Questões de Inglês

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  I started to run because I felt desperately unfit. But the biggest pay-off for me was – and still is – the deep relaxation that I achieve by taking exercise. It tires me out but I find that it does calm me down. When I started running seven years ago, I could manage only 400 meters before I had to stop. Breathless and aching, I walked the next quarter of a mile, alternating these two activities for a couple of kilometers.

  When I started to jog I never dreamt of running in a marathon, but a few years later I realized that if I trained for it, the London Marathon, one of the biggest British sporting events, would be within my reach. My story shows that an unfit 39-year-old, as I was when I started running, who had taken no serious exercise for twenty years, can do the marathon – and that this is a sport in which women can beat men. But is it crazy to do it? Does it make sense to run in the expectation of becoming healthier?

  My advice is: if you are under forty, healthy and feel well, you can begin as I did by jogging gently until you are out of breath, then walking, and alternating the two for about three kilometers. Build up the jogging in stages until you can do the whole distance comfortably.

(Headway Intermediate – Student’s Book. Oxford University Press. Adaptado.)

De acordo com o texto,

As expressões kicked the bucket e went to the sky, relacionadas a uma das personagens do penúltimo quadrinho da história, significam que a personagem

Read the text below to answer question 21.

 

The Joys of Spelling

By Lorenza Cerbini

 

 

  If you think English spelling is complicated, then you are right: it is also a problem for native speakers! In phonetic languages like Italian and Spanish, spelling is relatively easy, but English spelling is not phonetic and there are some words that even university professors can‘t spell.

  There have been attempts to reform English spelling. The great American lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843) tried to create a more rational system. This explains the differences between American and British spelling: the American spelling of ―color‖ is logical; the British version, ―colour‖, is not. But even American English spelling is difficult and this explains the existence of spelling ―bees‖, or competitions. The first spelling bee was held in the USA in 1825: the organizers used Webster‘s ―spelling books‖ as their model.

  Ironically, the word bee is itself a mystery. You spell it the same way you spell the insect, but here a ―bee‖ is a gathering of people. According to one theory, it comes from an Old English word, ―bea‖, meaning ―prayer‖.

Speak up. São Paulo: Editora Peixes, n. 276, ano XXIII, 2010, p. 22 (Adapted).

Read the following affirmatives:
 
I. “Webster‟s „spelling books‟” are books that you can access on the Internet to help you with the spelling of words.
II. The spelling of the word “colour” in British English is correct while the spelling of the word “color” in American English is wrong.
III. The word “bea” means, at the same time, a four winged insect that produces honey, and a special kind of spelling competition.
IV. Italian and Spanish words are relatively easy to spell because these languages are phonetic while English is not.

Considering the text, it is CORRECT to state that:

Read the dialogue below to answer question 20:

 

Sophie’s first day

 

BARBARA: Sophie, where did you go to school before?

SOPHIE: I went to a school in Scotland.

BARBARA: Was it nice?

SOPHIE: Yes, it was a very small school. It had 86 pupils.

BARBARA: That‘s very small!

SOPHIE: Yes, but there were a lot of children in each classroom. There were 32 in my classroom. There were only three classrooms.

BARBARA: Was it an old school?

SOPHIE: Yes, it was very old. It was more than 200 years old. We were in the best classroom. In the other rooms, in the winter, there was ice inside the rooms!

BARBARA: Oh! When did you start school?

SOPHIE: At nine o‘clock.

BARBARA: No, I mean, how old were you?

SOPHIE: About four and a half.

BARBARA: Oh, I was five, I think…

TOMLINSON, B. Materials Development in Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP, 2006. p. 208.

Read the statements below and mark the INCORRECT one according to the text:

Read the comics below to answer question 19:

Read the statements below and mark the CORRECT answer:

Read the text below to answer question 18.

The sentence "If you‟re in junior high, high school or even the first years of college now, you may have been too little then to have been aware of what was happening on the day itself" refers to the fact that: