Questões Militares Comentadas sobre inglês

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Q481766 Inglês
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    “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

GATES, Bill. The first...Disponível em: < http://www.refresher.com/ wwvol1.html >. Acesso em: 30 mar. 2011.

According to the text, automation contributes to
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Q481765 Inglês
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The only false cognate is in alternative
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Q481764 Inglês
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The only alternative in which the word from the text, on the left, is not suitably defined is
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Q481763 Inglês
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Fill in the parentheses with T(True) or F (False).

The paragraphs from the text, (in brackets on the right), have answers to the following questions:

(  ) Why do biologists tag penguins? [par.1]
(  ) How long have scientists been following penguins? [par.2]
(  ) Where do penguins usually breed? [par.3]
(  ) What are scientists worried about? [par.4]

According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
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Q481762 Inglês
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Considering penguins without flipper tags, the only statement without support from the text is that they
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Q481761 Inglês
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Considering language use in the text, it’s correct to say:
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Q481760 Inglês
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The phrase “500 days to go” ( l. 4) means that it’s 500 days
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Q481759 Inglês
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Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False). About London’s Olympic Park, it’s correct to say:

(  ) It won’t take long to be ready for use.
(  ) The stadium seats are going to be built very soon.
(  ) There isn’t much water there.
(  ) Former industrial canals have turned into waterways.

According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is:
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Q481758 Inglês
The ’s in “not the government’s” (l. 19) is the
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Q481756 Inglês
Considering the new law about fast-food advertising, the text says that McDonald’s, Burger King and other food companies intend to
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Q481755 Inglês
About the toys given away by fast-food restaurants, it’s stated in the text that they
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Q376758 Inglês
Responda às questões 21 a 25 com base no texto a seguir.

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Brazil’s environment ministry has taken steps to save the rainforest by disrupting the illegal logging industry.

About $2.7 million dollars worth of illegally logged wood from indigenous lands were seized by environmental police during a surprise raid in Nova Esperança do Piria.

According to Reuters, some 13 logging companies and sawmills were shut down while tractors, guns, and ammunitions were seized in the remote area […] The government aims to reduce deforestation to a record low in the year to July. It hopes to ensure that deforestation, the cutting down or burning of the rainforest, does not ex- ceed 3,700 square miles. Recent research has shown that the rainforest is a valuable global resource as not only does it harbour a variety of animal and plant species, but it also absorbs a significant amount of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide
Em “not only does it harbour a variety of animal and plant species” , pode-se entender a palavra sublinhada como:
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Q326068 Inglês
Dr Molly Stevens and her team in the Department of Materials and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering moved one step closer to understanding how to grow replacement bones with stem cell technology in July 2009. Dr Stevens, whose study was published in the journal Nature Materials, compared the ‘bone-like’ material grown from three different, commonly used, clinically relevant cell types and discovered that the materials that were grown from mouse skull and bone marrow stem cells successfully mimicked many of the hallmarks of real bone. She says: “It brings us one step closer to developing materials that will have the highest chance of success when implanted into patients.” Which of the following headings is suitable to the passage?

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Q326067 Inglês
The meaning of overlook in the passage is:

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Q326066 Inglês
Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago during the Hesperian Epoch, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, suggested a research published this January in the journal Geology. Dr Nicholas Warner, from the Department of Earth Science Engineering, said: “Most of the research on Mars has focused on its early history and the recent past. Scientists had largely overlooked the Hesperian Epoch as it was thought that Mars was then a frozen wasteland. Excitingly, our study now shows that this middle period in Mars’ history was much more dynamic than we previously imagined.”Which of the following alternatives is WRONG, according to the passage?


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Q326065 Inglês
When I qualified as a military engineer, the wise old colonel who gave me my insignias said: “When you get to the front line, you will feel fear, but remember this: never fear the enemy, never fear the danger, only fear letting down those who have gone before you.”Which of the following comments could follow the previous scene?


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Q326059 Inglês
Torrential rain broke briefly on January 23rd , 2010. Nevertheless,33 stalwarts of the Military Institute of Engineering kept on gathering and reminiscing:What can be understood by the passage?



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Q326058 Inglês
Para as questões de 26 a 30, encontram-se em destaque cinco termos ou expressões. Assinale a alternativa correspondente ao termo cujo emprego está INCORRETO.
Professor David Barry is a theoretical high-energy physicist and his work interest lays in the field of phenomenology in high energy collisions:

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Q326057 Inglês
Para as questões de 26 a 30, encontram-se em destaque cinco termos ou expressões. Assinale a alternativa correspondente ao termo cujo emprego está INCORRETO.
I am currently studying for a PhD at the British Antarctic Survey working on the structural interpretation of gravity and magnetic going from east Antarctica, including both numerical and mechanical modelling of data.

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Q326056 Inglês
Para as questões de 26 a 30, encontram-se em destaque cinco termos ou expressões. Assinale a alternativa correspondente ao termo cujo emprego está INCORRETO.
After dining,Richard Flaming, a mechanical engineer,described his 10-year odyssey to break the wind powered land speed recording at 126.2 mph, on March 20th .



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2761: E
2762: D
2763: E
2764: E
2765: B
2766: B
2767: A
2768: C
2769: B
2770: D
2771: C
2772: A
2773: A
2774: E
2775: B
2776: C
2777: A
2778: D
2779: C
2780: D