Questões de Inglês

Old Light

[1] I heard a tale that the sun god was said

to live in a whale and that’s why light seems

to come out of its eyes and why rainbows

form in the mist of the gray whale’s breath.

[5] It’s true, light comes, but it is an old light,

seeing. They look. The way they lift

themselves from the sea: they are shining,

water falling from them as they rise, exhale,

inhale and return below the surface of the

[10] water.

The gray whales themselves are an

intelligence we haven’t yet grasped, Lifecovered

with several hundred pounds of

barnacles and small-eyed. If we could see

[15] them ........ the brief timescale of the planet,

they would look like shape-shifters. If we

thought of time by something other than our

own notions, million-fold years ago, before

our own knowledge of evolution, we’d see

[20] these whales …….. they walked on land.

Even now, existing within their immense

bones, there is body evidence, a hand,

human; vestigial hipbones; and remnants of

legs they no longer need. They lived ……..

[25] land when we lived in water. When we look

at them we see our own future.

And when they come up again for air

and the water falls from them back into the

seawater, it is a shine of beauty in a world of

[30] desert, dunes in the background. As their

hind legs have disappeared into them, out of

our sight, and their hands have become

hidden, the compass set into their brains,

you’d think you might be able to be one with

[35] them, as with a cousin, but it’s a cousin lost

in time. It makes us so small in the

firmament. It makes us remember something

we can’t quite name, only feel.

Looking at these whales in the shallow

[40] water, thinking of the great turn of evolution

and change on earth, we wonder if one day

we will return to the seawater, along with

these long-enduring, longest-living mammals

on Earth.

Adaptado de: HOGAN, Linda. Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2002. p. 29-30.

A tradução mais adequada para a expressão you’d think you might be able to (l. 34), como empregada no texto, é 

Old Light

[1] I heard a tale that the sun god was said

to live in a whale and that’s why light seems

to come out of its eyes and why rainbows

form in the mist of the gray whale’s breath.

[5] It’s true, light comes, but it is an old light,

seeing. They look. The way they lift

themselves from the sea: they are shining,

water falling from them as they rise, exhale,

inhale and return below the surface of the

[10] water.

The gray whales themselves are an

intelligence we haven’t yet grasped, Lifecovered

with several hundred pounds of

barnacles and small-eyed. If we could see

[15] them ........ the brief timescale of the planet,

they would look like shape-shifters. If we

thought of time by something other than our

own notions, million-fold years ago, before

our own knowledge of evolution, we’d see

[20] these whales …….. they walked on land.

Even now, existing within their immense

bones, there is body evidence, a hand,

human; vestigial hipbones; and remnants of

legs they no longer need. They lived ……..

[25] land when we lived in water. When we look

at them we see our own future.

And when they come up again for air

and the water falls from them back into the

seawater, it is a shine of beauty in a world of

[30] desert, dunes in the background. As their

hind legs have disappeared into them, out of

our sight, and their hands have become

hidden, the compass set into their brains,

you’d think you might be able to be one with

[35] them, as with a cousin, but it’s a cousin lost

in time. It makes us so small in the

firmament. It makes us remember something

we can’t quite name, only feel.

Looking at these whales in the shallow

[40] water, thinking of the great turn of evolution

and change on earth, we wonder if one day

we will return to the seawater, along with

these long-enduring, longest-living mammals

on Earth.

Adaptado de: HOGAN, Linda. Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2002. p. 29-30.

Considere as afirmações sobre o significado da expressão shape-shifters (l. 16), no contexto em que se encontra.

I - A capacidade das baleias de serem animais que vivem no mar, mas que necessitam emergir para respirar.

II - A transformação das baleias ao longo do processo evolutivo.

III- O conhecimento do homem sobre a evolução das baleias cinzentas permite percebê-las sob nova perspectiva.

Quais estão corretas? 

Old Light

[1] I heard a tale that the sun god was said

to live in a whale and that’s why light seems

to come out of its eyes and why rainbows

form in the mist of the gray whale’s breath.

[5] It’s true, light comes, but it is an old light,

seeing. They look. The way they lift

themselves from the sea: they are shining,

water falling from them as they rise, exhale,

inhale and return below the surface of the

[10] water.

The gray whales themselves are an

intelligence we haven’t yet grasped, Lifecovered

with several hundred pounds of

barnacles and small-eyed. If we could see

[15] them ........ the brief timescale of the planet,

they would look like shape-shifters. If we

thought of time by something other than our

own notions, million-fold years ago, before

our own knowledge of evolution, we’d see

[20] these whales …….. they walked on land.

Even now, existing within their immense

bones, there is body evidence, a hand,

human; vestigial hipbones; and remnants of

legs they no longer need. They lived ……..

[25] land when we lived in water. When we look

at them we see our own future.

And when they come up again for air

and the water falls from them back into the

seawater, it is a shine of beauty in a world of

[30] desert, dunes in the background. As their

hind legs have disappeared into them, out of

our sight, and their hands have become

hidden, the compass set into their brains,

you’d think you might be able to be one with

[35] them, as with a cousin, but it’s a cousin lost

in time. It makes us so small in the

firmament. It makes us remember something

we can’t quite name, only feel.

Looking at these whales in the shallow

[40] water, thinking of the great turn of evolution

and change on earth, we wonder if one day

we will return to the seawater, along with

these long-enduring, longest-living mammals

on Earth.

Adaptado de: HOGAN, Linda. Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2002. p. 29-30.

A alternativa que apresenta o sinônimo mais adequado para a palavra grasped (l. 12), como empregada no texto, é 

Old Light

[1] I heard a tale that the sun god was said

to live in a whale and that’s why light seems

to come out of its eyes and why rainbows

form in the mist of the gray whale’s breath.

[5] It’s true, light comes, but it is an old light,

seeing. They look. The way they lift

themselves from the sea: they are shining,

water falling from them as they rise, exhale,

inhale and return below the surface of the

[10] water.

The gray whales themselves are an

intelligence we haven’t yet grasped, Lifecovered

with several hundred pounds of

barnacles and small-eyed. If we could see

[15] them ........ the brief timescale of the planet,

they would look like shape-shifters. If we

thought of time by something other than our

own notions, million-fold years ago, before

our own knowledge of evolution, we’d see

[20] these whales …….. they walked on land.

Even now, existing within their immense

bones, there is body evidence, a hand,

human; vestigial hipbones; and remnants of

legs they no longer need. They lived ……..

[25] land when we lived in water. When we look

at them we see our own future.

And when they come up again for air

and the water falls from them back into the

seawater, it is a shine of beauty in a world of

[30] desert, dunes in the background. As their

hind legs have disappeared into them, out of

our sight, and their hands have become

hidden, the compass set into their brains,

you’d think you might be able to be one with

[35] them, as with a cousin, but it’s a cousin lost

in time. It makes us so small in the

firmament. It makes us remember something

we can’t quite name, only feel.

Looking at these whales in the shallow

[40] water, thinking of the great turn of evolution

and change on earth, we wonder if one day

we will return to the seawater, along with

these long-enduring, longest-living mammals

on Earth.

Adaptado de: HOGAN, Linda. Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2002. p. 29-30.

Assinale com V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) as afirmações abaixo, acerca do texto.

( ) As baleias, de acordo com indícios morfológicos, já apresentaram características que, hoje, são consideradas humanas.

( ) O atual habitat das baleias cinzentas revela que não há um único caminho para a evolução.

( ) A observação das baleias cinzentas leva a autora a centenas de milhas da costa, onde as baleias, ao emergirem, adquirem um esplendor ímpar.

( ) A autora, ao observar a emergência das baleias cinzentas, compara a visão que tem diante de si à imagem de um deserto coberto de dunas.

A sequência correta para o preenchimento dos parênteses, de cima para baixo, é 

Instrução: As questões 60 a 66 referem-se ao texto abaixo.

Old Light

[1] I heard a tale that the sun god was said

to live in a whale and that’s why light seems

to come out of its eyes and why rainbows

form in the mist of the gray whale’s breath.

[5] It’s true, light comes, but it is an old light,

seeing. They look. The way they lift

themselves from the sea: they are shining,

water falling from them as they rise, exhale,

inhale and return below the surface of the

[10] water.

The gray whales themselves are an

intelligence we haven’t yet grasped, Lifecovered

with several hundred pounds of

barnacles and small-eyed. If we could see

[15] them ........ the brief timescale of the planet,

they would look like shape-shifters. If we

thought of time by something other than our

own notions, million-fold years ago, before

our own knowledge of evolution, we’d see

[20] these whales …….. they walked on land.

Even now, existing within their immense

bones, there is body evidence, a hand,

human; vestigial hipbones; and remnants of

legs they no longer need. They lived ……..

[25] land when we lived in water. When we look

at them we see our own future.

And when they come up again for air

and the water falls from them back into the

seawater, it is a shine of beauty in a world of

[30] desert, dunes in the background. As their

hind legs have disappeared into them, out of

our sight, and their hands have become

hidden, the compass set into their brains,

you’d think you might be able to be one with

[35] them, as with a cousin, but it’s a cousin lost

in time. It makes us so small in the

firmament. It makes us remember something

we can’t quite name, only feel.

Looking at these whales in the shallow

[40] water, thinking of the great turn of evolution

and change on earth, we wonder if one day

we will return to the seawater, along with

these long-enduring, longest-living mammals

on Earth.

Adaptado de: HOGAN, Linda. Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2002. p. 29-30.

Assinale a alternativa que preenche, correta e respectivamente, as lacunas das linhas 15, 20 e 24.

Antony’s lines from Act III, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar

[1] Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is often interred with their bones;

[5] So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Has told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously has Caesar answered it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–

[10] For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men–

Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was ambitious;

[15] And Brutus is an honourable man.

He has brought many captives home to Rome

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

When the poor have cried, Caesar has wept:

[20] Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

[25] Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

[30] You all did love him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

O judgment! you are fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

[35] And I must pause till it come back to me.

Adaptado de: SHAKESPEARE, W. The Life and Death of Julius Caesar. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 nov. 2016. 

Em qual das alternativas abaixo o segmento grifado apresenta a mesma função gramatical de what I do know (l. 29)?