Questões de Inglês do ano 2022

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Linguisitc prejudice is endemic in public life, widely tolerated, and institutionalized in social enterprises that affect almost everyone, such as education and the media. There is limited knowledge about and little regard forlinguistic study showing that all varieties of a language display systematicity and that the elevated social position of standard varieties has no scientific linguistic basis.

(Available in: https://www.thoughtco.com. Adapted.)

Group 1

• Think – Bath – Thigh – Thorn – Length – Aesthetic – Cloth – Thousand – Thumb

Group 2

• Those – Then – With – Although – This – Within – Therefore – They – Mother

The sound represented by the TH in Group 1 and the sound represented by the TH in Group 2 differ due to:

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(Available in: https://funnytimes.com.)

The instructions above the market cashier say, “10 items or less, exact change, no small talk, just bag your groceries and get the hell out”. Mark the item that matches text and image analysis. 

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Text 1

High-income countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have higher food spending in absolute terms, but the share of household consumption expenditures devoted to athome food is low– less than 10 percent. In Kenya and other low- -income countries, at-home food’s share of consumption expenditures can exceed 50 percent. Per capita calorie availability follows the reverse path. According to the most recent available data, U.S. per capita calorie availability was among the highest at 3,682 calories per day, while Kenya’s was estimated at only 2,206 calories.

Text 2

For a typical dollar spent in 2020 by U.S. consumers on domestically produced food, including both grocery store and eating-out purchases, 27.9 cents went to foodservice establishments such as restaurants and other eating-out places. The foodservice share of the food dollar decreased after 9 years of gains as households shifted to food-at-home consumption during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. For the remainder of the food dollar, transportation (4.1 cents) and wholesale trade (11.9 cents) rose to their highest shares reported in the series, which provides statistics back to 1993.

(Economic Research Service U.S. – Department of Agriculture.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products.)

In both of the texts the common theme is: