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Q730041
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730041 Inglês
Identify the alternative in which there is INACCURACY related to verb inflection.
Alternativas
Q730040
Inglês Substantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds , Plural dos substantivos | Plural of nouns ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730040 Inglês
Identify the alternative in which the plural form is INCORRECT.
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Q730039
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730039 Inglês

Text for the question.

“According to Bakhtin’s perspective of speech genres (1986), “Language is realized in the form of individual concrete utterances (oral and written) by participants in the various areas of human activity. These utterances reflect the specific conditions and goals of each such area not only through their content (thematic) and linguistic style, that is, the selection of the lexical, phraseological, and grammatical resources of the language, but above all through their compositional structure.” (Source: http://monoskop.org/images/7/7b/Bakhtin_Mi khail_Speech_Genres_and_Other_Late_Ess ays.pdf). As an example, we can mention the linguistic style and compositional structure used in WhatsApp chats: acronyms, emoticons and sounds of language replaced with units such as c for ‘see,’ sum1 for ‘someone’, etc. Some of these structures are shown in the excerpt below:


The expression “so badly” in the WhatsApp conversation above emphasizes that the person was
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Q730038
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730038 Inglês

Text for the question.

“According to Bakhtin’s perspective of speech genres (1986), “Language is realized in the form of individual concrete utterances (oral and written) by participants in the various areas of human activity. These utterances reflect the specific conditions and goals of each such area not only through their content (thematic) and linguistic style, that is, the selection of the lexical, phraseological, and grammatical resources of the language, but above all through their compositional structure.” (Source: http://monoskop.org/images/7/7b/Bakhtin_Mi khail_Speech_Genres_and_Other_Late_Ess ays.pdf). As an example, we can mention the linguistic style and compositional structure used in WhatsApp chats: acronyms, emoticons and sounds of language replaced with units such as c for ‘see,’ sum1 for ‘someone’, etc. Some of these structures are shown in the excerpt below:


Taking into account the speech genre described above and language used in it, identify the alternative in which the element on the left does NOT stand for the given meaning. 
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Q730037
Inglês Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730037 Inglês
Which of the words below can be used for ordering events in reports, essays and other texts?
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Q730036
Inglês Palavras conectivas | Connective words ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730036 Inglês
 “Connectors, or conjunctives (Halliday & Hasan, 1976), are a type of cohesion device that make explicit the logical relations between sentences (cause, addition, comparison, condition, etc.). Common connectors include and, but, however, and because. Such connectors are of limited utility, however, unless the reader understands how connectors function and the logical relationship each specifies.” Source: GOLDMAN, Susan R. & MURRAY, John. Knowledge of Connectors as Cohesion Devices in Text: A Comparative Study of Native English and ESL Speakers. (Adapted) In: www.dtic.mil/cgibin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA213269. Access: March 23rd, 2016.
From the groups of logical conjunctives below, which one contains connectors that specify a similar logical relation?  
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Q730035
Inglês Preposições | Prepositions ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730035 Inglês
Read text 2 and answer the question according to it.

TEXT 2
GOOGLE HAS REFUSED GOVERNMENT DEMANDS TO TAKE DOWN A GAY MUSIC VIDEO IN KENYA
Kenya’s attempt to stop people from watching a music video celebrating gay couples is backfiring. Three weeks after trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of Same Love, (1)__________ Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused to pull the video from YouTube, where it has now been viewed (2)____________ 140,000 times. Kenyan regulators banned the video in late February, claiming that the content threatens to turn the country (3)___________ “Sodom and Gomorrah” and declaring that anyone caught distributing it would be punished. But the agency that banned it also retweeted a link to it—which ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s nascent gay rights campaign. (…)
Source: http://qz.com/638461/google-hasrefused-government-demands-to-take-downa-gay-music-video-in-kenya (adapted). Access: March 22nd, 2016.  
The suitable prepositions to fill in blanks 1, 2 and 3 in text 2 are respectively
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Q730034
Inglês Verbos | Verbs , Infinitivo e gerúndio | Infinitive and gerund , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730034 Inglês
Read text 2 and answer the question according to it.

TEXT 2
GOOGLE HAS REFUSED GOVERNMENT DEMANDS TO TAKE DOWN A GAY MUSIC VIDEO IN KENYA
Kenya’s attempt to stop people from watching a music video celebrating gay couples is backfiring. Three weeks after trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of Same Love, (1)__________ Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused to pull the video from YouTube, where it has now been viewed (2)____________ 140,000 times. Kenyan regulators banned the video in late February, claiming that the content threatens to turn the country (3)___________ “Sodom and Gomorrah” and declaring that anyone caught distributing it would be punished. But the agency that banned it also retweeted a link to it—which ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s nascent gay rights campaign. (…)
Source: http://qz.com/638461/google-hasrefused-government-demands-to-take-downa-gay-music-video-in-kenya (adapted). Access: March 22nd, 2016.  
In the passage, the word backfiring is a synonym with  
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Q730033
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730033 Inglês
“The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) was established in 1886 in Paris. The aim of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. In furtherance of this aim, the IPA provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages. The latest version of the IPA Alphabet was published in 2005.”   Source: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org (Adapted). Access: March 21st, 2016. The phonetic transcription below corresponds to American English (based on the open Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary).  
[ɪn ˈɔrdər tu səkˈsid, wi mʌst fɜrst bɪˈliv ðæt wi kæn ]
According to IPA, the phonetic transcription above corresponds to  
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Q730032
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730032 Inglês
Identify the option in which one of the words in the group is NOT a homophone with the others.
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Q730031
Inglês Pronomes | Pronouns , Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730031 Inglês
Answer the question, according to text 1.
TEXT 1
Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment
Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    
    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.
    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.
    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.
    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.
Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21st, 2016.
The pronoun this (in bold type in the 2nd paragraph) refers to  
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Q730030
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730030 Inglês
Answer the question, according to text 1.
TEXT 1
Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment
Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    
    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.
    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.
    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.
    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.
Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21st, 2016.
Which word is similar in meaning to “tussle” as in the sentence “Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment”?
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Q730029
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730029 Inglês
Answer the question, according to text 1.
TEXT 1
Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment
Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    
    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.
    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.
    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.
    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.
Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21st, 2016.
According to the text, turning to the courts in Brazil to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense is
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Q730028
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730028 Inglês
Answer the question, according to text 1.
TEXT 1
Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment
Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    
    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.
    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.
    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.
    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.
Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21st, 2016.
According to the text, drug regulators and cancer researchers in Brazil are
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Q730027
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: NUCEPE Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI Prova: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa |
Q730027 Inglês
Answer the question, according to text 1.
TEXT 1
Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment
Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    
    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.
    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.
    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.
    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.
Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21st, 2016.
According to the text, the reason why the compound phosphoethanolamine was considered as miracle cure is
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Q726549
Inglês Palavras conectivas | Connective words , Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: FUMARC Órgão: CEMIG-TELECOM Prova: FUMARC - 2016 - CEMIG-TELECOM - Analista de Vendas JR |
Q726549 Inglês
Read the following text and choose the option which best completes the question, according to the text:

Think your world view is fixed? Learn another language and you’ll think differently

Bilinguals get all the advantages. Better job prospects, cognitive improvement, and even protection against dementia. Now new research shows that they can also view the world in different ways depending on the language they are operating in.

In the past fifteen years there has been an overwhelming amount of research on the bilingual mind, with the majority of the evidence pointing to the tangible advantages of using more than one language. Going back and forth between languages appears to be a kind of brain training, pushing your brain to be flexible.

Just as regular exercise gives your body some biological benefits, mentally controlling two or more languages gives your brain cognitive benefits. This mental flexibility pays big dividends especially later in life: the typical signs of cognitive ageing occur later in bilinguals – and the onset of age-related degenerative disorders such as dementia or Alzheimer’s are delayed in bilinguals by up to five years.

People self-report that they feel like a different person when using their different languages and that expressing certain emotions carries different emotional resonance depending on the language they are using.

When judging risk, bilinguals also tend to make more rational, economic decisions in a second language. In contrast to one’s first language, it tends to lack the deep-seated, misleading affective biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived. So the language you speak in really can affect the way you think.

(From: https://goo.gl/GYgpfY. Access: 09/23/2016)
The word so in “So the language you speak in really can affect the way you think.” (paragraph 5) conveys the idea of
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Q726548
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: FUMARC Órgão: CEMIG-TELECOM Prova: FUMARC - 2016 - CEMIG-TELECOM - Analista de Vendas JR |
Q726548 Inglês
Read the following text and choose the option which best completes the question, according to the text:

Think your world view is fixed? Learn another language and you’ll think differently

Bilinguals get all the advantages. Better job prospects, cognitive improvement, and even protection against dementia. Now new research shows that they can also view the world in different ways depending on the language they are operating in.

In the past fifteen years there has been an overwhelming amount of research on the bilingual mind, with the majority of the evidence pointing to the tangible advantages of using more than one language. Going back and forth between languages appears to be a kind of brain training, pushing your brain to be flexible.

Just as regular exercise gives your body some biological benefits, mentally controlling two or more languages gives your brain cognitive benefits. This mental flexibility pays big dividends especially later in life: the typical signs of cognitive ageing occur later in bilinguals – and the onset of age-related degenerative disorders such as dementia or Alzheimer’s are delayed in bilinguals by up to five years.

People self-report that they feel like a different person when using their different languages and that expressing certain emotions carries different emotional resonance depending on the language they are using.

When judging risk, bilinguals also tend to make more rational, economic decisions in a second language. In contrast to one’s first language, it tends to lack the deep-seated, misleading affective biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived. So the language you speak in really can affect the way you think.

(From: https://goo.gl/GYgpfY. Access: 09/23/2016)
Studies have shown that bilingualism
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Q726547
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: FUMARC Órgão: CEMIG-TELECOM Prova: FUMARC - 2016 - CEMIG-TELECOM - Analista de Vendas JR |
Q726547 Inglês
Read the following text and choose the option which best completes the question, according to the text:

Think your world view is fixed? Learn another language and you’ll think differently

Bilinguals get all the advantages. Better job prospects, cognitive improvement, and even protection against dementia. Now new research shows that they can also view the world in different ways depending on the language they are operating in.

In the past fifteen years there has been an overwhelming amount of research on the bilingual mind, with the majority of the evidence pointing to the tangible advantages of using more than one language. Going back and forth between languages appears to be a kind of brain training, pushing your brain to be flexible.

Just as regular exercise gives your body some biological benefits, mentally controlling two or more languages gives your brain cognitive benefits. This mental flexibility pays big dividends especially later in life: the typical signs of cognitive ageing occur later in bilinguals – and the onset of age-related degenerative disorders such as dementia or Alzheimer’s are delayed in bilinguals by up to five years.

People self-report that they feel like a different person when using their different languages and that expressing certain emotions carries different emotional resonance depending on the language they are using.

When judging risk, bilinguals also tend to make more rational, economic decisions in a second language. In contrast to one’s first language, it tends to lack the deep-seated, misleading affective biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived. So the language you speak in really can affect the way you think.

(From: https://goo.gl/GYgpfY. Access: 09/23/2016)
The use of the adjective overwhelming (paragraph 2) indicates that the amount of research on the bilingual mind
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Q726546
Inglês Verbos | Verbs , Verbos modais | Modal verbs ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: FUMARC Órgão: CEMIG-TELECOM Prova: FUMARC - 2016 - CEMIG-TELECOM - Analista de Vendas JR |
Q726546 Inglês
Read the following text and choose the option which best completes the question, according to the text:

Think your world view is fixed? Learn another language and you’ll think differently

Bilinguals get all the advantages. Better job prospects, cognitive improvement, and even protection against dementia. Now new research shows that they can also view the world in different ways depending on the language they are operating in.

In the past fifteen years there has been an overwhelming amount of research on the bilingual mind, with the majority of the evidence pointing to the tangible advantages of using more than one language. Going back and forth between languages appears to be a kind of brain training, pushing your brain to be flexible.

Just as regular exercise gives your body some biological benefits, mentally controlling two or more languages gives your brain cognitive benefits. This mental flexibility pays big dividends especially later in life: the typical signs of cognitive ageing occur later in bilinguals – and the onset of age-related degenerative disorders such as dementia or Alzheimer’s are delayed in bilinguals by up to five years.

People self-report that they feel like a different person when using their different languages and that expressing certain emotions carries different emotional resonance depending on the language they are using.

When judging risk, bilinguals also tend to make more rational, economic decisions in a second language. In contrast to one’s first language, it tends to lack the deep-seated, misleading affective biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived. So the language you speak in really can affect the way you think.

(From: https://goo.gl/GYgpfY. Access: 09/23/2016)
The modal verb can in “they can also view the world…” (paragraph 1) conveys the idea of
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Q726545
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2016 Banca: FUMARC Órgão: CEMIG-TELECOM Prova: FUMARC - 2016 - CEMIG-TELECOM - Analista de Vendas JR |
Q726545 Inglês
Read the following text and choose the option which best completes the question, according to the text:

Think your world view is fixed? Learn another language and you’ll think differently

Bilinguals get all the advantages. Better job prospects, cognitive improvement, and even protection against dementia. Now new research shows that they can also view the world in different ways depending on the language they are operating in.

In the past fifteen years there has been an overwhelming amount of research on the bilingual mind, with the majority of the evidence pointing to the tangible advantages of using more than one language. Going back and forth between languages appears to be a kind of brain training, pushing your brain to be flexible.

Just as regular exercise gives your body some biological benefits, mentally controlling two or more languages gives your brain cognitive benefits. This mental flexibility pays big dividends especially later in life: the typical signs of cognitive ageing occur later in bilinguals – and the onset of age-related degenerative disorders such as dementia or Alzheimer’s are delayed in bilinguals by up to five years.

People self-report that they feel like a different person when using their different languages and that expressing certain emotions carries different emotional resonance depending on the language they are using.

When judging risk, bilinguals also tend to make more rational, economic decisions in a second language. In contrast to one’s first language, it tends to lack the deep-seated, misleading affective biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived. So the language you speak in really can affect the way you think.

(From: https://goo.gl/GYgpfY. Access: 09/23/2016)
The fact of being bilingual
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Respostas
19821: B
19822: D
19823: C
19824: C
19825: A
19826: B
19827: A
19828: E
19829: C
19830: E
19831: A
19832: B
19833: E
19834: D
19835: B
19836: B
19837: D
19838: A
19839: D
19840: C
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