161 Q1023160
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
      The worn wooden floorboards squeak under Rafael Molina’s heavy steps as he paces the saloon. Outside, the sound of galloping horses breaks the silence of the surrounding desert. All around him, the Old West town’s empty shops and abandoned houses look as if they have just been ransacked by cowboy bandits. 
      “When I was a kid, I could only dream about all this,” says the 68-year-old former actor and stuntman. “My aspiration was to see a film set firsthand. Today I own one of the most famous ones in the history of Western movies.”
      But this busy movie site is located in Spain — not Montana or Texas. It’s one of three faux Old Western towns in the small village of Tabernas and the surrounding desert of the Almería provi...
162 Q1023159
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension Vocabulário | Vocabulary
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE

Concerning the previous text and its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.  



In the sentence “In one show, Fernández portrays a bank robber who absconds with some gold”, the fragment “absconds with” could be correctly replaced with keeps, without changing the meaning of the text.

163 Q1023158
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension Sinônimos | Synonyms
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
      The worn wooden floorboards squeak under Rafael Molina’s heavy steps as he paces the saloon. Outside, the sound of galloping horses breaks the silence of the surrounding desert. All around him, the Old West town’s empty shops and abandoned houses look as if they have just been ransacked by cowboy bandits. 
      “When I was a kid, I could only dream about all this,” says the 68-year-old former actor and stuntman. “My aspiration was to see a film set firsthand. Today I own one of the most famous ones in the history of Western movies.”
      But this busy movie site is located in Spain — not Montana or Texas. It’s one of three faux Old Western towns in the small village of Tabernas and the surrounding desert of the Almería provi...
164 Q1023157
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE

Concerning the previous text and its linguistic aspects, judge the following item. 



It can be inferred from the text that many different productions were made in Almería because its landscapes are very convenient and diversified. 

165 Q1023156
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
      The worn wooden floorboards squeak under Rafael Molina’s heavy steps as he paces the saloon. Outside, the sound of galloping horses breaks the silence of the surrounding desert. All around him, the Old West town’s empty shops and abandoned houses look as if they have just been ransacked by cowboy bandits. 
      “When I was a kid, I could only dream about all this,” says the 68-year-old former actor and stuntman. “My aspiration was to see a film set firsthand. Today I own one of the most famous ones in the history of Western movies.”
      But this busy movie site is located in Spain — not Montana or Texas. It’s one of three faux Old Western towns in the small village of Tabernas and the surrounding desert of the Almería provi...
166 Q1023155
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE

Concerning the previous text and its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.  



According to the text, in Spain there are villages that were very important cities during the time of the American Wild West. 

167 Q1023154
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
      In a world where many of us are glued to our smartphones, Dulcie Cowling is something of an anomaly — she has ditched hers. The 36-year-old decided at the end of last year that getting rid of her handset would improve her mental health. So, over Christmas she told her family and friends that she was switching to an old Nokia phone that could only make and receive calls and text messages. 
      She recalls that one of the pivotal moments that led to her decision was a day at the park with her two boys, aged six and three: “I was on my mobile at a playground with the kids and I looked up and every single parent — there was up to 20 — were looking at their phones, just scrolling away,” she says. 
      “I thought ‘when did this happen?’. Everyone is missing out on real life. I ...
168 Q1023152
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE

Considering the previous text, judge the following item.



People who are giving up on their mobile devices believe they were spending too much time with being connected and they were missing their real lives because of that.

169 Q1023151
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
      In a world where many of us are glued to our smartphones, Dulcie Cowling is something of an anomaly — she has ditched hers. The 36-year-old decided at the end of last year that getting rid of her handset would improve her mental health. So, over Christmas she told her family and friends that she was switching to an old Nokia phone that could only make and receive calls and text messages. 
      She recalls that one of the pivotal moments that led to her decision was a day at the park with her two boys, aged six and three: “I was on my mobile at a playground with the kids and I looked up and every single parent — there was up to 20 — were looking at their phones, just scrolling away,” she says. 
      “I thought ‘when did this happen?’. Everyone is missing out on real life. I ...
170 Q1023150
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE

Considering the previous text, judge the following item. 



In the sentence ‘They are blunting cognition and impeding productivity’ (ninth paragraph), the pronoun ‘They’ refers to the “nine out of 10 people in the UK who own a smartphone” (seventh paragraph).