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learner to learn, setting the conditions for learning. Your understanding of how the learner learns will determine your philosophy of education, your teaching style, your approach, methods, and classroom techniques. If, like B. F. Skinner, you look at learning as a process of operant conditioning through a carefully paced program of reinforcement, you will teach accordingly. If you view second language learning basically as a deductive rather than an inductive process, you will probably choose to present copious rules and paradigms to your students rather than let them “discover” those rules inductively. An extended definition—or theory—of teaching will spell out governing principles for choosing certain methods and techniques. A theory of teaching, in harmony with your integrated understanding of the learner and of the subject matter to be learned, will point the way to successful procedures on a given day for given learners under the various constraints of the particular context of learning.

(Principles of language learning and teaching, H. Douglas Brown. Adaptado)

No fragmento do terceiro parágrafo – so as to yield theories of teaching –, o verbo yield tem o mesmo sentido que o verbo
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Q1068707 Inglês

Leia o texto a seguir para responder a questão.


Learning and Teaching

    What is learning and what is teaching and how do they interact? Consider again some traditional definitions. A search in contemporary dictionaries reveals that learning is “acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or instruction.” A more specialized definition might read as follows: “Learning is a relatively permanent change in a behavioral tendency and is the result of reinforced practice” (Kimble and Garmezy 1963:133). Similarly, teaching, which is implied in the first definition of learning, may be defined as “showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instructions, guiding in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or understand.” How awkward these definitions are! Isn’t it rather curious that learned lexicographers cannot devise more precise scientific definitions? More than perhaps anything else, such definitions reflect the difficulty of defining complex concepts like learning and teaching.

    These concepts can also give way to a number of subfields within the discipline of psychology: acquisition processes, perception memory (storage) systems, recall, conscious and subconscious learning, learning styles and strategies, theories of forgetting, reinforcement, the role of practice. Very quickly the concept of learning becomes every bit as complex as the concept of language. Yet the second language learner brings all these and more variables into play in the learning of a second language.

    Teaching cannot be defined apart from learning. Nathan Gage (1964:269) noted that “to satisfy the practical demands of education, theories of learning must be ‘stood on their head’ so as to yield theories of teaching.” Teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learner to learn, setting the conditions for learning. Your understanding of how the learner learns will determine your philosophy of education, your teaching style, your approach, methods, and classroom techniques. If, like B. F. Skinner, you look at learning as a process of operant conditioning through a carefully paced program of reinforcement, you will teach accordingly. If you view second language learning basically as a deductive rather than an inductive process, you will probably choose to present copious rules and paradigms to your students rather than let them “discover” those rules inductively. An extended definition—or theory—of teaching will spell out governing principles for choosing certain methods and techniques. A theory of teaching, in harmony with your integrated understanding of the learner and of the subject matter to be learned, will point the way to successful procedures on a given day for given learners under the various constraints of the particular context of learning.

(Principles of language learning and teaching, H. Douglas Brown. Adaptado)

Na frase do primeiro parágrafo – How awkward these definitions are! –, a palavra em destaque poderia ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido da frase, por
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Q916917 Inglês

Texto IV


I did not realize until just now that you are actually in a lot of pain. I pretend to take you to the hospital for exams immediately. I promise to assist you in any way possible. I’ll be waiting for you in the cafeteria


All of the words in bold are false cognates. The word that is used INCORRECTLY in the sentences above is

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Q858485 Inglês

Sergio: What time is your class?

Danilo: ......

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Q858484 Inglês
It was rush time and she couldn’t ...... the bus.
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Q858479 Inglês
In ......, it’s Fall in Brazil.
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Q858478 Inglês

Teresa: What do you usually do on Saturdays?

Renata: ......

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2281: C
2282: B
2283: A
2284: D
2285: C
2286: D
2287: E
2288: C
2289: E
2290: D
2291: B
2292: A
2293: B
2294: C
2295: E
2296: C
2297: E
2298: B
2299: E
2300: D