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➧NESTE POST: PROVA de INGLÊS da FGV-2007-VESTIBULAR 2º SEMESTRE, prova aplicada em 27/05/2007.
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• 15 Questões(múltiplas escolhas com 05 alternativas cada).
➧TÓPICOS ABORDADOS ao longo da prova:
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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:
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6-ADJECTIVES:
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7-ADVERBS:
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10-COLLOCATIONS:
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11-TECHNICAL ENGLISH(Business English, Finance English, Legal English and so on):
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12-LINKING WORDS:
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13-GENITIVE CASE:
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14-FALSE COGNATES:
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Vamos à Prova:
• TEXTO 1:
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax –
Of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.”
The Walrus and The Carpenter – Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
According to the text:
a) Some possible topics for conversation were being suggested.
b) The Walrus was a time keeper.
c) It was time for some things to be made very clear in their dispute.
d) It seems that talking was all the present company could do.
e) Things always seem to get in the way of timely comments.
R E S P O S T A : C |
a) Some possible topics for conversation were being suggested.
• Alguns possíveis tópicos de conversa estavam sendo sugeridos.
b) The Walrus was a time keeper.
• A morsa era uma cronometrista.
c) It was time for some things to be made very clear in their dispute.
• Era chegada a hora de algumas coisas ficarem bem claras em sua disputa.
• Informação (C) de acordo com o trecho:
• [...] The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things:"
• Chegou a hora, disse a Morsa, Pra falar de muitas coisas:.
d) It seems that talking was all the present company could do.
• Parece que falar era tudo o que a empresa presente podia fazer.
e) Things always seem to get in the way of timely comments.
• As coisas sempre parecem atrapalhar os comentários oportunos.
👉 Questão 32 :According to the text:
a) Both shoes and ships use sealing-wax to make them water proof.
b) Cabbages and kings are valid topics of conversation with this Walrus.
c) When the sea is boiling hot pigs grow wings.
d) Both cabbages and kings taste better when boiled in the sea.
e) Winged pigs make good kings.
R E S P O S T A : B |
• De acordo com o texto:
a) Both shoes and ships use sealing-wax to make them water proof.
• Tanto os sapatos quanto os navios usam cera de lacre para torná-los à prova d'água.
b) Cabbages and kings are valid topics of conversation with this Walrus.
• Repolhos e reis são tópicos válidos de conversa com esta morsa.
• Informação (B) de acordo com o trecho:
• [...] the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax –Of cabbages – and kings..."
• a Morsa disse, ‘Para falar de muitas coisas: De sapatos - e navios - e cera - Dos repolhos - e reis...
c) When the sea is boiling hot pigs grow wings.
• Quando o mar está fervendo, os porcos quentes criam asas.
d) Both cabbages and kings taste better when boiled in the sea.
• Tanto os repolhos como os reis têm um sabor melhor quando cozidos no mar.
e) Winged pigs make good kings.
• Porcos alados são bons reis.
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Part 1
👉 Questão 33 :According to the text:
a) Day after day the voyage was getting very boring.
b) We were having problems breathing.
c) We got stuck when we painted the boat.
d) We were as still as a picture of a ship on a picture of the sea.
e) We could breathe without moving a muscle.
• De acordo com o texto:
c) We got stuck when we painted the boat.
d) We were as still as a picture of a ship on a picture of the sea.
e) We could breathe without moving a muscle.
R E S P O S T A : D |
a) Day after day the voyage was getting very boring.
• Dia após dia a viagem estava ficando muito chata.
b) We were having problems breathing.
• Estávamos com problemas para respirar.
c) We got stuck when we painted the boat.
• Ficamos presos quando pintamos o barco.
d) We were as still as a picture of a ship on a picture of the sea.
• Estávamos parados como a foto de um navio em um retrato do mar.
e) We could breathe without moving a muscle.
• Podíamos respirar sem mover um músculo.
👉 Questão 34 :
According to the text:
a) There was a lot of water to drink.
b) We shrank away from the boards.
c) There was a lot of water but none could be taken to quench our thirst.
d) We were not allowed to drink in the ship.
e) We wanted a drop of rum but none was to be had.
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During the mid-20th century, the US government did
some pretty ugly things to people in the name of science: exposing soldiers to A-bomb blasts, psychologically
abusing Harvard students (including a young Ted
“Unabomber” Kaczynski), letting hundreds of black men
die of syphilis in Alabama.
According to the text:
a) Science is a hard master – its demands can only be met by government.
b) Ugly people are naturally attracted to scientific endeavors.
c) People who deal with science tend to become ugly.
d) Government uses science as an excuse to mistreat people.
e) Government and ugly people do things together.
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“This thing has immense potential for social and
human destruction.” Startling words – but spoken by
the father of the Green Revolution, Nobel laureate
Norman Borlaug, they are not easily dismissed.
An infection is coming, and almost no one has heard about it. This infection isn’t going to give you flu, or TB. In fact, it isn’t interested in you at all. It is after the wheat plants that feed more people than any other single food source on the planet. And because of cutbacks in international research, we aren’t prepared. The famines that were banished by the advent of disease-resistant crops in the Green Revolution of the 1960s could return, Borlaug told New Scientist.
According to the text:
a) Human and social destruction is the latest “thing” in scientific circles.
b) Borlaug was honored with a Nobel prize.
c) There is great potential but little substance to this thing.
d) Borlaug does not like to be dismissed.
e) When Borlaug speaks it is like a green revolution.
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👉 Questão 37 :
According to the text:
a) This infection is very much like the avian flu.
b) Little has been heard about infections since the advent of penicillin.
c) People rely too much on plants for their sustenance.
d) Wheat plants are healthier than famines for human consumption.
e) This infection does not attack people.
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The great mystery about these copycat cars is their
price. Chinese counterfeiters obviously save on
research and development costs, but they still have to
buy steel and other materials at market prices. Most of
them make cars in very small volumes, so there are no
economies of scale. That they can sell these cars for half
the price of the originals suggests that something odd is
going on. They either do not know their own costs (a distinct possibility), have revolutionized car making (highly
unlikely) or are being subsidized in some way. For the
time being, no one knows.
According to the text:
a) Materials are no cheaper in China than elsewhere.
👉 Questão 34 :
According to the text:
a) There was a lot of water to drink.
b) We shrank away from the boards.
c) There was a lot of water but none could be taken to quench our thirst.
d) We were not allowed to drink in the ship.
e) We wanted a drop of rum but none was to be had.
R E S P O S T A : C |
TEXTO 3
Be More Than You Can Be – Noah Shachtman –
Wired Magazine – March 2007
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore_pr.html
👉 Questão 35 :According to the text:
a) Science is a hard master – its demands can only be met by government.
b) Ugly people are naturally attracted to scientific endeavors.
c) People who deal with science tend to become ugly.
d) Government uses science as an excuse to mistreat people.
e) Government and ugly people do things together.
R E S P O S T A : D |
TEXTO 4
An infection is coming, and almost no one has heard about it. This infection isn’t going to give you flu, or TB. In fact, it isn’t interested in you at all. It is after the wheat plants that feed more people than any other single food source on the planet. And because of cutbacks in international research, we aren’t prepared. The famines that were banished by the advent of disease-resistant crops in the Green Revolution of the 1960s could return, Borlaug told New Scientist.
Debora Mackenzie –
New Scientist – 03 April 2007
👉 Questão 36 :According to the text:
a) Human and social destruction is the latest “thing” in scientific circles.
b) Borlaug was honored with a Nobel prize.
c) There is great potential but little substance to this thing.
d) Borlaug does not like to be dismissed.
e) When Borlaug speaks it is like a green revolution.
R E S P O S T A : B |
👉 Questão 37 :
According to the text:
a) This infection is very much like the avian flu.
b) Little has been heard about infections since the advent of penicillin.
c) People rely too much on plants for their sustenance.
d) Wheat plants are healthier than famines for human consumption.
e) This infection does not attack people.
R E S P O S T A : E |
TEXTO 5
Counterfeit cars in China – The sincerest form of flattery – SHANGHAI
The Economist – Apr 4th 2007
👉 Questão 38 :According to the text:
a) Materials are no cheaper in China than elsewhere.
b) Price wars in China have brought down the price of
cars.
c) There is no mystery as to why cars made in China are so cheap: the Chinese are more efficient than the rest of the World.
d) In China counterfeiters do a great deal of research and development.
e) Economies of scale help explain lower prices in China.
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But corn-based ethanol, the sort produced in
America, is neither cheap nor green. It requires almost
as much energy to produce (more, say some studies) as
it releases when it is burned. And the subsidies on it
cost taxpayers, according to the International Institute
for Sustainable Development, somewhere between
$5.5 billion and $7.3 billion a year.
Ethanol made from sugar cane, by contrast, is good. It produces far more energy than is needed to grow it, and Brazil – the main producer of sugar ethanol – has plenty of land available on which to grow sugar without necessarily reducing food production or encroaching on rainforests. Other developing countries with tropical climates, such as India, the Philippines and even Cuba, could prosper by producing sugar ethanol and selling it to rich Americans to fuel their cars.
According to the text:
a) Corn based ethanol, also known as moonshine, has a long history in America.
b) The green variety of ethanol is very expensive.
c) Burning American ethanol is not an alternative to prohibition.
d) Subsidizing the elimination of corn liquor is not a sustainable proposition.
e) It costs a lot of American taxpayers money to sustain ethanol production.
•
👉 Questão 40 :
According to the text:
a) Rich Americans can afford to subsidize native Indians and Cubans.
b) Underdeveloped countries should not waste resources on sugar production.
c) Sugar cane ethanol is good and cheap.
d) Rainforests can always be brought down and replaced by sugar cane.
e) Food production might have to be reduced to make way for sugar cane.
•
Bacteria cause disease. The idea that they might also
prevent disease is counterintuitive. Yet that is the hypothesis Chris Lowry, of Bristol University, and his colleagues are putting forward in Neuroscience. They think a
particular sort of bacterium might alleviate clinical
depression.
According to the text:
a) Bacteria in Bristol University tend to cause disease.
b) If you sort bacteria you might get depressed.
c) Preventing disease with bacteria is an unusual proposition.
d) Chris Lowry made his discovery while going through a deed depression.
e) Bristol University has been a depressive place for Neuroscience.
•
Just as Lula has won over the traders, so the São
Paulo exchange, known as Bovespa, has calmed the
doubts of international investors in recent years. Long
buffeted by rampant inflation, soaring interest rates and
extreme volatility, share prices on Latin America’s largest
stock market have doubled in the past three years,
according to the leading market index.
According to the text:
a) Lula has made traders unhappy.
b) International investors have become more confident.
c) Lula has won a lot in the São Paulo stock exchange.
d) International investors have become very nervous.
e) Lula does not trust international investors.
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The key to solving the climate change crisis is technology. To accommodate the economic aspirations of
the more than five billion people in the developing countries, the size of the world economy should increase by
a factor of four to six, by 2050; at the same time, global
emissions of greenhouse gases will have to remain
steady or decline to prevent dangerous changes to the
climate. After 2050, emissions will have to drop further,
nearly to zero, for greenhouse gas concentrations to stabilize.
According to the text:
a) We can blame the climate change crisis on technology.
b) If we keep underdeveloped countries underdeveloped the problem will be solved.
c) The world economy will grow by 4 to 6 percent a year up to 2050.
d) The whole question of climate change is a myth.
e) We have to rely on technology to solve the problems of climate change.
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👉 Questão 44 :
According to the text:
a) Greenhouse gases have to increase after 2050 to maintain a steady climate.
b) Changes in climate will happen whatever we try to do about it.
c) Greenhouse gases have to remain stable up to 2050.
d) Emissions of greenhouse gases have no influence on economic growth.
e) The concentration of greenhouse gases after 2050 is anyone’s guess
•
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – The plan is simple: Within a decade, we go back to the moon. By 2030,
reach to Mars.
This week an estimated 7,000 government officials,
corporate representatives and space enthusiasts will
converge at the annual National Space Symposium here
to hash out the technological, cultural and political
issues surrounding the next decade’s push for manned
exploration of space.
As recently as a few years ago, the very topic of manned missions beyond Earth orbit was virtually forbidden
within serious space circles. But today supporters find a
serious plan in place to send manned expeditions to the
moon for the first time since the Apollo program.
According to the text:
a) Going to the moon and Mars within the next 10 years is the theme of the meeting.
b) Corporations lined up with government officials against space enthusiasts.
c) There was a convergence of opinions as to the destiny of mankind.
d) The theme was manned exploration of inner space.
e) The theme was manned exploration of the moon and beyond.
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c) There is no mystery as to why cars made in China are so cheap: the Chinese are more efficient than the rest of the World.
d) In China counterfeiters do a great deal of research and development.
e) Economies of scale help explain lower prices in China.
R E S P O S T A : A |
TEXTO 6
Ethanol made from sugar cane, by contrast, is good. It produces far more energy than is needed to grow it, and Brazil – the main producer of sugar ethanol – has plenty of land available on which to grow sugar without necessarily reducing food production or encroaching on rainforests. Other developing countries with tropical climates, such as India, the Philippines and even Cuba, could prosper by producing sugar ethanol and selling it to rich Americans to fuel their cars.
Ethanol – Castro was right The Economist –
Apr 4th 2007
👉 Questão 39 :Apr 4th 2007
According to the text:
a) Corn based ethanol, also known as moonshine, has a long history in America.
b) The green variety of ethanol is very expensive.
c) Burning American ethanol is not an alternative to prohibition.
d) Subsidizing the elimination of corn liquor is not a sustainable proposition.
e) It costs a lot of American taxpayers money to sustain ethanol production.
R E S P O S T A : E |
👉 Questão 40 :
According to the text:
a) Rich Americans can afford to subsidize native Indians and Cubans.
b) Underdeveloped countries should not waste resources on sugar production.
c) Sugar cane ethanol is good and cheap.
d) Rainforests can always be brought down and replaced by sugar cane.
e) Food production might have to be reduced to make way for sugar cane.
R E S P O S T A : E |
TEXTO 7
Bacteria and depression – Bad is good
The Economist – Apr 4th 2007
👉 Questão 41 :According to the text:
a) Bacteria in Bristol University tend to cause disease.
b) If you sort bacteria you might get depressed.
c) Preventing disease with bacteria is an unusual proposition.
d) Chris Lowry made his discovery while going through a deed depression.
e) Bristol University has been a depressive place for Neuroscience.
R E S P O S T A : C |
TEXTO 8
Brazil’s stock Exchange – A second look – SÃO PAULO
The Economist – Apr 4th 2007
👉 Questão 42 :According to the text:
a) Lula has made traders unhappy.
b) International investors have become more confident.
c) Lula has won a lot in the São Paulo stock exchange.
d) International investors have become very nervous.
e) Lula does not trust international investors.
R E S P O S T A : B |
TEXTO 9
The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here – JEFFREY D. SACHS
Scientific American – May 2007
👉 Questão 43 :According to the text:
a) We can blame the climate change crisis on technology.
b) If we keep underdeveloped countries underdeveloped the problem will be solved.
c) The world economy will grow by 4 to 6 percent a year up to 2050.
d) The whole question of climate change is a myth.
e) We have to rely on technology to solve the problems of climate change.
R E S P O S T A : E |
👉 Questão 44 :
According to the text:
a) Greenhouse gases have to increase after 2050 to maintain a steady climate.
b) Changes in climate will happen whatever we try to do about it.
c) Greenhouse gases have to remain stable up to 2050.
d) Emissions of greenhouse gases have no influence on economic growth.
e) The concentration of greenhouse gases after 2050 is anyone’s guess
R E S P O S T A : C |
TEXTO 10
Wired News – http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/
/2007/04/spacesymposium_0409
👉 Questão 45 :According to the text:
a) Going to the moon and Mars within the next 10 years is the theme of the meeting.
b) Corporations lined up with government officials against space enthusiasts.
c) There was a convergence of opinions as to the destiny of mankind.
d) The theme was manned exploration of inner space.
e) The theme was manned exploration of the moon and beyond.
R E S P O S T A : E |