The stretch of text “many thousands of words which are reported to have been ...

The stretch of text “many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion” is an example of impersonal passive voice – which shows, for instance, what an unspecified group...

Q1009424 • Inglês • FGV • SEDUCMT • Habilitação Inglês • 2025

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Is other a verb?

Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.

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The stretch of text “many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion” is an example of impersonal passive voice – which shows, for instance, what an unspecified group of people say or believe. One instance of this type of passive is

a) The family were believed to have gone missing as a result of extreme weather events.
b) NGO’s now have their likelihood of securing grant funding for impactful social projects increased with grants from the UNO.
c) The spectators were taken aback seeing the chaos caused by the fall of the grandstand.
d) It is hard to tell whether she is interested in studying hard for the whole summer or not.
e) The huge black hole was located after telescope James Web was capable of seeing some of the most distant galaxies in our Universe.

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Q52841 • Inglês • UFPR • Polícia Militar PR • Aspirante da Polícia Militar • 2018
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Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots

    The French philosopher René Descartes was reputedly fond of automata: they inspired his view that living things were biological machines that function like clockwork. Less known is a strange story that began to circulate after the philosopher’s death in 1650. This centred on Descartes’s daughter Francine, who died of scarlet fever at the age of five.
    According to the tale, a distraught Descartes had a clockwork Francine made: a walking, talking simulacrum. When Queen Christina invited the philosopher to Sweden in 1649, he sailed with the automaton concealed in a casket. Suspicious sailors forced the trunk open; when the mechanical child sat up to greet them, the horrified crew threw it overboard.
    The story is probably apocryphal. But it sums up the hopes and fears that have been associated with human-like machines for nearly three millennia. Those who build such devices do so in the hope that they will overcome natural limits – in Descartes’s case, death itself. But this very unnaturalness terrifies and repulses others. In our era of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), those polarized responses persist, with pundits and the public applauding or warning against each advance. Digging into the deep history of intelligent machines, both real and imagined, we see how these attitudes evolved: from fantasies of trusty mechanical helpers to fears that runaway advances in technology might lead to creatures that supersede humanity itself.

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According to the text, it is correct to say:
- a) In a near future, people will be better prepared to cope with the idea of death.
- b) Humanity will disappear if advances in technology become uncontrollable.
- c) There are groups with different positions about intelligent machines.
- d) The first examples of automata have been attributed to Descartes’ contemporaries.
- e) People have dreamed of human-like machines for more than three thousand years.
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Q860619 • Inglês • Verbo to be
O verbo to be significa "ser" ou "estar". Quanto sua utilização, analise as afirmações abaixo:

I. Pode ser verbo auxiliar, ou seja, acompanhando outro verbo;

II. Pode ser verbo auxiliar e usado no presente, passado ou futuro, nas formas afirmativa, negativa e interrogativa;

III. Quando usado como verbo principal, o verbo to be não precisa estar acompanhado por outro verbo para a frase ter sentido.

Estão corretas:
- a) somente I
- b) I e II
- c) I e III
- d) todas estão erradas
- e) todas estão corretas
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Q860712 • Inglês • Verbos modais em inglês
(UEL) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna da frase a seguir:

- “Excuse me, sir. __________ you tell me the time?”

- “Sure, it’s 5:20.”
- a) may
- b) do
- c) can
- d) have
- e) shall
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Q23593 • Inglês • CEMIG • Analista Administrativo
Levando em consideração as diferentes formas de se referir a ações no futuro, analise os itens seguintes:

I. Claire is working at the library on Friday morning.
II. When I retire, I am going to go back to Liverpool to live.
III. The telephone is ringing, but I won’t answer it.
IV. James and Sarah are working two jobs to afford a private school for their children.

O emprego dos termos em destaque está CORRETO apenas em
- a) I.
- b) III e IV.
- c) I, II e III.
- d) I, II, III e IV.
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Q28445 • Inglês • ACAPLAM • Prefeitura de Aroeiras PB • Professor de Inglês
She Said, “I’m not going to call you again!” In other words, she said:
- a) She was not going to call him again.
- b) She was not going to call you again.
- c) I am not going to call you again.
- d) She is not going to call him again.
- e) N. D. A.
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Q52599 • Inglês • MB • Escola Naval • Oficial da Marinha • 2018
Which is the correct option to complete the film synopsis below?

Hacksaw Ridge

Desmond Doss,______endured a troubled childhood in rural Virginia, enlists in the army. After Desmond"s desire to serve as an unarmed medic is approved by military officials, he is sent to the Pacific arena,______he saves dozens of lives during the Battle of Okinawa.

(Adapted from http ://oscar.go.com/nomÍnees/best-pÍcture/hacksaw-ridge)
- a) which / that
- b) who/where
- c) what/when
- d) that/which
- e) whose/who
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Q53065 • Inglês • EEAR • Sargento da Aeronáutica
The modal verbs underlined in each sentence express:

1 – She might be at the party.
2 – Can you drive a dump truck?
3 – He mustn’t sleep during the class.
4 – You ought to learn Aviation English.
- a) ability, possibility, advice, prohibition
- b) possibility, ability, prohibition, advice
- c) permission, possibility, request, wish
- d) ability, request, prohibition, offers
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Q485581 • Inglês • Gramática • IESES • Gas Brasiliano SP • Advogado
Qual alternativa está gramaticalmente INCORRETA?
- a) You walked yesterday.
- b) You didn´t walk yesterday.
- c) Did you walked yesterday?
- d) Did you walk yesterday?
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Q18461 • Inglês • FAB • EEAR • Sargento da Aeronáutica
Investigators trying to find out what happened to a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared en route to Beijing on Saturday morning were examining the causes of plane crashes: mechanical failure, pilot error, bad weather. But the discovery that two of the passengers were carrying stolen passports also raised the possibility of criminal violence.

(Adapted from “Passport Theft adds mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Jet”)

GLOSSARY raised – aumentou, ampliou

The underlined verbs in the text are in the
- a) present progressive.
- b) past progressive.
- c) simple present.
- d) future.
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Q52593 • Inglês • MB • Escola Naval • Oficial da Marinha • 2018
Which option completes the paragraph below correctly?

Money and happiness

While it is true that money can"t buy love or happiness, a certain amount is necessary to have a baseline of happiness. Interestingly, from science we learn that for most people the magic number is between $75- $100K per year. At that point we have enough money not to be struggling between paychecks, and there is a diminishing return on making more money after that. The nice thing is happiness is more about our habits and attitudes that we can control through things like exercise, mindfulness, gratitude, kindness, etc. regardless of how ______or how ,______ money we have. Happiness Is a choice and a process, not a place.

(https ://www.linkedin.com/pulse)
- a) much / little
- b) many/few
- c) much / few
- d) many/little
- e) many/much

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