Questão 1 - Concursos Militares, apostilas

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APOSTILAS (ENEM) VOLUME COMPLETO
Exame Nacional de Ensino Médio
(ENEM) 4 VOLUMES
APOSTILAS IMPRESSAS E DIGITAIS
Questão 1
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5 Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
10 Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
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Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
15 the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
20 going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25 "We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
30 which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
35 prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
40 because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
45 pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
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or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
The modal auxiliary ought to in "Liars ought to have good memories" (lines 42) indicates...
a) possibility.
b) probability.
c) obligation.
d) ability.
e) permission.
Questão 2
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
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08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
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31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
The modal verb "must" (line 32) is closer in meaning to all alternatives but
a) need to.
b) ought to.
c) might.
d) should.
e) have to.
Questão 3
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(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
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23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The modal "may" (line 02) is indicating
a) permission.
b) possibility.
c) a wish.
d) a condition.
e) a request.
Questão 4
(UFPE)
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Choose the appropriate answer to fill in the blank 1.
a) larger
b) largest
c) the largest
d) the larger
e) large
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Questão 5
(PUC-PR) Which is the option that completes the sentences correctly?
I - English is not _________as Portuguese.
II - Australia is ___________island in the world.
III - In my opinion, Frank Sinatra was ________ singer of this century.
IV - São Paulo is _________ as New York.
V - Europe is _________ from Brazil than USA.
a) so difficult - bigger - the best - more noisier - as farther
b) difficultest - biggest - the good - as noisier - farther
c) as difficult - the biggest - the best - as noisy - farther
d) as difficult - the bigger - the best - so noisy - farther
e) difficulter - most big - better - noisiest - so farther
Questão 6
(PUC-RJ)
All communication is a two-way process involving a
speaker or writer and listeners or readers (the audience). In
written communication, because the audience is not present,
the audience is easy to ignore. However, the kind of audience
5 you write for determines what you write and how you write.In
describing the World Series baseball championship to a
British reader, you would have to include definitions,
explanations, and facts that a reader in the United States
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would not need. Similarly, if you write about cricket (a British
10 sport) for an audience in the United States, you would need to
include a lot of basic information. If you wrote about the
international banking systems for bankers, your language and
information would be more technical than a paper written for
readers who don't know much about the subject. A discussion
15 of acid rain written for an audience of environmentalists would
be quite different from one written for factory owners.
Adapted from: Coyle W. (1990) The Macmillan Guide tor
Writing Research Papers (p.8). New York:Macmillan.
In the sentence "If you wrote about the international banking systems for bankers, your
language and information would be more technical(...)" (lines 11-13), the author intends to
transmit an idea of:
a) conclusion.
b) addition.
c) condition.
d) comparison.
e) contrast.
Questão 7
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
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05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
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28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
The correct passive form of "That kind of enthusiasm (...) has caused a rush to get software
onto store shelves" (lines 16-20) is
a) A rush to get software onto store shelves was caused by that kind of enthusiasm.
b) A rush to get software onto store shelves has been caused by that kind of enthusiasm.
c) A rush to get software onto store shelves is caused by that kind of enthusiasm.
d) A rush to get software onto store shelves had been caused by that kind of enthusiasm.
e) A rush to get software onto store shelves will have been caused by that kind of
enthusiasm.
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Questão 8
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
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19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The correct passive form of "This town of 1,500 has acquired a unique status" (lines 08 –
09) is "A unique status ...
a) was acquired by this town of 1,500."
b) has been acquired by this town of 1,500."
c) have been acquired by this town of 1,500."
d) was being acquired by this town of 1,500."
e) had been acquired by this town of 1,500."
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Questão 9
(ANHEMBI) Escolha a pergunta CORRETA para a seguinte informação:
"ALL GOOD AMERICANS GO TO PARIS WHEN THEY DIE"
(Oscar Wilde)
a) When all good Americans go to Paris?
b) Why all good Americans go to Paris when they die?
c) Where do all good Americans go when they die?
d) How does Oscar Wilde go to Paris?
e) How long do they die?
Questão 10
(ANHEMBI) "I’d love to come to the concert with you but I
can’t, I’m afraid. I am________________my ears in work this week."
a) Up to.
b) With.
c) Out of.
d) Under.
e) Off.
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Questão 11
(PUC-PR) Choose the correct alternative to fill in the blanks:
I - What are you thinking ________?
II - He died ________ the injuries caused by a terrible accident.
III - They succeeded ________ breaking the door open.
IV - Everybody laughed ________ him when he said that.
V - Why don't you concentrate ________ your studies?
a) in, of, from, on, at
b) in, of, from, at, on
c) of, from, in, at, on
d) of, at, in, from, on
e) of, from, in, on, at
Questão 12
(PUC-PR) Fill in the balloons with the right interrogative pronouns.
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Relate the numbers given to the pronouns:
a) 1 - whose 2 - who 3 - why 4 - how 5 - who
b) 1 - who 2 - which 3 - what 4 - why 5 - how
c) 1 - what 2 - whose 3 - what 4 - why 5 - what
d) 1 - which 2 - who 3 - how 4 - what 5 - how
e) 1 - who 2 - whose 3 - what 4 - why 5 - how
Questão 13
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(UFRN)
TEXTO 1
The Cloning Breakthrough
"Cloning a body? Yes. But cloning a mind and a heart? No. Forget about resurrecting those
from the past this way."
Ghislaine Delorme
Montreal
TEXTO 2
EVEN IF THE BASIC SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE
of creating mammals from cells that are not embryonic can be easily mastered, the routine
cloning of humans is still a long, long way off [March 10]. Using the reproductive
procedure that produced embryologist Ian Wilmut’s lamb Dolly requires dozens of
surrogate mothers and has a very low success rate. The work of Wilmut and his colleagues
is a great step toward understanding important fundamental biological processes, and it
does raise serious ethical issues, but don’t belittle the scientific effort by calling it "easy".
Jenni Harikrishna
Kuala Lumpur
TEXTO 3
WE MUST EXAMINE THE ISSUE OF CLONING from all sides, weigh the consequences
and benefits, and ultimately reach a unified decision that will make the world a better place.
It is not wise to say cloning is morally and socially incorrect, because there are positive
benefits conferred by this new technology. My only hope is that the global community can
make a choice that is good for citizens everywhere without sacrificing the individuality that
makes us who we are.
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Stephen Haxton, age 15
Cochrane, Canada
TEXTO 4
IN ALDOUS HUXLEY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD,
children are no longer born but mass-produced, so that at the end of the novel there are
hundreds of identical people. One cannot consider them human beings because they are
objects with no individuality. So in a way the American Dream has come true in Huxley’s
book: everybody is created equal. What a boring life this would be!
J . Reza Röttges
Krefeld, Germany
TEXTO 5
Why Clone?
IT’S 11:30 A.M. I AM SITTING IN MY APARTMENT
waiting for a package to be delivered. The company told me I have to be here to sign for it,
but it could be delivered anytime before 8 p.m. This is the best argument yet for cloning
myself.
Thomas Walker
Chicago
As frases abaixo sintetizam apenas quatro dos textos sobre cloning.
Preencha os parênteses com o número que indica cada texto e, em seguida, assinale a opção
que contém a seqüência numérica correta:
( ) Aspectos positivos da clonagem
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( ) Utilidade de clones na resolução de questões práticas do cotidiano
( ) A ficção tornando-se realidade
( ) A reprodução da matéria versus a reprodução do espírito
a) 3, 5, 4, 1
b) 2, 4, 5, 1
c) 3, 1, 2, 5
d) 5, 2, 4, 3
Questão 14
(UFRN)
TEXTO 2
EVEN IF THE BASIC SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE
of creating mammals from cells that are not embryonic can be easily mastered, the routine
cloning of humans is still a long, long way off [March 10]. Using the reproductive
procedure that produced embryologist Ian Wilmut’s lamb Dolly requires dozens of
surrogate mothers and has a very low success rate. The work of Wilmut and his colleagues
is a great step toward understanding important fundamental biological processes, and it
does raise serious ethical issues, but don’t belittle the scientific effort by calling it "easy".
Jenni Harikrishna
Kuala Lumpur
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Algumas das expressões abaixo podem substituir a palavra cloning no Texto 2.
Assinale a opção que contenha somente números relativos a tais expressões.
1. "The basic scientific procedure".
2. "A long, long way off".
3. "The reproductive procedure".
4. "A very low success rate".
5. "The work of Wilmut".
a) 2, 4 e 5
b) 1, 2 e 4
c) 1, 3 e 5
d) 2, 3 e 4
Questão 15
(UFRN)
TEXTO 4
IN ALDOUS HUXLEY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD,
children are no longer born but mass-produced, so that at the end of the novel there are
hundreds of identical people. One cannot consider them human beings because they are
objects with no individuality. So in a way the American Dream has come true in Huxley’s
book: everybody is created equal. What a boring life this would be!
J . Reza Röttges
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Krefeld, Germany
No Texto 4, os vocábulos them [5] e they [5] referem-se a:
a) identical people
b) objects
c) hundreds
d) Huxley’s book
Questão 16
(UFRN)
TEXTO 1
The Cloning Breakthrough
"Cloning a body? Yes. But cloning a mind and a heart? No. Forget about resurrecting those
from the past this way."
Ghislaine Delorme
Montreal
TEXTO 2
EVEN IF THE BASIC SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE
of creating mammals from cells that are not embryonic can be easily mastered, the routine
cloning of humans is still a long, long way off [March 10]. Using the reproductive
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procedure that produced embryologist Ian Wilmut’s lamb Dolly requires dozens of
surrogate mothers and has a very low success rate. The work of Wilmut and his colleagues
is a great step toward understanding important fundamental biological processes, and it
does raise serious ethical issues, but don’t belittle the scientific effort by calling it "easy".
Jenni Harikrishna
Kuala Lumpur
TEXTO 3
WE MUST EXAMINE THE ISSUE OF CLONING from all sides, weigh the consequences
and benefits, and ultimately reach a unified decision that will make the world a better place.
It is not wise to say cloning is morally and socially incorrect, because there are positive
benefits conferred by this new technology. My only hope is that the global community can
make a choice that is good for citizens everywhere without sacrificing the individuality that
makes us who we are.
Stephen Haxton, age 15
Cochrane, Canada
TEXTO 4
IN ALDOUS HUXLEY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD,
children are no longer born but mass-produced, so that at the end of the novel there are
hundreds of identical people. One cannot consider them human beings because they are
objects with no individuality. So in a way the American Dream has come true in Huxley’s
book: everybody is created equal. What a boring life this would be!
J . Reza Röttges
Krefeld, Germany
TEXTO 5
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Why Clone?
IT’S 11:30 A.M. I AM SITTING IN MY APARTMENT
waiting for a package to be delivered. The company told me I have to be here to sign for it,
but it could be delivered anytime before 8 p.m. This is the best argument yet for cloning
myself.
Thomas Walker
Chicago
Assinale a opção correspondente ao texto cujas informações estão dispostas nesta ordem:
quando ? onde ? o quê?
a) Texto 3
b) Texto 2
c) Texto 4
d) Texto 5
Questão 17
(UFPE)
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According to the text,
a) students should attend daily classes at the university.
b) students should be tutored at an assigned time.
c) no multimedia materials are used in most Open University courses.
d) students at any age can take most Open University courses.
e) no degree is received by Open University students.
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Questão 18
(UFPE)
The main purpose of the text is :
a) to entertain
b) to criticize
c) to inform
d) to question
e) to persuade
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Questão 19
(UFMG)
1. Steve Davis and his wife Evelyn knew exactly how they
2. wanted to spend their golden years. But they weren’t sure how to
3. save the money on their teacher’s salaries. So they talked to Sheila,
4. their American Express financial advisor, who showed the Davises
5. how the right strategy could turn their retirement dreams into reality.
6. Sheila present a broad array of investment options, then together
7. they mapped out a steady, simple plan.
8. Now, Steve and Evelyn are off on a twelve-year journey to
9. financial independence. Which shows that when you have a goal, and
10. you’re headed in the right direction, great things are possible.
11. No wonder 95% of our clients stay with us year to year. And 9 out
12. of 10 would recommend us their friends. To find out how you
13. can do more, call 1-800-GET ADVICE.
Source: US News, 24/3/97.
Steve and his wife
a) have to retire from teaching now.
b) have joined a savings plan.
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c) will be earning better salaries.
d) are going on a long journey.
Questão 20
(UFMG)
1. Steve Davis and his wife Evelyn knew exactly how they
2. wanted to spend their golden years. But they weren't sure how to
3. save the money on their teacher's salaries. So they talked to Sheila,
4. their American Express financial advisor, who showed the Davises
5. how the right strategy could turn their retirement dreams into reality.
6. Sheila present a broad array of investment options, then together
7. they mapped out a steady, simple plan.
8. Now, Steve and Evelyn are off on a twelve-year journey to
9. financial independence. Which shows that when you have a goal, and
10. you're headed in the right direction, great things are possible.
11. No wonder 95% of our clients stay with us year to year. And 9 out
12. of 10 would recommend us their friends. To find out how you
13. can do more, call 1-800-GET ADVICE.
Source: US News, 24/3/97.
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The Davises talked to Sheila because
a) she understood dreams.
b) she knew about their plans.
c) she was a fellow teacher.
d) she could advise them.
Questão 21
(UFMG)
1. Steve Davis and his wife Evelyn knew exactly how they
2. wanted to spend their golden years. But they weren't sure how to
3. save the money on their teacher's salaries. So they talked to Sheila,
4. their American Express financial advisor, who showed the Davises
5. how the right strategy could turn their retirement dreams into reality.
6. Sheila present a broad array of investment options, then together
7. they mapped out a steady, simple plan.
8. Now, Steve and Evelyn are off on a twelve-year journey to
9. financial independence. Which shows that when you have a goal, and
10. you're headed in the right direction, great things are possible.
11. No wonder 95% of our clients stay with us year to year. And 9 out
12. of 10 would recommend us their friends. To find out how you
13. can do more, call 1-800-GET ADVICE.
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Source: US News, 24/3/97.
"They" in line 7 refers to
a) Steve, Evelyn and Sheila.
b) Steve and Evelyn Davis.
c) teacher’s financial advisors.
d) Sheila and American Express.
Questão 22
(UFMG)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Steve Davis and his wife Evelyn knew exactly how they
wanted to spend their golden years. But they weren't sure how to
save the money on their teacher's salaries. So they talked to Sheila,
their American Express financial advisor, who showed the Davises
how the right strategy could turn their retirement dreams into reality.
Sheila present a broad array of investment options, then together
they mapped out a steady, simple plan.
Now, Steve and Evelyn are off on a twelve-year journey to
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9. financial independence. Which shows that when you have a goal, and
10. you're headed in the right direction, great things are possible.
11. No wonder 95% of our clients stay with us year to year. And 9 out
12. of 10 would recommend us their friends. To find out how you
13. can do more, call 1-800-GET ADVICE.
Source: US News, 24/3/97.
According to the text, Sheila
a) helped Steve and Evelyn plan their future.
b) gave Steve and Evelyn a simplified map.
c) told Steve and Evelyn to control their dreams.
d) advised Steve and Evelyn to stop teaching.
Questão 23
(UFMG)
1. Steve Davis and his wife Evelyn knew exactly how they
2. wanted to spend their golden years. But they weren't sure how to
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3. save the money on their teacher's salaries. So they talked to Sheila,
4. their American Express financial advisor, who showed the Davises
5. how the right strategy could turn their retirement dreams into reality.
6. Sheila present a broad array of investment options, then together
7. they mapped out a steady, simple plan.
8. Now, Steve and Evelyn are off on a twelve-year journey to
9. financial independence. Which shows that when you have a goal, and
10. you're headed in the right direction, great things are possible.
11. No wonder 95% of our clients stay with us year to year. And 9 out
12. of 10 would recommend us their friends. To find out how you
13. can do more, call 1-800-GET ADVICE.
Source: US News, 24/3/97.
In the text, Steve and Evelyn are examples of
a) teachers who can dream excessively.
b) people who want to secure their old age.
c) teachers who earn minimum salaries.
d) people who are extremely unsure.
Questão 24
(UFMG)
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The headlines might just as easily have screamed, "Mom Saves Toddler in Dramatic
Rescue!" But the female in question was no ordinary 160-pound brunette. As the world
now knows, the hero who cradled an unconscious three-year-old boy last Aug. 16 when he
fell into the gorilla habitat at Illinois’ Brooksfield Zoo was herself a simian - and an
exceptional one at that. But then, 8-year-old Binti-Jua (Swahili for "daughter of sunshine"),
a rare lowland gorilla native to western Africa, has long-been "a people-oriented gorilla",
says her keeper Craig Demitros. "She has always had a good rapport with people". She has
an even better one now. After her heroics, Binti received a medal from the American
Legion, some 1,000 letters of congratulations and an honorary membership in a Downey,
Calif., PTA. With the boy she rescued (whose name has not been released) recovered nicely
from his injuries, Binti seems content to spend her days munching bananas and "primatechow" on her stone terrace,
playing with a rope between her toes and serving as an unofficial poster-girl for the
remaining 35,000 of her endangered brethren. "In that sense", says Demitros, "this gorilla
in captivity helped her relatives in the wild." She also reminded her friends up the
evolutionary ladder that behaving like an animal may not be such an ignoble thing after all.
Source: People Weekly, Dec,/Jan. 1996-97
According to the text, the rescued boy
a) screamed the whole time.
b) had fallen from his cradle.
c) was just a distant child.
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d) did not see the rescue.
Questão 25
(UFMG)
The headlines might just as easily have screamed, "Mom Saves Toddler in Dramatic
Rescue!" But the female in question was no ordinary 160-pound brunette. As the world
now knows, the hero who cradled an unconscious three-year-old boy last Aug. 16 when he
fell into the gorilla habitat at Illinois' Brooksfield Zoo was herself a simian - and an
exceptional one at that. But then, 8-year-old Binti-Jua (Swahili for "daughter of sunshine"),
a rare lowland gorilla native to western Africa, has long-been "a people-oriented gorilla",
says her keeper Craig Demitros. "She has always had a good rapport with people". She has
an even better one now. After her heroics, Binti received a medal from the American
Legion, some 1,000 letters of congratulations and an honorary membership in a Downey,
Calif., PTA. With the boy she rescued (whose name has not been released) recovered nicely
from his injuries, Binti seems content to spend her days munching bananas and "primatechow" on her stone terrace,
playing with a rope between her toes and serving as an unofficial poster-girl for the
remaining 35,000 of her endangered brethren. "In that sense", says Demitros, "this gorilla
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in captivity helped her relatives in the wild." She also reminded her friends up the
evolutionary ladder that behaving like an animal may not be such an ignoble thing after all.
Source: People Weekly, Dec,/Jan. 1996-97
The place where Binti-Jua lives is
a) designed for gorillas.
b) a West African zoo.
c) filled with sunshine.
d) an uninhabited place.
Questão 26
(UFMG)
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The headlines might just as easily have screamed, "Mom Saves Toddler in Dramatic
Rescue!" But the female in question was no ordinary 160-pound brunette. As the world
now knows, the hero who cradled an unconscious three-year-old boy last Aug. 16 when he
fell into the gorilla habitat at Illinois' Brooksfield Zoo was herself a simian - and an
exceptional one at that. But then, 8-year-old Binti-Jua (Swahili for "daughter of sunshine"),
a rare lowland gorilla native to western Africa, has long-been "a people-oriented gorilla",
says her keeper Craig Demitros. "She has always had a good rapport with people". She has
an even better one now. After her heroics, Binti received a medal from the American
Legion, some 1,000 letters of congratulations and an honorary membership in a Downey,
Calif., PTA. With the boy she rescued (whose name has not been released) recovered nicely
from his injuries, Binti seems content to spend her days munching bananas and "primatechow" on her stone terrace,
playing with a rope between her toes and serving as an unofficial poster-girl for the
remaining 35,000 of her endangered brethren. "In that sense", says Demitros, "this gorilla
in captivity helped her relatives in the wild." She also reminded her friends up the
evolutionary ladder that behaving like an animal may not be such an ignoble thing after all.
Source: People Weekly, Dec,/Jan. 1996-97
Binti-Jua’s good relationship with people
a) is not a new thing.
b) Has changed lately.
c) seems very rude.
d) can be seen as heroic.
Questão 27
(UFMG)
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The headlines might just as easily have screamed, "Mom Saves Toddler in Dramatic
Rescue!" But the female in question was no ordinary 160-pound brunette. As the world
now knows, the hero who cradled an unconscious three-year-old boy last Aug. 16 when he
fell into the gorilla habitat at Illinois' Brooksfield Zoo was herself a simian - and an
exceptional one at that. But then, 8-year-old Binti-Jua (Swahili for "daughter of sunshine"),
a rare lowland gorilla native to western Africa, has long-been "a people-oriented gorilla",
says her keeper Craig Demitros. "She has always had a good rapport with people". She has
an even better one now. After her heroics, Binti received a medal from the American
Legion, some 1,000 letters of congratulations and an honorary membership in a Downey,
Calif., PTA. With the boy she rescued (whose name has not been released) recovered nicely
from his injuries, Binti seems content to spend her days munching bananas and "primatechow" on her stone terrace,
playing with a rope between her toes and serving as an unofficial poster-girl for the
remaining 35,000 of her endangered brethren. "In that sense", says Demitros, "this gorilla
in captivity helped her relatives in the wild." She also reminded her friends up the
evolutionary ladder that behaving like an animal may not be such an ignoble thing after all.
Source: People Weekly, Dec,/Jan. 1996-97
The toy she has in the zoo is
a) a poster.
b) a medal.
c) a rope.
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d) a ladder.
Questão 28
(UFMG)
The headlines might just as easily have screamed, "Mom Saves Toddler in Dramatic
Rescue!" But the female in question was no ordinary 160-pound brunette. As the world
now knows, the hero who cradled an unconscious three-year-old boy last Aug. 16 when he
fell into the gorilla habitat at Illinois' Brooksfield Zoo was herself a simian - and an
exceptional one at that. But then, 8-year-old Binti-Jua (Swahili for "daughter of sunshine"),
a rare lowland gorilla native to western Africa, has long-been "a people-oriented gorilla",
says her keeper Craig Demitros. "She has always had a good rapport with people". She has
an even better one now. After her heroics, Binti received a medal from the American
Legion, some 1,000 letters of congratulations and an honorary membership in a Downey,
Calif., PTA. With the boy she rescued (whose name has not been released) recovered nicely
from his injuries, Binti seems content to spend her days munching bananas and "primatechow" on her stone terrace,
playing with a rope between her toes and serving as an unofficial poster-girl for the
remaining 35,000 of her endangered brethren. "In that sense", says Demitros, "this gorilla
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in captivity helped her relatives in the wild." She also reminded her friends up the
evolutionary ladder that behaving like an animal may not be such an ignoble thing after all.
Source: People Weekly, Dec,/Jan. 1996-97
According to the text, Binti-Jua received
a) the remaining 35,000 dollars to help her species.
b) around a thousand letters of recognition.
c) the three-year-old boy she had rescued.
d) 160 pounds of bananas because of the rescue.
Questão 29
(UFMG)
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The headlines might just as easily have screamed, "Mom Saves Toddler in Dramatic
Rescue!" But the female in question was no ordinary 160-pound brunette. As the world
now knows, the hero who cradled an unconscious three-year-old boy last Aug. 16 when he
fell into the gorilla habitat at Illinois' Brooksfield Zoo was herself a simian - and an
exceptional one at that. But then, 8-year-old Binti-Jua (Swahili for "daughter of sunshine"),
a rare lowland gorilla native to western Africa, has long-been "a people-oriented gorilla",
says her keeper Craig Demitros. "She has always had a good rapport with people". She has
an even better one now. After her heroics, Binti received a medal from the American
Legion, some 1,000 letters of congratulations and an honorary membership in a Downey,
Calif., PTA. With the boy she rescued (whose name has not been released) recovered nicely
from his injuries, Binti seems content to spend her days munching bananas and "primatechow" on her stone terrace,
playing with a rope between her toes and serving as an unofficial poster-girl for the
remaining 35,000 of her endangered brethren. "In that sense", says Demitros, "this gorilla
in captivity helped her relatives in the wild." She also reminded her friends up the
evolutionary ladder that behaving like an animal may not be such an ignoble thing after all.
Source: People Weekly, Dec,/Jan. 1996-97
According to the last sentence in the text, behaving like an animal may be
a) virtuous.
b) rare.
c) wild.
d) ignoble.
Questão 30
(UFMG)
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Virgo
24 August - 23 September
Their basic impulses are to be of service, to analyse, to criticise and to discriminate.
They’re terribly fussy and like things to be perfect and places to be tidy. As perfectionists
themselves,
they don’t suffer fools gladly, but they’re modest and conscientious. They tend to suppress
their emotions and worry about things. Sometimes they can be a bit hypocritical. They are
practical people and good at remembering details. They’re good learners and good teachers.
They are calm and practical and find it hard to relax.
Source: The Daily News, 20/12/95
According to the text, Virgos
a) pay attention to details.
b) can be foolish sometimes.
c) will suppress their modesty.
d) like to display their emotions.
Questão 31
(UFMG)
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Virgo
24 August - 23 September
Their basic impulses are to be of service, to analyse, to criticise and to discriminate.
They’re terribly fussy and like things to be perfect and places to be tidy. As perfectionists
themselves,
they don’t suffer fools gladly, but they’re modest and conscientious. They tend to suppress
their emotions and worry about things. Sometimes they can be a bit hypocritical. They are
practical people and good at remembering details. They’re good learners and good teachers.
They are calm and practical and find it hard to relax.
Source: The Daily News, 20/12/95
The only characteristic which does NOT describe Virgos in the text is
a) they do not show their emotions much.
b) they are concerned about things.
c) they do not suffer from any disease.
d) they aim absolute perfection.
Questão 32
(UFMG)
Virgo
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24 August - 23 September
Their basic impulses are to be of service, to analyse, to criticise and to discriminate.
They’re terribly fussy and like things to be perfect and places to be tidy. As perfectionists
themselves,
they don’t suffer fools gladly, but they’re modest and conscientious. They tend to suppress
their emotions and worry about things. Sometimes they can be a bit hypocritical. They are
practical people and good at remembering details. They’re good learners and good teachers.
They are calm and practical and find it hard to relax.
Source: The Daily News, 20/12/95
The text says that Virgos like to
a) have things just right.
b) express their feelings.
c) take things very easy.
d) be with foolish people.
Questão 33
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5
Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
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falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
10
Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
15 Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
20 want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25
"We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
30 husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
35 party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
40 for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
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We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
In paragraph 1, the author...
a) introduces the topic of lying.
b) presents a definition of what lying is.
c) writes about very serious lies people tell.
d) asks parents to tell the truth about Santa Claus.
e) recommends that we lie about how old we are.
Questão 34
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
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Christmas Eve.
5
Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
10
Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
15 Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
20 want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25
"We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
30 husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
35 party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
40 for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
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remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
45 For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
In paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5, the author presents...
a) a set of compulsive lies people tell to deceive their enemies.
b) a set of specific definitions of what lying is for many people.
c) a series of arguments in favor of lying.
d) examples of lies the author told in the past.
e) a series of specific examples of common lies people tell.
Questão 35
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
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Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5 Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
10 Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
15 the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
20 going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25 "We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
30 which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
35 prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
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can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
40 for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
45 We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
"Lying is also exciting" (line 21) because ...
a) people feel like lying.
b) people think their stories are important.
c) sometimes the truth is boring.
d) a Texan counselor told people they have to lie.
e) people consider their lives unhappy.
Questão 36
(PUC-RJ)
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LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5
10
Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
15
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
20
going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25
"We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
30
which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
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35 party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
40 for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
45 We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
According to the text, in a relationship, a lie can be defined as...
a) people wanting to hurt each other's feelings.
b) different understandings of what the truth is.
c) a problem people have with remembering things.
d) a common problem between a father and a child.
e) a way husbands and wives help themselves.
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Questão 37
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5 Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
10 Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
15 the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
20 going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25 "We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
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husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
30 which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
35 prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
40 because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
45 pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
Which of the following options was NOT mentioned in the text as a physical problem
caused by lying?
a) hard breathing.
b) fast heart beating.
c) increase in blood pressure.
d) nervousness.
e) stress.
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Questão 38
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5 Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
10 Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
15 the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
20 going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
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25 "We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
30 which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
35 prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
40 because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
45 pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
In this text, Terry L. Goodrich...
a) criticizes the people who lie.
b) gives advice on how to be a good liar.
c) comments on the advantages and disadvantages of lying.
d) analyzes the social problems caused by lying.
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e) tries to convince us that we must stop lying.
Questão 39
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5 Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
10 Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
15 the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
20 going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
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change our stories to make them more interesting."
25 "We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
30 which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
35 prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
40 because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
45 pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
What type of text is this?
a) a journalistic article.
b) a scientific article.
c) a historical text.
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d) a book review.
e) a narrative.
Questão 40
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5
10
Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
15
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
20
going.
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"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25
"We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
30 husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
35 party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
40 for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
45 We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
In the sentence "Everyone lies" (line 1), the present tense is being used to express a fact that
will never change in time (historical present). In which of the alternatives below is the
present tense being used to express a similar idea?
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a) It is hot and sunny today.
b) Water freezes at 0o Celsius.
c) My plane leaves at 5pm tomorrow.
d) My cousin studies Computer Science.
e) Joe is late for work today.
Questão 41
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5
10
Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
15
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
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Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
20 want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25
"We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
30 husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
35 party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
40 for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
45 We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
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In line 35, "it" refers to:
a) dinner (line 33).
b) party (line 34).
c) guests (line 33).
d) reason (line 32).
e) meal (line 35).
Questão 42
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5
10
Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
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15 Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
20 want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25
"We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
30 husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
35 party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
40 for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
45 We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
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October 29, 1990, C1
What contrast is introduced in the text by the sentence "But even though people lie for good
reasons..." (line 36)?
a) lies that help as opposed to lies that harm.
b) revealed lies as opposed to unrevealed lies.
c) lying for good reasons as opposed to lying for bad reasons.
d) occasional liars as opposed to frequent liars.
e) long-living lies as opposed to short-living lies.
Questão 43
(PUC-RJ)
All communication is a two-way process involving a
speaker or writer and listeners or readers (the audience). In
written communication, because the audience is not present,
the audience is easy to ignore. However, the kind of audience
5 you write for determines what you write and how you write.In
describing the World Series baseball championship to a
British reader, you would have to include definitions,
explanations, and facts that a reader in the United States
would not need. Similarly, if you write about cricket (a British
10 sport) for an audience in the United States, you would need to
include a lot of basic information. If you wrote about the
international banking systems for bankers, your language and
information would be more technical than a paper written for
readers who don't know much about the subject. A discussion
15 of acid rain written for an audience of environmentalists would
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be quite different from one written for factory owners.
Adapted from: Coyle W. (1990) The Macmillan Guide tor
Writing Research Papers (p.8). New York:Macmillan.
Which sentence best states the main idea of the paragraph?
a) It is important to consider the audience when you write.
b) British readers would need special information to understand an article on the World
Series.
c) Communication is a process that involves speakers and writers.
d) Only when writing about sports and the international banking system do we need to
consider the audience.
e) Listeners and readers are called the audience.
Questão 44
(PUC-RJ)
All communication is a two-way process involving a
speaker or writer and listeners or readers (the audience). In
written communication, because the audience is not present,
the audience is easy to ignore. However, the kind of audience
5 you write for determines what you write and how you write.In
describing the World Series baseball championship to a
British reader, you would have to include definitions,
explanations, and facts that a reader in the United States
would not need. Similarly, if you write about cricket (a British
10 sport) for an audience in the United States, you would need to
include a lot of basic information. If you wrote about the
international banking systems for bankers, your language and
information would be more technical than a paper written for
readers who don't know much about the subject. A discussion
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15 of acid rain written for an audience of environmentalists would
be quite different from one written for factory owners.
Adapted from: Coyle W. (1990) The Macmillan Guide tor
Writing Research Papers (p.8). New York:Macmillan.
Which statement is true in relation to the text?
a) The audience can be defined as being speakers, writers, listeners and readers.
b) Americans are familiar with the rules in cricket.
c) Environmentalists know much less about acid rain than factory owners.
d) In oral communication, audience can be easily forgotten.
e) The examples show different audience needs according to the topic of a text.
Questão 45
(ANHEMBI) Caught on the net
Technology is transforming the news media. With the
internet and digital broadcasting, audiences no longer
need to wait for newspapers, television and radio to
tell them what’s going on in the world. Instead they
can access the news they want when they want it.
But, as the sex scandal which surrounded President
Clinton earlier this year shows, the speed of these
new news services could undermine standards of truth
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and accuracy.
(BBC English Magazine, April 1998)
Indique a sentença que melhor representa a passagem:
a) More people are using the internet.
b) The internet will replace older forms of media like newspapers and radio.
c) The news media are beginning to question their standards.
d) The internet is reliable source of information.
e) The internet is able to replace the magazine.
Questão 46
(ANHEMBI) Packing the theaters
As adults grow older, they are less likely to make
regular trips to their neighborhood cinemas.
(USA TODAY,1997)
A pesquisa acima nos mostra que:
a) Adults always go to the movies.
b) Adults never go to the movies when they become older.
c) Adults go to the movies every time when they get older.
d) Adults rarely go to the movies when they become older.
e) Adults don’t go to the movies.
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Questão 47
(PUC-PR) For many years scientists believed that the chimpanzee was the most intelligent
animal in the world. Recently they have learned that the dolphins are very clever animals,
too. Perhaps they are more intelligent than chimpanzees.
Many people think that dolphins are fish, but it is not true. Dolphins are different from fish
in many important ways. They are mammals. They are warm-blooded, and they cannot stay
under water all the time, like fish. They breathe air. They must come to surface of the water
and take in air every few minutes.
Dolphins live in groups, or "schools". Schools of dolphins travel and catch fish together,
and they also use a kind of language. Scientists do not understand the language of dolphins,
but they know that these animals talk to each other and send messages under water.
Dolphins are very friendly to human beings, and they are helpful ,too. In the past few years,
scientists have taught dolphins to play games and to help man in many ways. In some ways
dolphins are like dogs, but they are a lot more intelligent. Perhaps they will soon become
the most useful animals in the world.
Which is the only wrong affirmative ?
a) Dolphins are different from fish in many ways.
b) Dolphins cannot stay under water all the time.
c) Dolphins must come to surface of the water and take air only for a few minutes.
d) Dolphins are clever, helpful, friendly and useful.
e) Dolphins live in groups.
Questão 48
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(PUC-PR) For many years scientists believed that the chimpanzee was the most intelligent
animal in the world. Recently they have learned that the dolphins are very clever animals,
too. Perhaps they are more intelligent than chimpanzees.
Many people think that dolphins are fish, but it is not true. Dolphins are different from fish
in many important ways. They are mammals. They are warm-blooded, and they cannot stay
under water all the time, like fish. They breathe air. They must come to surface of the water
and take in air every few minutes.
Dolphins live in groups, or "schools". Schools of dolphins travel and catch fish together,
and they also use a kind of language. Scientists do not understand the language of dolphins,
but they know that these animals talk to each other and send messages under water.
Dolphins are very friendly to human beings, and they are helpful ,too. In the past few years,
scientists have taught dolphins to play games and to help man in many ways. In some ways
dolphins are like dogs, but they are a lot more intelligent. Perhaps they will soon become
the most useful animals in the world.
There is only one right statement. Which one is it ?
a) Dolphins are mammals and warm-blooded.
b) Scientists can understand the language of dolphins.
c) For many years scientists thought that dolphins could help men in many ways.
d) Dolphins are more intelligent than dogs, but certainly they aren't as intelligent as
chimpanzees.
e) Dolphins are the most useful animals in the world.
Questão 49
(PUC-PR) For many years scientists believed that the chimpanzee was the most intelligent
animal in the world. Recently they have learned that the dolphins are very clever animals,
too. Perhaps they are more intelligent than chimpanzees.
Many people think that dolphins are fish, but it is not true. Dolphins are different from fish
in many important ways. They are mammals. They are warm-blooded, and they cannot stay
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under water all the time, like fish. They breathe air. They must come to surface of the water
and take in air every few minutes.
Dolphins live in groups, or "schools". Schools of dolphins travel and catch fish together,
and they also use a kind of language. Scientists do not understand the language of dolphins,
but they know that these animals talk to each other and send messages under water.
Dolphins are very friendly to human beings, and they are helpful ,too. In the past few years,
scientists have taught dolphins to play games and to help man in many ways. In some ways
dolphins are like dogs, but they are a lot more intelligent. Perhaps they will soon become
the most useful animals in the world.
Choose the correct alternative:
I - The dolphin groups travel and catch fish together.
II - Dolphins can't talk to each other but they send messages under water.
III - Dolphins breathe air.
a) neither number I nor number III are right
b) both numbers I and II are true
c) all alternatives are false
d) not only number I but also number III are correct
e) no one of the affirmatives is wrong
Questão 50
(PUC-PR) Socrates, the Greek philosopher whose ideas have survived through the writings
of Plato, was charged with corrupting the minds of Athenian youth and sentenced to death
in 399 B.C.
Choose the alternative with the right statements:
I - Plato followed Socrates.
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II - Plato corrupted the mind of Athenian youth.
III - Socrates and Plato were sentenced to death.
IV - They both lived before Christ.
V - Socrates was accused of corrupting the Athenian youth.
a) I, III, IV
b) II, IV, V
c) I, IV, V
d) III, IV, V
e) II, III, IV
Questão 51
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
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10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
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33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
O objetivo central do texto é:
a) lembrar os antigos personagens de ficção científica.
b) apresentar uma nova tecnologia de reconhecimento de voz.
c) comentar as limitações de um novo software.
d) descrever os procedimentos para a utilização de um novo software.
e) informar sobre a previsão de vendas de um novo software.
Questão 52
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
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02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
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25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
The correct statement in relation to the text is:
a) Robots normally understand and speak back at humans.
b) The mouse and the keyboard will help giving commands.
c) You can now check e-mail from your car just using your old keyboard.
d) The dictation program´s accuracy is improved as it is used.
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e) The user immediately achieves the 95% accuracy announced on software boxes.
Questão 53
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
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17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
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40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
The question that cannot be answered with the information contained in the text is:
a) Did Captain Kirk speak to his computer and robot?
b) Does the new software allow computers to respond to spoken commands?
c) Does Michael Dertouzas believe the mouse and keyboard will be replaced?
d) How much money does the software industry expect to sell in two years?
e) How do individual accents and diction vary?
Questão 54
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
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08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
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31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
A expressão "did it" (linha 01) poderia ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por
a) watched the cartoon Jetsons.
b) spoke to his computers and robots.
c) understood David Bowman and spoke back.
d) performed in science fiction films.
e) was an astronaut in 2001.
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01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
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23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
The preposition "into" (line 12) is being correctly used in all alternatives but
a) He put the ingredients into the pan.
b) They went into the house.
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c) She worked far into the night.
d) She developed into a beautiful woman.
e) "The people into this photograph are relatives.
Questão 56
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer-
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16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
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39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
The best title for the Newsweek article is
a) Captain Kirk Strikes Back.
b) Why PCs Are Deaf-Mutes.
c) Having Problems with Your PC?
d) Great News in the Market.
e) An Old Software Made New.
Questão 57
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01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
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08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
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This text can be characterized as:
a) a sad story of a Scottish traitor.
b) a brief account of a hero’s life.
c) a curious biography of an English fighter.
d) a prejudiced essay on English kings.
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e) a short summary of Scotland’s independence.
Questão 58
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
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18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
(Pitkin Guides)
According to the text, William Wallace’s youth cannot be described as
a) poor.
b) bold.
c) adventurous.
d) daring.
e) aristocratic.
Questão 59
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01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
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04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
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According to the text, the incorrect relationship is
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a) loyalty – national.
b) Scottish lords – traitors.
c) Bruce – Wallace’s follower.
d) Wallace – Scottish noble.
e) English – invaders.
Questão 60
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
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14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
(Pitkin Guides)
According to the text, William Wallace raised an army at the approximate age of
a) 17.
b) 18.
c) 20.
d) 25.
e) 29.
Questão 61
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01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
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23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
(Pitkin Guides)
The suffix less as in "landless" (line 01) can be used with the words in all alternatives but:
a) power.
b) time.
c) great.
d) charm.
e) home.
Questão 62
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01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
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09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
(Pitkin Guides)
The phrase "among themselves" (lines 08-09) could be rephrased as
a) each others.
b) the others.
c) another.
d) one another.
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e) between others.
Questão 63
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
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18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
(Pitkin Guides)
The word "estates" (line 17) is best translated by
a) poderio.
b) estados.
c) status.
d) vidas.
e) propriedades.
Questão 64
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
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04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
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The word "acknowledged" (line 22) could be replaced, without alteration in meaning, by
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a) received.
b) seen.
c) recognized.
d) worn.
e) accounted.
Questão 65
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
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14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
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The phrase "carried on" (line 23) could be rephrased as
a) went on.
b) followed by.
c) terminated.
d) continued.
e) addressed.
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Questão 66
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01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
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The main purpose of the text is to tell
a) how proud the Welsh people are.
b) why Welsh is difficult to be learnt.
c) where the town of Hay-on-Wye is located.
d) why so many people visit Hay-on-Wye.
e) what a beekeeper’s shop sells.
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Questão 67
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
According to the text, it is not true that
a) Sylvia is a fat little lady who is proud of her town.
b) Golden Valley is close to the English border.
c) the Welsh language uses few vowels.
d) Hay-on-Wye receives many tourists each year.
e) the Welsh and the English belong to the same ethnic group.
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Questão 68
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The assertion that cannot be inferred from the text is
a) Towns situated by rivers may have their names formed with the preposition on.
b) The first sound of the word unique is not a vowel sound.
c) The word scornful is an adverb.
d) The word foot is used to refer to the base of a mountain or hill.
e) The preposition on can have the same meaning as about in certain contexts.
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Questão 69
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The expression "slightly septuagenarian" (line 02) means
a) not yet seventy.
b) seventy-eight.
c) literally seventy.
d) no more than seventy.
e) in her early seventies.
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Questão 70
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The word "rather" (line 06) is used in the text with the same meaning as in
a) I rather doubt I’ll be able to come to your party.
b) He’s my sister’s friend really, rather than mine.
c) I think I’d like to stay home rather than going out.
d) When I said I had to go to the dentist, all she said was "Rather you than me."
e) I was rather pleased to be invited to the wedding.
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Questão 71
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The expression "Local tourist brochures" (line 12) combines the same sort of words as
a) health activity center.
b) really scornful disdain.
c) typical Welsh face.
d) regular book commerce.
e) rather healthy look.
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Questão 72
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
Another way of saying "the northernmost point" (lines 14 – 15 ) is
a) the point most to the north.
b) a most northern point.
c) the point most northern.
d) the most north of the points.
e) the most northern a point.
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Questão 73
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The word "its" (line 17) refers to
a) the Wye river.
b) the Radnorshire Hills.
c) Hay.
d) Brecon Beacons National Park.
e) the Black Mountains.
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01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The word "stretches" (line 21) could be substituted without alteration in meaning by
a) spells.
b) springs.
c) speeds.
d) spreads.
e) sprays.
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Questão 75
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The alternative that brings the adjectives in the correct order is
a) Hay is a book-loving small Welsh town.
b) Hay is a Welsh small book-loving town.
c) Hay is a Welsh book-loving small town.
d) Hay is a small book-loving Welsh town.
e) Hay is a book-loving Welsh small town.
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(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
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21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
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The expression "neither ... nor" (line 18) excludes both "the park" and "the mountains." If
they were to be included, the correct expression(s) would be:
I. not only ... but also.
II. either ... or.
III. as well as.
The correct alternative is:
a) I
b) I and II
c) I and III
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d) I, II and III
e) II and III
Questão 77
(PUC-RS) It’s a Miracle
01Tourists traveling to Israel to mark a
02certain 2,000th birthday will be able to
03celebrate in New Testament style. In
04September, the National Parks Authority
05 is planning to open a $4.5 million
06submerged, crescent-shaped bridge in the
07Sea of Galilee. On it, as many as 80
08 pilgrims at a time will be able to walk on
09water – or at least wade in two inches of
10 it. Bubbles rising at the edges of the
11 12-foot-wide transparent platform will be
12 the only markers preventing pilgrims
13from taking a plunge. Is the structure
14 sacreligious? The Roman Catholic
15Church says no. "It will not improve
16 faith, hope and love," -----says Pietro
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17Sambi, the pope’s ambassador to
18Jerusalem. "But from the touristic point
19of view, it could be just a nice idea."
(Newsweek, March 99)
The aim of the text is to
a) announce a new tourist attraction.
b) mark the celebration of the new millenium.
c) praise the National Parks Authority’s plan.
d) criticize the money spent by the National Parks Authority.
e) improve faith, hope and love.
Questão 78
(PUC-RS) It’s a Miracle
01Tourists traveling to Israel to mark a
02certain 2,000th birthday will be able to
03celebrate in New Testament style. In
04September, the National Parks Authority
05 is planning to open a $4.5 million
06submerged, crescent-shaped bridge in the
07Sea of Galilee. On it, as many as 80
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08 pilgrims at a time will be able to walk on
09water – or at least wade in two inches of
10 it. Bubbles rising at the edges of the
11 12-foot-wide transparent platform will be
12 the only markers preventing pilgrims
13from taking a plunge. Is the structure
14 sacreligious? The Roman Catholic
15Church says no. "It will not improve
16 faith, hope and love," -----says Pietro
17Sambi, the pope’s ambassador to
18Jerusalem. "But from the touristic point
19of view, it could be just a nice idea."
(Newsweek, March 99)
The text states that those in Israel from September 99 on will be able to
a) experience a miracle.
b) wade in two inches of water.
c) plunge from a bridge.
d) submerge in the Sea of Galilee.
e) become more religious.
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Questão 79
(PUC-RS) It’s a Miracle
01Tourists traveling to Israel to mark a
02certain 2,000th birthday will be able to
03celebrate in New Testament style. In
04September, the National Parks Authority
05 is planning to open a $4.5 million
06submerged, crescent-shaped bridge in the
07Sea of Galilee. On it, as many as 80
08 pilgrims at a time will be able to walk on
09water – or at least wade in two inches of
10 it. Bubbles rising at the edges of the
11 12-foot-wide transparent platform will be
12 the only markers preventing pilgrims
13from taking a plunge. Is the structure
14 sacreligious? The Roman Catholic
15Church says no. "It will not improve
16 faith, hope and love," -----says Pietro
17Sambi, the pope’s ambassador to
18Jerusalem. "But from the touristic point
19of view, it could be just a nice idea."
(Newsweek, March 99)
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The text does not bring information about the _____ of the bridge.
a) shape
b) color
c) width
d) price
e) height
Questão 80
(PUC-RS) It’s a Miracle
01Tourists traveling to Israel to mark a
02certain 2,000th birthday will be able to
03celebrate in New Testament style. In
04September, the National Parks Authority
05 is planning to open a $4.5 million
06submerged, crescent-shaped bridge in the
07Sea of Galilee. On it, as many as 80
08 pilgrims at a time will be able to walk on
09water – or at least wade in two inches of
10 it. Bubbles rising at the edges of the
11 12-foot-wide transparent platform will be
12 the only markers preventing pilgrims
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13from taking a plunge. Is the structure
14 sacreligious? The Roman Catholic
15Church says no. "It will not improve
16 faith, hope and love," -----says Pietro
17Sambi, the pope’s ambassador to
18Jerusalem. "But from the touristic point
19of view, it could be just a nice idea."
(Newsweek, March 99)
The nationality of a person from Israel is
a) Israelian.
b) Israeli.
c) Israelite.
d) Israelish.
e) Israelitic.
Questão 81
(UFMG)
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The headlines might just as easily have screamed, "Mom Saves Toddler in Dramatic
Rescue!" But the female in question was no ordinary 160-pound brunette. As the world
now knows, the hero who cradled an unconscious three-year-old boy last Aug. 16 when he
fell into the gorilla habitat at Illinois' Brooksfield Zoo was herself a simian - and an
exceptional one at that. But then, 8-year-old Binti-Jua (Swahili for "daughter of sunshine"),
a rare lowland gorilla native to western Africa, has long-been "a people-oriented gorilla",
says her keeper Craig Demitros. "She has always had a good rapport with people". She has
an even better one now. After her heroics, Binti received a medal from the American
Legion, some 1,000 letters of congratulations and an honorary membership in a Downey,
Calif., PTA. With the boy she rescued (whose name has not been released) recovered nicely
from his injuries, Binti seems content to spend her days munching bananas and "primatechow" on her stone terrace,
playing with a rope between her toes and serving as an unofficial poster-girl for the
remaining 35,000 of her endangered brethren. "In that sense", says Demitros, "this gorilla
in captivity helped her relatives in the wild." She also reminded her friends up the
evolutionary ladder that behaving like an animal may not be such an ignoble thing after all.
Source: People Weekly, Dec,/Jan. 1996-97
The gorilla spends her time now
a) serving other gorillas there
b) playing with the rescued boy.
c) waiting for all her relatives.
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d) eating and passing the time.
Questão 82
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01This is the story of a landless second son
02of an obscure Scottish knight who, when
03 barely out of his teens and living as an
04outlaw, raised an army of common people
05 and drove the occupying English army out
06of Scotland. It was an age when men
07 owed allegiance to their feudal lords who
08were constantly fighting among
09themselves. William Wallace gave the
10people a sense of national, rather than
11 feudal, loyalty and lit the torch of Scottish
12independence. For almost a year he was
13 the Guardian of Scotland, but the nobles
14 had no taste for the low-born Wallace; they
15betrayed him to Edward I, the Hammer of
16the Scots, to save their own skins and
17 estates. But Wallace continued a guerilla
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18 war against the English for six more years
19 before finally being betrayed by one of his
20compatriots and taken to London, there to
21 be executed as a traitor to a crown that he
22had never acknowledged. He did not die in
23 vain; Bruce carried on his cause at
24Bannockburn.
(Pitkin Guides)
The phrase "a landless second son of an obscure Scottish knight" (lines 01-02) can be
rephrased as
a) an obscure Scottish knight’s landless second son.
b) a landless second son’s obscure Scottish knight.
c) an obscure’s Scottish knight landless second son.
d) an obscure Scottish’s knight landless second son.
e) a landless second son obscure’s Scottish knight.
Questão 83
(UFPE)
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Choose the appropriate answer to fill in the blank 2.
a) who
b) which
c) what
d) where
e) when
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Questão 84
(UFPE)
Choose the appropriate answer to fill in the blank 3.
a) makes
b) make
c) did make
d) have made
e) is made
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Questão 85
(UFPE)
Choose the appropriate answer to fill in the blank 4.
a) have
b) to have
c) has
d) had
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e) having
Questão 86
(PUC-PR) Mark the right alternative to complete the sentences:
I - My mother is used to _________ at home.
II - I'm trying to give up _________.
III - We decided _________ a drink in the pub.
IV - I asked him _________ me alone.
V - The doctor told Demi Moore to ____________ a holiday.
a) staying - smoking - to have - to leave - have
b) stay - to smoke - having - leaving - has
c) stay - of smoking - have - left - having
d) staying - to smoke - have - to leave - have
e) stayed - smoked - had - to left - had
Questão 87
(PUC-RJ)
LIES ARE SO COMMONPLACE,
THEY ALMOST SEEM LIKE THE TRUTH
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Everyone lies. Little lies, perhaps, which may not
cause serious problems, but still they are lies. We fudge on
how old we are, how much we weigh, what we are paid. Some
people tell their children that Santa Claus will come on
Christmas Eve.
5 Consider the last time you got a phone call from
someone you didn't want to talk to. Did you perhaps claim
falsely that you were just on your way out the door? That your
newborn (you're childless) needed you?
10 Did you ever promise anyone, "We'll do lunch", when
you knew that you'd never get together?
Did you ever reach for the phone to call in sick to
work, then leap from bed to enjoy the day?
Did you ever tell someone you owed money to that
15 the check was in the mail when it wasn't?
Few behaviors serve as many purposes as lying. We
grow up to use lies - or at least half truths - to avoid things that
should be done, to get people to believe us, to get what we
want, to buy time, to end conversations, to keep relationships
20 going.
"Lying is also exciting," said Margaret Summy, a
professional counselor in Forth Worth, Texas. "It's living
dangerously. Besides, we all want to be important, so we
change our stories to make them more interesting."
25 "We also lie to make people agree with us, without
realizing that we're doing so," said clinical psychologist David
Welsh.
"In working with relationships such as parent-child or
husband-wife, each person has a different memory, one
30 which helps them. They'll accuse each other of lying," he said.
"But both are telling their own understanding of the truth."
Perhaps the most understandable reason people lie
is so they don't hurt others' feelings. Most guests at a dinner
party wouldn't want to say that they didn't like a specially
35 prepared meal, even if it was terrible.
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But even though people lie for good reasons, lying
can be harmful. If we act on false information, we can be hurt.
If we lie and are discovered, it can destroy the trust necessary
40 for strong relationships. Besides, lying is hard on the brain
because one lie leads to another, and we always have to
remember our false story. In his "Discourses on Government",
Algernon Sidney said, "Liars ought to have good memories."
For most of us, though, lying is hard on us physically.
45 We breathe faster, our hearts beat harder, and our blood
pressure goes up.
The truth can be hard on the body too, of course —
especially if we're admitting to a lie. Just about the most
difficult thing for any human being to do is to tell others that he
or she lied to them. It's very stressful.
Terry L. Goodrich. Seattle Post-Intelligencer;
October 29, 1990, C1
The word "newborn" (line 9) could be replaced by the synonym...
a) teenager.
b) nephew.
c) grown-up.
d) baby
e) youngster.
Questão 88
(ANHEMBI)
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1. I’m going for an interview for a job this afternoon.
2. Good luck! I’ll keep my___________crossed for you.
a) Legs.
b) Fingers.
c) Arms.
d) Hands.
e) Toes.
Questão 89
(PUC-PR) Choose the alternative with the right sentences:
I - Why don't you cut the orange yourself?
II - You must learn how to speak English well.
III - He is just likes my father.
IV - I do not know like to sing this song.
V - They cut each other with a knife.
a) I, II, IV
b) II, III, V
c) II, III, IV
d) I, II, V
e) I, IV, V
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Questão 90
(PUC-PR) What option best explains this statement:
I had my shoes cleaned.
a) I had cleaned my shoes.
b) I cleaned my shoes.
c) I asked someone to clean me.
d) Someone didn't clean my shoes.
e) I asked someone to clean my shoes for me.
Questão 91
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
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08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
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31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
A palavra "so" (linha 08) poderia ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por
a) such.
b) some.
c) most.
d) much.
e) that.
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(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
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23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
A palavra "latest" (linha 09) não poderia ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por
a) newest.
b) most modern.
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c) most actual.
d) most recent.
e) most updated.
Questão 93
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer-
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16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
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39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
The phrase "commands spoken" (lines 11-12) expresses the same as "commands that
a) are spoken."
b) were spoken."
c) be spoken."
d) have spoken."
e) had spoken."
Questão 94
(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
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08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
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31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
A palavra que segue a mesma regra de formação do plural de "shelves" (linha 20) é:
a) beef.
b) brief.
c) grief.
d) thief.
e) chief.
Questão 95
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(PUC-RS) TEXT
01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
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23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted from Newsweek - March 30,1998)
O verbo "rely" (linha 23) poderia ser substituído, sem alteração de sentido, por
a) trust.
b) remind.
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c) renounce.
d) believe.
e) try.
Questão 96
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01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer-
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16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
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39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
The word "since" (line 31) has the same meaning in the text and in alternative
a) Since she couldn´t answer I asked somebody else.
b) Since our last vacation I haven´t had a rest.
c) Mary has been bright since she was a young girl.
d) She´s since remarried, after 10 years.
e) Since leaving Paris, we’ve visited Brussels.
Questão 97
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01Captain Kirk did it. So did "2001" astronaut
02 David Bowman, the "Lost in Space"
03Robinsons and the cartoon Jetsons. They
04spoke to their computers and robots, and
05the machines actually understood
06and spoke back. After all, it was science
070fiction.
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08 But suddenly it doesn’t seem so
09fanciful. The latest technology of speech
10 recognition promises to arm our deaf-mute
11 PCs with the ability to act on commands
12 spoken into a microphone. "Speech will
13eventually replace the need to use the
14 mouse and keyboard," says Michael
15 Dertouzas, the director of MIT’s computer16science lab. That kind of enthusiasm has
17 generated optimistic forecasts of $1 billion
18 in over-all speech-technology sales by the
19 end of the century and caused a rush to
20get software onto store shelves. Do the
21 products now available live up to the
22enthusiasm? Not quite yet. But eventually,
23you may rely on speech-recognition
24 software to surf the Web, check e-mail
25from your car – and perhaps even do your
26banking.
27 Today the most announced application
28 of speech technology is so-called
29 "continuous speech dictation", in which a
30 computer transcribes everyday dialogue.
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31 Since individual accents and diction vary,
32new users must spend about 30 minutes
33 reading to the computer from a training
34 routine. The software’s accuracy gradually
35 improves as it is used, adding
36 unrecognized words to its vocabulary and
37 learning from mistakes when they are
38 corrected. It typically takes a few trying
39days of regular use to achieve the 95
40percent accuracy announced on software
41 boxes.
(Adapted fromNewsweek - March 30,1998)
A expressão "a few" (linha 38) completa corretamente a frase:
a) Could you spare ... moments?
b) It’s a pity they have ... friends.
c) It will taste better with ... bacon.
d) His ideas are difficult and ... understand them.
e) He’s asked me for ... money.
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01Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian
02who may even be slightly septuagenarian,
03was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town,
04not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to
05have a "typical Welsh face." In other
06 words, the features of a rather special
07ethnic group that looks upon the nearby
08English with scornful disdain. This town
09 of 1,500 has acquired a unique status
10 because of the 500,000 people who visit
11 the place each year.
12Local tourist brochures say that Hay,
13 located at the foot of the verdant
14Radnorshire Hills, is the northernmost
15 point in Brecon Beacons National Park
16south of the Wye river and has the Black
17Mountains to its south and west. But
18 neither the park nor the mountains are
19enough to explain why Hay attracts so
20 many visitors. Even Golden Valley,
21 which stretches eastward into English – in
22 other words, foreign – territory is not
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23 sufficient. The exotic Welsh language –
24strings of consonants with an occasional
25stray vowel tossed in here and there – can
26also be ruled out.
27No, the real reason is that Hay has 31
28 bookstores for a population of 1,500.
29 Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper’s
30 shop located on the edge of town, where a
31hundred or so books on bees stand next to
32 jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99)
The expression "ruled out" (line 26) could be substituted without change in meaning by
a) disguised.
b) dismissed.
c) discharged.
d) discredited.
e) discussed.
Gabarito:
1-c 2-a 3-b 4-b 5-c 6-c 7-a 8-b 9-c 10-a 11-c 12-b 13-a 14-c 15-a 16-d 17-d
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18-c 19-b 20-d 21-a 22-a 23-b 24-d 25-a 26-a 27-c 28-b 29-a 30-a 31-c 32-a
33-a 34-e 35-c 36-b 37-d 38-c 39-a 40-b 41-e 42-a 43-a 44-e 45-c 46-d 47-c
48-a 49-d 50-c 51-c 52-b 53-e 54-a 55-d 56-a 57-d 58-b 59-a 60-a 61-c 62-d
63-c 64-b 65-b 66-d 67-e 68-c 69-e 70-e 71-d 72-a 73-c 74-d 75-d 76-d 77-a
78-b 79-e 80-b 81-d 82-a 83-b 84-a 85-e 86-a 87-d 88-b 89-d 90-e 91-e 92-b
93-e 94-c 95-e 96-b 97-d 98-b