Questões de Língua Inglesa

De acordo com o texto,

• A.

  antes de se tornar escritor, Wainaina tentou, inutilmente, ser advogado, engenheiro e até médico e cientista.

• B.

  o pai de Wainaina queria que ele assumisse os negócios e a fazenda da família.

• C.

  Wainaina nunca completou seus estudos universitários.

• D.

  foi na universidade que Wainaina descobriu sua vocação para a literatura.

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

Usina Vale does not put sugar cane bagasse to any productive use.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

According to the text, Carolyn

• A.

  believes Anonymous’s fiancé has every right to be private about his money matters.

• B.

  disapproves of Anonymous’s casual attitude toward her fiancé’s behavior.

• C.

  believes Anonymous should not marry her fiancé under any circumstances.

• D.

  thinks it is healthy for a couple to have different approaches to money.

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

Edeniq uses the same process to produce ethanol as Usina Vale.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Atenção: O texto abaixo refere-se às questões de números 56 a 60.

For Mr. Bechtolsheim,

• A.

  the global network should be periodically swept for bugs.

• B.

  although bugs can cause serious problems, they are never dangerous enough to negatively affect commerce.

• C.

  given the Internet’s complexity, dangerous bugs are unlikely to spread across the global network.

• D.

  hostile attacks are not to be feared by internet users since foreign powers can be hired to prevent them.

• E.

  one cannot ignore that the global network is vulnerable to bugs.

In Text I, we understand that Lu

• A. went to war when he was 30.
• B. became a veteran before he started teaching at MIT.
• C. has first trained people to be engineers and will soon get a medical degree.
• D. is both an engineer and a medical doctor and now works as an MIT professor.
• E. started medical school at MIT at 30.

Atenção: Para responder às questões de números 21 a 25, considere o texto abaixo.

According to the text,

• A.

  shop owners favor the “cut and cover” method.

• B.

  because stations can be built nearer to the surface, subways built with the “cut and cover” method make traveling short distances easier.

• C.

  it is much easier to plan subway routes when the “cut and cover” method is used because they must follow the street design.

• D.

  traffic does not affect tunneling work when the “cut and cover” method is used.

• E.

  building a subway with the “cut and cover” method is faster than with any other method.

According to the text,

• A.

  it is convenient for couples to have separate bank accounts.

• B.

  couples should always share their income.

• C.

  money problems may prevent a couple from enjoying a vacation.

• D.

  a woman who makes her own living should not be responsible for her husband’s debts.

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

Edeniq transports bagasse to Usina Vale’s factory.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

O excerto do primeiro parágrafo – ... electronic discourse tends to be more lexically and syntactically complex than oral discourse... – pode ser corretamente parafraseado, em inglês, como

• A.

  ... syntax and meaning are more difficult to understand in written electronic language than in conversational English...

• B.

  ... the pronunciation of English tends to be harder to grasp when oral language is heard by means of the Internet...

• C.

  ... language used in the Internet is normally more complex than that used in newspapers or magazines...

• D.

  ... it is easier to read printed media than it is to read on the Internet, due to the latter’s more complex nature...

• E.

  ... the word choice and sentence structure in written language used in the Internet is usually more elaborate than the one used in the oral variety...