Questões de Inglês para Vestibular

According to the first paragraph and the graphic images, nowadays the most popular social-media platform among American adults is

O post anterior aponta

In terms of voice, the underlined verbs in the sentence “The term loanword, or borrowing, is used to refer to an item of vocabulary from one language which has been adopted into the vocabulary of another.” (lines 15-19) are respectively in the

It can be inferred from the phrase “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” that the dark dog is

Largest prime number discovered: with more than 23m digits

Known simply as M77232917, the figure is arrived at by calculating two to the power of 77,232,917 and subtracting one, leaving a gargantuan string of 23,249,425 digits. The result is nearly one million digits longer than the previous record holder discovered in January 2016. The number belongs to a rare group of so-called Mersenne prime numbers, named after the 17th century French monk Marin Mersenne. Like any prime number, a Mersenne prime is divisible only by itself and one, but is derived by multiplying twos together over and over before taking away one. The previous record-holding number was the 49th Mersenne prime ever found, making the new one the 50th.

(Adaptado de Ian Sample, “Largest prime number discovered: with more than 23m digits”. The Guardian, 04/ 01/2018.)

Considerando as informações contidas no excerto anterior, qual dos números a seguir é um primo de Mersenne?

In the sentences “Such statistics can never fully represent the diversity of experiences that speakers of the language have” (lines 71-74) and “…changes that have occurred in the populations of those who speak the language.” (lines 52-54), the underlined clauses are classified as

The cartoon means that

Touching thermal-paper receipts could extend BPA retention in the body

When people handle receipts printed on thermal paper containing the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA), the toxic chemical could linger in the body for a week or more. Jonathan W. Martin of Stockholm University and Jiaying Liu of the University of Alberta asked six male volunteers to handle paper containing isotopically labeled BPA for five minutes. The volunteers then put on nitrile gloves, wore them for two hours, removed them, and washed their hands with soap. Afterward, the researchers measured the labeled BPA and its metabolites in the volunteers’ urine regularly for two days and then once again a week later. The study only traced the isotopically labeled (deuterated) BPA and its metabolites, so any additional BPA exposure from other sources was not monitored.

(Deirdre Lockwood, Touching thermal-paper receipts could extend BPA retention in the body. Chemical & Engineering News, 04/09/2017.)

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The sentence “it is a politically charged social practice embedded in the histories of the people who use it.” (lines 100-102) contains a/an

The sentence “the nature of that engagement will determine how the languages influence one another.” (lines 58-60) contains a/an