Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2014

Judge the following items according to the text above.

The possibility of making profit from an invention, in an amount enough to cover the money spent in research, is one of the reasons inventors engage in research in the first place.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items according to the text above.

By cross-licensing a patent, an inventor will usually miss the opportunity of having access to market and thus of earning income from that particular invention.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items according to the text above.

In line 7, the expression “i.e.” means in Portuguese isto é or ou seja.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items according to the text above.

In line 14, the word “parties” can be correctly translated into Portuguese as interessados.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

A palavra there, na linha 38, está se referindo a:

• A. An estimated 70-80% (l. 34)
• B. recyclers (l. 35)
• C. countries with developing economies (l. 35- 36)
• D. the real costs (l. 36)
• E. hazardous waste and products (l. 37)

Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna da linha 46, e que significa: além disso.

• A. Although
• B. Instead
• C. Because of
• D. Moreover
• E. Not Always

The opposite of “faster” in “would be faster” (l. )is:

• A. slow;
• B. slower;
• C. quicker;
• D. slowest;
• E. quickest.

Questions 21 to 28 address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais – PCN. Read them and mark the right alternative: English Language Teaching practice has incorporated the following principle as part of its most recent procedures (Harmer, 1998: 32):

• A. words and phrases are better blocks than grammatical structures to describe language
• B. the emphasis of a language lesson should always be on tasks
• C. students should learn about language as part of learning a language
• D. Activate, Engage and Study (in this order) are the building blocks of a successful language lesson
• E. students must study language evidence to discover grammatical rules themselves

“Students, like the rest of us, need to be able to do a number of things with a reading text.” (Harmer, 1998: 69). One of these ´things´ is to skim the text, or rather, to:

• A. predict information before they read the text properly
• B. match the task they are performing to the topic of the text
• C. cast their eyes over the text´s surface to get a general idea
• D. read slowly and derive pleasure from what they are reading
• E. read the text for specific bits of information they are looking for

The English verb phrase can be marked for tense and aspect. The use of the perfect tense in “Where has time gone?” (line 1), establishes the following:

• A. a present habit linked to an indefi nite past
• B. a state of affairs before the present moment
• C. an indefi nite state in a period prior to the present
• D. an event with current relevance to the present time
• E. a past situation unrelated to the present point in time