Questões de Inglês

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[1] Did you remember it’s April Fools Day today? My sister
loves playing jokes. At breakfast, she said, “Robert and
I ____ going to elope! We’re going to Robben Island. It’s the
place where Nelson Mandela was in prison. My guidebook
[5] say it is a “place forever connected with the fight for
freedom”. So, if you receive a phone call today about winning
the lottery or something, don’t get excited. It’s probably
an April Fools joke.
(taken from Stories worth reading)
 

GLOSSARY
to elope: fugir de casa secretamente para se casar.

The sentence “We’re going to Robben Island” (line3), in the text, refers to the 

In the sentence “We mustn’t enter the party. It’s private”, the modal verb in bold type expresses 

In the sentence “I hardly ever watch TV at night.”, the expression in bold type is an adverb of 

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Hijacked jets destroy Twin Towers: a creeping horror
[1]  The horror arrived in epsodic bursts of chilling disbelief,
signified first by trembling floors, sharp eruptions, cracked
windows. There was the cruel sight of bodies helplessly
tumbling out, some of _____ in flames.
[5] Finally, the high and impressive towers themselves were
reduced to nothing. Dense plumes of smoke raced through the
downtown avenues, coursing between the buildings, shaped
like tornadoes on their sides.
  Every sound was cause for alarm. A plane appeared
[10] overhead. Was another one coming? No, it was a fighter jet.
But was it friend or enemy? People scrambled for _____
lives, but _____ didn’t know where to go. Should people go
north, south, east, west? Stay outside, go indoors? People hid
beneath cars and each other. Some contemplated jumping
[15] into the river (…). 

Fonte:The New York Times, Sep. 12, 2001.

GLOSSARY
chilling disbelief – incredulidade assustadora
trembling floors – o tremor dos andares
to scramble – lutar

The text is about

Read the text and answer question.

 

Hijacked jets destroy Twin Towers: a creeping horror
[1]  The horror arrived in epsodic bursts of chilling disbelief,
signified first by trembling floors, sharp eruptions, cracked
windows. There was the cruel sight of bodies helplessly
tumbling out, some of _____ in flames.
[5] Finally, the high and impressive towers themselves were
reduced to nothing. Dense plumes of smoke raced through the
downtown avenues, coursing between the buildings, shaped
like tornadoes on their sides.
  Every sound was cause for alarm. A plane appeared
[10] overhead. Was another one coming? No, it was a fighter jet.
But was it friend or enemy? People scrambled for _____
lives, but _____ didn’t know where to go. Should people go
north, south, east, west? Stay outside, go indoors? People hid
beneath cars and each other. Some contemplated jumping
[15] into the river (…). 

Fonte:The New York Times, Sep. 12, 2001.

GLOSSARY
chilling disbelief – incredulidade assustadora
trembling floors – o tremor dos andares
to scramble – lutar

Which word, from the text, is being used as an adjective?

As Games End, Rio Celebrates While Looking Warily to Future

By SIMON ROMERO and ANDREW JACOBS

AUG. 21, 2016

 

RIO DE JANEIRO — The skies opened on Sunday

night over Maracanã, the stadium where Brazil bade

farewell to the Rio Olympics with a spectacle

celebrating everything from the giants of Brazilian

[5] music to the rock art drawn by tribesmen thousands

of years ago, as if the heavens were lamenting the

end of the 17-day sports extravaganza. Still, the

rainfall at the closing ceremony had little effect on the

spirits of the performers who praised towering

[10] creative figures and thinkers like the prolific composer

Heitor Villa-Lobos; the landscape architect Roberto

Burle Marx; and Niède Guidon, the archaeologist

whose discoveries in the remote caves of northeast

Brazil are challenging long-held beliefs about the

[15] peopling of the Americas.Nodding to Brazil’s diversity

as Latin America’s largest country, the ceremony also

honored facets of an astonishingly rich musical

heritage that are often overlooked, promoting As

Ganhadeiras de Itapuã, a group of former

[20] washerwomen rescuing Afro-Brazilian songs in

northeast Brazil, as well as Arnaldo Antunes, a poet

and vocalist who once sang for Titãs, a pioneering

São Paulo rock band. The Carnivalesque ceremony,

featuring frevo dancers twirling umbrellas, a

[25] performance by the samba legend Martinho da Vila

and the songs of Carmen Miranda, offered a folkloric

if fittingly upbeat bookend to an Olympiad that had

been shrouded in grim assessments and protests as

the Games approached. Despite widespread fears

[30] that the city would be unprepared, or that crime and

disorganization might turn the Olympics into a

national embarrassment, many Brazilians came to

view the Games as a triumph and a much-needed

distraction from the country’s economic malaise and

[35] political upheaval. In the days after the opening

ceremony, the criticisms that the Games were an

inappropriate use of public money at a time of crisis

were mostly subsumed by a sense that Brazil had

largely met the logistical challenges, delivering the

[40] world’s biggest sporting event for the half-million

visitors who flocked to Rio for South America’s first

Olympics.“We know the city isn’t an easy place to live

in, but Rio flung its arms wide open, and we need to

congratulate ourselves for our receptiveness and joy

[45] in making such a beautiful party,” said Naidê Gouvêa

Lira, 45, a logistics analyst. The ebullience was

further buoyed on Saturday by the Brazilian soccer

team’s win over Germany, a victory that yielded one

of the country’s seven gold medals in the Games and

[50] helped ease the sting of its humiliating 2014 World

Cup loss to the Germans. Over all, Brazilians seemed

satisfied with their relatively modest medal count,

which placed the country among the top 14 nations,

its best Olympic showing ever. Many are still savoring

[55] their first gold of the Rio Games, won in judo by

Rafaela Silva, 24, a black woman from an

impoverished part of Rio.“To see her win really lifted

our spirits,” said Fabio Costa dos Santos, 47, an

unemployed carpenter who, like Silva, hails from City

[60] of God, a favela in the city’s western suburbs. The

Games were far from trouble free. Even after the

authorities deployed an 85,000-strong security force

to ease crime fears, Portugal’s education minister was

robbed at knifepoint. An Olympic bus carrying

[65] journalists was attacked by people throwing rocks.

Outside the Olympic bubble, gun battles between the

police and drug gangs in Complexo do Alemão, a

collection of favelas, the poor urban areas that

emerged as squatter settlements, were a stubborn

[70] reminder of the untamed violence and yawning

inequities in a city that officials had promised would

be the world’s safest during the Games.

Acessado no dia 22 de agosto de 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/sports/olympics/closingceremony-rio-games.html?ref=sports&_r=0

Um dos problemas ocorridos durante as Olimpíadas foi: