Questões de Concursos: Vocabulário

The sentence "Rapid growth in the urban population has aided economic development but also created serious problems for major cities" (L.5-7) means the same as

The bigger and faster urban population grows, the less serious problems are caused.

Analysez la phrase du texte “Sans ces défricheurs d’Histoire, l’auteur eût été bien incapable de construire son récit” (l.20-22) pour juger les propositions ci-dessous.

Dans le contexte, le mot “récit” peut être remplacé par roman.

The terms "...Produto Interno Bruto" (line 1) and "...balança comercial." (line 39) are correctly translated as:

El sentimiento expresado por Gaturro al decir "Help!! ¡Ni acá zafo!", en el primer recuadro, sólo no revela

Judge the following items concerning subordinated structures.

The mixed conditional in “If John had followed his doctor’s advice, he wouldn’t still be ill” implies that John did not do what his doctor told him to, and that is why he is not well now.

Mark the alternative that contains a word which uses the same prefixo f negation a sin INCONSEQUENTIAL(first paragraph):

Translate into English: A Lake Pontchartrain Causeway é a ponte mais larga do mundo.

Read the text below in order to answer questions 17 to 20.

Software

A substantial proportion of information can be digitized. It seems likely that soon, for example, any type of information that can be perceived, i.e. seen, heard, felt, smelt or tasted, will be reducible to a collection of bits. Once in digital form, the information in question can be stored, processed and displayed by a computer. Furthermore, it can readily and rapidly be transmitted from one computer to any other computer regardless of distance, political frontiers, and physical obstacles. From a digital point of view, there is absolutely no distinction between text, sounds, graphics, photographs, music, animations, videos and…software. To include software in our list, however, may seem rather odd. Why this is so? Computer programs are, after all, only digitized information like the other examples. However, there is one vital difference between software and the rest. While text, sounds, graphics, as well as the other examples given above, are generally passive in nature, software, by contrast, is essentially active. It is information with attitude! As Hart reminds us, "Computer programs are not only texts: they also behave". Software is both form and substance, both symbolic and functional, it both "is" and "does". For this reason, software is conceptually very challenging.

"Computer programs are not only texts: they also behave". In other words, they

Judge if each of the following items is correctly written.

Food from different geographic locations and of several ethnic groups often help distinguish specific cultural aspects.