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  1. Questão 341

    ID 3172227

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Contraste de Tempos e Aspectos Verbais | Contrasting Tenses And Aspects

    Ano: 2023 Banca: IGEDUC - Instituto de Apoio à Gestão e Educação Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Pombos

    Julgue os itens subsequentes.



    Verbal aspect, a nuanced facet of verb semantics, delves into the temporal flow and structure of actions. Distinguishing between perfective and imperfective aspects requires a deep understanding of how verbs portray the completion or duration of events, adding layers of sophistication to the interpretation of narratives.

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  2. Questão 342

    ID 3172226

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Determinantes | Determiners

    Ano: 2023 Banca: CESPE CEBRASPE - Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB Órgão: Secretaria de Planejamento, Orçamento e Administração

    Text CB1A2-I

    The quest for universal administrative standards to promote the effective application of public laws and policies gave birth to the field of public administration. Woodrow Wilson argued for a distinction between politics and administration, arguing that the former was more concerned with democracy, justice, and equality, while the latter was more concerned with efficiency, as he postulated that “administration lies beyond the proper domain of politics; administrative questions are not political questions” (Wilson, 1887).

    According to Waldo (1948), the means and measurements of efficiency were the same for all administrations: democracy, if it were to survive, could not afford to ignore the lessons of centralization, hierarchy and discipline. Bureaucracy as an organisational type has seen its heyday in the field of public administration, owing to Woodrow Wilson’s Transfer of Administrative Principles.

    That notwithstanding, the field has gone through paradigmatic evolution over time by a quest for management paradigm derived from the discipline of business administration. The management approach is said to hold the promise of future public sector reform, replacing the administrative approach traditionally provided by public administration. A new concept arises when the management perspective is combined with an emphasis on the public sector: public management.

    Courses and programmes, as well as whole academic institutions and colleges, are adapting by switching from the term “public administration” to “public management”. Considering the growing demands for efficiency in the public sector, the transition from a public administration to a public management framework seems to be the right step.

    M.O. Obimpeh and J.A. Dankwa. Public administration – public management interface: how different is the “management” from the “administration”? Internet: <www.rsisinternational.org > (adapted).



    In the second paragraph of text CB1A2-I, the determiner “its” refers to

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  3. Questão 343

    ID 3172225

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Análise Sintática | Parsing

    Ano: 2023 Banca: IBFC - Instituto Brasileiro de Formação e Capacitação Órgão: Secretaria de Educação e Esporte do Acre

    Text: The importance of the PowerPoint as a classroom resource

    (Text adapted from Teachers: 5 Tips for Creating Great PowerPoint Presentations, retrieved)

    PowerPoint is a resource developed by Microsoft and released initially in 1990. It is mainly used in professional meeting presentations all over the world.

    One of these professions is in educational area: teacher.

    PowerPoint presentation is spread among teachers because it is different from lecturing or teaching with a textbook; it is also a way of sharing content with students.

    To produce a PowerPoint correctly, teachers need to know how to put the slides together, it can be an effective way of reinforcing content to students so that they are better able to retain it. Otherwise, teachers can print and distribute the PowerPoint presentation or post it online, so students can go back and access it as reference material. However, if it is not put together correctly, a PowerPoint presentation can disengage and make students bored.

    To develop PowerPoint presentation is simple and it can also provide a fun time noticed by its characteristics: basic, simple, and not distracting, it can be focused on keywords; for instance, always be sure to include a summary slide of what the presentation is intending to accomplish as well as a table of contents on the different topics that will be covered in the program. The summary slide serves as the main topic and what students should learn after viewing the presentation. Then, at the end of the PowerPoint presentation, teachers should include another summary slide, going over everything that was just covered and, again, highlighting the main point.

    Bottom line

    PowerPoint presentations need to have a purpose and the teacher must make sure that the purpose is understood.

    Add pictures

    Teachers can reinforce the content with pictures, charts, symbols, and other images. In fact, sometimes it’s better to have more pictures than text in a PowerPoint presentation, because images work to reinforce a content main point.

    Teachers typically will just share it with their classes, so they can pull images straight from the Internet. However, for teachers who are making more public and widespread presentations, copyright law needs to be considered (Brazil Information Access Law nº 12.527; Art. 31; paragraph 3; item II).

    Add video

    Pictures can help to reinforce a main point or support content, as well as videos. Some research affirm that students enjoy watching videos and retain information from them well, especially if the video is engaging, interesting and informative. Teachers can embed videos right from YouTube or from their desktops to complement a PowerPoint presentation.

    Practice

    Nothing turns off a class like a poorly put together PowerPoint presentation, so teachers should always be sure to do a quick rehearsal before they present it to the class. While testing it, make sure all the images load up on the slides, videos load up properly and audio works, too. Also, it’s important for teachers to make sure that there’s a way to connect their computer, or upload anything that’s storing the PowerPoint presentation, to a larger TV monitor or projector screen so the whole class does not have to huddle around a computer screen to view it. Teachers should also make sure that any text can be read and understood. Be sure that the color scheme is good.

    Make it fun

    A PowerPoint presentation can be an innovative way of teaching. It’s a more interesting and engaging way for students to learn than the typical lecture. Teachers should embrace this teaching resource and have fun with it. Throw in some jokes, possibly some funny pictures and be sure to get creative with presentations.

    As we previously noted, the more students enjoy a lecture, presentation, or activity, the more likely they are to retain information.

    As questões 16 até 29 foram desenvolvidas em língua inglesa



    In reading strategies there are nominal groups. The main word of them is called Headword. Choose the correct alternative that marks the Headword in this fragment: “a larger TV monitor”.

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  4. Questão 344

    ID 3172224

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Interpretação de Texto | Text Interpretation

    Ano: 2023 Banca: FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de São José dos Campos

    Read Text II and answer the four questions that follow it

    Text II



    The sentence in the post means that one should not look into a horse mouth because the horse:

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  5. Questão 345

    ID 3172223

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Prefixos | Prefixes

    Ano: 2023 Banca: IADES - Instituto Americano de Desenvolvimento Órgão: Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Distrito Federal

    1 Gladstone's Library is the United Kingdom's only

    residential library. It's an ideal setting for anyone who has

    ever dreamed of spending a cosy holiday reading, writing or

    4 focusing in silence. Guests come to disconnect in a space

    that seems tailor-made for the pursuit of learning, and while

    anyone is welcome, it's often academics who seek it out for

    7 the sustained, timid conviviality encouraged by coexistence

    with fellow lovers of literature. Today, Gladstone's Library

    draws book lovers with activities ranging from self-

    10 publishing workshops to weekend seminars on the Victorian

    idea of heaven to Gladfest, which bills itself as “the UK's

    12 friendliest literary festival.”

    MONACO, Emily. Gladstone's: The UK's only residential library. BBC. 22nd October 2023. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231022-gladstones-the-uks-only-residential-library. [adapted]

    Based on the text, judge the following items.



    The particle “dis-” in the word “disconnect” (line 4) is a suffix.

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  6. Questão 346

    ID 3172222

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: BNCC e Documentos Curriculares | BNCC And Curriculum Documents

    Ano: 2023 Banca: Instituto Consulplan Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Santa Maria de Jetibá

    Analyse the image to answer 43.

    (Available on: https://br.pinterest.com.)

    The “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais – PCNs” propose the development of skills related to representation and communication to modern foreign language studies. In the analysed image, the featured skill is:

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  7. Questão 347

    ID 3172221

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Imperativo | Imperative

    Ano: 2023 Banca: UFRRJ - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro Órgão: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

    Leia o texto II e responda às questões de 18 a 20.

    TEXTO II

    AMBIENT SOUND TO PLANT FINDER APPS: WHAT HIDDEN FEATURES

    DOES MY PHONE HAVE?

    Jennifer Jolly Special to USA TODAY. Published 5:35p.m. ET Jan. 24,2023 | Updated 12:25 p.m. ET Jan. 26, 2023

    Smartphones are the obvious must-have tech gadget in 2023. More than 85% of us have one. We use it for several hours a day for just about everything from texting, talking, and taking photos or videos — to shopping, working, social media-ing, and so much more.

    Still, are we getting the most out of our magical little do-everything devices? Probably not.

    Gadget-makers add handy new tricks all the time. For instance, did you know that many smartphones now come with a built-in white noise machine? I didn’t, until I happened upon the feature buried in my accessibility settings a few days ago.

    Take a look at that little bit of genius, plus a handful of other fun and useful tips to help you save time, money, and sanity. [...]

    How can I use my phone to identify a plant?

    Use your camera or photos to identify plants, landmarks, wine, and more.

    Just last year, I paid a pretty penny to identify plants in my own backyard with a special app. Now, my phone does it for free.

    For iPhones, this feature’s called Visual Look Up. For Androids, you can keep using Google Lens.

    On an iPhone: Go to your Camera app, snap the photo, then look for the small "i" icon at the bottom, in the middle of a circle. As long as it has two small stars at its top-left corner, you’re in luck. Visual Look Up information is available for that photo.

    You can also go back through your Photo app and find this on an older photo. You're good to go as long as the small “i” icon with the two stars is there.

    Swipe up on the photo or tap that icon to see more of what the AI “sees” in the photo.

    Either tap Look Up in the middle of your screen or tap that little “pin” icon to see what Siri can figure out about it.

    Usually, it takes you to a Wikipedia page and shows other similar photos.

    On most Androids: I usually use Google Lens for this as well. Bixby Vision is easy for Samsung devices too — and it’s all super similar to how it works for iPhones.

    Open the Google Lens Camera app, tap the shutter button, and it automatically searches.

    If you’re looking through a photo or video you already took — tap that photo and tap the little eye icon for Bixby Vision.

    Adaptado de: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/01/24/hidden-smartphone-features-iphone-android/11113779002/ Acesso em 26.01.2023



    No trecho “On an iPhone: Go to your Camera app, snap the photo, then look for the small "i" icon at the bottom, in the middle of a circle. As long as it has two small stars at its top-left corner, you’re in luck. Visual Look Up information is available for that photo.”, pode-se afirmar que o fragmento acima é instrucional por causa do uso dos verbos no

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  8. Questão 348

    ID 3172220

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Notícias e Artigos Jornalísticos | News Articles

    Ano: 2023 Banca: ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica Órgão: Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica

    Leia o texto a seguir para responder às questões de 31 a 36.

    On the surface, there is little to distinguish the Woolf Social Club from any other hipster hangout in Seoul, South Korea. Customers perch on wooden stools at formica tables, tapping on laptops while they sip their coffee. Records and cds line the walls, soft jazz trickles from speakers. On the white wall above the bar, in big black letters, is the statement: “More dignity, less bullshit”.

    It is only on closer inspection that you realise this is more than just another coffee shop. On the mugs are cartoon drawings of Virginia Woolf, an angry wolf roaring from her shirt. A bookshelf contains South Korean feminist novels and works of self-help (titles include “Lessons on Being Unmarried”) alongside “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir and “The Handmaid's Tale” by Margaret Atwood. On the wall is a poster for an exhibition of feminist art at a nearby gallery.

    “I wanted a space for like-minded women to meet and talk,” says Kim Jina, a 47-year-old former advertising executive and politician who founded the café six years ago. Kim was inspired by Woolf's dictum that in order to write fiction, a woman needed “five hundred [pounds] a year and a room with a lock on the door”. That is, financial independence and a place to think. The café's casual vibe is deliberate: she wanted to avoid creating barriers to entry for women who were merely curious, rather than fully committed to the movement. Besides, she adds, “If | limited myself to feminist customers, | could never make a living.”

    South Korea, even its trendy capital, is a difficult place to be a woman. The wage gap between the sexes is the highest in the rich world. Traditional expectations about gender roles, beauty standards and the way women should conduct themselves remain pervasive. “Misogyny surrounds you so naturally that you barely even notice it,” says Kim. “I had no role models, so my idea of how a successful woman should be came straight from “Sex and the City'.” For much of her 20s and 30s, she spent most of her money on make-up and expensive handbags, partying every weekend and dreaming about meeting her version of Mr Big, the rich, smooth-talking love interest of the show's main character, Carrie.

    “I never worried about misogyny because I thought being sexually attractive was a form of power,” says Kim. “But eventually I realised that men with real power don't wear make-up and expensive dresses.” Her epiphany came when she was passed over for promotion in favour of a male colleague. “My boss said, 'He needs it more than you because he has a wife and a child to take care of,' and I realised that I had been wrong to think that all | needed to do was work hard and be good at my job.”

    Kim's burgeoning feminism crystallised in the summer of 2016, after a woman was murdered in a public toilet in an upmarket part of Seoul. The killer initially claimed that he had done it because he had been ignored by women. “l lived right around the corner, and | thought: that could have been me,” says Kim. Like many other women, she was upset by media coverage that ignored the misogynist motives for his crime and blamed it entirely on his mental-health problems.

    The murder prompted South Korean women to come together, initially in online communities, and discuss how to fight back against sexism. Then they took to the streets. In 2018 there was a series of protests against the widespread practice of recording illegal footage of women by hiding small cameras in public toilets or changing rooms.

    Kim founded the Woolf Social Club in 2017. “I thought, we talk to each other on the internet, but it would be good to have a physical space in which to do that,” she says. “If you walk around Seoul, you see all these cafés aimed at couples, where women look pretty and lower their voices. I wanted a space where they could raise them.”

    [Fonte: Lena Schipper. “Virginia Woolf is inspiring South Korean feminists”. In: The Economist, 09/05/2022, <www.economist.com/1843/2022/05/09/virginia-woolf-is-inspiring-south-korean-feminists>. Adaptado. Data de acesso: 27/08/2023.)



    De acordo com os parágrafos seis e sete, as manifestações nas ruas contra o sexismo na Coreia tiveram como estopim

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  9. Questão 349

    ID 3172219

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Contraste | Contrast

    Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC - Fundação Universidade Empresa de Tecnologia e Ciências Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Santa Rosa

    Instruction: answer questions 41 to 50 based on the following text.

    Subtle ways parents create anxiety without realizing it

    1. Anxiety isn’t just an adult issue. Clinical research indicates that millions of children struggle
    2. with anxiety symptoms, with a recent analysis putting the number as high as 20.5% of youth
    3. worldwide.
    4. “Sometimes anxiety can be hard to pinpoint as kids can manifest anxiety in different
    5. ways,” said Dr. Khadijah Booth Watkins, associate director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy
    6. Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital. “This can be due to many factors such as the type of
    7. anxiety they’re experiencing, their age, or their language skills”.
    8. While some kids experience physical symptoms like stomachaches, racing heartbeats and
    9. headaches, others exhibit emotional responses like increased tantrums or clinginess. Still, others
    10. become withdrawn and stop participating in activities or engaging with peers.
    11. Even if you do not intend to create anxiety, some common behaviors and comments from
    12. parents can make kids feel anxious.
    13. “We have to remember that our kids are quite attuned to what is going on with us as their
    14. caregivers”, Booth Watkins said. “They are both listening to our words and paying close attention
    15. to our body language. If we are struggling with anxiety ourselves, we have to be deliberate in
    16. managing our stress and distress, and model healthy coping skills and strategies which will be
    17. key in you helping your child manage their anxiety”.
    18. Just as you need to put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others, you should
    19. address your own anxiety struggles to support your children through theirs.
    20. “Anxiety is a normal part of life”, said Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, a clinical psychologist at
    21. Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts. “Everyone needs coping strategies for it. One of the
    22. most important things you can do as a parent is to help your child learn the unique toolkit of
    23. skills that helps them deal with anxiety”.

    (Avalaible in: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parents-kids-anxiety-subtle_l_63c1eb61e4b0d6f0ba04f867 –

    text especially adapted for this test).



    The word “While” (l. 08) can be replaced, without changing the meaning in context, by:

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  10. Questão 350

    ID 3172218

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Estratégias de Leitura (Skimming e Scanning) | Reading Strategies (Skimming And Scanning)

    Ano: 2023 Banca: IBFC - Instituto Brasileiro de Formação e Capacitação Órgão: Secretaria de Educação e Esporte do Acre

    Text: The importance of the PowerPoint as a classroom resource

    (Text adapted from Teachers: 5 Tips for Creating Great PowerPoint Presentations, retrieved)

    PowerPoint is a resource developed by Microsoft and released initially in 1990. It is mainly used in professional meeting presentations all over the world.

    One of these professions is in educational area: teacher.

    PowerPoint presentation is spread among teachers because it is different from lecturing or teaching with a textbook; it is also a way of sharing content with students.

    To produce a PowerPoint correctly, teachers need to know how to put the slides together, it can be an effective way of reinforcing content to students so that they are better able to retain it. Otherwise, teachers can print and distribute the PowerPoint presentation or post it online, so students can go back and access it as reference material. However, if it is not put together correctly, a PowerPoint presentation can disengage and make students bored.

    To develop PowerPoint presentation is simple and it can also provide a fun time noticed by its characteristics: basic, simple, and not distracting, it can be focused on keywords; for instance, always be sure to include a summary slide of what the presentation is intending to accomplish as well as a table of contents on the different topics that will be covered in the program. The summary slide serves as the main topic and what students should learn after viewing the presentation. Then, at the end of the PowerPoint presentation, teachers should include another summary slide, going over everything that was just covered and, again, highlighting the main point.

    Bottom line

    PowerPoint presentations need to have a purpose and the teacher must make sure that the purpose is understood.

    Add pictures

    Teachers can reinforce the content with pictures, charts, symbols, and other images. In fact, sometimes it’s better to have more pictures than text in a PowerPoint presentation, because images work to reinforce a content main point.

    Teachers typically will just share it with their classes, so they can pull images straight from the Internet. However, for teachers who are making more public and widespread presentations, copyright law needs to be considered (Brazil Information Access Law nº 12.527; Art. 31; paragraph 3; item II).

    Add video

    Pictures can help to reinforce a main point or support content, as well as videos. Some research affirm that students enjoy watching videos and retain information from them well, especially if the video is engaging, interesting and informative. Teachers can embed videos right from YouTube or from their desktops to complement a PowerPoint presentation.

    Practice

    Nothing turns off a class like a poorly put together PowerPoint presentation, so teachers should always be sure to do a quick rehearsal before they present it to the class. While testing it, make sure all the images load up on the slides, videos load up properly and audio works, too. Also, it’s important for teachers to make sure that there’s a way to connect their computer, or upload anything that’s storing the PowerPoint presentation, to a larger TV monitor or projector screen so the whole class does not have to huddle around a computer screen to view it. Teachers should also make sure that any text can be read and understood. Be sure that the color scheme is good.

    Make it fun

    A PowerPoint presentation can be an innovative way of teaching. It’s a more interesting and engaging way for students to learn than the typical lecture. Teachers should embrace this teaching resource and have fun with it. Throw in some jokes, possibly some funny pictures and be sure to get creative with presentations.

    As we previously noted, the more students enjoy a lecture, presentation, or activity, the more likely they are to retain information.

    As questões 16 até 29 foram desenvolvidas em língua inglesa



    Complete this text definition with one of the reading strategies alternatives.

    (I) ______ is reading rapidly to get a general overview of the material. (II) ______ is reading rapidly to find specific facts. While (III) ______ shows you a general information, (IV) ______ helps you locate a particular information.

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  11. Questão 351

    ID 3172217

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Meio Ambiente | Environment

    Ano: 2023 Banca: Avança SP - Instituto Avança São Paulo Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Araçariguama

    Choose the option that both grammar and vocabulary are correct:

    I. The world’s agriculture sector is increasingly vulnerable to climate change.

    II. The evidence on the impacts of climate change on food security is growing.

    III. Against this background, a new initiative was launched on 12 November

    IV. Addressing climate change and agriculture is a major priority for developing countries, where livelihoods are at particular risk from climate impacts.

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  12. Questão 352

    ID 3172216

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Internet e Plataformas Digitais | Internet And Digital Platforms

    Ano: 2023 Banca: ASSESSORIA E GESTÃO INTEGRADA EM RECURSOS HUMANOS S/C LTDA. ME Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Cunha

    De acordo com o texto, responda às seguintes questões.

    Instagram is made up of all photos and videos. There is the home page that showcases the posts from people you follow, an explore tab which offers posts from accounts all over the wold, and your own page, with a notification tab to show who likes and comments on your posts.

    It has some downsides though. It is known to make many people feel insecure or down about themselves because the platform showcases the highlights of everyone's lives, while rarely showing the negatives. This can make one feel like their life is not going as well as others, contributing to the growing rates of anxiety or depression in many teens today. There is an underlying desire for acceptance through the number of likes or followers one has.

    Disponível em: https://cyberbullying.org/. Acesso em: 19 jun 2023.



    What does the term "showcases" mean in the context of the text?

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  13. Questão 353

    ID 3172215

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Interpretação de Texto | Text Interpretation

    Ano: 2023 Banca: Objetiva Concursos Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de São Pedro da Serra

    his ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean

    Fast, maneuverable, and dangerous, the trireme was the most feared ship in ancient Greece. With powerful bronze rams and the ability to turn on a dime, it would leave enemy ships dead in the water by punching holes in their sides or smashing their oars. In his Histories, Herodotus writes how Greek naval dominance owed so much to the brilliant use of triremes in battle.

    In the fifth century B.C., Athenian shipyards had the capacity for over 300 triremes, the most famous warships of antiquity. The trireme—a term derived from the Greek trieres, “three rows of oars”—was the result of the continuous development of naval technology in the Greek world. The epic poem Iliad (attributed to Homer, and written in the eighth century B.C.) mentions ships called triaconters and penteconters, vessels that were crewed by 30 or 50 men, respectively. Biremes, with two rows of oarsmen, are recorded on eighth-century B.C. reliefs. At the beginning of the seventh century B.C., accumulated experience led to new technical advances, and the much more sophisticated trireme model appeared.

    (Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)



    According to the text, check the CORRECT alternative:

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  14. Questão 354

    ID 3172214

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Interpretação de Texto | Text Interpretation

    Ano: 2023 Banca: FEPESE - Fundação de Estudos e Pesquisas Socioeconômicos Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Cunha Porã

    Text 1

    Green shoppers around the world

    If you want to be a responsible consumer, think about not just how much you buy, but also about what’s good for the planet. Green Shoppers United is an international non-profit organization for the promotion of responsible consumerism.

    Labels

    Read the labels. Some .................... the ingredients that manufacturers use in products, such as cosmetics or toiletries, can damage the environment. Some ingredients are only used .................... make things prettier, or more colorful, but they might also be harmful. Don’t buy things that contain substances that harm you or the world you live ..................... For example, research shows a potential link .................... the preservatives called parabens, often found in beauty products, and some types of cancer.

    Transport

    In today’s global economy, it is easier for companies to buy products and materials where they’re cheap, and transport them over enormous distances to get them to customers. If you can, buy things locally. The local food movement has grown steadily in recent years, and it’s often possible to track down locally grown, or produced, products, rather than those that have been transported long distances. If we stop buying goods that have had to fly over continents to get to us, companies may stop transporting them around unnecessarily. A bargain may cost you less personally, but the real price we pay for it in the long run may turn out to be too high, as jet fuel continues to pollute our environment.

    Environment

    Responsible consumers recycle to reduce waste, and its negative impact on our environment. A lot of the plastic packaging we use for food and drink is recyclable, but not all of it. The most common packaging materials are still non-recyclable polyethylene and PVC. Seventy million tons are used every year. Look at the recycling labels carefully. Manufacturers should use recyclable plastics, like PET, wherever possible. Some have also begun using lighter materials, for example, 30% lighter PET plastic for drinks bottles, to reduce the amount of plastic waste. Transporting lighter materials is cheaper, and uses less fuel, too – so the solution may actually benefit everyone.

    Packaging

    We’ve all purchased products wrapped in foil, then sealed in a bag, and then put in a box. Why? Write to companies that you think produce wasteful packaging. Ask them to think about what’s really necessary. Make them realize they can save money by using less packaging and, at the same time, help save our planet.

    Consumers

    A lot of us expect products these days to be more environmentally friendly. However, research has shown that we don’t want to pay more, and we don’t want to compromise on the quality of products, either. For example, one manufacturer recently had to switch back to less environmental packaging of potato chips, just because customers didn’t like the noise their “green” bags made when they were opened! Think about the effects of your shopping choices. Buy less to save the world, and join our effort to make shopping greener!



    Identify the following statements as true ( T ) or false ( F ), according to structure and grammar use.

    ( ) If we stop buying goods that (…). stop buying means that you have stopped and bought some goods.

    ( ) Don’t buy things that contain substances that harm you. is an imperative form to express need of action or not.

    ( ) (…) that have had to fly over continents to get to us, (…), the verbs in bold are being used in the present perfect tense.

    ( ) The word actually in the Environment paragraph means: currently.

    ( ) The underlined words in: Transporting lighter materials is cheaper, and uses less fuel (…),are adjectives in the comparative form.

    Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

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  15. Questão 355

    ID 3172213

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Interpretação de Texto | Text Interpretation

    Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC - Fundação Universidade Empresa de Tecnologia e Ciências Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Espumoso

    Stop Wasting Time: A 15-minute Planning Session That Will Save You Hours

    01 A few months ago, I went part-time at work. I thought I would have a ton of extra time on

    02 my hands and life would be relaxing. But, all of a sudden, I got even busier because I started

    03 committing to more things. It has been two months since I started this work-from-home part-

    04 time arrangement and each week I try something new to organize my time better and not

    05 overwork myself. I now take 15 minutes every Sunday to plan out my work week and to think

    06 about what my week is going to look like. It makes Monday morning much less stressful and helps

    07 me focus on the most important things.

    08 I actually print my time-management worksheets and you might think I am crazy that I don’t

    09 keep my calendar and task lists online, but I assure you I do. As I have multiple calendars for my

    10 multiple jobs, my Sunday ritual consolidates all of these lists into one for the entire work week

    11 and helps me focus on the most important tasks for the week without getting overwhelmed. What

    12 works for me may not work for you. But, if you are feeling overwhelmed and stressed, try out my

    13 Sunday routine!

    14 1. Sunday planning session: Every Sunday, I set aside 15 minutes to plan out my upcoming

    15 work week. I try to do it right before dinner so that I can relax during the evening and not think

    16 about work.

    17 2. Use a master calendar: I have a few different calendars I use for different jobs, which

    18 makes things complicated to manage. Planning out my week on one master calendar solves the

    19 problem.

    20 3. List out specific tasks: I write out specific tasks that I need to get done each week.

    21 These tasks are separated into different sections such as personal, delegate, blog, things to think

    22 about this week, my job, and notes. This helps me prioritize everything in my long master list into

    23 just this week and see what is really important at a glance. This helps me answer the question

    24 “what do I absolutely need to get done this week?”

    25 4. Set aside time blocks: Then I take what I have planned out for my week on my master

    26 task list and write it into my calendar with how much time I will need for each task. This helps me

    27 figure out what the focus of each day will be. Giving myself a time deadline makes sure that I am

    28 not goofing off on Facebook when I have a task I need to get done in 30 minutes.

    29 5. Limit my time on certain tasks: I am the type of person that could work and work and

    30 work without stopping. I now set a number of hours per week that I can ONLY work on certain

    31 items, such as this blog. This has forced me to really prioritize what I need to get done and when,

    32 and it has forced me to really be productive and efficient with things such as “blog time.” You

    33 might think that this task of limiting my time would make my work products 1. ___ (bad) but it

    34 actually makes them 2. ___ (good) because I am 3. ___ (efficient) with the limited time that I do

    35 have.

    36 After those 15 minutes of planning are up, that is the point where I take a deep breath and

    37 really start looking forward to my upcoming week. In my head, my week ahead seemed a lot

    38 crazier than it does when I write it all down on paper. It is a great way to start your week off

    39 right!

    (Available at: https://www.classycareergirl.com/5-simple-time-management-tips-for-a-great-week/– text especially adapted for this test).



    What is the author’s main goal with the Sunday planning session?

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  16. Questão 356

    ID 3172212

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Interpretação de Texto | Text Interpretation

    Ano: 2023 Banca: ASSESSORIA E GESTÃO INTEGRADA EM RECURSOS HUMANOS S/C LTDA. ME Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Areias

    Text: “How my life has changed”

    I used to work on cruise ships as a musician. I traveled a lot! I spent the month before the first lockdown on four continents! I used to get up really early, drive to the airport and fly to a port across the world and get on a ship just to get to work! Then I used to spend between three and fourteen days on the ship. The ships were great. The food was excellent, and the staff was brilliant. The ship stopped at fantastic places, and I often used to spend the afternoon at the beach drinking cocktails or sightseeing. But there were disadvantages too. I often didn’t know anyone on the ship. But the passengers all knew me, and they used to talk to me every time I left my cabin. I didn’t have any privacy. Of course, I had to chat with them politely even when I wasn’t in the mood.

    But now, everything has changed. The cruises aren’t running now, and I don’t know when they will run again, and I’ve been in my flat for a year. I never used to spend much time here, and I haven’t spent a whole year in England for over twenty years! But I’ve enjoyed it. I bought a bike last year, and I’ve found some great beach cafes that I never used to know about. I also bought a campervan, and I drove around the coast. I always used to prefer beaches in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean to British beaches. The weather is much better for a start! But I found some beautiful places last year. I could park on the beach in some places and run straight into the sea! They were much less touristy and more peaceful than the places where the cruise ships go.

    I’m spending a lot more time alone now. I didn’t use to be alone much when I was working. But since the pandemic started, I have developed new relationships with people whom I didn’t use to know very well. I always used to prefer the company of entertainers and people who like to travel. I used to think that people with normal jobs were boring. But since last year, I’ve got to know some really interesting, strong, kind and caring people! So that’s been really valuable.

    Questions related to the text: “How my life has changed”



    Sarah used to think that people with normal jobs were___

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  17. Questão 357

    ID 3172211

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Advérbios de Tempo | Adverbs Of Time

    Ano: 2023 Banca: FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de São José dos Campos

    Read Text III and answer the seven questions that follow it

    Text III

    From: https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/January_1994_comic_strips



    The word “still” in the third panel is a(n):

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  18. Questão 358

    ID 3172210

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Tag Questions

    Ano: 2023 Banca: VUNESP - Fundação para o Vestibular da Universidade Estadual Paulista Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de São José do Rio Preto

    Leia o excerto para responder às questões de números 27 a 31.

    English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)

    The reality of Global or World English(es) has caused some people to become very interested in what actually happens when it is used as a lingua franca – that is between two people who do not share the same language and for whom English is not their mother tongue. A number of researchers have studied such conversations. In particular Barbara Seidlhofer at the University of Vienna has noted a number of somewhat surprising characteristics, including:

    • Non-use of third person present simple tense – s (She look very sad).

    • Interchangeable use of relative pronouns who and which (A book who, a person which).

    • Omission of definite and indefinite articles where they are obligatory in native speaker English, and insertion where they do not occur in native English. • Use of an all-purpose tag-question, such as “isn’t it? Or no?”

    • Heavy reliance on some verbs of high semantic generality, such as “do, have, make, put, take”.

    • Pluralisation of nouns which are considered uncountable in native speaker English (informations, staffs, advices).

    Something interesting is happening here. Whereas, as Jennifer Jenkins (2006, p.171) points out ‘… the belief in native-speaker ownership persists among both native and non-native speakers’, the evidence suggests that non-native speakers are not conforming to a native English standard. Indeed, they seem to get along perfectly well despite the fact that they miss things out and put things in which they ‘should not do’. Not only this, but they are better at ‘accommodating’ – that is negotiating shared meaning through helping each other in a more cooperative way (…)

    (Harmer, Jeremy. The changing world of English. In. Harmer, Jeremy. The practice of English language teaching. 4th edition. 2007)



    What the author calls “all-purpose tag-questions” can be seen in

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  19. Questão 359

    ID 3172209

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Superlativo | Superlative

    Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC - Fundação Universidade Empresa de Tecnologia e Ciências Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Quatro Irmãos

    Instruction: answer questions 38 to 40 based on the following text.

    How did local clock time in Greenwich, London change the world?

    01 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the yearly average (or ‘mean’) of the time each day when

    02 the Sun crosses the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Essentially, mean time

    03 is clock time rather than solar (astronomical) time. Solar time varies throughout the year, but

    04 each day measured by a clock has the same length. It’s a way of standardizing time so we can

    05 all know exactly what time it is at any location.

    06 But it wasn’t until the invention of the pendulum clock in the 1650s that it was possible

    07 to work out the relationship between mean time and solar time, which was done by John

    08 Flamsteed in the early 1670s. Until the mid-19th century, almost every town kept its own local

    09 time, defined by the Sun. However, the need for a standard became imperative in the 1850s and

    10 1860s with the expansion of the railway and communications networks. British railway companies

    11 introduced GMT across their networks to make their timetables less confusing, and by the mid-, and by the mid-

    12 1850s, almost all public clocks in Britain were set to GMT. It finally became Britain’s legal

    13 standard time in 1880.

    14 In 1884 the Greenwich Meridian was recommended as the Prime Meridian of the World

    15 for 2 reasons. The USA had already chosen Greenwich as the basis for its own time zone system,

    16 and in the late 19th century, 72% of the world's commerce depended on sea charts that used

    17 Greenwich as the Prime Meridian. The recommendation was based on the argument that naming

    18 Greenwich as Longitude 0º would be of advantage to the largest number of people. From 1884

    19 to 1972, GMT was the international civil time standard, and it has now been replaced by

    20 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

    Available at: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/greenwich-mean-time-gmt



    Consider the highlighted words “less confusing” (line 11) and “the largest” (line 18), and find the alternative with the same structures, in the same order:

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  20. Questão 360

    ID 3172208

    Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

    Assunto: Metodologias e Abordagens de Ensino | Teaching Methods And Approaches

    Ano: 2023 Banca: Objetiva Concursos Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Rodeio Bonito

    Sobre os principais métodos de ensino, de acordo com MOURÃO, marcar C para as afirmativas Certas, E para as Erradas e, após, assinalar a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA:

    ( ) No Método Audiolingual, os alunos devem primeiro ouvir, depois falar e, então, ler para finalmente escrever na língua alvo. O material novo é trazido na forma de texto escrito. A pronúncia não é enfatizada.

    ( ) No Método da Tradução e da Gramática, a aula é ministrada na língua materna do aluno; a gramática é o foco do estudo; a pronúncia recebe pouca ou nenhuma atenção; o professor não precisa saber falar a língua-alvo; a língua escrita e literária é vista como superior à língua falada.

    ( ) No Método Direto, a aula é ministrada na língua-alvo e o professor deve ser nativo ou fluente nessa língua. A língua, nesse método, é ensinada e explicada por meio de lições, com texto em formato de diálogo, e exemplificadas com ações e ilustrações. A gramática, então, é ensinada indutivamente, da mesma forma que os aspectos culturais do país da língua-alvo.

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