Questões sobre Vocabulário

Choose the correct meaning for botulism.

• A. A high fever that kills within some days.
• B. A difficult disease to cure.
• C. A virus responsable for many deaths in a century.
• D. A serious illness caused by eating food that has gone bad.

In “% of adults who report using a mobile phone to receive money” the relative pronoun can be replaced by

• A. that.
• B. thus.
• C. which.
• D. those.

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The author used the expression “On the other hand” (l.16) to connect two different ideas.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

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“non-Western societies” (l.17) and “Elsewhere in the world” (l.15) refer, in the text, to basically the same thing.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

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No change in meaning will occur if “need not be seen” (l.20) is replaced with must not be seen.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

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In the fragment “Standards of beauty in and of themselves are by no means universal” (l.5 and 6), the expression “by no means” is the same as not at all.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

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“that conventional view” (l.9) refers to the theory that modern humans came from just one single place in Africa.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text, judge the following items.

The word “average” (l.1) is used in the text as an expression related to time.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

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“in the first place” (l.7) means basically the same as to start with.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The expression “People used to think” (l.4) suggests that they no longer think that way.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado