Questão 5300626

• Banca: AMAUC
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Seara - SC
• Ano: 2018
• Provas: AMAUC - 2018 - Prefeitura de Seara - SC - Professor de Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension; Sinônimos | Synonyms

The English language is peculiarly rich in synonyms, as, with such a history, it could not fail to be. The spirit of the Anglo-Saxon race, masterful in language as in war and commerce, has subjugated all these various elements to one idiom, making not a patchwork, but a composite language. Anglo-Saxon thrift, finding often several words that originally expressed the same idea, has detailed them to different parts of the common territory or to different service, so that we have an almost unexampled variety of words, kindred in meaning but distinct in usage, for expressing almost every shade of human thought. 

    According Cambridge Dictionary (2018), synonyms is a word or phrase that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or phrase in the same language: the words "small" and "little" are synonyms.

    And antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word: two antonyms of "light" are "dark" and "heavy".

Read carefully what is exposed from I to V.

I- 1) The game was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather conditions.

   2)  He decided to forsake politics for journalism. It is impossible to keep both careers at the same time.

II- In my opinion, Julia Roberts is very beautiful! My dad agrees with me, but my mom says that the eternal pretty woman is ugly.

III- The singer has shown exceptional talent over the past two years. Her outstanding performances set a new benchmark for singers throughout the world. However, readers of magazines said they wanted more stories about ordinary people and fewer stories about the rich and famous like this singer.

IV- 1) I wanted a simple black dress, nothing fancy.

     2) I like simple food better than fancy dishes.

V- It was an extremely vulgar joke.

Now, read the statements that are made about information I to V (above).

1^st) In I, there are the verbs to abandon and to forsake. They are synonyms. To keep is the antonym of them.

2^nd) In II, the words beautiful and pretty are synonyms. Ugly is their antonym.

3^rd) In III, the word ordinary is the antonym of exceptional. There is not any synonym for exceptional in III.

4^th) In IV, simple is the antonym of fancy. It could be replaced by plain, but just in I wanted a simple black dress, nothing fancy.

5^th) In V, vulgar could be replaced by coarse or unsuitable. 

The correct alternative about the five information above is: 

• A. The 1st, the 2^nd and the 3^rd information are correct.
• B. The 3^rd, the 4^th and the 5^th information are wrong.
• C. Just the 4^th is not wrong.
• D. The 3^rd information is the only one that is not right.
• E. The 1^st, the 2^nd and the 5^th are correct.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• e-

  abandon - desert, forsake, maroon, quit, relinquish.

  exceptional - singular, uncommon, unwonted, notable, salient, remarkable, outstanding,

  simple - unadorned, bare, undecorated, unvarnished, plain

  ONly the 3rd and 5th statements are wrong, as simple and plain are equivalent in the given context and there is a word whose meaning is tantamount to exception in the 3rd assertion