Questão 2272177

• Banca: INSTITUTO AOCP
• Órgão: CASAN
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: INSTITUTO AOCP - 2016 - CASAN - Analista de Sistemas - Administração Banco de Dados
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

                                                            Words that went extinct

                                                                                                                                           By Kimberly Joki

Dictionaries incorporate new words every year. Some are pop culture inventions like jeggings, photobomb, and meme. Other words, like emoji and upvote, spring up from technology and social media. Dictionaries respond by creating definitions for anyone who cares to know what a twitterer is. And thank goodness they do; you can learn what an eggcorn is simply by turning a few pages in your trusty updated dictionary.

    Interestingly, not all newly added words are recent developments. The Oxford English Dictionary June 2015 new words list included autotune, birdhouse, North Korean, and shizzle! North Korea was founded in 1948. The initial release of the autotuner audio processor was in 1997. Before adding a slang term like shizzle, dictionary publishers weigh the current popularity, predicted longevity, and other factors. Just this year alone, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary welcomed about 1,700 new arrivals.

    With more and more words coined every year, dictionaries couldn’t possibly add them all to their existing word banks. Can you imagine a dictionary containing all the words ever used in English? It would be impossible to lift! With each yearly edit, dictionary editors must discard some words to make room for new ones.

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    The Sami languages, spoken in Finland, Norway, and Sweden, reportedly include more than 150 words related to snow and ice. In the 1590s, the English language had a word for recently melted snow—snowbroth. Now, English speakers simply call it water or melted snow. In fact, words that are markedly specific seem more vulnerable to extinction. A 19th-century dictionary included Englishable, a term to describe how appropriate a word is for the English language. However, English is a dynamic language, always accepting and abandoning words. Apparently, Englishable itself isn’t Englishable; it’s now obsolete.

    Do you favor any infrequently used words? If so, use them now and often. . . A word’s best defense against extinction is regular use.

(Source: http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/words-that-went-extinct/)

What does the text mainly talk about?

• A. It talks about the fact words never go extinct.
• B. It talks about how the vocabulary of a language such as English changes through time.
• C. It talks about how the vocabulary of a language such as English remains unchanged through time.
• D. It talks about the languages of Finland, Norway and Sweden and its new vocabulary.
• E. It talks about obsolete words that are frequently used in the spoken English language.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• Gabarito - B

• b-

  English is a dynamic language, always accepting and abandoning words.

• (B)

  3° Paragraph

  With more and more words coined every year, dictionaries couldn’t possibly add them all to their existing word banks. Can you imagine a dictionary containing all the words ever used in English? It would be impossible to lift! With each yearly edit, dictionary editors must discard some words to make room for new ones.

  Tradução-->Com mais e mais palavras cunhadas a cada ano, os dicionários não poderiam adicionar todas elas aos seus bancos de palavras existentes. Você consegue imaginar um dicionário contendo todas as palavras já usadas em inglês? Seria impossível levantar! A cada edição anual, os editores de dicionário devem descartar algumas palavras para abrir espaço para novas.

  4°Paragraph

  English is a dynamic language, always accepting and abandoning words.

  Tradução-->O inglês é uma língua dinâmica, sempre aceitando e abandonando palavras.

• Sobre o que o texto fala principalmente?

  Podemos inferir a resposta pelo título e primeiro parágrafo, conforme o trecho a seguir:

  Palavras que foram extintas

  Por Kimberly Joki

  Os dicionários incorporam novas palavras todos os anos. Algumas são invenções da cultura pop, como jeggings, photobombs e memes. Outras palavras, como emoji e upvote, surgem da tecnologia e das mídias sociais.

  Portanto, o texto fala sobre as mudanças da língua e pelos exemplos sabemos que fala da língua inglesa.

  A) Incorreta - Ele fala sobre o fato de que as palavras nunca são extintas.

  B) Correta - Ele fala sobre como o vocabulário de um idioma como o inglês muda ao longo do tempo.

  C) Incorreta - Ele fala sobre como vocabulário de uma língua como o inglês permanece inalterado ao longo do tempo.

  D) Incorreta - Ele fala sobre as línguas da Finlândia, Noruega e Suécia e seu novo vocabulário

  E) Incorreta - Ele fala sobre palavras obsoletas que são frequentemente usadas na língua inglesa falada.

  Gabarito: B