Questões UECE 2010 sobre Inglês | Pratique com o Prisma

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Near the end of the nineteenth century

A

Ambrose Bierce translated Poe‟s short stories into French.

B

there was an increased interest in the supernatural, in psychic phenomena, in psychotherapy and in spiritualism.

C

Gustave Doré applied himself to Dante and Milton.

D

artists depicted the spectre of death in paint, through sculpture and woodcutting.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Among the many writers influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, the text mentions

A

Myers and Blake.

B

John Martin and Milton.

C

Bierce and Lovecraft.

D

Gustave Doré and Milton.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Among the many themes explored in horror stories, one can include

A

witchcraft, lycanthropy, and occult practices.

B

vampires, hylomancy, psychical research.

C

occult practices, betrayal and madhouses.

D

the slums, moral chaos and depravity.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The true hells in the 18th and 19th centuries were, among other things

A

illustrated in Paradise Lost.

B

celestial counterparts to the horrors of psychopathic conditions.

C

102 engravings made by William Blake.

D

slums, bedlams, gaols and asylums.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The concept of an inner hell was then considered

A

the abode of lux atra and eternal pain.

B

a psychological kind of horror and terror.

C

a horrible location in the cosmological system.

D

a place for voodoo, succubi, incubi, and poltergeists.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

For some religious groups, in the eighteenth century, the idea of hell

A

was re-created as a visitable place.

B

had an enormous influence on readers.

C

persisted as a site of lasting fire, punishment, and the devil‟s home.

D

disappeared completely from literature.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

In the sixteenth century, „hell‟ was

A

the center of attention among European writers.

B

turned into a diachronic feature of American literature.

C

displaced from its traditional location to the mind itself.

D

considered the spectre of death.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

As to the French “symbolistes”, the text says that they were

A

determined to discuss depravity and misery.

B

experimenting with different kinds of poetry.

C

translators of Baudelaire‟s tales.

D

influenced by Edgar Poe‟s tales.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Among other reasons, the horror story has been quite important in its various forms because of

A

its comic-grotesque aspect.

B

the evolution of the short story and its connections with the gothic novel.

C

diabolic possession and exorcism.

D

the ultimate pain and damnation of hell.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Many of the innermost fears and ultimate horrors of our awareness were revealed by

A

British writers.

B

writers of the Romantic period.

C

illustrators of fairy tales.

D

artists and poets of the middle ages.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

In the end of the 1500s and beginning of the 1600s horror was explored in literature mainly through

A

novels.

B

short stories.

C

plays.

D

operas.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

A fragment of a speech from Macbeth is mentioned in the text as an instance of the

A

use of horror scenes in tragedies.

B

constant use of horror in 15th c. novels.

C

rare presence of horror in comedies.

D

unusual use of horror by Marlowe.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

It is also stated in the text that currently Vargas Llosa is

A

teaching at a US University.

B

lecturing around the world.

C

teaching Cultural Studies in Lima.

D

working for Instituto Cervantes.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text, reactions to the annoucement of Vargas Llosa’s Nobel in his home country included

A

several acts of protest nationwide.

B

enthusiastic celebration by members of the Congress.

C

unfavourable comments by fellow writers.

D

an embarrasing silence on the part of authorities.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

As to the relationship between Vargas Llosa and García Márquez, the text says that they

A

once were really good friends.

B

still are each other’s best friend.

C

started a friendship in 1976.

D

never came close to becoming friends.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar and Carlos Fuentes are considered writers who

A

wrote magical realism novels.

B

always wrote politically engaged literature.

C

worried about representing their own countries only.

D

were part of the Latin American boom generation.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Among other Spanish language writers who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the text mentions

A

Julio Cortázar and Carlos Fuentes.

B

Carlos Fuentes and Alejandro Toledo.

C

García Márquez and Octavio Paz.

D

Julio Cortázar and García Márquez.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

As to the Sweedish Academy selection of Vargas Llosa, it is said that politically speaking, it

A

followed the same tendency of the last few years.

B

changed from one position to a totally different one.

C

remained as neutral as it had always been.

D

was the first time it clearly showed a certain position.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Orações Relativas e pronomes relativos | Relative clauses and relative pronouns, Pronomes | Pronouns

The sentences “No other discipline or branch of the arts can substitute for literature in crafting the language that people need to communicate.”, “Without it (literature), the critical mind, which is the real engine of historical change and the best protector of liberty, would suffer an irreparable loss.” and “…this world without literature, this nightmare that I am delineating, would have as its principal traits conformism and the universal submission of humankind to power.” contain, respectively, relative clauses of the following types

A

defining, non-defining, defining.

B

defining, defining, non-defining.

C

non-defining, defining, defining.

D

non-defining, non-defining, defining.

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

The sentences

“I will offer a few arguments in favor of the view of literature as one of the most primary and necessary undertakings of the mind, an irreplaceable activity for the formation of citizens in a modern and democratic society, a society of free individuals.”

and

"Literature has been, and will continue o be, as long as it exists, one of the common denominators of human experience through which human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other, no matter how different their professions, their life plans, their geographical and cultural locations, their personal circumstances.”

should be classified respectively as

A

compound and complex.

B

simple and compound.

C

complex and simple.

D

simple and compound-complex.

Questõesde UECE 2010 sobre Inglês

Near the end of the nineteenth century

Among the many writers influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, the text mentions

Among the many themes explored in horror stories, one can include

The true hells in the 18th and 19th centuries were, among other things

The concept of an inner hell was then considered

For some religious groups, in the eighteenth century, the idea of hell

In the sixteenth century, „hell‟ was

As to the French “symbolistes”, the text says that they were

Among other reasons, the horror story has been quite important in its various forms because of

Many of the innermost fears and ultimate horrors of our awareness were revealed by

In the end of the 1500s and beginning of the 1600s horror was explored in literature mainly through

A fragment of a speech from Macbeth is mentioned in the text as an instance of the

It is also stated in the text that currently Vargas Llosa is

According to the text, reactions to the annoucement of Vargas Llosa’s Nobel in his home country included

As to the relationship between Vargas Llosa and García Márquez, the text says that they

According to the text, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar and Carlos Fuentes are considered writers who

Among other Spanish language writers who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the text mentions

As to the Sweedish Academy selection of Vargas Llosa, it is said that politically speaking, it