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PUC - Campinas 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Machiavellianism" is a ...... used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described in The Prince. The book itself gained enormous notoriety and wide readership because most readers assumed the author was teaching and endorsing evil and immoral behavior. Because of this, the term "Machiavellian" is often associated with deceit, deviousness, ambition, and brutality. However that was Machiavelli's stylistic device to gain the reader's attention for his close analysis of the actual techniques used by rulers.

(Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3% B2_Machiavelli)

Machiavelli’s actual purpose in writing The Prince was to

A
denounce the immoral behavior of rulers.
B
provide a biography of that ruler.
C
show that all politicians are deceived.
D
make his readers aware that not all politicians are unscrupulous.
E
disseminate the techniques the prince made use of.
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PUC - Campinas 2015 - Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

Machiavellianism" is a ...... used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described in The Prince. The book itself gained enormous notoriety and wide readership because most readers assumed the author was teaching and endorsing evil and immoral behavior. Because of this, the term "Machiavellian" is often associated with deceit, deviousness, ambition, and brutality. However that was Machiavelli's stylistic device to gain the reader's attention for his close analysis of the actual techniques used by rulers.

(Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3% B2_Machiavelli)

The word that correctly fills in the blank is

A
hardly.
B
widely.
C
rarely
D
wrongly.
E
likely.
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PUC - Campinas 2015 - Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The following sentences use the words ‘vocation’ and ‘talent’. In which of them does the word combine with an area that is not mentioned in the main text:


A
She thought she might have a religious vocation.
B
Natural talent isn't going to carry me as far as I'd hoped in politics.
C
He's a natural talent, with a gorgeous voice and a great stage presence.
D
It's funny to find your true vocation for medicine after all these years.
E
Writing was a fairly new vocation for him.
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PUC - Campinas 2015 - Inglês - Tradução | Translation

Toda criança ouve essa pergunta dezenas de vezes.

A versão, em inglês, mais adequada é:


A
Every child hears that question dozens of times.
B
Each child listens to this question ten times.
C
All children listen this question many many times.
D
All child hears that question tens of times.
E
Every child listens to that question a dozen times.
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PUC - Campinas 2015 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text,


A
the inventor of the atomic bomb was fully aware of its dramatic consequences.
B
had Drummond not become a poet he would have been a successful pharmacist.
C
Machiavelli wrote about a prince because he was from a royal family himself.
D
D. Pedro II pretended to love literature more than being a monarch.
E
besides being a writer, Graciliano Ramos was also a mayor.