Questões de Concurso sobre Vocabulário

Last year I ____in Mexico

that‘s where I ____ my holiday

and that‘s where I ____ that lady

I have _____ her name ‘l - o - v - e’

(http://www.classicrocks.com/english-grammar/irregular-verbs.html)

“The picnic was called off because of the rain”.

What does this sentence mean?

The word “tributaries” (ℓ.11) means afluentes in Portuguese.

Choose the option that contains an INCORRECT definition of the words according to their meaning in the text above.

What option best complete the following sentence?

“If I had left earlier, _______________”

No trecho do quarto parágrafo “a more comprehensive method”, a expressão sublinhada significa

The word “worse”, in “this is likely to be worse in the tropical regions of the world” means, in Portuguese:

In the sentence “to get uglier every day” (#3), “uglier” is to “more beautiful” as

Consider the following sentence: “Hovering over a word produces a pop-up dictionary” (l.15-16):

I. ‘Hovering over’ means “to put the cursor on computer screen in a particular place without clicking on it”.

II. ‘pop-up dictionary’ is a dictionary that predicts when you don’t know a word.

III. ‘produces’ could be changed for ‘shows’ without altering the meaning of the sentence.

Which ones are INCORRECT?

What does the word “gambling” refer to in the first sentence of the second paragraph?

What does the word “heightened” refer to in the first paragraph?

In the sentence “When you’re shopping or walking down the street” (ℓ. 14 and 15), the verbal forms express an idea that corresponds to the subjunctive tense in Portuguese.

Check the alternative that fills the gaps below CORRECTLY:

Memories are so ________ that you have to repeat words.

Many of us have ________ trouble names for example.

Match the words on column 1 with their meanings on the column 2:

Column 1 Words

1. pollinate
2. lack
3. rely
4. disorder
5. supply

Column 2 Meanings

( ) to have confidence based on experience

( ) to add as a supplement

( ) convey pollen to

( ) lack of order

( ) the fact or state of being wanting or deficient

Assinale a alternativa que indica todas as afirmativas corretas.

David Graddol wrote that CLIL is "…an ____________ to bilingual education in which both ____________ (such as science or geography) and English are taught together. It differs from simple English-medium education in that the learner is not necessarily expected to have the English ____________ required to cope with the subject before beginning study".

_{(Graddol D. English Next, British Council Publications, 2006)}

Choose the alternative which contains the correct missing words in the quotation:

Read the sentence bellow:

Learners in the ........................... language classroom often learn through techniques drawn from a variety of ........................../approaches in what has been labelled an ‘eclectic .......................... ’.

Choose the alternative which contains the correct missing words in the sentence.

… TO DRIVE HIM HOME … This expression in English means:

Indicate the best adverb that completes the context in (c):

The word ‘must’ (l.13)

I. expresses permission.

II. shows that there is an obligation.

III. indicates that there is a law that has to be followed.

Which ones are INCORRECT?