Questões de Concurso sobre Vocabulário

Read the sentences, fill in the blanks with the correct collocation and match the columns. Then, choose the correct alternative.

The word whereas, underlined in the text, is closest in meaning to

The expression ‘rather than’, in the concluding sentence of the text, means

“By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber.”

A expressão em destaque, no contexto do fragmento, tem o significado de:

The word allow, in bold in the text, is closest in meaning to

The fragment “Fernández started his career as a cowboy after completing a stuntman course a decade ago” can be correctly rewritten as A decade ago, Fernández started his career as a cowboy and then he completed a stuntman course, without changing the meaning of the text.

In the fragment ‘The good guy only has to keep things in order’, the word ‘has’ could be correctly replaced with must, without changing the meaning of the text.

Although conceived by a few local intellectuals and elite members, Dutch culture exerted an appeal over the rest of the country because the latter saw themselves reflected by those artistic expressions.

The word nuisance, highlighted in paragraph 4, is closest in meaning to:

Ah, see, alone we stand, together we fall apart

Yeah, I think I’ll be alright

I’m working so I won't have to try so hard

Tables, they turn sometimes

Oh, someday

I ain't wasting no more time

And now my fears they come to me in threes

So I

Sometimes

Say, fate, my friend, you say the strangest things

I find, sometimes

The Strokes. Someday. Warner Music, 2001.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta um trecho da letra acima que contém uma marca de oralidade da língua inglesa.

Suppose now that, as soon as they start reading the text for greater detail, the students ask for the meaning of the word “pursue” in “why people pursue specific educational and career trajectories”. You firmly believe that it is your task to provide your students with compensatory strategies to deal with unfamiliar vocabulary. You then instruct them to:

In line 21, the word “fancy” could be replaced with whim without changing the meaning of the sentence.

In line 7, the expression “there are no constraints in their contacts” means that their contacts remain regular.

Check the alternative that CORRECTLY fills the gaps in the text:

O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder às questões de 11 a 13.

(1º§) Ann Fortune FitzRoy, the Duchess of Grafton, passed away aged 101. Her death is another blow for the Queen and comes less than a year since Her Majesty's husband Prince Philip, who she called her "strength and guide" died aged 99 in April and her grandson Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left for the US. Fortune served the Royal Household for the monarch's entire 69-year reign and made her Majesty the godmother to her second daughter, Lady Virginia FitzRoy, in 1954.

(2º§) The Duchess was appointed the Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1980 - an award made personally by the Queen for services to the sovereign. Few people have had such long-standing and close relations with the Queen. She was one of only two Mistress of the Robes during the Queen's reign - formerly a role wielding responsibility for the monarch's clothes and jewellery.

(3º§) Now mostly a honorary title, the Mistress of the Robes also has a more invisible role of being a source of friendship and advice for the Queen. The Duchess was known for executing her duties faultlessly and never spoke about her responsibilities with the Royal Family in depth.

(4º§) She attended all of the most important royal events, such as state visits and the State Opening of Parliament while also being in charge of the rota of ladies-in-waiting. She accompanied the Queen during her trip to Nigeria in 1956 and trips to Paris in 1972 and Russia in 1994. In 1980, during a visit to Morocco, the Duchess was ordered to leave then-ruler King Hassan's compound despite having been invited to stay.

(5º§) Born in 1920 as Anne Fortune Smith, she married the 11th Duke of Grafton Hugh FitzRoy in 1946 and they had five children before his death in April 2011. Fortune took on the title of Duchess of Grafton after the death of his father. The duchess joined the Royal Household on the year of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation in 1953 as Lady of the Bedchamber for the Queen. She became Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year's Honours list 1965 and was one of her Majesty's closest friends.

Adapted - https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/16949721/queens-confidante-duchess -grafton-dies-101/

Which one could be better for the title of the text?

In the fifth paragraph, the word “stuntman” means a man who performs a dangerous action which needs to be done by someone skilled, especially instead of an actor in a film or television programme.

“and his money and time being both limited, he thought it better to take it home with him at once, than run into vain expenses there”

A expressão destacada no fragmento acima, tem o significado de:

In the first paragraph, when the author refers to a Jedi as “trying to hone his understanding of the ‘force’”, he means that this fictional character is attempting to:

The text argues that the artistic expressions associated with Dutch culture would have been a transient phenomenon had it not been embraced by the non-elite Dutch people.

Study the following sentence:

The players then had to overcome these new difficulties to rebuild their civilization again from the beginning.

Pay attention to the words in bold and decide if the sentences below are ( T ) true or ( F ) false.

( ) the word difficulties is the plural form of difficulty.

( ) had is the past participle of have.

( ) the word their is an object pronoun.

( ) the word beginning is being used in the present continuous tense.

Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.