April

There was a nice little girl which name was April.

One day, she asked her parents why she was called April. They answered that it was because she was born in April. The little girl liked her name and the month April too. Her parents made her a party, all her friends celebrated with her, and she received a lot of presents.

One day her mother became pregnant and April had a little brother. Her brother was born in February and everybody came and suggested names for the new baby.

April didn’t understand what the problem was. If the baby was born in February, the correct name should be February.

In “…One day, her mother became pregnant and April had a little brother. Her brother was born in February and everybody came and suggested names for the new baby”, all the underlined verbs are in the:

Another plane returns to Guarulhos airport

For the second day consecutive, an airplane had to return to Guarulhos airport, after being hit by birds.

The incident happened on Wednesday (27) with a Boeing 737- 800 belonging to the airline Gol _____ took off for Fortaleza. The bird entered one of the two motors, causing serious troubles. Because of the problem, the plane returned to Guarulhos almost two hours after taking off. The aircraft had to use fuel to land with less weight.

Choose the word to have the text completed:

Why I stopped mispronouncing my Igbo name

In Nigeria, the language spoken by one of the largest ethnic groups, the Igbo, is in danger of dying out – which is odd because the population is growing. In the past this didn’t worry Nkem Ifejika, who is himself Igbo but never learned the language.

When he is in Nigeria, he says his parents are Igbo. He might throw in that he partly grew up in the United Kingdom. In Britain, He says he’s Nigerian, though he often adds explainers about having been educated at British schools and lived outside Nigeria since he was 12 years old.

Nkem Ifejika can speak English, French among others. However, he can’t speak the language of his ancestors. Igbo is a tonal language, so the words with the wrong stresses and tones either change their meaning, or worse, become unintelligible. In Igboland, as it’s informally known, names have meaning and history. Nkemakonam means “may I not lack what is mine”, while Ifejika means “what I have is greater”. By mispronouncing his names, he was throwing away generation of history, and disregarding his parents’ careful choice.

His indefatigable and proudly wife, who is also Igbo, helped him out when they met. Now he knows how to pronounce his name properly, with the correct tones and with pride.

Fonte: BBC NewsWorld Service

In ‘Igbo is a tonal language, so the words with the wrong stresses and tones either change their meaning, or worse, become unintelligible.’,, it means that mispronouncing the words in Igbo can

The Antique store

Anita Jameson and Steve Weaver are antique dealers. They have a very successful business. They travel around the country buying antique furniture and paintings from flea markets, antique stores, and elderly people. Steve has just come out of a little antique store, and he seems very excited.

According to the text, we can affirm that

Bento boxes

People in offices in Japan often have a bento at lunchtime. They do not eat a meal in a restaurant; they eat a bento in the office. They regularly have a menu for the bentos in the office and they telephone a bento store with their orders. The people at bento store make the bentos and take them to all the offices at about 12p.m.

The underlined words in the text, often and regularly are closest in meaning to

Assinale a alternativa que não apresenta figura de linguagem.

A malha da figura abaixo é formada por losangos cujas diagonais medem 0,50 cm e 2,00 cm. A área hachurada é de _____cm².

No circuito abaixo, a corrente elétrica registrada pelo amperímetro A e o valor da tensão sobre R2 quando a chave SW estiver fechada valem, respectivamente:

Um garoto amarra uma das extremidades de uma corda em uma coluna fixada ao chão e resolve brincar com ela executando um movimento vertical de sobe e desce na extremidade livre da corda, em intervalos de tempos iguais, produzindo uma onda de pulsos periódicos, conforme mostrado na figura. Sabendo que a frequência da onda formada na corda é de 5,0 Hz, determine a velocidade dessa onda, em m/s.