Questões de Concurso – Aprova Concursos

1)

Q485231 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

According to the text, drug regulators and cancer researchers in Brazil are

a) for the proposal of providing the compound to people with terminal cancer immediately.
b) demonstrating phosphoethanolamine is safe and effective and giving it to patients who go to court.
c) concerned and turning to the courts to access drugs that the state health-care system does not dispense.
d) disgruntled, once phosphoethanolamine is being given to patients outside of a clinical trial.
e) granting orders for the largest university in Brazil to provide phosphoethanolamine to cancer patients.

2)

Q485236 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

“The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) was established in 1886 in Paris. The aim of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. In furtherance of this aim, the IPA provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages. The latest version of the IPA Alphabet was published in 2005” Source:
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org (Adapted). Access: March 21st, 2016
The phonetic transcription below corresponds to American English (based on the open Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary). According to IPA, the phonetic transcription above corresponds to

a) “in ardor to success, we must first believe that we can.”
b) “an order to success, he must first believe that he can.”
c) “in order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
d) “an ardor to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
e) “in ardors to success, we must first believe that we can’t.”

3)

Q485243 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

Identify the alternative in which the plural form is INCORRECT.

a) Epoch – epochs.
b) Person – people.
c) Syllabus – syllabi.
d) Alumnus – alumnium.
e) Embryo - embryos.

4)

Q485248 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

The word in bold type is NOT the head or primary element in the nominal group in the sentence

a) “very large airplanes that are arriving from overseas.”
b) “three high towers in front of you.”
c) “a 100-meter long train at the station.”
d) “Bakhtin’s perspective of speech genres.”
e) “the various practical applications of that science.”

5)

Q485250 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

The ING ending word is used as an adjective in the sentence

a) “learning English is important for your career.”
b) “those students are good at making excuses.”
c) “doctors say running is good for the heart.”
d) “Sarah’s always smoking during the break.”
e) “my weekend was relaxing, just perfect!”

6)

Q485255 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

According to what is developed throughout the text 04, what is the best title to it?

a) The role of technology in education.
b) Reading images in the English classroom.
c) The relationship between texts and technology.
d) The expansion of technologies and computer-mediated communications.
e) The emergence of multimodal texts.

7)

Q485262 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

I’ve just ran into your sister on the mall.

a) talked.
b) met by chance.
c) gave something to.
d) fell.
e) studied with.

8)

Q485267 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

The same type of underlined comparative of the excerpt taken from the text 05 "The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with." (lines 16 to 18), is:

a) She will be there as earlier as possible.
b) Her home is as biggest as White House.
c) Is this radio as audible as the other one?
d) This game can be as so enjoyable as a day out.
e) Luis come here as frequentlier as Mary.

9)

Q485274 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

The word "resistance" (line 07) in the text 06, is formed by resist + the suffix – ance. Another word that can be formed with the suffx -ance is

a) attend.
b) particular.
c) prefer.
d) interfere.
e) occupy

10)

Q485279 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

In the quotation "...and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible.", taken from the text 07, the modal verb could be changed , maintaining the idea expresses, by:

a) have to
b) must
c) need to
d) might
e) can

11)

Q485230 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

According to the text, the reason why the compound phosphoethanolamine was considered as miracle cure is

a) its efficiency in curing a high percentage of patients who underwent treatment.
b) some cancer patients claimed they recovered after using phosphoethanolamine.
c) it had a notoriously high failure rate in human trials and it is not really a ‘drug’ at all.
d) university officials from São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years.
e) researchers from all over Brazil are providing the compound to people with terminal cancer.

12)

Q485235 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

Identify the option in which one of the words in the group is NOT a homophone with the others.

a) Right, rite, write.
b) There, their, they're.
c) Seas, sees, seize.
d) Ware, wear, where.
e) Buy, bay, bye.

13)

Q485242 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

The expression “so badly” in the WhatsApp conversation above emphasizes that the person was

a) willing to sell the Mercedes.
b) willing to borrow the Mercedes.
c) highly interested in the Mercedes.
d) fairly interested in any car, but the Mercedes.
e) poorly interested in the Mercedes.

14)

Q485247 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

The clause “who is pregnant”, in “Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” is a

a) maintenance clause.
b) temporal clause.
c) relative clause.
d) stylistic clause.
e) summary clause.

15)

Q485254 - NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Inglês

The pronoun it refers to

a) Universal Studios Japan.
b) Tokyo Summer Olympics.
c) Nintendo Land.
d) The $350 million deal.
e) The Harry Potter-themed area.

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