Questões da Prova CESPE - 2017 - Instituto Rio Branco - Diplomata - Prova 2

In text IV, without altering the general meaning of the sentence, “pinpoint” (l.10) could be replaced by (mark right — C — or wrong — E)

ascertain.

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

The author asserts that the early dialect of colonial Americans was not influenced and shaped by large waves of immigrants from many origins.

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

The author criticizes Krapp’s argument that exemplars of transplanted languages or dialects such as Acadian French are more archaic than the original ones, which continued evolving in their home countries.

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

It can be said from the text that to British ears, contemporary American accents belie declining grammar standards in America as compared to Colonial times.

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

According to the text, the fact that social origin was not as easy to identify based on the koine of eighteenth-century Americans as was the case with contemporary Britons reflected the early American colonies’ egalitarian ethos.