SIMULADO 13 - INGLÊS

TEXTO (FGV)

From Christmas Day in 1991, when the white, blue and red Russian flag rose over the Kremlin, symbolizing the end of the Soviet Union, the U.S. assumed a dominant presence in world affairs the likes of which has not been witnessed since the imperium Romanum. Yet the nation that endorsed the idea of preemptive military action has acted with remarkable passivity when it comes to an energy policy that deals with climate change. (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (SEPTEMBER 2006, p. 8)

 01. QUESTÃO  -  According to the text: 

a) The Soviet Union invented preemptive military action. 
b) Passive energy policy and preemptive military action are soviet characteristics. 
c) Climate change is the price the world pays for American dominance. 
d) Energy policy and climate change normally go hand in hand. 
e) Passive energy policy and preemptive military action are American traits.

 02. QUESTÃO  - Choose the question for the statement “The spirit lives on”:

a) Where does the spirit live?

b) What does the spirit live on?

c) Which lives on?

d) Who lives on the spirit?

e) What lives on?

 03. QUESTÃO  -  In the sentence “Fortunately, people have invented countless ways of amusing themselves”, the bold verb tense is:

a) present perfect continuous.

b) present perfect simple.

c) simple present.

d) simple past.

e) past perfect.

 04. QUESTÃO  - Check the alternative that fills correctly the gap in the following sentence:

- “What __________ to do when you get to Rio?”

- “I don’t know yet.”

a) are you going 

b) were you 

c) did you

d) do you

e) you go

 05. QUESTÃO  - Choose the correct adjective-noun pair:

a) prouds parents

b) red dresses

c) rollings stones

d) false informations

e) strange knowledges

 06. QUESTÃO  -  In the sentence “MANY thinkers have tried to give us answers,” the capital word has a meaning close to:

a) a few.

b) few.

c) little.

d) several.

e) much.

 07. QUESTÃO  - Which team won the game? __________ team did.

a) Theirs

b) They

c) Their

d) Them

e) Yours

 08. QUESTÃO  - Choose the item which best completes the sentence, according to the passage: __________ some Scottish fans bare their bottoms, they are readily forgiven.

a) No matter

b) Always if

c) All the time

d) Even when

e) In spite of

 09. QUESTÃO  - ‘In London there are lots of streets with the same name and it’s very __________ if you are a tourist. Another problem is that it’s a huge place. We walked everywhere on our last trip and we were __________ at the end of each day. But it’s an __________ city, with so much to do.’

a) confused – exhaust – excited

b) confusing – exhausted – exciting

c) confuse – exhausting – exciting

d) confusing – exhaust – excited

e) confused – exhausted – excited

 10. QUESTÃO  - The sentence It is also the fastest robot yet means that

a) there are plans to make robots similar to Asimo in the future

b) Asimo is the quickest robot scientists will ever make

c) Asimo is fast, but needs improving

d) Asimo is the quickest robot until now

e) there are other robots that are as fast as Asimo

01 - E

02 - E

03 - B

04 - A

05 - B

06 - D

07 - C

08 - D

09 - B

10 - D

COMENTÁRIO 1ª QUESTÃO:

De acordo com o texto, a política energética passiva e a ação militar antecipada são características americanas. 

No texto: “Yet the nation that endorsed the idea of preemptive military action has acted with remarkable passivity when it comes to an energy policy that deals with climate change.” 

The Atlantic forest of Brazil, which in the past 400 years has been reduced to less than 8 percent of its original size, could contain as many as 13 million unidentified species of bacteria, a new study has found. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (SEPTEMBER 2006, p. 10)