Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

Based on the text, judge the following items.

• A.

  As to gift giving, practices in Japan and China are entirely similar.

• B.

  In China and in Japan, to give presents is something rather important.

• C.

  If you are invited to a Japanese home, you'd better take a gift sometimes.

• D.

  In China and in Japan, to give gifts used to be a way to provide a convenient excuse.

Read Text 1 attentively to get its main idea and purpose. It consists of:

• A.

  A report of a research on the crisis of the oceans developed by a member of an environmental policy.

• B.

  An advertisement of a book about the way we can protect from global warming.

• C.

  An interview with an author of a book about water supplies and the way they influence human society.

• D.

  An article about an author of a book which deals with research about the impending water crisis the planet is suffering.

• E.

  An article concerning nonrenewable resources and their effects to the planet.

The more the learner uses the dictionary, the ____ he/she becomes an effective reader.

• A. less
• B. most
• C. much
• D. lesser

"have just seen" (l.26) is the same as

• A.

  is yet to be seen.

• B.

  haven't seen yet.

• C.

  have already seen.

• D.

  have seen a moment ago.

The following statements are based on the last paragraph of Text 1, EXCEPT ONE. The option which is NOT TRUE, based on the last paragraph is:

• A.

  Sachs emphasizes that the implementation of technical and economical strategies to solve the problem are to be made by politicians, industries and people in general altogether.

• B.

  Sachs believes that politicians are really concerned about the crisis, but they need economical support.

• C.

  Sachs concludes that if the government, the industries and people don't help, the consequences will be seriously felt.

• D.

  Sachs thinks that technical and economical solutions are impossible on their own, unless people get involved.

• E.

  Sachs affirms that the government does not want to afford for the implementation of the strategies.

At this time next week we won't be here doing a test, ____ on a beach in Salinas.

• A. we'll lie
• B. we'll have lain
• C. we'll be lying
• D. we're lying

According to the text, mark the correct option.

• A.

  What we dreamt about computers in the past will be a reality in the future.

• B.

  Gregory Dudek teaches computer science at the high school level.

• C.

  The first computers were rather convenient.

• D.

  Nowadays, computers are not as small as they used to be in the past.

Sachs affirms that the government does not want to afford for the implementation of the strategies.

• A.

  Outflow

• B.

  Supply

• C.

  Drought

• D.

  Wastewater

• E.

  Wealth

Read the following text to answer the questions related to it:

When the reader makes plans about how the reading activity is going to be made and controls the effectiveness of its results during and after it, he is using _____ strategies.

• A.

  metacognitive

• B.

  bottom-up

• C.

  top-down

• D.

  cognitive

Nowadays, computers are not as small as they used to be in the past.

• A.

  it is easy to foresee precisely the year when robots will become smaller.

• B.

  as computers are getting smaller, so are robots.

• C.

  only in recent years has industry started using robots.

• D.

  changes in computers will take place this evening.