Select the alternative that the quantifier is used
incorrectly.
Questões de Concursos
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Fill in the blanks below and mark the CORRECT item.
• How ______ sugar do you take in your coffee?
• How ______ children do you want to have?
• I feel ______ better now.
• There were ______ people at the party.
• How ______ sugar do you take in your coffee?
• How ______ children do you want to have?
• I feel ______ better now.
• There were ______ people at the party.
Which option completes the text below correctly?
Ultimately you cant go long term without an appropriate duration of sleep, so it's important to try to get ______ sleep ______ nights.
While everyone's exact sleep requirements are different, on average you should be geiting between six and nine hours of sleep a night. Your brain is hardwired for what it needs. Getting less sleep than you need can cause sleepiness and moodiness, as well as difficulty concentrating, poor coordination and poor work quality.
Overall it's important to try to maintain a consistent and regular sleep cycle. Be aware that when you miss sleep, itll take ______ days to get back on track.
(Adapted from https:/Awexnermedical.osu.edu/)
Ultimately you cant go long term without an appropriate duration of sleep, so it's important to try to get ______ sleep ______ nights.
While everyone's exact sleep requirements are different, on average you should be geiting between six and nine hours of sleep a night. Your brain is hardwired for what it needs. Getting less sleep than you need can cause sleepiness and moodiness, as well as difficulty concentrating, poor coordination and poor work quality.
Overall it's important to try to maintain a consistent and regular sleep cycle. Be aware that when you miss sleep, itll take ______ days to get back on track.
(Adapted from https:/Awexnermedical.osu.edu/)
"To make sure we have enough snacks for everyone, we should
buy _____ bags of chips and _____ bottles of soda."
As regards quantifiers in English, choose the CORRECT alternative.
Analyze the sentences below.
I. Carla always pretends to care.
II. I can’t stand his comments, they’re full of all types of prejudice.
III. It’s an important topic to discuss.
IV. How much times do we have to go over this project?
Mark these statements as True (T) or False (F).
( ) “Care” and “stand” are regular verbs in sentences I and II, respectively.
( ) “Go over” is a phrasal verb in sentence IV.
( ) Even though “pretend”, “important” and “prejudice” are similar in spelling to words in Portuguese, they are all false cognates.
( ) In sentences II and IV, the use of quantifiers is correct.
The statements are, in the order presented, respectively:
I. Carla always pretends to care.
II. I can’t stand his comments, they’re full of all types of prejudice.
III. It’s an important topic to discuss.
IV. How much times do we have to go over this project?
Mark these statements as True (T) or False (F).
( ) “Care” and “stand” are regular verbs in sentences I and II, respectively.
( ) “Go over” is a phrasal verb in sentence IV.
( ) Even though “pretend”, “important” and “prejudice” are similar in spelling to words in Portuguese, they are all false cognates.
( ) In sentences II and IV, the use of quantifiers is correct.
The statements are, in the order presented, respectively:
Read the following text:
TEXT I
The teaching of English as a foreign language in the context of Brazilian regular schools: a retrospective and prospective view of policies and practices
Read the following text:
The movement towards a more meaningful approach to the teaching of English as a foreign language in Brazilian regular schools reached its climax in the 20th century with the publication of the Brazilian National Curricular Parameters (PCN) for the teaching of foreign languages at basic education level. Since then, the community of teachers has been divided into those who welcomed the contents, views and propositions of the document, and the ones who believed that the suggestions it contained were inappropriate. At the center of this controversy was the importance given by the official policies to the teaching of reading, as opposed to an approach, borrowed from private language institutes, which historically favored a focus on the oral skills.
A brief overview of the recent history of ELT in Brazilian regular schools
During the 1970s, the so-called audiolingual method, based on behaviorist and structuralist assumptions, was still considered the only scientific way of teaching a foreign language. Its emphasis on the oral skills and on the exhaustive repetition of structural exercises seemed to work well in the contexts of private language institutes. Those contexts were characterized by the gathering of small numbers of highly motivated students per class, a weekly time-table superior in the number of hours to the one adopted in regular schools, and plenty of audiovisual resources. Questionable in itself, both because of its results (which in time were revealed to be less efficient than believed, especially in terms of fluency) and its theoretical assumptions, the method ended up being adopted by regular schools due to its positive reputation at the time. The failure of the methodology in this context would soon become evident, generating extreme frustration both amongst teachers and students.
From the 1980s on, with the spread of ideas connected to the so-called communicative approach and the growth of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), the community of researchers and teachers interested in the context of regular schools started reviewing the assumptions and logic of English Language Teaching (ELT). Recognizing that each and every school discipline needs to justify its presence in the curriculum socially and educationally, this movement identified the skill of reading as the most relevant one for the students attending the majority of Brazilian regular schools.This understanding was achieved by considering not only the possibility of real use outside school, but also the role this approach could play in the achievement of other educational goals, such as the improvement of student's reading abilities in Portuguese as a mother tongue. This movement reached its climax with the publication of the Brazilian National Curricular Parameters (PCN) for the teaching of foreign languages at basic education level by the end of the 1990s. The document recommended the focus on the teaching of reading within a view of language as discourse. However, it did not close the door on the teaching of any other skill, as long as the context made it possible and relevant.
This understanding was achieved by considering not only the possibility of real use outside school, but also the role this approach could play in the achievement of other educational goals, such as the improvement of student's reading abilities in Portuguese as a mother tongue. This movement reached its climax with the publication of the Brazilian National Curricular Parameters (PCN) for the teaching of foreign languages at basic education level by the end of the 1990s. The document recommended the focus on the teaching of reading within a view of language as discourse. However, it did not close the door on the teaching of any other skill, as long as the context made it possible and relevant.
Another important characteristic of the Parameters that should not be overlooked is their emphasis on teacher's autonomy. This emphasis can be seen clearly in the fact that no content or method is imposed upon the teachers. What one can find are suggestions and relevant information for teachers to make their own decisions, taking into consideration the context within which they work. In other words, the Parameters do not force any teacher to limit their focus on the teaching of reading, if they believe they can go further than that.
To be or not to be: professional identities and beliefs
When asked why they were against the focus on reading, most teachers who take this position, told me that they considered the teaching of reading to be "not enough". Most of them also added that if the teaching of reading was designed to fit a context where one cannot effectively teach the oral skills, then we should not adapt ourselves to that context, but rather demand the improvements that would make more feasible the teaching of the so-called four skills.
Let us consider these statements more closely. The first one is about quantity, that is, by teaching "only" the reading skill, the teacher would be denying her/his students the opportunity for learning all the other skills. They would be denied the opportunity for learning to speak English, which is, after all, assumed to be the real goal of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL).
Reasonable and democratic as it may seem, such an argument fails to take into consideration at least one extremely relevant issue: the fact that in Brazil there are virtually no reports of successful teaching of the four skills in contexts other than the private language institutes. Before the mid-1980s, several different attempts were made to make ELT work out at regular schools, but only those which completely changed the characteristics of the classes (making them look almost exactly like the small, homogeneous classes of the private institutes) were able to achieve some (questionable) level of success. In other words, the integrative approach to ELT, with its claim of teaching the four skills, focusing especially on the oral skills, has never been successful in our regular schools, including most of the private ones, with very few exceptions. If that is indeed the case, then it makes very little sense to speak of giving our students more or less of something that they never really had. And even if we are to speak in such terms, then it is extremely clear (at least for those who tried it) that the communicative teaching of one skill is definitely better (and more) than the pantomime of allegedly teaching the four skills, which was never successful in the context of Brazilian schools.
Where do we go from here?
Any attempt to establish new policies for the teaching of EFL at Brazilian regular schools should start with the recognition that the PCN were a very important step towards meaningful foreign language education in this context. Without such recognition, there will always be the suspicion that the old beliefs connected to the professional identity of the teacher as an instructor are coming back.
Surely, we do not want to teach only reading forever. But sound attempts to go forward in enhancing the relevance of our teaching should start with the discussion of the three groups of reasons that justified the propositions of the PCN. The focus on reading was considered the most adequate for the majority of our schools because of practical considerations about our working conditions, social relevance, and educational relevance.
As far as practical conditions and educational relevance are concerned, virtually no major change has occurred in order to justify reframing our teaching. However, in what concerns social relevance, it is undeniable that the growth of the Internet has provided a new context for the use of the English language outside schools. For that reason, it is my belief that skills other than reading may now be taught in our classes without representing a return to a rationale that is alien to our schools. The teaching of writing in the context of Internet genres and practices is definitely necessary, if we want our students to have their own voice, becoming able to project their own local identities in global contexts.
Adapted from: ALMEIDA, Ricardo Luiz Teixeira de. Scielo Brazil – Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada - https://www.scielo.br/j/rbla/a/ nNz3Jtj85xmms8MnNfwRpMn/?lang=en. Accessed: 05/02/2024.
In the excerpt “Before the mid-1980s, several different
attempts were made to make ELT work out at regular schools…”,
the underlined word can be replaced, with no change in meaning, by:
Fill in the blanks below and mark the CORRECT item.
• How _____ water does the plant need?
• Work lasted too _____ hours today.
• I don't have ______ money to spend.
• How _____ water does the plant need?
• Work lasted too _____ hours today.
• I don't have ______ money to spend.
Read the following dialogue.
Bree: Could I lend one of your dresses? I have nothing to wear, and the party is already tomorrow.
Lucy: Yeah! Pick at whatever you like.
Bree: Thanks!
[The next day - Bree arrives at the party]
Bree: Wow! Look at this place. There are too much people here.
Alex: Absolutely! This party is very crowded.
Based on this dialogue, choose the correct alternative.
Bree: Could I lend one of your dresses? I have nothing to wear, and the party is already tomorrow.
Lucy: Yeah! Pick at whatever you like.
Bree: Thanks!
[The next day - Bree arrives at the party]
Bree: Wow! Look at this place. There are too much people here.
Alex: Absolutely! This party is very crowded.
Based on this dialogue, choose the correct alternative.
FURB•
Read the following sentences:
We were going to the supermarket and there was _____ free parking space.
I wish I could take credit for this accomplishment, but my wife is the real hero. All the recognition should go to her, I don't deserve _______.
The candy we bought tasted bad. _______ was worth the money.
______ would have guessed that.
The words that correctly fill in the blanks respectively are:
We were going to the supermarket and there was _____ free parking space.
I wish I could take credit for this accomplishment, but my wife is the real hero. All the recognition should go to her, I don't deserve _______.
The candy we bought tasted bad. _______ was worth the money.
______ would have guessed that.
The words that correctly fill in the blanks respectively are:
Analyse the sentences below. Which alternative is correct?
FCM•
Read the excerpt.
As I was looking for the fruit juice this morning, I found there was ____________ any left in the refrigerator. I wondered why there was so ____________of it so early in the week, but neither Pam nor Ruth could give a reasonable explanation. Going back to the refrigerator, I also found there were very ____________ oranges left. And as for grapefruits, there were ____________ whatsoever. This was something that had never happened before. I was about to ask Pam and Ruth again, but they were nowhere to be seen any more. As I had nobody to turn to now, I saw ____________ option but to hurry to the shop around the corner.
Fill in the gaps with some of the words indicated above.
Em uma das frases, a palavra FEW está sendo usada, erroneamente, qual é?
Which option completes the text below correctly?
There are ____different opinions on how ____ water you should be drinking every day. Health authorities commonly recommend eight 8- ounce glasses, which equals about 2 liters, or half a gallon. This is called the 8x8 rule and is very easy to remember. However, _____ health gurus believe that you need to sip on water constantly throughout the day, even when you're not thirsty. As with most things, this depends on the individual. _____ factors (both internal and external) ultimately affect your need for water.
(https://www.healthline.com)
There are ____different opinions on how ____ water you should be drinking every day. Health authorities commonly recommend eight 8- ounce glasses, which equals about 2 liters, or half a gallon. This is called the 8x8 rule and is very easy to remember. However, _____ health gurus believe that you need to sip on water constantly throughout the day, even when you're not thirsty. As with most things, this depends on the individual. _____ factors (both internal and external) ultimately affect your need for water.
(https://www.healthline.com)
Which of the options completes the excerpt below correctly?
You're dehydrated - and______your skin
Most of us tend to think of dehydration as a short term problem solved by a glass of water, but board-certified dermatologist Dr. Janet Prystowsky encourages viewing skin dehydration as a long-term problem, as consistently failing to get your skin the water it needs can have lasting results.
(Abridged from https ://w w w ,goodhousekeeping.com /beauty/anti-aging/a 36993 /dull-skin-causes/)
Julgue o item a seguir.
Determiners are words that modify nouns but cannot be used alone.
Determiners are words that modify nouns but cannot be used alone.
What is the alternative that shows the use of the determiner CORRECTLY?
Question must be answered based on the following poem.
The Hill We Climb
by Amanda Gorman
[…]
"When the day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid.
The new dawn blooms as we free it.
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it,
if only we’re brave enough to be it."
Adapted from: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-fulltext.html.
In the final lines from Amanda Gorman’s "The Hill We Climb":
"For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it,
if only we’re brave enough to be it."
The quantifier "enough" functions syntactically and semantically in this context by.
"For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it,
if only we’re brave enough to be it."
The quantifier "enough" functions syntactically and semantically in this context by.
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) had a broad and distinguished career both inside and outside the literary realm. She is most famous for her work as a poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, working with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. She also worked in entertainment as a singer, a dancer, an actor, and a director. Her poetry was inspired and informed by her life and work, and this personal connection made her poems profound and powerful. Over the course of a career spanning the 1960s to her death in 2014, she captured, provoked, inspired, and ultimately transformed American people and culture.
Internet: <poetryfoundation.org> (adapted).
About the preceding text, its linguistic features and the meanings it conveys, as well as the reading strategies that apply to it, judge the item that follow.
“Her”, in “Her poetry”, and “this”, in “this personal connection”, are examples of determiners used in the text.
FGV•
Atenção! Leia o texto a seguir para responder à questão.
Abstract
Over the past few decades, South Korean culture has gained popularity worldwide. Since the 1990s, government-led cultural policies have transitioned from focusing on economic strategy to national branding and soft power and have had a positive impact on the domestic ecosystem of cultural industry and contributed to promoting South Korea abroad. There are three aspects contributing to the development of South Korean soft power—the successful history with economic development and democratization, the development of creative content that led to global competitiveness due to the compressed growth experience and the limited domestic market, and the development of digital technology, especially the change in the media environment. However, this increased soft power is still limited as a tool to handle problems facing South Korea, mainly because of the nation’s geopolitical situation. South Korea should pay more attention to active participation in specific global agendas— especially in development and cooperation, emerging technology, and human rights issues. As a beneficiary of the existing liberal international order, South Korea achieved a prosperous economy and democracy. This aspect provides a cornerstone upon which to build South Korean cultural resources and promote them beyond its borders. South Korea should contribute creating public goods through its active engagement and leadership on various global agendas. This dedication to the international community ultimately benefits South Korea in the long run.
KIM, Minsung. The Growth of South Korean Soft Power and Its Geopolitical Implications. Disponível em: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/JIPA/Display/Article/3212634/the-growth-ofsouth-korean-soft-power-and-its-geopolitical-implications/. Acesso em: 12 ago. 2024. Adaptado.
Ao trabalharem com a leitura do resumo desse artigo, os estudantes apresentaram dificuldade para entender o trecho government-led cultural policies. Ao elicitar dos alunos possíveis interpretações gramaticais e lexicais, a professora recebeu as seguintes considerações:
I. ‘government-led’ é um exemplo de um substantivo composto.
II. Em ‘cultural policies’, ‘cultural’ qualifica o termo ‘policies’.
III. ‘policies’ pode ser considerado um falso cognato.
IV. ‘government-led’ qualifica o termo ‘cultural’.
Estão corretas as afirmações:
I. ‘government-led’ é um exemplo de um substantivo composto.
II. Em ‘cultural policies’, ‘cultural’ qualifica o termo ‘policies’.
III. ‘policies’ pode ser considerado um falso cognato.
IV. ‘government-led’ qualifica o termo ‘cultural’.
Estão corretas as afirmações: