Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2015

According to the text,

the effects of El Niño phenomena are sure to reach South America before they have impact on the Northern Hemisphere.

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Based on the previous text, judge the following items.

The word ‘robust’ (l.15) can be correctly replaced by effective without this bringing any change of meaning to the sentence.

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The world had never witnessed an ebola epidemic of such magnitude as the one mentioned in the text.

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The WHO mentioned has no intention of keeping biological material related to the disease.

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The West region of Africa is totally free from the Ebola virus.

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Even though the vaccines could be tested, the results may not be useful to assess their efficacy.

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Based on the text How India changed English, judge the following items.

The words “highlights” (l.16), and “unlikely” (l.20) can be correctly and respectively replaced by draws attention to and improbable.

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Based on the text How India changed English, judge the following items.

The book mentioned in the text shows how the assimilation of Indian words in the English language happened during the time India was a British colony.

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Based on the text How India changed English, judge the following items.

In the excerpt “‘Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India’ was published in 1886” (l. 7 and 8), “was published” can be correctly replaced by has been published.

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Based on the cartoon, judge the following items.

The cartoon’s emphasizes the need to be careful about the sharing of information through Internet.

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