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Articles
In exercises 1 to 10, complete the sentences with a, an,
the, where necessary.
1.___ young boy in green at ___back of
classroom is the one who plays __ piano very
well.
2--It's late. Vou should be going to ___ work.
3-- ____doctors look after ____sick.
4--He wants to be ____physician.
5--___death is inevitable but _____death
of that friend of mine shocked me terribly.
6- ____Nile is ____longest river in_____ world.
7- There is ______university in that town. It's
very famous in _____ United States.
8- He bought ___ coffee half ____ hour ago.
9- _____cup of_____hot tea will be good for you.
10. I like to have ____bread, _____butter,
cheese, _______glass of milk and _____apple
for _____breakfast. After eating all this, I can
say that I' ve had _________good breakfast.
For exercises 11 to 21, choose the correct alternative.
11. (UF Viçosa-MG) Use the appropriate article (s) to
complete the following sentence:
____Brazil is_____ big country.
a) The; a d) An; the
b) An; -e) -; a
c) -; an
12. (PUC-SP) I am _____American like any other.
a) the d) same
b) such e) so
c) an
13. (FMU-SP) On my last vacation I vislted ____
England,____ USA and _____ Bahamas..
a) no article; no article; the
b) no article; no article; no article
c) no article; the; the
d) no article; a; a
e) the; the; the
14 (FMU-SP) I took ____ exciting trip._____ trip
was to Japan.
a) a;The d) an; The
b) the; A e) a; A
c) an; A
15. (FMU-SP) _____death of____ friend of
mine made me sad.
a) A; the d) The; the
b) No article; a e) A; a
c) The; a
16 (FMU-SP)___ French and _____Italian
languages are not difficult for people who speak
____Spanish.
a) The; no article; a d) A; the; the
b) A; a; the e) The; the; the
c) The; the; no article
17 (ITA-SP) ____ coffe is the national drink
of ____Brazil. ________Coca-cola is the
national drink of_______ United States.
a) The; the;-; -d) The; the; the; the
b) -; -; -; -e) The; the; the; -
! c) -; -; -; the
18. (FMU-SP) We read___Iong article about___United
Kingdom.
a) the; a d) a;-
b) -; - e) a; the
c) -; a
19. (MACK-SP)____ flrst car I bought
was______second-hand.
a) A, - d) The; -
b) The; a e)-; a
c) A; a
20. (UnB-DF) Entering _____ university should be
exciting experience for____ young man or
woman.
a) an-an-an c) a-an-an
b) a-an-a d) an-an-a
21. (FMU-SP) The boys brought ___ewe, ___European
bird and ____milk.
a) a/a/no article
b) a/an/no article
c) an/an/a
d) an/a/no article
e) no article/an/an
For exercise 22, follow the instructions.
m (FUVEST) Transcreva colocando um artigo, sem-
pre que necessário.
In _____beginning _____religion played_______
important part in ___history of_____ Brazil.
Texto para os exercícios de 23 a 33.
1 (UECE-99) Apart from the rote miming of parrots
and many birds, no animal can speak –I- human-
like language. Many animals make complex sounds,
of course, among them dolphins and chimpanzees, but
5 only in humans -.II-objects and events in -.III- arbitrary
yet symbolic way. Though the words vary from
dialect to dialect, they have specific meanings in
each case and are solely the inventions of the
human mind.
10 Since preserving IV human voice was -V
innovation of modern times, the sounds voiced by
our distant ancestors left no tangible trace. But by
studying the size and shape of fossil hominid brains
scientists can obtain a clue to the neural machinery
15 that is necessary for the development and organization
of language.
The development of language was a slow and
laborious process that seems to have begun with
the forerunners of modern man, Homo erectus,
20 some 1.5 million years ago. Studies of the cranial
capacity of early man indicate that his brain
possessed a left hemisphere (which in modern man
is the seat of language) slightly larger than the right
hemisphere. Homo erectus also had a well-developed
25 frontal section of the brain, now known as Brocas's
area, which coordinates the muscles of the mouth
and throat that we use when we speak. Thus, early
man was not hampered by a lack of speech apparatus:
in fact, he possessed an anatomical structure capa-
30 ble of producing the entire spectrum of vocal effects
available to us today. Whether or not he actually
used it is unknown.
PENATI, Charles, The Browser's Book of Beginnings. United
States, Penguin Books, 1984, page 48
rote miming (I: 1): imitação automática
clue (I: 14): dica; pista
forerunners (I: 19): precursores
to hamper (I: 28): atrapalhar; impedir
m Choose the words that best fill blanks I and III,
respectively:
a) an; an c) a; an
b) a; a d) an; a
24- The phrase that fills blank II correctly is:
a) these sounds represent
b) do these sounds represent
c) these sounds represents
d) these sounds does represent
25- The words that best fill blanks IV and V are,
respectively:
a) a; a c) an; an
b) the; - d) the; an
26- Está dito no texto em exame que:
a) os papagaios são incapazes de imitar com perfei-
ção a voz humana.
b) muitos pássaros podem falar com a fluência dos
seres humanos.
c) certos animais irracionais desenvolvem, por si
mesmos, a capacidade de formar frases.
d) a não ser excepcionalmente, os animais não po-
dem emitir sons como as pessoas.
27- Afirma igualmente o autor:
a) golfinhos e chimpanzés emitem sons que são
qualificados como complexos.
b) as palavras não exibem variações semânticas de
dialeto para dialeto.
c) entre os seres humanos as palavras costumam
pronunciar-se de modo arbitrário.
d) os sons emitidos pela maioria dos animais repre-
sentam objetos e eventos.
28- A leitura do texto nos mostra que:
a) foi possível preservar os sons produzidos por
nossos ancestrais.
b) tem sido fundamental o estudo do tamanho e da
forma de fósseis de cérebros.
c) nos tempos modernos se logra preservar a
qualidade e sonoridade da voz humana.
d) os cientistas obtiveram o código genético dos
órgãos da fala.
29--A informação transmitida é de que o:
a) Homo erectus foi um dos precursores do ho-
mem moderno.
b) desenvolvimento da linguagem foi um processo
tão célebre quanto trabalhoso.
c) homem primitivo tinha uma capacidade crani-
ana superior à de seus descendentes.
d) precursor do homem moderno foi banido há
menos de um milhão de anos.
30--Pela leitura se conclui, em relação ao homem primi-
tivo, que:
a) embora falasse, não tinha o hábito de expressar-
se oralmente.
b) demonstrava desinteresse acentuado na comu-
nicação verbal.
c) possuía uma estrutura anatômica que jamais lhe
permitia falar.
d) não era tolhido pela ausência de mecanismos de
fala.
31-O vocábulo cuja classificação gramatical, à direita,
está CORRETA é:
a) among -advérbio
b) yet -substantivo
c) though -conjunção
d) since -adjetivo
32--"(which in modern man is the seat...)".Oinhas 22-23)
Indique a frase em que a preposição IN está em-
pregada INCORRETAMENTE:
a) In her haste, she forgot to take the parrot with her.
b) There are three animaIs in that group.
c) The scientists will obtain an answer to their
question in Monday.
d) Mr. Panati, a modern man, is now in business.
33--Em virtude da divergência semântica apresentada
em relação ao português, trata-se de um falso cog-
nato:
a) frontal c) entire
b) structure d) actually
Série 26
1. The; the; the; the
2. ----
3. -; the
4. a
5. -; the
6. The; the; the
7. a; the
8. -;an
9. A;-
10. -; -; -; a; an; -; a
11. E
12. C
13. C
14. D
15. C
16. C
17. C
18. E
19. D
20. B
21. A
22. the; -; an; the; -
23. C
24. B
25. D
26. D
27. A
28. B
29. A
30. D
31. C
32. C
33. D
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