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.
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...
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...
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 ...
Língua Inglesa
Sinônimos | Synonyms
Vocabulário | Vocabulary
Palavras conectivas | Connective words
Ano:
2022
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Considering the previous text, judge the following item.
In the sentence (thirteenth paragraph) “Yet, while some worry about how much time they spend on their handset, for millions of others they are a godsend.”, the word “Yet” is synonymous with However.
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.
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 ...
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).