Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2013

The objective of the text above is

• A.

  to describe in a few words an investigation and its results on the cognitive and linguistic factors that have an influence on reading comprehension in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) speakers.

• B.

  to detail the cognitive aspects of reading comprehension among L1 speakers and ESL speakers in the seventh grade.

• C.

  to raise awareness about the importance of reading comprehension.

• D.

  to comprehend a study on how comprehension depends on a variety of phonological, memory and linguistic processes.

• E.

  to prove that reading comprehension is a multi-dimensional process.

Concerning the text, choose the correct option.

• A.

  It can be inferred that the GC group performing better than the PC group was not expected

• B.

  Research and theories of comprehension are more commonly based on English as a Second Language.

• C.

  The group of students that was investigated was from kindergarten.

• D.

  Some aspects used as comparison between L1 and ESL speakers were word reading, word reading fluency, phonological awareness, working memory, and morphological and syntactic awareness.

• E.

  The sample group was divided in three, according to the ages of their members.

• A.

  ‘Pick up’ in the comic strip means make a place tidy.

• B.

  Calvin did not understand his mother’s question.

• C.

  It is impossible to lift a room, therefore, it is impossible to pick up a room.

• D.

  Calvin thinks his mother is not sentimental.

• E.

  The mother did not understand the joke.

• A.

  Wheatley’s poem To S. M., a Young African Painter, on seeing His Works showed how immoral slavery was.

• B.

  Wheatley never wrote about discrimination.

• C.

  Phillis is considered “an exceptional slave woman” (l.3) because she worked hard for the Wheatleys.

• D.

  Phillis Wheatley was taken to Boston, Massachusetts, when she was already an adult.

• E.

  Phillis Wheatley learned to read and write with the help of Mary Wheatley.

Based on the text above, choose the only correct option.

• A.

  The character was afraid to disappoint his father.

• B.

  The sentence He drank his way across the narrow sea (l.1) indicates that the character was sober the whole trip.

• C.

  The character could be on the top level of the ship.

• D.

  It can be inferred that the bread was rotten.

• E.

  It was the food, not the movement of the ship, that made the character feel sick.

Based on the text above, chose the correct option.

• A.

  It can be inferred that “wretched” (l.4) has a positive meaning.

• B.

  Food would come back from the character’s is stomach, but not wine.

• C.

  The character believes he cannot substitute food for wine.

• D.

  The character’s cabin was short of light.

• E.

  The word “rocking” (l.3) refers to the movement of the ship.

According to the text above, choose the correct option.

• A.

  There has not been any immigration in the United States in the late 20^th century.

• B.

  Literature in the U.S today is not as dazzlingly diverse, exciting and evolving as in the past.

• C.

  Literary traditions were adapted because the conditions of the national life had been changing.

• D.

  The United States is the most diverse nation in the world.

• E.

  Less than 5% of U.S population is foreign-born individuals.

Choose the correct option according to the text above.

• A.

  The diversity of the American population has had a positive influence in American literature.

• B.

  Underrepresented groups option express themselves fully.

• C.

  Immigrants have had no part in the American literature.

• D.

  International writers are not suitable to write about the United States culture.

• E.

  American literature at the turn of the 21^st century is still restricted to few American.

• A.

  god and His work on mankind

• B.

  growing old and not forgetting the things that make you happy

• C.

  a man’s death wish

• D.

  the effect of a rainbow on people’s beliefs

• E.

  small things that affect father and son relationship forever

• A.

  feedback should only be provided at the end of the task after students hand in their compositions to be marked.

• B.

  in the writing class teachers should take into account the learners’ purposes for writing, which transcend that of producing texts for teacher evaluation.

• C.

  the main focus when a writing task is assigned is on the final product.

• D.

  teachers should assign students a writing topic and then collect the finished product for correction without intervening in the writing process itself.

• E.

  focusing on language errors improves grammatical accuracy and writing fluency.