Questões de Língua Inglesa da Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

O texto apresenta o modelo convencional de lide jornalístico, iniciando com três elementos básicos do modelo: quem, quando e o quê.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text, it can be concluded that

a second language is that one you learn in a foreign country where this language is the native language.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In the text, "likely" (l.40) could be replaced, without changing the meaning, by

• A.

  expected.

• B.

  definitely.

• C.

  lovely.

• D.

  certainly.

• E.

  obviously.

Based on the text, it can be concluded that

if you are English and you are learning Portuguese in Brazil, Portuguese will be a second language for you.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text, choose the correct option.

• A.

  Oil prices have doubled three times as much all along the last ten years.

• B.

  Western countries do not need the petroleum found in Middle Eastern countries.

• C.

  Washington succeeded in getting free from its dependence on foreign energy.

• D.

  The goal of energy independence is understandable but, for the author of the text, it is an illusion.

• E.

  President Nixon was the only person to worry about the North American energy independence.

Based on the text, it can be concluded that

English learned in Australia can be considered a foreign language.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text, it can be said that

• A.

  America today imports more than three times as much the amount of oil it used to by the mid seventies.

• B.

  currently, the U.S. imports two-thirds of its consumption everyday.

• C.

  the Bush administration officially determined a slower exploitation of America's own oil reserves.

• D.

  ethanol from corn will reduce external dependence of the U.S. on foreign oil during the decades to come.

• E.

  the priorities of the nation may be mixed up with the priorities of the domestic oil industry.

Based on the text, it can be concluded that

a foreign language environment is that one found by a Brazilian learning English in the USA.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

According to the text, it can be said that

I alternative fuels will be a substitute for petroleum.

 II Brazil was already doing what Nixon was pledging.

III Brazil succeeded in reducing its petroleum based fuel consumption by cars by around 50%.

IV Brazilian tremendous effort to produce ethanol is as salutary as it is announced.

V alcohol is neither suitable to replace diesel fuel nor heating oil.

The total number of true items is

• A.

  1.

• B.

  2.

• C.

  3.

• D.

  4.

• E.

  5.

In the text,

"much" (l.1) can be replaced by many.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado