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Read the following passage of “The Dinner”, by Clarice Lispector, and answer question.

“I leaned over my meal, lost. When I finally managed to confront him from the depths of my pallid face, I observed that he, too, was leaning forward, his elbows resting on the table, his head between his hands. And obviously he could bear it no longer. His bushy eyebrows were touching. His food must have lodged just below his throat under the stress of his emotion, for when he was able to continue, he made a visible effort to swallow, dabbing his forehead with his napkin. I could bear it no longer, the meat on my plate was raw… and I really could not bear it another minute. But he – he was eating.

The waiter brought a bottle in a bucket of ice. I noted every detail without being capable of discrimination. The bottle was different, the waiter in tails, and the light haloed the robust head of Pluto which was now moving with curiosity, greedy and attentive. For a second the waiter obliterated my view of the elderly gentleman and I could only see his black coattails hovering over the table as he poured red wine into the glass and waited with ardent eyes – because here was a surely man who would tip generously, one of those elderly gentlemen who still command attention… and power. The elderly gentleman, who now seemed larger, confidently took a sip, lowered his glass, and sourly considered the taste in his mouth. He compressed his lips and smacked them with distaste, as if the good were also intolerable. I waited, the waiter waited, and we both leaned forward in suspense. Finally he made a grimace of approval. The waiter curved his shiny head in submission to the man’s words of thanks and went off with lowered head, while I sighed with relief.

He now mingled gulps of wine with the meat in his great mouth and his false teeth ponderously chewed while I observed him… in vain. Nothing more happened. The restaurant appeared to radiate with renewed intensity under the tinkling of glass and cutlery; in the brightly lit dome of the room the whispered conversation rose and fell in gentle waves; the woman in the large hat smiled with half closed eyes, looking slender and beautiful as the waiter carefully poured the wine into her glass. But now he was making another gesture.”

Read the following passage of “The Dinner”, by Clarice Lispector, and answer question.

“I leaned over my meal, lost. When I finally managed to confront him from the depths of my pallid face, I observed that he, too, was leaning forward, his elbows resting on the table, his head between his hands. And obviously he could bear it no longer. His bushy eyebrows were touching. His food must have lodged just below his throat under the stress of his emotion, for when he was able to continue, he made a visible effort to swallow, dabbing his forehead with his napkin. I could bear it no longer, the meat on my plate was raw… and I really could not bear it another minute. But he – he was eating.

The waiter brought a bottle in a bucket of ice. I noted every detail without being capable of discrimination. The bottle was different, the waiter in tails, and the light haloed the robust head of Pluto which was now moving with curiosity, greedy and attentive. For a second the waiter obliterated my view of the elderly gentleman and I could only see his black coattails hovering over the table as he poured red wine into the glass and waited with ardent eyes – because here was a surely man who would tip generously, one of those elderly gentlemen who still command attention… and power. The elderly gentleman, who now seemed larger, confidently took a sip, lowered his glass, and sourly considered the taste in his mouth. He compressed his lips and smacked them with distaste, as if the good were also intolerable. I waited, the waiter waited, and we both leaned forward in suspense. Finally he made a grimace of approval. The waiter curved his shiny head in submission to the man’s words of thanks and went off with lowered head, while I sighed with relief.

He now mingled gulps of wine with the meat in his great mouth and his false teeth ponderously chewed while I observed him… in vain. Nothing more happened. The restaurant appeared to radiate with renewed intensity under the tinkling of glass and cutlery; in the brightly lit dome of the room the whispered conversation rose and fell in gentle waves; the woman in the large hat smiled with half closed eyes, looking slender and beautiful as the waiter carefully poured the wine into her glass. But now he was making another gesture.”

“And obviously he could bear it no longer”. In this sentence, the pronoun “it” refers to:

Read the following passage of “The Dinner”, by Clarice Lispector, and answer question.

“I leaned over my meal, lost. When I finally managed to confront him from the depths of my pallid face, I observed that he, too, was leaning forward, his elbows resting on the table, his head between his hands. And obviously he could bear it no longer. His bushy eyebrows were touching. His food must have lodged just below his throat under the stress of his emotion, for when he was able to continue, he made a visible effort to swallow, dabbing his forehead with his napkin. I could bear it no longer, the meat on my plate was raw… and I really could not bear it another minute. But he – he was eating.

The waiter brought a bottle in a bucket of ice. I noted every detail without being capable of discrimination. The bottle was different, the waiter in tails, and the light haloed the robust head of Pluto which was now moving with curiosity, greedy and attentive. For a second the waiter obliterated my view of the elderly gentleman and I could only see his black coattails hovering over the table as he poured red wine into the glass and waited with ardent eyes – because here was a surely man who would tip generously, one of those elderly gentlemen who still command attention… and power. The elderly gentleman, who now seemed larger, confidently took a sip, lowered his glass, and sourly considered the taste in his mouth. He compressed his lips and smacked them with distaste, as if the good were also intolerable. I waited, the waiter waited, and we both leaned forward in suspense. Finally he made a grimace of approval. The waiter curved his shiny head in submission to the man’s words of thanks and went off with lowered head, while I sighed with relief.

He now mingled gulps of wine with the meat in his great mouth and his false teeth ponderously chewed while I observed him… in vain. Nothing more happened. The restaurant appeared to radiate with renewed intensity under the tinkling of glass and cutlery; in the brightly lit dome of the room the whispered conversation rose and fell in gentle waves; the woman in the large hat smiled with half closed eyes, looking slender and beautiful as the waiter carefully poured the wine into her glass. But now he was making another gesture.”

The sentence “while I observed him… in vain” suggests that the narrator:

Read the picture story to answer the questions 81 and 82.



The picture story shows that the man

Read the picture story to answer the questions 81 and 82.



The aim of this picture story is to

Read the following text to answer the questions 83 and 84.




The text is based on the following pressuposition:

Read the following text to answer the questions 83 and 84.




In the text, it is possible to find

Which statement contradicts the myth that domestic violence only happens to poor women and women of colour?

The Newsweek magazine brings on the cover:



This traditional male is usually seen as someone who

According to the Russian novelist Boris Pasternak, “literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary”. Taking his quote into account, which comment below, from the novel The Rain Before It Falls, by Jonathan Coe, reveals something extraordinary about something ordinary?

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According to the doctor, his patient should

The following sentences were taken from the site www.livingin-canada.com. Which one is intended to per­ suade the reader to go there?

Haiku is a very important form of traditional Japanese poetry designed to convey the essence of an experience in a short format. Read the haiku below.



What inference can be made?

Read the text below to answer question 19:




According to the text:

I. Regardless of the strong security, the slum inhabitants enjoyed Obama‘s presence.

II. Despite the police pacification program, inhabitants of City of God want more attention from government.

III. Sasha and Malia refused to play with the shantytown children.

IV. The slum inhabitants‘ support for Obama is partially explained by the identification with the skin color of the American president.

V. Obama promised to improve basic services in City of God, which explained his approval amongst the local residents.

VI. The story of the occupation by cocaine gangs of City of God is not unique amongst other Rio de Janeiro‘s slums.

Mark the CORRECT answer:

In relation to the word self-restraint we can state that:

I. It is not related to self-control.

II. It stands for a person who is always thinking first of his/her own interest and needs without concern for others.

III. It can be used to refer to someone who thinks more of others‘ needs and welfare than of his/her own.

IV. It reminds people that have pity for themselves.

V. It could be related to a person who can give up things that he or she wants, in order to help or for a good purpose.

VI. It is the contrary of what is used to refer to someone who is interested only in taking personal advantage.

Mark the CORRECT answer:

Read the statements below and mark the CORRECT one according to the text:

Read the statements below and mark the CORRECT answer:

Judge the sentences according to the text:

I. Fiona is an example of someone who became ill because of a relationship breaking down.

II. In the sentence "She ended up weighing just six stone when she passed away when I was 21," the expression "passed away" can be replaced by died.

III. To the experts, the growing numbers of women developing anorexia or bulimia in adulthood is due to the fact that some women in their 40s or 50s refuse to look young like Madonna and Sharon Stone do.

IV. Bulimia and anorexia are examples of crippling conditions that threaten adults‘ health if they are under these vulnerable conditions: moving to another place, starting a new career, or seeing children become homeless people.

V. In the following extract "In one case the husband‘s parting words to her were a derogatory comment about her weight," the underlined words are used, respectively, as an object pronoun and as a possessive adjective.

According to the text, Machado de Assis

Sobre a obra Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, o texto afirma que se trata de