Questões de Concurso

Read the following excerpts, from well known books in English language:
1."We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with. We were all very low, and none the higher for pretending to be in spirits." (Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens).
2."The surgeon deposited it in her arms. She imprinted her cold white lips passionately on its forehead; passed her hands over her face; gazed wildly round; shuddered; fell back-- and died. They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever". (Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens)
3."Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played écarté afterwards. The butler brought me my coffee into the library, and I took the chance to ask him a few questions". (The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Doyle).
In every quote, a false cognate can be found. Which ones are they?

Read the following excerpt from James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (1956):
" I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea. Time flowed past indifferently above us; hours and days had no meaning. In the beginning, our life together held a joy and amazement which was newborn every day. Beneath the joy, of course, was anguish and beneath the amazement was fear; but they did not work themselves to the beginning until our high beginning was aloes on our tongues. By then anguish and fear had become the surface on which we slipped and slid, losing balance, dignity, and pride. Giovanni's face, which I had memorized so many mornings, noons, and nights, hardened before my eyes, began to give in secret places, began to crack."
In the sentence "Beneath the joy, of course, was anguish and beneath the amazement was fear", what is correct about the word "anguish" in this context?

 In the context of the second paragraph, the word stag is used to refer to:

Based on the vocabulary and descriptions found throughout the text regarding Randal Plunkett's estate and lifestyle, match the columns by associating the adjectives and nouns as they are structured in the article's arguments:

Column 1:
(1) Ancestral.
(2) Knotted.
(3) Rewilding.
(4) Ultra-rare.

Column 2:
(   ) undergrowth.
(   ) project.
(   ) estate.
(   ) pine marten.

Which alternative CORRECTLY fills in the parentheses above, from top to bottom?

Regarding the description of Randal Plunkett's lifestyle and its relationship to his family history, read the following excerpt:

Plunkett is described as an ___________ successor to his family lineage, as his modern choices represent a  ___________      of the traditional aristocratic image maintaíned by his ancestors.

Fill in the blanks CORRECTLY and respectively: