Questões de Inglês - UFRGS 2019 | Gabarito e resoluções

(UFRGS - 2019) Obi was away in England for a little under four years. He sometimes found it difficult to believe that it was as short as that. It seemed more like a decade than four years, which [5] with the miseries of winter when his longing to return home took on the sharpness of physical pain. It was in England that Nigeria first became more than just a name to him. That was the first great thing that England did [10] for him. But the Nigeria he returned to was in many ways different from the picture he had carried in his mind during those four years. There were many things he could no longer recognize, and others like the slums of [15] Lagos which he was seeing for the first time. As a boy in the village of Umuofia, he had heard his first stories about Lagos from a soldier home .. leave from the war. Those [20] soldiers were heroes who had seen the great world. They spoke of Abyssinia, Egypt, Palestine, Burma and so on. Some of them had been village neer-do-wells, but now they were heroes. They had bags and bags of [25] money, and the villagers sat .. their feet to listen to their stories. One of them went regularly to a market in the neighbouring village and helped himself to whatever he liked. He went in full uniform, breaking the [30] earth with his boots, and no one dared touch him. It was said that if you touched a soldier, Government would deal with you. Besides, soldiers were as strong as lions because of the injections they were given .. the army. [35] It was from one of these soldiers that Obi had his first picture of Lagos. There is no darkness there, he told his admiring listeners, `because at night the electric shines like the sun, and people are [40] always walking about, that is, those who want to walk. If you dont want to walk, you only have to wave your hand and a pleasure car stops for you. His audience made sounds of wonderment. Then by way of digression he [45] said: If you see a white man, take off your hat for him. The only thing he cannot do is mould a human being. ACHEBE, Chinua. No Longer at Ease. New York / London: Everymans Library, 2010. p. 162. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta reescrita adequada, em discurso indireto, para a fraseThen by way of digression he said: If you see a white man, take off your hat for him(l. 44-46).

(UFRGS - 2019) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a new category in time for next Februarys awards ceremony: achievement in popular film. The idea is [5] that, alongside the time-honoured Best Picture category, there will be another for films which have a broader appeal: blockbusters, in other words. Ironically, the announcement has been anything but [10] popular. On social media, responses to this idea have ranged from hostile to very hostile indeed. Many feel that the once-prestigious Oscars are dumbing down to the level of the MTV Awards. Whats nextBest kiss? Loudest [15] shoot-out? Most skyscrapers flattened by aliens in a single action sequence? The concept of the Hit Oscar or the Popcorn Oscar, as it has been nicknamed, raises other questions, too. To start with, who [20] decides whether or not a film is popular? What are the criteria or thresholds? And isnt it an insult to nominees, the implicit suggestion being that hit films cant be artistic (and vice versa)? [25] The timing, too, is off. Black Panther, Marvels Afrofuturist superhero blockbuster, could well have been nominated for best picture in 2019. Indeed, it could well have won, acknowledging the superhero [30] boom as well as emphasising just how successful films with black casts and creative teams can be. But it is now likely that Black Panther will be shoved into the popular ghetto, and that the best-picture prize will go [35] to an indie drama. If so, the introduction of a new category will have helped maintain the status quo, rather than upending it. It is understandable that the Oscars organisers should want to shake up the [40] ceremonys format, bearing in mind how low its television ratings have fallen. One reason for this decline, the theory goes, is that best- picture winners are no longer the films that the great American public is queuing up to [45] see. But if hugely profitable, crowd-pleasing films arent winning best picture these days, it is not because the Academys voters are becoming more snobbish or sophisticated in [50] their tastes. It is because Hollywood has stopped making middlebrow historical epics that used to be a shoo-in. What the introduction of the popular category acknowledges is that there are now hardly [55] any studio films in the chasm between shiny comic-book movies and quirky indie experiments. The industry is producing nothing for grown-up viewers who want more scale and spectacle than they can get from a [60] low-key drama, but who dont fancy seeing people in colourful costumes firing laser beams at each other. The new division between best picture and popular picture may be ill-judged, but it [65] reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare. So have pity on the poor Academy. If Hollywood studios werent quite so obsessed with superhero franchises, the Oscars might not be in this [70] mess in the first place. Adaptado de: https://www.economist.com/prospero/2018/08 /11/the-academy-announces-a-misguided-newcategory. Acesso em: 08 ago. 2018. Considere os seguintes trechos extrados do texto. I -The idea is that, alongside the timehonoured Best Picture category, there will be another for films(l. 04-07). II -It is understandable that the Oscars organisers should want to shake up the cerimonys format(l. 38-40). III-() best-picture winners are no longer the films that the great American public is queuing up to see(l. 42-45). Em quais a palavrathatpode ser tanto omitida quanto substituda porwhich?

(UFRGS - 2019) Consider the use of the modal verb in the following sentence. The earliest experience of art must have been incantatory, magical. Select the alternative that best presents its negative form