Instruction: Answer questions 46 to 55 based on the following text.Why Major in English?As an English major, you ___ take courses that span the historical breadth of literature and culture in Britain, America, and beyond. In your senior year, you ____ have the opportunity to carve out a personal area of expertise in the form of the Senior Project, an extended research essay that serves as the culmination of your achievements in writing and scholarship at Yale.And while faculty, graduate students, coursework and department-sponsored events are rich resources for English majors, so are your fellow majors. English majors contribute to and often take the lead in campus publications, readings, and events. They will challenge and inspire you in the classroom and beyond it.Here are some reasons our students ..... chosen to major in English…To acquire tools that will never lose value. The skills you acquire in college are not just things you know about; they’re skills for approaching the world. Many of those skills, like the ability to read analytically and write well, are more and more prized, as the support for reading education ..... declined while the need for it ..... increased. Unlike most technical knowledge, the English major’s tools will never be obsolete. More important, the English major’s training goes beyond such marketable skills; to read well is to reflect on values and ends, not just means. The English major’s skill-set is not tied to technology or markets or nations. It’s value never depreciates, and lies beyond price. What will you do with yours?To navigate a world of global English. English literature is produced and consumed around the world. 54% of the worldwide web is in English. No other language comes close (Russian, 6%). Non-Anglophone nations are now offering university classes conducted in English in response to the globalization of our language and the rise of new English-speaking populations around the world. The skills you acquire will put you in a position to thrive in this complex, multinational, transcultural world of English.To understand the effects of changing media. Although some ..... claimed that “print is dead,” the book persists. Online, on tablets, smartphones, and e-readers, we read constantly. How is our society changing as a result? What does it mean to read on a screen instead of on a page? This is not the first media revolution in the history of writing; there was literature before there were books, and there were books before print. In courses on the history of the book, on new media, on literature and technology, you will find in our department new ways to understand the dynamism of a written world that ..... always been in flux. As we find ourselves inundated with media, your ability to read will become all the more essential.To explain your world. The challenges of the present lead many to place their faith in technology, science, and economics. Equally important is the ability to articulate values and alternatives, to persuade others to share a common vision. Major tech companies, including Google, actively pursue English majors and others from the humanities who can explain not just how technology works but what it means. Corporations, governments, and NGOs increasingly ask: how do we communicate better? As an English major, you’ll be the one to tell them.To learn how language shapes the world. The social world consists of discourse. Politics, religion, and philosophy live in language, in the ear, on page and screen. In the forms and histories of writing, we observe the movement of ideas and technologies. Studying narrative, we learn about the experience of time and history. In the writing of the past, we discover both its intimacy and its distance from us. In the writing of the present, we encounter the experiences of others at their most articulate, and most various.(Source: https://english.yale.edu/undergraduate/why-major-english) The word ‘major’ is used as an adjective in line

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Língua Inglesa Adjetivos | Adjectives

Ano: 2018

Banca: Fundação Universidade Empresa de Tecnologia e Ciências - FUNDATEC

Prova: FUNDATEC - Prefeitura de Santa Rosa - Professor de Língua Estrangeira - Área: Inglês - 2018

Instruction: Answer questions 46 to 55 based on the following text.

Why Major in English?

As an English major, you ___ take courses that span the historical breadth of literature and
culture in Britain, America, and beyond. In your senior year, you ____ have the opportunity to
carve out a personal area of expertise in the form of the Senior Project, an extended research
essay that serves as the culmination of your achievements in writing and scholarship at Yale.
And while faculty, graduate students, coursework and department-sponsored events are
rich resources for English majors, so are your fellow majors. English majors contribute to and
often take the lead in campus publications, readings, and events. They will challenge and
inspire you in the classroom and beyond it.
Here are some reasons our students ..... chosen to major in English…
To acquire tools that will never lose value. The skills you acquire in college are not just
things you know about; they’re skills for approaching the world. Many of those skills, like the
ability to read analytically and write well, are more and more prized, as the support for reading
education ..... declined while the need for it ..... increased. Unlike most technical knowledge,
the English major’s tools will never be obsolete. More important, the English major’s training
goes beyond such marketable skills; to read well is to reflect on values and ends, not just
means. The English major’s skill-set is not tied to technology or markets or nations. It’s value
never depreciates, and lies beyond price. What will you do with yours?
To navigate a world of global English. English literature is produced and consumed
around the world. 54% of the worldwide web is in English. No other language comes close
(Russian, 6%). Non-Anglophone nations are now offering university classes conducted in
English in response to the globalization of our language and the rise of new English-speaking
populations around the world. The skills you acquire will put you in a position to thrive in this
complex, multinational, transcultural world of English.
To understand the effects of changing media. Although some ..... claimed that “print
is dead,” the book persists. Online, on tablets, smartphones, and e-readers, we read
constantly. How is our society changing as a result? What does it mean to read on a screen
instead of on a page? This is not the first media revolution in the history of writing; there was
literature before there were books, and there were books before print. In courses on the history
of the book, on new media, on literature and technology, you will find in our department new
ways to understand the dynamism of a written world that ..... always been in flux. As we find
ourselves inundated with media, your ability to read will become all the more essential.
To explain your world. The challenges of the present lead many to place their faith in
technology, science, and economics. Equally important is the ability to articulate values and
alternatives, to persuade others to share a common vision. Major tech companies, including
Google, actively pursue English majors and others from the humanities who can explain not
just how technology works but what it means. Corporations, governments, and NGOs
increasingly ask: how do we communicate better? As an English major, you’ll be the one to tell
them.
To learn how language shapes the world. The social world consists of discourse.
Politics, religion, and philosophy live in language, in the ear, on page and screen. In the forms
and histories of writing, we observe the movement of ideas and technologies. Studying
narrative, we learn about the experience of time and history. In the writing of the past, we
discover both its intimacy and its distance from us. In the writing of the present, we encounter
the experiences of others at their most articulate, and most various.

(Source: https://english.yale.edu/undergraduate/why-major-english)

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