Questões de Concurso

The article uses relative clauses to expand noun phrases and connect information without repeatedly naming the same referents. Consider the excerpt below and the syntactic relations established within it.

"The survey uncovered thousands of geometric patterns built into the Earth, known as geoglyphs, which take various shapes including circles and squares and appear to be connected by straight roads or pathways."

Regarding the highlighted linguistic structures, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__)The word which functions as a possessive relative pronoun and could be replaced by whose without changing the syntactic organization of the clause.
(__)The phrase by straight roads or pathways contains by introducing the element interpreted as connecting the geoglyphs in the passive construction.
(__)The relative pronoun which has geoglyphs as its antecedent and introduces information about their forms and apparent connections.
(__)In various shapes including circles and squares, including introduces examples belonging to the broader category expressed by shapes.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom. 

The article establishes temporal, causal, additive, and comparative relations through connective expressions. These relations are important because they organize the explanation of how technological limitations influenced earlier interpretations of Amazonian settlement.

Considering the connective structures used in the text, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__)In Before LIDAR technology was able to peek through the trees, before introduces a finite subordinate clause expressing temporal anteriority.
(__)In such as those bearing nuts or fruit, such as introduces examples of the tree species the researchers intend to investigate.
(__)In as well as to the locations of earthworks and ancient road networks, as well as contributes an additive relation to the description of variables whose relationships will be investigated.
(__)In than previously assumed, than introduces a causal subordinate clause explaining why researchers revised their interpretation of population density.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.

The opening sentence describes archaeological evidence as being found beneath the Amazon rainforest's "dense canopy." Later, the article explains that LiDAR sends laser pulses through gaps between trees in order to map the surface below.

In this context, "canopy" refers to: 

The article combines a headline designed to attract attention, numerical information from research, explanations of archaeological technology, and quotations attributed to a specialist involved in the study. These elements contribute differently to the construction of the report.

Considering its communicative organization, the text is characterized as:

The final quotation contains the rhetorical question "what else remains hidden beneath the forest canopy?" A teacher asks students to compare this interrogative structure with a declarative sentence containing the same lexical material.

Which declarative counterpart preserves the basic proposition expressed by the question?