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Ano: 2025Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPEOrganização: UNIVESPDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Análise Sintática | Orações Condicionais
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As a science fiction writer, Octavia Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. The future she wrote about is now our present moment. She wrote 12 novels and won each of science fiction’s highest honors. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. She is also, increasingly, a writer recognized as one of the most important voices and visionaries of the 20th century, and now the 21st. As a Black woman and a writer, Butler demolished walls that seemed impermeable, writing on themes that seemed uncategorizable. Her ideas and characters continue to resonate with new readers when so many are looking for, if not hope, then a map for a way forward.
Her vision about the climate crisis, political and societal upheaval and the brutality and consequences of power hierarchies seems both sobering and prescient. However, as Butler often noted, being right was never the point. She didn’t want to be right — far from it. She wanted to give us time, and tools, to correct the course.
Lynell George. The Visions of Octavia Butler. Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted).
In text 7A3-I, the clause “when so many are looking for, if not hope, then a map for a way forward” (last sentence of the first paragraph) is an adverbial clause that indicates
Ano: 2019Banca: AMAUCOrganização: Prefeitura de Ipumirim - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Orações Condicionais
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Use the conditional clauses that express hypothetical situations and their consequences, in other
words, conditions and results, to answer the question.
Read the sentences below and choose the correct one:
Ano: 2023Banca: JVL ConcursosOrganização: Prefeitura de São José do Piauí - PIDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Orações Condicionais
What type of Conditional is the sentence below?
Choose the CORRECT answer.
“If the weather improved, we would go to the beach. ”
Ano: 2019Banca: CETREDEOrganização: Prefeitura de Juazeiro do Norte - CEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Presente Simples | Verbos | Orações Condicionais
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs to fit the conditional clauses:
I. If Lina _____ hungry, she would have come with us to the restaurant.
II. If he had lived in Italy, he _______ how to speak Italian.
Ano: 2019Banca: GUALIMPOrganização: Prefeitura de Porciúncula - RJDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Orações Condicionais
What type of conditional is the sentence below? Choose the CORRECT answer.
“If there were more buses, we would leave the car at home.”
Ano: 2024Banca: AMAUCOrganização: Prefeitura de Piratuba - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Orações Condicionais
Conditional sentences vary in complexity depending on
the scenario they describe. Identify the sentence that
deviates from the expected grammatical structure of the
mixed conditional type:
Ano: 2024Banca: Instituto DarwinOrganização: Prefeitura de Santa Cruz do Capibaribe - PEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Orações Condicionais
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ESL Teaching and Post-Pandemic: What Changed?
Altiné Moumouni
The pandemic that started in 2019 has shaken the world, and it
has transformed the way we interact, the way we work, and even
made us appreciate the simplest things we took for granted.
1. Pandemic creates shortage of qualified ESL teachers
Currently, there are still fewer ESL teachers willing to travel
abroad and teach ESL. At the same, countries like the USA
experience a massive reduction in ESL teachers. About 44% of public
schools in the USA declare they need at least one teacher, and 61%,
particularly of these vacancies, are due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
including 51% resignations and 21% retirements (Source:
Usnews.com).
2. Pandemic increases uncertainty among ESL teachers
The pandemic increased the level of uncertainty as nobody
actually knows what will happen next. The best way to prepare is to
invest in yourself and become a better teacher.
3. Parents may experience income reduction
Most countries, including the USA, will experience postpandemic recession, reducing households’ discretionary spending for
education. This may lead to fewer private tutoring jobs available for
ESL teachers. In addition, some ESL students may need to drop out
of school to support their families.
4. ESL teachers less sure about teaching as a career
A study from the Brookings Institution found that, during the
pandemic, teachers have become less confident about their career
choices. The researchers found that many teachers considered
leaving or retiring during the 2020-2021 academic year.
5. Pandemic increases role of technology in ESL learning
One of the biggest issues is the increased role of technology in
ESL learning. In most western countries, including the UK, Canada,
and the United States, many ESL students have at least some access
to electronic devices and internet.
(Adapted from https://www.tefl.net/elt/articles/home-abroad/esl-teaching-post-pandemic/)
Read the sentence and check the correct alternative:
“The pandemic that started in 2019 has shaken the world, and it
has transformed the way we interact, the way we work, and even
made us appreciate the simplest things we took for granted”.
The clause in bold in the sentence is not:
Ano: 2024Banca: IPEFAEOrganização: Prefeitura de Américo de Campos - SPDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Orações Condicionais
Imagine you have planned a picnic for tomorrow and there's
a chance of rain in the forecast. In case of bad weather
conditions, what _____ you do to adjust your plans?
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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
In the following question, some sentences from the text may have been modified to fit certain grammatical structures.
The sentence “There will be almost half a million jobs in five years.” in the conditional form would be
Ano: 2024Banca: Avança SPOrganização: Prefeitura de Caçapava - SPDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos | Orações Condicionais
Identify the sentence that correctly uses a third conditional structure, which is used to talk about
impossible past situations and their hypothetical results.
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