301 Q488580
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2015
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

In reference to the vocabulary used in the text What do our flags say about us?, judge the next items.

In the sentence “Each one will be considered individually, before this long list is finally whittled down to the final four.” (l. 19 to 21), “whittled down” can be correctly replaced by selected.
302 Q488576
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2015
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

In reference to the vocabulary used in the text What do our flags say about us?, judge the next items.

“squeezed into” (l.2) and “tough” (l.8) help to express the author’s view that it is difficult to create a flag to represent a nation.
303 Q488295
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Pólo de biotecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (BIO RIO)
The opposite of “faster” in “would be faster” (l. )is:
304 Q488062
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
Questions 21 to 28 address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais – PCN. Read them and mark the right alternative: English Language Teaching practice has incorporated the following principle as part of its most recent procedures (Harmer, 1998: 32):
305 Q488060
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
“Students, like the rest of us, need to be able to do a number of things with a reading text.” (Harmer, 1998: 69). One of these ´things´ is to skim the text, or rather, to:
306 Q488058
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
The English verb phrase can be marked for tense and aspect. The use of the perfect tense in “Where has time gone?” (line 1), establishes the following:
307 Q488056
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
A text is cohesive if, as a whole, its sentences are linked and make sense. An example of cohesion in the source text is “ If not” (line 4), which is characterized by:
308 Q488054
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
The connective in “Skin cancer kills more young women than any other form of cancer, yet we still don’t wear sunblock” (line 7-8) links the clauses in terms:
309 Q488052
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
Phrasal verbs are the combination of a verb plus a preposition or adverb, resulting in a new meaning. Prepositional verbs are simply verbs which require prepositions. The only combination below which contains a prepositional verb is:
310 Q488050
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
The ING suffix particle may be added to a word in order to turn it into a noun, and adjective or a verb. The alternative which shows the same use of the ING suffix as in” Getting inspired is one of the best ways to get ready for bikini season!“ (line 26-27) is: