Questões de Concurso Público AEB 2014 para Analista em C&T - Gestão Administrativa, Pleno 1

Choose the alternative that defines, grammatically and respectively, the verbs in bold in the sentences below.

I would¹ look to generate in my friends, and across my generation, a commitment to serving. Whether in schools, hospitals, or on wilderness trails, I’d hope ² to create in each of us a new, expanded sense of citizenship. We’d spend ³ a year of our lives, before jobs, children, and mortgages complicate our options, building an America where serving is not the obligation of a few – or a possibility only to the privileged.

It would be ⁴ a real choice for everyone. If I were 22 I’d want to give ⁵ myself an answer to the question: “Where did you serve?”

Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks in the sentences below with the correct modal verb.

Notion of an 'event horizon', from which nothing _____________ ¹ escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, physicist claims.

The defining characteristic of a black hole _____________ ² have to give, if the two pillars of modern physics – general relativity and quantum theory – are both correct.

Most physicists foolhardy enough to write a paper claiming that “there are no black holes” – at least not in the sense we usually imagine – ____________ ³ probably be dismissed as cranks. But when the call to redefine these cosmic crunchers comes from Stephen Hawking, it’s worth taking notice. In a paper posted online, the physicist, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of the creators of modern black-hole theory, does away with the notion of an event horizon.

But on analysing the situation in detail, Polchinski’s team came to the startling realization that the laws of quantum mechanics, which govern particles on small scales, change the situation completely. Quantum theory, they said, dictates that the event horizon _____________ ⁴ actually be transformed into a highly energetic region, or 'firewall', that _______________ ⁵ burn the astronaut to a crisp.

Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks in the sentences below with the correct verb tense and form.

“When I _____________ (meet) ¹ Serge, it ____________ (be) ² love at first sight for me – I absolutely adored him, he was this wonderful mad, extrovert Russian Jew who _____________ (spend) ³ half of World War II up a tree, according to him. I _____________ (think) ⁴ he actually spent a couple of nights up a tree, although he’d worn the yellow star for years in occupied France. For a project, I met Hitler’s architect Albert Speer at his Heidelberg eyrie in 1971, and he asked if Jane and Serge would sign a copy of Je t’aime] for him. Serge did so, probably relishing the irony, and when he made his Rock Around The Bunker album a few years later [featuring lyrics about Nazi Germany], he gave me a copy _______________ (send) ⁵ to Speer. His parents had arrived in Paris after _____________ (flee) ⁶ the 1917 Russian Revolution, and his father – who was a brilliant pianist – had to perform in casinos.”