Questõesde UECE 2010 sobre Inglês

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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text, one of the things the Swedish Academy should not do is to


A
choose a writer from remote regions.
B
call attention to unnoticed authors.
C
award the Nobel Prize to minor talents.
D
criticize unknown writers.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The period that could be considered as “The Great Style”


A
awarded many Scandinavian writers.
B
showed links with Wirsen’s era and its aspects of classicism.
C
started in 1895 and ended in the 1920’s.
D
paused for renewal during the Second World War.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

A prize-deserving serious literature should not only further people’s knowledge and their condition, but also try to


A
contribute to political integrity.
B
enrich and improve their lives.
C
discuss environmental issues.
D
give them literary masterpieces only.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The policy of pragmatic consideration


A
anticipated Faulkner’s enormous importance.
B
has not escaped worldwide criticism.
C
awarded many previously unknown authors.
D
stood apart from political implications.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

An Academy’s principle that has frequently been misunderstood is the one concerning


A
universal interest.
B
linguistic relevance.
C
contemporary renewal.
D
political integrity.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The writer who won the Prize in 1988


A
published less ostentatious literature.
B
created happy-ending stories with universal interest.
C
introduced the Arabian contemporary novel.
D
discussed relevant political issues.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

With the secretary Anders Osterling at the Academy, the so-called Laureates would be writers who could


A
be found in developed countries.
B
begin an excursion into popular preferences.
C
approach a realism similar to Tolstoy’s.
D
start a path toward new developments.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

As to criticism toward the Academy, the author of the text says that they tend not to take into account


A
some special moments in the history of mankind and also the Academy’s ambition to include minor talents.
B
all the changes it has gone through and the difficulty in choosing from too many names sometimes.
C
the hardships of war periods and the attempt to always reward all deserving authors from different parts of the world.
D
the difficulty in following exactly the same criteria over a period of more than a hundred years and the disillusion with the lack of talents recently.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The choice of Gabriel García Márquez for the Nobel in 1982 is mentioned in the text as an example of a criterion which focused on


A
unknown magic realism novelists.
B
an already widely acclaimed “pioneer” writer.
C
authors from non-European countries.
D
a new generation of modern poets.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

As to the French poet Paul Valéry, it is stated in the text that he was not awarded the Nobel Prize because of


A
an old quarrel between the French and the Swedish.
B
the fact that he was Paul Claudel’s contemporary.
C
the policy of that period which focused on popular taste.
D
his disapproving position towards the Academy.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

As to the policy adopted by the Swedish Academy during the First World War, the text states that it


A
excluded the countries involved in the conflict.
B
gave a chance to authors from the belligerent nations.
C
refused to accept nominations of Scandinavians.
D
maintained its neutrality position as it had done before.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

According to the text, the Swedish Academy is an institution that


A
has never changed over the years.
B
changes its criteria of choice every year.
C
is in a continuous process of renewal.
D
may come to change in a near future.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Tipos de advérbios | Types of adverbs, Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions

The alternative which correctly completes the sentence “We learn how to speak ………. – and ………., ………., and ………. – from good literature, and only from good literature.” is


A
correct, deep, rigourous, subtle.
B
correctly, deeply, rigorously, subtly.
C
correctness, depth, rigour, subtlety.
D
corrects, deepens, rigourous, subtle.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Tempos Verbais | Verb Tenses

The alternative which correctly completes the sentence “Without rebellion against the mediocrity and the squalor of life, we would still live in a primitive state, and history …… .” is


A
has been stopped.
B
will have stopped.
C
would have stopped.
D
would has stopped.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Tempos Verbais | Verb Tenses, Adjetivos | Adjectives

In the sentences “Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure, of course; but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are,” and “In today's world, this totalizing and living knowledge of a human being may be found only in literature.”, the -ing words reading, learning, totalizing and living play the function respectively of


A
noun, adjective, adjective, verb.
B
adjective, verb, noun, noun.
C
verb, verb, adjective, adjective.
D
verb, noun, verb, verb.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Tempos Verbais | Verb Tenses, Futuro simples | Simple future, Presente perfeito | Present perfect, Presente simples | Simple present

The extract “A community without a written literature expresses itself with less precision, with less richness of nuance, and with less clarity than a community whose principal instrument of communication, the word, has been cultivated and perfected by means of literary texts. … A person who does not read, or reads little, or reads only trash, is a person with an impediment: he can speak much but he will say little, because his vocabulary is deficient in the means for self-expression.” contains verbs in the following tenses (irrespective of the sequence)


A
simple present, present perfect passive, simple future.
B
simple present, present perfect, future perfect.
C
simple past, present perfect passive, future continuous.
D
past perfect, present perfect, simple future.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Voz Ativa e Passiva | Passive and Active Voice

In terms of voice, the verbs in these three sentences “Literary works are born, as shapeless ghosts, in the intimacy of a writer's consciousness, projected into it by the combined strength of the unconscious, and the writer's sensitivity to the world around him, and the writer's emotions…”, “literature has been relegated--like some hidden vice--to the margins of social and personal life, and transformed into something like a sectarian cult…” and “Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably appears in great literature: that men and women of all nations and places are essentially equal.” are respectively in the


A
active, passive, passive.
B
passive, passive, active.
C
active, passive, active.
D
pasive, active, passive.
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UECE 2010 - Inglês - Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

In the sentences “as readers of Cervantes, Shakespeare, Dante, and Tolstoy, we understand each other across space and time as members of the same species…” and “in the works of these writers, we learn what we share as human beings, what remains common in all of us under the broad range of differences that separate us.” one finds respectively


A
an indirect object and an object noun clause.
B
a direct object and two object noun clauses.
C
a relative clause and a subject noun clause.
D
a direct object and three subject noun clauses.