Prova NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa

Questão 2190088

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Answer the question, according to text 1.

TEXT 1

Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment

Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    

    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.

    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.

    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.

    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.

Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21^st, 2016.

According to the text, the reason why the compound phosphoethanolamine was considered as miracle cure is

• A. its efficiency in curing a high percentage of patients who underwent treatment.
• B. some cancer patients claimed they recovered after using phosphoethanolamine.
• C. it had a notoriously high failure rate in human trials and it is not really a ‘drug’ at all.
• D. university officials from São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years.
• E. researchers from all over Brazil are providing the compound to people with terminal cancer.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• Letra B.

   

  "A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure."

• -b

  The answer highlights the main claim that it's a "miracle drug" - some terminally ill patients took it and later reported on their own recovery, which buttressed the text's main talking point

• Gabarito B

  alguns pacientes com câncer afirmaram que se recuperaram após o uso de fosfoetanolamina.

Questão 2190091

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Answer the question, according to text 1.

TEXT 1

Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment

Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    

    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.

    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.

    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.

    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.

Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21^st, 2016.

According to the text, drug regulators and cancer researchers in Brazil are

• A. for the proposal of providing the compound to people with terminal cancer immediately.
• B. demonstrating phosphoethanolamine is safe and effective and giving it to patients who go to court.
• C. concerned and turning to the courts to access drugs that the state health-care system does not dispense.
• D. disgruntled, once phosphoethanolamine is being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.
• E. granting orders for the largest university in Brazil to provide phosphoethanolamine to cancer patients.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• Gabarito: D.

   

  "But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial."

• d-

   

  Disgruntled implica insatisfação com algo. No caso, indica a situação de eles nao concordarem com a distribuição da droga fora de um estudo clínico.

Questão 2190094

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Answer the question, according to text 1.

TEXT 1

Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment

Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    

    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.

    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.

    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.

    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.

Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21^st, 2016.

According to the text, turning to the courts in Brazil to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense is

• A. guaranteed by the ones who claimed remarkable recoveries.
• B. not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.
• C. common in Brazil, although Brazilian laws apply only to cancer patients.
• D. a significant victory to patients with common illnesses, but cancer.
• E. a right guaranteed by the Brazilian constitution.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• -e

  O direito universal à saude abrange o direito de recorrer à justiça para obter medicamentos que nao sao distribuidos. 

Questão 2190097

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Vocabulário | Vocabulary

Answer the question, according to text 1.

TEXT 1

Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment

Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    

    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.

    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.

    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.

    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.

Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21^st, 2016.

Which word is similar in meaning to “tussle” as in the sentence “Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment”?

• A. Distribute.
• B. Struggle.
• C. Begin.
• D. Claim.
• E. Test.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• b-

  tussle - wrangle with, fight, contend, bout, skirmish, scuffle, strife, fight, struggle

• Letra B

   

  fight, struggle, fighting, combat, wrestling, tussle

Questão 2190100

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension; Pronomes | Pronouns

Answer the question, according to text 1.

TEXT 1

Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment

Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing.

    

    A court in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has cut off distribution of a compound that is hailed by some as a miracle cancer cure — even though it has never been formally tested in humans. On 11 November, to the relief of many cancer researchers, a state court overturned earlier court orders that had obliged the nation’s largest university to provide the compound to hundreds of people with terminal cancer.

    The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.

    The Brazilian constitution guarantees universal access to health care, and it is common in Brazil for patients to turn to the courts to access drugs that the state healthcare system does not dispense because of their cost. But phosphoethanolamine presents a different situation because it is not really a ‘drug’ at all. It is not approved by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.

    Those who argue that people who are terminally ill have a right to try experimental medicines saw a decision in favor of a  patient in October 2015 as a significant victory. But to the university administration, drug regulators and cancer researchers, it showed blatant disregard for the basic scientific principle that a drug should be demonstrated to be safe and effective before being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.

Source: Nature 527, 420–421 (adapted). http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-courts-tussleover-unproven-cancer-treatment-1.18864. Access: March 21^st, 2016.

The pronoun this (in bold type in the 2^nd paragraph) refers to  

• A. the fact that drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials.
• B. phosphoethanolamine has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice, not humans.
• C. some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years.
• D. those patients who have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation.
• E. administrators at the university estimate that it covers about 80% of the orders they have received for the compound.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• a-

  This remete à ideia contida na oração anterior para colaborar com o sentido da conjunção concessiva despite.

• (A)

  The compound, phosphoethanolamine, has been shown to kill tumor cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials. Despite this...

  Tradução-->O composto, fosfoetanolamina, demonstrou matar células tumorais apenas em placas de laboratório e em camundongos (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drogas que parecem promissoras em estudos de laboratório e animais têm uma taxa de falha notoriamente alta em testes em humanos. Apesar disso

Questão 2190103

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

Identify the option in which one of the words in the group is NOT a homophone with the others.

• A. Right, rite, write.
• B. There, their, they're.
• C. Seas, sees, seize.
• D. Ware, wear, where.
• E. Buy, bay, bye.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• Gabarito: E.

   

  Errei essa.

   

  Estudo inglês há um tempo e nunca tinha ouvido falar de homophones.

   

  Homophones - words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings (ate and eight, for example).

   

  Na alternativa E, "bay" tem pronúncia diferente das demais.

• -e

   

   a- 'w' antes de 'r' nao é pronunciado. Logo, ring e wring têm a mesma pronuncia.

   

   b- O 'h' entre uma consoante e 'r' confere um som aberto à vogal 'e'. É por isso que mere é /mi:r/ enquanto que there é /ther/. Nao é uma regra, mas uma observação com grande frequencia.

   

   c- o 's' tera som de 'z' quando o som anterior for vocalizado. Isso acontece com todas as vogais e consoantes fora do grupo de voiceless. voiceless consonants - p, t, k. Logo, cats /s/. cads /z/.

   

   d- Ware, wear, where.  o 'h' de novo entre consoante e r, fazendo o 'e' ter um som aberto. É importante notar o som /w/ é uma consoante, embora muitos falantes de portugues brasileiros a tratem como semivogal /u/. É um som breve e fechado, nao havendo um equivalente no portugues brasileiro.

   

  e- pelo que sei, nao ha uma variação linguística onde 'bay'  e 'buy' tenham o mesmo som.

Questão 2190106

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

“The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) was established in 1886 in Paris. The aim of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. In furtherance of this aim, the IPA provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages. The latest version of the IPA Alphabet was published in 2005.”  

Source: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org (Adapted). Access: March 21st, 2016. The phonetic transcription below corresponds to American English (based on the open Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary).  

[ɪn ˈɔrdər tu səkˈsid, wi mʌst fɜrst bɪˈliv ðæt wi kæn ]

According to IPA, the phonetic transcription above corresponds to  

• A. “in ardor to success, we must first believe that we can.”
• B. “an order to success, he must first believe that he can.”
• C. “in order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
• D. “an ardor to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
• E. “in ardors to success, we must first believe that we can’t.”

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• c-

   

  In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. O IPA é um alfabeto de sons. Embora o simbolo de alguns sons se pareçam com letras, devemos lembrar que eles nem sempre representam o som em sua representação gráfica com a qual estamos acosutmados. e.g.: o 'x' não é som ks e nem sh, mas sim voiceless uvular fricative.

Questão 2190109

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Infinitivo e gerúndio | Infinitive and gerund; Verbos | Verbs; Vocabulário | Vocabulary

Read text 2 and answer the question according to it.

TEXT 2

GOOGLE HAS REFUSED GOVERNMENT DEMANDS TO TAKE DOWN A GAY MUSIC VIDEO IN KENYA

Kenya’s attempt to stop people from watching a music video celebrating gay couples is backfiring. Three weeks after trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of Same Love, (1)__________ Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused to pull the video from YouTube, where it has now been viewed (2)____________ 140,000 times. Kenyan regulators banned the video in late February, claiming that the content threatens to turn the country (3)___________ “Sodom and Gomorrah” and declaring that anyone caught distributing it would be punished. But the agency that banned it also retweeted a link to it—which ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s nascent gay rights campaign. (…)

Source: http://qz.com/638461/google-hasrefused-government-demands-to-take-downa-gay-music-video-in-kenya (adapted). Access: March 22^nd, 2016.  

In the passage, the word backfiring is a synonym with  

• A. fighting.
• B. working out.
• C. appealing.
• D. getting stronger
• E. failing.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• -e

  Backfiring significa "sair pela culatra". Pela conotação negativa, eliminam-se opções b,c, & d. Opção 'a' é fighting, mas nao faz sentido dizer que a tentativa esta "lutando". Logo, 'e' é a única opção que corresponde ao sentido contextual de backfiring

Questão 2190112

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Preposições | Prepositions

Read text 2 and answer the question according to it.

TEXT 2

GOOGLE HAS REFUSED GOVERNMENT DEMANDS TO TAKE DOWN A GAY MUSIC VIDEO IN KENYA

Kenya’s attempt to stop people from watching a music video celebrating gay couples is backfiring. Three weeks after trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of Same Love, (1)__________ Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused to pull the video from YouTube, where it has now been viewed (2)____________ 140,000 times. Kenyan regulators banned the video in late February, claiming that the content threatens to turn the country (3)___________ “Sodom and Gomorrah” and declaring that anyone caught distributing it would be punished. But the agency that banned it also retweeted a link to it—which ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s nascent gay rights campaign. (…)

Source: http://qz.com/638461/google-hasrefused-government-demands-to-take-downa-gay-music-video-in-kenya (adapted). Access: March 22^nd, 2016.  

The suitable prepositions to fill in blanks 1, 2 and 3 in text 2 are respectively

• A. by, over, into.
• B. at, beside, through.
• C. by, from, beside.
• D. over, on, from.
• E. through, by, into.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• -a

  By indica autoria. Over significa "more than" (mais do que). 

Questão 2190115

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Palavras conectivas | Connective words

 “Connectors, or conjunctives (Halliday & Hasan, 1976), are a type of cohesion device that make explicit the logical relations between sentences (cause, addition, comparison, condition, etc.). Common connectors include and, but, however, and because. Such connectors are of limited utility, however, unless the reader understands how connectors function and the logical relationship each specifies.” Source: GOLDMAN, Susan R. & MURRAY, John. Knowledge of Connectors as Cohesion Devices in Text: A Comparative Study of Native English and ESL Speakers. (Adapted) In: www.dtic.mil/cgibin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA213269. Access: March 23^rd, 2016.

From the groups of logical conjunctives below, which one contains connectors that specify a similar logical relation?  

• A. Nonetheless, and, as soon as.
• B. Unless, if, as long as.
• C. However, nevertheless, whether.
• D. Because, therefore, unless.
• E. As well as, nonetheless, however.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• b-

  Unless, if, as long as indicam condição

Questão 2190118

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

Which of the words below can be used for ordering events in reports, essays and other texts?

• A. Then.
• B. Over.
• C. Never.
• D. Straight.
• E. Nevertheless.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• Gabarito está A, mas não entendi nem o que a questão quer.

• Then pode significar: em seguida...

• Ah.. eu considerei, erradamente, "ordering" como pedir (i would like to order), e não como sequência, ordenação.

   

  Valeu.

• a-

  Sequencing adverbs:

   

  "first", "next", "then" & "finally" 

Questão 2190127

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Plural dos substantivos | Plural of nouns; Substantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds

Identify the alternative in which the plural form is INCORRECT.

• A. Epoch – epochs.
• B. Person – people.
• C. Syllabus – syllabi.
• D. Alumnus – alumnium.
• E. Embryo - embryos.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• d-

   

  Latin Plural Endings

   

  a endings:

   

  alga: algae or algas
  antenna: antennas or antennae (only antennae is correct for the sensory organs on animals; antennas in more common in other contexts)
  formula: formulas or formulae
  larva: larvae or larvas
  vertebra: vertebrae or vertebras.

   

  ex:

  
  apex: apexes or apices
  index: indexes or indices
  vortex: vortices or vortexes

   

  is:

  
  analysis: analyses
  axis: axes
  basis: bases
  crisis: crises
  diagnosis: diagnoses
  ellipsis: ellipses
  hypothesis: hypotheses
  oasis: oases
  paralysis: paralyses
  parenthesis: parentheses
  synopsis: synopses
  synthesis: syntheses
  thesis: theses

• Há uma exceção a essa regra. Se o final -ch for pronunciado com um som de “k”, adiciona-se -s em vez de -es. Logo, Epoch fica Epochs e não Epoches...

• ALLUMINUS - ALUMINNI

Questão 2190130

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

Identify the alternative in which there is INACCURACY related to verb inflection.

• A. I’m looking forward to seeing you again.
• B. Wake up! It’s time for have breakfast.
• C. They weren’t strong enough to lift the car.
• D. The student left without talking to his classmates.
• E. I dislike getting up early.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

•  b)Wake up! It’s time for have breakfast. 

  It’s time to have breakfast. 

   

Questão 2190133

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Passado perfeito progressivo | Past perfect continuous; Verbos | Verbs

“Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” After the second explosion, he looked up to see a giant fan — part of an air-conditioning unit — that had landed near them. They had been eating at a Délifrance, talking about Salah Abdeslam, the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe /brussels (adapted). Access: March 23^rd, 2016.  

The verbal tense in the passage “had been eating” is

• A. future perfect continuous.
• B. present continuous.
• C. past continuous.
• D. past perfect continuous.
• E. present perfect continuous.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• d-

  The past perfect continuous is similar in construction andusage to the present perfect continuous, barring its reference to a time earlier than 'before now', with an intrinsic concern with highlighting the process

Questão 2190136

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Sinônimos | Synonyms; Vocabulário | Vocabulary

“Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” After the second explosion, he looked up to see a giant fan — part of an air-conditioning unit — that had landed near them. They had been eating at a Délifrance, talking about Salah Abdeslam, the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe /brussels (adapted). Access: March 23^rd, 2016.  

The word “manhunt” in the sentence “the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt” is a synonym with

• A. fundi.
• B. odd.
• C. chase.
• D. kidnapping.
• E. experiment.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• c-

  Manhunt - an organised hunt for a person, especially one charged with a crime.

Questão 2190139

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Pronome relativo | Relative clauses; Pronomes | Pronouns

“Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” After the second explosion, he looked up to see a giant fan — part of an air-conditioning unit — that had landed near them. They had been eating at a Délifrance, talking about Salah Abdeslam, the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe /brussels (adapted). Access: March 23^rd, 2016.  

The clause “who is pregnant”, in “Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” is a

• A. maintenance clause.
• B. temporal clause.
• C. relative clause.
• D. stylistic clause.
• E. summary clause.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• WHO é um pronome relativo!

• -c

  Relative clauses are set off with the relative pronouns who, that, which, whose, where and when. They are used when it's necessary to define the noun that precedes them.

Questão 2190142

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

The word in bold type is NOT the head or primary element in the nominal group in the sentence

• A. “very large airplanes that are arriving from overseas.”
• B. “three high towers in front of you.”
• C. “a 100-meter long train at the station.”
• D. “Bakhtin’s perspective of speech genres.”
• E. “the various practical applications of that science.”

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• d-

   

  The head of a phrase determines the syntactic behaviour of the remaining elements of that phrase. If it's a compound noun, the head is the stem. The remaining elements modify the head. Heads dictate the way that a clause or phrase branches out. 

   

  Head é simplesmente o núcleo sintático de um sujeito ou objeto. Em "speech genres", verifica-se que a palavra que é indispensavel é speech e genres o modifica, porque em speech genres (generos do discurso), speech tem relação de posse em relação a genres, o qual delega a este uma função subordinada em relação a speech

Questão 2190145

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

The word in bold type is NOT a part of the modifier in the nominal group in the sentence

• A. “a heartbreaking reality around the district.”
• B. “the majority of the countries faced with bank failures.”
• C. “an important objective of community development policy.”
• D. “the evolution path of such a type of laboratory.”
• E. “her daughter's college tuition bill.”

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• Around altera district; bank altera failures; important altera objetive; tuition altera bill, mas evolution que altera path e não o contrário.

  É só pensar "É qualquer failure? Não, é bank failure, então é modificado por bank" 

• a-

  Around - adverb
  1.
  in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.:
  The crowd gathered around.

  
  2.
  on all sides; about:
  His land is fenced all around.

  
  3.
  in all directions from a center or point of reference:
  He owns the land for miles around. (dictionary.com)

   

  Adverbios nao modificam substantivos

Questão 2190148

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Adjetivos | Adjectives; Infinitivo e gerúndio | Infinitive and gerund; Verbos | Verbs

The ING ending word is used as an adjective in the sentence

• A. “learning English is important for your career.”
• B. those students are good at making excuses.
• C. “doctors say running is good for the heart.”
• D. “Sarah’s always smoking during the break.”
• E. “my weekend was relaxing, just perfect!”

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• -e

  
  The -ing form can either a noun or an adjectival role, functioning as a non-finite verb or simple noun or adjective. As a non-finite verb in the noun case, it is called a gerund while it's termed present participle in the adjectival or adverbial case. In short, gerunds engender noun phrases while participles are associated to adjectival/adverbial phrases. 

   

  The -ing ending can also modify a noun when derived from a verb form. e.g.: rise -> rising as in rising tensions. The logical implication vis-a-vis the proposed answer choice is that the weekend was marked by its relaxing features, allowing the persona to derive benefits from it. 

• Letter e

  Relaxing is adjective in this case.
  Relaxing - relaxante
  My weekend was relaxing, just perfect
  Meu final de semana foi relaxante...

Questão 2190151

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Vocabulário | Vocabulary

In the sentence “They intend to finish the English course and eventually study another language” the word “eventually” can be substituted, without changes in meaning by

• A. sometimes.
• B. not ever.
• C. by no means.
• D. at no time.
• E. sooner or later.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• Gabarito: E.

   

  Eventually é um falso cognato e NÃO significa eventualmente, mas sim, finalmente. No caso da questão, dá para substituir por sooner or later (cedo ou tarde).

   

  Para eventualmente, pode-se utilizar occasionally.

• -e

  Interessante, nunca tinha pensado em "eventually" como falso cognato. Eventually vem de event, e um evento é uma coisa prevista a acontecer. 

• Cuidado.

  Eventually também pode significar eventualmente. O que acontece é que no contexto do texto, ele significa afinal ou finalmente.

Questão 2190154

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

In the sentence “The actress dances as well as she acts.” the passage “as well as” expresses an idea of

• A. addition.
• B. comparison.
• C. contrast.
• D. consequence.
• E. cause.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• Gabarito: B

   

  "A atriz dança tão bem quanto atua."

• a-

   

  as well as - in addition to

  again, likewise, besides, additionally, along (with), and, conjointly, in conjunction with, moreover, plus, to boot, withal

Questão 2190157

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Verbos | Verbs

TEXT 3

Mario-Centered Nintendo Land To Open By Tokyo Olympics

Nintendo Land is set to become the next highly-anticipated attraction at Universal Studios Japan, where it is scheduled to debut by 2020 in time for the Tokyo Summer Olympics. The recently confirmed $350 million deal was said to mirror the same large-scale investment that was needed in building the Harry Potter-themed area of the park, which opened to the public in July 2014.

Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/138890/20160 305/mario-centered-nintendo-land-set-to-openby-tokyo-olympics.htm. (Adapted). Access: March 23^rd, 2016.  

One can infer from the title “Mario-Centered Nintendo Land To Open by Tokyo Olympics” that “to open”

• A. can be replaced by “is going to open” without changes in meaning.
• B. means that it opened in July 2014 as Harry Potter-themed area.
• C. means there is no fee for the public.
• D. means it is scheduled to debut after July 2014.
• E. means an event is opening now in a park in Japan.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• a-

   

  The infinitive is usually employed to express purpose (can be replaced by in order to. Answers why questions).

   

  He stopped to regain his breath. 

  
  It can also be used to express the idea of future tense when used in the 3rd singular person. Note that in the 1st person, it is a case of periphrastic construction, acquiring a connotation resembling modals of obligation.

Questão 2190160

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Pronome subjetivo | Subjective pronoun; Pronomes | Pronouns

TEXT 3

Mario-Centered Nintendo Land To Open By Tokyo Olympics

Nintendo Land is set to become the next highly-anticipated attraction at Universal Studios Japan, where it is scheduled to debut by 2020 in time for the Tokyo Summer Olympics. The recently confirmed $350 million deal was said to mirror the same large-scale investment that was needed in building the Harry Potter-themed area of the park, which opened to the public in July 2014.

Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/138890/20160 305/mario-centered-nintendo-land-set-to-openby-tokyo-olympics.htm. (Adapted). Access: March 23^rd, 2016.  

The pronoun it refers to

• A. Universal Studios Japan.
• B. Tokyo Summer Olympics.
• C. Nintendo Land.
• D. The $350 million deal.
• E. The Harry Potter-themed area.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• c-

   

  It retorna o sujeito da oração principal anterior - Nintendo Land. Como núcleo sintático, pode ser substuído por outras estruturas (highly-anticipated attraction) representando a mesma coisa sem necessidade de repetição e risco de ambiguidade.

Questão 2190163

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

TEXT 04

__________________________________

     As (1) ______ result of the new information technologies and computer-mediated communications, contemporary communication has become highly multimodal moving, particularly, towards the extensive use of (2) _______image, while meaning is inevitably derived from ways that are multimodal. Nowadays, almost all texts consist of visual elements, which in combination with language hold a prominent role in conveying the essential information. In this context, people, especially youths, are exposed to (3) _______ variety of multimodal texts, such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements.

    As a consequence of (4) _______ above social changes, the field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning of languages has been influenced, as the traditional literacy pedagogy, which emphasizes language as a central means of meaning, has been challenged to expand beyond the skills of encoding and decoding texts. In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students, especially, foreign language learners, with the multimodal approach by accentuating the interplay of language and image that are present in conventional and electronic texts.

Source: adapted from https://www.academia.edu/6247350/Strategic_re ading_in_multimodal_EFL_texts. Access: March 24^th , 2016.

According to what is developed throughout the text 04, what is the best title to it?

• A. The role of technology in education.
• B. Reading images in the English classroom.
• C. The relationship between texts and technology.
• D. The expansion of technologies and computer-mediated communications.
• E. The emergence of multimodal texts.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• e-

  O tópico principal é multimodal texts. É importante notar que ele nao fala só de tecnologia porque o 2° parágrafo ha uma mudança de foco para ilustrar a realidade das mudanças sociais e necessidade de tratar o texto como um insrumento de interação com outros aspectos comunicativos - "the use of the image....."

Questão 2190166

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Vocabulário | Vocabulary

TEXT 04

__________________________________

     As (1) ______ result of the new information technologies and computer-mediated communications, contemporary communication has become highly multimodal moving, particularly, towards the extensive use of (2) _______image, while meaning is inevitably derived from ways that are multimodal. Nowadays, almost all texts consist of visual elements, which in combination with language hold a prominent role in conveying the essential information. In this context, people, especially youths, are exposed to (3) _______ variety of multimodal texts, such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements.

    As a consequence of (4) _______ above social changes, the field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning of languages has been influenced, as the traditional literacy pedagogy, which emphasizes language as a central means of meaning, has been challenged to expand beyond the skills of encoding and decoding texts. In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students, especially, foreign language learners, with the multimodal approach by accentuating the interplay of language and image that are present in conventional and electronic texts.

Source: adapted from https://www.academia.edu/6247350/Strategic_re ading_in_multimodal_EFL_texts. Access: March 24^th , 2016.

Considering the excerpt taken from the text 04 "In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students..." (lines 28 to 31), answer the question.

The word "framework" can be substituted, without changing of meaning by:

• A. theoretical account.
• B. origin.
• C. experience.
• D. characteristic.
• E. source.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• a-

   

  Framework -framework, groundwork, plan, scheme, structure, schema (as in database schema), skeleton.

   

  The main passage discusses the effects of social changes on the language learning, hinting at a trend that deemphasises grammar teaching as an end unto itself and redefining the meaning of literacy goals which should span context-dependent socio-cognitive spheres. In this way, one can refer to the central framework referred to in the text as a "theoretical account" as it's based on the core idea that communication should be held as the outcome of language teaching.

Questão 2190169

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Verbos modais | Modal verbs; Verbos | Verbs

TEXT 04

__________________________________

     As (1) ______ result of the new information technologies and computer-mediated communications, contemporary communication has become highly multimodal moving, particularly, towards the extensive use of (2) _______image, while meaning is inevitably derived from ways that are multimodal. Nowadays, almost all texts consist of visual elements, which in combination with language hold a prominent role in conveying the essential information. In this context, people, especially youths, are exposed to (3) _______ variety of multimodal texts, such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements.

    As a consequence of (4) _______ above social changes, the field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning of languages has been influenced, as the traditional literacy pedagogy, which emphasizes language as a central means of meaning, has been challenged to expand beyond the skills of encoding and decoding texts. In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students, especially, foreign language learners, with the multimodal approach by accentuating the interplay of language and image that are present in conventional and electronic texts.

Source: adapted from https://www.academia.edu/6247350/Strategic_re ading_in_multimodal_EFL_texts. Access: March 24^th , 2016.

Considering the excerpt taken from the text 04 "In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students..." (lines 28 to 31), answer the question.

The modal verb “should” brings the idea of:

• A. probability.
• B. necessity.
• C. deduction.
• D. reccomendation.
• E. prohibition.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• d-

   

  "Should" is used to make recommendations or give advice. 

Questão 2190172

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Artigos | Articles

TEXT 04

__________________________________

     As (1) ______ result of the new information technologies and computer-mediated communications, contemporary communication has become highly multimodal moving, particularly, towards the extensive use of (2) _______image, while meaning is inevitably derived from ways that are multimodal. Nowadays, almost all texts consist of visual elements, which in combination with language hold a prominent role in conveying the essential information. In this context, people, especially youths, are exposed to (3) _______ variety of multimodal texts, such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements.

    As a consequence of (4) _______ above social changes, the field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning of languages has been influenced, as the traditional literacy pedagogy, which emphasizes language as a central means of meaning, has been challenged to expand beyond the skills of encoding and decoding texts. In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students, especially, foreign language learners, with the multimodal approach by accentuating the interplay of language and image that are present in conventional and electronic texts.

Source: adapted from https://www.academia.edu/6247350/Strategic_re ading_in_multimodal_EFL_texts. Access: March 24^th , 2016.

The most suitable articles to fill up the blanks 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the text 04, respectively are:

• A. a, the, a, the.
• B. a, the, an, an.
• C. an, the, a, an.
• D. a, an, an, the.
• E. a, a , an, the.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• A) Explicação

  Antes de consoante usa o artigo (a result)

  O texto está tratando do extensivo uso de imagens logo (of the).

  No terceiro caso a mesma coisa do primeiro (a variety)

  Por eliminação já deu pra matar a questão

• a-

   

  the above social changes. a variety of....

   

  why should one say "the use of the image" rather than "the use of an image"?

  It's not the image, as a noun, that is important. It's its application that needs specification, which calls for the definite article. 

• (1) a result -> artigo indefinido usado antes de palavra iniciadas com consoantes.

   

  (2) the image -> artigo definido.

   

  (3)a variety ->  artigo indefinido usado antes de palavra iniciadas com consoantes.

   

  (4) the above -> artigo definido.

   

   

• artigo definido = the ,a ,o as,os

  artigo indefinido=a,um an,uma

  a= usa quando começar com consoante

  an=usa quando começar com vogal

  one=quando for numeral

  the =nao usa antes de nomes de pessoas ,cidades,coias sentidos gerais,ao falar idioma

  the= usa quando estiver repetindo mesma palavra 2x

Questão 2190175

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

TEXT 04

__________________________________

     As (1) ______ result of the new information technologies and computer-mediated communications, contemporary communication has become highly multimodal moving, particularly, towards the extensive use of (2) _______image, while meaning is inevitably derived from ways that are multimodal. Nowadays, almost all texts consist of visual elements, which in combination with language hold a prominent role in conveying the essential information. In this context, people, especially youths, are exposed to (3) _______ variety of multimodal texts, such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements.

    As a consequence of (4) _______ above social changes, the field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning of languages has been influenced, as the traditional literacy pedagogy, which emphasizes language as a central means of meaning, has been challenged to expand beyond the skills of encoding and decoding texts. In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students, especially, foreign language learners, with the multimodal approach by accentuating the interplay of language and image that are present in conventional and electronic texts.

Source: adapted from https://www.academia.edu/6247350/Strategic_re ading_in_multimodal_EFL_texts. Access: March 24^th , 2016.

The discourse marker "such as" in the exerpt "...such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements." (lines 14 to 19) can be substituted, without change in meaning, by

• A. therefore.
• B. then.
• C. like.
• D. so.
• E. as well as.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• O marcador do discurso ", como" no exercício "... como jogos de vídeo, sites, livros ilustrados, livros escolares, artigos de revistas, propagandas e romances gráficos - que envolvem uma interação complexa de texto escrito, imagens visuais, gráficos, E elementos de design ". (Linhas 14 a 19) podem ser substituídas, sem alteração de significado, por

• c-

  such as - formal

  like - informal

Questão 2190178

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Infinitivo e gerúndio | Infinitive and gerund; Substantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds; Verbos | Verbs

TEXT 04

__________________________________

     As (1) ______ result of the new information technologies and computer-mediated communications, contemporary communication has become highly multimodal moving, particularly, towards the extensive use of (2) _______image, while meaning is inevitably derived from ways that are multimodal. Nowadays, almost all texts consist of visual elements, which in combination with language hold a prominent role in conveying the essential information. In this context, people, especially youths, are exposed to (3) _______ variety of multimodal texts, such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements.

    As a consequence of (4) _______ above social changes, the field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning of languages has been influenced, as the traditional literacy pedagogy, which emphasizes language as a central means of meaning, has been challenged to expand beyond the skills of encoding and decoding texts. In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students, especially, foreign language learners, with the multimodal approach by accentuating the interplay of language and image that are present in conventional and electronic texts.

Source: adapted from https://www.academia.edu/6247350/Strategic_re ading_in_multimodal_EFL_texts. Access: March 24^th , 2016.

Considering the context of use in the text 04, the words "teaching" and "learning" (line 22) in the second paragraph are

• A. adverbs.
• B. nouns.
• C. adjectives.
• D. verbs.
• E. prepositions.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• b

  "line 22" - As a consequence of (4) _______ above social changes, the field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning of languages has been 

   

  The ing ending on a verb to derive a noun results in a verbal noun. They may also be used as count nouns and take a plural form. They can also be called deverbal nouns.

• The field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning ...

  O campo da educação, em particular, o ensino (substantivo / noun) e o aprendizado ( substantivo / noun) ... 

   

   

  Calm down! I'm here!

• Os artigos estão substantivando as palavras, the teaching and learning ...

Questão 2190181

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Verbos frasais | Phrasal verbs; Verbos | Verbs; Vocabulário | Vocabulary

Identify the item that best replaces the phrasal verb in bold type.  

He tore up all her letters when she decided to move. 

• A. read carefully.
• B. analyzed.
• C. ripped.
• D. showed others.
• E. sent back.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• c-

  tear up- shred, pull into pieces, rip

• RIP = RASGAR

  FONTE: DICIONÁRIO OXFORD ESCOLAR

• A questão aborda os Phrasal verbs, que são verbos que vêm acompanhados por preposições ou advérbios, e podem modificar completamente o sentido do verbo original.

  Muitas vezes, para saber o significado, é preciso decorar ou deduzir pelo contexto.

  Exemplo: give up = desistir, sendo que o verbo give é traduzido como dar.

  Segue tradução da questão:

  Ele rasgou todas as cartas dela quando ela decidiu se mudar.

  Verbo tore up = rasgar

  Identifique o item que melhor substitui o verbo frasal em negrito.

  A) Incorreta - Ler com cuidado.

  B) Incorreta - analisado

  C) Correta - rasgado.

  D) Incorreta - mostrou outros.

  E) Incorreta - enviado de volta.

  Gabarito: C

Questão 2190184

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Verbos frasais | Phrasal verbs; Verbos | Verbs; Vocabulário | Vocabulary

Identify the item that best replaces the phrasal verb in bold type.  

 

I’ve just ran into your sister on the mall.  

• A. talked.
• B. met by chance.
• C. gave something to.
• D. fell.
• E. studied with.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• b-

  run into- happen upon, stumble on, meet by chance

Questão 2190187

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Verbos frasais | Phrasal verbs; Verbos | Verbs; Vocabulário | Vocabulary

Identify the item that best replaces the phrasal verb in bold type.  

I’ve finally got over the problem.  

• A. estimated.
• B. decided.
• C. reckoned.
• D. counted.
• E. overcame.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• e-

  get over- recover from ( as in illnesses), overcome, bounce back

• A questão aborda os Phrasal verbs, que são verbos que vêm acompanhados por preposições ou advérbios, e podem modificar completamente o sentido do verbo original.

  Muitas vezes, para saber o significado, é preciso decorar ou deduzir pelo contexto.

  Exemplo: give up = desistir, sendo que o verbo give é traduzido como dar.

  Vamos ao enunciado:

  Identifique o item que melhor substitui o verbo frasal em negrito.

  Eu finalmente superei o problema.

  Sabendo que o verbo got over é o passado de get over, que tem o significado de superar, seguem alternativas:

  A) Incorreta - estimated = estimou

  B) Incorreta - decided = decidiu

  C) Incorreta - reckoned = avaliou

  D) Incorreta - counted = contou

  E) Correta - overcame = superou

  Gabarito: E

Questão 2190190

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

TEXT 05

What is English as a Lingua Franca

What students need most from their language classes affects how we teach. But to what extent do we consider students' needs when it comes to pronunciation? How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers? In this situation, English is used as a Lingua Franca ( henceforth ELF) - a common language between people who do not share the same native language. So their needs are quite different to students who go to the UK, for example, and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible. The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with. This does not necessarily mean sounding like a native speaker.

Source: adapted from https://www.britishcouncil.org/voicesmagazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf. Access: March 24^th , 2016.  

According to the text 05, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a common

• A. language used mainly by native speakers.
• B. language only used by people who go the UK.
• C. means of communication used by nonnative speakers who wants to sound as much as a native speaker.
• D. means of communication for speakers of different first languages .
• E. language used by non-native speakers of the same first language.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• d-

  Lingua Franca- a common language between people who do not share the same native language.

Questão 2190193

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

TEXT 05

What is English as a Lingua Franca

What students need most from their language classes affects how we teach. But to what extent do we consider students' needs when it comes to pronunciation? How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers? In this situation, English is used as a Lingua Franca ( henceforth ELF) - a common language between people who do not share the same native language. So their needs are quite different to students who go to the UK, for example, and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible. The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with. This does not necessarily mean sounding like a native speaker.

Source: adapted from https://www.britishcouncil.org/voicesmagazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf. Access: March 24^th , 2016.  

Considering the words taken from the text 05, the underlined words with the appropriate stress syllable are

• A. affects, consider, communicate, native, intelligible. 
• B. affects, consider, communicate, native, intelligible.
• C. affects, consider, communicate, native, intelligible.
• D. affects, consider, communicate, native, intelligible.
• E. affects, consider, communicate, native, intelligible.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• e-

   

  Nao ha muito o que explicar acerca do stress syllable. Nao ha bem uma regra fixa exceto que a vogal so pode ter um som longo por palavra (ex: em native, o 'a' tem som longo enquanto o 'i' é curto. Por isso que é /ney-tiv/ e nao /ney-tayv/ O som longo é, na maioria dos casos, o stress syllable. Outro truque é quando a palavra tiver a mesma ortografia quando for substantivo e verbo. Verbos geralmente têm stress syllable apos a 1° sílaba, enquanto que substantivo é na 1°. Compare:

   

  import - noun - something that is imported from abroad; an imported commodity or article.

   

  import - verb - to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services. - dictionary.com

Questão 2190196

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Pronome relativo | Relative clauses; Pronomes | Pronouns

TEXT 05

What is English as a Lingua Franca

What students need most from their language classes affects how we teach. But to what extent do we consider students' needs when it comes to pronunciation? How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers? In this situation, English is used as a Lingua Franca ( henceforth ELF) - a common language between people who do not share the same native language. So their needs are quite different to students who go to the UK, for example, and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible. The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with. This does not necessarily mean sounding like a native speaker.

Source: adapted from https://www.britishcouncil.org/voicesmagazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf. Access: March 24^th , 2016.  

In the sentence "How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers?" (lines 04 to 08), the relative pronoun can be substituted, without change of meaning, by:

• A. which.
• B. where.
• C. that.
• D. whose.
• E. when.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• c-

  Who, that and which are all relative pronouns in a sentence or clause, referring back to a person or thing previously mentioned. A major distinction between that, which, and who depends on whether the speaker is making a reference to people or things. 

  'That' and 'which' are the relative pronouns to refer to things.  You should  only use 'who' to refer to a person or people . However, 'that' can also be ued to refer to people in an unspecifc way: 
  'Most passers-through that walk out front don't notice that green sheen on the pavement'.

Questão 2190199

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Adjetivos | Adjectives; Comparativo e superlativo de adjetivos | Comparative and superlative; Vocabulário | Vocabulary

TEXT 05

What is English as a Lingua Franca

What students need most from their language classes affects how we teach. But to what extent do we consider students' needs when it comes to pronunciation? How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers? In this situation, English is used as a Lingua Franca ( henceforth ELF) - a common language between people who do not share the same native language. So their needs are quite different to students who go to the UK, for example, and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible. The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with. This does not necessarily mean sounding like a native speaker.

Source: adapted from https://www.britishcouncil.org/voicesmagazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf. Access: March 24^th , 2016.  

The same type of underlined comparative of the excerpt taken from the text 05 "The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with." (lines 16 to 18), is:

• A. She will be there as earlier as possible.
• B. Her home is as biggest as White House.
• C. Is this radio as audible as the other one?
• D. This game can be as so enjoyable as a day out.
• E. Luis come here as frequentlier as Mary.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• -c

  A construção é as + adjective + as. As opções erradas contêm adverbios ou adjetivos em grau comparativo

• Que questão nada haver

• The answer right is letter c:
  The same type underlined comparative of the excerpt taken from the text 5 is: 

  as intelligible as
  as audible as

• A questão cobra conhecimento gramatical, especificamente sobre comparativos.
  
  Vamos analisar o enunciado:
  
  The same type of underlined comparative of the excerpt taken from the text 05 "The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with." (lines 16 to 18), is: 
  Tradução - O mesmo tipo de comparativo sublinhado do excerto retirado do texto 05 "A prioridade para os alunos que usam ELF, por outro lado, é ser tão inteligível quanto possível para as pessoas com quem estão se comunicando." (linhas 16 a 18), é:
  
  
  O comparativo em negrito no enunciado é o comparativo de igualdade. Vamos relembrar:
  O grau comparativo de igualdade em inglês é formado com  as ________ as. Entre as ________ as devemos colocar um adjetivo ou um advérbio. Veja exemplos:
  
  
  • as expensive as (tão caro quanto)
  • as cheap as (tão barato quanto)
  • as quickly as (tão rapidamente quanto)
  • as wonderful as (tão maravilhoso quanto)
  • as clean as (tão limpo quanto)
  
  As alternativas erradas não foram traduzidas pois apresentam um Inglês incorreto. Analisando as alternativas teremos:
  
  
  A) Incorreto - She will be there as earlier as possible. 
  Alternativa errada pois a palavra entre "as_____as" já é um comparativo.
  
  B) Incorreto - Her home is as biggest as White House.
  Alternativa errada pois a palavra entre "as_____as" é um superlativo. 
  
  C) Correto - Is this radio as audible as the other one?
  Tradução - Este rádio é tão audível quanto o outro?
  Embora "audível" em Português soe estranho neste contexto, é um adjetivo e está usado corretamente.
  
  D) Incorreto - This game can be as so enjoyable as a day out.  
  Alternativa errada pois há duas palavras entre "as_____as".
  
  E) Incorreto - Luis come here as frequentlier as Mary.
  Alternativa errada pois a palavra entre "as_____as" não existe na língua inglesa.
  
  
  
  Gabarito do Professor: Letra C.
  
  

Questão 2190202

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

TEXT 05

What is English as a Lingua Franca

What students need most from their language classes affects how we teach. But to what extent do we consider students' needs when it comes to pronunciation? How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers? In this situation, English is used as a Lingua Franca ( henceforth ELF) - a common language between people who do not share the same native language. So their needs are quite different to students who go to the UK, for example, and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible. The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with. This does not necessarily mean sounding like a native speaker.

Source: adapted from https://www.britishcouncil.org/voicesmagazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf. Access: March 24^th , 2016.  

In the text 05, the word "needs" (line 05) has the vowel sound /i:/, that can also be identified in the words

• A. said, made, came, paid.
• B. put, could, spoke, took.
• C. cost, chose, lost, taught.
• D. speak, eat, leave, meet.
• E. lose, drew, blew, pull.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• d-

  Many words spell the long /e/ sound with the ee combination, whose occurrance usually crops up in the middle and at the end of the word. Another common way of producing the long /e/ sound is with the ea combination

Questão 2190205

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

TEXT 06

The (in)appropriate speaker model?

"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant." 

Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.  

The main point made by the passage "Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays "native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English." (lines 10 to 18) is to:

• A. criticise the teaching of language almost exclusively on non-native varieties of English.
• B. state that it does not make sense English language teaching keeps its focus almost exclusively on native variety of English.
• C. establish that English language teaching must focus on native varieties of English.
• D. express that native speakers shape the use of English language and non-native speakers are minorities.
• E. state that people who are working in the field of ELF do not want to teach other varieties of English.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• b-

  Given the status of english as a international language, other accents and non-native varieties should be brought to the fore when teaching ESL as its use is that of a tool for worldwide communication

Questão 2190208

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Voz Ativa e Passiva | Passive and Active Voice

TEXT 06

The (in)appropriate speaker model?

"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant." 

Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.  

The sentence “...languages are shaped by their users...” (lines 11 and 12) in active voice is, "users

• A. shaped their languages."
• B. have been shaping their languages."
• C. have shaped their language."
• D. shape their languages."
• E. has shaped their language."

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• d-

  When converting from passive to active voice (or the reverse), the same tense should be kept e.g.: if the passive voice is in the simple present, the shift to the active voice preserves the same grammar tense

Questão 2190211

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Pronome relativo | Relative clauses; Pronomes | Pronouns

TEXT 06

The (in)appropriate speaker model?

"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant." 

Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.  

Without changes in meaning, the word that in “...sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant” (lines 28 and 29) can be:

• A. Replaced by “which”.
• B. Omitted.
• C. Replaced by “whose”.
• D. Replaced by “whom”.
• E. Replaced by “who”.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• b-

  
  When 'that' is used as a conjunction -joining a main and a dependent clause-  'that' can be left out without affecting the overall meaning of the sentence.

Questão 2190214

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Números | Numbers

TEXT 06

The (in)appropriate speaker model?

"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant." 

Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.  

In the text 06, the numbers "116” (line 14) and "35" (in the reference), are, in compliance with Bristish usage, written respectively as:

• A. one hundred and sixteen; thirty - five.
• B. a hundred sixteen; thrity five.
• C. one hundred and sixtyeen; thirty five.
• D. a hundred sixty; third - five.
• E. one - hundred sixteen; thirty – five.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• a-

   

  Under 100: only a hyphen. 89- eighty-nine. 77- seventy-seven.

   

  Over 100: 'and' before the number under 100.  111 - one hundred and eleven

Questão 2190217

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Pronome possessivo adjetivo | Possessive adjective; Pronomes | Pronouns

TEXT 06

The (in)appropriate speaker model?

"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant." 

Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.  

The pronoun "its", that occurs twice in the passage "...that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English." (lines 04 to 18) refers, respectively to:

• A. increasing numbers of functions / almost exclusive focus on.
• B. English as an international lingua franca / native varieties of English.
• C. increasing numbers of functions / English language teaching.
• D. the extensive role / English language teaching.
• E. English as an international lingua franca / English language teaching.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• Gabarito: E.

   

  "[...] extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions[...]"

   

  "[...] it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus[...]"

• e-

   

  The possessive pronoun its sets a possession relationship between a non-human entity and its genitive object. According to the information provided in the text, english language teaching has any uses, not the least of which is as lingua franca, Therefore, being a lingua franca is one of its uses. In the second instance of its, it's established that egllish language teaching has an exclusivist bent when giving priority to standard variations from english-speaking countries. Therefore it retains a possessive relationhsip with "exclusive focus"

Questão 2190220

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Formação de palavras (prefixos e sufixos) | Word formation (prefix and suffix)

TEXT 06

The (in)appropriate speaker model?

"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant." 

Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.  

 The word "resistance" (line 07) in the text 06, is formed by resist + the suffix – ance. Another word that can be formed with the suffx -ance is

• A. attend.
• B. particular.
• C. prefer.
• D. interfere.
• E. occupy.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• attendance

  particularity

  preference

  interference

  occupancy

   

  Gabarito: a)

• a-

  
   Words ending in -ence:

  
  absence
  affluence
  audience
  coherence
  conference
  confidence
  conscience
  consequence
  consistence
  correspondence
  dependence
  diligence
  evidence
  existence
  influence
  obedience
  occurrence
  patience
  persistence
  preference
  reference

   

   

  Words ending in -ance:

  
  acquaintance
  allowance
  ambulance
  annoyance
  appearance
  appliance
  arrogance

  attendance
  disturbance
  dominance
  extravagance
  grievance
  guidance
  ignorance
  instance
  nuisance
  relevance
  remittance
  resistance
  significance
  substance
  tolerance