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BATERIA DE INGLS
Bateria 1 ano Gabarito
1) Read the text and answer the questions:
SUZANNE
I was nineteen years old then. I was at a dinner that my parents were giving for an important man from
some African country. There at least 600 people at the hotel and there was Suzanne sitting across the room.
When our eyes met, I knew it was for real. I told my brother Frank, That girl is beautiful and Im sure shes
looking at me too. Frank told me I was dreaming that she was looking at him. But I knew better. I found out
she was the sister of a good friend of mine. I asked her sister to introduce us, and from the moment we met we
stayed together most of the evening. It was the evening before Halloween and we walked around and around
the hotel we just couldnt say good night. It felt so right. Just before she left, she asked me, So whats on
your mind? That really confused me because thats usually my question. I just came out and told her. I said, I
want you to be my girlfriend. It lasted three years.
a) Whats the author describing?
no some
any none
some some
D)
E)
no any
any any
d)
e)
any
not
some
no
none
anything something
C)
something nothing
B)
something anything
D)
anything nothing
E)
anything anything
d) anybody
b) none
e) somebody
c) nobody
7) Choose the correct answer:
a) She wanted some sugar but there was none / no
in the house.
b) What were some of the things that Jimmy Five was always doing to provoke Monica? Mention at least
two.
9) Exercise on Questions with Interrogatives. Ask for the bold part of the sentence.
a) Julia likes pop-music. - What does Julia like?
b) Maria comes from Spain.
c) Rick rides his bike. d) I go to the cinema on Saturdays. 10) Answer the questions.
Schools of the Future
By Richard Morton
Some people predict that schools in the future will be different from schools today. How will they be
different? First, theyll be smaller. Many schools will have only about 100 students.
Second, schools probably wont have different grades students of different ages will be in the same grade.
Students will also choose the subjects they want to study, and theyll work together on projects. Theyll use
computers to work with students around the word. Students will create virtual cities and countries and solve
problems in them. They will study a lot of languages, too.
Tests will be very different, too. To pass them, students wont only answer questions they will have to do
other things. For a science test, a student might have to make a robot. For a history test, a student might create
a museum exhibit. A language arts test might give students a headline, and ask them to write an article about
it on the computer.
Schools in the future wont be easier than schools today, but one thing is certain: They will be more
exciting!
a) How will the schools be in the future?
b) Will they have many students? Why?
c) Will students use computers?
11) (UNIP) _______ pencil is this, Mario's or Pedro's?
a) Who
b) When
c) Whose
d) How
e) Where
12) (FATEC) ______ do you treat your younger brother like that?
a) Why
b) Who
c) Whom
d) What
e) Whose
) deserve
) withdraw
) respond
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) dominate
) explain
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) an honorable
) a misfortune
) a statesman
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) such a
) again
) indeed
) later
d) prettiere
e) most pretty
d)baddest
e)bedest
22) (MACK HUM) This book is ______________ the last one we used.
a)gooder than
b)best than
c) more good than
d)worse than
e)worst than
Leia a resenha abaixo, do romance If today be sweet, para responder (s) questo(es).
Tehmina Sethnas beloved husband has died this past year and she is visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home.
Now Tehmina is being asked to choose between her old, familiar life in India and a new one in Ohio with her son, his American
wife and their child. She must decide whether to leave the comforting landscape of her native India for the strange rituals of life in a
new country. This is a journey Tehmina, a middle-aged Parsi1 woman, must travel alone.
The Parsis were let into India almost a millennium ago because of their promise to sweeten and enrich the lives of the
people in their adopted country. This is an ancient promise that Tehmina takes seriously. And so, while faced with the larger choice
of whether to stay in America or not, Tehmina is also confronted with another, more urgent choice: whether to live in America as a
stranger or as a citizen. Citizenship implies connection, participation and involvement. Soon destiny beckons in the form of two
young, troubled children next door. It is the plight of these two boys that forces Tehmina to choose. She will either straddle two
worlds forever and live in a no-mans land or jump into the fullness of her new life in America.
If today be sweet, novel by Thrity Umrigar, celebrates family and community. It is an honest but affectionate look at
contemporary America the sterility of its suburban life, the tinsel of its celebrity culture, but also the generosity of its people and
their thirst for connection and communication. Eloquently written, evocative and unforgettable, If today be sweet is a poignant look
at issues of immigration, identity, family life and hope. It is a novel that shows how cultures can collide and become better for it.
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Parsi antigos persas que, para escapar s perseguies muulmanas, emigraram e se estabeleceram na ndia
Considerando a opinio do crtico, expressa no terceiro pargrafo, transcreva o item da escala que avalia If today be sweet. Em
seguida, destaque dois comentrios sobre a obra, presentes na resenha, que justificam essa avaliao.
Brazil offers new handout to the poor: Culture
By Andrew Downie
February 5, 2014
SAO PAULO, Brazil Like millions of other residents of Sao Paulo, Telma Rodrigues spends a large part of her waking
hours going to and from work. She hates the commute, and not just because public transportation is packed, slow and inefficient.
She finds it boring.
Now theres light at the end of the tunnel, and it has nothing to do with new bus lanes or subway lines. As of last weekend,
the government will give people such as Rodrigues a new cultural coupon worth $20 a month enough, the 26-year-old said, to
buy a book to enliven her daily ride. The money, loaded on a magnetic card, is designated only for purposes broadly termed cultural
although that category could include dance lessons and visits to the circus in addition to books and movie tickets.
In a country battling poverty on an epic scale, the initiative has won widespread praise as a worthy and yet relatively cheap
project. But it has provoked questions. Is it the states job to fund culture? How will poor Brazilians use the money? How do you,
or even should you, convince people that their money will be better spent on Jules Verne rather than Justin Bieber?
What wed really like is that they try new things, Culture Minister Marta Suplicy said in a telephone interview. We
want people to go to the theater they wanted to go to, to the museum they wanted to go to, to buy the book they wanted to read.
Although it has made significant advances in recent years, the South American nation is still relatively isolated and many
of the poorest Brazilians are unsophisticated in their tastes. They pick up an average of four books a year, including textbooks, and
finish only two of them, a study published last year by the Sao Paulo state government showed.
Almost all of Brazils 5,570 municipalities have a local library, but only one in four has a bookshop, theater or museum,
and only one in nine boasts a cinema, according to the governments statistics bureau. When asked what they most like to do in
their spare time, 85 percent of Brazilians answered watch television.
(www.washingtonpost.com. Adaptado.)
24. (Unesp 2014) Quais so os espaos culturais mais comuns e quais os mais raros nos municpios brasileiros?
(Unicamp 2013)
(www.eff.org/deeplinks. Adaptado.)
31. (Unesp 2012) No ltimo pargrafo se faz um apelo aos cidados. Qual esse apelo?
(Unicamp 2011)
35.. (Uneb 2014) Considering what the frog on the left says about the bugs, its
correct to say that, now, it
a) regrets having eaten them.
b) feels weaker after eating them.
c) can feel the bad side effects of them.
d) jumps much higher and/or farther than it used to.
e) is surprised at how little the bugs have helped its jumping performance.
36.Tirinhas so construdas a partir de contextos sociais e podem promover reflexes diversas. Essa tirinha provoca no leitor uma
reflexo acerca da
a) diviso de espao com os pais.
b) perda da ateno dos pais.
c) submisso aos pais.
d) ausncia dos pais.
Os cartes-postais costumam ser utilizados por viajantes que desejam enviar noticias dos lugares que visitam a parentes e amigos.
Publicado no site do projeto ANDRILL, o texto em formato de carto-postal tem o propsito de
a) comunicar o endereo da nova sede do projeto nos Estados Unidos.
b) convidar colecionadores de cartes-postais a se reunirem em um evento.
c) anunciar uma nova coleo de selos para angariar fundos para a Antrtica.
d) divulgar as pessoas a possibilidade de receberem um carto-postal da Antrtica.
e) solicitar que as pessoas visitem o site do mencionado projeto com maior frequncia.
TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO:
Am I all right?
While John Gilbert was in hospital, he asked his doctor to tell him whether his operation had been successful, but the doctor refused
to do so. The following day, the patient asked for a bedside telephone. When he was alone, he telephoned the hospital exchange and
asked for Doctor Millington. When the doctor answered the phone, Mr. Gilbert said he was inquiring about a certain patient, a Mr.
John Gilbert. He asked if Mr. Gilberts operation had been successful and the doctor told him that it had been. He then asked when
Mr. Gilbert would be allowed to go home and the doctor told him that he would have to stay in hospital for another two weeks.
Then Dr. Millington asked the caller if he was a relative of the patient. No, the patient answered, I am Mr. John Gilbert.
d) 3 and 4.
e) 4 and 5.
Job Interview
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Person asked the young Engineer fresh out of MIT, "And what starting
salary were you looking for?"
The Engineer said, "In the neighborhood of $75,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."
The HR Person said, "Well, what would you say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental,
company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years - say, a red Corvette?"
The Engineer sat up straight and said, "Wow!!! Are you kidding?"
And the HR Person said, "Of course,... but you started it."
42. (Ita 2004) Qual dos adjetivos abaixo melhor descreve a atitude inicial do engenheiro recm-formado?
a) Bem-humorada.
b) Corajosa.
c) Pretensiosa.
d) Humilde.
e) Maliciosa.
d) apenas I e III.
e) nenhuma.
ENGINEER IN HELL
In April we asked our readers: is there humor in the workplace? Perhaps engineering is too serious to be funny - or is it? Here is one
response:
To the editor:
An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer - you're in the wrong
place."
So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell,
and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the
engineer is a pretty popular guy.
One day St. Peter calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"
Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great! We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what
this engineer is going to come up with next."
St. Peter replies, 'What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake - he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."
Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him." St. Peter says, "Send him back up here or I'll
sue." Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
H. D.
MT VERMON, IOWA, USA
d) apenas a I e III.
e) apenas a II e III.
48. (Ita 2001) Quais frases, numeradas de I a IV, teriam o significado mais prximo a "SEND HIM BACK UP HERE OR I'LL
SUE", que se encontra no penltimo pargrafo do texto?
I. If you don't send him back up here, I'll sue.
II. If you send him back up here, I'll sue.
III. Unless you send him back up here, I won't sue.
IV. I will sue, unless you send him back up here.
a) Apenas a I e III.
b) Apenas a I, II e IV.
c) Apenas a I e IV.
d) Apenas a II e IV.
e) Apenas a III e IV.
Mr. Hodges was the owner and editor of a small newspaper. He always tried to bring his readers the latest news.
One day, he received an excited telephone call from someone who claimed that he had just come through a big flood in a
village up in the mountains. He described the flood in great detail, and Mr. Hodges wrote it down and printed it in his paper that
evening. He was delighted to see that no other paper had got hold of the story.
Unfortunately, however, angry telephone calls soon showed that he had been tricked, so in the next day's paper the wrote:
"We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the village of Greenbridge had been destroyed by a flood. Today, we
are proud to say that we are again the first newspaper to bring our readers the news that yesterday's story was quite false."
(FROM: Hill, L.A. - Advanced Steps to Understanding - London: Oxford University Press, 1980, p.56.)
Believe in yourself!