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Q2486261
Inglês Pronomes | Pronouns ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: CESGRANRIO Órgão: Caixa Provas: CESGRANRIO - 2024 - Caixa - Técnico Bancário Novo - 1° Simulado | CESGRANRIO - 2024 - Caixa - Técnico Bancário Novo - Tecnologia da Informação - 1° Simulado |
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Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand”


For decades, there’s been a running academic debate about the question of “the hot hand”— the notion, in basketball, say, that a player has a statistically better chance of scoring from downtown if he’s been shooting that night with unusual accuracy. Put it this way: Stephen Curry, the point guard genius for the Golden State Warriors, who normally hits forty-four per cent of his threes, will raise his odds to fifty per cent or better if he’s already on a tear. He’s got a “hot hand.” If you watch enough N.B.A. ball, it appears to happen all the time. But does it? Thirty years ago, Thomas Gilovich, Amos Tversky, and Robert Vallone seemed to squelch the hot-hand theory with a stats-laden paper in the journal Cognitive Psychology, but, just last year, along came Joshua Miller and Adam Sanjurjo, marshalling no less evidence, to insist that an “atypical clustering of successes” in three-point shooting was not a “wide spread cognitive illusion” at all, but rather that it “occurs regularly.”

Steph Curry fans, who have been loyal witnesses to his improbable streaks from beyond the arc, surely agree with Professors Miller and Sanjurjo. But let’s assume that the debate, in basketball or at the blackjack table, remains open. What’s clear is that when it comes to the life of the imagination, the hot hand is a matter of historical fact. Novelists, composers, painters, and poets are apt to experience stretches of intense creativity that might derive from any number of factors — surrounding historical events, artistic rivalries, or, most mysteriously, inspiration — but the streak is undeniably there.

For Dylan, the greatest and most abundant songwriter who has ever lived, the most intense period of wild inspiration and creativity ran from the beginning of 1965 to the summer of 1966.

Before that fifteen-month period, Bob Dylan, who was twenty-three, had already transformed folk music, building on Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams. Now he was scribbling lyrics on pads and envelopes all night and listening to the Stones and the Beatles and feverishly reading the Surrealists and the Beats. In short order, he recorded the music for “Bringing It All Back Home” (the crossover to rock that ranges from “Mr. Tambourine Man” to “Subterranean Homesick Blues”); “Highway 61 Revisited” (the best rock album ever made; again, send your rebuttal to ); and “Blonde on Blonde” (a double album recorded in New York and Nashville that includes “Visions of Johanna” and “Just Like a Woman”).


Full text available on https://www.newyorker. com/culture/cultural-comment/bob-dylanand-the-hot-hand
[Questão inédita] In the fragment “Stephen Curry, the point guard genius for the Golden State Warriors, who normally hits forty-four per cent of his threes”, the word his refers to
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Q2433575
Inglês Adjetivos | Adjectives , Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions , Artigos | Articles , Pronomes | Pronouns , Verbos | Verbs
Ano: 2023 Banca: Instituto Ágata Órgão: Prefeitura de Medicilândia - PA Prova: Instituto Ágata - 2023 - Prefeitura de Medicilândia - PA - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
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Leia o trecho a seguir:


The Hardworking Family

John is a hardworking man. He always gets up early to work and to do all the things he has to do. Mary, John's wife, helps him and she usually spends a lot of time at work with John. John works all the time.

John and Mary have three children who often complain that their parents work too much and seldom enjoy life. They say, "Dad, you and Mom should take a break from work and try to have some fun. You never relax."

John's answer is: "Sometimes I think of taking a vacation, but who will pay our bills?". Mary agrees with John and says that someday their children will understand the situation.


(Adaptado de: <https://www.englishexperts.com.br>. Acesso em: 9 jun. 2023.)


Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a classe gramatical das palavras em destaque no texto:

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Inglês Voz Ativa e Passiva | Passive and Active Voice ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: FUNCERN Órgão: Prefeitura de Guamaré - RN Prova: FUNCERN - 2024 - Prefeitura de Guamaré - RN - Professor Magistério Fundamental - Anos Finais e EJA - Inglês |
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From Shakespeare to Harry Styles: Have audiences always been rowdy?


By Clare Thorp12th July 2023



From Pink being given a giant wheel of Brie to Harry Syles getting pelled in the face by a mystery object, disruptive music and theatre shows seems to be on the rise. But is it anything new, asks Clare Thorp.



When Harry Styles was pelted with chicken nuggets while on stage at New York's Madison Square Gardens last summer, he took it in his stride. "Interesting approach," smiled Styles, who has also weathered kiwi fruits, Skittles and bunches of flowers while performing. But when a mystery object hit him in the eye at a concert in Vienna last weekend, he wasn't laughing but, rather, wincing in pain.


It was the latest in a string of incidents where audience members have hurled potentially dangerous objects at performers. Earlier this month Drake was hit on the arm by a flying phone. That came days after country singer Kelsea Ballerini was struck in the face with a bracelet. In May, Bebe Rexha was taken to hospital and needed multiple stitches after a phone hit her in the eye. A man, since charged with assault, told police he thought it "would be funny" to try and hit the singer.


It's not just live music seeing disruptive behaviour. In April, police were called to a performance of The Bodyguard musical in Manchester when rowdy audience members reacted with "unprecedented levels of violence" to staff. At other venues there has been everything from "heated arguments" to full-on brawls. And in the US, one fan's disruption of a Broadway play in December 2022 followed several other incidents of audience outbursts.


Across the cultural sphere, it feels like audiences are misbehaving. At a recent Las Vegas show, Adele weighed in, saying: "Have you noticed how people are like, forgetting … show etiquette at the moment? People just throwing shit on stage" – before warning fans not to try it with her.


Billie Eilish meanwhile, says this kind of thing, while "infuriating", is nothing new. "I've been getting hit on stage with things for like, literally, six years," she told the Hollywood Reporter. Dr Kirsty Sedgman, a senior lecturer in theatre at the University of Bristol who specialises in audience research, also cautions against calling it a new trend. "People have always thrown things on stage," says Sedgman, whose latest book, On Being Unreasonable, explores widening divisions in society over how we use public space. "Whether that's fruit as a way to signify displeasure, or softer items like underwear and flowers as a signal of adoration." Back In 1775, a performer in Sheridan's The Rivals stopped the show when he was pelted with an apple.



Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230712
The objective of question 3 is to explore the following aspect of the passive voice theory:
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Q2389806
Inglês Pronomes | Pronouns , Pronome relativo | Relative clauses ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: ANAC Provas: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2024 - ANAC - Especialista em Regulação de Aviação Civil - Área 1 | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2024 - ANAC - Especialista em Regulação de Aviação Civil - Área 2 | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2024 - ANAC - Especialista em Regulação de Aviação Civil - Área 3 |
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        Drones are an integral part of the defense and supply-chain industry. However, their prowess and versatility extend beyond these sectors. As the demand for UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) continues to increase, the drone market is now estimated to be valued at over 127 billion dollars.


        These uncrewed aircrafts can potentially develop numerous sectors, including transport and travel, exponentially. This is primarily due to their remarkable evolution of collision-avoidance technologies through computer vision and artificial intelligence, allowing them to operate autonomously.


        The dynamic innovation of drone transportation can positively impact emergency services by decreasing emergency response time, offering valuable data from inaccessible regions, and identifying victims via thermal imaging.


Though the concept of a UAV emerges from being “unmanned,” its autonomous power can be used to create functional, personal transportation. Well-known companies like Uber, Airbus, and Boeing are constantly working on developing self-flying drones that can take people from one place to another. 


        In conclusion, drone transportation has a lot of untapped potential beyond supply chain and security surveillance. Whether it is for emergencies, luxury, or space exploration, the future is optimistic for the travel industry.


Internet: <www.skygrid.com> (adapted).




Based on the previous text, judge the following item. 


The word “their” (second sentence of the second paragraph) refers back to “sectors” (first sentence of the second paragraph).  

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Q2383639
Inglês Pronomes | Pronouns , Pronome demonstrativo | Demonstrative pronoun ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: ITAIPU BINACIONAL Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2024 - ITAIPU BINACIONAL - Profissional de Nível Universitário Júnior - Função: Repórter Fotográfico |
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Text 18A3-I 


    The roar of a waterfall suggests the power of water. Rampaging floodwaters can uproot strong trees and twist railroad tracks. When the power of water is harnessed, however, it can do useful work for humans. 


    Since ancient times, people have put the energy in the flow of water to work. They first made water work for them with the waterwheel, a wheel with paddles around its rim. Flowing water rotated the waterwheel, which in turn ran machinery that was linked to it. Today, new kinds of waterwheels — turbines — spin generators that produce electricity. Electricity from water-turned generators is known as hydroelectricity. 


    By building a dam across a river, the natural upstream water level is elevated and a difference in head is created that can be used to drive turbines and generate electricity. A large upstream reservoir may balance seasonal water flow; rain or melted snow can be stored in the reservoir during the wet season to provide electricity during dry seasons. 


    Waterpower is distributed unevenly among the continents and nations of the world. Europe and North America have developed much of their waterpower. Asia, South America, and Africa have abundant waterpower potential, but while countries such as China and Brazil have become leading hydroelectric producers, much of the waterpower resource on those continents remains undeveloped. 



Elizabeth Lachner. Hydroelectricity. Rosen Publishing Group, 2018 (adapted). 

In the third sentence of the second paragraph of text 18A3-I, the pronouns “which” and “it” are both replacing 
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1: D
2: C
3: C
4: E
5: B
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