UnB-2009/2-Vestibular 2º Semestre da Universidade de Brasília - Profº Valdenor Sousa - Prova de Inglês com gabarito e Questões Comentadas.

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➧NESTE POST: PROVA de INGLÊS da UnB-2009/2, aplicada em 13/06/2009.

➧BANCA/ORGANIZADOR:

• CEBRASPE(Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisa em Avaliação e Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos).

• https://www.cebraspe.org.br

➧LEITURA de textos de jornais digitais, revistas, websites, é um excelente treino para a prova.

➧PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA:
• 30 Questões do tipo (C) ou (E), onde um erro anula um acerto.

• 03 Textos.

➧TÓPICOS ABORDADOS ao longo da prova:

1-VERBS:

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2-PHRASAL VERBS - USES:

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3-PERFECT TENSE - USES:

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4-MODAL VERBS - USES:

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5-NOUN:

[goods = bens]

6-ADJECTIVES:

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7-ADVERBS:

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8-ADJECTIVE PHRASES(Adjective+noun):

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9-IDIOMS(Expressões Idiomáticas):

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10-COLLOCATIONS:

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11-TECHNICAL ENGLISH(Military English, Business English, Finance English, Legal English, Tax English, Customs English and so on):

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12-CONNECTORES AND LINKERS:

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13-GENITIVE CASE:

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14-FALSE COGNATES:

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➧Agora vamos à PROVA!

TEXTO 1: This text refers to items from 1 through 8.

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1

Moving images are so pervasive in our lives today that it is hard to imagine a time when people did without them. They’ve become an essential element in the way we communicate, the way we think. They’ve certainly influenced every other form of art in some way.
2
When photography was invented in 1839, many artists were repulsed by the new phenomenon. The visual arts of painting and sculpture had reigned for millennia. A painting wasn’t just a reproduction — it transformed the objective reality which it portrayed into something new, a result which contained a mysterious quality that, for lack of a better phrase, was a part of the artist’s soul. The new invention, which reflected reality back to us through a mechanical device, seemed cold and frightening. 
3
People have always remembered, and tried to  preserve and transmit their memories through time. History was recorded through the written word. The wisdom of the past was transmitted through the myth, the story, and later the epic poem, drama and novel.
4
I doubt if I am the only person who, while watching an old movie, has had the morbid thought occur to him that “Everyone in the film is dead now”. Yet, they are still on the screen, moving, laughing, dancing, just as they did when alive.
5
The Lumieres began to show their short films in 1895. They were a sensation. Imagine if you can the astonishment experienced by the audiences, to see a 28 projected moving image on a large screen. One effect was fright. It is said that when the Lumieres showed their film of the arrival of a train at a station, the audience jumped back from the screen as if they were going to be run over by the oncoming train.

Internet: <www.cinescene.com> (adapted)

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Based on the text above, judge the following items.
1 Since the beginning of human history, there has been a need to remember the past.
2 The author of the text believes he is the only person who thinks that people shown in old films are already dead.
3 People were taken aback when they saw the Lumieres’ short movie showing the arrival of a train at a station being projected on a big screen.
4 In the first half of the eighteenth century, when photography was first invented, the visual artists welcome it as a new phenomenon.
5 For a long time, painting and sculpture played the role of photography, as they reproduced the objective reality in a very precise way, with nothing further added.
6 When it appeared, photography was thought to be unfriendly and fearsome.
In the text,
7 “run over” (l.31) is the same as hit and drive over the top.
8 the expression “epic poem” (l.19) refers to a poem which contains a lot of action and deals with everyday subjects.

👉 Questão-Item  1-Correta :

Since the beginning of human history, there has been a need to remember the past.

👉 Questão-Item  2-Errada :

The author of the text believes he is the only person who thinks that people shown in old films are already dead.

👉 Questão-Item  3-Correta :
People were taken aback when they saw the Lumieres’ short movie showing the arrival of a train at a station being projected on a big screen.

👉 Questão-Item  4-Errada :
In the first half of the eighteenth century, when photography was first invented, the visual artists welcome it as a new phenomenon.

👉 Questão-Item  5-Errada :
For a long time, painting and sculpture played the role of photography, as they reproduced the objective reality in a very precise way, with nothing further added.

👉 Questão-Item  6-Correta :
When it appeared, photography was thought to be unfriendly and fearsome.

👉 Questão-Item  7-Correta :
In the text,
“run over” (l.31) is the same as hit and drive over the top.

👉 Questão-Item  8-Errada :
the expression “epic poem” (l.19) refers to a poem which contains a lot of action and deals with everyday subjects.

TEXTO 2: This text refers to items from 9 through 15.

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Subliminal messages — good versus evil

1

Superman is one of the good guys, right? Or how about Spiderman? Sure he’s one of the nicest guys you will find fighting crime. If you agree with the above, you have been the victim of subliminal messages.
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For years we have been slowly influenced by all manner of messages through a variety of media, and it has often shaped our perception of money, wealth and success. Children have been programmed to believe that it is a sin to have money, rich guys are the evil ones and it is nobler to be poor. I mean, look at the two examples in the first paragraph. Superman, an orphan raised by the hardworking but certainly not wealthy, Kents. His archenemy is Lex Luther of Luther Corp, rich, powerful and totally evil! The same for old Peter Parker (aka Spiderman) raised by an aunt and uncle who can’t even raise the rent money, and he battles it out against rogues like Harry Osborn — again, filthy rich and rotten too!
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Many of our so-called superheroes are painted in this way, just look at Batman, Wonderwoman, Harry Potter… all orphans. It’s little wonder then, that as we have watched these characters, even emulated them, the subliminal messages about good versus evil, poverty versus wealth and right over wrong have been firmly embedded in our minds.
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Then, of course, we have the flip side — subliminal messages that can be used effectively to plant positive messages directly into our sub-conscious mind. These types of messages work so well because they by-pass our conscious mind, the part that applies rational thinking, judges things, decides if we are going to believe something or not.
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Now if a message by-passes this step — it is accepted by the sub-conscious mind ‘as it is’, no bias, no judgment, no second guess — WYSIWYG (what you see, is what you get) to coin a phrase!
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Imagine the potential if we could plant the seeds of some very powerful, positive, life changing suggestions directly to our ‘hard drive’ — we would soon start to replace all of those old school negative beliefs with some shiny new systems for success.

From: blog archive, 2007 (adapted)

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Considering the text above, judge the items below.
9 It can be inferred from the text that subliminal messages are those which may affect you even though you do not notice or think about them.
10 For the author of the text, subliminal messages have always a positive connotation.
11 For the author of the text, poverty must be praised, while wealth should be avoided.
12 The way we face our earnings, perceive wealth, and deal with success are seldom affected by the way mass media approach these topics.
13 Every hero mentioned in the text has no parents.
14 Once one watches the heroic figures mentioned in the text, one may go to the length of following their examples.
15 Harry Osborn, mentioned in the text, is an unspoiled and pleasant character.

👉 Questão-Item  9-Errada :

9 It can be inferred from the text that subliminal messages are those which may affect you even though you do not notice or think about them.

👉 Questão-Item  10-Errada :
For the author of the text, subliminal messages have always a positive connotation.

👉 Questão-Item  11-Errada :
For the author of the text, poverty must be praised, while wealth should be avoided.

👉 Questão-Item  12-Errada :
The way we face our earnings, perceive wealth, and deal with success are seldom affected by the way mass media approach these topics.

👉 Questão-Item  13-Correta :
Every hero mentioned in the text has no parents.

👉 Questão-Item  14-Correta :
Once one watches the heroic figures mentioned in the text, one may go to the length of following their examples.

👉 Questão-Item  15-Errada :
Harry Osborn, mentioned in the text, is an unspoiled and pleasant character.

TEXTO 3: This text refers to items from 16 through 27.
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1

In the minds of many, the words Brazil and culture conjure up images of beaches, footballers and dancers in vivid carnival costumes. Filmmaking and cinema, on the other hand, haven’t always figured amongst Brazil’s cultural staples.
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Repressed and censored by a military dictatorship throughout much of the 1970s and 1980s, Brazilian filmmakers struggled to make an impact on audiences abroad. Shortly after the country’s return to democracy, the Ministry of Culture was closed and the state-supported film industry crumbled almost overnight. The consequent lack of funding caused Brazilian cinema to reach a low point in the early  1990s. Today, less than two decades after the collapse of the industry, Brazilian cinema is enjoying a renaissance, wowing audiences and critics alike.
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So, why all the excitement over Brazilian cinema now? Since the start of 2008 Brazilian films have gone from strength to strength on the festival circuit.
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In February 2008, director Jose Padilha’s controversial drama about police violence and corruption, Elite Squad, took Berlin Film Festival’s top award, the Golden Bear.
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Another triumph followed at Cannes Film Festival in April. Sandra Corvelloni won the best actress award for her role in Walter Salles’ Linha de Passe. She plays a heavily pregnant, chain-smoking mother of four boys who are all in their own ways attempting to transcend their working-class lives.
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Salles’ film was also nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or, as was Blindness, the latest offering from fellow Brazilian and director of City of God, Fernando Meirelles.
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Brazilian films are all about favelas and violence, then? Indeed, one of the most celebrated Brazilian releases of the past years, 2003’s City of God, as well as this year’s Elite Squad, feature ultra-violent narratives set mainly in slums, or favelas, as they are known in Brazil. Both of these films, incidentally, were scripted by screenwriter Braulio Mantovani. Both films were widely acclaimed for their honesty and gripping storytelling, but condemned by certain critics for excessive depictions of violence.
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At the time of its release, City of God — which has inspired a whole genre of imitators with its fast-paced editing and bright colors — was accused of glamorizing cruelty.
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Similarly, Elite Squad has been said to promote fascism, as it depicts the often-brutal methods employed by Brazil’s special police force in the ongoing battle with drug gangs in the favelas. Variety magazine even dubbed Padilha’s oeuvre “a recruitment film for fascist thugs”, with Rambo style heroes.
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But Padilha defends the film’s violent tone, insisting that it was necessary in order to drive home its message. “The bottom line is we are trying to say that the whole violence that goes on in Rio is mainly caused by ourselves and we can possibly undo that”, he told CNN.
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Other Brazilian directors are taking a less bloody approach in telling the stories, of the working classes. Lucia Murat’s Mare, Nossa História de Amor, for example, is a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set in one of Rio’s 58 hillside shantytowns — a novelty in Brazilian cinema.

Internet:  <www.cnn.com>(adapted).

According to the text, judge the items from 16 through 25.
16 Military dictatorship repression and censorship in Brazil lasted for more than ten years.
17 Since the beginning of 2008, Brazilian films have gradually become remarkably successful in the festival circuit.
18 Some people equate Elite Squad with fascist ideas.
19 Padilha said that the most important aspect in the situations presented in Elite Squad was to raise people’s consciousness about the responsibility they have for the continuing violence.
20 Murat directed a lighter story than Padilha’s, in a wealthier setting.
21 Elite Squad was bitterly criticized by most critics for showing police violence and corruption.
22 Linha de Passe, a Walter Salles’ film, won the Palm d’Or.
23 City of God and Elite Squad, both written by Mantovani, became a success by accident.
24 The movies City of God and Elite Squad were regarded for their earnestness and for keeping people’s close attention, notwithstanding the violence they presented.
25 City of God became a success due to its slow motion editing and its pale colors.
In the text,
26 “thugs” (l.47) is the same as criminals.
27 “latest” (.29) means last.

👉 Questão-Item  16-Correta :

Military dictatorship repression and censorship in Brazil lasted for more than ten years.

👉 Questão-Item  17-Correta :
Since the beginning of 2008, Brazilian films have gradually become remarkably successful in the festival circuit.

👉 Questão-Item  18-Correta :
Some people equate Elite Squad with fascist ideas.

👉 Questão-Item  19-Correta :
Padilha said that the most important aspect in the situations presented in Elite Squad was to raise people’s consciousness about the responsibility they have for the continuing violence.

👉 Questão-Item  20-Errada :
Murat directed a lighter story than Padilha’s, in a wealthier setting.

👉 Questão-Item  21-Errada :
Elite Squad was bitterly criticized by most critics for showing police violence and corruption.

👉 Questão-Item  22-Errada :
Linha de Passe, a Walter Salles’ film, won the Palm d’Or.

👉 Questão-Item  23-Errada :
City of God and Elite Squad, both written by Mantovani, became a success by accident.

👉 Questão-Item  24-Correta :
The movies City of God and Elite Squad were regarded for their earnestness and for keeping people’s close attention, notwithstanding the violence they presented.

👉 Questão-Item  25-Errada :
City of God became a success due to its slow motion editing and its pale colors.

In the text,

👉 Questão-Item  26-Correta :
“thugs” (l.47) is the same as criminals.

👉 Questão-Item  27-Errada :
“latest” (.29) means last.

TEXTO 4:

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Chaplin stands alone as the greatest entertainer of modern times. There is nobody in the world capable of making you laugh, cry and thrill with his priceless genius.

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Based on the picture and the text above, judge the following items.
28 In the twentieth century, nobody was as great a comedian as Chaplin.
29 The picture reminds us of the Industrial Revolution.
30 Chaplin’s gift to arise different states of mind was known all around the world.

👉 Questão-Item  28-Correta :

In the twentieth century, nobody was as great a comedian as Chaplin.

(No século XX, ninguém foi tão grande comediante quanto Chaplin.)

👉 Questão-Item  29-Correta :
The picture reminds us of the Industrial Revolution.

(A foto nos lembra da Revolução Industrial.)

👉 Questão-Item  30-Correta :
Chaplin’s gift to arise different states of mind was known all around the world.

(O dom de Chaplin de despertar diferentes estados de espírito era conhecido em todo o mundo.)