Questões de Concursos Públicos - Inglês

What is the main reason Holmes concludes that Watson has been out in bad weather recently? 

 Considering the Common National Curricular Base (BNCC) for the teaching of English in elementary school, which text genres are appropriate to teach sixth-grade students? 

Based on Marjorie Mbilinyi’s text, the concept of liberating adult education advocated by Mwalimu Nyerere is primarily characterized by: 

According to the text, analyze the statements below and mark (T) for True or (F) for False. I. (T / F) Nyerere argued that real democracy and freedom could only be achieved through collective action by African peoples against neocolonialism and corporate globalization. II. (T / F) Nyerere’s political project fully succeeded in transforming ideals of equality and justice into a broad popular mass movement of workers, peasants, students, and other social groups. III. (T / F) Despite internal contradictions, Nyerere managed to preserve national unity during a hostile period marked by the 1980s debt crisis and pressures from the International Monetary Fund. Choose the correct alternative. 

Consider the following statements in light of the text. I. The transformative pedagogy defended by Nyerere assumed that adults should be encouraged to think critically, share knowledge, and act politically to improve their own conditions. II. Although he denounced imperialism and global elites, Nyerere established a highly centralized Executive with limited checks and balances, revealing a tension between democratic discourse and political practice. III. The failure of ujamaa was partly due to the inability to translate ideals of equality and justice into a sustained, mass-based popular movement. It is correct to state that: 

Complete the sentence correctly, according to standard rules of inversion and modal verbs in formal English: ‘‘Only after the results were published ______ the committee reconsider the validity of the experiment’’.

Choose the alternative that correctly expresses a fundamental principle of translation and interpretation applicable to academic, technical, and journalistic texts. 

Complete the sentence correctly, according to standard rules of conditional sentences in English: ‘‘If the translator ______ more attention to the target audience, the ambiguity in the final text would have been avoided’’. 

Choose the alternative that correctly explains the difference between collocations and phrasal verbs. 

A teacher is presenting examples of false cognates (false friends) to her students, highlighting words that look similar in English and Portuguese but differ in meaning. Which of the following words is a false cognate, according to this explanation?