Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2015

“Fallen”, in the title of the poem:

• A. does not have a plural meaning.
• B. belongs to a class of words different from “Fallen” (l.4).
• C. refers to England, who fell together with her sons.
• D. means “dead”.
• E. means the opposite of “marches upon” (l. 26).

In Text II, it is possible to understand that:

• A. the borders of China are controlled by a rebel group.
• B. China and Myanmar share a border.
• C. rebels and the government forces battled in the capital of Myanmar.
• D. the escalation of violence resulted from President Obama’s visit.
• E. the army of Myanmar is severely controlled by the central government.

Passive voice CANNOT be found in the following paragraph:

• A. “Negotiations have stumbled over the fundamental question of whether Myanmar will remain a united and highly centralized country controlled by the Burman ethnic group, or whether power will be devolved to minority groups.”
• B. “Photos of the rebels’ corpses were widely circulated on the Internet.”
• C. “We are outraged,” said Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China. “This means further conflict is coming.”
• D. “Myanmar has been locked in an intermittent civil war from its earliest days of independence from Britain in 1948, and a cease-fire is considered a crucial part of President Thein Sein’s stated desire to deliver it from its abject poverty and dictatorial past.”
• E. “The shelling on Wednesday, which struck an officers’ training facility near the Chinese border that is run by the rebel group, the Kachin Independence Army, was the most severe flare- up of violence since rebels and government troops battled around the rebel capital, Laiza, two years ago.”

“[…] the military pulled back from an offer to create a federal army” (l. 57-58) means that:

• A. the military insisted in the idea of creating a federal army in order to have even more power.
• B. the military asked for more time to think about the idea of creating a federal army.
• C. the military did not accept the idea of creating a federal army, thus resisting the idea of sharing power.
• D. the military accepted the idea of creating a federal army, thus resisting the possibility of giving power to minority ethnic groups.
• E. the military kept away from the debate over the creation of a federal army.

In “[…] or whether power will be devolved to minority groups” (l. 53-54) “to devolve” means:

• A. to give back.
• B. to lend.
• C. to share.
• D. to honor.
• E. to pass.

The author of the text:

• A. states that all international projects are valuable and that people in the universities are fighting for them.
• B. understands that internationalization is a process that encompasses budgetary aspects the universities take into consideration before investing in international projects.
• C. concludes that the “spaces of internationalization” are controlled by a range of academic organizations all over the world.
• D. affirms that consortia such as Universitas 21 are used by the universities as mechanisms to control themselves.
• E. advocates the promotion of holistic concepts, which can do more for the internationalization of the Institutions than actions by the administrative, technical and academic staff.

Segundo o texto,

• A. a Lua poderá parecer maior, mais brilhante e com tom avermelhado.
• B. todas as pessoas poderão detectar facilmente o tamanho aumentado da Lua.
• C. durante o fenômeno astrológico relatado, a Lua estará mais distante da Terra.
• D. a Superlua é um fenômeno astrológico incomum, ao contrário da chamada Lua de Sangue.
• E. a Lua poderá ser vista especialmente na Costa Oeste da América do Norte.

A pesquisa relatada no texto indica que

• A. os homens e as mulheres têm objetivos profissionais bem diferentes.
• B. as mulheres se julgam incapazes de ocupar cargos de liderança.
• C. os homens almejam dedicar-se, cada vez mais, às tarefas do lar.
• D. as mulheres têm menos objetivos a alcançar na vida do que os homens.
• E. os homens consideram as mulheres mais preparadas para o trabalho.

O texto permite afirmar que

• A. há cinquenta anos os homens se dedicavam mais ao lar do que à carreira profissional.
• B. a pesquisa foi realizada há cinquenta anos e divulgada em 2015.
• C. a pesquisa revela uma situação momentânea quanto aos objetivos profissionais de homens e mulheres.
• D. nos próximos cinquenta anos as mulheres abandonarão suas metas profissionais.
• E. a atual pesquisa foi realizada pela Academia Nacional de Ciências.

Sem alterar o sentido do texto, é possível substituir big gap por

• A. high place.
• B. great influence.
• C. upper plan.
• D. higher rate.
• E. huge distance.