1º SIMULADO GERAL - EEAR - INGLÊS

Read the text and answer questions from 1 to 4:

Best friends
1 Men and women _______ the exact same view of a best friend − a person who is
2 always there for you. Your best friend is someone you can depend on to share your
3 happiness, suffer through your worries, or lessen your sorrow. A great variety of
4 factors play into the birth of a best friendship − the age and circumstances under
5 which people meet, what first attracts them, why they remain close, and how they fill
6 each other's needs. Yet I found the dominant themes that define a best friend were
7 remarkably similar across the broadest range of experiences. Safety was a word I
8 heard over and over. A best friend is a safe harbor, a guaranteed comfort zone. You
9 never have to explain yourself to best friends because they really, really know who
10 you are. With best friends, you can be who you are. You can cry too hard or laugh
11 too loud and never worry what they'll think of you because best friends are
12 nonjudgmental.

Adapted from Strategic Reading 1 book - Cambridge

1. Based on the text we can conclude b) really know each other

that: c) have similar interests.
a) The writer talks about the qualities of a d) don’t have arguments.
best friend.
b) When friends have the same gender 3. The best alternative to complete the
they will probably have more interesting gap in the texts is:
conversations. a) sharing
c) The writer is talking about her own b) share
experience with her best friend. c) shared
d) People know their best friend will not d) to share
tell anybody their secrets.

2. About best friends, it isn’t correct to say 4. “range”, line 6, can be replaced by:
that they: a) variety
a) always help when there is a problem b) rank

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c) limit a) What
d) volume b) Whose
c) How
5. ... course do you think is the best one d) Which
of this university?

Read the text and answer questions 6 and 7:

1 It’s very hot, dry and dusty in Wyoming. The ground is very hard here - often little
2 more than solid rock. That isn’t good news for gardeners, but it’s ideal for
3 geologists and paleontologists. Back in 1872, when Professor Edward Cope
4 discovered Wyoming’s first dinosaur in the west of the state, he declared: “If you
5 want to find diamonds, you surely can find stones – and in these bones.” More than
6 a century later, in 1993, dinosaur bones were discovered at Warm Spring Ranch,
7 close to the spa town of Thermopolis. This lead to the creation of the Wyoming
8 Dinosaur Center.

Adapted from Strategic SpeakUp 256, page 38

6. According to the text, the ground in 7. Dinosaur bones were first found in
Wyoming contains: Wyoming:
a) fossils a) a century ago
b) sand b) in 1993
c) diamonds c) in the 19th century
d) wild animals d) it has not been found yet.
Read the paragraph below and answer questions from 08 to 13:

Exotic Animals – not as pets!

1 Two years ago, George Watford, vice president at the Brooklyn, New York branch of
2 the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), got a phone
3 call about a female mountain lion living in a tiny apartment. The ASPCA went to
4 check it out. "We didn't believe it," Watford said. "But when we went there, there's a
5 mountain lion sitting at the front window looking at us." Neighbors had complained
6 about the mountain lion, and the big cat's owner didn't try to stop ASPCA officials

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7 who removed it and took it to an animal preserve.
8 If you think that cramped city apartments are a poor habitat for wild animals, you are
9 right.
10 ASPCA has also recovered alligators, a leopard, and ______ other exotic pets.
11 They recover most of its exotic animals not because someone complained, but
12 because the pet’s owner needed help.
13 The cute lion or bear will eventually grow up to be a dangerous predator. “When
14 they bite, it isn’t because they hate you. It is because they are wild animals.”, said
15 Kathi Travers, ASPCA Director of Exotic Animals. She has the bite marks and scars
16 to prove it.

Adapted from Strategic Reading 1 book - Cambridge

Vocalulary: check out: verificar | grow up: crescer | to complain| reclamar

8. According to the text, all alternatives 10. Living in a cramped apartment,

are correct except: means that this place is:
a) Wild animals can be dangerous. a) spacious
b) Wild animals can behave badly in a b) crowded
home. c) disgusting
c) When ASPCA removed the lion from d) small
the apartment the animals’s owner were
very unhappy. 11. “it”, line 7, in bold in the text, refers to:
d) It is not legal to keep a wild animal in a) ASPCA officials
New York. b) the mountain lion
c) the owner
9. Based on the text we can conclude d) animal preserve
that:
a) Wild animals bite workers because 12. Choose the best alternative to fill in
they are angry. the blank:
b) Animal workers think people should not a) much
keep any animal as a pet. b) many
c) It costs a lot of money to feed wild c) little
animals. d) very
d) Wild animals will always be wild.
13. The words, underlined in the text, are:

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a) adjective – adjective - noun c) adjective – noun – noun
b) noun – adjective – verb d) verb – adjective - noun

Read the paragraph below and answer questions from 14 to 16:

Brittanica Beyond the Books
1 Today visitors to the Encyclopedia Britannica Web site see _______ they probably
2 don’t expect: big, bold photos splashed across the screen, over a whirligig of “three
3 dimensional” panel resembling business cards, linking to _______ kinds of topical
4 features, from quotations to blog posts to deep historical and scientific entries in the
encyclopedia itself.
Adapted from Speak Up 256, page 9
Vocabulário : whirligig – brinquedo gira-gira, carrossel | splashed – jogadas | to resemble –
assemelhar, lembrar

14. According to the text it isn’t correct to 15. The word in bold is an adverb, choose
say that: the alternative with the same grammar
class:
a) Bill Gates doesn't want his daughter to a) lily
spend the entire day in front of a b) reply
computer. c) silly
b) From now on, Gates' daughter will be d) poorly
able to use her computer longer that
30 minutes a day. 16. The best alternative to complete the
c) Gates' daughter has made a lot of gaps in line 1 and 3 is:
money in computer software. a) somewhere – everything
d) Gates' daughter has 45 minutes a day b) nothing – many
to use the computer. That includes the c) anything – every
time she spends doing her homework. d) something - all

Read the text and answer questions from 17 to 21:

T-shirts out; uniforms in

1 Schools uniforms are becoming __________ across the USA. That’s no surprise,
2 because they have many benefits. They instantly end the powerful social shorting and
3 labeling that come from clothing. If all students are dressed in the same way, they will
4 not be distracted by fashion competition. Some students will also not be excluded or

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5 laughed at because they wear the “wrong” clothes.
6 Some people object to the “regimentation” of school uniforms, but they do not realize
7 that students already accept a kind of regimentation – waiting to look just like their
8 friends. The difference is that the clothing students choose for _________ creates
9 social barriers; school uniforms tear those barriers down.

Adapted from Strategic Reading 1 book - Cambridge

17. According to the text is correct to say a) the least popular
that: b) less popular
a) There are many advantages to school c) the most popular
uniforms. d) more popular
b) The clothes people wear express their
creativity. 20. The expression in bold can be
c) School uniforms help students to understood as:
concentrate in their homework. a) trying to have the nicer clothes
d) Students should be allowed to wear b) having a fashion show
whatever they want to school. c) people try to do better clothes than the
others
18. The underlined verbs, in the text, are d) separating people into groups
respectively:
a) past perfect - past continuous 21. The best alternative to complete line 8
b) simple present – present continuous is:
c) present continuous – simple present a) they
d) present perfect – simple present b) themselves
c) their
19. Chose the best alternative to d) them
complete line 1:

Read the text and answer questions from 22 to 25:

American Crime
1 They say good luck is something we earn, _____ perhaps it isn’t _____ strange
2 that criminals sometimes have really bad luck, especially in the USA. Here is a
3 remarkable example:
4 In December a man stole a lady’s purse in a supermarket in Lewiston Idaho, but
5 he didn’t notice the store’s cameras. The police published a photograph of the

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6 criminal on the front page of the local newspaper, The Lewiston Tribune. On the
7 same day – and on the same page! – local sign painter Michael Millhouse
8 appeared in a photograph for an article about Christmas decorations. A newspaper
9 employee noticed that the criminal and sign painter were the same man and
10 contacted the police. .

Adapted from Speak Up 256, page 8

22. According to the text:

a) Lewiston Tribune was a Christmas decorator.

b) A newspaper employee was in the store when the robbery happened.
c) The lady who was stolen didn’t notice the cameras.
d) There was a coincidence; the criminal’s photo was posted twice in the newspaper in
the same place, but talking about different topics.

23. In “painter” (line 7), the suffix “-er” has the same function local newspaper was in the
store as the one in:
a) kinder
b) finger
c) fighter
d) earlier

24. The words in bold have “’s”, it can be replaced by:

a) has - was
b) is – has
c) it is the possessive case in both cases
d) was – was

25. The best alternative to complete line 1, respectively is:

a) however - too
b) so - so
c) unless – very
d) because of – moreover