Questões de Inglês do ENEM

The Economist, December 19th ,2009.

According to the text, the point of view of the Fowler‘s Guide is that:

Judge the statements below:

I. The sentences “There have been attempts to reform English spelling” and “She has never eaten Chinese food” are in the same verb tense.

II. The words “explains”, “differences” and “speakers” are, respectively, the plural forms of “explain”, “difference” and “speaker”.

III. The comparative form of the word “easy” is “easier” while the comparative form of the word “rational” is “more rational”.

IV. The sentences “The great American lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843) tried to create a more rational system” and “The first spelling bee was held in the USA in 1825…” are both in the past tense.

Mark the CORRECT answer:

The sentence ?If you?re in junior high, high school or even the first years of college now, you may have been too little then to have been aware of what was happening on the day itself? refers to the fact that:

Read the following text and answer the questions 87, 88, and 89.



Vocabulário
leverage: poder
belittling: depreciando, deprimindo
guise: aparência

Based on the argument presented in the text, an unconditional declaration of love is:

Read the following text and answer the questions 87, 88, and 89.



Vocabulário
leverage: poder
belittling: depreciando, deprimindo
guise: aparência

Taking into account this power relationship where one manipulates the other, which statement is related to the person who is being manipulated?

Read the following text and answer the questions 87, 88, and 89.



Vocabulário
leverage: poder
belittling: depreciando, deprimindo
guise: aparência

In the first paragraph the author supports the idea that the declaration “I love you, but...” is manipulative because it can be said with

According to Chimamanda Adichie, “The single story creates stereotypes. And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story”. Which of these statements is a stereotype about Nigeria?

Read the following extract and answer the questions 82, 83, 84, and 85.



What “single story” did Chimamanda Adichie believe in when she was a child?

Read the following extract and answer the questions 82, 83, 84, and 85.



Which narrative element does Chimamanda Adichie mention about her first stories?

Read the following extract and answer the questions 82, 83, 84, and 85.



What type of narrative did Chimamanda Adichie write when she was a child?

The questions 32 and 33 refer to TEXT II entitled
Starting a new job, by Rose Walker.







The text Starting a new job is about:

The questions 32 and 33 refer to TEXT II entitled
Starting a new job, by Rose Walker.







Read the sentences below and judge them (T) TRUE or (F) FALSE:

I. It’s not important to have a good understanding about the new company.

II. Your way of thinking will become your way of acting.

III. The first step in preparation for a new job is to let your fears go.

“They can’t put up with this any longer” means:

The questions from 26 to 29 refer to TEXT I
entitled Google Instant promises live search
results, by Maggie Shiels.

TEXT I







Choose the alternative that best completes the sentence:

According to Google, it takes _________ seconds for a typical user to do a web search.

The questions from 26 to 29 refer to TEXT I
entitled Google Instant promises live search
results, by Maggie Shiels.

TEXT I







By saying “We’ve actually been predicting what query you are likely to do and we’re giving you results for that”, Google’s vice-president means:

Leia o texto abaixo e responda às questões de 86 a 90.




Ao final do texto, a posição do autor diante do tema é

Leia o texto abaixo e responda às questões de 86 a 90.




Qual ideia depreendida do texto induz a um estilo de vida que pode acelerar o processo de esgotamento dos recursos naturais?

Read the fragment of the poem “Toada do enjeitado”.



The fragments of the poem and the song lyrics “Wouldn't It Be Loverly?” have in common the

As questões de 81 a 83 se referem aos textos abaixo.



A letra da música traz características do dialeto londrino Cockney, utilizado pela classe trabalhadora de East End: loverly em vez de lovely, 'eat em vez de heat, 'ands em vez de hands, 'ead em vez de head etc. Tais características evidenciam uma particularidade da

As questões de 81 a 83 se referem aos textos abaixo.



Based on the lyrics, we can say that the scene shows Eliza Doolittle contemplating a