Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2010

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) the following items.

Even Sen's followers resent the sheer lack of purism in his championing of freedom.

• C.

• E.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) the following items.

Despite having a usually gentle disposition, Sen often flies into a nasty temper whenever any of his ideas are challenged.

• C.

• E.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) — the items below.

Of the three journalism students mentioned in the text, it can be said that the most self-effacing and reserved of them all turned out to be the one to deliver a most violent blow against the apartheid security apparatus.

• C.

• E.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) — the items below.

The university the author attended can be described as a place where neither the teaching staff nor school officials exacted blind obedience from students.

• C.

• E.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) — the items below.

The author clearly underscores the striking resemblance the Nationalist Party of South Africa bears to its Nazi counterpart.

• C.

• E.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) — the items below.

Students decided to burlesque Botha's performance as an ineffectual and chicken-hearted foreign minister by doing a ludicrous and crude imitation of a bird.

• C.

• E.

Ghana is mentioned in Text I because

• A.

  Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, was born there.

• B.

  its population of 1.3 billion people will still lack electricity in 2030.

• C.

  it is the only country in Africa to have mobile phones and a growing film industry.

• D.

  it is a typical example of a country that suffers with the absence of investments in electricity.

• E.

  it has celebrated Earth Day stimulating the population to use coal for cooking and heating homes.

The expression in boldface introduces the idea of consequence in

• A.

  “Instead, most use wood, coal or even dung to heat and cook their homes —” (lines 4-5)

• B.

  “…but, except for periodic jumpstarts during election season,” (lines 16-17)

• C.

  “Access to adequate, affordable and basic modern energy services is thus crucial to achieving sustainable human development.” (lines 38-40)

• D.

  “However, in the same region, mobile phones are widespread,” (lines 47-48)

• E.

  “All of this exists despite the absence of a convenient outlet in which to plug basic electronic appliances.” (lines 50-52)

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

• A.

  “... worsen.” (line 8) – improve.

• B.

  “... made up of...” (line 30) – composed of.

• C.

  “figures...” (line 30) – numbers.

• D.

  “has taken up...” (line 32) – has discarded.

• E.

  “affordable...” (line 38) – expensive.

In paragraph 7 (lines 32-40), Ban Ki-moon states that energy services

• A.

  cannot aid nations to overcome difficulties in human development.

• B.

  can play a fundamental role in the fulfillment of basic human needs.

• C.

  are unavailable in poor countries with sustained social development.

• D.

  will have no impact on promoting social advances or on reducing poverty.

• E.

  will help poor nations accumulate wealth and produce electrical appliances.