Questões de EFAF Inglês - Prepositions

Which sequence completes the text below?

    “The profile of the global maritime industry encompasses a significant variation ____ cultural diversity. More pointedly, a culturally diverse milieu ____ officers and ratings is becoming more of the norm ____ contemporary maritime shipping ventures. Unlike the planned cohabitation of mixed cultures that were known to be tolerant and compatible ____ each other, the current mixing of diverse nationalities on board merchant cargo vessels appears to be occurring at an unprecedented rate. This recent trend is partially explained ____ the larger percentage of mixed crew ____ foreign flagged ships. Regardless of the causes, however, there can be no doubt that the maritime environment has become multi-cultured, dynamic, fast paced and laden with liability.”

(PROGOULAKI, Maria; POTOKER, Elaine; PARSONS, James. An international survey on crosscultural competency for maritime professionals through education and training . IAME 2013 Conference, July 3-5 - Marseille, France Paper ID 248, p.2)

All the sentences below are correct, EXCEPT:

Read the text below:

 

“ROB-42X is a human size robot that was in RoboCup 2014. He helped to organize all the competition and he had a lot of trouble. In addition, he had a lot of fun during the event. He worked along many robots, of all kinds: the lazy ones, the good workers etc. He had to do many things, from carrying tables to welcoming all the competitors. However, he also saw many competitions. He saw his colleagues from human size league losing to the Germans 7-1. He saw an epic game between Netherlands and the Chinese mid-size robots, and he cheered a lot for the Netherlands.
He did not have time to see the Japanese win in the kid size soccer, but he heard it was cool and the Japanese commemorated like crazy ones. When the event was over, ROB-42X was very happy and grateful for the opportunity to be there, wishing that it could happen every year.”

 

From the text above, it is right to say:

The initials V.I.P. _____________Very Important Person.

Choose the option which completes the sentences: 
1) I hate been shouted ________ . 
2) Who’s the woman dressed ________ green? 
3) He tripped ________ the cat and fell downstairs. 
4) ________ the end, I got a visa to Russia. 
5) Stop throwing stones ________ the cars

Read the text below and answer question

 

Survivors say Canadian tall ship sank in minutes 

 

     Students and crew rescued from the sinking of a Canadia nowned tal ship in the South Atlantic were back on solid and Saturday after spending up to 40 hours in life rafts after their ship capsized.

    The first of 64 people on board the three-masted SV Concordia were ferried into Rio de Janeiro aboard Brazilian Navy and merchant vessels, exhausted but relieved after their long ordeal.

    Wearing navy caps and borrowed clothing, 12 of those rescued held an emotional news conference in Rio. The rest were to arrive later in the afternoon on two merchant vessels.

    CTV producer Ana Pereira said survivors indicated that the ship went down very quickly, slipping beneath the waves. The ship’s captain said that his vessel sank Wednesday afternoona day earlier than previously reported - after being flipped on its side by a powerful gust of wind. He and his passengers and crew were rescued by merchant ships early Friday.

    Capt. William Curry told reporters he was below deck when the ship suddenly keeled, banking over at a sharp, angle in the strong wind. Curry said that was normal, but when the vessel immediately went over a second time, he knew the vessel was in great danger.

    The captain blamed the wreck on a “microburst”, a sudden, vertical downdraft that struck the entire surf ace area of the Concordia’s sails as it was angled over to one side. Within seconds, the boat went from sailing upright to lying on its side and beginning to sink.

    Thirty minutes later it was completely underwater, Curry said.

    “The boat started keeling a lot”, said 16-year-old passenger Lauren Unsworth, a Dutch-Canadian who lives in Amsterdam. “It came back up, keeled again, was basically lying on its side and all the windows began to break. That’s when we knew it was time to flee.”

    Curry said that they abandoned ship and took to their life rafts in high winds and heavy seas, spending more than a day adrift in the Atlantic before spotting their rescuers.

    “We had been in the life raft for about 30 hours when we saw a search plane for the first time”, Unsworth added. “That’s when we knew we were not alone and that help was on the way.” Toronto-native Keaton Farwell said her biggest fear was that no one was aware the group needed to be rescued.

    “We thought our signal had failed and nobody knew and it could be weeks before we were saved”, she told a news conference. “The worst life-and-death thoughts were going through our heads, and everybody was panicking.”

    The Navy said the distress signal was picked up about 5 p.m. Thursday. An Air Force plane later spotted life rafts in the ocean about 500 kilometers from Rio and a Navy ship and nearby merchant vessels moved in to aid in the rescue.

    The first 12 crew and students came into port aboard a Brazilian Navy frigate. The rest were heading into Rio aboard slower merchant vessels and were expected to arrive later Saturday afternoon.

    The Concordia was five days out from Montevideo, Uruguay, when it sank.

    The Federal Transportations Safety Board says it will assist in an investigation to be led by the ship’s flag state country, Barbados.

    The Concordia is owned by West Island College International with offices in Lunenburg, N.S. Forty-two of those onboard were identified as Canadians, mostly high school and university students, said Kate Knight, head of West Island College International of Lunenburg, which operates the Class Afloat program. Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement thanking the Brazilian Navy and the merchant ships “for their swift and heroic response.”

(Adapted from: www.ctv.ca, www.ap.com, Feb. 2010)

The sentence “The Concordia was five days out from Montevideo, Uruguay when it sank.” means that:

(A) The Concordia had just left Montevideo when it sank.

(B) The Concordia had left Montevideo for five days when it sank.

(C) The Concordia sank for it was five days from the coast of Montevideo.

(D) The Concordia had been going to Montevideo for five days when it sank.

(E) The Concordia was five days away from Montevideo when it sank.

 

Comentário: A frase “O Concordia estava há cinco dias fora de Montevidéu, Uruguai quando afundou.” significa que: