Questões de Língua Inglesa

By derivation, the adverb “highly” (l. 52) is formed from the adjective “high”. The following sequence contains only adverbs formed by the same derivational process:

• A. ally; powerfully; greatly; kindly; tenderly.
• B. greatly; commonly; fastly; wonderfully; interestingly.
• C. internationally; powerfully; unfortunately; mainly; fairly.
• D. lovely; hardly; friendly; internationally; mainly.
• E. friendly; manly; lovely; fastly; quickly.

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

The text shows that the concept of technology can be much broader than one usually thinks.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

“[…] the military pulled back from an offer to create a federal army” (l. 57-58) means that:

• A. the military insisted in the idea of creating a federal army in order to have even more power.
• B. the military asked for more time to think about the idea of creating a federal army.
• C. the military did not accept the idea of creating a federal army, thus resisting the idea of sharing power.
• D. the military accepted the idea of creating a federal army, thus resisting the possibility of giving power to minority ethnic groups.
• E. the military kept away from the debate over the creation of a federal army.

Segundo o famoso poema "Daffodils" (Narcisos), do poeta inglês do romantismo William Wordsworth (1770-1850), o autor expressa

• A. tristeza e amargura.
• B. solidão, seguida de companhia.
• C. alegria e surpresa.
• D. orgulho seguido de ira.

No trecho do último parágrafo – Police officers must be available for shift work at any time of day and any day of the week, including holidays. –, a palavra em destaque transmite a ideia de

• A. obrigação.
• B. possibilidade.
• C. propósito.
• D. probabilidade.
• E. desejo.

“‘We are outraged,’ said Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China” (l.26-28). In indirect speech, the sentence could read as follows:

• A. Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China, said that they are outraged.
• B. The Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China, said that captain Mong Gwang was outraged.
• C. The Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China, said that captain Mong Gwang was outraged.
• D. “We are outraged”. That was said by Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China.
• E. Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China, said they were outraged.

In “[…] or whether power will be devolved to minority groups” (l. 53-54) “to devolve” means:

• A. to give back.
• B. to lend.
• C. to share.
• D. to honor.
• E. to pass.

No fragmento, os vocábulos em destaque correspondem, respectivamente, às preposições que indicam:

• A. voz passiva – tempo – pertencimento – lugar – lugar – lugar – tempo.
• B. lugar – lugar – lugar – voz passiva – tempo – pertencimento – tempo.
• C. tempo – tempo – lugar – lugar – lugar – pertencimento – voz passiva.
• D. pertencimento – tempo – voz passiva – lugar – lugar – lugar – tempo.

In the last sentence from the text – Even though many regular police duties are routine in nature… – the phrase in bold expresses a relationship of

• A. addition.
• B. condition.
• C. time.
• D. contrast.
• E. alternative.

Punctuation has been changed in paragraphs 2 to 6. The only case that DID NOT cause any relevant change in meaning nor problem of cohesion is:

• A. In this sense, a unitary metric for quality would seek to impose one context upon another. The idea of a ‘world-class university’ is one way in, which developmental contexts, are ignored in order to export a particular model of university function.
• B. The existence, of these kinds of tensions, around internationalization, opens the question. When we talk about measuring the value of internationalization whose internationalisation are we talking about?
• C. Rankings are the new currency of quality. English, the official language of science. There is a discourse of convergence that promotes the inevitability of a singular vision for university structure, function and aims.
• D. From the rapid growth in internationalisation initiatives, over the past two decades we have seen a recent turn to questioning the ‘value’ of internationalisation projects. Universities are strapped for cash, and have to make decisions about which international projects they want to invest in, and which projects provide the most value, for institutions’ own aims and ambitions.
• E. Internationalisation takes many forms, including co-taught courses and degrees, massive open online courses (MOOCs), collaborative research, projects and student exchanges, maintaining international. Partnerships can be costly, and many are, for various reasons, not particularly productive.