Read the sentences below.
I. Teachers have been meeting in the coffee shop.
II. Text-books were growing smaller.
III. Will the school board have finished their reports by
Wednesday?
IV. Students haven’t written their essays on American
literature.
Choose the alternative that indicates the verb tenses used
in the sentences, respectively.
Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that
fills in correctly the blank.
The Titanic, sunk in 1912, has been the subject of
numerous films and books, __________?
As you have seen above, the Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira translated Sonnet 43 into Portuguese. About his translation, it’s correct to say that it’s
Choose the alternative that best translates the following
sentence into Portuguese:
“Admittedly, this may be the over-idealization of a
provisional and pragmatic set of circumstances.”
Considering the grammar subject “adverbs”, choose the alternative that presents a sentence written according to the standard grammar rules.
Choose the grammatically correct sentence.
Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks. There’s a toy museum on the __________ floor of that building. I went there with my __________ students.
The sonnet in English, known as Sonnet 43, is part of a collection of forty-four poems called Sonnets from the Portuguese, first published in 1850. Its opening line is one of the most famous opening lines in the English language. It was written by
Read the text below.
“American Renaissance: period from the 1830s roughly
until the end of the American Civil War in which American
literature, in the wake of the Romantic movement, came of age
as an expression of a national spirit.”
Encyclopedia Britannica
Choose the alternative that offers three names of famous
authors related to the period explained above.
Read the sentence below.
“Stimulating a searing calling into question ( F), the
culture wars produced an impassionate politics of knowledge.”
Choose the alternative that replaces the highlighted idiom
in the sentence.
Read the paragraph below and choose the alternative that
fills in correctly and respectively the blanks.
For immigrant students achieving bilinguism can be
___________ difficult. Those with strong ties to a cohesive
ethnic and linguistic community in which English is __________
or ___________ used may find that school is the only place
where English is the primary medium of communication.
Read the paragraph below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks. ________ the process ________ trying to understand a text, the reader has to perform a number ________ simultaneous tasks: decode the message ________ recognizing the written signs, interpret the message ________ assigning meaning ________ the string ________ words, and understand what the author’s intention was.
Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks. When teachers switched from writing endnotes directly on the students’ papers to using a response form, there was _________ and _________, although not necessarily _________ meaningful, comments on that particular activity.
Choose the alternative that lists three countries in which English is the official language.
Choose the alternative that names the author and the work
of the following quotes, respectively:
I. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.”
II. “Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.”
III. “This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but with a whisper.”
