261 Q488592
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2015
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Based on the text How India changed English, judge the following items.

The words “highlights” (l.16), and “unlikely” (l.20) can be correctly and respectively replaced by draws attention to and improbable.
262 Q488588
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2015
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Based on the text How India changed English, judge the following items.

In the excerpt “‘Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India’ was published in 1886” (l. 7 and 8), “was published” can be correctly replaced by has been published.
263 Q488584
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2015
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Based on the cartoon, judge the following items.

The sentence “That site verified my age by having me type in all my credit card information” can be correctly rewritten by: This site guessed how many years I have because I sent them my credit card data.
264 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.
265 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.
266 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:
267 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):
268 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:
269 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:
270 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: