1

Based on the ideas and linguistic aspects of the text above, judge the item below.

It can be inferred from the text that some students of English resent it because of the negative feelings that colonialism inspires.

2

Based on the ideas and linguistic aspects of the text above, judge the item below.

It can be inferred from the text that there should be three distinct approaches to the teaching of English, depending on how and why students acquire this language.

3

Based on the ideas and linguistic aspects of the text above, judge the item below.

The sentence: “For some people, it is acquired as a first language" (R.15) can be correctly rewritten as For some people, it has acquired as a first language.

4

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text I.

It can be correctly concluded from the text that the recruitment methods adopted in the past have fuelled suspicion against diplomats and created a fallacious idea about their work.

5

The author of the text suggests that the old-fashioned way of sending messages on postcards can be as dangerous as sending them through cyber-café computers.
6
   The landscape where the São Francisco River enters the Atlantic Ocean seems so out of place it makes one wonder if this is still coastal Brazil. White sand dunes stretch as far as the eye can see; clusters of cashew trees throw flickering shadows like ocean waves on the sand.
   Here among these shifting dunes formerly enslaved men and women founded the Pixaim Quilombo near the mouth of the river. They developed a reliable sustainable lifestyle and community well attuned to the dynamic, always changing estuary.
   But it is a lifestyle utterly dependent on the São Francisco River; reliant on the planting of rice in marshes downstream and on catching plentiful freshwater fish upstream.
Now, varied and growing water demands by upstream dams and other users are threatening the long-established quilombo lifestyle — demands that experts predict will worsen severely in Brazil’s Northeast.
   “We used to catch fish that were meters long, but now you have to go much farther up the river to find them,” remembers 84-year-old Aladim, who lives in Pixaim. “The fish left, so the people left,” he remarks.
 
Internet: <news.mongabay.com> (adapted).

Based on the previous text, judge the following item.

The sentence ‘The fish left, so the people left’ (last paragraph) shows how much the river determines people's lives in the community of Pixaim.

7

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of text II, decide whether the statements below are right (C) or wrong (E).

The word “genial" (l.15) means unusually intelligent.

8

Based on the ideas and linguistic aspects of the text above, judge the item below.

In the fragment “English teachers, therefore, need to appreciate the special status English has" (R. 9 and 10), “appreciate" means like or enjoy.

9

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text IV, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).

Using based on instead of “on the basis of” (L.31) would not alter the general meaning of the sentence.

10

Based on the ideas and linguistic aspects of the text above, judge the item below.

In the fragment “in countries like Australia, Canada, the United States and Great Britain" (R. 29 and 30) “like" can be correctly replaced with such.