Questões de Língua Inglesa da Instituto Nacional de Educação (CETRO)

It is possible to affirm that text A

• A.

  tries to create a nightmarish setting.

• B.

  focus on a dream, following Freud’s budding theories at the time.

• C.

  shows the surprise of the narrator upon dealing with Heathcliff’s superstitions.

• D.

  has elements of Gothic fiction.

Read the sentence below and choose the correct alternative to fill in the blank.

______, play by the Irish poet and writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), was first staged in London in 1895.

• A.

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

• B.

  De Profundis

• C.

  The Soul of Man Under Socialism

• D.

  The Importance of Being Earnest

Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights, was sister to Charlotte and Anne Brontë, both also writers. Charlotte (1816-1855) was the first to achieve public recognition, publishing under the pen name “Currer Bell” a novel called

• A.

  Frankenstein.

• B.

  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

• C.

  Jane Eyre.

• D.

  Pride and Prejudice.

Member of the Bloomsbury Group, this author and publisher is today regarded as one of the most important modernist literary figures of the last century.

• A.

  Virginia Woolf.

• B.

  Ernest Hemingway.

• C.

  T. S. Eliot.

• D.

  James Joyce.

Read these very famous passages below.

I. Beware, my lord, of jealousy/ It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on.

II. This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.

III. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

Attributing each passage to its respective author and the work from where they were taken, choose the right alternative.

• A.

  I. Shakespeare’s Othello; II. T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men; III. James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

• B.

  I. Shakespeare’s Hamlet; II. James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; III. T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men.

• C.

  I. James Joyce’s Ulysses; II. Shakespeare’s Othello; III. T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

• D.

  I. T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land; II. Shakespeare’s Hamlet; III. James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Nobel Prize of Literature in 1954, American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), published in 1940 a novel with the Spanish Civil War as its background. This work was called

• A.

  For Whom The Bells Toll.

• B.

  True at the First Light.

• C.

  The Old Man and the Sea.

• D.

  A Farewell to Arms.

Since Shakespeare and Dickens are “literary”, Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl can be classified as

I. factual, because it recounts actual facts of her life.

II. instructive, because it was written to alert the world against the dangers of Nazism.

III. a mass media text, because it has become widely read and influential. There are, for instance, movies based on her diary.

The correct assertion(s) is(are)

• A.

  I, only.

• B.

  II, only.

• C.

  II and III, only.

• D.

  I and III, only.

Read the sentences below taken from text A.

I. I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause.

II. To my confusion, I discovered the yell was not ideal: hasty footsteps approached my chamber door.

III. No one will thank you for a doze in such a den.

IV. The snow and wind whirled wildly through, even reaching my station.

Rewritten, the sentences above will read as

• A.

  I. I heard a sound against the pane and tried to find out what was making it; II. I became surprised when my scream was not perfect and someone approached my door; III. Nobody will thank Heathcliff for a night in his house; IV. Snow and wind caught me in the corridor.

• B.

  I. I heard a sound against the pane and attributed to the bought; II. I was surprised when I realized that my scream had been real and someone was approaching my room; III. Nobody will thank Heathcliff for a night in that room; IV. Snow and wind caught me in the corridor.

• C.

  I. I heard a sound against the windowpane and I guessed what was making it; II. I got surprised when I realized that my scream was not only in my head and that someone was by my door; III. No one shall thank Heathcliff for a night spent in that specific room; IV. The bad weather hit me in the hall.

• D.

  I. I heard a sound against the windowpane and realized what was making it; II. I was surprised when I screamed and someone came into my room; III. No one will thank Lockwood for a night in that room; IV. Snow and wind caught me during that season.

Choose one alternative to fill in the blank spaces of the first sentence.

English ______ India has not only acquired a wide range ______ functions, but ______ its process ______ Indianisation it has linguistically evolved ______ its own characteristic features ______ the phonological, lexical, syntactic and even discourse level.

• A.

  at/ of/ with/ over/ from/ to

• B.

  in/ of/ in/ of/ into/ at

• C.

  in/ in/ with/ to/ to/ on

• D.

  from/ of/ in/ without/ over/ into

Read the following assertions about the term genre and then choose the right alternative.

I. It should be regarded as the final product of the interaction between teachers and students.

II. It should be regarded as a social process, not a product – a process that describes, narrates, explains, instructs, and argues.

III. Structure and grammar should be regarded as two of its aspects.

The correct assertion(s) is(are)

• A.

  I, only.

• B.

  II, only.

• C.

  I and II, only.

• D.

  II and III, only.