Questões de Inglês - EEAR | Gabarito e resoluções

(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 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) 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) 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) Select the alternative that completes the sentence below in the third conditional. If she hadnt read the news magazine, she __________.

(EEAR - 2015) Read the text and answer question. Investigators trying tofind outwhat happened to a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared en route to Beijing on Saturday morningwere examiningthe causes of plane crashes: mechanical failure, pilot error, bad weather. But the discovery that two of the passengerswere carryingstolen passports also raised the possibility of criminal violence. (Adapted from Passport Theft adds mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Jet) The underlined verbs in the text are in the

(EEAR - 2015) A very healthy food A recent study, carried out by the Federal University of Par, concluded that aa helps prevent cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and strokes. The fruit also 5 has other benefits for our health: it helps the intestines [5] work well and efficiently. It also delays the aging process in cells. In addition to all these benefits, other studies done recently ______that the fruit is also good for oursightand stimulates our memory. (Adapted from www.maganews.com) GLOSSARY carried out realizado stroke derrame such as, (bold), is closest in meaning to

(EEAR - 2010 - adaptada) The word ...wives... (line 2), hasthe same plural form as all the words bellow,except in