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

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

A shift (or change) in the stressed syllable of nouns such as contract, defect, object, progress turns them into verbs.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In the text above,

the expression “blew me away” (l.11-12) could be correctly replaced by blew me up.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The USA surpasses other countries in terms of technical intelligence collection.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

The pronunciation of the verb use has two different forms in “He used his pen to sign his name” and in “He used to wear short trousers when he was a boy”.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In the text above,

“through” (l.14) can be correctly replaced by though.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text above, judge the items below.

It can be deduced that not every piece of information is worth pursuing.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

Most nouns ending in f or fe have plurals in ves, as in half/halves, knife/knives, leaf/leaves, life/lives.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In the text above,

“some” (l.14) can be correctly replaced by any.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Based on the text above, judge the items below.

In the text, “On the other hand” (l.7) means out of hand.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

The singular and plural form of the following words is the same: series, species, means.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado