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"His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh. 'Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time ? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what's coming?'"
The quote "Can't learn an old dog new tricks" is an idiom in English language and it means:
1."We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with. We were all very low, and none the higher for pretending to be in spirits." (Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens).
2."The surgeon deposited it in her arms. She imprinted her cold white lips passionately on its forehead; passed her hands over her face; gazed wildly round; shuddered; fell back-- and died. They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever". (Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens)
3."Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played écarté afterwards. The butler brought me my coffee into the library, and I took the chance to ask him a few questions". (The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Doyle).
In every quote, a false cognate can be found. Which ones are they?
" I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea. Time flowed past indifferently above us; hours and days had no meaning. In the beginning, our life together held a joy and amazement which was newborn every day. Beneath the joy, of course, was anguish and beneath the amazement was fear; but they did not work themselves to the beginning until our high beginning was aloes on our tongues. By then anguish and fear had become the surface on which we slipped and slid, losing balance, dignity, and pride. Giovanni's face, which I had memorized so many mornings, noons, and nights, hardened before my eyes, began to give in secret places, began to crack."
In the sentence "Beneath the joy, of course, was anguish and beneath the amazement was fear", what is correct about the word "anguish" in this context?
TV for dogs booms but are they watching?
By David Silverberg
(Frolicking = playing energetically
Squishy = soft when pressed)
(Available at: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq59leg3gp5o – text specially adapted for this test).
TV for dogs booms but are they watching?
By David Silverberg
(Frolicking = playing energetically
Squishy = soft when pressed)
(Available at: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq59leg3gp5o – text specially adapted for this test).
I. In Portuguese, "publicidade" often means advertislng paid for by a company.
II. In English, publicity can be free/earned media, including news coverage or viral attention.
III. In this case "publicidade / publicity" is a false friend, but in a nuanced way, not a 100 % "opposite meaning" one.
The CORRECT statements are
( ) In literal terms, a ringmaster is the person in charge of a circus performance, especially the one who introduces the acts, guides the audience's attention, and keeps the show moving in the ring.
( ) In the text, the word is used metaphorically.
( ) The "ringmaster" stands for P.T. Barnum as the director/controller of attention and spectacle, the one who teaches people that any kind of publicity (even fake or sensational) is acceptable as long as it grabs notice.
( ) "Ringmaster", in popular culture, means the master-of-ceremonies of a showy, attention-driven culture, not just a literal circus host.
Which alternative CORRECTLY fills in the parentheses a bove?
Read the text:
"Many educators argue that integrating technology into the classroom can significantly enhance students’ learning experiences. However, others claim that excessive reliance on digital tools may reduce critical thinking skills."
The word “enhance” in the text is closest in meaning to:
( ) The phrasal verb "lined up" in the first paragraph indicates that the upcoming books are physically standing in a straight queue at the printing press.
( ) The expression "gotten in on" in the third paragraph suggests that Penguin Books has started participating in the same profitable trend that the British Library began.
( ) The expression 'lined up' is used idiomatically to indicate that more volumes are scheduled or prepared for future release.
( ) The term "back in" in the final sentence is used to describe the physical movement of a book being placed inside a prínting machine.
Which alternative CORRECTLY fills in the above? parenthesis
I. It functions as a technical shorthand in the literary world; it specifically emphasizes the availability of the content to the general public rather than the physical act of pressing ink onto paper.
II. It signals to the reader that the work has returned to the "active" catalogue of a publisher, making it a crucial term for libraries and book collectors to identify titles that are no longer "rare" or "out of print."
III. The author uses "back in print" as a prepositional collocation to indicate the specific medium of the reissue.
The CORRECT statements are:
(__) Collocations são combinações habituais de palavras que soam naturais para falantes nativos, como o uso de "make" em "make a mistake" e "do" em "do homework".
(__) Um campo semântico refere-se a um grupo de palavras que compartilham um tema comum, como "physician," "nurse," e "surgeon" dentro do campo da medicina.
(__) O fenômeno dos "false cognates" descreve palavras que possuem ortografia semelhante em inglês e português e que compartilham exatamente o mesmo significado em qualquer contexto.
(__) A fixidez das collocations permite que o falante substitua livremente os termos por sinônimos dicionarizados sem alterar a naturalidade ou a correção idiomática da frase.
Após análise, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA dos itens acima, de cima para baixo:
() "short stories". () "general submissions". () "per word". () "please note".
Which option CORRECTLY fills in the parentheses above, from top to bottom?
Text 1
Where did English come from?
Blanco, C. (2025, April 17). Dear Duolingo: Where did English come from? Duolingo Blog. https://blog.duolingo.com/history-of-english-language/
To answer question, read the text below.
The Language of Performance
Well, the word “performative” is generally meant as an insult. It’s meant to trivialize and indicate that someone is play-acting or “faking it.” It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, and not because it represents a sincere interest or enjoyment.
This is one of those situations in which metaphors are overextended, and language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. It is normal for our species for men and women to “perform” acts to impress both our own sex and the opposite sex. Males and females have different sex “roles,” and we “perform” acts to satisfy those roles.
The language seems to “portray” us as “actors performing roles” and implies that we are all essentially “lying” or “faking.” This is the kind of wordcel wordtrap that lends itself to Marxist gender theory ideology and postmodernist thinking.
“Nothing is real, everything is fake. Everything is a performance.”
That’s a frame, but it isn’t the whole picture.
Men are primates. We imitate each other. Monkey see, monkey do. And yes, we do things to try to impress each other. You can frame that in a way that seems trivial or superficial, but it is also foundational to human nature and social hierarchy.
Fonte: https//mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/on-performative-males
Collocations are pairs or groups of words that are habitually juxtaposed in English. Based on this concept, identify which of the following terms from the text are examples of collocations:
I. Whole picture (Fifth paragraph)
II. Human nature (Sixth paragraph)
III. Social hierarchy (Sixth paragraph)
IV. Sex roles (Second paragraph)
V. Human behavior (Second paragraph)
Which of the statements are CORRECT?
To answer question, read the text below.
The Language of Performance
Well, the word “performative” is generally meant as an insult. It’s meant to trivialize and indicate that someone is play-acting or “faking it.” It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, and not because it represents a sincere interest or enjoyment.
This is one of those situations in which metaphors are overextended, and language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. It is normal for our species for men and women to “perform” acts to impress both our own sex and the opposite sex. Males and females have different sex “roles,” and we “perform” acts to satisfy those roles.
The language seems to “portray” us as “actors performing roles” and implies that we are all essentially “lying” or “faking.” This is the kind of wordcel wordtrap that lends itself to Marxist gender theory ideology and postmodernist thinking.
“Nothing is real, everything is fake. Everything is a performance.”
That’s a frame, but it isn’t the whole picture.
Men are primates. We imitate each other. Monkey see, monkey do. And yes, we do things to try to impress each other. You can frame that in a way that seems trivial or superficial, but it is also foundational to human nature and social hierarchy.
Fonte: https//mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/on-performative-males
Read the following statements about the phrase faking it (first paragraph) and mark True (T) or False (F):
( ) It is a phrasal verb (intransitive, with "it" as a pronoun object).
( ) It appears in the context of the word performative.
( ) It is implying sincerity, synonymous with pretending or acting truly.
( ) It is a compound noun.
Which option CORRECTLY fills in the parenthesis above, from top to bottom?
To answer question, read the text below.
The Language of Performance
Well, the word “performative” is generally meant as an insult. It’s meant to trivialize and indicate that someone is play-acting or “faking it.” It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, and not because it represents a sincere interest or enjoyment.
This is one of those situations in which metaphors are overextended, and language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. It is normal for our species for men and women to “perform” acts to impress both our own sex and the opposite sex. Males and females have different sex “roles,” and we “perform” acts to satisfy those roles.
The language seems to “portray” us as “actors performing roles” and implies that we are all essentially “lying” or “faking.” This is the kind of wordcel wordtrap that lends itself to Marxist gender theory ideology and postmodernist thinking.
“Nothing is real, everything is fake. Everything is a performance.”
That’s a frame, but it isn’t the whole picture.
Men are primates. We imitate each other. Monkey see, monkey do. And yes, we do things to try to impress each other. You can frame that in a way that seems trivial or superficial, but it is also foundational to human nature and social hierarchy.
Fonte: https//mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/on-performative-males
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Assinale a alternativa em que a palavra em destaque pode ser substituída por um sinônimo adequado sem alteração significativa de sentido.
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