Questõesde UNB 2010 sobre Inglês

Infants begin smiling very early in life.

Laughter unites people.

Laughing is solely a pause for relaxation from pains one may suffer.

As the world is increasingly shrinking due to the complex interaction among people from cultures across the world, differences involving conceptions about death are becoming less significant.

Cultural variations in conceptions of death have profound implications for how people act in life, how they approach death and dying, whether or not they fear death, and for their funeral and bereavement practices.

The knowledge of what man is in his real nature is what explains his desire to live.

The word “straightforward” in the fragment “This appears straightforward enough” (L.31) is synonymous with clear-cut.

The actual meaning and conceptualization of death differ widely across cultures.

Irrespective of how death is defined in each culture, all of them understand it as a total cessation of life.

For the majority of people in the world, death involves different conditions such as sleep, illness and age.

Jander’s study investigated six species overall.

What is the teacher saying to the pupil? Choose the most appropriate sentence in accordance with the picture.

In the first paragraph, “developing young” (L.3) and “offspring” (L.4) refer basically to the same idea.

The absence of contractions, such as in “wasps do not always pollinate the fig” (L.3-4), is one of the features which characterize this text as colloquial.

Even though the fig tree and the wasp belong to different natural kingdoms, they cooperate in each other’s reproductive cycle.

There is not much the fig tree can do against wasps if they do not perform their role as pollinators.

Among the animals that contribute substantially to the dispersion of the fruit of the fig tree, one can list a bat that can only be found in the Pantanal of south-western Brazil, and a bird that inhabits the plains of Patagonia, in southern Argentina.

The ecological relation between the wasp and the fig tree which is referred to in the text can be described as mutualism and reduces the genetic variability in fig tree populations.

The relation between fig trees and wasps bears similarities with that between members of society and its laws.

The central theme of the text is the need for each of the parties involved in a given relationship to perform its role.