Questões sobre Palavras conectivas | Connective words

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UCS 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

Assinale a alternativa cujos elementos melhor substituem, respectivamente, os termos sublinhados nos segmentos a seguir.

I Despite the fact that Victoria and Albert often favoured artists from Germany (linha 30).

II Scottish authors Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott also owe Victoria a debt – in fact, the royal couple’s love of Scotland (linhas 42 e 43).

INSTRUÇÃO: A questão refere-se ao texto abaixo.

Victoria and Albert: how a royal love changed culture

By Lucinda Hawksley

Disponível em: <http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150623-victoria-albert-cultural-impact>.

Acesso em: 3 ago. 15. (Parcial e adaptado.)

A

While – because of it.

B

Although – in reality.

C

Even if – besides.

D

Though – so.

E

Yet – in truth.

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UNESP 2015 - Inglês - Sinônimos | Synonyms, Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

No trecho final do primeiro parágrafo “through the introduction of resistance to plant diseases”, o termo em destaque equivale, em português, a

Genetically modified foods

Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally, e.g. through the introduction of a gene from a different organism. Currently available GM foods stem mostly from plants, but in the future foods derived from GM microorganisms or GM animals are likely to be introduced on the market. Most existing genetically modified crops have been developed to improve yield, through the introduction of resistance to plant diseases or of increased tolerance of herbicides.

In the future, genetic modification could be aimed at altering the nutrient content of food, reducing its allergenic potential, or improving the efficiency of food production systems. All GM foods should be assessed before being allowed on the market. FAO/WHO Codex guidelines exist for risk analysis of GM food.

(www.who.int)

A

embora.

B

por meio de.

C

durante.

D

dentre.

E

também.

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CEDERJ 2015 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

O conector “on the other hand", na quinta linha do último parágrafo, estabelece uma relação de:

What Your Tweets Say About You

By Maria Konnikov

How much can your tweets reveal about you? A lot! - would be the answer of psychologists James Pennebaker e Cindy Chung, at the University of Texas, who study how language relates to well-being and personality. One of Pennebaker’s most famous projects is a computer program called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (L.I.W.C.), which looks at the words we use, and in what frequency and context, and uses this information to study our psychological states and various aspects of our personality.

Since the creation of the L.I.W.C., in 1993, studies utilizing the program have suggested a close connection between our language, our state of mind, and our behavior. They have shown, for instance, that a person’s word choices can reveal her place in a social or professional hierarchy; and that the use of different filler words (“I mean”; “You know”) can suggest whether a speaker is male or female, younger or older, and more or less conscientious. “The words we use in natural language reflect our thoughts and feelings in often unpredictable ways,” Pennebaker and Cindy Chung have written.

The psychologist Johannes Eichstaedt and his colleagues analyzed eight hundred and twenty-six million tweets across fourteen hundred American counties(1). Then, using lists of words that can be reliably associated with positive and negative emotions, they gave each county an emotional profile. Finally, they asked a simple question: Could those profiles help determine which counties were likely to have more deaths from heart disease?

The answer was yes. Counties where residents’ tweets included words related to hostility, aggression, hate, and, fatigue — words such as “jealous,” and “bored”— had significantly higher rates of heart-related deaths. On the other hand, where people’s tweets reflected more positive emotions and engagement, heart disease was less common. The tweet-based model even had more predictive power than other models based on traditional demographic, socioeconomic, and health-risk factors.

(1) Um condado (county/counties) ou província é um aglomerado de cidades, não tão grande quanto um estado.

From: http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/can-tweets-predict-heart-disease

GLOSSARY: conscientious: consciencioso/cuidadoso; reliably: seguramente; profile: perfil; heart disease: doença do coração; hate: ódio; jealous: com ciúmes; bored: entediado; higher rates: taxas mais altas; engagement: comprometimento; predictive: previsível.

Leia o texto e responda à questão.

A

contraste entre as taxas de doenças cardíacas encontradas nos contextos de “tweets positivos" e “tweets negativos".

B

semelhança entre os tipos de palavras encontradas nos tweets das diversas províncias analisadas.

C

oposição entre as palavras positivas e seus efeitos sociais benéficos nos contextos investigados.

D

paralelismo entre o modelo de pesquisa baseado nos tweets e os modelos demográficos e socioeconômicos.

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UERJ 2013 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words

At first sight, it appears to be a samba about a lover's quarrel. Actually, it was a sharp critique of the authoritarian regime (l. 27-28)

If the two sentences above are rewritten as one, the result is:

A

It appears to be a samba about a lover's quarrel, therefore it was a sharp critique of the authoritarian regime.

B

As long as it appears to be a samba about a lover's quarrel, it was a sharp critique of the authoritarian regime.

C

It appears to be a samba about a lover's quarrel, because it was a sharp critique of the authoritarian regime.

D

Even though it appears to be a samba about a lover's quarrel, it was a sharp critique of the authoritarian regime.

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UNESP 2011 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

Indique a alternativa composta de duas orações cujas afirmações se opõem.

Instrução: Leia o texto para responder à questão.

I started to run because I felt desperately unfit. But the biggest pay-off for me was – and still is – the deep relaxation that I achieve by taking exercise. It tires me out but I find that it does calm me down. When I started running seven years ago, I could manage only 400 meters before I had to stop. Breathless and aching, I walked the next quarter of a mile, alternating these two activities for a couple of kilometers.

When I started to jog I never dreamt of running in a marathon, but a few years later I realized that if I trained for it, the London Marathon, one of the biggest British sporting events, would be within my reach. My story shows that an unfit 39-year-old, as I was when I started running, who had taken no serious exercise for twenty years, can do the marathon – and that this is a sport in which women can beat men. But is it crazy to do it? Does it make sense to run in the expectation of becoming healthier?

My advice is: if you are under forty, healthy and feel well, you can begin as I did by jogging gently until you are out of breath, then walking, and alternating the two for about three kilometers. Build up the jogging in stages until you can do the whole distance comfortably.

(Headway Intermediate – Student’s Book. Oxford University Press. Adaptado.)

A

When I started running seven years ago, I could manage only 400 meters before I had to stop.

B

But the biggest pay-off for me was – and still is – the deep relaxation that I achieve.

C

It tires me out but I find that it does calm me down.

D

My story shows that an unfit 39-year-old can do the marathon.

E

Build up the jogging in stages until you can do the whole distance comfortably.

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UERJ 2014 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

Writers of memoirs and life stories never lack an audience. People are interested in the actual lives of others (l. 34-35)
The semantic relationship between the two sentences above can be made explicit by the additon of following connective:

A

unless

B

because

C

however

D

as though

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PUC - RJ 2014 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

The expression in bold and the item in italics convey equivalent ideas in.

A

“As they replicate themselves, they are also creating more capital.” (lines 15-16) – Although.

B

“Fortune will instead favor a third group: those who can innovate and create new products, services, and business models.” (lines 20-22) – thus.

C

“Even though labor is not fully mobile, the other factors increasingly are.” (lines 35-36) – Given that.

D

“As a result, the various components of global supply chains can move to labor’s location with little friction or cost.” (lines 36-38) – Yet.

E

“So after many manufacturing jobs moved from the United States to China, they appear to be vanishing from China as well.” (lines 73-75) – Therefore.

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PUC - RJ 2014 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words

In the fragment “But, in reality, the whole reading-asdigestion metaphor is deeply flawed.” (lines 37-38), the connector But could be replaced by.

A

Therefore.

B

Moreover.

C

Furthermore.

D

What is more.

E

However.

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PUC - RJ 2014 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words

In the fragment “But, in reality, the whole reading-asdigestion metaphor is deeply flawed.” (lines 37-38), the connector But could be replaced by

A

Therefore

B

Moreover

C

Furthermore

D

What is more

E

However

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CEDERJ 2011 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

“[…] since eBooks are useless without an eBook reader” (lines 25-26) means

Read the text again and answer questions 38, 39,
40.

A

eBooks must be used by proficient readers.

B

readers of conventional books cannot read eBooks.

C

eBooks do not depend on electricity.

D

you must have an eBook reader to read an eBook.

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CEDERJ 2011, CEDERJ 2011 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension, Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

No primeiro parágrafo, o conectivo however é usado para contrastar as seguintes ideias:

A

o eBook e o livro de papel são similares, mas um pode oferecer vantagens sobre o outro.

B

o livro de papel oferece mais vantagens do que o eBook, mas seu material é antiquado.

C

o eBook e o livro de papel são similares, mas o material do eBook é mais resistente.

D

o eBook e o livro de papel têm formatos pouco similares, mas ambos apresentam vantagens e desvantagens.

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PUC - RS 2010 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words

The gap in line 12 can be filled correctly with:

A

Also.

B

Hence.

C

Therefore

D

However.

E

Besides

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PUC - RS 2011 - Inglês - Adjetivos | Adjectives, Palavras conectivas | Connective words

A opção que indica possibilidade de substituição da palavra “random” (line 03), sem que o sentido do texto seja comprometido, é

A

specific.

B

indefinite.

C

arbitrary.

D

spontaneous.

E

deliberate.

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UFF 2008 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words

Choose the item which signals, in the second paragraph, a change of opinion concerning human intelligence.

A

even

B

more recently

C

no doubt

D

yet

E

other

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UFF 2008 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words

In the fourth paragraph, the repetition of the connective WHEN indicates:

A

denial;

B

emphasis;

C

doubt;

D

comparison;

E

reason.

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UFMT 2012, UFTM 2012 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words

No início do segundo parágrafo, a palavra nevertheless introduz

Brazil despite its economic success remains one

of the inequality champions

August 22nd, 2012

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Brazil might be the leading economy in Latin America and has had a significant performance in reducing poverty in recent years, but it still remains among the countries with the highest inequality in the region together with Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia, points out the UNHabitat report. In all four countries based on 2009 data, the Gini income per capita distribution index stood at 0.56, to which must be added Dominican Republic and Bolivia, two inequality champions with high concentration of wealth. This compares with the US and Portugal Gini indicator of 0.38, two countries that offer no relief since Portugal, for example, has the highest inequality index of the European Union.
Nevertheless, Brazil advanced compared to 1990 when it had the highest degree of inequality and stood well ahead from the rest of the continent. But the region continues to have the highest inequality rate in spite of advances in helping income distribution. Among some of the causes for distribution improvement are productivity, upward trend of salaries and workers categories, strong economy and implementation of income transfer programs in several countries, particularly in the two leading economies, Brazil and Mexico. In the case of Brazil, the country’s economy now figures sixth at global level.
Former president Lula da Silva and one of the most popular leaders in history of that country based his success precisely on the Bolsa Família Plan, which distributed a monthly basic food basket to millions, helping anywhere from 14 to 22 million climb out of poverty, plus ensuring his Workers Party an encouraging future. The Gini coefficient or index measures the inequality among values of a frequency distribution (for instance, levels of income). A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality where all values are the same (for instance, where everyone has an exactly equal income). A Gini coefficient of one (100 on the percentile scale) expresses maximal inequality among values (for instance, where only one person has all the income).

(http://en.mercopress.com. Adaptado.)

A

um contraste.

B

uma alternativa.

C

um exemplo.

D

uma consequência.

E

uma conclusão.

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UFMT 2012, UFTM 2012 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Tradução | Translation

No trecho do segundo parágrafo – But the region continues to have the highest inequality rate in spite of advances in helping income distribution. –, in spite of equivale, em português, a

A

inspirado por.

B

apesar de.

C

devido a.

D

por causa de.

E

juntamente com.

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UNIFESP 2005 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

In the sentence of the third paragraph “However, the country has been criticised by some activists who say the government has struck a deal with a major pharmaceutical company to avoid breaking the patent on the firm’s anti- Aids drugs.”, the word “however” can be substituted, without changing the meaning, for

A

Nevertheless.

B

Furthermore.

C

Inasmuch.

D

Somehow.

E

Unless.

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PUC - RJ 2011 - Inglês - Palavras conectivas | Connective words, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

The expression in bold type and the item in parentheses convey equivalent ideas in.

A

“In other words, Chinese firms view Africa similar to the way Western firms previously viewed China.” lines 13-15 (Otherwise)

B

“Hence, it is not only Chinese businesses that are looking with renewed interest in Africa’s opportunities.” lines 20-22 (Thus)

C

“Yet Chinese enterprises growing activity in Africa is also creating new opportunities.” lines 31-33 (In so far as)

D

“Moreover, many Chinese companies are not well-informed about the investment risks in Africa that are not purely business-related.” lines 84-86 (Although)

E

“Likewise, African firms can benefit from building partnerships with Chinese companies.” lines 120-121 (Alternatively)

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PUC - SP 2011 - Inglês - Sinônimos | Synonyms, Palavras conectivas | Connective words

No trecho do terceiro parágrafo do texto – children raised in authoritative households were typically psychologically healthy, whereas those raised in authoritarian ones had elevated anxiety and depression whereas pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido por:

A

then

B

than.

C

who.

D

while.

E

which.

Questõessobre Palavras conectivas | Connective words