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Ano: 2022Banca: INSTITUTO MAISOrganização: Prefeitura de Santana de Parnaíba - SPDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Substantivos e Compostos
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Definition 1
“Consonant sounds are made by restricting or blocking the
air flow in soe physical way, and this restriction, or release
of the restriction, is what gives the consonant its
characteristic sound. By contrast, vowels require the vocal
tract to be open so that the air stream escapes
unobstructed”.
(…)
Definition 2
“Consonants, either singly or in clusters, mark the
beginnings and ends of syllables. Vowels occur as the
centres or focal points of syllables, either between
consonants or their own”.
(UNDERHILL, A. Sound Foundations. Oxford:
Macmillan, 1994, p. 29).
Choose the alternative that DOES NOT show the sound [n].
Ano: 2019Banca: FUNDEP (Gestão de Concursos)Organização: Prefeitura de Uberlândia - MGDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Substantivos e Compostos | Adjetivos
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INSTRUCTIONS: Read the text carefully and then mark
the alternatives that answer the questions or complete
the sentences presented after it.
TEXT III
The cab had arrived ten minutes late, then had got stuck
in a monumental traffic jam on Charing Cross Road.
‘Sorry, love, nothing doing,’ the driver had said. Joanna
had looked at her watch, chucked a ten-pound note at
him and jumped out of the cab. As she’d hared through
the streets towards Covent Garden, her chest laboring
and her nose streaming, she’d wondered whether life
could get any worse.
Joanna was snapped out of her reverie as the
congregation suddenly ceased their chatter. She opened
her eyes and turned round as Sir James Harrison’s family
members began to file into the church.
Leading the party was Charles Harrison, Sir James’s only
child, now well into his sixties. He lived in Los Angeles,
and was an acclaimed director of big-budget action films
filled with special effects. She vaguely remembered that
he had won an Oscar some time ago, but his films weren’t
the kind she usually went to see.
By Charles Harrison’s side was Zoe Harrison, his
daughter. As Alec had hoped, Zoe looked stunning in a
fitted black suit with a short skirt that showed her long
legs, and her hair was pulled back in a sleek chignon
that set off her classic English-rose beauty to perfection.
She was an actress, whose film career was on the rise,
and Matthew had been mad about her. He always said
Zoe reminded him of Grace Kelly his dream woman,
apparently – leading Joanna to wonder why Matthew
was going out with a dark-eyed, gangly brunette such
as herself. She swallowed a lump in her throat, betting
that Winnie the Pooh hot-water bottle that his ‘Samantha”
was a petite blonde.
Holding Zoe Harrison’s hand was a young boy of
around nine or ten, looking uncomfortable in a black
suit and tie: Zoe’s son Jamie Harrison, named after his
great-grandfather. Zoe had given birth to Jamie when she
was only nineteen and still refused to name the father. Sir
James had loyally defended his granddaughter and her
decision to both have the baby and to remain silent about
Jamie’s paternity.
Joanna thought how alike Jamie and his mother were:
the same fine features, a milk and rose complexion, and
huge blue eyes. Zoe Harrison kept him away from the
cameras as much as possible – if Steve had got a shot
of mother and son together, it would probably make the
front page tomorrow morning.
Behind them came Marcus Harrison, Zoe’s brother.
Joanna watched him as he drew level with her pew.
Even with her thoughts still on Matthew, she had to admit
Marcus Harrison was a serious ‘hottie’, as her fellow
reporter Alice would say. Joanna recognised him from
the gossip columns – most recently squiring a blonde
British socialite with a triple-barreled surname. As dark
as his sister was fair, but sharing the same blue eyes,
Marcus carried himself with louche confidence. His hair
almost touched his shoulders and, wearing a crumpled
black jacket and a white shirt unbuttoned at the neck,
he oozed charisma. Joanna dragged her gaze away
from him. Next time, she thought firmly, I’m going for a
middle-aged man who likes bird watching and stamp
collecting. She struggled to recall what Marcus Harrison
did for a living – a fledgling film producer, she thought.
Well, he certainly looked the part.
‘Good morning, ladies and gentlemen’. The vicar spoke
from the pulpit, a large picture of Sir James Harrison in
front of him, surrounded with wreaths of white roses.
‘Sir James’s family welcomes you all here and thanks
you for coming to pay tribute to a friend, a colleague, a
father, grandfather and great-grandfather, and perhaps
the finest actor of this century. For those of us who had
the good fortune to know him well, it will not come as a
surprise that Sir James was adamant that this was not to
be a sombre occasion, but a celebration. Both his family
and I have honoured his wishes. Therefore, we start with
Sir James’s favourite hymn “I Vow to Thee My Country”.
Please stand’.
RILEY, Lucinda. The Love Letter. London: Pan Books, 2018,
p. 13-15.
Look at the following sentence, found in the text: “Zoe
looked stunning in a fitted black suit with a short skirt
that showed her long legs, and her hair was pulled back
in a sleek chignon that set off her classic English-rose
beauty to perfection.”
All of the words or phrases underlined in the sentence
are
Ano: 2018Banca: IMAOrganização: Prefeitura de Milton Brandão - PIDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Substantivos e Compostos
Which noun does not have the correct definition? Choose the INCORRECT answer.
Ano: 2018Banca: OBJETIVAOrganização: Prefeitura de Bossoroca - RSDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Substantivos e Compostos
Alguns plurais em inglês não seguem a regra geral de se acrescentar o -s, e são considerados irregulares. Entre os plurais irregulares abaixo, assinalar a alternativa INCORRETA:
Ano: 2022Banca: FGVOrganização: SEAD-APDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Preposições | Advérbios e Conjunções | Adjetivos | Substantivos e Compostos | Verbos
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Activities for raising awareness of diversity
Our first goal as language teachers is always to encourage our
learners to make use of their developing language. Giving them a
genuine communicative purpose and making it personal to them
are two good ways of achieving this. For students beginning their
journey to greater self-awareness, teachers could devise an
inventory of learning skills for them to rate themselves on. This
could include items such as ‘I keep my notes in order’, ‘I always
make a note of homework and the date it should be done’ or
whatever is appropriate to their level. Students could rate
themselves privately, but then discuss with other students which
ones they find most challenging, exchanging tips about how they
could improve these aspects of learning. From these discussions,
it will probably become clear that some students have already
got good study strategies in place, even if some of them seem a
little unusual. Revisiting the checklist later in the course helps
learners to reflect on how they have improved and what they still
need to work on. […]
Making use of materials that include a diverse range of
characters is another great way of initiating discussion and raising
awareness of the issues. There may be no explicit mention made
in the text of this diversity, thereby sending the implicit message
that this is just how the world is. Students may see characters
that they can relate to more easily, and feel more included
generally. Other materials, such as the ‘Adventures on Inkling
Island’ comic strips, explicitly showcase the daily challenges and
talents of neurodiverse people, demonstrating that being
different can be a strength in some situations.
A powerful way of enabling people to understand how it
might feel to be in the minority on a daily basis, whether in terms
of physical abilities or cognitive function, is to set up experiential
activities which challenge the participants to perform unusual
tasks in conditions that make their usual way of working
impossible. As well as being a fun way of introducing the topic for
further discussion, these activities are usually very memorable
and drive home the message that – in the vast majority of cases –
lack of success in academic tasks is not due to laziness or
stupidity.
Adapted from: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/raising-awarenessdiversity-language-classroom
The underlined word in “make use of their developing language”
(1st paragraph) is a(n)
Ano: 2018Banca: Instituto ExcelênciaOrganização: Prefeitura de Barra Velha - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Substantivos Contáveis e Incontáveis | Substantivos e Compostos
Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente os espaços em branco.
I. There’s ____ juice left in the refrigerator.
II. I have ____ good friends to count on.
III. There are ____ people she really like in her job.
IV. He has ____ free time, because is a workaholic.
Ano: 2019Banca: AMEOSCOrganização: Prefeitura de São José do Cedro - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos | Substantivos e Compostos | Artigos | Preposições
Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said he was "horrified" at abuse aimed on womenin his party.
In the bold item above, there is a mistake related to:
Ano: 2024Banca: UNIVIDAOrganização: Prefeitura de Bom Sucesso do Sul - PRDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Pronomes | Verbos | Substantivos e Compostos | Advérbios e Conjunções
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Read Text I and answer question.
Text I
How to have a healthier relationship with your phone
A few years ago, a Google employee sent an email to thousands of her co-workers: What if for six weeks straight, you spent one night per week without technology? The email was from Laura Mae Martin, Google’s executive productivity adviser, a role that, among other things, was created to help staff members foster healthier relationships with their gadgets and apps. After she sent the note, Ms. Martin was flooded with responses from coworkers eager for a respite from some of the very products they helped build. Thousands of employees have since participated in the annual “No-Tech Tuesday Night Challenge,” said Ms. Martin.
The problem she was trying to solve isn’t unique to Google workers. One survey found that Americans say they spend too much time on their phones. But dramatic solutions – a digital detox, a phone downgrade or a complete exit from social media – may feel impractical.
Is it possible to have a healthy relationship with technology while still using it daily? Fortunately, according to experts, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’ and here are a few things you can try:
First, start with one simple question.
You know that urge you get to reach for your phone without realizing it? And then, before you know it, you’re an hour into a social media binge? If you want to peacefully coexist with technology, you need to get a handle on those impulses, said Richard J. Davidson, the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. According to him, people should start by noticing when they have an urge to lift their phone or open social media on their browser window. By becoming conscious of what you’re about to do, you’re interrupting an automatic behavior and awakening the part of your brain that governs self-control, he added. As one research article suggests, awareness of your actions can help you rein in bad habits.
Secondly, take the “mobile” out of your mobile devices.
Dr. Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry and addiction medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, said one of the biggest problems with smartphones is what she calls “texting while running to catch a bus.” Using our devices while we’re on the move – walking from meeting to meeting, taking a child to school or catching a bus – prevents us from being more engaged in our lives, Dr. Lembke said.
One way to create harmony with technology is to limit your phone use when you’re on the move. Headed out for a walk? Turn off your notifications. Going to grab a coffee? Leave your phone on your desk. If you’re feeling brave, try powering down your phone while in transit. It won’t buzz with notifications, text messages or phone calls, which Dr. Lembke said could help you focus on the world around you.
Last of all, make technology work for you.
One thing experts agree on: To forge a healthy relationship with technology, you need to be in control of it and not the other way around. Think about your gadgets as tools that you decide how to use.
“Make it work for you, not against you; whether it’s an email program or your dishwasher, it’s the intention behind how you’re using it that really makes the big difference”, said Ms. Martin, the productivity expert at Google.
(Adapted from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/well/social-media-phone-addiction.html)
In “(…) the answer is a resounding
‘yes’ (…)”, the word “resounding” is a/an:
Ano: 2016Banca: AOCPOrganização: IF-BADisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Compreensão de Texto | Substantivos e Compostos | Adjetivos
Dear Mayor Estrosi, Mayor Vivoni, Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, and other French officials who have supported France’s burkini ban:
My name is Amara Majeed, and I am a 19-yearold Muslim Sri Lankan American. I am a student at Brown University, studying cognitive neuroscience and public policy.
When I look at the photo circulating of a woman in Nice being surrounded by armed police officers as she is coerced into removing her clothing, because French officials deemed the burkini to be inappropriate beach attire, I see infringement on a woman’s right to choose what she puts on her body by a group of white males. I see the scapegoating, ostracization, and criminalization of Muslims in the aftermath of the Nice terror attacks. I am a woman who wears the hijab, and I see an affront to the rights and civil liberties of women like me.
Deputy Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi: You have stated that you support this ban on “inappropriate clothing” in the wake of the Nice terror attacks. Mayor Vivoni, you have described the burkini ban as a necessary measure to “protect the population.” Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, you have labeled the burkini as a symbol of extremism.
Let me respond to all of you by saying this: any conflation of the burkini with terrorism is invalid, virulent, and discriminatory. Tell me, in what way does our way of dress pose a threat to France’s national security? In what way does the burkini propagate hateful, violent ideologies? How is it that our way of dress poses a national security threat, yet some wetsuits, which take on strikingly similar designs to the burkini, aren’t? While France’s highest administrative court has now overturned the ban, the damage has already been done — this attack on the Muslim way of dress only serves as fodder to the already existing rising anti-Muslim sentiment and stigmatization of Muslims in France. If this institutionalized Islamophobia and fearmongering is being perpetrated by French officials and authorities, I fear how the general public’s poor treatment of hijab-clad women may be exacerbated in the coming weeks. We’re all well aware that hate crimes and violence targeting Muslim women wearing the hijab is not a new phenomenon in France.
As one burkini-clad woman who was forced to leave the beach states, “Because people who have nothing to do with my religion have killed, I no longer have the right to go to the beach.” In the eyes of many authority figures, our religious identity in and of itself is incriminating. Our way of dress is incriminating. Our sheer existence is incriminating.
Many of you have called the hijab an emblem of oppression. In April, France’s Minister for Women’s Rights equated women who choose to wear the hijab with “Negroes who were in favor of slavery.” More recently, France’s prime minister stated that the burkini is a tool of “enslavement,” and former French President Sarkozy insinuated that hijabclad women are imprisoned.
I am genuinely tired of individuals like you imposing your brand of colonial feminism on us and telling us that we are oppressed, that we have been indoctrinated, that this was not our choice, and that we need to be unshackled. Instead of continuing to pursue these offensive and failing attempts at liberating us, I implore you to liberate yourselves from this white savior complex and recognize that we don’t need your saving. The hijab does not oppress me. For me, the hijab is a symbol of feminism and freedom of expression — so who are you to invalidate my experiences, to invalidate a fundamental, inextricable aspect of my identity, and to label me as enslaved, as imprisoned, as oppressed? By depriving us of our rights to dress the way we want, by making public spaces inaccessible to us, by publicly humiliating us and coercing us to remove some of our clothing while we are trying to enjoy a day at the beach — you are oppressing us.
My news feed has been saturated with people posting photos of a Muslim woman at a beach being forced to strip, captioned with outrage and vitriol towards this form of discrimination. While your support of our rights is appreciated, I ask that you refrain from doing a disservice to this individual by circulating this photo. It may not seem like you are violating a woman’s privacy and liberties by sharing a picture revealing her arms or shoulders, but it is incumbent upon us to understand that she did not freely choose to show those parts of her body in public. Even if the intent is to excoriate the burkini ban while circulating these photos, I implore you to not be complicit, whether directly or indirectly, in systems of oppression that are stripping women, literally, of their right to choose what they wear.
Yours truly,
Amara Majeed – a muslin woman (Source: http://www.bustle.com/articles/180721-an-open-letter-tofrench-officials-who-support-the-burkini-ban-from-a-muslim-woman)
Observe the following excerpt: “In the eyes
of many authority figures, our religious identity in and of itself is incriminating. Our way of dress is incriminating. Our sheer existence is incriminating”. Considering the sentences above, mark the alternative that best describes the usage of the word “sheer” in the context above.
Ano: 2024Banca: CETREDEOrganização: Prefeitura de Ubajara - CEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Compreensão de Texto | Substantivos e Compostos | Números
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Text I: 'Quiet quitting' isn't really quitting
Clocking out at 5 p.m. on the dot, only doing your assigned
daily tasks, limiting chats with colleagues and not working
overtime. These are the distinctive features of "quiet quitting," a
term coined to describe how people are approaching their jobs
and professional lives differently to manage burnout.
The phrase, which isn't actually intended to lead to a
resignation, exploded into the popular lexicon in 2022 when a
TikTok video went viral. The creator, Zaid Khan, said in the video
"I recently learned about this term 'quiet quitting,' where you're not
outright quitting your job, but you're quitting the idea of going
above and beyond." Nonetheless, “quiet quitting” is a misnomer,
at least according to Karen K. Ho, a freelance business and
culture reporter. She said that the term doesn't account for the fact
that people are watching their grocery bills, fuel costs and housing
prices go up, often without so much as a salary increase. "You're
literally stagnating as a result of not earning more, not being
promoted – and that's why a lot of people are leaving jobs," she
completed.
While the words "quiet quitting" are loaded, evoking images
of a slacker or ne'er-do-well for some, others say that the
approach frees up time to spend with family and friends or to take
care of oneself. In short, it's a renewed commitment to life beyond
the workplace. On the other hand, the term “quiet quitting” has
also received criticism, even from those who generally favor the
idea behind it.
However, while the term "quiet quitting" may be a
new invention, the mentality behind it is not. The phrase "work to
rule," for example, describes a labor action in which employees
strictly perform the work laid out in their contract, without taking on
additional work. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a
major economic movement, The Great Resignation, which saw
people leaving their jobs or switching professions in droves, as
they re-evaluated their relationship with work during a lifechanging health crisis.
A May 2022 survey by RBC Insurance suggested that more
than one-third of recently retired Canadians aged 55-75 had
retired sooner than they planned. Another third decided to retire
sooner because of the pandemic. Moreover, Statistics Canada
reported that the third quarter of 2021 saw a 60% increase in job
vacancies compared to pre-pandemic levels in the country.
Both Quiet Quitting and The Great Resignation indicate a
marked cultural shift from the early and mid-2010s when "hustle
culture" paved the way to "grinding" and "girl-bossing" – two ideas
that prioritized work over everything else, with the belief that such
effort made employees more desirable to managers, therefore
helping them climb up the corporate ladder faster and
generating more income.
In addition, it is important to highlight that employees have
been re-evaluating how much time they spend commuting,
working overtime and generally investing in low-pay, low-reward
jobs. It seems they have realized that they work in systems where
they are constantly immersed in a hustle culture – which has been
repeatedly shown to be only beneficial for corporations and their
managers, through bonuses, through increased productivity,
through increased revenue and profits and the like.
Furthermore, some employees are advocating for policies,
benefits and working conditions that strengthen work-life balance.
But critics say it doesn't work as well as it should, with a glaring
loophole that allows employers to take advantage by vaguely
wording their policies.
Adapted from: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/quiet-quitting-workerdisengagement-1.6560226
Last Updated: August 25, 2022
Read the excerpts from Text I and analyze the assertions.
A. “… that the third quarter of 2021…”
B. “…it doesn't work as well as it should...”
C. “Clocking out at 5 p.m. on the dot…”
D. “… evoking images of a slacker…”
I. Used as a discourse marker, “should” is also an auxiliary modal verb that refers to a past situation in sentence B.
II. In sentence A, “third” is a cardinal number.
III. “Slacker” is a countable noun in sentence D.
IV. “On the dot”, in sentence C, means “exactly at the stated or expected time”.
The CORRECT assertion(s) is(are):
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