Questões de Inglês para Vestibular

cód. #9861

IF Sudeste - MG - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre

Read the article “The Olympic Games”, to answer question.


The Olympic Games

The ancient Olympic Games were originally a festival, or celebration of and for Zeus; later, events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added. The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC. They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in AD 393 as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome. The games were held every four years, or olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.

During the celebration of the games, an Olympic Truce was enacted so that athletes could travel from their cities to the games in safety. The prizes for the victors were olive leaf wreaths or crowns. The games became a political tool used by city-states to assert dominance over their rivals. Politicians would announce political alliances at the games, and in times of war, priests would offer sacrifices to the gods for victory. The games were also used to help spread Hellenistic culture throughout the Mediterranean. The Olympics also featured religious celebrations. The statue of Zeus at Olympia was counted as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Sculptors and poets would congregate each olympiad to display their works of art to would-be patrons.

The ancient Olympics had fewer events than the modern games, and only freeborn Greek men were allowed to participate, although there were victorious women chariot owners. As long as they met the entrance criteria, athletes from any Greek citystate and kingdom were allowed to participate, although the Hellanodikai, the officials in charge, allowed king Alexander I of Macedon to participate in the games only after he had proven his Greek ancestry. The games were always held at Olympia rather than moving between different locations as is the practice with the modern Olympic Games. Victors at the Olympics were honored, and their feats chronicled for future generations.


Available at:<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games> . Access on: 23 mar. 2018.


The previous text does not contain information to answer the following question:

A) Who were the Olympic Games intended to honor in their origins?

B) When did the first Olympic Games take place?

C) Why did Theodosis I decide to stop the Olympic Games?

D) When did modern Olympic Games start to take place outside the Olympia?

E) What was offered to the Olympic Games winners as rewards for their victory?

A B C D E

cód. #10117

UNIMONTES - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - 2º Etapa

INSTRUÇÃO: Leia o texto que segue para responder a questão.

How cinema stigmatises mental illness
That depictions of “madness” have been dominated by horror films is revealing of the film industry’s historic insensitivity about mental health, writes Arwa Haider. 


Fonte: HAIDER, Arwa. How cinema stigmatises mental illness. Disponível em: <http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180828-how-cinema-stigmatises-mental-illness>. Acesso em: 17 set. 2018. 

No trecho “‘The thing I liked about Maniac was that it’s about people who have their own internal struggles and are trying to fix them with a pill.’” (linhas 18-19), o pronome “them” substitui

A) people.

B) maniac.

C) pills.

D) struggles.

A B C D E

cód. #10629

PUC - SP - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre

Responda a questão de acordo com o texto de Lauren Camera.


Supreme Court Expands Rights for Students with Disabilities

By Lauren Camera, Education Reporter - March 22, 2017. Adaptado. 


In a unanimous decision with major implications for students with disabilities, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that schools must provide higher educational standards for children with special needs. Schools must do more than provide a ‘merely more than de minimis’ education for students with disabilities and instead must provide them with an opportunity to make "appropriately ambitious" progress in line with the federal education law.

“When all is said and done,” wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts, “a student offered an education program providing a ‘merely more than de minimis’ progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all.” He continued, citing a 1982 Supreme Court ruling on special education: “For children with disabilities, receiving an instruction that aims so low would be equivalent to ‘sitting idly... awaiting the time when they were old enough to drop out.’”

There are roughly 6.4 million students with disabilities between ages 3 to 21, representing roughly 13 percent of all students, according to Institute for Education Statistics. Each year 300,000 of those students leave school and just 65 percent of students with disabilities complete high school.

The case which culminated in the Supreme Court decision originated with an autistic boy in Colorado named Endrew. His parents pulled him out of school in 5th grade because they disagreed with his individualized education plan. Under federal law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), schools must work with families to develop individualized learning plans for students with disabilities.

While Endrew had been making progress in the public schools, his parents felt his plan for that year simply replicated goals from years past. As a result, they enrolled him in a private school where, they argued, Endrew made academic and social progress. 

Seeking tuition reimbursement*, they filed a complaint with the state’s department of education in which they argued that Endrew had been denied a "free appropriate public education". The school district won the suit, and when his parents filed a lawsuit in federal district court, the judge also sided with the school district. In the Supreme Court case, Endrew and his family asked for clarification about the type of education benefits the federal law requires of schools, specifically, whether it requires ‘merely more than de minimis’, or something greater.

“The IDEA demands more,” Roberts wrote in the opinion. “It requires an educational program reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances.” 

*reimbursement – a sum paid to cover money that has been spent or lost.

In:<https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-03-22/supreme-court-expands-rights-for-students-with-disabilities30.03.2018


In the fragment from paragraph 6 “the judge also sided with the school district”, the expression in bold means the same as

A) opposed.

B) supported.

C) reprimanded.

D) confronted.

A B C D E

cód. #9862

IF Sudeste - MG - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre

Read the following text to answer question.


The nature of intelligence


For many years, scientists (1) ___________ define the nature of human intelligence. However, they (2) ___________unable to agree on whether there is one kind of intelligence, or several kinds. In the early 20th century, psychologist Charles Spearman came up with the concept of 'g' or 'general intelligence'. He (3) ___________ subjects a variety of different tests and (4) ___________ that the people who performed well in the tests used one part of the brain, which he called 'g', for all the tests. More recently, research (5)___________ that this idea may well be true, as one part of the brain (the lateral prefrontal cortex) shows increased blood flow during testing. However, some scientists believe that intelligence is a matter of how much people (6) ___________rather than some ability they are born with. They believe that environment also matters.


VINCE, M. Macmillan English grammar in context. Macmillan, London. 2008. p. 22. Adapted.


Check the alternative that shows the sequence of words that CORRECTLY fill in the spaces (1-6).

A) (1) tried (2) were (3) gave (4) found (5) found (6) learned.

B) (1) have been trying (2) have been (3) gave (4) found (5) has found (6) have learned.

C) (1) have tried (2) have been (3) had given (4) had found (5) had found (6) had learned.

D) (1) has been trying (2) were (3) has given (4) has found (5) had found (6) have learned.

E) (1) tried (2) were (3) gave (4) has found (5) has found (6) learned.

A B C D E

cód. #10118

UNIMONTES - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - 2º Etapa

INSTRUÇÃO: Leia o texto que segue para responder a questão.

How cinema stigmatises mental illness
That depictions of “madness” have been dominated by horror films is revealing of the film industry’s historic insensitivity about mental health, writes Arwa Haider. 


Fonte: HAIDER, Arwa. How cinema stigmatises mental illness. Disponível em: <http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180828-how-cinema-stigmatises-mental-illness>. Acesso em: 17 set. 2018. 

De acordo com o texto, podemos afirmar que:

A) A indústria cinematográfica tende a caminhar em extremos, ou seja, entre o sensacionalismo e a sensatez.

B) De acordo com o filme recém-lançado, Mad to be Normal, RD Laing (psiquiatra) tinha ideias convencionais sobre o tratamento de doenças mentais.

C) A maneira pela qual a indústria cinematográfica tem mostrado a “loucura” não demonstra a realidade desse estado mental, de acordo com Arwa Haider.

D) RD Laing descreveu insanidade como se fosse um ajuste irracional para um mundo são.

A B C D E

cód. #10630

PUC - SP - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre

Responda a questão de acordo com o texto de Lauren Camera.


Supreme Court Expands Rights for Students with Disabilities

By Lauren Camera, Education Reporter - March 22, 2017. Adaptado. 


In a unanimous decision with major implications for students with disabilities, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that schools must provide higher educational standards for children with special needs. Schools must do more than provide a ‘merely more than de minimis’ education for students with disabilities and instead must provide them with an opportunity to make "appropriately ambitious" progress in line with the federal education law.

“When all is said and done,” wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts, “a student offered an education program providing a ‘merely more than de minimis’ progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all.” He continued, citing a 1982 Supreme Court ruling on special education: “For children with disabilities, receiving an instruction that aims so low would be equivalent to ‘sitting idly... awaiting the time when they were old enough to drop out.’”

There are roughly 6.4 million students with disabilities between ages 3 to 21, representing roughly 13 percent of all students, according to Institute for Education Statistics. Each year 300,000 of those students leave school and just 65 percent of students with disabilities complete high school.

The case which culminated in the Supreme Court decision originated with an autistic boy in Colorado named Endrew. His parents pulled him out of school in 5th grade because they disagreed with his individualized education plan. Under federal law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), schools must work with families to develop individualized learning plans for students with disabilities.

While Endrew had been making progress in the public schools, his parents felt his plan for that year simply replicated goals from years past. As a result, they enrolled him in a private school where, they argued, Endrew made academic and social progress. 

Seeking tuition reimbursement*, they filed a complaint with the state’s department of education in which they argued that Endrew had been denied a "free appropriate public education". The school district won the suit, and when his parents filed a lawsuit in federal district court, the judge also sided with the school district. In the Supreme Court case, Endrew and his family asked for clarification about the type of education benefits the federal law requires of schools, specifically, whether it requires ‘merely more than de minimis’, or something greater.

“The IDEA demands more,” Roberts wrote in the opinion. “It requires an educational program reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances.” 

*reimbursement – a sum paid to cover money that has been spent or lost.

In:<https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-03-22/supreme-court-expands-rights-for-students-with-disabilities30.03.2018


De acordo com os parágrafos 4 a 6, algumas das ações tomadas pelos pais de Endrew, em razão de sua insatisfação com a escola pública em que o filho estudava, foram:

A) verificar porque Endrew não mostrava o progresso esperado, reclamar informalmente junto à escola, solicitar o fechamento da instituição.

B) discordar do plano de estudo individualizado oferecido a Endrew, matricular o menino em uma escola particular, acompanhar cotidianamente o progresso do filho na nova escola.

C) tirar Endrew da escola, matricular o menino em uma outra escola governamental, solicitar o reembolso pelos gastos resultantes da mudança de instituições.

D) tirar Endrew da escola, matricular o menino em uma escola particular, solicitar do estado o reembolso pelos gastos com a nova escola.

A B C D E

cód. #9863

IF Sudeste - MG - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre

Read texts I and II to answer question.
TEXT I
Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare


Available at: <http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18detail.html>. Acess on: 23 mar. 2018.
Notes: Thee: you Thou art: You are temperate: constant Bud: a small part of a plant that develops into a flower the eye of heaven: the sun dimm’d: become less bright fair: beauty nature’s changing course: the passing of time thou ow'st: you possess

TEXT II Lego House Ed Sheeran

Chorus (lines 13 to 23):

Chorus (Repeat)

Chorus (Repeat)
Available at: <https://vagalume.com.br> . Acess on: 23 mar. 2018. Adapted.

All of the statements are according to the texts I and II, EXCEPT FOR the alternative:

A) In text I, the poet wanted his beloved to live forever, as shown in: “When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st” (line 12).

B) The text II explains some feelings related to love and how the poet wanted things to be better for the subject of love, as shown from “I'll pick you up...” to “...love you better now” (lines 15-18).

C) The poem mentions that “every fair from fair sometime declines” (line 7), which means that there is nothing the poet can do to make things better.

D) In text II, the lines “And it's dark in the cold December / But I've got you to keep me warm” (8 and 9) convey feelings of sadness and loneliness, but also of comfort inside if the beloved comes back to care for him.

E) Another contrast between the texts is that the poem does not mention protecting the beloved, as does the lyrics, but the poem does mention the poet’s will to make his beloved immortal.

A B C D E

cód. #10631

PUC - SP - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre

Responda a questão de acordo com o texto de Lauren Camera.


Supreme Court Expands Rights for Students with Disabilities

By Lauren Camera, Education Reporter - March 22, 2017. Adaptado. 


In a unanimous decision with major implications for students with disabilities, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that schools must provide higher educational standards for children with special needs. Schools must do more than provide a ‘merely more than de minimis’ education for students with disabilities and instead must provide them with an opportunity to make "appropriately ambitious" progress in line with the federal education law.

“When all is said and done,” wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts, “a student offered an education program providing a ‘merely more than de minimis’ progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all.” He continued, citing a 1982 Supreme Court ruling on special education: “For children with disabilities, receiving an instruction that aims so low would be equivalent to ‘sitting idly... awaiting the time when they were old enough to drop out.’”

There are roughly 6.4 million students with disabilities between ages 3 to 21, representing roughly 13 percent of all students, according to Institute for Education Statistics. Each year 300,000 of those students leave school and just 65 percent of students with disabilities complete high school.

The case which culminated in the Supreme Court decision originated with an autistic boy in Colorado named Endrew. His parents pulled him out of school in 5th grade because they disagreed with his individualized education plan. Under federal law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), schools must work with families to develop individualized learning plans for students with disabilities.

While Endrew had been making progress in the public schools, his parents felt his plan for that year simply replicated goals from years past. As a result, they enrolled him in a private school where, they argued, Endrew made academic and social progress. 

Seeking tuition reimbursement*, they filed a complaint with the state’s department of education in which they argued that Endrew had been denied a "free appropriate public education". The school district won the suit, and when his parents filed a lawsuit in federal district court, the judge also sided with the school district. In the Supreme Court case, Endrew and his family asked for clarification about the type of education benefits the federal law requires of schools, specifically, whether it requires ‘merely more than de minimis’, or something greater.

“The IDEA demands more,” Roberts wrote in the opinion. “It requires an educational program reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances.” 

*reimbursement – a sum paid to cover money that has been spent or lost.

In:<https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-03-22/supreme-court-expands-rights-for-students-with-disabilities30.03.2018


De acordo com o terceiro parágrafo, é CORRETO afirmar que, nos Estados Unidos,

A) há o elevadíssimo número de 6,4 milhões de pessoas com necessidades especiais.

B) 300,000 estudantes abandonam a escola regular todos os anos.

C) aproximadamente 13% dos alunos frequentando escola têm algum tipo de deficiência.

D) deficiências se tornam mais visíveis em crianças e jovens entre 3 e 21 anos de idade.

A B C D E

cód. #10632

PUC - SP - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre

Responda a questão de acordo com o texto de Lauren Camera.


Supreme Court Expands Rights for Students with Disabilities

By Lauren Camera, Education Reporter - March 22, 2017. Adaptado. 


In a unanimous decision with major implications for students with disabilities, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that schools must provide higher educational standards for children with special needs. Schools must do more than provide a ‘merely more than de minimis’ education for students with disabilities and instead must provide them with an opportunity to make "appropriately ambitious" progress in line with the federal education law.

“When all is said and done,” wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts, “a student offered an education program providing a ‘merely more than de minimis’ progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all.” He continued, citing a 1982 Supreme Court ruling on special education: “For children with disabilities, receiving an instruction that aims so low would be equivalent to ‘sitting idly... awaiting the time when they were old enough to drop out.’”

There are roughly 6.4 million students with disabilities between ages 3 to 21, representing roughly 13 percent of all students, according to Institute for Education Statistics. Each year 300,000 of those students leave school and just 65 percent of students with disabilities complete high school.

The case which culminated in the Supreme Court decision originated with an autistic boy in Colorado named Endrew. His parents pulled him out of school in 5th grade because they disagreed with his individualized education plan. Under federal law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), schools must work with families to develop individualized learning plans for students with disabilities.

While Endrew had been making progress in the public schools, his parents felt his plan for that year simply replicated goals from years past. As a result, they enrolled him in a private school where, they argued, Endrew made academic and social progress. 

Seeking tuition reimbursement*, they filed a complaint with the state’s department of education in which they argued that Endrew had been denied a "free appropriate public education". The school district won the suit, and when his parents filed a lawsuit in federal district court, the judge also sided with the school district. In the Supreme Court case, Endrew and his family asked for clarification about the type of education benefits the federal law requires of schools, specifically, whether it requires ‘merely more than de minimis’, or something greater.

“The IDEA demands more,” Roberts wrote in the opinion. “It requires an educational program reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances.” 

*reimbursement – a sum paid to cover money that has been spent or lost.

In:<https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-03-22/supreme-court-expands-rights-for-students-with-disabilities30.03.2018


We understand from paragraph 2 that, concerning the ‘merely more than de minimis’ education programs for the disabled, John G Roberts believes such programs

A) have been improving very little year after year, unfortunately.

B) offer too little comparing to the education these children deserve.

C) have proved a good alternative for children with special needs.

D) should be extended until children are old enough to leave school.

A B C D E

cód. #10633

PUC - SP - Inglês - 2018 - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre

Responda a questão de acordo com o texto de Lauren Camera.


Supreme Court Expands Rights for Students with Disabilities

By Lauren Camera, Education Reporter - March 22, 2017. Adaptado. 


In a unanimous decision with major implications for students with disabilities, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that schools must provide higher educational standards for children with special needs. Schools must do more than provide a ‘merely more than de minimis’ education for students with disabilities and instead must provide them with an opportunity to make "appropriately ambitious" progress in line with the federal education law.

“When all is said and done,” wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts, “a student offered an education program providing a ‘merely more than de minimis’ progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all.” He continued, citing a 1982 Supreme Court ruling on special education: “For children with disabilities, receiving an instruction that aims so low would be equivalent to ‘sitting idly... awaiting the time when they were old enough to drop out.’”

There are roughly 6.4 million students with disabilities between ages 3 to 21, representing roughly 13 percent of all students, according to Institute for Education Statistics. Each year 300,000 of those students leave school and just 65 percent of students with disabilities complete high school.

The case which culminated in the Supreme Court decision originated with an autistic boy in Colorado named Endrew. His parents pulled him out of school in 5th grade because they disagreed with his individualized education plan. Under federal law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), schools must work with families to develop individualized learning plans for students with disabilities.

While Endrew had been making progress in the public schools, his parents felt his plan for that year simply replicated goals from years past. As a result, they enrolled him in a private school where, they argued, Endrew made academic and social progress. 

Seeking tuition reimbursement*, they filed a complaint with the state’s department of education in which they argued that Endrew had been denied a "free appropriate public education". The school district won the suit, and when his parents filed a lawsuit in federal district court, the judge also sided with the school district. In the Supreme Court case, Endrew and his family asked for clarification about the type of education benefits the federal law requires of schools, specifically, whether it requires ‘merely more than de minimis’, or something greater.

“The IDEA demands more,” Roberts wrote in the opinion. “It requires an educational program reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances.” 

*reimbursement – a sum paid to cover money that has been spent or lost.

In:<https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-03-22/supreme-court-expands-rights-for-students-with-disabilities30.03.2018


No primeiro parágrafo, a palavra instead pode ser CORRETAMENTE traduzida por

A) portanto.

B) além disso.

C) ao invés disso.

D) contudo.

A B C D E

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