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Considering the text above, judge the following item.
The word “Yet” (third paragraph) acts as an indicator of time.
Leia o texto a seguir e responda a questão.
“He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed first and the hooked fish, the female, made a wild, panic-stricken, despairing fight that soon exhausted her, and all the time the male had stayed with her, crossing the line and circling with her on the surface.
He had stayed so close that the old man was afraid he would cut the line with his tail which was sharp as a scythe and almost of that size and shape. When the old man had gaffed her and clubbed her, holding the rapier bill with its sandpaper edge and clubbing her across the top of her head until her colour turned to a colour almost like the backing of mirrors, and then, with the boy’s aid, hoisted her aboard, the male fish had stayed by the side of the boat.
Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.”
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea.
Eua: Hueber Verlag, 1952. 108 p.
“the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins,”
O trecho destacado acima tem a função de:
The concept of ________________ presupposes the comprehension of the addition that the discipline brings to those who take care of it, without addition to other languages that the student already has in his/her repertoire, particularly the Portuguese language.
Read text 3 and answer the question.
Text 3
Lawyers say they can’t find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration By Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff

(Retrived from: <https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-say-they-can-t-find-parents-545-migrant-children-n1244066>
Read text 1 and answer the question.
Text 1
The socio-cultural implications of Covid-19
By Professor Fethi Mansouri

(Retrived from:<https://en.unesco.org/news/socio-cultural-implications-covid-19>)
Fill in the blanks with for or since.
I don’t sleep ________ Friday.
They didn't drink ________ last night.
He didn’t shower _________ days.
It has been snowing ______ Wednesday.
Select the CORRECT answer.
Complete the following sentences with some or any.
I’m going to drink _______ milk.
Do you have _______ friends here? No, I don’t.
Could you give me _______ water?
He has _______ problems.
Select the CORRECT answer.
Complete the following sentences with the appropriate adjective or adverb.
James likes to cook but he cooks __________ (terrible).
Marie has three jobs. She works very __________ (hard).
I am late, so I must walk __________ (fast).
Select the CORRECT answer.
READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 41 TO 46.
TEXT
Petroleum Alternatives. A new promising source
Human consumption of fossil fuels is expected to fully deplete the Earth’s crude oil reserves by the year 2060. As underground reservoirs of oil continue to shrink, we have no choice but to find alternatives. One promising source, with much cleaner emissions, is called bio-diesel. Bio-diesel is often made from soybean oil, although it can be made from any vegetable oil that is not elementally different from soy. Bio-diesel can even be made from used cooking oils that homes or restaurants would otherwise dispose of. Biodiesel can be used without constraint in any vehicle that runs on diesel—no modifications are needed. Presently, diesel engines can take up to 20 percent soy in their soy-diesel blend. As the need for bio-diesel increases and the technology improves, we may soon witness the extinction of the fossil-fueled vehicle.This is good news for the planet, as biodiesel is a more stable source of energy than petroleum, and it reduces contamination of our air and water.
The word “shrink”, in line 3, could be better substituted by which of the following options?
READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 41 TO 46.
TEXT
Petroleum Alternatives. A new promising source
Human consumption of fossil fuels is expected to fully deplete the Earth’s crude oil reserves by the year 2060. As underground reservoirs of oil continue to shrink, we have no choice but to find alternatives. One promising source, with much cleaner emissions, is called bio-diesel. Bio-diesel is often made from soybean oil, although it can be made from any vegetable oil that is not elementally different from soy. Bio-diesel can even be made from used cooking oils that homes or restaurants would otherwise dispose of. Biodiesel can be used without constraint in any vehicle that runs on diesel—no modifications are needed. Presently, diesel engines can take up to 20 percent soy in their soy-diesel blend. As the need for bio-diesel increases and the technology improves, we may soon witness the extinction of the fossil-fueled vehicle.This is good news for the planet, as biodiesel is a more stable source of energy than petroleum, and it reduces contamination of our air and water.
The word “deplete”, in line 1, could be better substituted by which of the following options?
Read the following sentence:
The Common National Base is intended for the overall ............................................... development and it must ensure that the ............................................................ provided for under law, as well as the target student profile will be accomplished, thus making Basic Education an actual asset available to every ........................................ .
Choose the alternative that correctly fills the gaps in the sentence.
Choose the alternative where there is an odd word in the sequence.
Escolha a alternativa que corretamente completa a sentença abaixo.
Every night ______________ eating before 10 p.m.
British troops move black rhinos to Malawi
British troops have helped to move a group of critically endangered black rhinos from South Africa to Malawi to protect them against poaching. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles moved 17 of the animals, which are hunted for their horns, in the hope they can be better protected. They were transported by air and road from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to Liwonde National Park in Malawi.
The troops then spent three months training rangers to keep them safe. Major Jez England, the officer commanding the British Army counter-poaching team in Liwonde, said the operation had been “hugely successful”. “Not only do we share skills with the rangers, improving their efficiency and ability to patrol larger areas, but it also provides a unique opportunity for our soldiers to train in a challenging environment”, he said.
The UK government says it has committed more than £36m to tackle the illegal wildlife trade between 2014 and 2021. Part of this is to help support trans-boundary work to allow animals to move more safely between areas and across national borders.
(Site: BBC - adaptado.)
Choose the word related to appearance:
Read the text below and answer questions 35 to 40
- A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon
- Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence
- to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo‐Saxons?" New
- findings based on studying skeletal remains clearly indicate the Anglo‐
- Saxons were a melting pot of people from both migrant and local
- cultural groups and not one homogenous group from Western Europe.
- Professor Keith Dobney said the team’s results indicate that "the
- Anglo‐Saxon kingdoms of early Medieval Britain were strikingly similar
- to contemporary Britain ‐‐ full of people of different ancestries sharing
- a common language and culture." The collaborative study looked at the
- three‐dimensional shape of the base of the skull. "Baased on this, we
- collected 3D data from suitably dated skeletal collections from Britain
- and Denmark, and then analysed the data to estimate the ancestry of
- the Anglo‐Saxon individuals in the sample."
- The researchers found that between two‐thirds and three‐quarters of
- early Anglo‐Saxon individuals were of continental European ancestry,
- while between a quarter and one‐third were of local ancestry. When
- they looked at skeletons dated to the Middle Anglo‐Saxon period
- (several hundred years after the original migrants arrived), they found
- that 50 to 70 percent of the individuals were of local ancestry, while
- 30 to 50 percent were of continental European ancestry, which
- probably indicates a change in the rate of migration and/or local
- adoption of culture over time. "These findings tell us that being Anglo‐
- Saxon was more likely a matter of language and culture, not genetics."
- Although Anglo‐Saxon origins can clearly be traced to a migration of
- Germanic‐speaking people from mainland Europe between the 5th
- and 7th centuries AD, the number of individuals who settled in Britain
- is still contested, as is the nature of their relationship with the pre-
- existing inhabitants of the British Isles, who were Romano‐Celts.
- The ongoing and unresolved argument is whether hordes of European
- invaders largely replaced the existing Romano‐British inhabitants, or
- did smaller numbers of migrants settle and interact with the locals,
- who then rapidly adopted the new language and culture of the Anglo‐
- Saxons? "The reason for the ongoing confusion is the apparent
- contradiction between early historical texts (written sometime after
- the events that imply that the newcomers were both numerous and
- replaced the Romano‐British population) and some recent
- biomolecular markers directly recovered from Anglo‐Saxon skeletons
- that appears to suggest numbers of immigrants were few," said
- Professor Dobney. "Our new data sits at the interface of this debate
- and implies that early Anglo‐Saxon society was a mix of both
- newcomers and immigrants and, instead of wholesale population
- replacement, a process of acculturation resulted in Anglo‐Saxon
- language and culture being adopted wholesale by the local
- population." "It could be this new cultural package was attractive,
- filling a vacuum left at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain.
- Whatever the reason, it lit the fuse for the English nation we have today
- ‐‐ still comprised of people of different origins who share the same
- language," Professor Dobney said.
Adapted from article available at:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210623144901.htm
Accessed on: July 13, 2021.
Select the alternative that contains a word that is formed in the same way as “mainland”(l. 26):
Mark the alternative that present the phonetic transcription of the word "hen".
Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blank.
______________ are linguistic mechanisms that allow a logical-semantic connection between parts of a text. The connection and harmony that enable the binding of ideas within a text is made with the use of conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs or adverbial phrases.