FALSE COGNATES – QUESTÕES DE PROVAS MILITARES COM GABARITO – LÍNGUA INGLESA – http://www.inglesparaconcursos.blog.br/.

 Welcome back to another post!

➧ INSTRUÇÃO:  A questão 01 refere-se ao texto a seguir. 

(...)

"I said he knows too much! The company can't afford to have any problems. Our position is very sensitive in this country. We can't afford to take risks. I am telling you once again – you will do nothing. And if there is any trouble, I'm afraid I shall have to hold you personally responsible. So be sensible for once in your life."

(...)

Adapted from MALEY, Alan. He knows too much.

Cambridge University Press, 1999. p.6

01 – (EsPCEx-2015/2016-CADETE)

In the sentences

"Our position is very sensitive in this country."

and

"So be sensible for once in your life."(paragraph 3),

sensitive and sensible mean respectively

(A) completely safe; responsive.
(B) innocent; inoffensive.
(C) easily affected; reasonable.
(D) conservative; harmful.
(E) worried; stupid. 

__RESPOSTA (C)__

➧ A questão objetiva identificar o sentido contextual dos falsos cognatos SENTIVE e SENSIBLE.

(1) SENTIVE  – EASILY INFLUENCED, CHANGED or DAMAGED BY A PARTICULAR THING – Facilmente influenciado, mudado ou danificado por uma coisa em particular:

• After the exam, the patient's eyes are light-sensitive for two to four hours, which can cause blurred vision. –  Após o exame, os olhos do paciente ficam SENSÍVEIS à luz por duas a quatro horas, o que pode causar visão turva. [Cambridge Dictionary]

(2) SENSIBLE (= REASONABLE) – HAVING or USING GOOD JUDGMENT – SENSATO, BOM SENSO:

• She was sensible and easy to deal with. – Ela era sensata e fácil de lidar. [Cambridge Dictionary]

➧ INSTRUÇÃO:  A questão 02 refere-se ao texto a seguir. 

Reboot the School

(...).

Eleven thousand miles away in Accra, Ghana, students at the African School for Excellence are studying logarithms. Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California–both groups of kids are learning by watching online videos. While the screen shows a march of equations and diagrams, the students never actually see the face of the lecturer. There's just a voice, deep, patient and unrehearsed—think NPR host crossed with Mister Rogers. His inflection rises at times to underscore a point or when he gets really excited. "Math is not just random things to memorize and regurgitate on a test next week," he says. "It's the purest way of describing the universe!"

(...)

Fonte: Time, July 9, 2012.

Texto adaptado

02 – (ITA/SP-2012/2013)

A palavra "actually" (linha 8)

(A) está empregada com o mesmo significado de can.
(B) é um cognato.
(C) está relacionada à modernidade mencionada no texto.
(D) é sinônimo de eventually.
(E) equivale a really. 

__RESPOSTA (E)__

➧ A questão objetiva identificar o sentido contextual do falso cognato ACTUALLY.

(1) ACTUALLY  – IN FACT or REALLY – REALMENTE, DE FATO:

• So what actually happened? –  Então, o que realmente aconteceu? [Cambridge Dictionary]

(2) EVENTUALLY – IN THE END, at the end of a period of time or a series of events. – NO FINAL DE UM PERÍODO DE TEMPO, NO FINAL DE UMA SÉRIE DE EVENTOS. 

• Our flight eventually left five hours late. – Nosso voo acabou saindo com cinco horas de atraso. [Oxford Dictionary]

(3) COGNATOS são palavras da língua inglesa que possuem grafia, pronúncia e significado igual ou semelhante em português.