Questões de Inglês - UFAL | Gabarito e resoluções

(UFAL - 2008) SHE HAS SHOWN SHE IS NOT AFRAID She has mended fences abroad, but is frustrated at home. A pastors daughter growing in communist East Germany, Angela Merkel was trained as a physicist, who concentrated on her science to the exclusion of all other pursuits. But Merkel, Germanys first female chancellor, has emerged as the most important leader in Europe, and enjoys the highest popularity rating of any German leader in postwar history. A lackluster campaigner, Merkel barely scraped into office two years ago, after forging an uneasy coalition linking her Christian Democrats with their ideological rivals, the Social Democrats. Since taking office, she has been actively engaged in framing a new global agenda, from climate change and energy security to sustaining 4,000 peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan - which for Germany would have been unthinkable just a decade ago. Merkel has shown she is not afraid to defy conventional wisdom and her willingness to resist pressures from media and business has bolstered her standing with the voters. But Merkels most serious challenges still lie ahead of her. She has achieved record approval ratings on the strength of her foreign policy, but with economic growth slowing and workers stepping up demands for higher wages, political pressures are mounting within Merkels coalition to backtrack on the cuts in retirement benefits and other austerity measures that propelled the recent recovery. And while her coalition has responded to the countrys plunging birthrate and aging population by extending the retirement age to 67, Merkel has been frustrated in her efforts to carry out a wider restructuring of the German economy. (Adapted fromShe Has Shown She Is Not Afraid, Statesmanship,Newsweek/October 29, 2007, page 19.) In the last sentence of the text, the -ing words plunging, aging, extending, and restructuring function, consecutively, as

(UFAL - 2000) By mistake Larry Weller took someone elses Harris tweed jacket instead of his own, and it ___(I)___ till he jammed bis hand in the pocket that he ___(II)___ something was ___(III)___. His hand was traveling straight into a silky void. His five fingers pushed down, looking for the balled-up Kleenex from his own familiar worn-out pocket, the nickels and dimes, the ricket receipts from all the movies and the Dorrie had been seeing ___(IV)___. (Carol Shields.Larrys Party.1997) Preenche corretamente a lacuna (I) do texto:

(UFAL - 1999) Cadbury world Cadbury world is a chocolate theme park inaugurated in 1991. IT(I)half a million visitors every year and combines an exhibition with a brief factory tour. The exhibition opens with Mayan and Aztec use of cocoa and the discovery by the Europeans of the New World together with the spicy drink known as chocolate. The exhibition tells the arrival of cocoa in England as a luxury drink, the establishment of John Cadburys shop in Bull Street, Birmingham, in the 1830s, selling tea, coffee and chocolate, the discovery by his sons of a new process(II)cocoa and the establishment of a flourishing cocoa and chocolate business in the 1870s. Cocoa became a popular family drink, marketed by Cadbury as absolutely pure, therefore best. Preencha corretamente a lacuna (II) do texto: