Questões de Inglês - Grammar - Prepositions - Time

Considerando os usos das preposições “in”, “on” e “at”, assinale a alternativa correta.

Which option completes the paragraph below correctly?

 

    A lawyer I worked            told me he was impressed because I wasn't afraid            anything. I had no idea what he was talking           . I'm scared            evervihing.

(Adapted from www .hrexaminer.com)

Read the text and answer question.

 

“Cracolândia” drug addicts have already spread to more than 20 different areas in São Paulo 
[1]  Five days after a police operation in Cracolândia
(Crackland) in the center of São Paulo, drug addicts
have spread to various parts of the region, such as Paulista
avenue, as well as the space underneath the João Goulart
[5] overpass, which is also known as the Minhocão.
  The officers from the GCM (the Metropolitan Civil
Guard) have accompanied the movement of those who
belonged to the “flow” (fluxo) – a term used to describe
outdoor areas where people negotiate and consume drugs.
Fonte: Folha de São Paulo – Internacional – 26/05/2017

 

GLOSSARY
overpass = viaduto, elevado

The words “after”, “in”, “of” and “from”, in bold in the text, are __________. 

Complete o texto sobre a estudante de enfermagem, usando as preposições corretas.

 

Rossitza Bontcheva is nineteen years old. She's studying ______¹ a diploma ______² nursing _______³ Vazov Nursing College. She has exams next month, so 4 the moment she is studying hard. She wants to be a nurse _______⁵ she likes working with people and she is interested _______⁶ science _______⁷ she doesn't like doing paper work.

 

She'd like to be a pediatric nurse ______⁸ she really enjoys working ______⁹ children. She's worked ______¹⁰ a children's ward ______¹¹ three months as a work placement. One day, she hopes to work ______¹² India, which she saw on TV.

 

Marque APENAS a alternativa correta.

Can plants hear?

Flora may be able to detect the sounds of flowing water or munching insects

 

  Pseudoscientific claims that music helps plants grow have been made for decades, despite evidence that is shaky at best. Yet new research suggests some flora may be capable of sensing sounds, such as the gurgle of water through a pipe or the buzzing of insects.

  In a recent study, Monica Gagliano, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Western Australia, and her colleagues placed pea seedlings in pots shaped like an upside-down Y. One arm of each pot was placed in either a tray of water or a coiled plastic tube through which water flowed; the other arm had dry soil. The roots grew toward the arm of the pipe with the fluid, regardless of whether it was easily accessible or hidden inside the tubing. “They just knew the water was there, even if the only thing to detect was the sound of it flowing inside the pipe,” Gagliano says. Yet when the seedlings were given a choice between the water tube and some moistened soil, their roots favored the latter. She hypothesizes that these plants use sound waves to detect water at a distance but follow moisture gradients to home in on their target when it is closer.

  The research, reported earlier this year in Oecologia, is not the first to suggest flora can detect and interpret sounds. A 2014 study showed the rock cress Arabidopsis can distinguish between caterpillar chewing sounds and wind vibrations – the plant produced more chemical toxins after “hearing” a recording of feeding insects. “We tend to underestimate plants because their responses are usually less visible to us. But leaves turn out to be extremely sensitive vibration detectors,” says lead study author Heidi M. Appel, an environmental scientist now at the University of Toledo.

(Marta Zaraska. www.scientificamerican.com, 17.05.2017.)

No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “The research, reported earlier”, o termo em destaque indica

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

 

    Most don’t work anymore, but Americans age 70 and older have seen their share of collective wealth surge during the pandemic. As a group, they have accumulated more than $14 trillion in additional net worth since the end 2019, based on Federal Reserve data. Their share of the country’s wealth has jumped to a record 30%, even though they account for 11% of the population.

    The aging population helps explain some of the gains: there are about 2.3 million more people over 70 in the country than in 2019. But one major driver was the surge in home values and stocks during the pandemic, which benefited older generations most likely to own a house — or two — and hold equities or mutual funds.

    Although people who are over 70 are typically retired, a rising portion of that age group is still working. The share of adults age 65 and more in the labor force reached a historic low of 10% in the mid-1980s but has since almost doubled, even after many retired early at the onset of the covid-19 health crisis.

    Older Americans also have been the beneficiaries of good timing with the stock market, despite recessions along the way. Since 2019, those age 70 and older have collectively gained about $5 trillion in equity gains. Close to 38% of the nation’s corporate equities and mutual fund shares were held by people in that age group, the highest share on record in data going back to 1989.

(Alex Tanzi. www.bnnbloomberg.ca, 2023. Adaptado.)

O termo “since”, no trecho do terceiro parágrafo “The share of adults age 65 and more in the labor force reached a historic low of 10% in the mid-1980s but has since almost doubled”, é empregado com o mesmo sentido do termo sublinhado em: