Questõesde UEM 2013 sobre Inglês

The word “myriad” (line 10) means a large number of something.

“this novel” (lines 5-6) refers to the “Library of Latin America”.

The adjectives “middle-aged” (line 7), “delightful” (line 9), “self-tormenting” (line 11) and “wry” (line 15) are describing only the character Bento Santiago.

“1900” (line 5) is the year when Dom Casmurro was launched in English by Oxford.

Choose the correct alternative, according to text.

The verbs “begins” (line 3), “is” (line 6) and “fails” (line 10) are all in the simple present tense.

all the seasons of the year are mentioned in text.

According to text, it is correct to affirm that

the narrator of the reviewed book is Bento Santiago.

the word “interests” (line 16) could be replaced by the word “investments” without changing the meaning.

the adjectives “careless” (line 1), “poor” (line 4) and “hungry” (line 8) have negative meanings.

the possessive pronoun “her” (line 14) and the relative pronoun “who” (line 18) refer to the cricket and to the ant, respectively.

the opposite of the words “careless” (line 1), “hungry” (line 8) and “refund” (line 15) are “careful”, “starving” and “reimburse”, respectively.

According to text, it is correct to affirm that

the cricket used to think carefully about her future before taking decisions.