Questões da prova TPS 2022 - tarde

1 Q85687
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 21, the word “fancy” could be replaced with
whim without changing the meaning of the sentence.
2 Q85688
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

Dutch paintings depicting noble and common people
alongside in the winter reflected the consciously
invented vision of how the possessing classes wished
life in the Netherlands to be.
3 Q85689
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 34, the word “allegiance” could be replaced
with loyalty without changing the meaning of the
sentence.
4 Q85690
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

The text argues that the artistic expressions associated
with Dutch culture would have been a transient
phenomenon had it not been embraced by the non-elite
Dutch people.
5 Q85691
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

The feeling that Dutch of all social conditions were
part of a common group, whose experience was
expressed by a common culture, was compromised by
the participation in war and by the burden of taxes
imposed by the Dutch government.
6 Q85692
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 9, the expression “propertied nation” refers to
the sovereignty of the Dutch nation.
7 Q85693
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

The text admits that Dutch culture, understood as
“collective ways of seeing themselves, and the world
beyond”, in lines 5 and 6, was a conscious invention.
8 Q85694
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

Although conceived by a few local intellectuals and
elite members, Dutch culture exerted an appeal over
the rest of the country because the latter saw
themselves reflected by those artistic expressions.
9 Q85695
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

As a consequence of the extreme fragmentation of
American policy-making and diplomacy, ambassadors
of the United States represent only the interests of the
federal government abroad.
10 Q85696
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

Texts of treaties agreed upon by the American chief executive in an international negotiation might come to be later rejected or modified by the Senate of the United States.
11 Q85697
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following itemas right (C) or wrong (E).

Effective diplomacy in the traditional sense assumed that commitments made through the diplomatic process would be enforced by a single center of power in the diplomat’s own country, irrespective of any resistance from other domestic authorities.
12 Q85698
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

The word “acute” (line 27) could be replaced with mutual without changing the meaning of the sentence.
13 Q85699
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES



Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,
decide whether the statement below are right (C) or
wrong (E).

In line 3, the “sending State” is the one capable of
expelling foreign diplomats from its territory.
14 Q85700
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,
decide whether the statement below are right (C) or
wrong (E).

In line 7, the expression “there are no constraints in
their contacts” means that their contacts remain
regular.
15 Q85701
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,
decide whether the statement below are right (C) or
wrong (E).

In lines 10 to 12, in the passage “this is more
straightforward when no formal breach of relations has
taken place”, “more straightforward” could be replaced
by less complex without changing the meaning of
the sentence.
16 Q85702
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,
decide whether the statement below are right (C) or
wrong (E).

In lines 2, 11, and 12, the word “breach” could not be
replaced by severance in any of the situations without
changing the meaning of the sentences.
17 Q85703
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Grammar.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,
decide whether the statement below are right (C) or
wrong (E).

In the sentence “look about the room”, in line 1, about
is used as adverb rather than a preposition.
18 Q85704
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,
decide whether the statement below are right (C) or
wrong (E).

In the statement “Videocassettes are beginning to
crowd out the books”, in line 7, one could infer that
tapes might outnumber books at some point.
19 Q85705
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,
decide whether the statement below are right (C) or
wrong (E).

In Vidal’s opinion, Joe Alsop was not likeable.
20 Q85706
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,
decide whether the statement below are right (C) or
wrong (E).

In the last paragraph, Vidal admits that, unlike himself,
Alec Guinness and Terry Southern are not nostalgic.
21 Q85707
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

Italian Renaissance decisively contributed to usher in
the age of European domination.
22 Q85708
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

Despite setbacks in handling the relations with China, the
Portuguese have been able to maintain a commercial
presence in some parts of the Chinese territory.
23 Q85709
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

The Portuguese contributed to lure invaders to
Chinese shores.
24 Q85710
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

The expansion of the trade network designed by the
Portuguese was enabled by the range of technical solutions
they offered, rather than by the nature of the products
transacted.
25 Q85711
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 15, the word “patchwork” conveys the idea of a
seamless system of regional markets.
26 Q85712
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 41, the word “foes” could be replaced with
business counterparts without changing the meaning of
the sentence.
27 Q85713
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 43, the word “appreciated” could be replaced
with enjoyed without changing the meaning of the
sentence.
28 Q85714
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the
text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 45, the expression “the lesser evil” indicates
that the Portuguese were not perceived by the Chinese
as much of a threat as were East Asian pirates.
29 Q85715
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Regarding the vocabulary of the text, decide whether the statement below is right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 12, the word “bound” could be replaced by constrained without changing the meaning of the sentence.
30 Q85716
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Regarding the vocabulary of the text, decide whether the statement below is right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 14, the word “both” is used as a pronoun for the antecedent “double business bound” (line 12).
31 Q85717
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Regarding the vocabulary of the text, decide whether the statement below is right (C) or wrong (E).

The first speaker in the text is praying only for forgiveness.
32 Q85718
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Vocabulary.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Regarding the vocabulary of the text, decide whether the statement below is right (C) or wrong (E).

The word “forestalled” in line 20 could be replaced by prevented without changing the meaning of the sentence.
33 Q85719
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Grammar.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas of the text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

In line 32, the word “might” can be correctly replaced with the modal verb could.
34 Q85720
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Grammar.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas of the text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

The phrase “And so am I revenged” in line 34 refers to an action that has been fulfilled.
35 Q85721
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas of the text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

Hamlet expresses that his father’s sins were possibly forgiven by God before he was killed.
36 Q85722
LÍNGUA INGLESA
Reading comprehension.
Ano: 2022 Banca: IADES


Considering the ideas of the text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).

Hamlet’s speech represents the soliloquy.