Questões de Inglês - Grammar
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Gregory “Greg” Heffley is an American middle school student and also the main protagonist of the book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Greg is lazy, petty, slightly narcissistic, sociopathic, egotistical, eccentric, egocentric, usually backstabbing, and sometimes even selfish and dishonest, and apparently lacks talent. He hardly has any skills aside from video games and possibly singing. However, despite all this, Greg has had his kind and caring moments, but not that often.
Adapted from https://diary-of-a-wimpy-kid.fandom.com/wiki/Greg_Heffley
In the sentence in bold type, Greg’s personal characteristics are mainly expressed by the use of ____________.
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Programs that limit access to guns have decreased suicides
When countries reduced access to guns, they saw a drop in the number of firearm suicides. The data above, taken from a study by Australian researchers, shows that suicides dropped dramatically after the Australian government set up a gun buyback program that reduced the number of firearms in the country by about one-fifth.
The Australian study found that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people correlated with up to a 50 percent drop in firearm homicides, and a 74 percent drop in gun suicides. As Dylan Matthews noted for Vox, the drop in homicides wasn’t statistically significant. But the drop in suicides most definitely was — and the results are striking.
Australia is far from alone in these types of results. A study from Israeli researchers found that suicides among Israeli soldiers dropped by 40 percent — particularly on weekends — when the military stopped letting soldiers take their guns home over the weekend. This data and research have a clear message: States and countries can significantly reduce the number of suicides by restricting access to guns.
Fonte: https://goo.gl/EFuEMH. Accessed on 11/20/17
Check the alternative that presents adjectives with the same meaning of STRIKING in the sentence “… and the results are striking.” (second paragraph):
Two years after being on the brink of eradication,
polio has spread to at least 10 countries in Asia, Africa
and the Middle East, prompting the World Health
Organization to declare a global public-health emergency.
In Pakistan, the nexus of the new outbreak, rumors
abound that immunization can cause infertility or worse,
and local Taliban groups have obstructed anti-polio
workers. The number of cases in the country rose 60%
last year.
Last year, polio emerged in Syria for the first time
in 15 years; experts blame the ongoing civil war. Other
conflict-torn countries, like the Central African Republic,
are considered to be at risk.
In an-effort to thwart the disease, WHO has
recommended that all residents traveling from Pakistan,
Syria and Cameroon be vaccinated. Whether that’s
enforceable remains to be seen.
The Explainer: How Polio Became a Global Health Crisis. Time, May 19, 2014. p. 8
The word “worse” (l. 6) is the irregular comparative of
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Food is more than survival
With it we make friends, court lovers, and count our blessings
Victoria Pope
The sharing of food has always been part of the human story. From Qesem Cave near Tel Aviv comes evidence of ancient meals prepared at a 300,000-year-old hearth, the oldest ever found, where diners gathered to eat together. Retrieved from the ashes of Vesuvius: a circular loaf of bread with scoring marks, baked to be divided. “To break bread together,” a phrase as old as the Bible, captures the power of a meal to forge relationships, bury anger, provoke laughter. Children make mud pies, have tea parties, trade snacks to make friends, and mimic the rituals of adults. They celebrate with sweets from the time of their first birthday, and the association of food with love will continue throughout life – and in some belief systems, into the afterlife. Consider the cultures that leave delicacies graveside to let the departed know they are not forgotten. And even when times are tough, the urge to celebrate endures. In the Antarctic in 1902, during Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery expedition, the men prepared a fancy meal for Midwinter Day, the shortest day and longest night of the year. Hefty provisions had been brought on board. Forty-five live sheep were slaughtered and hung from the rigging, frozen by the elements until it was time to feast. The cold, the darkness, and the isolation were forgotten for a while. “With such a dinner,” Scott wrote, “we agreed that life in the Antarctic Regions was worth living.”
(www.nationalgeographic.com. Adaptado.)
No trecho “And even when times are tough, the urge to celebrate endures”, a expressão em destaque pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por
BREAKING BAD
Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the __ ( I )__ story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with __ ( II )__ lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine, in order to secure his family’s financial future before he dies, teaming with his former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). The series has been labeled a contemporary western by its creator.
The series premiered on January 20, 2008 in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, and the series finale aired on September 29, 2013. Breaking Bad received __ ( III )__ critical acclaim, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. By its end, the series was among the __ ( IV ) _ _ cable shows on American television, with audience numbers that doubled in the fifth season from the previous year’s episodes.
Breaking Bad was created by Vince Gilligan, who spent several years writing the Fox series The X-Files. Gilligan wanted to create a series in which the protagonist became the antagonist. “Television is historically good at keeping its characters in a self-imposed stasis so that shows can go on for years or even decades,” he said. “When I realized this, the __ ( V )__ next step was to think, how can I do a show in which the fundamental drive is toward change?” He added that his goal with Walter White was to turn him from Mr. Chips into Scarface.
While Gilligan defines the term “breaking bad” as “to raise hell”, it apparently means more than that. According to Lily Rothman, it is an old phrase which “connotes more violence than ‘raising hell’ does.... The words possess a wide variety of nuances: to ‘break bad’ can mean to ‘go __ ( VI )__ ‘, to ‘defy authority’ and break the law, to be verbally ‘combative, belligerent, or _ _ ( VII )__ or, followed by the preposition ‘on,’ to ‘completely dominate or humiliate.’”
The concept emerged as Gilligan talked with his fellow writer Thomas Schnauz regarding their _ _ ( VIII )__ unemployment and joked that the solution was for them to put a “meth lab in the back of an RV and drive around the country cooking meth and making money.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
The adjectives that properly fill in blanks I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII, in the text, are
The Amazon is the greatest river in the world, although not the longest. It has the greatest volume of water of any river, and also the ___12___ drainage basin – the area where it flows. The streams that feed it start near the Pacific, in the icy heights of the Andes Mountains in Peru. They flow eastwards, across Brazil, joining into bigger and bigger rivers. Eventually, they all unite in the gigantic Amazon, which meets the Atlantic at the equator. Its total length is 6,437 kilometres and it flows through about one-third of South America.
Passengers on an ocean liner heading for the mouth of the Amazon might actually meet the river about 320 kilometres from the coast, because the great force of the Amazon sends its waters right out into the Atlantic. Seen from the air, these waters make a long, muddy stain in the sea.
(Children’s Britannica, vol. 1, 1973. Adaptado.)
Em sentido e forma, a lacuna numerada no texto é corretamente preenchida por
