Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2013

Wheatley’s poem To S. M., a Young African Painter, on seeing His Works showed how immoral slavery was.

Wheatley never wrote about discrimination.

Phillis is considered “an exceptional slave woman” (l.3) because she worked hard for the Wheatleys.

Phillis Wheatley was taken to Boston, Massachusetts, when she was already an adult.

Phillis Wheatley learned to read and write with the help of Mary Wheatley.

‘Pick up’ in the comic strip means make a place tidy.

Calvin did not understand his mother’s question.

It is impossible to lift a room, therefore, it is impossible to pick up a room.

Calvin thinks his mother is not sentimental.

The mother did not understand the joke.

It can be inferred that the GC group performing better than the PC group was not expected

Research and theories of comprehension are more commonly based on English as a Second Language.

The group of students that was investigated was from kindergarten.

Some aspects used as comparison between L1 and ESL speakers were word reading, word reading fluency, phonological awareness, working memory, and morphological and syntactic awareness.

The sample group was divided in three, according to the ages of their members.

to describe in a few words an investigation and its results on the cognitive and linguistic factors that have an influence on reading comprehension in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) speakers.

to detail the cognitive aspects of reading comprehension among L1 speakers and ESL speakers in the seventh grade.

to raise awareness about the importance of reading comprehension.

to comprehend a study on how comprehension depends on a variety of phonological, memory and linguistic processes.

to prove that reading comprehension is a multi-dimensional process.

All photographs were taken recently.

There were more pocketbooks and wallets than postcards.

There were not any very good photographs in the description.

There were only photographs, postcards, pocketbooks and wallets in the shop.

The shop was located in the middle of a street.