Questões de Concurso sobre Língua Inglesa - Compreensão e Interpretação de Texto

Read the excerpt below, in which Gloria Anzaldúa describes her experience as a child with Mexican descent in the United States of America:

I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess – that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler. I remember being sent to the comer of the classroom for “talking back” to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. “If you want to be American, speak ‘American.’ If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.”

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At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.

Attacks on one’s form of expression with the intent to censor are a violation of the First Amendment.

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Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out.

Reference: Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.

In this passage, Anzaldúa

Read the text below about deepfakes:

Deepfakes are creating havoc across the globe, spreading fake news and pornography, being used to steal identities, exploiting celebrities, scamming ordinary people and even influencing elections.

Yet a recent worldwide survey found 71% of people have no idea what deepfakes are.

Deepfakes are digital photos, videos or voices of real people that have either been synthetically created or manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI) and can be hard to distinguish from the real thing.

You’ve probably seen a deepfake video or photo without even realising it. Computer-generated Tom Cruises, Taylor Swifts and Mark Zuckerbergs have been circulating on the internet for several years, but what started as a bit of harmless fun has now become much more serious.

Earlier this year, a finance worker at a multinational firm in Hong Kong was tricked into paying AUD$39 million to fraudsters who used deepfake technology to impersonate the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference.

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Australia’s Defence Chief Angus Campbell has expressed fears that the world is entering “an era of truth decay,” where misinformation will undermine democracy by sowing discord and distrust.

Campbell told a defence conference in 2023 that artificial intelligence and deepfakes would “seriously damage public confidence in elected officials” by making it impossible for most people to distinguish fact from fiction.

Source: https://unisa.edu.au/connect/enterprisemagazine/articles/2024/what-are-deepfakes-and-should-we-beworried/

Choose the correct alternative based on the text.

According to Text 1, choose the alternative that CORRECTLY summarizes its general idea:

In the fragment in the third paragraph of the text “David Rockefeller launched the bank’s art collection programme, which would define the future vision of nearly every finance institution globally”, the expression in bold refers to

The main purpose of the text is to describe the association between banking and

In the first line, the poet reveals that her dreams have become

Read the excerpt from adapted LDB (Law nº 9.394/1996) below:

The teaching of a modern foreign language, preferably English, shall be offered from the sixth year of elementary school.

(Adapted from LDB, Art. 26, §5.)

According to the Brazilian Education Law, it is correct to state that:

Which of the following sentences contains a misplaced modifier?

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In the last panel of the comic strip, the word “raisin” is used. What does the word “raisin” mean in English?

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In the comic, the character accuses Jason of taping “kick me” signs to the back of every shirt. What gives him away?

In relation to cattle farming practices, carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas emitter, originating from the transportation of animals.

Segundo o texto,

O termo "litter”, no parágrafo 2, refere-se

Read the excerpts about the Text | and establish if the statements are true or false and mark the correct answer.

( ) The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest on the planet and its stronger than the Gulf Stream and the Amazon River.

( ) The current helps to keep warm water at bay, protecting even vulnerable ice sheets, as also acts as a kind of barrier to invasive species.

( ) ! forms part of the global ocean “conveyor bel” a specie of continuous movement and connecting only Pacific and Indian oceans.

( ) There is a complex concern about the consequences of a weaker Antarctic Circumpolar Current, because it plays a crucial role in the Antarctic ecosystem.

Mark the correct option that presents a paraphrase for the following extract: "If approved by the ESA's ministerial council, the Ramses mission will launch in 2028".

By reading the text: “[...] spreading them out as they drift towards the continent.”, it is correct to infer that the meaning of the underlined term is similar to:

Due to climate change, droughts are happening as fast as floods.

According to the text, HERA's main objective was:

The excerpt “provide insights into” can be correctly replaced with give an overview of while maintaining the same meaning.

Effective listening skills can enhance language learning. Consequently, teaching L2 listening effectively has become a crucial responsibility for language educators. Anna Chang (In: RENANDYA & WIDODO, 2016) outlines a theory-driven listening lesson, consisting of three stages: pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening. Connect each stage with its purposes, using the following code:

I. Pre-listening

II. While-listening

III. Post-listening

( ) Verify understanding, clear up any confusion, and consider challenges faced during listening.

( ) Engage in straightforward tasks that require minimal writing or reading.

( ) Complete tasks of various difficulty levels, focusing on different elements of the information.

( ) Define the objectives for listening exercises.

( ) Stimulate relevant prior knowledge and provide language support.

The correct association, from top to bottom, is: