Questões de Inglês

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Lockdown Named 2020’s Word of the Year by Collins Dictionary

 

    Lockdown, the noun that has come to define so many lives across the world in 2020, has been named word of the year by Collins Dictionary. Lockdown is defined by Collins as “the imposition of stringent restrictions on travel, social interaction, and access to public spaces”. The 4.5-billion-word Collins Corpus, which contains written material from websites, books and newspapers, as well as spoken material from radio, television and conversations, registered a 6,000% increase in ______(1) usage. In 2019, there were 4,000 recorded instances of lockdown being used. In 2020, this had risen to more than a quarter of a million.

    “Language is a reflection of the world around us and 2020 has been dominated by the global pandemic,” says Collins language content consultant Helen Newstead. “We have chosen lockdown as _______(2) word of the year because it encapsulates the shared experience of billions of people who have had to restrict _______(3) daily lives in order to contain the virus. Lockdown has affected the way we work, study, shop, and socialise. It is not a word of the year to celebrate, but it is, perhaps, one that sums up the year for most of the world.”

   Other pandemic-related words such as coronavirus, social distancing and key worker were on the dictionary’s list of the top 10 words. However, the coronavirus crisis didn’t completely dominate this year’s vocabulary: words like “Megxit,” a term to describe Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepping back as senior members of the royal family, also made the shortlist along with “TikToker” (a person who regularly shares or appears in videos on TikTok), and “BLM.” The abbreviation BLM, for Black Lives Matter is defined by Collins as “a movement that campaigns against racially motivated violence and oppression”, it registered a 581% increase in usage. Adapted from

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/lockdown-named-word-of-the-year-by-collins-dictionary

Lockdown is defined by Collins as “the imposition of stringent restrictions on travel, social interaction, and access to public spaces” (paragraph 1).

 

Choose another possible definition for lockdown.

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Texas High School Opens Grocery Store That Accepts Good Deeds as Payment

 

    How many high schools can say they have a grocery store inside their walls? The student-run grocery store at Linda Tutt High School in rural Sanger, Texas, provides food and other necessities to students and their families while teaching essential job skills. And the store doesn’t accept cash, just good deeds. Instead of money, students shop using a point system.

    The store, which aims to address food insecurities for students and others in the community, is open Monday through Wednesday for students and staff within the school district. “A lot of our students come from low socioeconomic families,” principal Anthony Love told KTVT. “It’s a way for students to earn the ability to shop for their families. Through hard work you can earn points. You can earn points for doing chores around the building or helping to clean.”

    The pioneering project is run in partnership with First Refuge Ministries, Texas Health Resources, and Albertsons (a grocery store chain). But nearly all the responsibility falls on the students. They stock the shelves, keep track of inventory, address sales, and monitor registers when items are purchased. “I think the most exciting part of it is just teaching our kids job skills that they can carry with them as they graduate high school and move on into the world,” Love said to WAGA-TV. “Students are really the key piece to it.” Adapted from

https://www.southernliving.com/culture/school/linda-tutt-high-school-grocery-store

The sentence “Students are really the key piece to it.” (paragraph 3) can be correctly paraphrased in the following terms:

Text: Rio de Janeiro

 

    “Rio de Janeiro is Brazil’s heart, its cultural capital and emotional nerve-center (…). It’s wise to remember that the romantic sparking lights that glimmer in the hillsides illuminate the city’s notorious shanty towns. Crime, especially in the tourist-filled Copacabana district, is common. Most visitors are easy targets, if only because they usually lack a tan. Don’t wear expensive watches or jewelry and carry as little cash as possible, especially when going to the beach. (…) The subway system (Metro) is clean, fast and efficient, but only goes as far as Botafogo. It does not extend to Copacabana. Buses are plentiful but are uncomfortable and can be dangerous. (…) Business visitors should not be surprised when meetings start late or executives are informally dressed. This relaxed attitude is counterbalanced by the “carioca’s” quickness and creativity. “Cafezinhos” (literally little coffees), usually highly sugared, and mineral water are staple of nearly every business meeting in this city. In meetings between men and women (and between women), kisses on both cheecks are common. Men shake hands enthusiastically. Cariocas are easy going and slow to take offence. (…)”

Source: 1998 Business Travel Guide adaptado de Inglês Intrumental de Rosângela Munhoz

 

Quais destas características, de acordo com o texto, se referem ao transporte público feito pelos ônibus do Rio de Janeiro:

In the sentence “Jackson wasn´t really angry, he was only pretending.”, the verb in bold means that:

Choose the alternative that best completes the dialogue:

 

Mary: Hi, ____ am Mary Smith. ___ am from the USA. What’s your name?

Paul: _____ name is Paul Thompson.

Mary: Nice to meet you. _____ are you from?

Paul: Nice to meet you, too. _____ am from London. And who is ____ woman?

Mary: ____ is Jessica Lopez. ____ is from the USA too.

Read the text and answer question.

 

    Paul Thompson is a student and he has a part-time job, too. He lives in London and goes to university there. Paul works at an Italian restaurant called Mamma Mia. He’s a waiter there. He likes his job very much, but he doesn’t like to work on the weekends. When he is free, he likes to go to the movies. He recently watched “Avengers - Infinity War”, a superhero movie that was a huge success.

All the words below are synonyms for the word “huge” (line 08), in bold in the text, EXCEPT: