Questões de Língua Inglesa da Instituto Americano de desenvolvimento (IADES)

According to the title of the text, Pokemon Go is

• A. fun for drivers and passengers.
• B. going to stop working when the user is driving.
• C. saving people from accidents.
• D. disabling the technology in cars.
• E. helping disabled people deal with accidents.

According to the text, how many people have died in accidents because of drivers playing the game?

• A. One.
• B. Two.
• C. Three.
• D. Four.
• E. Five.

According to the text, players now

• A. can pick up fewer items while driving.
• B. will have to ask passengers to play while they drive.
• C. can use the Pokestops at speed.
• D. can neither catch Pokemon nor use Pokestops while driving normally.
• E. will only find rare Pokemon in Japan.

According to the comic strip, the man

• A. has lost many followers on Twitter.
• B. wants fewer followers on Twitter.
• C. can lose followers if he does not tweet.
• D. is very creative.
• E. knew what he was going to tweet about.

How long has it been since the man has last twittered?

• A. One day.
• B. Three days.
• C. One week.
• D. One month.
• E. Two months.

Mark the alternative that presents the message of the comic strip.

• A. Twitter is bad for your health.
• B. The process of creating a tweet involves research.
• C. Twitter will bring you friends.
• D. People can be so desperate to post anything that they forget to post something interesting.
• E. It is a good thing to become addicted to Twitter, because of the friends it brings.

Based on the meanings in the text,

• A. “due to” (line 2) can be replaced by despite.
• B. “affluent” (line 3) is the opposite of opulent.
• C. “trend” (line 7) is the same as tendency.
• D. “bounce-back” (line 8) can be substituted by backfire.
• E. “revive” (line 18) has the same meaning of remember.

According to the above text, it is true that

• A. urban gentrification is a process which is happening only in the cities of Tallinn, New York City and London.
• B. urban gentrification can be seen as a bad process if one considers only the drawback of having poorer inhabitants being driven out of their neighborhoods due to unaffordable housing prices.
• C. urban gentrification is happening because of rise in crime rates and poor educational systems in urban centers.
• D. urban gentrification is an advantageous process since suburban areas tend to have bigger and more comfortable houses and less pollution than urban areas.
• E. urban gentrification has lowered the crime rates in New York City, where murder rates decreased considerably from 1990 to 2012.

In “While many cities depended on factories and railways some time ago, today’s fastest-growing industries are finance, technology and business services, which help revive urban economies.”, “while” can be substituted for one of the following items (without any punctuation) with no change in meaning. Which one is it?

• A. Whereas.
• B. Also.
• C. In spite of.
• D. Since.
• E. Before.

Keeping the same meaning as conveyed by the text, the sentence “For instance, New York City’s murder rate went from 2,200 per year in 1990 to 414 last year, according to figures published by The Economist.” can be best rewritten as

• A. For example, New York City’s murder rate increased from 2,200 per year in 1990 to 414 last year, according to figures published by The Economist.
• B. For a moment, New York City’s murder criminals went from 2,200 per year in 1990 to 414 last year, according to figures published by The Economist.
• C. For example, New York City’s murder incidence decreased from 2,200 per year in 1990 to 414 last year, according to figures published by The Economist.
• D. For instance, New York City’s murder rate went from 2,200 per year in 1990 to 414 last year, according to interviews done by The Economist.
• E. For instance, New York City’s murder rate went up from 2,200 per year in 1990 to 414 last year, according to numbers published by The Economist.