Questões de Língua Inglesa da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

After reading “For the Fallen”, published in September 1914, it is possible to infer that the poem is about:

• A. the drama of the English soldiers who fought in the First World War.
• B. the drama of the soldiers of the world who fought against the Germans in the First World War.
• C. the drama of the English soldiers who fought in the Franco-Prussian War of the late nineteenth century.
• D. the drama of the English soldiers who fought in the First World War on the day of thanksgiving.
• E. the drama of all the soldiers who fought in the wars before the First World War.

“Fallen”, in the title of the poem:

• A. does not have a plural meaning.
• B. belongs to a class of words different from “Fallen” (l.4).
• C. refers to England, who fell together with her sons.
• D. means “dead”.
• E. means the opposite of “marches upon” (l. 26).

Regardless of questions of poetic form, the line “They mingle not with their laughing comrades again” (l. 17) could be replaced by:

• A. they will not fight with their laughing comrades.
• B. they don’t mingle with their laughing families.
• C. they do not share moments with their happy mates.
• D. they do not fight with their laughing comrades.
• E. the fallen will not fight with their happy comrades.

In Text II, it is possible to understand that:

• A. the borders of China are controlled by a rebel group.
• B. China and Myanmar share a border.
• C. rebels and the government forces battled in the capital of Myanmar.
• D. the escalation of violence resulted from President Obama’s visit.
• E. the army of Myanmar is severely controlled by the central government.

In the line “But where our desires are and our hopes profound” (l. 21):

• A. “where” is an interrogative pronoun.
• B. “profound” is a verb.
• C. “desires” and “hopes” are verbs.
• D. the verbal form “are” was deliberately suppressed after “hopes”.
• E. “our” is a possessive pronoun.

Passive voice CANNOT be found in the following paragraph:

• A. “Negotiations have stumbled over the fundamental question of whether Myanmar will remain a united and highly centralized country controlled by the Burman ethnic group, or whether power will be devolved to minority groups.”
• B. “Photos of the rebels’ corpses were widely circulated on the Internet.”
• C. “We are outraged,” said Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China. “This means further conflict is coming.”
• D. “Myanmar has been locked in an intermittent civil war from its earliest days of independence from Britain in 1948, and a cease-fire is considered a crucial part of President Thein Sein’s stated desire to deliver it from its abject poverty and dictatorial past.”
• E. “The shelling on Wednesday, which struck an officers’ training facility near the Chinese border that is run by the rebel group, the Kachin Independence Army, was the most severe flare- up of violence since rebels and government troops battled around the rebel capital, Laiza, two years ago.”

By derivation, the adverb “highly” (l. 52) is formed from the adjective “high”. The following sequence contains only adverbs formed by the same derivational process:

• A. ally; powerfully; greatly; kindly; tenderly.
• B. greatly; commonly; fastly; wonderfully; interestingly.
• C. internationally; powerfully; unfortunately; mainly; fairly.
• D. lovely; hardly; friendly; internationally; mainly.
• E. friendly; manly; lovely; fastly; quickly.

“[…] the military pulled back from an offer to create a federal army” (l. 57-58) means that:

• A. the military insisted in the idea of creating a federal army in order to have even more power.
• B. the military asked for more time to think about the idea of creating a federal army.
• C. the military did not accept the idea of creating a federal army, thus resisting the idea of sharing power.
• D. the military accepted the idea of creating a federal army, thus resisting the possibility of giving power to minority ethnic groups.
• E. the military kept away from the debate over the creation of a federal army.

“‘We are outraged,’ said Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China” (l.26-28). In indirect speech, the sentence could read as follows:

• A. Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China, said that they are outraged.
• B. The Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China, said that captain Mong Gwang was outraged.
• C. The Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China, said that captain Mong Gwang was outraged.
• D. “We are outraged”. That was said by Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China.
• E. Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China, said they were outraged.

In “[…] or whether power will be devolved to minority groups” (l. 53-54) “to devolve” means:

• A. to give back.
• B. to lend.
• C. to share.
• D. to honor.
• E. to pass.