Questões de Concursos Públicos - Inglês

Decide if the sentences below are true ( T ) or false ( F ), according to the text. ( ) Climate change may cause some animals to become extinct. ( ) Polar bears had no enemies. ( ) Polar bears mainly eat in summer. ( ) The number of wild polar bears is getting smaller . ( ) Everyone agrees about the scale of the global warming problem. Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

Match the following words and phrases to their definitions. Column 1 Words 1. extinction (paragraph 1) 2. apart from (paragraph 1) 3. starve (paragraph 2) 4. melts (paragraph 2) 5. debate (paragraph 4) Column 2 Definitions ( ) die from lack of food ( ) becomes liquid ( ) argument or discussion ( ) the state of no longer existing ( ) besides Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom. 

Read the following sentence, “One of these is the world’s largest land predator, the polar bear.” Study the affirmatives below: 1. ‘these’ is a relative pronoun. 2. ‘largest’ is the comparative of superiority form of the adjective ‘ large’. 3. ‘world’s’ means ‘world is’. 4. ‘largest’ is the superlative of superiority form of the adjective ‘ large’. 5. ‘these’ is a demonstrative pronoun. Choose the alternative which contains all the correct affirmatives.

The following words in bold, “it”, “itself” and “their”, in the text, are, respectively

In the context of the text, the phrasal verb “run out”, in “The bears store of fat runs out, and some starve to death”, means:

Complete the sentence below: “I once __________________ (see) some polar bears in a zoo. They ___________________ (not look) very happy at all.” Choose the alternative that completes the sentence correctly. 

Analyze the words in bold in the sentences below: However, we need to think about animals, too  ‘…but is now under threat from nature itself.’ ‘Due to exhaustion or stormy weather…’ ‘As a result of all these factors…’ We can infer that the words in bold: 1. They are called discourse markers or linking words, as they help the speaker to manage the conversation and mark when it changes. 2. Discourse markers are words and phrases used in reading to ‘signpost’ discourse. 3. Linking words show us turns, join ideas together, and generally control communication. 4. Discourse markers are referred to more commonly as ‘linking words’ and ‘linking phrases’, or ‘sentence connectors’. 5. They are used more frequently in speech, unless the speech is very formal. Choose the alternative which contains all the correct affirmatives.

The sentence “…the number of polar bears in the wild is decreasing dramatically”; can be rewritten without changing its meaning, as:

Choose the alternative which presents the correct pair of synonyms.

Complete the sentence below: When language learning is based on learning _____________________, the focus of this_________________ is on the individual learners and their _________________preferences. Choose the alternative that completes the sentence correctly.