Questões de Inglês

That's myjob

    This is a story about four people: Everybody,
Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an
important job to be done and Everybody was sure that
Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but
[05] Nobody did. Somebody got angry about that because it
was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could
do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when
Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Unknown author- KEYS, Ed. Saraiva

That's myjob

    This is a story about four people: Everybody,
Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an
important job to be done and Everybody was sure that
Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but
[05] Nobody did. Somebody got angry about that because it
was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could
do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when
Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Unknown author- KEYS, Ed. Saraiva

Read this dialogue between Melanie and Sam and then choose the correct alternatives according to it.

Melanie: Hi, Sam. How was your interview?
Hi, honey.... Well, I thought the interview
itself went really well.

Melanie: Then why the sad face?

[05] Sam: I think I failed. I was late getting there.
Melanie: Oh, no. Really? What happened?
Sam: I missed the train. The interview was
supposed to start at 10. Well, I was at the
train station by 8:30.

[10] I bought my ticket, and then I put my wallet
down for a few seconds. When I turned
around, it was gone. I spent ten or fifteen
minutes trying to find it.

But I never did.
[15] Melanie: What did you tell the interviewer?
Sam: The truth. I said I'd missed the train. And I
said I was sorry for being late.
Melanie: Didn't you tell him about your wallet?
Sam: No. I was sure he'd think I was just making
[20] an excuse. I don't think he even believed
me about missing the train.
Melanie: What did he say at the end of the interview?
Sam: He said my qualifications were really good
and he'd be in touch. You know, "Don't call
[25] us. We'll call you."

Adapted from True Colors - Longman

Read this dialogue between Melanie and Sam and then choose the correct alternatives according to it.

Melanie: Hi, Sam. How was your interview?
Hi, honey.... Well, I thought the interview
itself went really well.

Melanie: Then why the sad face?

[05] Sam: I think I failed. I was late getting there.
Melanie: Oh, no. Really? What happened?
Sam: I missed the train. The interview was
supposed to start at 10. Well, I was at the
train station by 8:30.

[10] I bought my ticket, and then I put my wallet
down for a few seconds. When I turned
around, it was gone. I spent ten or fifteen
minutes trying to find it.

But I never did.
[15] Melanie: What did you tell the interviewer?
Sam: The truth. I said I'd missed the train. And I
said I was sorry for being late.
Melanie: Didn't you tell him about your wallet?
Sam: No. I was sure he'd think I was just making
[20] an excuse. I don't think he even believed
me about missing the train.
Melanie: What did he say at the end of the interview?
Sam: He said my qualifications were really good
and he'd be in touch. You know, "Don't call
[25] us. We'll call you."

Adapted from True Colors - Longman

Read this dialogue between Melanie and Sam and then choose the correct alternatives according to it.

Melanie: Hi, Sam. How was your interview?
Hi, honey.... Well, I thought the interview
itself went really well.

Melanie: Then why the sad face?

[05] Sam: I think I failed. I was late getting there.
Melanie: Oh, no. Really? What happened?
Sam: I missed the train. The interview was
supposed to start at 10. Well, I was at the
train station by 8:30.

[10] I bought my ticket, and then I put my wallet
down for a few seconds. When I turned
around, it was gone. I spent ten or fifteen
minutes trying to find it.

But I never did.
[15] Melanie: What did you tell the interviewer?
Sam: The truth. I said I'd missed the train. And I
said I was sorry for being late.
Melanie: Didn't you tell him about your wallet?
Sam: No. I was sure he'd think I was just making
[20] an excuse. I don't think he even believed
me about missing the train.
Melanie: What did he say at the end of the interview?
Sam: He said my qualifications were really good
and he'd be in touch. You know, "Don't call
[25] us. We'll call you."

Adapted from True Colors - Longman

Read the text below to answer question.

Spectacular Northern Lights linked to suicidal depression

    Alaska's tragically high number of suicide may be
related to cosmic storms and the Northern Lights
(aurora borealis), according to an expert in the study
of brainwaves.
[05]    Depression in the Far North has in general been
attributed to the deep, dark and long winters.
But Dr Anita Bush , ________ specialises in
electroencephalography, has complicated matters by
discovering a link between solar flames and brainwave
[10] activity in two sets of Alaskans she has studied for the
past five years.
    The microscopic electric impulses were
concentrated in an area of the brain known also to
cause seasonal affective depression (SAD), the
[15] condition up to now blamed for dozens of suicides each
year in the remote Alaskan coast. Suicide levels among
the state's 15 to 24-year-olds have risen sharply in
recent years, to six times the national average, says
Dr Bush.
[20]    She has not yet demonstrated a link between
increased brainwaves and suicidal tendencies but she
thinks existing data on supposed SAD cases may in
fact include cases of suicide induced by geomagnetism.
For now she has suggested that special dark glasses,
[25] worn against solar flames and the Northern Lights,
________ elevate morale among the suicidal.
Some of her sceptical colleagues as Professor Tom
Hallinan, one of a team studying the aurora, recently
insisted that the most serious health risk in watching
[30] the Alaskan night sky was a cricked neck.

Adapted from Advance Your English - Cambridge University Press