Questões de Língua Inglesa da CESPE / CEBRASPE

There has not been any immigration in the United States in the late 20^th century.

Literature in the U.S today is not as dazzlingly diverse, exciting and evolving as in the past.

Literary traditions were adapted because the conditions of the national life had been changing.

The United States is the most diverse nation in the world.

Less than 5% of U.S population is foreign-born individuals.

It can be inferred that “wretched” (l.4) has a positive meaning.

Food would come back from the character’s is stomach, but not wine.

The character believes he cannot substitute food for wine.

The character’s cabin was short of light.

The word “rocking” (l.3) refers to the movement of the ship.

The character was afraid to disappoint his father.

The sentence He drank his way across the narrow sea (l.1) indicates that the character was sober the whole trip.

The character could be on the top level of the ship.

It can be inferred that the bread was rotten.

It was the food, not the movement of the ship, that made the character feel sick.

Wheatley’s poem To S. M., a Young African Painter, on seeing His Works showed how immoral slavery was.

Wheatley never wrote about discrimination.

Phillis is considered “an exceptional slave woman” (l.3) because she worked hard for the Wheatleys.

Phillis Wheatley was taken to Boston, Massachusetts, when she was already an adult.

Phillis Wheatley learned to read and write with the help of Mary Wheatley.

‘Pick up’ in the comic strip means make a place tidy.

Calvin did not understand his mother’s question.

It is impossible to lift a room, therefore, it is impossible to pick up a room.

Calvin thinks his mother is not sentimental.

The mother did not understand the joke.