Questões de concursos sobre "Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions" | Inglês - página 1

Mark the question that could be correctly asked for
the answer “On May 15”.

The excerpt “A study by University of Cambridge
researchers has found” (line 4) could be correctly
replaced, with no change in meaning, with:

The word “But” (ℓ.5) is

Fill in the blanks with the right group of words.

We are having a fantastic time. Yesterday we spent a
day at the beach. I only spent a ____minutes in the sun,
because I didn't want to get burnt. However, there were
____ people who were badly burnt, but they carried
sunbathing!
In the evening, we went to the disco. There w ere____
people at first but after midnight they all started to arrive.
I met a nice girl, but we couldn't talk____because there
was____. I hope she is there tonight! 

A recent study, performed with children aged 2 months to 10
years, produced clinicai evidence delineating the stages a child
goes through in developing a self-image. It involved exposing
the child to his reflection in both a true mirror and then one
that was convexly distorted. Children from 9 to 10 months old
were highly responsive to both the true and the distorted mirror
images. Their excitement, attention, and activity seemed to be
unaffected by the distortion, indicating they had no self-image.
Slightly older children, aged 10 to 11 months, made rhythmic
circular movements when exposed to their distorted image
as though attempting to correct the distortion. This change in
response indicates the child may have some idea of his image
and perhaps recognizes the distorted image is wrong. Amarked
change in response changes when a child reaches 18 to 22
months of age. The child avoids both images, having begun to
develop a self-image which does not match the mirror image.
From 2 to 5 years, the child has developed a definite self-image
which is recognizable in the mirror, since the child literally flees
the distorted image. Children ages 7 to 10 had reached a levei
of cognitive development which allowed them to laugh at the
distorted images, play with the mirror and observe the changes
they could effect.
                                                                                                                       Crescer magazine 1992

The word “literally” in “since the child Iiterailv flees the
distorted image” is:

...... you leave the room, turn off the lights, please. 

Thus, in the fragment of Text I “Thus some of the primary
rainforests must be salvaged for sustainable development
to be at all successful” (lines 107-109) conveys an idea of 

AUNT ACQUITTED IN NIECE’S HIT-AND-RUN DEATH
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 BY TAMARA APARTON

      San Francisco, CA − A woman charged with child endangerment after a hit-and-run driver fatally struck her 2-year-old niece as
the family crossed against a traffic light was acquitted of all charges today, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced.
      Jurors deliberated a day and a half before clearing Loyresha Gage, 26, of felony child endangerment resulting in death and
misdemeanor child endangerment. Gage faced up to 10 years in state prison, said her attorney, Deputy Public Defender Kevin Mitchell.
      The tragic incident occurred Aug. 15, 2014. Gage was caring for her sister’s 2-year-old twins. As the three left the Metreon after
seeing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, Gage took a long-awaited call from a friend who had been a no-show to the planned
movie date. ..I.. still on the phone, Gage attempted to navigate a crosswalk on Mission Street.
      After waiting for traffic to clear, Gage and her niece, Mi’yana Gregory, stepped into the crosswalk. A little less than halfway
across Mission Street, 
      Gage realized her nephew was still on the curb and panicked. As she sprinted back to pick him up, a sedan
sped down Mission and fatally struck Mi’yana.
      Gage was arrested Aug. 19 and police never found the hit-and-run driver.
      Gage’s family did not want her prosecuted and attended the trial to support her. The prosecutor’s decision to charge Gage was
extremely painful for her family, who were struggling to cope with losing Mi’yana, Mitchell said.
      Adachi praised the jury’s decision.
      “The decision to treat this tragic mistake like a crime only added to the pain and suffering Ms. Gage and her entire family
experienced. Fortunately, her public defender worked hard to ensure her case was heard,” Adachi said.
(http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2015/07/aunt-acquitted-in-nieces-hit-and-run-death/) 

A palavra que preenche corretamente a lacuna I é 

 Para responder a questão, considere o texto a seguir:                          

Environmental law in Brazil

      BRAZIL’S gridlocked Congress often ends up passing contentious laws only after the combatants collapse in exhaustion. So it is
with the revision of the Forest Code, a set of rules that, ...A... the name, apply to all privately owned rural land, not just plots in wooded
areas. The code, originally approved in 1965, requires owners to keep native vegetation on parts of their land − 80% in the Amazon,
less elsewhere − and in erosion-prone and biodiverse areas such as riverbanks and mangrove swamps. But it was long ignored.
      Since harsher penalties and enforcement were introduced in the late 1990s the ruralistas, as Brazil’s powerful farming lobby is
known, have been trying to revise the code. On April 25th, after 13 years of arguments, rewrites and stalling, the final text landed on
the desk of the president, Dilma Rousseff. It was far from the version she wanted. Two government defeats in the ruralista-packed
lower house meant it contained few of her own previous revisions or those of the more green-friendly Senate.
      The president faced a difficult choice: to scrap the text and start again − which would probably be taken as a declaration of war
by the ruralistas − or to make the best of a bad job. She chose the latter. On May 25th ministers went to Congress to say that the president would veto 12 of the new code’s 84 articles and make 32 smaller cuts. The resulting holes would be backfilled in a separate
executive decree. Only on May 28th were the details published.
       Under Ms Rousseff’s veto, the amnesty sought by ruralistas will apply only to smallholders, who will still have to replant 20% of
their plots. Everyone else will have five years to right past wrongs and add their properties to a new Rural Environmental Register.
Holdouts will be denied bank loans and face prosecution.
      Rubens Ricupero, one of ten former environment ministers consulted by the president before the veto, praises her attempt to
strike a balance. Treating small landowners more leniently was both practical, he thinks − they account for 90% of rural properties by
number but just 24% by area − and socially just: few could afford much replanting.
(Adapted from http://www.economist.com/node/21556245?zid=305&ah=417bd5664dc76da5d98af4f7a640fd8a) 
 
 

A alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna ..A.. é 

Therefore in “Therefore, post‐method pedagogy” (line 43) can be
replaced, without change in meaning, by