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

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

It can be said from the text that to British ears, contemporary American accents belie declining grammar standards in America as compared to Colonial times.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

According to text 9A2CCC, concept mapping

• A. helps students construct their own meaning as they apply their current knowledge to new ideas.
• B. connects teachers and students and provides a better relationship among leaners during classes.
• C. provides the means to tackle difficult problems in complex ways and allows students to build a path to comprehension.
• D. helps teachers develop their storytelling skills.
• E. has little result on teachers’ abilities to plan lessons.

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

The author criticizes Krapp’s argument that exemplars of transplanted languages or dialects such as Acadian French are more archaic than the original ones, which continued evolving in their home countries.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In text 9A2CCC, the word “their” (l.15) refers to

• A. ‘observations and knowledge’ (l.15).
• B. “positive effects” (l.12).
• C. “children’s language skills” (l. 12 and 13).
• D. “Liu et al.” (l.13).
• E. ‘learners’(l.14).

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV.

The author asserts that the early dialect of colonial Americans was not influenced and shaped by large waves of immigrants from many origins.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

According to text 9A2DDD,

• A. the difference between active vocabulary and receptive vocabulary must be disregarded as a factor to estimate how many words a person knows.
• B. undergraduate students acquire vocabulary related to word families after enrolling at universities.
• C. the similarity of some word families prevents students from counting the number of words they really know.
• D. both native speakers and second language learners have a larger passive vocabulary than an active vocabulary.
• E. studies are certain that the average English speaker knows about 1,000 words by the time she or he starts Kindergarten.

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text IV, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).

The word “assimilated” (l.52) could be correctly replaced by blended, without altering the meaning of the passage.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In text 9A3AAA, the word “clearest” (l.1) expresses the

• A. lowest degree of clear.
• B. intermediary degree of clear.
• C. unequal degree of clear.
• D. maximum degree of clear.
• E. comparison of equality of clear.

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).

The expression “on a par” (l. 20 and 21) means competing.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

The word “from” is used in the first sentence of text 9A3AAA to specify

• A. the depth of a concept.
• B. someone’s name.
• C. the end of an idea.
• D. the origin of a process.
• E. something’s surface.