Questões de Concursos Públicos - CONSULPAM - 2015 - Prefeitura de Nova Olinda - CE - Professor - Inglês

Read the article. One day young – on babies and moms Motherhood may be a pressing subject for modern British women, but the realities of giving birth for the first time remains deeply misunderstood in British culture. Throughout the ages, motherhood has been depicted as merely beautiful and uncomplicated, or as compromised by other, more complex feelings. This misconception drove London-based photographer Jenny Lewis to create her ongoing series One Day Young. She, for the past seven years, has taken photographs of new mothers and their babies in London, UK. Lewis photographs mothers at the very start of parenthood. “I wanted to concentrate on the first 24 hours, when a woman’s body is still engulfed by hormones, to capture the unrelenting physicality of the moment, straight from the battlefield,” she says. Adapted from BBC Mark the right affirmation about the article.

How would you replace “thorough” in the context below? “Insisting that there was no simple way in which reading and the use of English could be improved, and that improvement required a thorough understanding of the many complexities in language, and action on a broad front, the committee offered 333 conclusions and recommendations; only with reluctance was it prepared to select 17 of these as its principal findings”.

“In a helpful survey article, Weinstein and Mayer (1986) defined Learning Strategies (LS) broadly as ‘behaviors and thoughts that a learner engages in during learning’ which are ‘intended to influence the learner's encoding process.’ Later, Mayer (1988) more specifically defined LS as ‘behaviors of a learner that are intended to influence how the learner processes information.’ These early definitions from the educational literature reflect the roots of LS in cognitive science, with its essential assumptions that human beings process information and that learning involves such information processing. Clearly, LS are involved in all learning, regardless of the content and context. LS are thus used in learning and teaching math, science, history, languages and other subjects, both in classroom settings and more informal learning environments”. (Adapted from: TESL Journal) According to the article, we can conclude that…

Replace the verb “discover” with a synonym.“So he discovered, did he?”

How can you explain the phrasal verb in the sentence below? “Please fill in the form with your name, address, and phone number”.

Complete the sentence with the right verb sequence. “Last year, when someone (1) scarred by accident or disease, they (2) treated but not always cured”.

Choose the better modal for the sentence bellow. “I wish somebody (…) buy me the lunch”.

Choose the adverbial clause that best completes the sentence. “She felt a little exposed and felt her way along (…) she discovered she was on a ledge”.

Rewrite the sentence using a relative clause. “I liked Poe’s short stories best.”

The passive denotes the voice of a verb whose subject receives the action. Correct the mistakes in the sentences below. “ (1) My car was repairing by Louis. (2) Some roads are block by fallen trees”.