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(Uece 2007) If I had known about his sickness, I _______ him in the hospital.

(Uece 2007) The family worried about his

(Uece 2007) I'd have gone to that party if they _______ me.

(Uece 2007) TEXTO The economic collapse of 1929 destroyed the happy, confident mood of America in the Jazz Age twenties. It was borrowed time anyway, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. Millions of Americans lost their jobs as the nation entered the Depression era. America was entering a new period of social anger and self-criticism. The writings of Dreiser, Dos Passos, Upton Sinclair and Sherwood Anderson now had a strong Leftist flavor. Instead of 1experimenting with modernist literature, most writers turned to a new kind of social realism and naturalism. It showed the struggles and tragedies of ordinary people. But it also showed their strength, their energy and their hopefulness. The 2writing itself is strong, energetic and quite easy to read. It usually gives us a clear picture of the times. In the early thirties, the first reaction to the Depression was a literature of social protest. There was a powerful Marxist Proletarian Literature movement. The main intellectual magazine of the era was the pro-Marxist Partisan Review, edited by Jewish intellectuals in New York. Michael Gold (1896-1967), editor of the Communist paper The New Masses, was a 3leading force in the movement. He wrote Jews without Money (1930) as a model for other Proletarian writers. It describes the terrible reality of his boyhood world: dirty streets and poor houses, the gangsters, prostitutes and factories with awful working conditions. Edward Dahlbergs Bottom Dogs (1930) and Jack Conroys Disinherited (1933) are similar autobiographical novels of social realism. Golds novel was also the start of the Jewish-American novel, which became an important type of literature in the fifties and sixties. Gold describes the failure of the American Dream for those who had left Europe looking for a new and better life. This soon became a main theme in Jewish-American literature. Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth, mixes Marxist and Freudian theory, Jewish mythology and a stream-of-consciousness writing style. He describes a young boy growing up in a poor area of New York. It is a world that had been created without thought of him. The novels of John OHara (1905-1970) show a similar interest in documentary realism. They are tough, realistic descriptions of the upper middle-class world. Appointment in Samarra (1934) is considered his best novel. Its fast-moving story holds the reader until the main character kills himself at the end: did society cause his death or did he die for more private reasons? In this novel and in his next, Butterfly 8 (1935), OHara creates an honest picture of twentieth century Americans. They are driven by money, sex and the struggle for a higher position in society. In 18 novels and 374 short stories, OHara recorded the changing American scene from World War I to the Vietnam War. The work of John Steinbeck (1902-1968) represents a similar attempt to get it all down on paper. In the thirties, his characters were naturalistic in the classic 4meaning of the word. We see them driven by forces in themselves and in society: fear, hunger, sex, the disasters of nature and the evils of Capitalism. Crime is often the result of these forces. Steinbeck even describes innocent murders - by Lennie, the idiot in Of Mice and Men (1937), and by a betrayed husband in The Long Valley (1938). In all of his novels, Steinbeck combines a naturalistic way of looking at things with a deep sympathy for people and the human condition. We feel that he really does love humanity. Steinbecks books search for the elements in human nature which are common to all people. He usually finds them in the family, the group and the nation, rather in the individual. In a letter of 1933, he wrote: The fascinating thing for me is the way the group has a soul, a drive, an intent... which in no way resembles the same things possessed by the men who make up that group. Like some other writers in the thirties Steinbeck often tried to paint large portraits of the national spirit. To do this, he combined myth with his naturalism. To him, 5westering (the movement to the American West) had great significance as an American myth. The old pioneer grandfather in The Long Valley says: When we saw the mountains at last, we all cried - all of us. But it wasnt getting here that mattered, it was the movement and the westering. We carried life out here and set it down the way those ants carry eggs... The westering was as big as God and the slow steps that made the movement piled and piled up until the continent was crossed. In The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Steinbecks finest novel, the characters are larger than life. He is not simply describing the experiences of a single family of individuals. He is really telling the story of a great national tragedy through the experiences of that one family. The Joads, a family of farmers, must leave Oklahoma because of the great dust bowl disaster. Terrible winds have destroyed their land. They go west into California and work as fruit pickers. There, they experience the hatred and violence of the large California landowners. Steinbecks description of this social injustice shocked the nation. In time, laws were passed to help people like the Joads. But the literary interest of the book is its descriptions of the daily heroism of ordinary people. Slowly, they learn to work together as a group, and help each other. In her thick Oklahoma accent, Ma Joad explains: Useta be the fambly was fust. It aint so now. Its anybody. This anybody comes to include all of humanity. The use of mythical elements is less successful in East of Eden (1952). It tells the story of a family from the Civil War to World War I. Here, Steinbeck uses his naturalistic style to create a modern story based on the Bible story about the brothers Cain and Abel. The book became famous as a movie, starring James Dean. In 1960, Steinbeck traveled through small-town America (US) with his dog, Charley. The book he wrote about this, Travels with Charley (1962), is filled with his own personal Transcendentalism. It is a quiet book which expresses the unity of all living creatures. In the same year, 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. HIGH, Peter B. An outline of American literature. London: Longman, 1996. The words experimenting (ref. 1), writing (ref. 2), leading (ref. 3), meaning (ref. 4) and westering (ref. 5) in the text function respectively as

(UECE- 1999) Many students 5realize that it is a privilege to attend university but a few think that university is a place for recreation. It is 1true that most campuses have many fine recreation facilities, but students who 6spend all their time watching TV or playing ping-pong or going to dances 2soon find out that their work is not satisfactory. The are usually told that it must improve or they must 7leave school. Most freshmen dont 8know how to plan their time when they first enter university. They are impressed with the large number of social activities listed in the university newspaper and the result is that they want to attend all of them. The 3older students try to warn them of the difficulties that will result, 4but they seldom believe what other people say. Later they regret what happens and they wish that they had taken the advice of the older students. How a person budgets his time is very important. Whoever wants to succeed should plan his time carefully and stick to his plan. He should allow time for play as well as for work, but not too much. (PRANINSKAS, Jean. Rapid Review of English Grammar. (Adapted). Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1959, page 207. ... soon FIND OUT that their work is not satisfactory (ref.2) Na frase anterior, v-se um two-word verb, que pode ser substitudo por:

(UECE -1999) Many students5realize that it is a privilege to attend university but a few think that university is a place for recreation. It is1true that most campuses have many fine recreation facilities, but students who6spend all their time watching TV or playing ping-pong or going to dances2soon find out that their work is not satisfactory. The are usually told that it must improve or they must7leave school. Most freshmen dont8know how to plan their time when they first enter university. They are impressed with the large number of social activities listed in the university newspaper and the result is that they want to attend all of them. The3older students try to warn them of the difficulties that will result,4but they seldom believe what other people say. Later they regret what happens and they wish that they had taken the advice of the older students. How a person budgets his time is very important. Whoever wants to succeed should plan his time carefully and stick to his plan. He should allow time for play as well as for work, but not too much. (PRANINSKAS, Jean. Rapid Review of English Grammar. (Adapted). Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1959, page 207 A classificao gramatical CORRETA est na opo:

(UECE - 1998) TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO: 1 Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death. 2 It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences. Her husbands friend Richard was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallards name leading the list of killed. He had only taken the time to assure himself of its 1truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the 2sad message. 3 She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, 3wild abandonment, in her sisters arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow. 4 There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. 5 She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, 5quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams. 6 She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain 4strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes. 7 There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air. 8 She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will - as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. 9 When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: free, free, free! (CHOPIN, Kate. The Story of an Hour. From Internet.) Em ... this thing that was approaching to possess her (par.8), emprega-se o tempo:

(UECE- 1997) TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO: Read the following passage carefully: After getting stores and various other commodities together in Mamfe, 1John and I decided to split up. John wanted to go to a village called Bakebe, some twenty-five miles from Mamfe, which he thought would be a good place for birds. I, on the other hand, wished to go to Eshobi. This village is situated north of the Cross River on the edge of a section of forest that stretches unbroken and almost uninhabited hundreds of miles northwards until 2it reaches the desolate mountains where the gorilla has its stronghold. I set about the task of obtaining carriers for the treck to Eshobi (for there was no road to it), and hiring a lorry to transport John to his village, which was, fortunately, on a road. The morning of our separation arrived and, with it, my ten carriers. John and I surveyed them as we ate breakfast under the trees on the rest house lawn. 3They were an unprepossessing lot. I shouldnt think, said John, eyeing them, that you will even reach Eshobi with that lot. At this moment, however, the barber arrived. It had been John who had suggested that I 4should get my hair cut before plunging off to Eshobi, and the suggestion was sound. As I seated myself, and the barber placed his robe reverently round me, I noticed that the carriers were dancing about, slapping themselves and cursing. I thought nothing of it until I was suddenly assailed with a series of agonizing bites on my leg, and I looked down and got my first view of a driver ant column spread out to attack. The ground was a seething black mass of ants. I roared for rescue, and two of the staff came dashing to my aid, rolled up my trousers and started to pick the ants off my legs. Just at that moment a small boy wandered on to the scene carrying two baby Drills clasped round his waist. Now I was very anxious to obtain some of these baboos, so I bargained furiously with the lad, 5and eventually bought them. He planted them both in my lap and departed hurriedly, for the ants were already investigating his legs. The Drills decided that this change of ownership did not appeal to 6them at all, and they both started to kick and scream and bite like spoilt children. The scene in the compound now beggared description: the carriers were leaping about to keep clear of the ants, our staff were trying to get the ants out of the carriers loads, I was struggling with the Drills, finding myself very much hampered by the barbers cloak, and two members of the staff were still working on ant extermination on my upper calves. The barber had not enjoyed himself so much for years: he gazed at the lively scene, occasionally exchanging a bit of good advice or an insult with one of the carriers or the staff, and absent-mindedly chopping in the general direction of my scalp. Once, when he told a carrier which load to take, the argument waxed so fierce that I expected an ear to fall in my lap at any moment. Eventually we sorted things out, and John accompanied us to the rusty suspension bridge which spanned the Cross River. On the other side was the forest and Eshobi. We stood there, watching the line of carriers make their way across, a hundred feet above the dark waters. As they reached the other side they were swallowed up in the multicolored undergrowth of the forest. When the last had disappeared, and only their voices came faintly to us, I turned to John. Well, dear boy, I said. I must brave the unknown. See you in about three months time. Good luck, said John, and, as an afterthought, youll need it I expect ... Choose the best alternative according to the text. Split up in ...John and I decided to split up... (ref. 1) means that...