131 Q487461
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

The plural forms of hypothesis, thesis, and crisis are respectively hypotheses, theses, and crises.

132 Q487459
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

Mathematics, athletics, and politics are singular nouns.

133 Q487457
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Judge the following items.

In terms of sentence structure, “I came, I saw, I conquered” is an example of a simple sentence with asyndetic coordination.

134 Q487455
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Judge the following items.

In “Fred built the cabin with his own hands”, the underlined fragment is an adjunct.

135 Q487453
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Judge the following items.

A disjunct is found in “Donna won’t cooperate, which makes things more difficult”.

136 Q487451
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Judge the following items.

In “The strong belief that he was unbeatable was Hugh’s first defeat”, the underlined passage has an appositive function.

137 Q487449
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Judge the following items.

“Playing video games and to watch sitcoms on cable TV are my favorite pastimes” is an example of coordinated structures with appropriate parallelism.

138 Q487447
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

In “Medication is ineffective for some types of headaches; however, patients can learn how to deal with them”, the underlined connecting word is a conjunctive adverb linking two independent clauses.

139 Q487445
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

“Mark’s friends don’t like Japanese food, and Mark doesn’t either” would still be correct if rewritten as Mark’s friends don’t like Japanese food, and so does he.

140 Q487443
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2004
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

There is no change in meaning in “Luke, you had better listen to me, or be ready to bear the consequences” if the linking word is replaced by besides.