Questões sobre Vocabulário | Vocabulary

#Questão 1086428 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário | Vocabulary, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2025, ANM, Analista Administrativo - Especialidade: Direito

For the first time, 2025 will see quantum computers leave labs and research institutions and actually deploy into the networks and data centers of real-world customers. For quantum computing companies, this will be a real test of steel.

It’s one thing to have a groundbreaking, powerful quantum computer that only works on its very best day — when the lab conditions are perfect and when the team of PhDs operating it are at the top of their game. But the reality is that quantum computers need to work on their worst days too — in the real world, in real organizations. The quantum computing companies that land on top will be the ones that have built for this challenge since day one.

People tend to hear the words “quantum computing” and jump straight to science fiction or the multiverse. And while it seems daunting, we’ve actually reached a point where the “quantum” part of quantum computing is the easiest bit — it’s the “computing” that is inherently complex. For those on the front lines of building powerful quantum computers, this means it’s no longer a physics challenge — it’s an engineering one.

Companies won’t need to know the ins and outs of quantum computers in order to leverage its unprecedented power — they’ll simply benefit from its ability to solve the problems that could never be solved on classical computers.

Internet:<thequantuminsider.com> (adapted).

Regarding the text, judge the following item.

In the sentence “the ‘quantum’ part of quantum computing is the easiest bit”, the word “bit” is used to indicate an insignificant detail.

C) Certo

E) Errado

#Questão 1093410 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário | Vocabulary, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2025, InoversaSul, Professor de Inglês - Ensino Fundamental

Gabriele Tinti’s Hungry Ghosts is a cycle of 51 poems written in collaboration with the photographer Roger Ballen, whose photographic negatives are reproduced in the book. The images are mostly terrifying, in keeping with the otherworldly inclination of the poems. This bilingual edition includes Tinti’s original Italian poems with English translations by David Graham, interspersed with Greek lines taken from inscriptions found on archaeological objects and from ancient Greek texts.

The book is inspired by the Petavatthu, a Theravada Buddhist scripture that includes stories about the realm of the “hungry ghosts,” a category of supernatural beings ubiquitous in East and South Asian religions, with section headings such as “Abandoned Ghosts,” “Protectors,” “Guardians,” and “Hungry Ghosts.” T he poems are quite short and try to emulate the obscure, esoteric quality of scriptural language, though they struggle, at times, under the weight of too many venerable references drawn from both Buddhist and Greek traditions.

Internet:<poetryfoundation.org> (adapted).

About the linguistic and lexical features of the preceding text, judge the following item.

The word “otherworldly” (second sentence of the first paragraph) is a synonym for abstract.

C) Certo

E) Errado

#Questão 1093411 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário | Vocabulary, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2025, InoversaSul, Professor de Inglês - Ensino Fundamental

Gabriele Tinti’s Hungry Ghosts is a cycle of 51 poems written in collaboration with the photographer Roger Ballen, whose photographic negatives are reproduced in the book. The images are mostly terrifying, in keeping with the otherworldly inclination of the poems. This bilingual edition includes Tinti’s original Italian poems with English translations by David Graham, interspersed with Greek lines taken from inscriptions found on archaeological objects and from ancient Greek texts.

The book is inspired by the Petavatthu, a Theravada Buddhist scripture that includes stories about the realm of the “hungry ghosts,” a category of supernatural beings ubiquitous in East and South Asian religions, with section headings such as “Abandoned Ghosts,” “Protectors,” “Guardians,” and “Hungry Ghosts.” T he poems are quite short and try to emulate the obscure, esoteric quality of scriptural language, though they struggle, at times, under the weight of too many venerable references drawn from both Buddhist and Greek traditions.

Internet:<poetryfoundation.org> (adapted).

About the linguistic and lexical features of the preceding text, judge the following item.

In the text, the word “terrifying” (second sentence of the first paragraph) conveys a sense of intense fear and is an adjective formed from the verb to terrify.

C) Certo

E) Errado

#Questão 1093417 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário | Vocabulary, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2025, InoversaSul, Professor de Inglês - Ensino Fundamental

“The High Priestess of Soul,” Nina Simone was a singer, pianist, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Mostly known as a jazz singer, her music blended gospel, blues, folk, pop, and classical styles. No popular singer was more closely associated with the Civil Rights Movement than Simone.

Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21st, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her mother, Mary Kate Irvin, was a Methodist preacher and housekeeper, and her father, John Divine Waymon, worked as an entertainer, barber, and dry-cleaner. The family’s home was filled with music and Simone’s mother encouraged her musical pursuits but she did not approve of nonreligious music like blues and jazz. Simone took up the piano before her feet could reach the pedals, and by the age of six, she was playing during church services.

In 2008, Rolling Stone named Simone to its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, and, in 2018, Simone was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Internet:<womenshistory.org> (adapted).

Based on the previous text, judge the following item.

Replacing the excerpt “civil rights activist” (first sentence) with activist for the civil rights would violate natural collocation in English.

C) Certo

E) Errado

#Questão 1093418 - Língua Inglesa, Vocabulário | Vocabulary, CESPE / CEBRASPE, 2025, InoversaSul, Professor de Inglês - Ensino Fundamental

“The High Priestess of Soul,” Nina Simone was a singer, pianist, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Mostly known as a jazz singer, her music blended gospel, blues, folk, pop, and classical styles. No popular singer was more closely associated with the Civil Rights Movement than Simone.

Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21st, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her mother, Mary Kate Irvin, was a Methodist preacher and housekeeper, and her father, John Divine Waymon, worked as an entertainer, barber, and dry-cleaner. The family’s home was filled with music and Simone’s mother encouraged her musical pursuits but she did not approve of nonreligious music like blues and jazz. Simone took up the piano before her feet could reach the pedals, and by the age of six, she was playing during church services.

In 2008, Rolling Stone named Simone to its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, and, in 2018, Simone was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Internet:<womenshistory.org> (adapted).

Based on the previous text, judge the following item.

The word ‘Priestess’ in the phrase ‘The High Priestess of Soul’ is used figuratively to emphasize Nina Simone’s symbolic or spiritual significance in the music world.

C) Certo

E) Errado

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