Questões de Língua Inglesa

Regardless of questions of poetic form, the line “They mingle not with their laughing comrades again” (l. 17) could be replaced by:

• A. they will not fight with their laughing comrades.
• B. they don’t mingle with their laughing families.
• C. they do not share moments with their happy mates.
• D. they do not fight with their laughing comrades.
• E. the fallen will not fight with their happy comrades.

In reference to the text above, judge the following items.

The expression “looming famines” (l.2) refers to situations of severe lack of food which led to “the green revolution” (l.3).

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In Text II, it is possible to understand that:

• A. the borders of China are controlled by a rebel group.
• B. China and Myanmar share a border.
• C. rebels and the government forces battled in the capital of Myanmar.
• D. the escalation of violence resulted from President Obama’s visit.
• E. the army of Myanmar is severely controlled by the central government.

A expressão “bookstore killer” foi utilizada para se referir a

• A. alguém que levará as livrarias à falência.
• B. um empresário que só pensa em lucrar com a venda de livros.
• C. um personagem de um livro.
• D. um programador de softwares com aversão a livros.

Among the many tasks, mentioned in the third paragraph, a police officer may perform in the line of duty, is to “secure evidence”. The phrase means, in Portuguese, the same as

• A. assegurar propriedades.
• B. proteger testemunhas.
• C. guardar evidências.
• D. garantir segurança.
• E. colher provas.

In the line “But where our desires are and our hopes profound” (l. 21):

• A. “where” is an interrogative pronoun.
• B. “profound” is a verb.
• C. “desires” and “hopes” are verbs.
• D. the verbal form “are” was deliberately suppressed after “hopes”.
• E. “our” is a possessive pronoun.

Judge the following items concerning the ideas and the language used in the text above.

From the text, one can infer that different festive events take place in a courtroom, such as celebrations and meetings.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Passive voice CANNOT be found in the following paragraph:

• A. “Negotiations have stumbled over the fundamental question of whether Myanmar will remain a united and highly centralized country controlled by the Burman ethnic group, or whether power will be devolved to minority groups.”
• B. “Photos of the rebels’ corpses were widely circulated on the Internet.”
• C. “We are outraged,” said Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China. “This means further conflict is coming.”
• D. “Myanmar has been locked in an intermittent civil war from its earliest days of independence from Britain in 1948, and a cease-fire is considered a crucial part of President Thein Sein’s stated desire to deliver it from its abject poverty and dictatorial past.”
• E. “The shelling on Wednesday, which struck an officers’ training facility near the Chinese border that is run by the rebel group, the Kachin Independence Army, was the most severe flare- up of violence since rebels and government troops battled around the rebel capital, Laiza, two years ago.”

Com base no gráfico acima, é CORRETO afirmar que, para os norte-americanos,

• A. a morte de Osama bin Laden reduz o receio de novos ataques terroristas contra os EUA.
• B. o governo de Obama é avaliado com pessimismo e descrédito, hoje.
• C. o evento de 11 de setembro de 2001 é mais significativo que outros eventos ocorridos na última década.
• D. o risco de um ataque praticado por terroristas internos é maior que o de um ataque praticado por terroristas externos.

Na expressão “sexual assault”, que ocorre no quarto parágrafo, a palavra “assault” tem, em português, sentido semelhante a

• A. insinuação.
• B. assalto.
• C. agressão.
• D. espancamento.
• E. suspeita.