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1.
		The "way the wind blows" is ___.
	
	
	
	
	how things were
	
	
	the way things are
	
	
	how humans behave
	
	
	the way things are postponed
	
	
	how things are going to be
	
	
	
		Quest.: 2
	
		2.
		The study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language, and which can be helpful in translation studies is also known as:
	
	
	
	
	pragmatics
	
	
	semantics
	
	
	corpus linguistics
	
	
	psycholinguistics
	
	
	sociolinguistics
	
	
	
		Quest.: 3
	
		3.
		Assinale a alternativa em que todos os substantivos existem somente na forma plural (sem forma no singular):
	
	
	
	
	pencils - glasses - clothes - children
	
	
	knives - pencils - jeans - glasses
	
	
	pyjamas - police - jeans - people
	
	
	police - knives - jeans - pyjamas
	
	
	jeans - holidays - vacation - clocks
	
	
		Quest.: 4
	
		4.
		The period called THE GREAT AGE OF TRANSLATION can be said to refer to:
	
	
	
	
	The Middle Ages, when Christianity endorsed the translation of the Bible into many languages
	
	
	The Renaissance, a cultural movement which encompassed innovative flowering of Latin and vernacular literature
	
	
	The Greek Empire, due to Alexander The Great´s Conquests
	
	
	The19th Century, thanks to the Industrial Revolution
	
	
	The Roman Empire, thanks to its expansions and conquests, which demanded scholars at the time to create sophisticated materials to spread the Latin language worldwide
	
	
		Quest.: 5
	
		5.
		Sapir-Whorf´s Hypothesis basically states that:
	
	
	
	
	there are different ways with which one might break a sentence into words, and different ways to distribute functions among words, and that, depending on the translator’s choices the meanings would vary considerably
	
	
	adaptation is the best technique to be used in the task of translation
	
	
	certain ideas from a SL language cannot be understood by those who speak another language either because the structure or the semantics of the language does not have a corresponding message
	
	
	translation is an exercise of practice with a view to achieving perfection
	
	
	all languages can be perfectly translated
	
	
	
		Quest.: 6
	
		6.
		The Rosetta Stone is divided into three set of texts. Due to the information in it, a language which had been a mystery for scholar could be finally decoded. Which language was it?
	
	
	
	
	Ancient Greek
	
	
	Egyptian hieroglyphs
	
	
	Classic Latin
	
	
	Hebrew
	
	
	The Proto-Indo European
	
	
	
		Quest.: 7
	
		7.
		_____________ foi um dos primeiros linguistas a refletir sobre as contribuições da Linguística para os estudos da tradução. Em seu texto ‘On Linguistic Aspect of Translation’, ele discute questões cruciais na compreensão dos processos de tradução como sendo intralingual e interlingual, por exemplo.
	
	
	
	
	Noam Chomsky
	
	
	Leonard Bloomfield
	
	
	Ferdinand Saussure
	
	
	Roman Jakobson
	
	
	Edward Sapir
	
	
	
		Quest.: 8
	
		8.
		There are different types of translation. Choose the alternative that is an example of HUMAN TRANSLATION
	
	
	
	
	mechanical
	
	
	written-literary
	
	
	computer-assisted translation
	
	
	translation in which a computer program analyses a source text and produces a target text without any human intervention.
	
	
	machine translation
	
	
		Quest.: 9
	
		9.
		According to Roman Jakobson, intralingual translation refers to:
	
	
	
	
	the adaptation of linguistic elements considering the target language in question
	
	
	the interpretation of verbal signs by means of other signs in the same language
	
	
	the interpretation of verbal signs by means of another language
	
	
	the translation of linguistic elements word by word
	
	
	the interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of nonverbal signs systems (music or image)
	
	
	
		Quest.: 10
	
		10.
		If you are "quick on the trigger", you are quick to ___.
	
	
	
	
	quit or finish something
	
	
	sing
	
	
	sleep
	
	
	respond
	
	
	make mistakes