Questões de Língua Inglesa da Fundação de Amparo e Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa (FADESP)

Read the following text to answer the questions related to it:

The expression "common sense notion", referred by Goodman in the 4th paragraph of the text, is related to the general idea that reading is a ____ process.

• A. guessing
• B. decoding
• C. prediction
• D. metacognitive

The combination of previous and text information characterizes ____.

• A. the monitoring strategy
• B. an efficient reading
• C. the common sense notion
• D. an evaluation learning plan

In the utterance " …) which means that they focus on identification …)", taken from the 5th paragraph of the text, the underlined word refers to ____.

• A. processes
• B. strategies
• C. details
• D. readers

The more the learner uses the dictionary, the ____ he/she becomes an effective reader.

• A. less
• B. most
• C. much
• D. lesser

At this time next week we won't be here doing a test, ____ on a beach in Salinas.

• A. we'll lie
• B. we'll have lain
• C. we'll be lying
• D. we're lying

Read the following text to answer the questions related to it:

When the reader makes plans about how the reading activity is going to be made and controls the effectiveness of its results during and after it, he is using _____ strategies.

• A.

  metacognitive

• B.

  bottom-up

• C.

  top-down

• D.

  cognitive

Read the following text to answer the questions related to it:

When the reader tries to relate previous information with information taken from the text itself, he is using a ____ strategy.

• A.

  decoding

• B.

  bottom-up

• C.

  revising

• D.

  top-down

Read the following text to answer the questions related to it:

The use of background knowledge by the reader, during the reading process, is emphasized by the ____.

• A.

  scanning strategy

• B.

  bottom-up model

• C.

  schema theory

• D.

  binary division

Read the following text to answer the questions related to it:

The top-down model understands reading as ____.

• A.

  a decoding activity

• B.

  the identification theory

• C.

  a guessing game

• D.

  the common sense theory

In the utterance " (...readers check to see how this information fits ...)", taken from the 5^th paragraph of the text, the underlined word can be replaced by ____.

• A. adjusts
• B. interacts
• C. changes
• D. requires