Questão 62 · Língua Inglesa: Vocabulário
Texto associado à questão
Text 9A4AAA
The exact nature of the relationship between language and culture has fascinated, and continues to fascinate, people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
There should be some kind of relationship between the syntax of a language and the ways in which speakers of that language experience the world. Any discussion of the relationship between language and culture, or of the various functions of the language in the culture, should begin with some attempt to define each of these terms. We may attempt a comprehensive definition of language: a language is what the members of a particular society speak. However, as we shall see, speech in almost any society can take many different forms.
What forms we should choose to discuss when we attempt to describe the language of a society may prove to be a contentious matter. Sometimes a society may be complex; that is, many speakers may use more than one language. We should also note that our definitions of language and culture are not independent: the definition of language includes in it a reference to culture.
Culture and language rely a lot on each other. In today’s society of the world, there are many cultures inside of one country. All countries have their own unique ways of life in the differences of how people are raised and their different locations. Many people migrate to other countries and feel lost at times due to this. More frequently, nations have been trying to mingle their own ways with others in America to create diversity that goes around the world.
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In text 9A4AAA, the word
- A) “Sometimes” (R.16) means once upon a time.
- B) “frequently” (R.26) is a synonymous with seldom.
- C) “ways” (R.27) means manner.
- D) “Many” (R.25) could be correctly replaced by Some.
- E) “wide” (R.3) means extremely large.
Marque a alternativa correta:
Gabarito: C
Gabarito definitivo divulgado pela banca Cebraspe (PREF/SAOLUIS 2017).
Comentário
Gabarito: C.
No texto, “ways” aparece em “the ways in which speakers of that language experience the world” e em “their own unique ways of life”. Nos dois casos ways significa “modos, maneiras” (manner), o que torna a alternativa C correta.
- A) “Sometimes” significa “às vezes” (em algumas ocasiões); once upon a time é “era uma vez”, expressão de narrativa sobre um passado distante.
- B) “frequently” significa “frequentemente”, o oposto de seldom (raramente); são antônimos, não sinônimos.
- D) “Many” indica um grande número de pessoas. Trocar por Some (“algumas”) reduz a quantidade e muda o sentido de “Many people migrate to other countries”, afirmando algo menor do que o texto diz.
- E) “wide” em “wide variety” significa “amplo, extenso, diversificado”, descrevendo a abrangência da variedade. Extremely large expressa grau extremo de tamanho, ideia que não está no texto.
Dica: em vocabulário, substitua a palavra pela alternativa no trecho original e veja se o sentido e a intensidade se mantêm.
Fundamentos: Vocabulário em contexto: significado de ways, sometimes, frequently, many, wide · Texto-base, 3º parágrafo e 4º parágrafo
Comentário gerado pela Cravei IA a partir do enunciado e do gabarito definitivo divulgado pela banca, e conferido por uma verificação automática. A IA pode errar: o gabarito oficial sempre prevalece.
Fonte: prova Cebraspe PREF/SAOLUIS 2017 (Professor Nível Superior/PNS – A – Especialidade: Língua Inglesa), questão 62, com o gabarito definitivo da banca. Comentário: Equipe Cravei · como fazemos e revisamos.