Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

The only fragment in which 'it' refers to "software" is

• A. "To computers, however, it is trickier." (lines 2-3)
• B. "it would be bad." (line 15)
• C. "It uses so-called 'sentiment analysis' software to assess text." (lines 19-20)
• D. "…assigns emotional labels to the words it contains," (lines 22-23).
• E. "At each stage, it computes the changing sentiment of the sentence." (lines 51-52)

According to the text, it can be inferred that

both control columns components look alike.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Choose the alternative in which the idea introduced by the word in bold type is correctly described.

• A.

  “Contrary to popular belief,” (line 1) – condition.

• B.

  “Yet if you suffer from aviophobia...” (lines 2-3) – comparison.

• C.

  “such as the fear of heights, crowds, or …” (lines 8-9) – exemplification.

• D.

  “In fact, more than 3 million people...” (line 11) – contrast.

• E.

  “However, if the thought of flying …” (line 21) – result.

In the example given in paragraphs 5 and 6 (lines 39-63), the author explains that the

• A. emotional meanings are attributed to words in isolation and not to the sentence structure.c
• B. emotional scores of each word may change according to the topic discussed in the text.
• C. length of segments and emotional tags of each word are considered in scoring emotional concepts.
• D. word 'recession' is not analyzed because it is hard to identify its emotional meaning.
• E. mere arithmetic sum of the scores indicated for each word will reveal the emotional content of the text analysed.

According to the text, it can be inferred that

the interconnection of the two control columns normally avoids synchronic movements of both elevators.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

The author of Text 2 intends to

• A.

  conquer his own fear of flying through drugs and professional help.

• B.

  list all the diseases that passengers on international trips frequently develop.

• C.

  give practical suggestions to help the reader control anxiety in traveling by plane.

• D.

  express his opinions on the importance of relaxation techniques for airline crews.

• E. remind the reader that only doctors are allowed to take medication to relax in long-distance flights.

Check the alternative in which the expression is precisely explained, according to its meaning in the text.

• A. "...'killing' (...) 'bacteria'..." (line 12) – bacteria that can kill
• B. "...the emotional meaning of text..." (lines 16-17) – the meaning of a sentimental text
• C. "...complex syntactic rules..." (line 35) – difficult language regulations
• D. "...seemingly conflicting cases..." (line 36) – cases that are apparently doubtful
• E. "...('the region's largest economies...' " (line 60) – economies of highly populated regions

According to the text, it can be inferred that

if one of the control-cable breaks, the control columns can be turned on by the elevator-pitch-disconnected system.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

The only alternative NOT suggested in Text 2 to help control someone’s fear of flying is

• A.

  relaxation tapes.

• B.

  prescribed drugs.

• C.

  psychological help.

• D.

  alcoholic beverages.

• E.

  stress relief products.

From the fragment "But the software can only supplement human judgement - because people don't always mean what they say." (lines 66-68), we may infer that the author

• A. does not believe the software can be totally trusted.
• B. complains that human judgement is never fair enough.
• C. pressuposes that computer sentiment analysis is fully reliable.
• D. rejects human analysis of feelings and supports technological sentiment analysis
• E. criticizes companies that intend to use the new software to analyse potentially dangerous clients.