Questões de Inglês

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

 

I can't believe the news today

I can't close my eyes and make it go away.

How long, how long must we sing this song?

How long, how long?

'Cos tonight

We can be as one, tonight.

 

Broken bottles under children's feet

Bodies strewn across the dead-end street.

But I won't heed the battle call

It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall.

 

Sunday, bloody Sunday.

[…]

 

And the battle's just begun

There's many lost, but tell me who has won?

The trenches dug within our hearts

And mothers, children, brothers, sisters

Torn apart.

[…]

 

And it's true we are immune

When fact is fiction and TV reality.

And today the millions cry

We eat and drink while tomorrow they die.

[…]

 

Sunday, bloody Sunday

Sunday, bloody Sunday.

 

U2. Disponível em: http://www.U2.com. Acesso em: 19 out. 2012 (fragmento).

O U2 é um grupo famoso mundial e politicamente engajado. Na canção acima, os artistas utilizam de sua arte para descrever

I tweet, I pin, I do.

 

I asked my girlfriend to marry me on a boat on the wide expanse of Lake George. There was no iPhone to capture the moment, no Twitter to tweet or Facebook to share, and, back at our campsite, no AT&T service to call home with the news. There were only s’mores. And champagne.

For the two of us, it was nice. But I’ll tell ya, future marrieds: the lull couldn’t last. Within minutes, we were in my Jeep, driving 10 miles out of the woods, where we sat on the shoulder of a road trying, to no avail, to make the engagement “Facebook official.” (Turns out you can’t update your relationship status from the iPhone app. A Facebook spokesperson says the company plans on adding this feature in the future.) Lacking the digital evidence, we wondered, had it even happened?

With five weeks behind us and still a year out from the date, the engagement is as real as the ring. Our wedding now has a hashtag, a website in the works, and a growing list of potential vendors we’ve found online. Yelp is our beacon. Facebook our guide. (No surprise: in my day job I’m head of social media at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, managing accounts and watching for news.) My fiancée has grown particularly fond of Pinterest, the photo-sharing network used by a whopping 19 percent of women on the Internet, per one recent Pew study. To my eyes, weddings are the central reason it exists. “Pinterest is a tool people use to find inspiration for the important things they want to do in their life,” a spokesperson explained to me. “Planning a wedding is a great example.” This past July, Pinterest doubled down, creating a separate category for weddings. The same month Facebook ̶ its users aging into love and marriage ̶ introduced a feature displaying special events, starting with engagements and weddings, alongside friends’ birthdays when you log in. (Babies are there, too.)

 

Disponível em

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/

(adaptado)

Qual dos tempos verbais abaixo não é encontrado no texto?

Na tirinha acima, a mensagem com efeito de humor no diálogo entre Charlie Brown e Snoopy acontece porque

Na tirinha acima, a mensagem com efeito de humor no diálogo entre Jon, sua namorada e Garfield acontece porque

She’s a cutie.

I’m a university student.

They’re good guys.

It’s a nice day.

 

O uso do ‘s (apóstrofo ’s’) nas frases acima indica:

 

I. plural

II. adição de uma letra

III. subtração de uma letra

IV. caso genitivo

V. terceira pessoa do plural

 

Marque a opção correta .

SO YOU WANT TO BE A TECHNICAL INSTALLATION ENGINEER?

 

1 ______ The pay’s not bad and there are opportunities for overtime if you want.

2 ______ Planning the job, especially in older buildings. It’s important to work out1 the best routes of the pipes, ducts and cables involved as this can affect the cost of the work considerably.

3 ______ I like being out and about not stuck in an office, and this job involves a lot of travelling. I also like the contact with customers.

4 ______ I work for a company which installs central heating and air- conditioning systems. We do everything: planning, installing, testing, and commissioning.

5 ______Get the highest qualifications you can when you’re at college. It’s better to do it at that stage in life than try to catch up² later. Keep up³ your professional training when you’re in the job. Move to a company large enough to offer good promotion prospects.

6 ______When you switch on⁴ and it all works perfectly.

7 ______Working in confined spaces, for example under floors or in roof spaces where there isn’t a lot of headroom.

8 ______Five years.

De acordo com o texto as expressões work out¹, catch up², keep up³ e switch on⁴ significam: