Questões de Concurso Sobre vocabulário | vocabulary em inglês

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Q1644427 Inglês
Leia as afirmativas a seguir:
I. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir: a good read (leitura agradável). II. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir: begin at the beginning!.
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Q1644426 Inglês
Leia as afirmativas a seguir:
I. Na pedagogia libertadora, o professor deve adotar uma postura exclusivamente autoritária. II. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir em inglês: the likes of (gente como).
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Q1640500 Inglês

Some reading strategies can assist a reader in getting specific information from the text. There are different types of reading, because there are different reading purposes. It is very important to understand why you have to read a text and to choose that reading strategy which is most appropriate to the task. Identify the three strategies that correspond to the definitions below, considering the order in which they are described:


I – reading very carefully to be sure you understand exactly what the writer means;

II - reading the text fairly quickly in order to understand the topic and the main points;

III - looking through the text to find specific information that you need to answer a question.

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Q1640494 Inglês

Choose the correct alternative:


“Ok, so I’ll get my car and ______ around 7:20”.

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Q1640448 Inglês
Choose the alternative that presents a synonym to the word ‘owe’ (l.26):
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Q1640446 Inglês
The word ‘clutter’ (l.30)
I. is an adverb. II. may be translated as ‘bagunça’. III. could be replaced by ‘hush’.
Which ones are correct?
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Q1640444 Inglês
Mark the sentence in which the phrasal verb ‘bring out’ has the same meaning as used in line 17.
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Q1640167 Inglês
Mark the alternative that represents a formal word:
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Q1640163 Inglês
The antonym of “complain” is:
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Q1640160 Inglês

A Better Way to Paint a House


    Fall is by far the best time to paint a house in most locations. The cooler, drier weather allows the paint to cure properly and also makes the work more _____________ rather than suffering through the summer heat or spring showers.

    Keeping your house painted is the best way to keep issues like rot or termites at bay and should be a regularly scheduled part of your maintenance every 10-20 years depending on your climate and the condition of your paint.

    If you let a paint job go too long you run the risk of damage to the underlying structure and increased costs for more involved surface prep. Heavy sanding, scraping and carpentry repairs can be budget busters so keeping your house painted regularly is a time and money saver.


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The expression “rather than” in the text is equivalent to:
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Q1640159 Inglês

A Better Way to Paint a House


    Fall is by far the best time to paint a house in most locations. The cooler, drier weather allows the paint to cure properly and also makes the work more _____________ rather than suffering through the summer heat or spring showers.

    Keeping your house painted is the best way to keep issues like rot or termites at bay and should be a regularly scheduled part of your maintenance every 10-20 years depending on your climate and the condition of your paint.

    If you let a paint job go too long you run the risk of damage to the underlying structure and increased costs for more involved surface prep. Heavy sanding, scraping and carpentry repairs can be budget busters so keeping your house painted regularly is a time and money saver.


https://thecraftsmanblog.com/... - adapted

The expression “by far” in the text means:
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Q1640156 Inglês

A Better Way to Paint a House


    Fall is by far the best time to paint a house in most locations. The cooler, drier weather allows the paint to cure properly and also makes the work more _____________ rather than suffering through the summer heat or spring showers.

    Keeping your house painted is the best way to keep issues like rot or termites at bay and should be a regularly scheduled part of your maintenance every 10-20 years depending on your climate and the condition of your paint.

    If you let a paint job go too long you run the risk of damage to the underlying structure and increased costs for more involved surface prep. Heavy sanding, scraping and carpentry repairs can be budget busters so keeping your house painted regularly is a time and money saver.


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Q1640153 Inglês

Check the alternative that fills the gap below CORRECTLY:


She participated ______________ in the festivities.

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Q1640152 Inglês
A “gift” is NOT:
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Q1640151 Inglês
The meaning of “lavish” is:
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Q1640146 Inglês
Far from being selfless gestures, giving gifts creates a personal debt

    It would be nice to believe that gifts are genuine tokens of affection, given without any expectation of recompense. (Indeed, Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “gift” as something “voluntarily transferred” and “without compensation.”) But if you’ve ever had the niggling sense that something other than selflessness drives the presents you dutifully exchange with friends and family, then sociology has your back.
    Dimitri Mortelmans, sociology professor at Antwerp University in Belgium, explains that there is far more to gifting than meets the eye. “Gift-giving is one of the ancient early topics in sociology,” he says. “There’s a whole world behind gift-giving that goes very close to the basics of living together.” Gift giving, after all, is a physical symbol of a personal relationship and an expression of social ties that bring individuals together.
    Far from being voluntary, the 20th century French sociologist Marcel Mauss argues that presents are tied up with strict obligations. “To refuse to give, to fail to invite, just as to refuse to accept, is tantamount to declaring war; it is to reject the bond of ___________ and ___________,” he wrote in his 1925 essay “The Gift.” A present is a token of a relationship and a wish to continue that relationship and so, in rejecting a gift, the offer of extended friendship is also rebuffed.
    This gift exchange can be summarized by the Latin phrase: Do Ut des: “I give because I expect you to give something back.”
    We see such attitudes among families and friends, where each person gives out presents worth roughly the same price. This behavior is particularly obvious in the more pressured stakes of a new romantic relationship, where buying an overly lavish present (or a particularly stingy one) could send the wrong signal and cause upset.
    A gift doesn’t necessarily have to be exchanged for another gift. “You don’t need to repay the things given to you in a material way. You can also be nice or perform some other kind of behavior,” says Mortelmans. So for example, someone who can’t afford to buy a gift in return might be especially affectionate or helpful.

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Q1625026 Inglês
Match the phrasal verbs to their meanings:
First column:
1- break down
2- get by
3- take off
4- take somebody in
5- call off
Second column: ( ) go into the air
( ) cancel
( ) manage
( ) stop working
( ) deceive
Choose the alternative that presents the correct match:
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Q1607897 Inglês
When teaching my daughter how to drive, I told her if she didn't hit the brake in time she would break the car's side mirror. In brake and break we can clearly see an example of
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Q1374274 Inglês

Leia o texto e responda à questão.


    Culture is really an integral part of the interaction between language and thought. Cultural patterns, customs, and ways of life are expressed in language; culture-specific world views are reflected in language. Each culture has at its disposal a particular range of colours, illustrating its particular world view on what color is and how to identify color. The African Shona and Bassa peoples, for example, have fewer color categories than speakers of European languages and they break up the spectrum at different points, as shown below:



    Of course, the Shona or Bassa are able to perceive and describe other colors, in the same way that an English speaker might describe a “dark bluish green”, but the labels which the language provides tend to shape the person’s overall cognitive organization of color and to cause varying degrees of color discrimination. Eskimo tribes commonly have as many as seven different words for snow to distinguish among different types of snow (falling snow, snow on the ground, fluffy snow, wet snow, etc.), whereas certain African cultures in the equatorial forests of Zaire have no word at all for snow.


(Douglas Brown. Principles of language learning and teaching. 5th ed. Longman, 2000. Adaptado)

Na frase que conclui o texto “Eskimo tribes commonly have as many as seven different words for snow to distinguish among different types of snow”, o trecho sublinhado
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Q1369124 Inglês

(Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191114141247.htm– Adapted)

Consider the following changes proposed:
I. Replacement of ‘sheds light on’ (l.07) with ‘clarifies’. II. Replacement of ‘handful’ (l.18) with ‘large number’. III. Replacement of ‘corroborate’ (l.37) with ‘validate’.
Disregarding any grammatical aspects, which ones alter the meaning of the sentence?
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Respostas
1941: A
1942: C
1943: C
1944: B
1945: A
1946: B
1947: B
1948: A
1949: D
1950: C
1951: A
1952: C
1953: D
1954: B
1955: B
1956: A
1957: D
1958: A
1959: C
1960: B