Questões de Inglês - ITA | Gabarito e resoluções

(ITA -1996) JUST YOUR SIGNATURE CAN OPEN A WORLD OF PRIVILEGES As an American Express Card member, you will enjoy a relationship with us that1 goes beyond the ordinary. You will be treated as a member, not a number. And youll receive the respect and recognition seldom found today. MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. 24 HOURS A DAY. You have a direct line to a ___(I)___ and ___(II)___ American Express staff member,through our 24-Hour Customer Service toll-free hotline. We dont believe your needs should have to wait just because its 2 oclock in the morning. And, ___(III)___ just call our 24-Hour Card Replacement, and well ___(IV)___ a new one in your hands usually by the end of the next business day. CARD MEMBERS ENJOY FINANCIAL FREEDOM. As a card member, you enjoy worldwide purchasing power, and the advantage of no preset spending limit. Your purchases are approved based upon the spending and payment patterns you establish, and your personal resources. And because you pay in full each month, you wont be faced with added finance charges (which are no longer fully deductible under the new tax law). A palavra because, em destaque no texto, poderia ser substituda por:

(ITA -1996) TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO: ... who are these Blur blokes who, after a shaky start, have shaken the world? And what makes them so different, so appealing as Pop Artist Richard Hamilton once asked in a collage that they doubtless studied at art school. Is it art school itself (they all attended Goldsmith) that sets apart? Are Blur the latest and ultimate example of what The Fall once dubbed Prole Art Threat? No. Blur are no mere Art School Band; far more important is the fact that theyre a Music School Band. Thats their secret. They can play. They are musicians. (Q. March, 1995) Assinale a opo cujo adjetivo possa substituir, de maneira bastante aproximada, os adjetivos different e appealing, em destaque no texto.

(ITA -1996) Up until now, Gates has largely controlled the unfolding of his remarkable story. At 39, he seems to have achieved the information ages equivalent of the American Dream. Through intelligence, ruthlessness and hard work he dominates a technology so central to modern life that it touches nearly every office, school and desktop. 1He is very, very rich and so powerful that even his enemies are eager to cut deals with him. Now he wants more, a piece of all the action - the bills people pay, the phone calls they make, the news they read, the TV they watch. But he may have reached that point in the arc of success where the very qualities that raised him high could start to drag him down. If Gates is feeling a little cranky these days, he has good reason. The U.S. Justice Department derailed his $2 billion bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken electronic check book program, a deal that ___(I)____ realize Microsofts ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction in cyberspace. Another team of U.S. government lawyers is snooping around asking questions about Microsoft Network, the new on-line service he plans to launch in August. And an antitrust suit that has been hanging over his head for nearly five years - and which he thought lie had settled last year - is in legal limbo, held hostage by an ornery federal judge. Despite the companys reputation as a juggernaut, Microsoft is running into some unexpected snags in the marketplace as well. Gates wants desperately to seize control of the so-called local area networks, where more and more corporate business is done. But ___(II)___ company is having trouble developing ___(III)___ product that can compete with Lotus Notes, which dominates the market for groupware (the software that helps people brainstorm over these networks) ___(IV)___ Novells NetWare still controls two-thirds of the market for the software that runs the office systems, despite Microsofts best efforts with Windows NT. And Microsofts SQL Server is still struggling to win customers from Oracle, which owns almost half the market for ___(V)___ critical database software that stores the corporate words most important information. O pargrafo a seguir reproduz a mesma ideia contida no (incio do segundo pargrafo). Respondendo a essa questo, voc estar tambm preenchendo a lacuna I do texto. If the U. S. Justice Department had not derailed Gates bid to acquire Intuit, the deal............ realizeMicrosofts ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction in cyberspace.

(ITA -1995) Manic, crazy and angry, murmurs Stone Gossard, running his hands through his closely cropped hair. Hes talking about early Pearl Jam gigs, and how they first tour felt. Were sitting in the back of the bands tour bus on a cool desert night in Phoenix, where the band has just finished another musically and emotionally compelling show. Its weird he muses, were getting more comfortable playing live, and were playing more consistently every night. Yet sometimes its more difficult to get in that state of mind where you can just lose yourself to the music. Its clear that Gossard and the rest of Pearl Jam no longer want to rely... anger and craziness to drive the band, On the first tour we might have lost ourselves that way, and it could have sounded like a wall of shit to some people. Now were finding a new way to groove, through getting more confident as a band. Were locking for a new balance between losing ourselves and locking in, while still being conscious of the song. A palavra yet, relacionada no texto, poderia ser substituda por:

(Ita 1995) "The defenders of Normandy were not the best of Hitler's army. Those were in Russia and Italy, as well as in France, but on the other side of the Seine, the Pas-de-Calais, which the Germans thought the more likely invasion target. Most of the soldiers of the Seventh Army in Normandy Belonged to static divisions. They were ___(I)___ too old ___(II)___ too young for the war elsewhere, or had been wounded, or were not German at all but Soviet Central Asians who preferred ___(III)___ coat ___(IV)___ in a prison camp." (extracted from Time - June 6, 1994) As lacunas III e IV devem ser preenchidas respectivamente por:

(Ita 1995) A alternativa que melhor preenche a lacuna a seguir é: You look as if you............. a monster!!! Are you all right?

(ITA 1994) Complete corretamente o texto a seguir: The pianist I told you about lives in __________(I) one-story building on Main Street. Although she isnt __________(II) professional musician, she plays __________ (III) piano extremely well.