Read the following text about the importance of reading.
Practise your English reading skills at your level. Reading and understanding different types of texts is a very important skill for all learners of English. Reading as much as you can in English will help you to improve your level of understanding of the language and it will also help to improve your __________.
Choose your level, from beginner to advanced, and start learning today by reading articles and stories. Whether you need to _________ your English reading skills for work, for studying or to be able to communicate effectively with friends, you'll find practical reading lessons and activities to help you.
Choose the option which presents the words that best complete the paragraphs above, respectively.
"_________ are invariable characteristics of human language that appear to apply to all languages universally, such as those listed above." (BROWN, H.Douglas. Principles of language learning and teaching, p. 41).
Assinale a alternativa que preenche a lacuna de forma correta:
Mark the statements below as true ( T ) or false ( F ) according to Text I.
( ) Internal steering by contract and performance related pay are two main ideas that come from Weber.
( ) Weberian ideals now belong to the past and are only used for historical interest.
( ) Employment flexibility is one of the tenets of the New Public Management.
The correct sequence is:
The production of oil from shale rock in the US is mentioned in paragraph 4 (lines 21-29) because in 2018 it
How cities can better prevent fires
August 29, 2018
America’s deadliest building fire for more than a decade struck Oakland, California, on December 2nd 2016, killing 36 people attending a dance party in a warehouse that had become a cluttered artist collective. The disaster highlights an open secret: many cities lack resources to inspect for fire risk all the structures that they should. Even though the Oakland building had no fire sprinklers and at least ten people lived there illegally, no inspector had visited in about 30 years. How might cities make better use of the inspectors they do have?
A handful of American cities have begun to seek help from a new type of analytics software. By crunching diverse data collected by government bodies and utilities, the software works out which buildings are most likely to catch fire and should therefore be inspected first. Plenty of factors play a role. Older, wooden buildings, unsurprisingly, pose more risk, as do those close to past fires and leaks of gas or oil. Poverty also pushes up fire risk, especially if lots of children, who may be attracted to mischief, live nearby. More telling are unpaid taxes, foreclosure proceedings and recorded complaints of mould, rats, crumbling plaster, accumulating rubbish, and domestic fights, all of which hint at property neglect. A building’s fire risk also increases the further it is from its owner’s residence.
Predictive software designed at Harvard that Portland, Oregon, will soon begin using will do that. Perhaps more importantly, the city’s fire chief noticed that buildings marked as being the biggest risks are clustered in areas lacking good schools, public transport, health care and food options. Healthier, happier people start fewer fires, he concluded. He now lobbies officials to reduce Portland’s pockets of deteriorated areas.
(The Economist. www.economist.com/the-economist-explains /2018/08/29/how-cities-can-better-prevent-fires. Adaptado)
De acordo com o segundo parágrafo, algumas cidades estadunidenses
Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text I.
The authors are critical of the kind of explanation analysts have given for the phenomenon of diplomacy in the digital age, which, according to the authors, should be approached more thoroughly.
Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text I.
The passage “what has always happened to it:” (L.7) can be correctly replaced by what has always happened to it, which means that or by what has always happened to it, which is to say.
Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text II.
One can correctly infer from the text that the author is against the exploitation of animals for political or diplomatic ends.
Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).
The stage performance of My Fair Lady is punctuated by musical numbers.
“This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it".
“The Lord", refers to:
One of the following sentences is incorrect in meaning. Which one?
