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The extract below describes trends in Higher Education in Brazil, according to UNESCO. Read it and choose the option
that substitutes the numbered expressions for similar ones:
"Higher education has experienced (1) very fast growth [...] in the second half of the 1990s. Growth has been
most visible in undergraduate enrolment, where the student body has (2) swelled by an extra 1.5 million students
since 2008. About (3) three quarters of undergraduates (7.3 million in 2013) are enrolled in private institutions.
[...] About (4) half of the growth in private tertiary education can be attributed to distance learning programmes, a
new trend in Brazilian higher education."
Retrieved from: https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/usr15_brazil.pdf
The second component of narratives is called orientation, a part of the text in which the reader is introduced to the
time, place and characters of the story. Mark the option that best describes the language employed in most
orientations:
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03258A NARRAÇÃO E A DESCRIÇÃO
 
1.
(1) a soar/ (2) increased/ (3) 75%/ (4) 50%
(1) a slump/ (2) increased/ (3) 25%/ (4) 50%
(1) a plummet/ (2) increased/ (3) 34%/ (4) 50%
(1) a rapid increase/ (2) decreased/ (3) 75%/ (4) 70%
(1) a rapid increase/ (2) increased/ (3) 34%/ (4) 50%
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Explicação:
The noun "soar" indicates a rapid and quick rise, and the verb "swell" is equivalent to the act of becoming higher
or increasing. Moreover, the equivalent to the amount of "three quarters" is "75%", as it represents three of the
four equal parts of a whole. Finally, "50%" of an amount is the same as "half of it" or two equal parts.
 
 
 
 
2.
It typically includes stative verbs and Past tenses.
It typically includes dynamic verbs and Past tenses.
It typically includes verbs defining a dynamic action in the future time.
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The third component of narrative chains is called the complicating action. Choose the option that best justifies the
reason why the selected fragment can be classified as part of the complicating action of hooks' narrative:
Claiming the freedom to grow as an imaginative writer was connected for me with having the courage to be open, to
be able to tell the truth of one's life as I had experienced it in writing. To talk about one's life-that I could do. To write
about it, to leave a trace-that was frightening. The longer it took me to begin the process of writing autobiography,
the further removed from those memories I was becoming. Each year, a memory seemed less and less clear. I
wanted not to lose the vividness, the recall and felt an urgent need to begin the work and complete it. Yet I could not
begin even though I had begun to confront some of the reasons I was blocked, as I am blocked just now in writing
this piece because I am afraid to express in writing the experience that served as a catalyst for that block to move.
Retrieved from: hooks, bell. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Chapter 22: Writing Autobiography.
Routledge: New York, 2015.
The graph below provides an overview of average fertility rates in Algeria throughout the years. Read it and complete
the description with the appropriate expressions:
It typically includes dynamic verbs and Present tenses.
It typically includes stative verbs and Present tenses.
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Explicação:
According to Labov (LABOV, William. The Language of Life and Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2013.), the language employed in orientations is relatively predictable and habitually includes verbs such as to be
and to have, among other "stative verbs" - that is, verbs that define a stable condition or a state of being, rather
than a dynamic action. Moreover, Past tenses - especially the Past Continuous are used. The correct alternative is
then: "It typically includes stative verbs and Past tenses".
 
 
 
 
3.
Because it focuses exclusively on hooks' evaluation of the events that marked her childhood, solely aiming at
transmitting their emotional impact to those who read her text.
Because it provides readers with important orienting information, allowing them to take a peek at hooks¿
childhood experiences and, thus, understand the narrator's longing to talk about her past and, by such means,
kill her former self.
Because it wraps up hooks' narrative, bringing it to an end with a brief description of her final decisions.
Because it provides readers with important orienting information, allowing them to take a peek at hooks'
childhood experiences and, thus, understand the narrator¿s longing to talk about her past and, by such means,
kill her former self.
Because it creates a web of cause-effect relationship, describing hooks' contradictory feelings towards openly
writing about her own story.
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Explicação:
The complicating action focuses on a series of cause-effect relationships, describing the sequence of actions that
led from the initiating event to the most reportable event. Hence, the correct answer is "Because it creates a web
of cause-effect relationship, describing hooks¿ contradictory feelings towards openly writing about her own story".
The other options refer to either the orientation (orienting information on time, place or characters), to the
evaluation (focusing on the emotional impact) or to the resolution and coda (the end of the narrative).
 
 
 
 
4.
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Retrieved from: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2017/06/27/census-2016-aboriginal-and-torres-
strait-islander-population-growing
In Algeria, women give birth to (1)_____________ of 2.535 children every year and this fertility (2)_____________
is expected to (3)_____________ .
Read the concluding paragraph of an article named "US Black population: The biggest growth is in smaller cities".
Then, choose the option which explains the writing strategy employed by the author.
"In many ways, it's a case of cultural boomerang, just as Black culture in northern cities was shaped by the
experiences migrants from the Great Migration brought from the South, Pendergrass said. 'Now we have people
moving South, and they are almost remixing it in this Southern context,' Pendergrass said."
Retrieved from: https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/us-black-population-biggest-growth-smaller-cities-
83436125
Choose the option which best justifies the verb tenses used in the following paragraph, retrieved from an expository
text about an exhibition which denounces and fights against Contemporary antisemitism.
"The need to consistently challenge anti-Semitism clearly remains, and the Wiener Holocaust Library in London¿s
forthcoming exhibition, Fighting anti-Semitism from Dreyfus to Today, is a timely examination of the wide range of
ways in which Jewish groups and others have fought against anti-Semitism in more than a century [...]."
Retrieved and adapted from: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/11/learning-from-the-past-to-efficiently-
fight-antisemitism-today
(1) an average/ (2) percentage/(3) increase.
(1) an average/ (2) rate/ (3) soar.
(1) an average/ (2) rate/ (3) decrease.
(1) the exact number of/ (2) rate/ (3) fall.
(1) approximately/ (2) estimate/ (3) plunge.
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Explicação:
This bar graph shows average or estimative proportions of birth rates in the country. In addition, both the
numbers and the reduction of the bars from left to right indicate a decreasing pattern as years pass.
 
 
 
 
 
 
03259A EXPOSIÇÃO
 
5.
There is a quote inside the final sentence of the article, corroborating the thesis exposed and the nature of the
text.
It provides a frame containing the same components of the introduction.
The paragraph calls the readers to react to the news exposed.
New information is brought to light in this concluding paragraph.
Such conclusion exposes a set of predictions regarding future migration fluxes in the US.
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Explicação:
Indeed, the last sentence of the paragraph contains a citation of an interviewee who supports the thesis. It does
not provide a frame, nor does it expose a set of predictions. What¿s more, new information should not be
presented in the concluding paragraph.
 
 
 
 
6.
The Simple Present tense employed in the verbs "remain" and "be" accounts for a factual exposition, but the
Simple Past tense would be more adequate in the verb "fight".
The Simple Present tense employed in the verbs "remain" and "be" regard actions which started in the past and
with noticeable current consequences. The Present Perfect in the verb "fight" refers to past activities in a
precise time period.
The Simple Present tense employed in the verbs "remain" and "be" accounts for a factual exposition, while the
Present Perfect in the verb "fight" refers to an action that occurred in an indefinite moment in the past.
The Simple Present Tense in the verbs "remain" and "be" account for progressive actions in the present, whilst
the Present Perfect in the verb "fight" refers to an action that occurred in an indefinite moment in the past.
The future simple should be employed in the verb "be", insofar as it refers to a future exhibition.
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Read the introduction of an expository text titled "After Fleeing Ukraine, LGBTQ Refugees Search for Safety in
Countries Hostile to Their Rights". Then, choose the option containing its textual genre, according to its observable
features.
"For Vitaly and his wife, it was the bright light that woke them up at 4:30 am on Feb. 24. Then came the crashes of
the explosions, four in a row, shaking their home in Odessa. They checked their phones and saw frantic texts from
friends panicking that Russia had launched a war on Ukraine. They each grabbed a bag, got into their car, and drove
west."
Retrieved from: https://time.com/6156672/lgbtq-ukraine-refugees-russia
Establishing a research territory is a fundamental move when writing a research paper, for it identifies the sphere of
human knowledge circumscribing any given study. Read the introductory paragraphs below:
Within the feminist movement racial conflict between white women and women of colour continues to be one area of
struggle. Often these conflicts are so overwhelming that they cause us to despair that we can ever live and work
together in social spaces that are not irrevocably tainted by politics of domination. Since energy wanes and hope
diminishes it is absolutely necessary for feminist activists to renew our commitment to political struggle and
strengthen our solidarity. This means that we must work with greater diligence to confront racism and the conflicts
that it engenders with the conviction that sustained committed struggle will lead towards a liberatory feminist
political agenda.
hooks, bell. "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Between Women". Feminist Review, n. 23, 1986.
Establishing her research territory at the very onset of her text, hooks uses her introduction to:
 
Explicação:
Indeed, the author makes factual historical claims using the verbs "remain" and "be", to be later evidenced with
data. Therefore, the Simple Present tense is adequate. Moreover, he does not clarify when the fights he
mentioned occurred, allowing for the use of a Present Perfect structure.
 
 
 
 
7.
The paragraph is indicative of a feature story, since it provides a proposition and summary of the content of the
article at the very outset.
Such narration is a typical trait of an axis problem- solution.
This paragraph is structured in a common format of inverted pyramid, exposing a set of actions which add a
human touch to data.
The extract is structured by means of a comparison among the couple and other people in contrasting
situations.
It consists of a feature story, since it intends to engage readers and foster empathy providing an exposition of
particular life experiences connected with the theme of the publication.
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Explicação:
Instead of making general expository claims, the author attempts to engage readers by introducing the particular
stories of two people who are probably not known by the projected public: Vitaly and his wife. This strategy is
common in feature stories. Therefore, the correct answer is: "It consists of a feature story, since it intends to
engage readers and foster empathy providing an exposition of particular life experiences connected with the
theme of the publication".
 
 
 
 
 
 
03260A ARGUMENTAÇÃO
 
8.
Indicate that there is a gap in the previous research.
Show that the general research area is central, interesting, and problematic.
Undermine the arguments of those who oppose academic research on feminism.
Provide a balanced account of the controversy her text aims at tackling.
Demonstrate the questions should be raised to extend previous knowledge.
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Explicação:
Authors typically establish their own research territory when 1) they show that the general research area is
central, interesting and problematic and/ or 2) when they introduce and review previous research in the area. In
this specific case, her introduction is used to: "Show that the general research area is central, interesting and
problematic".
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As you have studied, each section of an academic argumentative text has a commonly used structure. Based on your
previous knowledge, choose the most suitable option to describe the following persuasive paragraph, retrieved from
a paper about the notion of smart cities.
"Both concepts have been considered independently in the recent decades - in theoretical and applied literature - but
little attention has been paid so far to the links between them. The research approach of the paper is a combination
of literature review and observation of case studies in Europe." Retrieved from
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=114869
Choose the option that correctly identifies the topic statement of Hinsliff's conclusion:
And yet, at the not-quite-end of it all, here millions of us still are; still together, still faintly dazed by the whole
experience. But perhaps with a new understanding forged in crisis of what long-term love is all about. It¿s not all
Valentine¿s hearts and flowers, tables for two and tickets to Paris. It is absolutely about kindness, patience,
tolerance and the ability to pull together as a team in times of unexpected trouble. For love is not always love that
stays rigidly the same when circumstances around it change. Post-pandemic love is perhaps just as often the kind
that good-naturedly adapts, and is flexible enough to withstand a shock.
Adapted from HINSLIFF, Gaby. The pandemic has taught us that love can bend without breaking. Disponível em: The
pandemic has taught us all that love can bend without breaking | Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian. Acesso em: 15 fev.
2022.
 
 
 
 
9.In this paragraph the authors review previous literature and establish a niche to be occupied by their
investigation.
This extract is suitable for a section of Methodology, since it argues for the data generated by the researchers
in question.
The allusion to "case studies" was part of the literature review mentioned in the first sentence.
The structure "attention has been paid to¿" supports the prestige of published literature in the area.
The authors state the relevance of their research by arguing against the validation of the "concepts" mentioned.
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Explicação:
The structure "but little attention has been paid so far to¿" is indicative of flaws in previous works that need to be
addressed by the article, justifying its development and publication. The correct answer is then: "In this
paragraph the authors review previous literature and establish a niche to be occupied by their investigation".
 
 
 
 
10.
"Post-pandemic love is perhaps just as often the kind that good-naturedly adapts, and is flexible enough to
withstand a shock".
"For love is not always love that stays rigidly the same when circumstances around it change".
"It's not all Valentine's hearts and flowers, tables for two and tickets to Paris".
"But perhaps with a new understanding forged in crisis of what long-term love is all about".
"It is absolutely about kindness, patience, tolerance and the ability to pull together as a team in times of
unexpected trouble".
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Explicação:
The author's final remarks encapsulate her main point. Therefore, the topic statement is: "Post-pandemic love is
perhaps just as often the kind that good-naturedly adapts, and is flexible enough to withstand a shock".
Supporting paragraphs usually initiate with a topic statement, but, in this case, since it refers to the conclusion;
the statement which correctly summarizes the point of the paragraph is the last one.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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