Questões de InglêsInstituto Rio Branco 2017

21 questões da prova Diversas 2017, com gabarito oficial conferido. As duas primeiras são gratuitas.

Questão 1Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text IV, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E). The adjective “compelling" (l.25) could be replaced by thorough in this particular context.

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Questão 2Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).

The word “contingent" (l.34) is synonymous with necessary.

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Questão 3Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV. The author criticizes Krapp's argument that exemplars of transplanted languages or dialects such as Acadian French are more archaic than the original ones, which continued evolving in their home countries.

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Questão 4Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text IV. According to the text, the fact that social origin was not as easy to identify based on the koine of eighteenth-century Americans as was the case with contemporary Britons reflected the early American colonies' egalitarian ethos.

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Questão 5Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text I. It can be correctly inferred from the text that there tends to be presently more female diplomats, as well as diplomats with more diverse social backgrounds, than in 1966.

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Questão 6Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the statements below, concerning the ideas and the vocabulary of text III, are right (C) or wrong (E). According to the text, the foreign minister Laurent Fabius was appointed immediately after Mrs. Alliot-Marie's term.

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Questão 7Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text I, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).

There would be no change in the meaning of the passage from “Often" (l. 2) to “duplicity" (l.4) if it were replaced by Even though it is often confused with espionage, which is its illegitimate cousin, diplomacy has been linked with misbehaviour and duplicity for centuries.

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Questão 8Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text I. For the author, the bad reputation diplomacy holds has to do with the frequent international negotiations in which diplomats deal with foreign officials.

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Questão 9Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of text II, decide whether the statements below are right (C) or wrong (E). The word “genial" (l.15) means unusually intelligent.

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Questão 10Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the statements below, which concern the ideas of text II and the vocabulary used in it, are right (C) or wrong (E). The passage “a wet-behind-the-ears but fully functioning British diplomat" (l.12) indicates that the author's inexperience didn't prevent him from getting a position of responsibility in the Foreign Office.

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Questão 11Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of text II, decide whether the statements below are right (C) or wrong (E). After all stages of the Civil and Diplomatic Service entrance exams, the number of candidates admitted was around 20.

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Questão 12Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E). The expression “on a par" (l. 20 and 21) means competing.

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Questão 13Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

In text IV, without altering the general meaning of the sentence, "pinpoint" (l.10) could be replaced by (mark right — C — or wrong — E) convey

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Questão 14Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the statements below, which concern the ideas of text II and the vocabulary used in it, are right (C) or wrong (E). The word “unsparingly" (l.13) can be correctly replaced by unmercifully, without this changing the meaning of the text.

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Questão 15Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text I, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E). The recruitment policy of the British diplomatic service was designed and planned by elite academics and university intellectuals.

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Questão 16Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text I, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E). The words “clad" (l. 18) and “quaffing" (l.19) could be correctly replaced by dressed and sipping without this altering the meaning of the sentence, although this substitution would make the text less humorous.

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Questão 17Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text IV, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E). The expression “a bunch of" (l.45) could be replaced by a cluster of without altering the meaning of the passage.

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Questão 18Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

In text IV, without altering the general meaning of the sentence, "pinpoint" (l.10) could be replaced by (mark right — C — or wrong — E) ascertain.

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Questão 19Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

In text IV, without altering the general meaning of the sentence, "pinpoint" (l.10) could be replaced by (mark right — C — or wrong — E) compare.

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Questão 20Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the statements below, concerning the ideas and the vocabulary of text III, are right (C) or wrong (E). The contrast between the images created by the expressions “monochrome, middle-aged and male" and “silk scarves and coloured jackets" functions as a rhetorical resource which reinforces the idea that French diplomacy is becoming a more feminine realm.

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Questão 21Instituto Rio Branco·Diversas·2017Inglês

Decide whether the statements below, which concern the ideas of text II and the vocabulary used in it, are right (C) or wrong (E). The fact that the author didn't know the meaning of the word “roselle" and translated it as “jute" was prejudicial to the British Minister.

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