Teste Intermdio

Ingls

Parte I Compreenso da escrita

Verso 1
Durao do Teste: 50 minutos | 27.02.2014

11. Ano de Escolaridade

Escola:
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N.:

Turma:

Classificao (subtotal):
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Escreva, de forma legvel, a resposta a cada item no espao indicado no enunciado do teste.
Para cada item, apresente apenas uma resposta.
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ACTIVITY A
Items 1 to 5
You are going to read a text about youth and the use of the Internet.

Read the following text.

Youth culture: teenage kicks in the digital age

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The youth of this decade get their culture, gossip and attitudes from the Internet. They are
constantly on, constantly promoting themselves and constantly connected.
What makes them now unique is that they have a (mostly) open communication platform
at their fingertips that allows them to connect on a global scale with people going through the
same biological, psychological and social changes. So instead of creating a group identity in
the playground or at the mall, they have the potential to do it on social networks, in networked
computer games and via SMS. And those who have the means are constantly and globally
connected.
The web has become the place where young people most find their opportunity to explore
and express their identities and their social relations, and navigate their way through the values
that are on offer around them, says Sonia Livingstone, professor of social psychology at the
London School of Economics.
The greatest transformation she sees with the web compared with television, radio and
print is that the technology puts the kids in the centre as culture creators rather than culture
consumers. Not only does this upset traditional top-down marketing models but it also means
that a single youth culture is now almost impossible to pin down.
What young people are doing when they gossip and socialise on-line is intensively monitoring
what everyone else is doing and what everyone else is saying, says Livingstone. Young people
are now living in a much more anxious, self-judging way than previous childhoods.
We are in a period in which our societies are coming to grips with the new technology. In
many ways, we are experiencing a technological adolescence ourselves. Part of the process is
watching how people who have never experienced anything else push the boundaries.
www.theguardian.com (abridged and adapted)
(accessed 06.10.2013)

For items 1 and 2, choose the correct option to complete the sentence according to the text.
In your answer, write only the letter (A, B, C or D).

1. The title of this text refers to

(A) how young people now deal with technology.
(B) the explosion of youth culture on the Internet.
(C) the harassment young people suffer on the Internet.
(D) the excitement young people get out of technology.
Answer:

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2. Nowadays the Internet is

(A) influencing teens values.
(B) bringing teens happiness.
(C) a space of social conflict.
(D) a space only for teens.
Answer:

3. Identify the paragraph in which you can find each of the following ideas. Three of the paragraphs do not
apply.
Write only the paragraph numbers.
Paragraph
(A) Teens are now more than simple recipients of teen culture as they also generate it.
(B) Teens are still developing their identities, although the way they do it is no longer
the same.
(C) More than ever, teens are continuously under the scrutiny of their peers.

4. Identify the paragraph to which the following sentence might be added.

Write only the paragraph number.
Paragraph
Rather than a globally homogenized youth culture, there are lots of little connected
fragments.

5. In paragraphs 4 to 6, identify expressions of three or four words that have a similar meaning to the
following.
In your answer, write only the expressions.
a) which cannot be clearly identified
Answer:
b) beginning to understand and adapt to
Answer:
c) go further
Answer:

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ACTIVITY B
Items 6 to 10
You are going to read an excerpt of a short story.

Read the following text.

EVELINE
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SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned
against the window curtains. She was tired.
Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his
footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path
before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play
every evening with other peoples children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built
houses in it. The children of the avenue used to play together in that fieldthe Devines, the
Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters. Her father used
often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to
keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming. Still they seemed to have been rather
happy then. Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive. That was a
long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up; her mother was dead. Tizzie
Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. Now she
was going to go away like the others, to leave her home.
Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects. Perhaps she would
never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided.
Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against
the window curtain. Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing. She knew
the air. Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother,
her promise to keep the home together as long as she could.
James Joyce, Eveline, Dubliners (abridged)
www.gutenberg.org
(accessed 28.09.2013)

6. Choose the correct option according to the text.

In your answer, write only the letter (A, B, C or D).
The overall tone of the text is
(A) hopeful.
(B) nostalgic.
(C) mysterious.
(D) neutral.
Answer:

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7. Match the topics (1-4) with the corresponding headings (A or B).

Write only the numbers.

(A) Things that have changed

(B) Things that havent changed

(1) The size of her family

(2) Her house
(3) The avenue
(4) Her dreams

8. Identify 2 verbs in paragraphs 1 and 2 that are used to describe sounds.

Answer:

9. Identify what the following words refer to.

a) they (line 5)
Answer:
b) her (line 10)
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c) she (line 20)
Answer:

10. Choose the correct option according to the text.

In your answer, write only the letter (A, B, C or D).
keep nix (line 10) means
(A) complain and panic.
(B) play hide-and-seek.
(C) be on the alert.
(D) run away scared.
Answer:

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ACTIVITY C
Items 11 to 16
You are going to read an excerpt of a text about a book written by James Burke.

Read the text and choose the correct option to fill in each gap (11-16) in the text.
In your answer, write only the letter (A, B, C or D).

James Burke presents a bold vision of the future

A 21st century technology revolution will change the global culture, says James Burke, a BBC
science reporter. In the presentation of his book, Burke explored the

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possibility that

the future is not what it used to be, and society as a whole is almost entirely unprepared.
Burke says society should expect drastic change in the role universities will play over the next
hundred years. By 2060, half of todays university campuses will be replaced

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virtual

online sites, where you learn in something like a chat room no big deal for young people born into
a world of social networks, he said. Later on, youll be able to wear contact lenses, already being
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today, which will put you in a virtual classroom with all the other students, each one,

like you, an avatar.

Classes will be given by avatar professors and world-wide academic stars, with their course
enrolments and virtual

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in the hundreds of thousands.

Burke also says there will be a few online mega universities. Online courses will be flexible with
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no time constraints and students will mix and

courses from different universities to get

the teachers they want.

Higher education will be global, instant, interdisciplinary, lifelong, location and time
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, cheap and accessible to all, he said.

news.ok.ubc.ca (abridged and adapted)
(accessed 28.09.2013)

11. (A)slightest

(B)closest

(C)intriguing

(D)distinctive

Answer:

12. (A)by

(B)for

(C)from

(D)in

Answer:

13. (A)worn

(B)consumed

(C)elaborated

(D)developed

Answer:

14. (A)assistants

(B)presents

(C)attendees

(D)interests

Answer:

15. (A)adapt

(B)mingle

(C)match

(D)spread

Answer:

16. (A)related

(B)limited

(C)consuming

(D)independent

Answer:

FIM

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COTAES

Atividade A .............................................................................................................. 20 pontos

1.
2.

4 pontos

3.

6 pontos

4.

4 pontos

5.

6 pontos

Atividade B .............................................................................................................. 15 pontos

6.

3 pontos

7.

3 pontos

8.

3 pontos

9.

3 pontos

10.

3 pontos

Atividade C .............................................................................................................. 15 pontos

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12.
13.
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15 pontos

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16.

Subtotal ........................................... 50 pontos

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