Questões de Inglês

A palavra “landed”, na sentença “apparently some of your sample landed [...]”, no sexto quadro da tirinha, pode ser substituída por 

No contexto em que se insere, “external stuff”, no quarto quadro da tirinha, foi interpretado, pelo entrevistado, como 

George Orwell was the pen name of British author Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950). Noted as a political and cultural commentator, he is among the most widely admired English-language writers of the twentieth century. During most of his career Orwell was best known for his journalism; however, contemporary readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist. His most successful books are Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The writer is also known for his insights about the political implications of the use of language. His concern over the power of language to shape reality is also reflected in his invention of “Newspeak”, the official language of the imaginary country of Oceania in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. “Newspeak” is a variant of English in which vocabulary is strictly limited by government ordering. The goal is to make it increasingly difficult to express ideas that contradict the official line – with the final aim of making it impossible even to conceive such ideas. A number of words and phrases that Orwell invented in Nineteen Eighty-Four have entered the standard vocabulary, such as “memory hole”, “Big Brother”, “Room 101”, “doublethink”, “thought police” and “newspeak”.

(Adaptado de: George Orwell. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 ago. 2012.)

 

De acordo com o texto, Newspeak é uma língua fictícia

“The things that I prefer in this world, my reasons for living, are books and women. For me the cinema is the best way to unite them”, the French director Benoît Jacquot said.

In his new film, Farewell, My Queen, adapted from a prizewinning 2002 book by the French writer Chantal Thomas, he brilliantly captures the passions, depravity, occasional signs of nobility and ultimately the chaos that consumed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the outbreak of the French Revolution. Set in such a scenario, the story revolves around a romantic triangle of Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger), her confidante Madame de Polignac (Virginie Ledoyen) and Sidonie Laborde (Léa Seydoux), a servant whose task it is to read to the queen. The narrator was middle-aged Sidonie looking back on the events of her youth.

Mr. Jacquot said he knew from the first page that he wanted to adapt Ms. Thomas’s book into a film, intrigued by how it focuses on a single point of view, a strategy he has employed in other films, and his passion for women. “I think one of the things that attracted Benoît is that the story is told from an entirely feminine point of view”, Ms. Thomas said by telephone from Paris.

The movie, which opened this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is to open on Friday (July 13) in New York.

(Adaptado de: HOHENADEL, K. Auteur Credo: cherchez la femme. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 10 jul. 2012.)

Sobre o diretor Benoît Jacquot e seu novo filme, Farewell, My Queen, considere as afirmativas a seguir.

 

I. Ele afirmou que suas razões de viver são o cinema, os livros e as mulheres.

II. Ele decidiu adaptar o livro por causa do enfoque histórico dado à vida da Rainha.

III. O livro Farewell, My Queen chamou sua atenção por apresentar um único ponto de vista.

IV. Segundo o diretor, o cinema é a melhor forma de unir suas razões de viver.

 

Assinale a alternativa correta.

“The things that I prefer in this world, my reasons for living, are books and women. For me the cinema is the best way to unite them”, the French director Benoît Jacquot said.

In his new film, Farewell, My Queen, adapted from a prizewinning 2002 book by the French writer Chantal Thomas, he brilliantly captures the passions, depravity, occasional signs of nobility and ultimately the chaos that consumed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the outbreak of the French Revolution. Set in such a scenario, the story revolves around a romantic triangle of Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger), her confidante Madame de Polignac (Virginie Ledoyen) and Sidonie Laborde (Léa Seydoux), a servant whose task it is to read to the queen. The narrator was middle-aged Sidonie looking back on the events of her youth.

Mr. Jacquot said he knew from the first page that he wanted to adapt Ms. Thomas’s book into a film, intrigued by how it focuses on a single point of view, a strategy he has employed in other films, and his passion for women. “I think one of the things that attracted Benoît is that the story is told from an entirely feminine point of view”, Ms. Thomas said by telephone from Paris.

The movie, which opened this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is to open on Friday (July 13) in New York.

(Adaptado de: HOHENADEL, K. Auteur Credo: cherchez la femme. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 10 jul. 2012.)

De acordo com o texto, o filme Farewell, My Queen

Old Mama Dot

 

Born on a sunday

In the kingdom of Asante

Sold on a monday

Into slavery

Ran away on tuesday

Cause she born free

Lost a foot on wednesday

When they catch she

Worked all thursday

Till her head grey

Dropped on friday

Where they burn she

Freed on saturday

In a new century

(D’AGUIAR, F. Old Mama Dot. In: BERRY, J. (ed.) News for Babylon: The Chatto book of West Indian-British Poetry, London: Chatto & Windus, 1984, p.26.)

 

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta, corretamente, os versos que indicam o envelhecimento de Mama Dot.