Questões de Língua Inglesa

Based on the text above, judge the items from 99 through 106.

A few years before he died, Robert was invited to live on his grandfather’s farm.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Since Shakespeare and Dickens are “literary”, Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl can be classified as

I. factual, because it recounts actual facts of her life.

II. instructive, because it was written to alert the world against the dangers of Nazism.

III. a mass media text, because it has become widely read and influential. There are, for instance, movies based on her diary.

The correct assertion(s) is(are)

• A.

  I, only.

• B.

  II, only.

• C.

  II and III, only.

• D.

  I and III, only.

The sentence: “Rainforests help to control global warming because they absorb carbon dioxide” could be rewritten, without change of meaning, as:

• A.

  As rainforests absorb carbon dioxide, they help to control global warming.

• B.

  Rainforests help to control global warming. Thus they absorb carbon dioxide.

• C.

  Rainforests help to control global warming hence they absorb carbon dioxide.

• D.

  Rainforests absorb carbon dioxide whereas they help to control global warming.

• E.

  In spite of rainforests absorb carbon dioxide, they help to control global warming.

Based on the text, judge the items below.

No other Shakespearean play shows such a strong individualized power than the one found in King Lear.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Choose the alternative that presents the passive voice equivalent of the following sentence:

Farmers are cutting down the trees to clear the land for farming.

• A.

  The trees are been cut down to clear the land for farming.

• B.

  The trees are being cut down to clear the land for farming.

• C.

  The trees have been cut down to clear the land for farming.

• D.

  The trees are cut down by farmers to clear the land for farming.

• E.

  Farmers have been cutting down the trees to clear the land for farming.

Judge the following items according to the text above.

The phrasal verb “lay out” (l.6) could be correctly replaced in the text by avoid.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text, judge the items below.

The same canonical greatness is also achieved in other literary works, besides Shakespeare’s.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Choose the only correct sentence.

• A.

  Choose the only correct sentence.

• B.

  I would like to have more informations about the ultraviolet radiation.

• C.

  Do you need any further information about the greenhouse effect?

• D.

  If I were you, I would get some expert advices on using unleaded petrol.

• E.

  They are doing a research about the best kind of pesticides they should purchase.

The word head, as used in the text, belongs to which of the following groups?

• A.

  Mouth, eyes, nose.

• B.

  Boss, director, superintendent.

• C.

  Lead, manage, supervise.

• D.

  Go, move, run.

Based on the text, judge the items below.

The limits of human art are touched in King Lear for all those who read it.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado