Questões de Língua Inglesa da Fundação para o Vestibular da Universidade Estadual Paulista (VUNESP)

The pronoun that completes line 5 is

• A. it.
• B. them.
• C. its.
• D. themselves.
• E. itself.

The correct noun phrase to complete line 12 is

• A. their pupils’ sense.
• B. their pupil’s sense.
• C. their sense’s pupils.
• D. his sense of the pupils.
• E. his senses’ pupil.

Check the alternative in which … wears off …, in line 16, means the same as in

• A. I wore off my shoes after wearing them for a month.
• B. Both are trying to wear the other off after their break-up.
• C. My toothache wore off as soon as I had taken some aspirins.
• D. The heavy rains have just worn off the walls outside.
• E. He has worn off the wood on the floor to get a lighter color.

… therefore … in line 17 can be correctly replaced by

• A. whereas.
• B. while.
• C. thus far.
• D. for that reason.
• E. no matter which.

According to the passage, it is correct to conclude that

• A. younger learners are hardly ever motivated.
• B. learning English is not motivating for quite a few people.
• C. older students have more trouble with foreign language acquisition.
• D. teachers do their best to make their students learn how to learn.
• E. few pupils rely on motivation to learn a foreign language.

The verb forms that correctly complete lines 14 and 15, respectively, are

• A. is ballooning … splits
• B. had been ballooning … had split
• C. has been ballooned … have split
• D. had ballooned ... has split
• E. has ballooned … split

The only –ing form which functions as an adjective in the passage is

• A. including.
• B. alluring.
• C. studying.
• D. developing.
• E. nothing.

The verbs in which the final –ed is pronounced, respectively, as the phonemes /id/, /d/ and /t/ are

• A. danced … matched … complicated
• B. caused … allured … studied
• C. ballooned … described … called
• D. mutated … included … seemed
• E. consummated … called … linked

The verbs or nouns in which the final –s or –es is pronounced, respectively, as the phonemes /z/, /iz/ and /z/ are

• A. seems … causes … genes
• B. works … leads … sheds
• C. calls … scientists … years
• D. thirds … adults … objects
• E. relatives … birds … bees

The alternative that contains words stressed on the first syllable is

• A. genetic … rudely … human
• B. another … sometimes … condition
• C. biology … severe … linguistics
• D. marriage … difficulty … other
• E. grammar … articulation … unique