Questões de Inglês

Read the following text fragment:

 

Introduction

 

     The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of stories written for young wizards and witches. They have been popular bedtime reading for centuries, with the result that the Hopping Pot and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar to many of the students at Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle (nonmagical) children.

     Beedle’s stories resemble our fairy tales in many respects; for instance, virtue is usually rewarded and wickedness punished. However, here is one very obvious difference. In Muggle fairy tales, magic tends to lie at the root of the hero or heroine’s troubles – the wicked witch has poisoned the apple, or put the princess into a hundred years’ sleep, or turned the prince into a hideous beast. In The Tales of Beedle the Bard, on the other hand, we meet heroes and heroines who can perform magic themselves, and yet find it just as hard to solve their problems as we do. Beedle’s stories have helped generations of wizarding parents to explain this painful fact of life to their young children: that magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

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(ROWLING, J. K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard. London: Lumos. 2012. p. xi-xii.)

 

    Analyze these connective expressions from the text: 1. “with the result”, 2. “for instance”, 3. “However”, 4. “on the other hand”, 5. “and”, and 6. “yet”, according to their functions on the context, and mark the only correct alternative:

     Complete the sentences bellow with the correct form of the verbs in parenthesis:

 

I - I have ______________ (eat) sushi before.

II - He ______________ (break) his foot.

III - They______________(finish)their projects yesterday.

IV - She hasn’t ______________ (send) the email yet.

 

Mark the only alternative with all the correct conjugation of the verbs in parenthesis:

Read the sentences presented below:

 

I - She got a pat on the back for her good hard work.

II - I’ll be glad to see the back of that project.

III - There is a cat litter by the back door.

IV - The IT guy installed a backdoor on my computer.

 

      Choose the only alternative with the correct meaning of all the underlined expressions in the sentences:

Leia a tirinha.

A expressão “for instance”, no último quadrinho, foi empregada para introduzir

Leia o texto para responder à questão.

 

    New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking. Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted in 2022. “We want to make sure young people never start smoking,” Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verall said. The move is part of a sweeping crackdown on smoking announced by New Zealand’s Health Ministry.

    Doctors and other health experts in the country have welcomed the “world-leading” reforms, which will reduce access to tobacco and restrict nicotine levels in cigarettes. “It will help people quit smoking or switch to less harmful products, and make it much less likely that young people get addicted to nicotine,” said Prof Janet Hook from the University of Otago.

    The crackdown has been met with mixed reactions. “I reckon it’s a good move, really,” one man told Reuters news agency. “Because right now there’s a lot of young kids walking around with smokes in their mouth. Public are asking how they’re getting these smokes. And it’s also good for myself too because I can save more money.”

    However, others have warned that the move may create a black market for tobacco — something the Health Ministry’s official impact statement does acknowledge, noting “customs will need more resource to enforce border control”. “This is all 100% theory and 0% substance,” Sunny Kaushal, chairman of the Dairy and Business Owners Group, a lobby group for local convenience stores, told New Zealand’s Stuff news site. “There’s going to be a crime wave. Gangs and criminals will fill the gap.”

(www.bbc.com, 09.12.2021. Adaptado.)

O trecho do texto em que se exprime uma opinião é:

Leia o texto para responder à questão.

 

    New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking. Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted in 2022. “We want to make sure young people never start smoking,” Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verall said. The move is part of a sweeping crackdown on smoking announced by New Zealand’s Health Ministry.

    Doctors and other health experts in the country have welcomed the “world-leading” reforms, which will reduce access to tobacco and restrict nicotine levels in cigarettes. “It will help people quit smoking or switch to less harmful products, and make it much less likely that young people get addicted to nicotine,” said Prof Janet Hook from the University of Otago.

    The crackdown has been met with mixed reactions. “I reckon it’s a good move, really,” one man told Reuters news agency. “Because right now there’s a lot of young kids walking around with smokes in their mouth. Public are asking how they’re getting these smokes. And it’s also good for myself too because I can save more money.”

    However, others have warned that the move may create a black market for tobacco — something the Health Ministry’s official impact statement does acknowledge, noting “customs will need more resource to enforce border control”. “This is all 100% theory and 0% substance,” Sunny Kaushal, chairman of the Dairy and Business Owners Group, a lobby group for local convenience stores, told New Zealand’s Stuff news site. “There’s going to be a crime wave. Gangs and criminals will fill the gap.”

(www.bbc.com, 09.12.2021. Adaptado.)

No trecho do segundo parágrafo “which will reduce access to tobacco and restrict nicotine levels in cigarettes”, o termo sublinhado refere-se a