Questões de Inglês

Read the campaign poster published on a company’s website to answer 

(https://www.hutsix.io. Adaptado.)

The word that summarizes the central theme of the campaign poster is:

Leia o texto e examine o gráfico para responder à questão abaixo.

 

    When Tinder (a mobile dating app) was launched on college campuses in America in 2012, it quickly became a hit. Although online dating had been around since Match.com, a website for lonely hearts, launched in 1995, it had long struggled to shed1 an image of desperation. But Tinder, by letting users sift through photos of countless potential dates with a simple swipe, made it easy and fun.

    Soon Tinder and its rivals had transformed dating. A report found that 30% of American adults had used an online dating service, including more than half of those aged between 18 and 29. One in five couples of that age had met through such a service. Usage surged during the pandemic, as lonely locked- -down singles searched for partners. The market capitalisation of Bumble, a rival to Tinder, surged to $13 billion on its first day of trading² in February 2021. Later that year the value of Match Group, which owns Tinder, Hinge and scores of other dating services, reached nearly $50 billion.

    Today roughly 350 million people around the world have a dating app on their phone, up from 250 million in 2018, according to a research firm. In June 2024 Tokyo’s government even said it would launch a matchmaking app of its own to pair up singles in the city. Yet lately online dating has lost its spark. The apps were downloaded 237 million times globally in 2023, down from 287 million in 2020. According to a research firm, the number of people who use them at least once a month has dwindled from 154 million in 2021 to 137 million in the second quarter of 2024.

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2024. Adaptado.)

 

1 to shed: to get rid of something that is no longer wanted.
2 trading: the activity of buying and selling things.

In the excerpt from the third paragraph “Today roughly 350 million people around the world have a dating app”, the underlined word can be replaced, without meaning change, by:

Complete the sentences with one of the Relative Pronouns, in parentheses, in order to make them grammatically CORRECT, based on the standard rules.

 

I. The person to .......... you spoke yesterday is my neighbour. (whom - which)
II. The car, ............. is parked outside, needs a wash. (which - that)
III. The boy .............. bike was stolen reported it to the police. (which - whose)
IV. The house ............. we bought last year needs some repairs. (that - whom)
V. He is the teacher ......... inspired me to study science. (who - which)
VI. He’s the author of the book about ........ everyone is talking. (who - whom)

 

Mark the alternative that corresponds to the CORRECT sequence from I to VI, respectively, to complete the sentences.

Mark the alternative in which the Passive Voice sentence corresponds to its Active Voice form, in accordance with standard grammar rules.

The image below represents a phenomenon widely recognized around the world, particularly in poorer and developing countries, known as 'Brain Drain.'

(Source: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KvIwfjxiZu4/V6KAlfPrSYI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ya3cGDKxfrc7LodtbR8qSQAtOTyGmhlgCLcB/s1600/maxresdefault.jpg, retrieved on 23rd Sep, 2024)

 

Choose the alternative which CORRECTLY explains the meaning of 'Brain Drain', according to the image above.

A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.

 

    The first time I saw an encaustic painting, I 
was mesmerized by its beautiful surface, 
translucency, and incredible texture which you 
could appreciate for hours. Encaustics are like 
[5] no other form of painting, in that there are 
endless techniques and fleeting seconds before 
your medium solidifies. It is a medium where 
you have to trust your instincts and paint in the 
moment. You have to take leaps of faith. In the 
[10] beginning there are many frustrations, but over 
time you learn how to work with the beautiful 
accidents which incur.

     Encaustic painting is one of the oldest forms of 
painting, and stems from the word Enkaustikos, 
[15] which means “to burn in”. It originated in 
Ancient Greece three thousand years ago when 
ancient ship builders would use a combination 
of wax and resin to seal and waterproof their 
hulls. Pigments were then added to the medium 
[20] and led to the decoration of warships. Most 
likely the most famous encaustic paintings of all 
time are the Fayum mummy funeral portraits 
from the late 1st century BCE or the early 2nd 
century CE onwards. As tradition, funeral 
[25] portraits were placed over a person’s mummy 
as a memorial.  Many of these mummies have 
survived to present day, and the portraits 
maintain their bright and vivid colors because 
the pigments remain suspended in the wax 
[30] medium; thereby retaining their vibrance.

     After the decline of the Roman Empire, 
encaustic painting fell by the wayside as the 
country faced instability and economic turmoil. 
At this time, encaustic was largely replaced by 
[35] tempera, which was easier to work with and 
more economical. Some painting continued as 
late as the 7th century, but encaustics soon 
became a lost art. Later in the 19th century 
mural painters in northern climates 
[40] experimented with encaustics to battle 
problems of dampness in mural paintings, but 
success was limited. Leonardo da Vinci 
experimented with using encaustics in his work, 
but was not successful. Other European artists 
[45] including Vincent van Gogh and Julius Schnorr 
von Carolsfeld used encaustics in their oil 
paintings to separate layers of paint with 
translucent layers. 

     Wax has many qualities that last the test of 
[50] time, and encaustic may be the most durable

form of painting. Beeswax is moisture resistant, 
it is a natural adhesive, it does not attract 
insects, and it resists mildew. Solvents and oils 
can darken or yellow over time, but beeswax 
[55] does not change color at all.   

     As with oil paint, you should only paint with

encaustics in a well-ventilated studio

environment, using either an industrial

ventilating system, or a fan near your work

[60] surface to blow air away …….. you in

combination with open windows. A safe working

range for encaustic is …….. 150–175ºF.

Beeswax has a flash point of …….. 470ºF, but at

no point should you allow the wax to get close 
[65] to this temperature. If your wax begins to 
smoke at any point, turn …….. the heat. Keep a 
fire extinguisher handy in your studio because 
water does not extinguish wax which is 
inflamed. If you use tools such as a griddle with 
[70] encaustic painting, do not later use them for 
food preparation. Rather, dedicate them solely 
to work with encaustic.

Adapted from: MARGELL, J. Encaustic Art. 7. ed. APA (American Psychological Assoc.) Parkstone International, 2013.

Choose a replacement for the sentence Encaustics are like no other form of painting (l. 04-05) in which its core meaning would be preserved.