Questões de Concurso Público Instituto Rio Branco 2011 para Diplomata 2ª Etapa
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One can infer from the text that backward or nostalgic views of the world have existed for more than a thousand years.
According to the text, although past events should be taken into consideration, humankind can choose its future and destiny freely.
The author of the text suggests that nostalgia is the preserve of desperate people.
The author’s clear intention in the first paragraph is to rightly extol the virtues of extreme political reactionarism.
The word “and” (l.15) is used as a stylistic device to bring together two synonymous words, “earthborn” (l.15) and “earthbound” (l.16).
The pronoun “it” (l.13) refers to “another meaning” (l.11-12).
A more up-to-date manner to convey the notion expressed by “illumines” (l.13) is sheds light on.
The expression “watchers and movers” (l.8-9) refers to people who play clearly distinct roles as far as political action is concerned.
If “ticked off” (l.24) and “spinning” (l.25) were replaced respectively by marked off and rotating, there would occur no grammar mistakes in the sentence.
The words “crises” (l.16) and “millennia” (l.24), as well as theses and fulcra, can only be found in their plural forms.
In the fragment “All the problems of the now are forever shaped by the experiences of a then” (l.18-19), the words “now” and “then” can be replaced respectively by here and there without effecting changes in the meaning and the grammatical correction of the passage.
In the first paragraph, the words “world-weary” (l.5) and “disenchantment” (l.6) establish a semantic relation which reveals the pessimism which was felt by the “monarch” (l.5) and characterized his “age” (l.6).