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Questão 37 6307867
EEAR 2022Read the text and answer question.
Metal airplane part seems to fall from plane into Arizona family’s backyard
An Arizona couple discovered what appeared to be a metal plate from an airplane in their backyard last week. Charlie and Jaclyn High of Phoenix found the white metal piece, which had fallen in their backyard, on Friday, CBS5 reported.
“I kind of looked around to see if there was anything else, like another piece, or something else other than that, with writing on it. It looks like it’s from an airplane, and you think, oh man, that’s crazy,” Jaclyn told the outlet. According to images shared with CBS5, the metal piece seems to be part of the airplane lavatory
Adapted from https://www.foxnews.com/travel/arizona-metal-piece-airplanebackyard.
The sentence “Charlie and Jaclyn High of Phoenix found the white metal piece, which had fallen in their backyard, on Friday, CBS5 reported.”, contains verbs in the following tenses, in this order:
Questão 1 7514134
UFMS 2022Leia o texto a seguir para responder à questão.
Together, we reached for the box and pulled it out. Inside was a shimmering solitaire ring. Folded underneath was a short piece of paper that read:
“My darling, my heart. Only 80 days have passed since I first held your hand. I simply cannot imagine my next 80 years without you in them. Will you take this ring, take my heart, and build a life with me? This tiny little solitaire is my offering to you. Will you be my bride?”
As I stared up at Allie, she asked me a question. “Do you know what today is?” I shook my head. “It’s May 20th. That’s 80 days since Nancy passed your hand into mine and we took you home”
(Fonte: Disponível em: https://examples.yourdictionary.com/essayexamples.html. Acesso em: 24 out. 2021)
Assinale a alternativa que responda corretamente em quais tempos verbais estão as seguintes frases:
(1) “Only 80 days have passed”.
(2) “I first held your hand”.
(3) “Will you be my bride?”.
(4) “Do you know what today is?”.
Questão 3 3330414
UFMS PASSE - 2ª Etapa 2017-2019Read Text to answer the question
I've lived here for almost six years. I think this is a nice place and people are friendly. I have nothing to complain about. I've made friends and I've seen good things around here.
Lately, people have talked more to each other and the city has received more and more tourists from other countries. Tourism is very important here. Many people come here to spend their vacations and take a break.
I really like it here and I'm glad nothing bad has happened for a long time.
By Jane Honda.
(Disponível em: https://www.englishexperts.com.br/. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2018)
In which verb tense are the following sentences: “I've made friends and I've seen good things around here”?
Questão 20 126564
UFGD 2016Russian LGBT People Could Be Arrested For \'Coming Out\' in Public Under New Legislation
Russian parliamentarians are drafting a bill that could mean LGBT people would be fined or face jail for "coming out" or making a "public confession of their non-traditional sexual orientation," state-owned newspaper Izvestia reported on Friday.
The bill is intended as an amendment to the already controversial law banning "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to minors. The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, passed the original law in 2013 that has been labelled "a tool of discrimination [that] legitimizes anti-LGBT violence" by Human Rights Watch.
According to the proposed amendment to the law, people who are defined as having "non-traditional sexual orientation" could be fined 5,000 roubles ($80) for "demonstrating [their] own expressed sexual preferences in public places." If the same is done in schools, cultural establishments or government buildings, this would be punishable by up to 15 days in jail.
Duma members Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolay Arefiev, both of whom are members of the Communist Party, drafted the bill saying they believe it will strengthen Russia\'s public morals. "I believe that the problem we have raised is one of the most pressing and topical issues as it addresses the social ills of our society and deals with the moral education of the next generation," Nikitchuk told Izvestia. "In the biological sense, not reproducing is the same as death and in that sense homosexuality is a lethal threat for the whole of humankind."
Nikitchuk told the Russian daily that he believes the existing framework of laws regarding LGBT people is insufficient. A recent poll by Russia\'s independent Levada Center found that the desire to ostracise LGBT people had increased in Russia since the fall of Communism. 37 percent of respondents said LGBT people should be "isolated from society," an increase from 28 percent who thought this in 1989, and higher than the number of Russians who thought the same about drug addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes. 21 percent said they wanted to "liquidate" LGBT people.
In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the idea that Russia had problems with anti-LGBT hate crime, telling U.S. broadcaster CBS that the issue had been "deliberately exaggerated" by foreign media and there was "no persecution at all" in Russia.
Disponível em: . Acesso em: 23 out. 2015.
Select the correct proposition(s).
I. The reason to support the new legislation come from the moral education and a biological sense.
II. The past participle of thought in the excerpt “an increase from 28 percent who thought this in 1989” is taught.
III. Should in the excerpt “37 percent of respondents said LGBT people should be isolated from society" can be replaced for ought to.
IV. We can infer that moral principles are more valuable than respect and tolerance for some Russian parliamentarians.
V. The past perfect continuous of the following sentence “"I believe that the problem we have raised is one of the most pressing and topical issues” is: “I believe that the problem we have been raising is one of the most pressing and topical issues”.
Questão 44 251826
Unit-SE Medicina - Caderno 1 2015TEXTO:
Programmable brain cells
Pluripotent stem cell research took off like a rocket
in 2012. After discovering that skin cells can be
genetically reprogrammed into stem cells, which can in
turn be reprogrammed into just about any cell in the
[5] human body, a team led by Sheng Ding at UCSF
managed to engineer a working network of newborn
neurons from a harvest of old skin cells. In other words,
the team didn’t just convert skin cells into stem cells,
then into neurons — they actually kept the batch of
[10] neurons alive and functional long enough to self-organize
into a primitive neural network. In the near future, it’s
likely that we’ll be treating many kinds of brain injuries
by growing brand-new neurons from other kinds of cells
in a patient’s own body. This is already close on the
[15] horizon for liver and heart cells — but the thought of
being able to technologically shape the re-growth of a
damaged brain is even more exciting.
PROGRAMMABLE brain cells. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 out. 2014.
Considering language use in the text, it’s correct to say:
Questão 96 229478
UECE 2° Fase 1° Dia 2012T E X T
Language is forever changing – and forms such as tweets and text messages are no less valid than any textbook version, says the linguist David Crystal, whose latest book encourages children to engage with the possibilities of their lingua franca.
Were the English language ever to need an official guardian, Professor David Crystal certainly looks the part. But the professor would, I suspect, quickly shrug off such a custodial title – not out of modesty, but principle. Though many endangered languages need their champions, he would say, English does not require a guardian; it is vibrant and evolving and can fend for itself.
Crystal’s A Little Book of Language is the latest work of a prolific career. He already has more than 100 books to his name; some are academic but many are for the general inquisitive reader, including By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English and Shakespeare's Words, which was co-authored by his son, Ben.
For the Crystals, linguistics is clearly a family affair. In the jaunty early chapters of A Little Book of Language, Crystal notes how, when his four children were young, he would study them."We're talking the 1960s, when the study of linguistics had hardly begun – people did not know, in a scientific way, how you developed language," he recalls. "Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but no day-by-day, blow-by-blow examples. I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form. It's what linguists do. You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time."
Something must have rubbed off. Though his elder two children, Steven and Sue, eschewed academia, his daughter Lucy took up copywriting and his son Ben, an actor, is now following his father. "His book Shakespeare on Toast was a runaway hit – I wish I'd written it!" says Crystal, before rapidly, and self-effacingly, adding: "But I couldn't have – because it was so cool and modern and so street in its approach to Shakespeare. He has examples of hip-hop Shakespearians and I would never have dared put any of that stuff into one of my books."
A Little Book of Language is a simple history of all language, taking in phonetics, development, social uses, the internet, endangered languages and a touch of literature.
This all sounds very innocent, but books for children can be a contentious issue. Language, as much as history, is part of a national identity and cannot escape contemporary debates. And since Crystal began his academic career in the early 1960s, there have been dramatic shifts in how the English language is taught. "The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior," he says. "Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now."
What has replaced it is something far more fluid – descriptive rather than prescriptive, as the terminology goes. In schools, appropriateness has replaced the principle of correctness. "Now, one looks at all varieties of language and asks why they are used, says Crystal. "We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there."
This doesn't sit easy with the traditionalists, of whom there are still many. His clearest example is the belief that text messaging is destroying children's ability to spell. "It's all nonsense, but people believe it."
He addressed this in his book Txtng: the Gr8 Db8, published three years ago, in which he found that "txt speak" accounted for barely 10 per cent of the contents of the messages exchanged, and noted that abbreviations have always been part of the English language. Having solved that argument with some decent data, he tells me that he's now moving on to Twitter.
"On Twitter [which limits each written entry to 140 characters], you don't get the range of texting abbreviations you get in text messaging. It's a more sophisticated kind of communicative medium. You get semantic threads running through it. When you start counting thousands and thousands of messages, you suddenly realise that on the whole it's a new art form in the making."
The breadth of the internet means that language is morphing not just on grocers' signs and in school playgrounds, but on a far more fundamental level.
"All these different genres – instant messaging, blogging, chatrooms, virtual worlds – have evolved different sets of communicative strategies, which means that you can look at the language and say, 'That must be an example of a chatroom, that must be an example of a tweet,' and you can predict it."
Becoming involved in bigger arguments seems to be an occupational hazard for a linguist. Whether it be education, politics or neuroscience, we all have a vested interest in the implications of language. Our conversation turns to the recent news of a man who had been lying in a vegetative state for seven years before doctors managed to establish basic communication by scanning his brainwaves. "We are moving fast in a direction where you will be able to see what people are saying," says Crystal, optimistically. "We've got to the stage where you can see the complexity of language processing. We're not at the stage yet of being able to see clearly individual sentence patterns and words, but it's not long off."
Surely this has huge implications, not least for personal liberties? "It is the case that virtually every language issue resolves into a social or political or psychological issue," Crystal reminds me. "Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. At which point, you know that a linguist has to bow out and say, 'This is bigger than me.'"
By Joy Lo Dico 14 March 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk
In terms of verb tense, the sentences “…abbreviations have always been part of the English language.” “…the recent news of a man who had been lying in a vegetative state for seven years…” and “…the 1960s, when the study of linguistics had hardly begun…”may be classified respectively as