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SCHULZ. Peanuts. Speak up. São Paulo: Peixes, 2006. p. 49.
“If there’s anyone in this world I do trust, it’s my mother!” (6th picture)
The verb do in this sentence is being used
EVANS, Stephen. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/05/110518_witn_electric_cars_page.shtml>. Acesso em: 2 jun. 2011.
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The History of the Motion Picture
Who invented Cinema, the Camera, or Film?
(Adapted from a text available at
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictur
es.htm. Accessed on 02/6/2011, at 9h15min)
Choose the correct alternative according to the text.
The “ing” in the word “making” (line 10) forms a
noun, and the “ing” in the word “paying” (line 27)
forms an adjective.
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A brief history of Facebook
(Adapted from a text available at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/techonolgy/2007/jul/25/media.
newmedia. Accessed on 02/6/2011, at 9h10min)
Choose the correct alternative according to the text.
The words “programmer” (line 3), “users” (line
43), and “founder” (line 51) all refer to someone
responsible for performing the actions related to
these verbs.
In the extracts “the ultimate get-away-from-it-all holiday” (lines 1-2) and “The out-of-this-world experience” (line 8), the underlined parts are used to describe the nouns that follow them.
Read text 3 to answer question.
Text 3
Available in: http://rio.movie-trailer.com/2010/05/riomovie-poster.html.
Access on: May 02, 2011.
Read text 2 to answer question.
Text 2
For Obama, Big Rise in Poll Numbers After Bin Laden Raid
Support for President Obama has risen sharply following the killing of Osama bin Laden by American military forces in Pakistan. Support for the president rose significantly among both Republicans and independents.
Among independents, his approval rating increased 11 points from last month, to 52 percent, while among Republicans it rose 15 points, to 24 percent. Among Democrats, 86 percent supported his job performance, compared with 79 percent in April.
In all, 57 percent said they now approved of the president’s job performance, up from 46 percent last month. More than six in 10 Americans said that killing Bin Laden was likely to increase the threat of terrorism against the United States in the short term. Nearly half said the nation should decrease troop levels in Afghanistan, but more than six in 10 also said the United States had not completed its mission in Afghanistan.
Adapted from: The New York Times. Available in http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/us/politics/05poll.html ?hp. Access on: May 04, 2011.
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Text 1
Newsweek. Available in
http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2008/12/18/cartoonsnewsweeks-best-of-2008.html.
Access on: May 03, 2011.
(ZIMMER, Márcia; SILVEIRA, Rosane; ALVES, Ubiratã
Kickhöfel. Pronunciation Instruction For Brazilians:
Bringing Theory and Practice Together. Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. p. 145.)
The author states that the process of eliminating the destructive by-products of the so-called “clean coal” produces emissions.
The fragment of the text in which the underlined pronoun refers to the statement above is:
He insisted that, in politics, these euphemisms are “swindles” and “perversions” left deliberately vague in order to mislead. (l. 31-33)
In the fragment above, the inverted commas are used with the following purpose:
A euphemism is a mild, indirect or vague expression used instead of one considered offensive, harsh or blunt. It may be used to hide unpleasant or disturbing ideas.
According to the definition above, the expression “genetic engineering” can be considered a euphemism because:
The fragments below share the question “What’s in a name?”:
The author of the text uses a resource that consists of borrowing from another text, published beforehand.
This resource is called:
Happiness is a domestic bird in our own courtyards. (l. 19-20)
This fragment contains a figure of speech which is labeled as:
According to some authors, a memoir is how one remembers one’s own life; an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates and facts.
In relation to the author’s life, the text Happiness can be characterized as a memoir especially because of the presence of:
According to the text, the alternative that completes these blanks correctly is
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