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❑ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: UECE-2016/2-VESTIBULAR-2ª FASE-26/06/2016.
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➭ 20 Multiple Choice Questions / 4 Options Each Question.
➭ Text – President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan | www.nytimes.com |
❑ GABARITO:
01-C, 02-B, 03-C, 04-A, 05-D
06-C, 07-B, 08-B, 09-A, 10-D
11-A, 12-B, 13-C, 14-A, 15-D
16-C, 17-B, 18-A, 19-D, 20-C
❑ TEXT: The following is a transcript of part of President
Obama’s speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by
The New York Times. MAY 27, 2016.
President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan
Seventy-one years ago, on a bright
cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and
the world was changed. A flash of light and a
wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated
that mankind possessed the means to destroy
itself.
It is not the fact of war that sets
Hiroshima apart. Artifacts tell us that violent
conflict appeared with the very first man. Our
early ancestors having learned to make blades
from flint and spears from wood used these
tools not just for hunting but against their
own kind. On every continent, the history of
civilization is filled with war, whether driven
by scarcity of grain or hunger for gold, compelled by nationalist fervor or religious zeal.
Empires have risen and fallen. Peoples have
been subjugated and liberated. And at each
juncture, innocents have suffered, a countless
toll, their names forgotten by time.
The world war that reached its brutal
end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was fought
among the wealthiest and most powerful of
nations. Their civilizations had given the world
great cities and magnificent art. Their thinkers
had advanced ideas of justice and harmony
and truth. And yet the war grew out of the
same base instinct for domination or conquest
that had caused conflicts among the simplest
tribes, an old pattern amplified by new
capabilities and without new constraints.
In the image of a mushroom cloud that
rose into these skies, we are most starkly
reminded of humanity’s core contradiction.
How the very spark that marks us as a
species, our thoughts, our imagination, our
language, our toolmaking, our ability to set
ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our
will — those very things also give us the
capacity for unmatched destruction.
How often does material advancement
or social innovation blind us to this truth? How
easily we learn to justify violence in the name
of some higher cause.
Every great religion promises a pathway
to love and peace and righteousness, and yet
no religion has been spared from believers
who have claimed their faith as a license to
kill.
Nations arise telling a story that binds
people together in sacrifice and cooperation,
allowing for remarkable feats. But those same
stories have so often been used to oppress
and dehumanize those who are different.
Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds, to
cure disease and understand the cosmos, but
those same discoveries can be turned into
ever more efficient killing machines.
The wars of the modern age teach us
this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth.
Technological progress without an equivalent
progress in human institutions can doom us.
The scientific revolution that led to the
splitting of an atom requires a moral
revolution as well.
Mere words cannot give voice to such
suffering. But we have a shared responsibility
to look directly into the eye of history and ask
what we must do differently to curb such
suffering again.
Since that fateful day, we have made
choices that give us hope. The United States
and Japan have forged not only an alliance but
a friendship that has won far more for our
people than we could ever claim through war.
The nations of Europe built a union that
replaced battlefields with bonds of commerce
and democracy. Oppressed people and nations
won liberation. An international community
established institutions and treaties that work
to avoid war and aspire to restrict and roll
back and ultimately eliminate the existence of
nuclear weapons.
Still, every act of aggression between
nations, every act of terror and corruption and
cruelty and oppression that we see around the
world shows our work is never done. We may
not be able to eliminate man’s capacity to do
evil, so nations and the alliances that we form
must possess the means to defend ourselves.
But among those nations like my own that
hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the
courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue
a world without them.
We may not realize this goal in my
lifetime, but persistent effort can roll back the
possibility of catastrophe. We can chart a
course that leads to the destruction of these
stockpiles. We can stop the spread to new
nations and secure deadly materials from
fanatics.
And yet that is not enough. For we see
around the world today how even the crudest
rifles and barrel bombs can serve up violence
on a terrible scale. We must change our mindset about war itself. To prevent conflict
through diplomacy and strive to end conflicts
after they’ve begun. To see our growing
interdependence as a cause for peaceful
cooperation and not violent competition. To
define our nations not by our capacity to
destroy but by what we build. And perhaps,
above all, we must reimagine our connection
to one another as members of one human
race.
For this, too, is what makes our species
unique. We’re not bound by genetic code to
repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn.
We can choose. We can tell our children a different story, one that describes a common
humanity, one that makes war less likely and
cruelty less easily accepted.
My own nation’s story began with
simple words: All men are created equal and
endowed by our creator with certain
unalienable rights including life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. Realizing that ideal
has never been easy, even within our own
borders, even among our own citizens. But
staying true to that story is worth the effort. It
is an ideal to be strived for, an ideal that
extends across continents and across oceans.
The irreducible worth of every person, the
insistence that every life is precious, the
radical and necessary notion that we are part
of a single human family — that is the story
that we all must tell.
Ordinary people understand this, I
think. They do not want more war. They
would rather that the wonders of science be
focused on improving life and not eliminating
it. When the choices made by nations, when
the choices made by leaders, reflect this
simple wisdom, then the lesson of Hiroshima
is done.
The world was forever changed here,
but today the children of this city will go
through their day in peace. What a precious
thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then
extending to every child. That is a future we
can choose, a future in which Hiroshima and
Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of
atomic warfare but as the start of our own
moral awakening.
From:
www.nytimes.com
01 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
According to the American leader, some
people have used religion
A) as a way to teach the truth in poor countries.
B) to bring equivalent progress in institutions.
C) as a permission to take other people's lives.
D) in order to understand the cosmos.
02 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The truth which Obama refers to is that
A) violence sometimes is justified for a higher
cause.
B) science can also be used to kill.
C) material advancement binds people in
cooperation.
D) efficient killing machines should no longer exist.
03 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
After the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb the
world understood that
A) our planet had reached its end.
B) powerful nations could destroy the rainforests.
C) humanity was able to annihilate itself.
D) Japan had built nuclear weapons.
04 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
In his speech Obama also mentions that war
A) is an ever-present feature in the history of
civilization.
B) happens whenever countries do not forge
alliances.
C) can be a pathway to love and peace on Earth.
D) comes from a desire to destroy the world.
05 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
In Obama's view, through persistent effort,
humanity will be able to
A) live peacefully ever after.
B) make cruelty less easily accepted.
C) establish treaties that work to avoid war.
D) eliminate the existing nuclear stockpiles.
06 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
President Obama uses a metaphoric tone
when he talks about the horrors of war in Hiroshima
by saying that
A) human beings should be bound together in
friendship.
B) we shouldn't set ourselves apart from nature.
C) death fell from the sky.
D) advanced satellites can doom us.
07 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
According to the text, despite the remarkable
achievements humanity has reached
A) we are not part of a single human family.
B) fanatics are able to use deadly weapons.
C) the United Nations has failed in avoiding wars.
D) there are few bonds of commerce and
democracy in Europe.
08 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
Obama sounds optimistic about the future of
mankind by stating, among other things, that
A) world peace will be reached within his lifetime.
B) we can learn and choose not to make the same
mistakes of the past.
C) most conflicts are going to be solved through
diplomacy.
D) there'll come a moral awakening in the next
decade.
09 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
In the phrases
“filled with war” (line 14),
“driven by scarcity” (lines 14-15)
and
“compelled by
nationalist fervor” (lines 15-16)
the verbs are in the
A) past participle.
B) infinitive.
C) gerund.
D) present participle.
10 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The verb tenses in
“those same stories have
so often been used” (line 52-53)
and
“we have
made choices that give us hope” (lines 72-73)
are
respectively
A) present perfect, simple present, and present
continuous.
B) present simple, present perfect, and future
perfect.
C) past perfect, present perfect passive, and
simple future.
D) present perfect passive, present perfect, and
simple present.
11 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
“Technological progress without an equivalent
progress in human institutions can doom us”(lines
62-63)
is an example of
A) simple sentence.
B) complex sentence.
C) adjective clause.
D) noun clause.
12 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The -ING words in
“efficient killing machines”
(line 59)
and
“voice to such suffering” (lines 67-68)
respectively function as
A) adverb and adjective.
B) adjective and noun.
C) noun and adverb.
D) adjective and adjective.
13 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The verb tenses in
“Their civilizations had
given the world great cities” (lines 24-25)
and
“the
war grew out of the same base instinct” (lines 27-
28)
are respectively
A) simple past and simple past.
B) present continuous and past perfect.
C) past perfect and simple past.
D) past continuous and present perfect.
14 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The sentences
“Seventy-one years ago, on a
bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky
and the world was changed” (lines 01-03)
and
“We
may not realize this goal in my lifetime, but
persistent effort can roll back the possibility of
catastrophe” (lines 96-98)
respectively contain a
A) coordinating conjunction and a coordinating
conjunction.
B) coordinating conjunction and a subordinating
conjunction.
C) subordinating conjunction and a subordinating
conjunction.
D) subordinating conjunction and a coordinating
conjunction.
15 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The sentences
“And yet the war grew out of
the same base instinct for domination or conquest
that had caused conflicts among the simplest tribes”
(lines 27-30)
and
“The scientific revolution that led
to the splitting of an atom requires a moral
revolution as well” (lines 64-66)
contain relative
clauses respectively classified as
A) defining and non-defining.
B) non-defining and non-defining.
C) non-defining and defining.
D) defining and defining.
16 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The sentences
“A flash of light and a wall of
fire destroyed a city” (lines 03-04)
and
“They do not
want more war” (line 140)
contain, respectively,
a/an
A) indirect object and a direct object.
B) indirect object and an indirect object.
C) direct object and a direct object.
D) direct object and an indirect object.
17 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
An indirect objet is present in the sentence
A) “Nations arise telling a story that binds people
together in sacrifice and cooperation…” (lines
50-51)
B) “The wars of the modern age teach us this
truth.” (lines 60-61)
C) “And yet that is not enough.” (line 103)
D) “The United States and Japan have forged not
only an alliance…” (lines 73-74)
18 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The sentences
“Peoples have been subjugated
and liberated” (lines 17-18)
and
“Their civilizations
had given the world great cities and magnificent art”
(lines 24-25)
are respectively in the
A) passive voice and active voice.
B) passive voice and passive voice.
C) active voice and active voice.
D) active voice and passive voice.
19 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The sentences
“We can stop the spread to
new nations and secure deadly materials from
fanatics.” (lines 100-102)
and
“And perhaps, above
all, we must reimagine our connection to one
another as members of one human race” (lines 113-
116)
should be respectively classified as
A) simple and simple.
B) compound and complex.
C) complex and compound.
D) compound and simple.
20 – (UECE-2016/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)
The sentences
“Artifacts tell us that violent
conflict appeared with the very first man” (lines 8-9)
and
“A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a
city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the
means to destroy itself” (lines 03-06)
respectively
contain a/an
A) subject noun clause and an object noun clause.
B) restrictive adjective clause and an object noun
clause.
C) object noun clause and an object noun clause.
D) object noun clause and a restrictive adjective
clause.
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