Questões de Inglês - EEAR | Gabarito e resoluções

(EEAR - 2017/1) Choose the alternative that presents the passive voice of the sentence below. The expanding Hispanic population in the U.S. still hasnt created a market for Spanish-language pictures.

(EEAR 2017/ adaptada) Increasing CPR Training to Save Lives In August, Jeffrey Feig, a 50-year-old financial executive in Manhattan and father of three young sons, became one of the more than 350,000 Americans who each year suffer a sudden cardiac arrest. His heart went into an erratic and ineffective rhythm and he stopped ________________. But unlike 90 percent of people similarly afflicted, Mr. Feig not only lived to tell the tale but survived his near-death experience without any damage to his heart muscle or his brain, an outcome rarely seen following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. [...] Adapted from:https://www.nytimes.com/ Complete the blank ( 1) with the right verb:

(EEAR - 2017/1) Choose the correct form for the passive voice of the following sentence. They have taken her to the hospital.

(EEAR - 2016/1) Select the alternative that indicates the type of conditional in the sentence below. According to scientists, if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases, there will be a global warming.

(EEAR -2016) Choose the alternative that fills in the blank in the sentence below. Scientists say that when a person stops __________ very soon, the chances of getting cancer and other diseases reduce.

(EEAR -2016) Read the text and answer the question(s). Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing. Edison replied very confidently, Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb. (Adapted from academictips.org) The sentence We have learned nothing, in the text, can be replaced by

(EEAR -2016) Select the alternative that best completes the dialogue below. Jude: I __________ (see) Mary last Sunday. John: Really? I __________ (not/see) her for years. How is she?

(EEAR- 2016) The story of a blind girl There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend. One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her boyfriend. Her boyfriend asked her, Now that you can see the world, will you marry me? The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying: Just take care of my eyes dear. Fonte: http://academictips.org/ The underlined verbs, in the text, are in the

(EEAR -2016) A Regions Soccer Strongmen are facing a hard fall After rising as a governor under Brazils military dictatorship, Jos Maria Marin became such a towering figure in the world of Brazilian sports that the headquarters of the nations soccer federation was recently named in his honor. Now, the United States Justice Departments charging Mr. Marin, 83, and 13 other senior sports officials and executives across the Americas with taking part in a sweeping bribery and kickback scheme within FIFA, the governing body of global soccer. Of the 14 men named as defendants in the indictment, all but two of them are citizens of Latin American and Caribbean nations, a reflection of the investigations focus on corruption in the hemisphere. (Fonte: www.nytimes.com) GLOSSARY but: exceto bribery: suborno headquarters: sede All the extracts below, in the text, present a possessive noun, except:

(Eear 2016) A Regions Soccer Strongmen are facing a hard fall After rising as a governor under Brazils military dictatorship, José Maria Marin became such a towering figure in the world of Brazilian sports that the headquarters of the nations soccer federation was recently named in his honor. Now, the United States Justice Departments charging Mr. Marin, 83, and 13other senior sports officials and executives across the Americas with taking part in a sweeping bribery and kickback scheme within FIFA, the governing body of global soccer. Of the 14 men named as defendants in the indictment, all but two of them are citizens of Latin American and Caribbean nations, a reflection of the investigations focus on corruption in the hemisphere. (Fonte: www.nytimes.com) GLOSSARY but: exceto bribery: suborno headquarters: sede All the words below, in the text, are adjectives, except:

(EEAR- 2016) Read the cartoon below and answer the question. According to the cartoon, Garfield

(EEAR - 2016) Read the text below and answer the question. Economists have recognized that physical beauty affects wages, even in occupations where appearance does not seem relevant to job performance. It seems that attractive men and women are paid more than ordinary people for the same work. (Taken from The International Herald Tribune) Choose the best alternative that presents the correct verb tense and the voice of the verbs underlined in the text, respectively.

(EEAR -2016) In the sentence Maria learns fast, the word fast, in bold type, is

(EEAR -2016) Read the paragraph below and answer the question. In 1829, a poor tailor in Paris, Barthelmy Thimonnier, invented the first sewing machine in the world and made eighty of them. Which of the following questions cannot be answered with information from the text?

(EEAR -2016) Choose the alternative that best completes the dialogue below. Mary: Whose pencil is that? Is it yours, Paul? Paul: No, its not __________. I saw Susan using it. I think its __________.