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Ano: 2023Banca: FGVOrganização: Prefeitura de Jaboatão dos Guararapes - PEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário | Compreensão de Texto
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Text III
Teaching a child to read
Imagery first: the colors primary
Familiar as the sun; the purpose sure –
To hear, to smell, to feel, to taste, to see.
The mind will enter by another door.
The verb is next: we are the rain that falls,
The frog that sees a cricket as it leaps,
The robin that flaps its wings and calls,
The fish that swims, the animal that creeps.
The third is narrative, the moving spell
Of syntax that ad-libs the myths of time.
Alas, we learn before the wishing well
Has dried how words become a hill to climb.
The fourth is symbol: goodness, beauty, love.
This is the time of quarrel, tears and pain.
Sowing the dragons’ teeth, we bob and weave
Until we bring the simple back again.
By Allen Kanfer. Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28478
Glossary: to ad-lib: If you ad-lib something in a play or a speech, you say something
which has not been planned or written beforehand.
(https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ad-lib)
When the poet says that “words become a hill to climb”, he
means that the process may become
Ano: 2020Banca: MetroCapital SoluçõesOrganização: Prefeitura de Cerquilho - SPDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário
Choose the best option to complete the
sentences using tough, though, thought and
through:
1. ______ it was raining, we went for a walk.
2. He´s a _____ man.
3. We are used to working _____ the
night.
4. I _____ you were his wife.
Ano: 2023Banca: OBJETIVAOrganização: Prefeitura de Ponte Alta - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário
Concerning the vocabulary of the English language, mark
the CORRECT alternative:
From the _________, or the _________ –
From the red cliff of the __________
(Edgar Allan Poe).
Ano: 2024Banca: Avança SPOrganização: Prefeitura de Lorena - SPDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário | Adjetivos
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:
"The lawyer's argument was _____________, lacking any substantial evidence."
Ano: 2014Banca: IESESOrganização: GasBrasilianoDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário | Verbos Frasais | Verbos | Sinônimos
The phrasal verb “give up” is the same:
Ano: 2025Banca: INAZ do ParáOrganização: Prefeitura de Bocaina do Sul - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Aspectos Linguísticos | Ensino de Língua Inglesa | Vocabulário
English, as a global language, exhibits notable
variations between its regional forms, particularly
British English and American English. These
differences encompass spelling, pronunciation,
grammar, and vocabulary, reflecting distinct historical
and cultural developments.
Regarding the distinctions between British and
American English, select the CORRECT alternative.
Ano: 2010Banca: Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro - RJOrganização: Prefeitura de Rio de Janeiro - RJDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário
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Answer question according to TEXT 1 below, adapted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8606466.stm (accessed on April 7th, 2010) .
TEXT 1
At least 200 people have died in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro after another storm. This is arguably the worst torrential rain for decades, causing flooding and landslides. Our website readers in Rio de Janeiro have been sharing their experiences.
Comment 1 - I’ve never seen such chaos. We weren’t prepared for this, even though we were warned that a big storm was about to come. Newspapers are saying that the reason for the catastrophe is the garbage. Well it may have been. We need to teach recycling at schools and community groups, otherwise we will have more disasters like this. (Lia, Niterói)
Comment 2 - Today I witnessed Rio de Janeiro on the brink of collapse. I ventured out around midday, just as the electric power blacked out in my neighbourhood. Three hours later, looking out of my office window, the city still reminded me of a war zone. “What´ve we done to deserve this?”, I thought. It’s night time now and I haven’t been able to return home. I might do so tomorrow. (José, Rio)
Comment 3 - Worldwide, we are seeing more and more
climate instability. The deserts of central Asia are growing,
while areas of the US (and now Rio) are drenched. The lakes
in Minnesota have never thawed this early, at any time in the
recorded record. The icecaps will be history, and islands
around the world are disappearing under the surf. The oceans
are warming, the coral reefs are dying. How much more
evidence do we need of global warming? (João, Brasília)
The correct paraphrase for “We need to teach recycling
at schools and community groups, otherwise we will
have more disasters like this” is:
Ano: 2013Banca: UECE-CEVOrganização: UECEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário | Sinônimos | Compreensão de Texto
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW calls data
science “the sexiest job in the 21st century,” and by
most accounts this hot new field promises to
revolutionize industries from business to
government, health care to academia.
The field has been spawned by the
enormous amounts of data that modern technologies
create — be it the online behavior of Facebook
users, tissue samples of cancer patients,
purchasing habits of grocery shoppers or crime
statistics of cities. Data scientists are the magicians
of the Big Data era. They crunch the data, use
mathematical models to analyze it and create
narratives or visualizations to explain it, then
suggest how to use the information to make
decisions.
In the last few years, dozens of programs
under a variety of names have sprung up in
response to the excitement about Big Data, not to
mention the six-figure salaries for some recent
graduates. In the fall, Columbia will offer new
master’s and certificate programs heavy on data.
The University of San Francisco will soon graduate
its charter class of students with a master’s in
analytics.
Rachel Schutt, a senior research scientist at
Johnson Research Labs, taught “Introduction to Data
Science” last semester at Columbia (its first course
with “data science” in the title). She described the
data scientist this way: “a hybrid computer scientist
software engineer statistician.” And added: “The
best tend to be really curious people, thinkers who
ask good questions and are O.K. dealing with
unstructured situations and trying to find structure
in them.”
Eurry Kim, a 30-year-old “wannabe data
scientist,” is studying at Columbia for a master’s in
quantitative methods in the social sciences and
plans to use her degree for government service. She
discovered the possibilities while working as a
corporate tax analyst at the Internal Revenue
Service. She might, for example, analyze tax return
data to develop algorithms that flag fraudulent
filings, or cull national security databases to spot
suspicious activity.
Some of her classmates are hoping to apply
their skills to e-commerce, where data about users’
browsing history is gold.
“This is a generation of kids that grew up
with data science around them — Netflix telling
them what movies they should watch, Amazon
telling them what books they should read — so this
is an academic interest with real-world applications,”
said Chris Wiggins, a professor of applied
mathematics at Columbia who is involved in its new
Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering. “And,”
he added, “they know it will make them
employable.”
Universities can hardly turn out data
scientists fast enough. To meet demand from employers, the United States will need to increase
the number of graduates with skills handling large
amounts of data by as much as 60 percent,
according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute.
There will be almost half a million jobs in five
years, and a shortage of up to 190,000 qualified
data scientists, plus a need for 1.5 million
executives and support staff who have an
understanding of data.
Because data science is so new,
universities are scrambling to define it and develop
curriculums. As an academic field, it cuts across
disciplines, with courses in statistics, analytics,
computer science and math, coupled with the
specialty a student wants to analyze, from patterns
in marine life to historical texts.
With the sheer volume, variety and speed
of data today, as well as developing technologies,
programs are more than a repackaging of existing
courses. “Data science is emerging as an academic
discipline, defined not by a mere amalgamation of
interdisciplinary fields but as a body of knowledge,
a set of professional practices, a professional
organization and a set of ethical responsibilities,”
said Christopher Starr, chairman of the computer
science department at the College of Charleston,
one of a few institutions offering data science at
the undergraduate level.
Most master’s degree programs in data
science require basic programming skills. They
start with what Ms. Schutt describes as the
“boring” part — scraping and cleaning raw data
and “getting it into a nice table where you can
actually analyze it.” Many use data sets provided
by businesses or government, and pass back their
results. Some host competitions to see which
student can come up with the best solution to a
company’s problem.
Studying a Web user’s data has privacy
implications. Using data to decide someone’s
eligibility for a line of credit or health insurance, or
even recommending who they friend on
Facebook, can affect their lives. “We’re building
these models that have impact on human life,” Ms.
Schutt said. “How can we do that carefully?” Ethics
classes address these questions.
Finally, students have to learn to
communicate their findings, visually and orally,
and they need business know-how, perhaps to
develop new products.
From: www.nytimes.com
Considering the word shopper in the text,
an example of a word with similar meaning is
Ano: 2019Banca: SELECONOrganização: Prefeitura de Cuiabá - MTDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário
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Warnock (2009) stated that the first reason to
teach writing online is that the environment can be
purely textual. Students are in a rich, guided learning
environment in which they express themselves to a
varied audience with their written words. The
electronic communication tools allow students to write
to the teacher and to each other in ways that will open
up teaching and learning opportunities for everyone
involved. Besides, writing teachers have a unique
opportunity because writing-centered online courses
allow instructors and students to interact in ways
beyond content delivery. They allow students to build a community through electronic means. For students
whose options are limited, these electronic
communities can build the social and professional
connections that constitute some of education's real
value (Warnock, 2009).
Moreover, Melor (2007) pointed out that social
interaction technologies have great benefits for
lifelong education environments. The social
interaction can help enhancing the skills such as the
ability to search, to evaluate, to interact meaningfully
with tools, and so on. Education activities can usually
take place in the classroom which teacher and
students will face to face, but now, it can be carried out
through the social network technologies including
discussion and assessment. According to Kamarul
Kabilan, Norlida Ahmad and Zainol Abidin (2010),
using Facebook affects learner motivation and
strengthens students' social networking practices.
What is more, according to Munoz and Towner (2009),
Facebook also increases the level of web-based
interaction among both teacher-student and student-student. Facebook assists the teachers to connect
with their students outside of the classroom and
discuss about the assignments, classroom events
and useful links.
Hence, social networking services like Facebook
can be chosen as the platform to teach ESL writing.
Social networking services can contribute to
strengthen relationships among teachers as well as
between teachers and students. Besides, they can be
used for teachers and students to share the ideas, to
find the solutions and to hold an online forum when
necessary. Using social networking services have
more options than when using communication tools
which only have single function, such as instant
messaging or e-mail. The people can share interests,
post, upload variety kinds of media to social
networking services so that their friends could find
useful information (Wikipedia, 2010).
(Adapted from: YUNUS, M. D.; SALEHI, H.; CHENZI, C. English
Language Teaching; Vol. 5, No. 8; 2012.)
Na sentença "The social interaction can help
enhancing the skills such as the ability to search, to
evaluate, to interact meaningfully with tools, and so
on", o termo "enhancing" tem o mesmo significado
que:
Ano: 2019Banca: ADM&TECOrganização: Prefeitura de Poção - PEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário
• Leia as afirmativas a seguir:
I. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir: cash register (caixa
registradora).
II. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir: to give the lie to
(desmentir).
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
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