Questões de Inglês

TEXTO:
Can you spell?

 

    A new website designed to help people with spelling

has been unveiled by a British disability charity. Mencap

says there is a growing problem with a new generation

of people who have been brought up on the computer

5 function which automatically corrects misspelt words.

    Mencap designed the site because they believe

that standards of spelling are falling in Britain, with serious

consequences for people’s ability to deal with the global

downturn. A survey commissioned for the charity revealed

10 that 65% of people were unable to spell the word

‘necessary’ correctly, and only one-in-five people

successfully completed a short spelling test. Despite

the results, three-quarters of those questioned thought

they were good spellers, and agreed that it was an

15 important skill to have.

    Grant Morgan is the Creative Director for the

Mencap Spellathon. He says the ‘autocorrect’ function

on computer software is the main culprit for the decline

in standards.Mr Morgan says those who can’t spell are

20 at an immediate disadvantage in the workplace, and could

lose out to competitors if, for example, they misspell

words on their CV. In an increasingly tough international

market, the problem could damage Britain as a whole.

Mencap is holding an online Spellathon championship,

25 where age may well trump youth.

MCMANUS, John. Can you spell? Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 de maio 2013. 

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False). 
Considering the British people questioned, the survey mentioned in the text has shown that 

( ) despite a decline in ability, most of them are over-confident about spelling success.
( ) as the computer autocorrect tool can always be activated, they don’t think the spelling ability is all that important. 
( ) over half of them couldn’t spell the word ‘necessary’ correctly. 
( ) only one-fifth of them succeeded in doing the spelling test correctly. 

According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is 

I tweet, I pin, I do.

 

I asked my girlfriend to marry me on a boat on the wide expanse of Lake George. There was no iPhone to capture the moment, no Twitter to tweet or Facebook to share, and, back at our campsite, no AT&T service to call home with the news. There were only s’mores. And champagne.

For the two of us, it was nice. But I’ll tell ya, future marrieds: the lull couldn’t last. Within minutes, we were in my Jeep, driving 10 miles out of the woods, where we sat on the shoulder of a road trying, to no avail, to make the engagement “Facebook official.” (Turns out you can’t update your relationship status from the iPhone app. A Facebook spokesperson says the company plans on adding this feature in the future.) Lacking the digital evidence, we wondered, had it even happened?

With five weeks behind us and still a year out from the date, the engagement is as real as the ring. Our wedding now has a hashtag, a website in the works, and a growing list of potential vendors we’ve found online. Yelp is our beacon. Facebook our guide. (No surprise: in my day job I’m head of social media at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, managing accounts and watching for news.) My fiancée has grown particularly fond of Pinterest, the photo-sharing network used by a whopping 19 percent of women on the Internet, per one recent Pew study. To my eyes, weddings are the central reason it exists. “Pinterest is a tool people use to find inspiration for the important things they want to do in their life,” a spokesperson explained to me. “Planning a wedding is a great example.” This past July, Pinterest doubled down, creating a separate category for weddings. The same month Facebook ̶ its users aging into love and marriage ̶ introduced a feature displaying special events, starting with engagements and weddings, alongside friends’ birthdays when you log in. (Babies are there, too.)

 

Disponível em

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/

(adaptado)

O título do texto acima, que encerra sua ideia central, é:

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s," and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g / j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c," "y," and "x" - bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez - tu riplais "ch," "sh," and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

Disponível em: http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j31/satires.php.

Acesso em 18 out 2012.

Dadas as afirmativas sobre o Plano para a Melhoria da Ortografia da Língua Inglesa, atribuído a Mark Twain,

I. A letra c seria definitivamente banida do alfabeto.

II. Sua própria grafia vai incorporando as mudanças por ele sugeridas.

III. O plano prevê que a total mudança e simplificação da grafia do idioma inglês acontecerão depois de mais ou menos 20 anos.

IV. O último parágrafo, segundo a grafia corrente da língua inglesa, seria escrito da seguinte forma: Finally, then, after some 20 years of orthographical reform, we would have a logical, coherent spelling in use throughout the English-speaking world

 

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Tombstone Tourism

 

In August 1999, Richard J. Moylan, president of Brooklyn’s  Green-Wood Cemetery, had an epiphany. In Baltimore on business, he took the afternoon off to visit that city’s Green Mount Cemetery. “It was a Saturday, a bright, sunny day,” he recalls. But despite the excellent weather and the well-tended grounds, “there was no one around.” Then and there he resolved, “This must never happen in Brooklyn.” He kept his promise.

Until the mid-’90s, Green-Wood often turned visitors away if they had no kin buried there. Now thousands pour through the cemetery’s gates each year to take tours, check out the graves of long-gone celebrities (Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed), and even hear live music: Green-Wood recently scheduled a concert complete with grand piano at the grave site of 19th-century composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Green-Wood is not unique. In the last decade, people across the country have begun flocking to these old necropolises, lured by everything from photography workshops to movies—Hollywood Forever, a Los Angeles cemetery, hosts a popular film series in which visitors are encouraged to picnic while they watch old movies projected on the wall of a mausoleum. Most recently, several graveyards, including Arlington National Cemetery, have begun offering smartphone apps to promote self-touring and assist in grave location.

Danielle Fontaine, Sleepy Hollow’s director of marketing and sales, admits that it’s tricky balancing tourism against the cemetery’s “primary business, which is taking care of the dead and their families.” But the money raised by the not-soworshipful activities at her cemetery, she points out, pays for direly needed preservation.

Like a lot of old cemeteries, Sleepy Hollow is running out of room for more burials. When that happens, those graveyards will become, in essence, parklike museums. To ensure that her community continues to treasure this historic landmark’s 90 bucolic acres, “we have to start now and have things in place so that this cemetery can be used as it was designed,” as not just a burial ground but a restorative environment for the living. “We’re holding back time,” she says, and if that means allowing the Ramones to film the music video for “Pet Sematary,” their title song for the Stephen King film, she’s cool with that. The Ramones, she points out, “are the only humans ever buried alive at Sleepy Hollow.”

Disponível em:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/a-second-life-forcemeteries.

html. Acesso em 18 out 2012 (adaptado)

A palavra lured, encontrada na terceira linha do terceiro parágrafo, significa, naquele contexto,

Tombstone Tourism

 

In August 1999, Richard J. Moylan, president of Brooklyn’s  Green-Wood Cemetery, had an epiphany. In Baltimore on business, he took the afternoon off to visit that city’s Green Mount Cemetery. “It was a Saturday, a bright, sunny day,” he recalls. But despite the excellent weather and the well-tended grounds, “there was no one around.” Then and there he resolved, “This must never happen in Brooklyn.” He kept his promise.

Until the mid-’90s, Green-Wood often turned visitors away if they had no kin buried there. Now thousands pour through the cemetery’s gates each year to take tours, check out the graves of long-gone celebrities (Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed), and even hear live music: Green-Wood recently scheduled a concert complete with grand piano at the grave site of 19th-century composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Green-Wood is not unique. In the last decade, people across the country have begun flocking to these old necropolises, lured by everything from photography workshops to movies—Hollywood Forever, a Los Angeles cemetery, hosts a popular film series in which visitors are encouraged to picnic while they watch old movies projected on the wall of a mausoleum. Most recently, several graveyards, including Arlington National Cemetery, have begun offering smartphone apps to promote self-touring and assist in grave location.

Danielle Fontaine, Sleepy Hollow’s director of marketing and sales, admits that it’s tricky balancing tourism against the cemetery’s “primary business, which is taking care of the dead and their families.” But the money raised by the not-soworshipful activities at her cemetery, she points out, pays for direly needed preservation.

Like a lot of old cemeteries, Sleepy Hollow is running out of room for more burials. When that happens, those graveyards will become, in essence, parklike museums. To ensure that her community continues to treasure this historic landmark’s 90 bucolic acres, “we have to start now and have things in place so that this cemetery can be used as it was designed,” as not just a burial ground but a restorative environment for the living. “We’re holding back time,” she says, and if that means allowing the Ramones to film the music video for “Pet Sematary,” their title song for the Stephen King film, she’s cool with that. The Ramones, she points out, “are the only humans ever buried alive at Sleepy Hollow.”

Disponível em:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/a-second-life-forcemeteries.

html. Acesso em 18 out 2012 (adaptado)

O phrasal verb running out of foi utilizado no último parágrafo do texto para evidenciar que

A partir da figura acima, analise as afirmações a seguir:

 

I. Mitt Romney is happy with his meal.

II. Barack Obama is in favor of deporting immigrants.

III. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are in favor of immigration reform.

IV. Not only Mitt Romney but also Barack Obama are against the deport policy.

V. Barack but Mitt is having a burrito.

 

Marque a opção correta .