Questões de Língua Inglesa

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In the text III, the word “greenwash” (line 9) can be understood as

• A.

  to use in an exploitative fashion lakes, rivers and coastal areas that are surrounded by luxuriant vegetation.

• B.

  to offer a tourist something that looks suspiciously cheap.

• C.

  the use of washing products or detergents that do not affect or damage rivers or forests.

• D.

  to hide or obscure ecologically damaging activities deliberately in order to profit from a given situation.

• E.

  to use a green pigment to gun paint elephants without harming them.

Iain Couzin is mentioned in paragraph 5 (lines 33-40) because he

• A.

  believes that computational tools are very useful in predicting and reacting to misfortunate incidents.

• B.

  provides the only efficient alternative to the computer model presented by Anna Nagurney.

• C.

  claims that the use of computational tools in dealing with disaster scenarios has been ineffective.

• D.

  found a faster and more reliable means of preventing epidemics and breaches of security.

• E.

  developed mathematical tools to justify individual animal routines.

According to the text, judge the following items.

It is all too clear that we have been defiling the Earth.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

The following plan describes a lesson which integrates skills and language work. Number the stages in the correct order and then choose the alternative that presents the correct order.

( ) Students read a text about a Chinese couple who lives in London.

( ) Students look for any language in the text that describes physical appearance.

( ) Students listen to a dialogue about a police line-up before role playing police officers questioning witnesses.

( ) Students answer comprehension questions about the text.

( ) Students write physical descriptions of classmates. Class has to guess who they are writing about.

( ) Students rewrite the text as if the character approved of his wife‘s appearance.

( ) Students complete a questionnaire about how they respond to physical appearance.

• A. 2 – 4 – 1 – 3 – 6 – 7 – 5
• B. 1 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 7 – 2 – 6
• C. 2 – 4 – 7 – 3 – 6 – 5 – 1
• D. 3 – 1 – 2 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7
• E. 5 – 6 – 7 – 1 – 3 – 2 – 4

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It can be concluded from the text III that

• A.

  “whose” (line 14) can be replaced by which or that.

• B.

  “safaris” (line 10) is in inverted commas to signal that there are no real safaris in Zimbabwe anymore for the local tourist authorities have banned them because they regard them as politically incorrect.

• C.

  if “has become” (line 2) is replaced by became, no change whatsoever in meaning will take place in the sentence.

• D.

  “for scuba-diving” (lines 6 and 7) can be replaced by in order to scuba dive.

• E.

  “must” (line 19) expresses the notions of desirability or advisability.

“such critical perturbations,” (lines 34-35) refers to all the items below, EXCEPT

• A.

  congestion

• B.

  delivery delays

• C.

  computer supplies

• D.

  disrupted roads

• E.

  loss of products

Based on the text, judge the following items.

The main idea of the text can be said to be “same tasks, same pay”.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

What is it that makes a text difficult to read?

• A. The length of words and sentences.
• B. The length of sentences and paragraphs.
• C. The percentage of unknown words and length of words.
• D. The percentage of unknown words and length of sentences.
• E. The length of paragraphs and percentage of unknown words.

The expression “In turn” (line 24) can be paraphrased as

• A.

  Nevertheless.

• B.

  As a matter of fact.

• C.

  As a result.

• D.

  In no time.

• E.

  Sooner or later.

Based on the meanings in the text, the two items are antonymous in

• A.

  “…tough…” (subtitle) – complicated

• B.

  “…clogged…” (line 7) – crowded

• C.

  “…disrupted.” (line 32) – destroyed

• D.

  “…breaches…” (line 40) – violations

• E.

  “pressing…” (line 41) – trivial