Questões de Concurso

Study these sentences based on Text 1.

1. As used in the first paragraph of Text 1, a nearsynonym for aesthetic is attractive.
2. In the sentence: Formal education entails structured instruction, teaching, and training delivered by professional educators, the underlined words are continuous tenses.
3. The words children and curriculum in the fourth paragraph of Text 1 are singular nouns.
4. The word adolescence in secondary education covers the subsequent years of formal education occurring during adolescence, can be replaced by youth without changing its meaning.

Choose the alternative which presents the correct affirmatives.

In learning English vocabulary, it is common to find words that resemble Portuguese but have different meanings, known as false cognates. Mark T for true statements and F for false ones regarding the meanings of the English words:

(__) "Library" means library, not bookstore.
(__) "Parents" refers to father and mother, not to relatives in general.
(__) "Pretend" means to intend or plan to do something.
(__) "Actually" means currently or at the present time.

Select the alternative that shows the correct sequence from top to bottom.

Read the sentence below:
"His arguments were specious , appealing on the surface but fundamentally flawed."
The underlined word "specious" derives from the Latin root spec- ("to look, to appear"), also present in words such as:

Consider the following excerpt:
"Born in 1964 in Plovdiv, Filip Popov spent several years of his childhood in Germany, where he formed his ideas for unity between art, architecture, design and technology."
An English teacher designing a reading comprehension lesson for intermediate Brazilian students analyzes this biographical sentence to identify potential comprehension obstacles. Regarding vocabulary, syntax, and cultural references that may challenge Brazilian EFL learners, and considering effective scaffolding strategies aligned with communicative language teaching and BNCC principles, which analysis is pedagogically accurate?

Judge the sentences below as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F) regarding lexical-semantic analysis and vocabulary comprehension of culinary terms in the recipe "Cold Kimchi Tomato Bibim Noodles."

(__)The verb "drizzle" in the instruction "Drizzle with a little extra sesame oil" belongs to the semantic field of liquid application techniques, denoting controlled pouring of liquid in thin stream, and shares semantic features with verbs like "sprinkle" and "pour," though with distinct manner specifications regarding quantity and distribution pattern.

(__)The compound adjective "soft-boiled" in "2 soft-boiled eggs (7 minutes, jammy yolks)" functions as a hyphenated attributive modifier specifying a cooking method, and its morphological structure combines adjective + past participle to create a specialized culinary term that would be translated into Portuguese as "ovos cozidos moles" or "ovos quentes."

(__)The noun "matchsticks" in "sliced into matchsticks" represents a metaphorical extension through shape similarity, where the lexical item originally denoting small wooden sticks for lighting fires has undergone semantic broadening to describe a cutting technique (julienne) in culinary contexts, demonstrating how concrete nouns can acquire specialized technical meanings in professional domains.


The CORRECT sequence is: