Questões de Inglês

Read Text 4 carefully, focusing on the idiom that is both underlined and in bold.

 

Text 4

 

Many patients prefer alternative medicine for its natural approach, but for serious illnesses, these treatments are sometimes less effective than conventional therapies. For those who have relied solely on herbal remedies, discovering that they need conventional medical treatment may be a bitter pill to swallow. Accepting that alternative approaches are not always enough requires humility and careful decision-making.

(Source: Text originally generated by ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2025) on 29th Aug, 2025, and adapted by the examination board)

 

Now mark the option that best conveys the meaning of the idiom in Text 4.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word in parentheses, following standard English grammar rules.

 

I. She typed so __________ that I couldn’t keep up. (fast - fastly)

II. Don’t hit the ball too __________ or it will go out of bounds. (hard - hardly)

III. The orchestra performed so __________ during the festival that critics hailed it as one of the finest ensembles in the world. (good - well)
IV. He __________ complains, even when things go wrong. (seldom - seldomly)
V. The solution to the problem is __________ to ask for help. (simple - simply)
VI. The movie was __________ long, but enjoyable. (quite - quitely)
 

Now mark the alternative that corresponds to the correct answers from I to VI, respectively.

Text 3 is an excerpt from the article The World's Plastic Pollution Crisis, Explained, published by National Geographic. Some prepositions have been removed from it.

 

Text 3

 

The conveniences plastics offer led (I) _______ a throw-away culture that reveals the material’s dark side: today, single-use plastics account (II) _______ 40 percent (III) _______ the plastic produced every year. Many of these products, such as plastic bags and food wrappers, have a lifespan (IV) _______ mere minutes (V) _______ hours, yet they may persist (VI) _______ the environment for hundreds of years.

(Source: Adapted from The world’s plastic pollution crisis, explained | National Geographic - retrieved on 31st Aug, 2025)

 

Select the option that provides the CORRECT sequence of words to accurately complete the excerpt.

Analyze the conditionals below.

 

I. If the team performs well in the first half, it will likely win the championship.

II. The team will win the championship if it performs well in the first half.

III. If it gets colder, we should light a fire.

IV. We'll light a fire if it gets colder.

V. If people don’t sleep enough, their cognitive functions decline.

VI. People's cognitive functions decline if they don´t sleep enough.

VII. If I were fluent in five languages now, I would work for the UN.

VIII. I would work for the UN, if I had been fluent in 5 languages now.

 

Now mark the option in which all the sentences above independently follow standard English grammar.

    Text 1

 

    Social Media Pressure & the Need to Be ‘That Girl’

 

Of course, there’s a downside. With the rise of that girl culture—a trend that promotes waking up at 5 AM, drinking green smoothies, and being effortlessly productive—many feel pressure to always appear put together. The need to fit into an aesthetic can sometimes feel exhausting. We might spend more time making our lives look perfect than actually enjoying them.

(Source: Aesthetic Overload: Why Gen Z is Obsessed with Making Life Look Perfect | by Krish Maran | Medium - retrieved on 31st August, 2025)

Text 1 is an excerpt from an article entitled "Aesthetic Overload: Why Gen Z is Obsessed with Making Life Look Perfect", published on an online platform. Read it and analyze the statements that follow.

 

I. One drawback of 'that girl' culture is that it can make people feel pressured to look perfect.

II. The main advantage of 'that girl' culture is that it makes life stress-free.

III. Looking perfect is more important than health.

IV. Instead of enjoying life, people may waste most of their time trying to make it seem flawless.

V. 'That girl' culture pressures people to live up to realistic standards and make life about appearances.

 

Now select the alternative in which all statements above are fully supported by Text 1.

Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questão

 

One of my favorite scenes in writer/director James Gunn’s energetic but scattershot “Superman” is also one of the simplest. Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane comes home to her apartment and finds David Corenswet’s Clark Kent cooking her “breakfast for dinner” as a surprise to celebrate their three-month anniversary.

Clark says that’s her favorite. Lois says no—that’s your favorite. They’re in that awkward and halting but sweet start-up period in a relationship, where one of them is ahead of the other in terms of making a commitment, and they’re still getting to know each other. Oh, and then there’s the fact that Clark is Superman, and Clark Kent, the Daily Planet journalist, keeps getting exclusive, friendly interviews with Superman, but Clark agrees to give Lois an on-the-record interview with Superman. The result is a clearly written, well-performed conversation that feels like a funny romantic comedy with serious undertones, as Lois asks Superman fair but tough questions about the ethics of his decision to end a coming war in a foreign land without the approval of the United States government.

Good stuff. There are a number of well-executed, dialogue-driven scenes mixed with the explosive CGI battles, the existential drama and the laugh-out-loud cameos, and writer/director Gunn admirably focuses on showing Superman as the embodiment of the classic American immigrant story—but this first entry in the new DC Universe left me with a cinematic fast-food vibe. You enjoy the flavors well enough, but you’re left feeling as if you’ve consumed a familiar, empty-calorie (relatively) Happy Meal. Despite the sincere and strong performances by Corenswet and Brosnahan, and plenty of colorful turns by the talented supporting cast, the fantastical elements of the Gods and Monsters universe come across as leftovers from Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” films and the battle sequences feel like fast-edited, unoriginal copies of fight scenes from dozens of other superhero movies. We’re left with a decent but not great take on “Superman” that, at times, will remind you of the 1978 version, but doesn’t quite match it for pure pop entertainment value.

As for Corenswet, he makes for a charming Superman, but he can’t quite match the movie star power of Christopher Reeve, nor does he have the unsettling, laser-focused ferocity of Henry Cavill. We’ve had nearly a dozen versions of Superman on screens big and small through the decades—and for that matter, about the same number of Lex Luthors. This latest version makes for enjoyable-enough popcorn entertainment, but ultimately leaves us wondering: was it even necessary?

Superman

Action
130 minutes · PG-13 · 2025
Richard Roeper
July 8, 2025
5 min read

(Adaptado de ROEPER, Richard. Superman. In RogerEbert.com (ONLINE), 8 jul. 2025.)

(Disponível em: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/superman-movie-review-2025. Acesso em: 10 jul.2025.)

Críticas cinematográficas frequentemente usam figuras de linguagem para articular avaliações sutis.

 

Sobre o uso da metáfora da “fast-food” neste texto, considere as afirmativas a seguir.

 

I. A metáfora do “fast-food” serve para destacar a contradição entre qualidade técnica e profundidade narrativa.

II. A associação com o “Happy Meal” sugere que, embora o filme seja divertido, ele se caracteriza pela falta de originalidade.

III. A metáfora sugere que o filme é saboroso e memorável, deixando uma experiência única no espectador.

IV. A expressão “cinematic fast-food vibe” sugere que o filme usa ação e humor para criticar a sociedade norte-americana.

 

Assinale a alternativa correta.