Conjunctions in English establish different relations between clauses, such as addition, contrast, cause, and consequence. Consider the sentence: "She studied hard for the exam, ___ she got a low grade." Choose the alternative that presents the conjunction that appropriately fills the gap, establishing a relation of contrast between the two clauses.

Read the following notice, posted at the entrance of a public library: "Silence, please. Mobile phones must be switched off during your visit. Thank you for your cooperation." Based on reading strategies and on the recognition of specific information in the textual genre, choose the alternative that correctly identifies the main communicative purpose of the text.

The linguistic variation of the English Language encompasses differences in use linked to region, social context, and medium of communication, including digital environments where netspeak emerges. Regarding this topic, mark T for the true statements and F for the false statements:

(__) English, as a global language, constitutes a standardized international norm, adopted uniformly in all English-speaking countries, with equivalent everyday uses among the different speech communities.

(__) Netspeak integrates abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons as resources of digital communication, configuring a register that coexists with other registers of the language in distinct contexts of use.

(__) The reflection on linguistic variation and on English as a global language, in school teaching, contributes to the recognition of the plurality of uses of the language in different social and cultural contexts.

(__) The variations of English spoken in different regions of the world configure deviations from a pure norm of British English and must be corrected in the teaching and learning process of the language.

After analysis, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom:

About the previous text, judge the following item.

The text states that current biocomputing systems are still limited in their capabilities and can perform only simple tasks.

About the previous text, judge the following item.

In the sentence "While complex network behavior is beginning to emerge even without much external stimulation, experts generally agree that current organoids are not conscious, nor close to it" (last paragraph), the connector "While" expresses contrast, and could be correctly replaced with Although.