Questões de Concurso

An eighth-grade teacher plans a unit on advice and decision-making. Students first examine messages from online advice columns, discuss how writers position themselves toward different problems, notice recurring modal structures, and later record responses to new situations for a specified audience.

Considering the relationship between linguistic knowledge and communicative language use, select the CORRECT methodological interpretation.

Read the text below.

At 7:10, the gym doors were still locked. Maya checked the message again: "Bring your trainers, but meet us in Room 12 first." Outside, the rain had begun to hammer the windows. She folded the permission slip back into her bag and headed upstairs.

A reader is asked to formulate a hypothesis without converting implicit information into certainty. Which interpretation is supported by the available textual evidence?

In the expression "a largely untouched wilderness," the word untouched contributes to the characterization of the traditional view of the Amazon. Its internal structure also illustrates a productive process of English word formation.

Which morphological analysis is CORRECT?

Consider the sentence.

"Archaeologists now believe the Aquiry civilisation [...] may have been around three times larger than previously expected."

The words "now," "larger," and "previously" belong to different grammatical categories and perform distinct functions in the sentence.

Choose the CORRECT grammatical classification of the words in the sentence.

The text "'Simply astonishing': Experts just found a massive lost civilisation hiding in the Amazon" reports archaeological findings by combining research data, explanations of LiDAR technology, numerical estimates, and statements from a specialist. Its organization reflects particular choices related to audience, communicative purpose, and the circulation of scientific information.

Considering textual genres and language practices, mark T, for true, and F, for false.
(__)The text is structured as an academic research article because it presents findings published in Nature and includes information about the methods used by researchers.
(__)The text combines journalistic explanation, numerical evidence, and expert quotations to communicate scientific findings to a broader audience.

(__)The expressive language used in the headline transforms the text into an opinion article whose primary purpose is to defend the author's personal interpretation of the discovery.
(__)The direct quotations function mainly as examples of informal spoken English and have no relevant role in supporting or explaining the information reported.

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