Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2017

In text 9A2BBB, the word “who” (l.19) refers to

• A. ‘a model’ (l.15).
• B. ‘students’ (l.15).
• C. “Gregory Sterling” (l.16).
• D. “Pennington Fellow” (l.17).
• E. ‘Pennington’ (l.15).

According to text 9A2CCC, concept mapping

• A. helps students construct their own meaning as they apply their current knowledge to new ideas.
• B. connects teachers and students and provides a better relationship among leaners during classes.
• C. provides the means to tackle difficult problems in complex ways and allows students to build a path to comprehension.
• D. helps teachers develop their storytelling skills.
• E. has little result on teachers’ abilities to plan lessons.

In text 9A2CCC, the word “their” (l.15) refers to

• A. ‘observations and knowledge’ (l.15).
• B. “positive effects” (l.12).
• C. “children’s language skills” (l. 12 and 13).
• D. “Liu et al.” (l.13).
• E. ‘learners’(l.14).

According to text 9A2DDD,

• A. the difference between active vocabulary and receptive vocabulary must be disregarded as a factor to estimate how many words a person knows.
• B. undergraduate students acquire vocabulary related to word families after enrolling at universities.
• C. the similarity of some word families prevents students from counting the number of words they really know.
• D. both native speakers and second language learners have a larger passive vocabulary than an active vocabulary.
• E. studies are certain that the average English speaker knows about 1,000 words by the time she or he starts Kindergarten.

In text 9A3AAA, the word “clearest” (l.1) expresses the

• A. lowest degree of clear.
• B. intermediary degree of clear.
• C. unequal degree of clear.
• D. maximum degree of clear.
• E. comparison of equality of clear.

The word “from” is used in the first sentence of text 9A3AAA to specify

• A. the depth of a concept.
• B. someone’s name.
• C. the end of an idea.
• D. the origin of a process.
• E. something’s surface.

In text 9A3BBB, the word “should” (l.5), is used to express

• A. an order.
• B. a recommendation.
• C. a condition.
• D. an obligation.
• E. a permission.

Concerning the ideas of text 9A4AAA, choose the correct option.

• A. The relationship between a language and the ways people speak that language can change their experience in the world.
• B. The syntax of a particular language affects the way the speaker of that language experience the world.
• C. The relationship between language and culture is well settled among peoples.
• D. People from various backgrounds are puzzled by the relation between language and culture.
• E. The exact nature of language and culture and their relation has been fascinating people the world over.

According to text 9A4AAA,

• A. many speakers in most societies speak more than one language.
• B. there cannot be culture if there is no language and vice-versa.
• C. speech in any society can take many very different forms.
• D. the discussion to attempt to describe the language of a society may turn out to be a controversial matter.
• E. a society may be seen as complex because of the complexity of the languages spoken by its members.

Based on text 9A4AAA, it can be concluded that

• A. every country must have some kind of cultural difference.
• B. migrants rarely get used to local cultures.
• C. each country has its own peculiar way of life.
• D. it is easy to define the several functions of the language in the culture.
• E. culture and language are closely related, though culture has a higher social status.