Questões de Concurso – Aprova Concursos

1)

Q441396 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

In Text I, in the sentence “We are supported by several very professional professional associations.” (lines 26-28) the words in boldface type function respectively as

a) numeral, intensifying adverb, adjective, noun and adjective
b) emphatic adverb, quantifying adverb, noun, adjective and noun
c) quantifying adverb, intensifying adverb, adjective, adjective and noun
d) intensifying adverb, quantifying adjective, adverb, adjective and noun
e) numeral, intensifying adverb, adjective, adjective and noun

2)

Q441404 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

What does Michael Swan say that can help in the development of procedural knowledge?

a) It is not very clear what can help.
b) Oral exercises can do the trick.
c) The knowledge of deviant interlanguage is the solution.
d) Activity-based fluency practice may help.
e) Conscious knowledge of grammar rules can help.

3)

Q441409 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

In Text I, the present simple is used in the excerpt “when a teacher comes up after a presentation and says...” (lines 89-90) to convey

a) the narration of an action that is happening at the moment of the speech.
b) a story that happened once in a remote past.
c) a habitual story.
d) a conditional situation in the present.
e) greater engagement of the listener in a story that happened in the past.

4)

Q441411 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

In Text I, But (line 91) can be correctly replaced by

a) Although
b) Altogether
c) Nevertheless
d) Thus
e) In spite of

5)

Q441416 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

A hummingbird is

a) a hovercraft
b) a buzz
c) a nectar bearing flower
d) a small bird
e) an insect

6)

Q441423 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

The experimenters say that lab smells like pizza because

a) the tiny particles of olive oil in the air make the lab smell this way.
b) the hummingbirds feed on pizza.
c) of the lack of seriousness of the experiment.
d) of the tiny particles of sugar water in the air.
e) they often work overtime and when they are hungry they have to order pizza.

7)

Q441395 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

In Text I, what anchors the use of the present perfect in “good materials have led professional developments.”? (lines 11-12)

a) A definite time in the past.
b) A continuous action in the present.
c) An action that will take place in the near future.
d) An action repeated several times in the past towards the present.
e) One past action before the other.

8)

Q441403 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

What does Michael Swan mean by “students need to be fluent in reasonably good English, not in a highly deviant interlanguage.” (lines 45-47)?

a) If students don’t practice enough with native speakers they will never speak interlanguage.
b) If students are not fluent, then they might be speaking a kind of interlanguage.
c) If students are not taught the grammar rules, they may attain fluency in a language that is not really English.
d) If students are fluent in reasonably good English, then they can also be fluent in interlanguage.
e) If students are fluent in reasonably good English then they will have a facility in handling a deviant language.

9)

Q441408 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

The pair “country – nationality” is NOT right in

a) Russia – Russian
b) UK – British
c) Ethiopia – Ethiopic
d) Israel – Israeli
e) Thailand – Thai

10)

Q441410 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

In Text I, the excerpt “I’ve been teaching for a long time” (lines 90-91) is in the direct speech. Its right transformation into indirect speech is in

a) “…when a teacher comes up after a presentation and says that they have been teaching for a long time…”
b) “…when a teacher comes up after a presentation and says that she/he has been teaching for a long time…”
c) “…when a teacher came up after a presentation and said that they had been teaching for a long time…”
d) “…when a teacher comes up after a presentation and says that they had been teaching for a long time…”
e) “…when a teacher came up after a presentation and said that he/she had been teaching for a long time…”

11)

Q441415 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

How can the three greatest professional satisfactions pointed by Michael Swan be summarized?

a) The advantage of working exclusively with humans; the engagement with different people; the possibility to defy others.
b) Working for exclusive people; teaching a difficult activity; learning from people’s diversity.
c) Engaging in thinking and being different; working with something complex; defying companies.
d) The big possibility of constructing connections among students from different origins, the privilege of working with a fascinating language; the search of successful communication in one’s language.
e) The advantage of working with an exclusive human trait; the proximity with human diversity; the pleasure of helping people to attain something difficult.

12)

Q441422 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

How can the experiment be best summarized?

a) High speed military cameras document the ballistics involved in the bird’s flight by analyzing the sugar water at the end of the transparent box.
b) A marker was developed to intercept the bird’s flight trajectory that can be sensed by special cameras whose pictures are later analyzed by a computer software.
c) Standard movie cameras are able to document the few spritzes of olive oil in the air.
d) The hummingbird’s trajectory inside the fair box is captured by a laser-illuminated device.
e) The computer analyzes the motion of the oil particles that are illuminated by the laser.

13)

Q441394 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

Consider some fragments extracted from Text I, the words in parentheses describe the same idea expressed by the words and expressions, in boldface type in:

a) “were thin” – lines 6-7 (easy).
b) “were thin, on the ground, and creating materials” – lines 6-7 (inventive).
c) “classes took up a lot more of teachers’ time” – lines 7-8 (wasted).
d) “have led professional developments.” – line 12 (followed).
e) “would not have taken off” – lines 13-14 (collapsed).

14)

Q441399 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

The word in parentheses describes the idea conveyed by the words in boldface type in:

a) “from the research front” – line 20 (laboratory).
b) “a wealth of good textbooks.” – lines 24-25 (variety).
c) “we are supported by” – lines 26-27 (endured).
d) “One thing that worries me” – line 30 (aggravates).
e) “UK-based orthodoxy of the last” – line 33 (flexibility).

15)

Q441402 - CESGRANRIO - 2011 - SEEC-RN - Professor - Inglês

In Text I, the definition in parentheses describes the idea conveyed by the modal in boldface type in

a) “How should one respond” – line 39 (obligation).
b) “Boots might be important” – line 43 (permission).
c) “Unpopular as it may have been” – lines 52-53 (advisability).
d) “if musicians are good, they must have practiced” – lines 55-56 (conclusion based on solid evidence).
e) “learner drivers have to practice” – lines 56-57 (possibility).

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