Questões de Inglês

O efeito de humor da mensagem transmitido pelo desenho acima acontece porque

Another Brick in the Wall - Part 2

 

We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teachers leave them kids alone.
Hey teachers, leave them kids alone!
All in all, it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.

 

A canção acima, do grupo de rock inglês Pink Floyd, fez grande sucesso na década de 80. Em sua letra, o compositor Roger Waters incluiu, propositalmente, alguns erros a fim de dar a impressão de que a música é cantada por crianças com pouca educação formal e que falam de maneira inapropriada. Utilizando o conhecimento linguístico, encontramos o número total de erros em quantas dentre suas 7 linhas?

Funeral Blues – W. H. Auden

 

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

 

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves.
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

 

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

 

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

 

No poema acima, encontramos vários phrasal verbs. De acordo com seus significados no contexto, enumere a segunda coluna de acordo com a primeira.

 

1ª coluna

 

1. Cut off

2. Bring out

3. Put out

4. Pack up

5. Pour away

 

2ª coluna

 

( ) Fazer sair

( ) Apagar

( ) Despejar

( ) Desconectar

( ) Guardar

 

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O pronome THAT, contido na pergunta que a garota faz no segundo quadrinho (tira acima), refere-se

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Throwing the book at borrowers

Posted on January 6, 2012.

 

Overdue books are certainly a nuisance for librarians. But for one library in Charlton, Mass., a borrower's delinquency was grounds for a criminal inquiry. When two children's books were several months overdue, the library complained to the cops. Sgt. Dan Dowd stopped by the home of Shannon Benoit, and Benoit's 5 year-old daughter, ____ had borrowed the books, burst into tears and asked if she was going to jail. "Apparently, overdue library books are a misdemeanor, "says Katherine Stone at Babble, "so get those overdue books in before it's too late!"

Fonte; www.theweek.com

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Memory loss can begin from age 45, scientists say

By Sarah Boseley

 

As all those of middle age who have ever fumbled for a name to fit a face will believe, the brain begins to lose sharpness of memory and powers of reasoning and understanding not from 60 as previously thought, but from as early as 45, scientists say.

Their evidence comes from a large study of more than 7,000 civil servants aged between 45 and 70. The 5,000 men and 2,000 women agreed to undergo verbal and written tests on three occasions over a 10-year period for what is called the Whitehall II study.

A deterioration in the memory and thinking powers of the oldest volunteers might be expected, but in fact the researchers, led by Archana Singh-Manoux from the Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health in France and University College London in the UK, found that the brains of even the youngest were already on the slide. Over the decade, there was a 3.6% decline in the mental reasoning of men and of women aged 45 to 49. The process appeared to have speeded up in the older age groups. Men aged 65 to 70 have a decline of 9.6% while women fared a little better, at 7.4%.

It matters, say the scientists, because those whose brains appear to deteriorate fastest may be more likely to develop dementia in later life – and because if there is any chance of slowing tha process, those at highest risk may need to be detected and treated at an early stage, before Alzheimer's or another form of dementia becomes apparent.

Fonte: http://www.guardian.co.uk (Texto adaptado)

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