Questões de Inglês — SESI-DF 2013

Based on Hesse’s text, analyse the assertions below. I. Multiculturalism is as diverse as the spectrum of questions that it encompasses; therefore it must be called multiculturalisms. II. Some participants of the “culture wars” unyieldingly defended American prevalent culture. III. Critics of multiculturalism have seen it as a postmodern tendency that promotes division instead of union. The correct assertion(s) is/are

Read the paragraph below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly the blank. “_____________________________ is a controversial American Bildungsroman or a coming-of-age novel published in 1951 . Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book and the context in which it is presented. In 1960 a teacher was fired for assigning the novel in class and between 1961 and 1982 it was the most censored book in high schools and libraries. In 1981 it was both the most censored book and the second most taught book in American public schools.” BALDASSARO, W. In: Banned Books Awareness, 2011

According to the text,

Read the last paragraph of Hesse ́s text. “At its best, the politics of multiculturalism in the United States has raised serious doubts and consternation __________________________________________________.” Choose the alternative that completes this last paragraph correctly.

Read the sentence below. Japanese word order is relatively free; therefore, two noun phrases may be scrambled without affecting the meaning of the sentence. Choose the alternative that presents the word that replaces correctly the highlighted conjunction.

Choose the alternative that lists four words whose vowel pronunciation is the same as for “ship”.

Choose the alternative that names the literary genre that rose from and to the bourgeoisie of the eighteenth-century England and that has Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, as one of its precursors.

As concerns intonation, speakers of English repeatedly face three types of decision as they speak: how to break the material up into chunks, what it is to be accented, and what nuances are to be used. What it is to be accented in speech is called

Choose the alternative that presents an example of passive voice.

The English writer and social critic Charles Dickens (1812- 1870) is generally regarded as the best novelist of his time – some critics consider him the greatest novelist of all time. Therefore, choose the alternative that lists two of his works.

Choose the alternative that best transforms into reported speech what is said in the cartoon below.

Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks. Under less-than-optimal conditions, evaluating instructional materials can certainly amount to a wholly subjective, __________ arbitrary exercise; ___________, the use of simple __________ systematic tools can streamline the assessment of competences.

Read the sentence below. English-educated Native Americans took to Shakespeare, and translations in Indian languages began appearing from 1852 onwards. Choose the alternative that presents the word that replaces correctly the highlighted phrasal verb.

Regarding Bandeira’s translation of Sonnet 43, analyse the assertions below. I. Bandeira uses a semantic strategy by changing the original abstraction “candle-light” into “night”.

II. By reusing the adjective “quiet”, translated as “sossegada”, to modify “noite”, formerly “candlelight”, Bandeira is applying a syntactic strategy. III. Bandeira changes the form of address, from informal to formal, what constitutes a pragmatic strategy. The correct assertion(s) is(are)

Read the paragraph below to choose the alternative that best summarizes it. “Understanding these dominant traditions within the logic of the multicultural suggests the need for coalitions and coproduction in knowledge formation which takes seriously the “local memories” and “subjugated knowledge” (according to Foucault) whose exclusion and repression shore up the dominant tradition as an unquestionably valorized (western) universal foundation.”

Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly the blank. The Titanic, sunk in 1912, has been the subject of numerous films and books, __________?

Choose the alternative that best translates the following sentence into Portuguese: “Admittedly, this may be the over-idealization of a provisional and pragmatic set of circumstances.”

Read the sentences below. I. Teachers have been meeting in the coffee shop. II. Text-books were growing smaller. III. Will the school board have finished their reports by Wednesday? IV. Students haven’t written their essays on American literature. Choose the alternative that indicates the verb tenses used in the sentences, respectively.

Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks. There’s a toy museum on the __________ floor of that building. I went there with my __________ students.

As you have seen above, the Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira translated Sonnet 43 into Portuguese. About his translation, it’s correct to say that it’s

Choose the grammatically correct sentence.

The sonnet in English, known as Sonnet 43, is part of a collection of forty-four poems called Sonnets from the Portuguese, first published in 1850. Its opening line is one of the most famous opening lines in the English language. It was written by

Read the sentence below. “Stimulating a searing calling into question ( F), the culture wars produced an impassionate politics of knowledge.” Choose the alternative that replaces the highlighted idiom in the sentence.

Read the paragraph below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks. For immigrant students achieving bilinguism can be ___________ difficult. Those with strong ties to a cohesive ethnic and linguistic community in which English is __________ or ___________ used may find that school is the only place where English is the primary medium of communication.

Read the text below. “American Renaissance: period from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War in which American literature, in the wake of the Romantic movement, came of age as an expression of a national spirit.” Encyclopedia Britannica Choose the alternative that offers three names of famous authors related to the period explained above.

Considering the grammar subject “adverbs”, choose the alternative that presents a sentence written according to the standard grammar rules.

Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks. When teachers switched from writing endnotes directly on the students’ papers to using a response form, there was _________ and _________, although not necessarily _________ meaningful, comments on that particular activity.

Read the paragraph below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks. ________ the process ________ trying to understand a text, the reader has to perform a number ________ simultaneous tasks: decode the message ________ recognizing the written signs, interpret the message ________ assigning meaning ________ the string ________ words, and understand what the author’s intention was.

Choose the alternative that lists three countries in which English is the official language.

Choose the alternative that names the author and the work of the following quotes, respectively: I. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” II. “Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.” III. “This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but with a whisper.”