QUESTÃO 05

SIMULADO II
QUESTÃO 01

Mark the incorrect alternative:

a) Words not necessarily correspond to actions.
b) Actions are more reliable than words.
c) The truth is more likely to be represented by actions than by words.
d) What you say and what you do are always equivalent. According to the girl’s speech in each part of the cartoon, the list of
verbs that represents her discursive intentions is:
QUESTÃO 02 a) apologize – emphasize – suggest – request.
b) regret – suppose – accuse – advise.
We can replace the word BUT, in the text, by: c) excuse – declare – propose – demand.
a) then d) blame – insinuate – recommend – invite.
b) because e) state – imply – recriminate – insist.
c) however
d) and QUESTÃO 06

QUESTÃO 03 ONE SATURDAY NIGHT, during a visit to a fast-food

restaurant with my wife and children, I noticed a woman’s purse
Study: Junk Food Doesn’t Only Make You Fat, It Makes beneath a table in the corner. I gave the purse to the manager, and
moments later an elderly couple returned in a panic to claim it. The
You Lazy
gentleman insisted on giving me a ten-dollar reward for my honesty.
In the car on our way home, my four kids began singing.
According to a recent study by researchers at the University
“For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” I explained that I had done nothing
of California Los Angeles, a diet rich in processed food and fat leads
extraordinary, but I appreciated the song any way. “We’re not singing
not only to excess weight but also to less motivation. Researchers
about you, Daddy,” they responded. “We’re singing about the man
found that rats on a junk food diet were significantly fatter than rats on
who gave us ten dollars.”
a healthy diet. But the rats with the unhealthy diet also were less active
(Jack Lyles (Forest. Va.))
and mentally slower. "Our data suggest that diet-induced obesity is a
The man who took his family to the restaurant:
cause, rather than an effect, of laziness. Either the highly processed
a) Offered ten dollars to his wife.
diet causes fatigue or the diet causes obesity, which causes fatigue,"
b) Gave ten dollars to the manager.
says lead researcher Aaron Blaisdell.
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c) Handed the lost purse to the manager.
abril de 2015. d) Got anxious after having the meal.

According to the text, it is possible to state that: QUESTÃO 07

I. Rats which ate healthy food were thinner than the ones which ate The couple was in panic because:
junk food. a) They were too tired.
II. Laziness is a consequence from obesity. b) The wife had left the purse in the restaurant.
III. Obesity can be considered as an effect of laziness. c) They didn’t have enough money to pay the bill.
IV. Less motivation is one of the causes which make junk food d) It was time for them to rest a little.
ingestion attractive.
V. Rats on a healthy diet were more active. QUESTÃO 08
a) Only II and IV are correct. In fact, the kids were singing because:
b) Only I, II and III are correct. a) The manager at the restaurant was very polite.
c) Only III is correct. b) The restaurant was full of people.
d) Only I, II and V are correct. c) The family received a reward for finding the purse.
d) They paid only ten dollars for the meal.
QUESTÃO 04
QUESTÃO 09
“fatter”, (line 4), was used in the text as a:
a) superlative. The father thought the children were singing because:
b) comparative of superiority. a) They were in a hurry.
c) comparative of inferiority. b) They had nothing to eat
d) comparative of equality. c) He had returned the purse
d) They enjoyed the meal.
QUESTÃO 10
For the children, he in the sentence “For he’s a jolly good fellow”
refers to:
a) The father.
b) The gentleman.
c) The waiter.
d) The manager.

QUESTÃO 11
For the father, he in the sentence “For He’s a Jolly good Fellow” refers
to:
a) Himself.
b) The restaurant.
c) The couple.
d) The waiter.

QUESTÃO 12

The word elderly in... “and moments later an elderly couple returned in
a panic”... can be considered:
a) An adverb.
b) A pronoun.
c) A verb.
d) An adjective.

QUESTÃO 13

In: “we’re singing about the man who gave us ten dollars” us can be
considered a(n):
a) Possessive pronoun.
b) Relative pronoun.
c) Object pronoun.
d) Adjective pronoun.

QUESTÃO 14

In: “The gentleman insisted on giving me a ten-dollar reward for my

honesty.” Ten-dollar can be classified as:
a) An adjective.
b) A noun.
c) A preposition.
d) A pronoun.

QUESTÃO 15

In… “An elderly couple returned in a panic to claim it”. Returned can
be substituted by:
a) Went on.
b) Went away.
c) Came down.
d) Came back.