📝 ESTILO MÚLTIPLA ESCOLHAS
🔹15 MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions)
🔹Five-Option Question.
❑ TEXTO 1: As questões 01 a 07 estão
relacionadas ao texto abaixo.
There are as many ways of being blind as there
are of being tall, or sick, or hot. But the popular
view has always conceived ______ blindness as a
totality.
The blind bards wandering the
countrysides of ancient Japan, China, or Europe,
the blind housed in asylums in the Middle Ages,
all the pupils in all the schools for the blind from
the Enlightenment onward, blind beggars and
lawyers, war veterans and toddlers - in the eyes
of history, as well as those of most of their
contemporaries, they all saw nothing.
Modern
dictionaries still subscribe to this sense:
blindness is the antonym of vision, and connotes
a destitution of sight. What else could it mean?
Despite the poetic impulse to equate blindness
______ darkness, it's rarely experienced as a black
veil draped over the world. Only around 15
percent of blind people have no light perception
whatsoever.
Most see something, even if it isn't
very useful, by sighted standards: a blurry view
of their periphery, with nothing in the middle, or
the inverse - the world seen through a
buttonhole.
For some, scenes come through in a
dim haze; for others, light produces a shower of
excruciatingly bright needles.
Even those with no
light perception at all have little use for the
popular image of blindness as darkness: the
brain cut off from visual stimulus can still
produce washes of brilliant color and shape.
One
blind man, whose optic nerve - the connection
between the eyes and the brain - had been
severed, described seeing a continuously
swirling (and distracting) "visual tinnitus."
The
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, decades ______ his blindness, still saw color, which
sometimes disturbed him: "I, who was
accustomed to sleeping in total darkness," he
said, “was bothered for a long time at having to
sleep in this world of mist, in the greenish or
bluish mist, vaguely luminous, which is the world
of the blind. I wanted to lie down in darkness”.
The arrival or encroachment of blindness gives
rise to a similarly dazzling range of experiences,
an efflorescence of blind varietals.
There are
those born blind, with no visual memories,
whose brains – including the visual cortices –
develop using four (or fewer) senses to construct
their view of the world.
Those who become blind
in early childhood often retain visual memories
that can contribute to an intuitive understanding
of visual concepts.
The late-blinded may have
the most cognitive work to do, forced to relearn
basic skills like orientation and information –
gathering through new senses, long after their
brains' developmental plasticity has hardened.
Some late-blinded adults consciously struggle to
preserve their storehouses of mental images,
like art conservators touching up old and fading
masterpieces.
People are blinded by their spouses or strangers,
by acts of war or sports injuries, by industrial
accidents and bad decisions, malnutrition and
infection, genetic inheritances and spontaneous
mutations.
It's disingenuous to argue that
blindness doesn't have a transformative impact ______ a person's life, but in every case, blindness
is only part of the story.
The life of a blind person
is never fully (or even predominantly) defined by
their blindness». 🔗Extraído de: LELAND, A. The Country of the Blind: A memoir
at the end of sight. New York: Penguin, 2023.
01. Assinale a alternativa que preenche
adequadamente as lacunas das linhas 03, 16,
35 e 66. (A) to – to – in – on (B) of – with – into – on (C) of – to – into – in (D) for – as – into – on (E) of – with – in – in 💡 GABARITO 🄱 🔎TRECHOS COM LACUNAS NUMERADAS:📑Linha 03: “the popular view has always conceived ______ blindness as a totality.”🔹O verbo "conceive" exige a preposição “of” → conceive of something = “conceber algo”.🔹Lacuna 1 → of🔹"[...] But the popular view has always conceived of blindness as a totality."(Mas a visão popular sempre concebeu a cegueira como uma totalidade.) 📑Linha 16: “Despite the poetic impulse to equate blindness ______ darkness…”🔹Expressão: “equate X with Y” → igualar X a Y.🔹Lacuna 2 → with📑Linha 35: “The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, decades ______ his blindness, still saw color…”🔹Contexto: indica tempo decorrido “after” algo → decades into his blindness = “décadas após sua cegueira”.🔹Lacuna 3 → into📑Linha 66: “It's disingenuous to argue that blindness doesn't have a transformative impact ______ a person's life…”🔹Expressão: impact on someone/something → impacto sobre algo.🔹Lacuna 4 → on
02. Assinale a alternativa correta em relação ao
texto. (A) As pessoas cegas invariavelmente criam
estratégias que envolvem a utilização dos
outros quatro sentidos na sua construção
de mundo, bem como o reaprendizado da
orientação espacial e a preservação
inconsciente de imagens adquiridas
anteriormente à condição de cegueira. (B) As vivências das pessoas cegas são muito
diversas, devido a fatores como idade e
tipo de cegueira; entretanto, a destituição
da visão e a não percepção da luz são
fatores comuns a todos os tipos de
cegueira. (C) As pessoas que se tornam cegas na
infância não têm repertório de imagens
visuais para utilizar ao longo da vida, ao
contrário das que se tornam cegas depois
de adultas. (D) A tentativa de definição e as perspectivas
históricas apresentadas no texto não
abarcam toda a diversidade de condições
de cegueira. (E) O texto ressalta que a existência de uma
pessoa cega não é definida unicamente em
torno de sua cegueira, ainda que ela seja
sua característica mais marcante.
03. Considere as seguintes afirmações acerca do
segundo parágrafo do texto. I - O impulso a equiparar a cegueira à
escuridão é exemplificado através da ideia
do mundo coberto por um véu negro. II - Duas pessoas comparam a cegueira a
situações diferentes, quais sejam, o
“zumbido visual” e o “mundo de névoa”. III - A cegueira pode ser comparável, para
algumas pessoas, a enxergar o mundo
através de um buraco de botão de camisa,
enquanto para outras a luz produz um
efeito semelhante a agulhas brilhantes.
Quais estão corretas? (A) Apenas I. (B) Apenas II. (C) Apenas III. (D) Apenas I e III. (E) I, II e III.
04. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta termos
que, conforme empregados no texto, operam
como membros de uma mesma classe de
palavras. (A) blindness (l. 03) – periphery (l. 21) –
blind (l. 41) (B) rarely (l. 16) – early (l. 49) –
predominantly (l. 68) (C) sighted (l. 20) – described (l. 32) –
saw (l. 35)
(D) blurry (l. 20) – bluish (l. 40) –
strangers (l. 60)
(E) distracting (l. 33) – dazzling (l. 43) –
understanding (l. 50)
05. Associe as palavras da coluna da esquerda às
suas respectivas traduções na coluna da
direita, de acordo com o sentido que têm no
texto.
( ) toddlers (l. 09)( ) encroachment (l. 42)( ) disingenuous (l. 64)
1. crianças2. usurpação3. invasão 4. genuíno 5. pacifistas 6. hipócrita
A sequência correta de preenchimento dos
parênteses, de cima para baixo, é (A) 1 – 3 – 6. (B) 5 – 2 – 4. (C) 1 – 3 – 4. (D) 1 – 2 – 6. (E) 5 – 3 – 6.
06. Assinale com V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) as
afirmações abaixo, acerca do texto. ( ) O pronome those (l. 10) refere-se a war
veterans (l. 09). ( ) As palavras Most (l. 19), some (l. 23)
others (l. 24) those (l. 25) referem-se a
blind people. ( ) O pronome whose (l. 30) refere-se a
nerve (l. 30). ( ) O pronome which (l. 35) refere-se a
blindness (l. 35). A sequência correta de preenchimento dos
parênteses, de cima para baixo, é (A) F – V – F – V. (B) V – F – V – F. (C) F – V – F – F. (D) V – F – F – V. (E) F – V – V – F.
07. Considere as seguintes propostas de alteração
de segmentos do texto. I - Substituição de they all saw nothing
(l. 11) por none off them didn’t see
nothing. II - Substituição de have no light
perception whatsoever (l. 18-19) por
do not have any light perception
whatsoever. III - Substituição de doesn’t have a
transformative impact (l. 65) por has
no transformative impact. Quais resultariam gramaticalmente corretas, se
aplicadas ao texto? (A) Apenas I. (B) Apenas II. (C) Apenas III. (D) Apenas II e III. (E) I, II e III.
❑ TEXTO 2: As questões 08 a 15 estão
relacionadas ao texto abaixo.
The first time I saw an encaustic painting, I
was mesmerized by its beautiful surface,
translucency, and incredible texture which you
could appreciate for hours.
Encaustics are like
no other form of painting, in that there are
endless techniques and fleeting seconds before
your medium solidifies.
It is a medium where
you have to trust your instincts and paint in the
moment.
You have to take leaps of faith. In the
beginning there are many frustrations, but over
time you learn how to work with the beautiful
accidents which incur.
Encaustic painting is one of the oldest forms of
painting, and stems from the word Enkaustikos,
which means “to burn in”.
It originated in
Ancient Greece three thousand years ago when
ancient ship builders would use a combination
of wax and resin to seal and waterproof their
hulls.
Pigments were then added to the medium
and led to the decoration of warships.
Most
likely the most famous encaustic paintings of all
time are the Fayum mummy funeral portraits
from the late 1st century BCE or the early 2nd
century CE onwards.
As tradition, funeral
portraits were placed over a person’s mummy
as a memorial.
Many of these mummies have
survived to present day, and the portraits
maintain their bright and vivid colors because
the pigments remain suspended in the wax
medium; thereby retaining their vibrance.
After the decline of the Roman Empire,
encaustic painting fell by the wayside as the
country faced instability and economic turmoil.
At this time, encaustic was largely replaced by
tempera, which was easier to work with and
more economical.
Some painting continued as
late as the 7th century, but encaustics soon
became a lost art.
Later in the 19th century
mural painters in northern climates
experimented with encaustics to battle
problems of dampness in mural paintings, but
success was limited.
Leonardo da Vinci
experimented with using encaustics in his work,
but was not successful.
Other European artists
including Vincent van Gogh and Julius Schnorr
von Carolsfeld used encaustics in their oil
paintings to separate layers of paint with
translucent layers.
Wax has many qualities that last the test of
time, and encaustic may be the most durable
form of painting.
Beeswax is moisture resistant,
it is a natural adhesive, it does not attract
insects, and it resists mildew.
Solvents and oils
can darken or yellow over time, but beeswax
does not change color at all.
As with oil paint, you should only paint with
encaustics in a well-ventilated studio
environment, using either an industrial
ventilating system, or a fan near your work
surface to blow air away _____ you in
combination with open windows.
A safe working
range for encaustic is _____ 150–175ºF.
Beeswax has a flash point of _____ 470ºF, but at
no point should you allow the wax to get close
to this temperature.
If your wax begins to
smoke at any point, turn _____ the heat. Keep a
fire extinguisher handy in your studio because
water does not extinguish wax which is
inflamed.
If you use tools such as a griddle with
encaustic painting, do not later use them for
food preparation. Rather, dedicate them solely
to work with encaustic. 🔗Adapted from: MARGELL, J. Encaustic Art. 7. ed. APA
(American Psychological Assoc.) Parkstone International,
2013.
08. Choose the option which fills in the blanks on
lines 60, 62, 63 and 66, respectively. (A) from – among – around – less (B) from – around – between – up (C) of – between – around – down (D) of – between – about – up (E) from – between – around – down
09. Read the following assertions about encaustic
painting. I - Encaustic painting does not blend with
other painting techniques. II - Encaustics are considered cost-effective
and easy to handle in the studio. III - Encaustic painting requires strict safety
measures. Which assertions are correct? (A) Only I. (B) Only III. (C) Only I and II. (D) Only II and III. (E) I, II and III.
10. Each painting technique has its pros and cons.
Read the list of pros below. I - Encaustic painting allows the artist to have
full control and achieve pre-planned
results. II - Pigmented wax forms the primary medium
of encaustics, to which other bindings can
also be added. III - Encaustics are fungus free. Which pros are mentioned in the text as
representative of encaustic painting? (A) Only I. (B) Only II. (C) Only III. (D) Only II and III. (E) I, II and III.
11. Which word could replace mesmerized (l. 02)
without compromising the implied feeling or
idea that such word carries in addition to its
literal meaning in the given context? (A) unsettled. (B) challenged. (C) shocked. (D) confused. (E) dazzled.
12. Mark the statements about the use of the word
which with T (true) or F (false) according to
the text. ( ) The word which (l. 03) could well be
omitted with no significant change in
meaning. ( ) Replacing which (l. 15) with that would,
with no further changes, result in a
grammatically accurate sentence. ( ) The removal of the word which from line
35 would require no further change to the
sentence. How should the sequence read from top to
bottom? (A) F – T – T. (B) F – F – F. (C) T – F – F. (D) T – F – T. (E) F – T – F.
13. Choose a replacement for the sentence
Encaustics are like no other form of
painting (l. 04-05) in which its core meaning
would be preserved. (A) Encaustics are a form of painting. (B) Encaustic painting is a unique form of
painting. (C) Encaustics are a form of painting
everybody likes. (D) Encaustics are similar to any other form of
painting. (E) Encaustic painting is an undistinctive form
of painting.
14. Consider the following proposals of
replacement for the expression fell by the
wayside (l. 32) to be substituted. I - became unhabitual. II - fell into disuse. III - was prohibited. In the given context, which would retain the
meaning of the original expression? (A) Only I. (B) Only III. (C) Only I and II. (D) Only II and III. (E) I, II and III.
15. Choose the option in which the word rather
has the same meaning and grammatical class
as in the fragment Rather, dedicate them
solely to work with encaustic (l. 71-72). (A) Artists would rather share their paintings
only after proper framing had been done. (B) That’s a rather controversial matter. (C) Rather obnoxious assertions have been
made about his attempts to be taken to the
program. (D) This type of failure is not due to lack of
resources, but rather to lack of true
commitment. (E) Artists prefer to pursue creativity rather
than fame.
❑ TEXTO 1: As questões 01 a 07 estão
relacionadas ao texto abaixo.
There are as many ways of being blind as there
are of being tall, or sick, or hot. But the popular
view has always conceived ______ blindness as a
totality.
The blind bards wandering the
countrysides of ancient Japan, China, or Europe,
the blind housed in asylums in the Middle Ages,
all the pupils in all the schools for the blind from
the Enlightenment onward, blind beggars and
lawyers, war veterans and toddlers - in the eyes
of history, as well as those of most of their
contemporaries, they all saw nothing.
Modern
dictionaries still subscribe to this sense:
blindness is the antonym of vision, and connotes
a destitution of sight. What else could it mean?
Despite the poetic impulse to equate blindness
______ darkness, it's rarely experienced as a black
veil draped over the world. Only around 15
percent of blind people have no light perception
whatsoever.
Most see something, even if it isn't
very useful, by sighted standards: a blurry view
of their periphery, with nothing in the middle, or
the inverse - the world seen through a
buttonhole.
For some, scenes come through in a
dim haze; for others, light produces a shower of
excruciatingly bright needles.
Even those with no
light perception at all have little use for the
popular image of blindness as darkness: the
brain cut off from visual stimulus can still
produce washes of brilliant color and shape.
One
blind man, whose optic nerve - the connection
between the eyes and the brain - had been
severed, described seeing a continuously
swirling (and distracting) "visual tinnitus."
The
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, decades ______ his blindness, still saw color, which
sometimes disturbed him: "I, who was
accustomed to sleeping in total darkness," he
said, “was bothered for a long time at having to
sleep in this world of mist, in the greenish or
bluish mist, vaguely luminous, which is the world
of the blind. I wanted to lie down in darkness”.
The arrival or encroachment of blindness gives
rise to a similarly dazzling range of experiences,
an efflorescence of blind varietals.
There are
those born blind, with no visual memories,
whose brains – including the visual cortices –
develop using four (or fewer) senses to construct
their view of the world.
Those who become blind
in early childhood often retain visual memories
that can contribute to an intuitive understanding
of visual concepts.
The late-blinded may have
the most cognitive work to do, forced to relearn
basic skills like orientation and information –
gathering through new senses, long after their
brains' developmental plasticity has hardened.
Some late-blinded adults consciously struggle to
preserve their storehouses of mental images,
like art conservators touching up old and fading
masterpieces.
People are blinded by their spouses or strangers,
by acts of war or sports injuries, by industrial
accidents and bad decisions, malnutrition and
infection, genetic inheritances and spontaneous
mutations.
It's disingenuous to argue that
blindness doesn't have a transformative impact ______ a person's life, but in every case, blindness
is only part of the story.
The life of a blind person
is never fully (or even predominantly) defined by
their blindness».
🔗Extraído de: LELAND, A. The Country of the Blind: A memoir
at the end of sight. New York: Penguin, 2023.
01. Assinale a alternativa que preenche
adequadamente as lacunas das linhas 03, 16,
35 e 66.
(A) to – to – in – on
(B) of – with – into – on
(C) of – to – into – in
(D) for – as – into – on
(E) of – with – in – in
💡 GABARITO 🄱
🔎TRECHOS COM LACUNAS NUMERADAS:
📑Linha 03: “the popular view has always conceived ______ blindness as a totality.”
🔹O verbo "conceive" exige a preposição “of” → conceive of something = “conceber algo”.
🔹Lacuna 1 → of
🔹"[...] But the popular view has always conceived of blindness as a totality."(Mas a visão popular sempre concebeu a cegueira como uma totalidade.)
📑Linha 16: “Despite the poetic impulse to equate blindness ______ darkness…”
🔹Expressão: “equate X with Y” → igualar X a Y.
🔹Lacuna 2 → with
📑Linha 35: “The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, decades ______ his blindness, still saw color…”
🔹Contexto: indica tempo decorrido “after” algo → decades into his blindness = “décadas após sua cegueira”.
🔹Lacuna 3 → into
📑Linha 66: “It's disingenuous to argue that blindness doesn't have a transformative impact ______ a person's life…”
🔹Expressão: impact on someone/something → impacto sobre algo.
🔹Lacuna 4 → on
02. Assinale a alternativa correta em relação ao
texto.
(A) As pessoas cegas invariavelmente criam
estratégias que envolvem a utilização dos
outros quatro sentidos na sua construção
de mundo, bem como o reaprendizado da
orientação espacial e a preservação
inconsciente de imagens adquiridas
anteriormente à condição de cegueira.
(B) As vivências das pessoas cegas são muito
diversas, devido a fatores como idade e
tipo de cegueira; entretanto, a destituição
da visão e a não percepção da luz são
fatores comuns a todos os tipos de
cegueira.
(C) As pessoas que se tornam cegas na
infância não têm repertório de imagens
visuais para utilizar ao longo da vida, ao
contrário das que se tornam cegas depois
de adultas.
(D) A tentativa de definição e as perspectivas
históricas apresentadas no texto não
abarcam toda a diversidade de condições
de cegueira.
(E) O texto ressalta que a existência de uma
pessoa cega não é definida unicamente em
torno de sua cegueira, ainda que ela seja
sua característica mais marcante.
03. Considere as seguintes afirmações acerca do
segundo parágrafo do texto.
I - O impulso a equiparar a cegueira à
escuridão é exemplificado através da ideia
do mundo coberto por um véu negro.
II - Duas pessoas comparam a cegueira a
situações diferentes, quais sejam, o
“zumbido visual” e o “mundo de névoa”.
III - A cegueira pode ser comparável, para
algumas pessoas, a enxergar o mundo
através de um buraco de botão de camisa,
enquanto para outras a luz produz um
efeito semelhante a agulhas brilhantes.
Quais estão corretas?
(A) Apenas I.
(B) Apenas II.
(C) Apenas III.
(D) Apenas I e III.
(E) I, II e III.
04. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta termos
que, conforme empregados no texto, operam
como membros de uma mesma classe de
palavras.
(A) blindness (l. 03) – periphery (l. 21) –
blind (l. 41)
(B) rarely (l. 16) – early (l. 49) –
predominantly (l. 68)
(C) sighted (l. 20) – described (l. 32) –
saw (l. 35)
(D) blurry (l. 20) – bluish (l. 40) –
strangers (l. 60)
(E) distracting (l. 33) – dazzling (l. 43) –
understanding (l. 50)
05. Associe as palavras da coluna da esquerda às
suas respectivas traduções na coluna da
direita, de acordo com o sentido que têm no
texto.
( ) toddlers (l. 09)
( ) encroachment (l. 42)
( ) disingenuous (l. 64)
1. crianças
2. usurpação
3. invasão
4. genuíno
5. pacifistas
6. hipócrita
A sequência correta de preenchimento dos
parênteses, de cima para baixo, é
(A) 1 – 3 – 6.
(B) 5 – 2 – 4.
(C) 1 – 3 – 4.
(D) 1 – 2 – 6.
(E) 5 – 3 – 6.
06. Assinale com V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) as
afirmações abaixo, acerca do texto.
( ) O pronome those (l. 10) refere-se a war
veterans (l. 09).
( ) As palavras Most (l. 19), some (l. 23)
others (l. 24) those (l. 25) referem-se a
blind people.
( ) O pronome whose (l. 30) refere-se a
nerve (l. 30).
( ) O pronome which (l. 35) refere-se a
blindness (l. 35).
A sequência correta de preenchimento dos
parênteses, de cima para baixo, é
(A) F – V – F – V.
(B) V – F – V – F.
(C) F – V – F – F.
(D) V – F – F – V.
(E) F – V – V – F.
07. Considere as seguintes propostas de alteração
de segmentos do texto.
I - Substituição de they all saw nothing
(l. 11) por none off them didn’t see
nothing.
II - Substituição de have no light
perception whatsoever (l. 18-19) por
do not have any light perception
whatsoever.
III - Substituição de doesn’t have a
transformative impact (l. 65) por has
no transformative impact.
Quais resultariam gramaticalmente corretas, se
aplicadas ao texto?
(A) Apenas I.
(B) Apenas II.
(C) Apenas III.
(D) Apenas II e III.
(E) I, II e III.
❑ TEXTO 2: As questões 08 a 15 estão
relacionadas ao texto abaixo.
The first time I saw an encaustic painting, I
was mesmerized by its beautiful surface,
translucency, and incredible texture which you
could appreciate for hours.
Encaustics are like
no other form of painting, in that there are
endless techniques and fleeting seconds before
your medium solidifies.
It is a medium where
you have to trust your instincts and paint in the
moment.
You have to take leaps of faith. In the
beginning there are many frustrations, but over
time you learn how to work with the beautiful
accidents which incur.
Encaustic painting is one of the oldest forms of
painting, and stems from the word Enkaustikos,
which means “to burn in”.
It originated in
Ancient Greece three thousand years ago when
ancient ship builders would use a combination
of wax and resin to seal and waterproof their
hulls.
Pigments were then added to the medium
and led to the decoration of warships.
Most
likely the most famous encaustic paintings of all
time are the Fayum mummy funeral portraits
from the late 1st century BCE or the early 2nd
century CE onwards.
As tradition, funeral
portraits were placed over a person’s mummy
as a memorial.
Many of these mummies have
survived to present day, and the portraits
maintain their bright and vivid colors because
the pigments remain suspended in the wax
medium; thereby retaining their vibrance.
After the decline of the Roman Empire,
encaustic painting fell by the wayside as the
country faced instability and economic turmoil.
At this time, encaustic was largely replaced by
tempera, which was easier to work with and
more economical.
Some painting continued as
late as the 7th century, but encaustics soon
became a lost art.
Later in the 19th century
mural painters in northern climates
experimented with encaustics to battle
problems of dampness in mural paintings, but
success was limited.
Leonardo da Vinci
experimented with using encaustics in his work,
but was not successful.
Other European artists
including Vincent van Gogh and Julius Schnorr
von Carolsfeld used encaustics in their oil
paintings to separate layers of paint with
translucent layers.
Wax has many qualities that last the test of
time, and encaustic may be the most durable
form of painting.
Beeswax is moisture resistant,
it is a natural adhesive, it does not attract
insects, and it resists mildew.
Solvents and oils
can darken or yellow over time, but beeswax
does not change color at all.
As with oil paint, you should only paint with
encaustics in a well-ventilated studio
environment, using either an industrial
ventilating system, or a fan near your work
surface to blow air away _____ you in
combination with open windows.
A safe working
range for encaustic is _____ 150–175ºF.
Beeswax has a flash point of _____ 470ºF, but at
no point should you allow the wax to get close
to this temperature.
If your wax begins to
smoke at any point, turn _____ the heat. Keep a
fire extinguisher handy in your studio because
water does not extinguish wax which is
inflamed.
If you use tools such as a griddle with
encaustic painting, do not later use them for
food preparation. Rather, dedicate them solely
to work with encaustic.
🔗Adapted from: MARGELL, J. Encaustic Art. 7. ed. APA
(American Psychological Assoc.) Parkstone International,
2013.
08. Choose the option which fills in the blanks on
lines 60, 62, 63 and 66, respectively.
(A) from – among – around – less
(B) from – around – between – up
(C) of – between – around – down
(D) of – between – about – up
(E) from – between – around – down
09. Read the following assertions about encaustic
painting.
I - Encaustic painting does not blend with
other painting techniques.
II - Encaustics are considered cost-effective
and easy to handle in the studio.
III - Encaustic painting requires strict safety
measures.
Which assertions are correct?
(A) Only I.
(B) Only III.
(C) Only I and II.
(D) Only II and III.
(E) I, II and III.
10. Each painting technique has its pros and cons.
Read the list of pros below.
I - Encaustic painting allows the artist to have
full control and achieve pre-planned
results.
II - Pigmented wax forms the primary medium
of encaustics, to which other bindings can
also be added.
III - Encaustics are fungus free.
Which pros are mentioned in the text as
representative of encaustic painting?
(A) Only I.
(B) Only II.
(C) Only III.
(D) Only II and III.
(E) I, II and III.
11. Which word could replace mesmerized (l. 02)
without compromising the implied feeling or
idea that such word carries in addition to its
literal meaning in the given context?
(A) unsettled.
(B) challenged.
(C) shocked.
(D) confused.
(E) dazzled.
12. Mark the statements about the use of the word
which with T (true) or F (false) according to
the text.
( ) The word which (l. 03) could well be
omitted with no significant change in
meaning.
( ) Replacing which (l. 15) with that would,
with no further changes, result in a
grammatically accurate sentence.
( ) The removal of the word which from line
35 would require no further change to the
sentence.
How should the sequence read from top to
bottom?
(A) F – T – T.
(B) F – F – F.
(C) T – F – F.
(D) T – F – T.
(E) F – T – F.
13. Choose a replacement for the sentence
Encaustics are like no other form of
painting (l. 04-05) in which its core meaning
would be preserved.
(A) Encaustics are a form of painting.
(B) Encaustic painting is a unique form of
painting.
(C) Encaustics are a form of painting
everybody likes.
(D) Encaustics are similar to any other form of
painting.
(E) Encaustic painting is an undistinctive form
of painting.
14. Consider the following proposals of
replacement for the expression fell by the
wayside (l. 32) to be substituted.
I - became unhabitual.
II - fell into disuse.
III - was prohibited.
In the given context, which would retain the
meaning of the original expression?
(A) Only I.
(B) Only III.
(C) Only I and II.
(D) Only II and III.
(E) I, II and III.
15. Choose the option in which the word rather
has the same meaning and grammatical class
as in the fragment Rather, dedicate them
solely to work with encaustic (l. 71-72).
(A) Artists would rather share their paintings
only after proper framing had been done.
(B) That’s a rather controversial matter.
(C) Rather obnoxious assertions have been
made about his attempts to be taken to the
program.
(D) This type of failure is not due to lack of
resources, but rather to lack of true
commitment.
(E) Artists prefer to pursue creativity rather
than fame.