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❑ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA:
- UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO CENTRO-OESTE-PARANÁ-VESTIBULAR-2014.1.
❑ ESTRUTURA-PROVA:
- 10 MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions) / 5 Options Each Question.
❑ Read the following text and answer questions 1 to 3.
The acid that corroded George W. Bush’s presidency was fear. The blood-dimmed tragedy of 9/11 was
chilling. But instead of rising above the fear, W. Bush let it overwhelm his better instincts. He and
Dick Cheney crumpled the Constitution, manipulated intelligence to go to war against a country that hadn’t
attacked us, and implemented warrantless eavesdropping – all in the name of keeping us safe from
terrorists. We want to be protected, but not at the cost of corrupting the values that make us Americans.
“There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment”, George
Orwell wrote in “1984”. “How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual
wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they
could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.” Still, it was a bit of a shock to find out that the N.S.A.
(National Security Agency) has been collecting information for seven years on every phone call, domestic
and international, that Americans make. The Washington Post and then Greenwald swiftly revealed another
secret program started under W. Bush, code-named Prism, that lets the N.S.A. and the F.B.I. tap Microsoft,
Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple, lifting audio and video chats,
photographs, e-mails and documents in an effort to track foreign targets.
President Obama defended his classified programs. He insists that agents are not actually listening to calls,
and calls the vast eavesdropping apparatus “modest encroachments on privacy”.
- (Adapted from: DOWD, M. The New York Times. Source: <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dowd-peeping-presidentobama.html?ref=politics>. Accessed on: 18 june 2013.)
- (Source: <http://paula-espaciodelestudiante.blogspot.com.br/2011/07/mafalda-in-english.html>. Accessed on: 14 june 2013.)
- (Source: <http://shanenorrie.blogspot.com.br/2011/12/new-book-release.html>. Accessed on: 8 June 2013.)
06 – (UNICENTRO-VESTIBULAR-2014.1) According to the add, choose the correct alternative.
a) Orders to the USA has a shipping cost of $18,00.
b) The book includes photos by various contributors.
c) The book is a commemorative edition.
d) The book is a selection of the artist’s work.
e) The book is an edition with unlimited printing.
Comentários e Gabarito D
TÓPICOS - VOCABULÁRIO & RELAÇÃO SEMÂNTICA COM TRECHO DO TEXTO :
07 – (UNICENTRO-VESTIBULAR-2014.1) According to what is stated in the add, shipping is done
a) in 5 working days after payment.
b) on the day following the order.
c) after client inquiring by e-mail.
d) after inquiring credit card operator.
e) after payment confirmation.
Comentários e Gabarito B
TÓPICOS - VOCABULÁRIO & RELAÇÃO SEMÂNTICA COM TRECHO DO TEXTO :
❑ Read the following text and answer questions 8 to 10.
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way,
but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is
decadent, and our language – so the argument runs – must inevitably share in the general collapse. It
follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles
to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that
language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.
Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is
not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause,
reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely
because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly
and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for
us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written
English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take
the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is
a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous
and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.
- (ORWELL, G. Politics and The English Language (Fragment). Source: <http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/patel.html>. Accessed on: 12 June 2013.)