Questões de Inglês

Child of the Americas

[1] I am a child of the Americas,

A light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean,

A child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads.

I am a U.S.Puerto Rican Jew,

[5] A product of the getthos of New York I have never known.

An immigrant and the daughter and the granddraughter of immigrants.

I speak English with passion: it’s the tongue of my consciousness,

A flashing knife blade, my tool, my craft.

I am a Caribeña, island grown, Spanish is in my flesh,

[10] Ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips:

The language of garlic and mangoes,

The singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands.

I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent:

I speak from that body.

[15] I am not African. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.

I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back.

I am not European. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.

I was born at the crossroads

[20] And I am whole.

N.R.: Taínos were the Indian tribe indigenous to Puerto Rico

LAUTER, P. ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. vol. 2. Boston: Houghton Miffin Company, 1988. p. 3188.

Considere as afirmações a respeito do conteúdo do texto.

I - Os termos flashing knife , tool e craft (l. 08) qualificam a língua inglesa como instrumento do intelecto e do trabalho.

II - A nacionalidade do sujeito lírico é praticamente impossível de ser definida devido aos múltiplos cruzamentos.

III- A segunda estrofe fala de uma criança latina nascida em um bairro judeu novaiorquino.

Quais estão corretas? 

Child of the Americas

[1] I am a child of the Americas,

A light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean,

A child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads.

I am a U.S.Puerto Rican Jew,

[5] A product of the getthos of New York I have never known.

An immigrant and the daughter and the granddraughter of immigrants.

I speak English with passion: it’s the tongue of my consciousness,

A flashing knife blade, my tool, my craft.

I am a Caribeña, island grown, Spanish is in my flesh,

[10] Ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips:

The language of garlic and mangoes,

The singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands.

I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent:

I speak from that body.

[15] I am not African. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.

I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back.

I am not European. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.

I was born at the crossroads

[20] And I am whole.

N.R.: Taínos were the Indian tribe indigenous to Puerto Rico

LAUTER, P. ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. vol. 2. Boston: Houghton Miffin Company, 1988. p. 3188.

De acordo com o texto, o sujeito lírico

Child of the Americas

[1] I am a child of the Americas,

A light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean,

A child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads.

I am a U.S.Puerto Rican Jew,

[5] A product of the getthos of New York I have never known.

An immigrant and the daughter and the granddraughter of immigrants.

I speak English with passion: it’s the tongue of my consciousness,

A flashing knife blade, my tool, my craft.

I am a Caribeña, island grown, Spanish is in my flesh,

[10] Ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips:

The language of garlic and mangoes,

The singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands.

I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent:

I speak from that body.

[15] I am not African. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.

I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back.

I am not European. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.

I was born at the crossroads

[20] And I am whole.

N.R.: Taínos were the Indian tribe indigenous to Puerto Rico

LAUTER, P. ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. vol. 2. Boston: Houghton Miffin Company, 1988. p. 3188.

Assinale com V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) as afirmações abaixo, acerca do poema.

( ) A fala do sujeito lírico soa mais próxima do espanhol do que do inglês.

( ) O sujeito lírico está congenitamente ligado à América, à África e à Europa.

( ) O sujeito lírico não se percebe mais como americano, africano ou europeu.

( ) O espanhol é a segunda língua do sujeito lírico.

A sequência correta de preenchimento dos parênteses, de cima para baixo, é 

Child of the Americas

[1] I am a child of the Americas,

A light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean,

A child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads.

I am a U.S.Puerto Rican Jew,

[5] A product of the getthos of New York I have never known.

An immigrant and the daughter and the granddraughter of immigrants.

I speak English with passion: it’s the tongue of my consciousness,

A flashing knife blade, my tool, my craft.

I am a Caribeña, island grown, Spanish is in my flesh,

[10] Ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips:

The language of garlic and mangoes,

The singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands.

I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent:

I speak from that body.

[15] I am not African. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.

I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back.

I am not European. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.

I was born at the crossroads

[20] And I am whole.

N.R.: Taínos were the Indian tribe indigenous to Puerto Rico

LAUTER, P. ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. vol. 2. Boston: Houghton Miffin Company, 1988. p. 3188.

Assinale com V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) as afirmações abaixo, sobre o fragmento a child of the Americas (l. 01), que caracterizam o sujeito lírico.

( ) É imigrante, filho de uma filha de imigrantes.

( ) Sente-se deslocado, apesar de se identificar com suas várias origens e referências culturais.

( ) Simboliza os processos de mestiçagem formadores da sociedade americana.

( ) Menospreza a condição colonizada da população do Novo Mundo.

A sequência correta de preenchimento dos parênteses, de cima para baixo, é

Instrução: As questões 51 a 57 estão relacionadas ao texto abaixo.

Child of the Americas

[1] I am a child of the Americas,

A light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean,

A child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads.

I am a U.S.Puerto Rican Jew,

[5] A product of the getthos of New York I have never known.

An immigrant and the daughter and the granddraughter of immigrants.

I speak English with passion: it’s the tongue of my consciousness,

A flashing knife blade, my tool, my craft.

I am a Caribeña, island grown, Spanish is in my flesh,

[10] Ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips:

The language of garlic and mangoes,

The singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands.

I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent:

I speak from that body.

[15] I am not African. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.

I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back.

I am not European. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.

I was born at the crossroads

[20] And I am whole.

N.R.: Taínos were the Indian tribe indigenous to Puerto Rico

LAUTER, P. ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. vol. 2. Boston: Houghton Miffin Company, 1988. p. 3188.

Em seu sentido global, o texto fala sobre 

Read the text and choose the best alternative.

Solar eclipse in Europe

The UK could be plunged into darkness next month, as experts warn there could be the biggest solar eclipse since 1999. Nearly 90% of the sun's rays are expected to be blocked out in parts of Europe on March 20th. In London and the Southeast, 85% of the sun will be obscured by the moon, while in northern Scotland, more than 95% will be covered. But the National Grid warns there could be a solar power outage as a result. Solar power isn’t widely used in the UK, but other parts of Europe that heavily rely on it could be out of electricity for a short while. There's no need to worry, though – the European Network Transmission System Operators for Electricity have been planning for the event for months. The eclipse will last for around two hours at 8:40 a.m. The next one will not be until 2026.

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Check the statements according to lexical-semantic aspects from the text above:

I. In: ‘The UK could be plunged into darkness next month…’, the verb in bold could be changed to ‘immersed’ without changing the meaning of the sentence.

II. The word ‘warn’ in the first paragraph means to make someone conscious of a possible problem or danger so they will not be hurt or affected by it.

III. In the sentence: ‘In London and the Southeast, 85% of the sun will be obscured by the moon, while in northern Scotland, more than 95% will be covered.’; the conjunction ‘while’ means that the same exact thing will be happening in the entire area.

IV. Read the sentence: ‘But the National Grid warns there could be a solar power outage as a result.’ The words in bold ‘as a result’ mean that a solar power outage could happen because of the solar eclipse.

V. The meaning of the word ‘eclipse’ in the last paragraph is ‘decline’.

Choose the CORRECT alternative.