Questões de Língua Inglesa

READ TEXT II AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 15 AND 16:

The results Terry Semel got at Yahoo! were:

• A.

  unintended;

• B.

  incidental;

• C.

  unexpected;

• D.

  unwanted;

• E.

  ineffective.

The technique which may not be considered as an effective reading strategy is:

• A.

  previewing an article before reading it in order to have an overall view of its theme.

• B.

  skimming for the main idea of the text.

• C.

  plodding through a text in a word-by-word fashion, pausing often to consult a dictionary for lexical items that the leaner does not know.

• D.

  scanning for detailed information.

• E.

  drawing inferences from the reading text.

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

As long as software quality is under suspicion everybody refuses to use it.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Choose the item which presents an incorrect statement about teaching reading skills.

• A.

  Reading is a passive activity, with writing as the active counterpart.

• B.

  The importance of background information for comprehension makes the strategies which teachers present for the purpose of reading-to-learn even more significant.

• C.

  Authentic reading materials provide the best models of language.

• D.

  It is recognized that "good readers" constantly make predictions about what they are reading while they are reading, and that these predictions are based on semantic, syntactic, and punctuation cues.

• E.

  An approach based too exclusively on phonics will focus the student on decoding as reading, and will not encourage reading for meaning.

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

Safety considerations have nothing to do with quality assurance.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

Serious failure consequences can be a combination of external factors and hardware/software failures.6

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In the text above

“to find out” (l.25) means to obtain knowledge of something.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Your answers to questions 25 to 27 must be based on the text below entitled "Flight of the French":

The so-called 'fiscal refugees' are the

• A. fleeing taxpayers.
• B. successful shareholders
• C. well-known tax attorneys.
• D. notorious smugglers.
• E. top company executives

READ TEXT II AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 26 TO 30:

 

      

As compared to previous occasions, this year's rise in oil price:

• A.

  has not had much effect;

• B.

  has made inflation soar;

• C.

  has been more sudden;

• D.

  has been lower than expected;

• E.

  has been more problematic.

READ TEXT II AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 26 TO 30:

 

      

The expression shrug off in the opening question can be replaced by:

• A.

  value;

• B.

  disregard;

• C.

  back;

• D.

  sustain;

• E.

  tolerate.