Questões de Concurso

Consider the following sentences:
I) “The project aims to save fuel and lessen air pollution, or emissions, from automobiles.” II) “Google first announced the program in 2021, (…)” III) “When it was testing the system in four areas of Israel.” IV) “(…) this is at major crossings with heavy traffic and complex traffic lights.”
Based on the verb tenses, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of verb tenses.

Analyze the statements below and choose the CORRECT option: 

I) The project is focused on fuel conservation and increasing the emission of air pollutants.

II) Google’s Yossi Matias noted that the system is being tested in areas with intense traffic issues.

III) The program was first tested in Bangalore, Budapest, Jakarta, Manchester, Haifa, Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro, and Seattle.

IV) Generally, the project isn’t used at major crossings with heavy traffic and complex traffic lights.

V) The Green Light project is used in areas called intersections, where vehicles start and stop. 

The pronoun “it” in “Google says an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system it created is helping improve traffic flow in major world cities.” refers to: 

Considering both past and present methods and approaches for language teaching, number the second column according to the first one and then mark the item that corresponds to the CORRECT sequence.

(1) Grammar-translation method.

(2) Direct method.

(3) Lexical approach. 

( ) It’s a way of studying a language that approaches the language first through detailed analysis of its rules, followed by the task of translating sentences and texts into and out of the target language.

( ) It’s based on the idea that language is composed of units rather than grammatical structures. These units are words and chunks formed by collocations and fixed phrases.

( ) Instead of using analytical procedures that focus on explaining grammar rules, teachers encourage spontaneous use of the foreign language in the classroom. Grammar is taught in an inductively way. 

Irregular nouns do not follow the standard pluralization rule. In light of this, analyze the following items.

I. You’ve got one feet in the wrong shoe.

II. Women are rethinking motherhood.

III. The hypotheses are being debunked.

It is CORRECT to state that: