The discourse marker "such as" in the exerpt "...such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements." (lines 14 to 19) can be substituted, without change in meaning, by
He tore up all her letters when she decided to move.
In the sentence "How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers?" (lines 04 to 08), the relative pronoun can be substituted, without change of meaning, by:
The pronoun "its", that occurs twice in the passage "...that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English." (lines 04 to 18) refers, respectively to:
Considering the context of use of the sentence “Say no to racism” in the text 07, the imperative express a(n):
“Connectors, or conjunctives (Halliday &
Hasan, 1976), are a type of cohesion device
that make explicit the logical relations
between sentences (cause, addition,
comparison, condition, etc.). Common
connectors include and, but, however, and
because. Such connectors are of limited
utility, however, unless the reader
understands how connectors function and
the logical relationship each specifies.”
Source: GOLDMAN, Susan R. & MURRAY,
John. Knowledge of Connectors as
Cohesion Devices in Text: A Comparative
Study of Native English and ESL Speakers.
(Adapted) In: www.dtic.mil/cgibin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA213269.
Access:
March 23rd, 2016
From the groups of logical conjunctives
below, which one contains connectors that
specify a similar logical relation?
Taking into account the speech genre described above and language used in it, identify the alternative in which the element on the left does NOT stand for the given meaning.
The word “manhunt” in the sentence “the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt” is a synonym with
One can infer from the title “Mario-Centered Nintendo Land To Open by Tokyo Olympics” that “to open”
The most suitable articles to fill up the blanks 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the text 04, respectively are:
Considering the context of use in the text 04, the words "teaching" and "learning" (line 22) in the second paragraph are
Considering the words taken from the text 05, the underlined words with the appropriate stress syllable are
In the text 06, the numbers "116” (line 14) and "35" (in the referenc(E), are, in compliance with Bristish usage, written respectively as:
In the sentence “Couldn't be more true” the modal express the idea of:
