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(UFPR - 1994) SIGN LANGUAGE In the mid-18th century, a formal system of sign language was developed to help deaf people communicate. A French clergyman and educator of the deaf, Charles Michel, first developed a system for spelling words with a manual alphabet and later expanded his system to include whole concepts. Later in 1816, Thomas Gallaudet, an Americn educator, introduced it into the United States, and it became known as American Sign Language (ASL). Like all spoken languages, ASL is constantly changing, but it continues to serve more than 500,000 deaf people in the United States and Canada. Vocabulary: deaf = surdo In which of the following sentences is the use of the article (the, a or an) or its absence correct? I. ___ body movements are as important as ___ words in communication. II. The Kenesics is the study of communication through body movement. III. In the Italy people gesture a lot when they speak. IV. An Americans and an Englishmen act differently when they are listening attentively to another person. V. A person who is truly bilingual is also bilingual in body language. VI. ___ communication between ___ human beings is not only done with words.

(UFPR - 1991) Oil is found underground in many parts of the world. In the United States, oil was first found in 1859, in Pennsylvania. The Pennsyvania old was first used to make the machines in factories run smoothly. Oils from animals and plants were used before this, but the oil from the ground was cheaper and better. In which of the following sentences is the capital article THE or the absence of the article (___) correct? I. The Industrial Revolution made many changes in THE world. II. Life in ___ America certainly changed with the Revolution. III. Before the Revolution, most things were made by THE hand. IV. ___ Machines can make things faster and more cheaply. V. People learned to make oil into ___ gasoline to use it in cars.