Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2009

 

Judge the following items according to the text above.

About 20% of the IT staff in a $ 1,5 billion Midwestern sporting goods manufacturer had been dismissed from their jobs.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

 

Judge the following items according to the text above.

Aside from cutting or renegotiating maintenance pacts, companies trim costs in order to avoid or reduce layoffs.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

The main purpose of this article is to

• A. analyze adolescents' interest in the Internet.
• B. contrast adults' and youngsters' choices of websites
• C. prove that students in each location will navigate in different sites.
• D. explain the web archiving program and its relevance.
• E. justify the need for a psychological study of students' Internet use.

Websites are considered 'time capsules' because

• A. they reveal what the adolescents of this generation are like and what they value.
• B. they will expose that teenagers from the early 21st century could not use the web for research.
• C. the children will be adults in the next century and their past habits will not interest historians.
• D. the content of the web pages has lasted for many centuries, so it is correct to use the expression.
• E. the early 21st century kids research about journeys to past eras and learn historical events in general.

In terms of reference, it is correct to affirm that

• A. "Over 1,700 websites..." (line 18) – refers to the number of websites visited by college students in the US.
• B. "...11.7 terabytes..." (lines 19-20) – refers to the volume of memory used in archiving the chosen websites.
• C. "...96 percent of the websites..." (lines 20-21) – refers to the share of websites that were eliminated by students.
• D. "...24 percent of the websites..." (lines 22-23) – refers to the websites considered extremely relevant by educational specialists.
• E. "...68 web collections..." (line 26) – refers to the number of sites that were included in the archive.

The sentence "Students and teachers alike found the program eye-opening." (lines 30-31) means that

• A. students and teachers considered that having new instructors opened their minds.
• B. students and teachers were happy to be able to use websites and not books.
• C. neither students nor teachers enjoyed the innovative experience.
• D. not all students liked searching the web for educational sites.
• E. both students and teachers considered the program a revealing experience.

According to Cheryl Lederle, the web archiving program has proved that

• A. students did not like to be forced to search the web for new information.
• B. students from the 10 classrooms analyzed showed a clear preference for researching geography sites.
• C. students usually consult a limited number of preferred websites when browsing the Internet.
• D. the benefits of this project will certainly be felt soon in the educational system and in society in general.
• E. the websites which the Library of Congress selected for archiving were not adequate for researchers.

Check the only alternative in which the boldfaced expression does NOT add a contrastive idea to the sentence

• A. "...even though in this day and age we use them…" (line 35)
• B. " '...we use them as much as and more than books.' " (lines 35-36)
• C. "However, the project has served as an informative psychological tool…" (lines 49-50)
• D. "The student archive is not being widely used yet," (line 61)
• E. " ...'but by the end of this year we'll have a total of 11 partnerships,' " (lines 62-63)

The quote in the title, "I had never thought of archiving websites…" can be attributed to

• A. Emily Patterson, who was teaching students about the importance of books.
• B. Cheryl Lederle, Library of Congress specialist who created the archiving program.
• C. a teacher from George Washington High School, when commenting on the psychological effects of the project.
• D. an educational specialist who worked for the Library of Congress and participated in the project.
• E. one of the enthusiastic teenagers who was involved in collecting varied material for the program.

Vernon Gibson believes that

• A.

  there are no new alternatives for energy generating plants.

• B.

  all power stations using coal as fuel should be closed down.

• C.

  petroleum-powered energy stations are the only substitute for dirty coal plants.

• D.

  wind, nuclear and CCS are poor alternatives for immediate and large scale use.

• E.

  a wide range of energy sources, conventional or not, will be necessary in the future.