Inglês
Prova objetiva realizada no dia 04/07/98 das 14:00
às 18:00.
Questões
Read the text below and answer the questions that follow:
Ellen Whitford | |
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Most mornings when Angelo Chol wakes, he has no food to eat. His first-and sometimes his only-meal of the day comes at noon. Each day, Angelo, 14, eats a bowl of porridge. Some days he also gets a bit of bread. Each day is the same. Forced to flee
Four years ago, Angelo and his family were forced to flee from their home in southern Sudan.
Angelo's father escaped, but no one knows where he is-or if he's still alive. With his mother,
"When we arrived," Angelo says, "the first thing we did was build a small hut from sticks. To make
Angelo gets his noon meal-his only certain meal of the day-at the school he attends. The
At night, Angelo's family sometimes has a smaller meal of the same porridge. But unless his mother is Others starve
Yet Angelo considers his family fortunate. Every day, more people join the others in the settlements. They,
Angelo is not starving here. International relief agencies supply some food for those in the settlements
He has grown accustomed to being hungry. The gnawing stomach pains last a few days.
At first, Angelo thought about food all the time. Now, he does not like to think - or talk about - Scholastic Update, Jan. 27, 1989, p.3. |
In relation to paragraphs 1 and 2, the best alternative shows that this is a text about a boy who ...
A) is named Angelo and lives on very little food.
B) has been hungry for 14 years.
C) can only have lunch.
D) is fourteen years of age.
E) cannot stop eating.
Paragraph 3 shows that ...
A) in Sudan the tribes fight for food.
B) a civil war has destroyed Angelo's home.
C) when Angelo was ten years old, he lived in Sudan.
D) the government invaded Angelo's village, killing everybody and destroying everything.
E) Angelo's family had to escape the war because enemies took their livestock and destroyed their houses.
Nowadays, Angelo ...
A) is looking for his father.
B) is selling tea to help his family and neighbors.
C) is building a house with sticks, plastic, and cardboard.
D) and his family are living far from the war.
E) is working in a refugee town near Khartoum.
According to the text, Angelo can only have dinner when ...
A) his mother can plant some vegetables.
B) he and his mother can find a job.
C) his mother gives him some food.
D) he can find some money.
E) his mother finds a paying job.
According to the text, a suitable synonym for the word "hunger" is ...
A) anger.
B) misery.
C) famine.
D) sadness.
E) undernourishment.
The sentence "When we arrived", Angelo says, "the first thing we did was to build a small hut from sticks" (lines 12-13) is Angelo's exact words. The only alternative, which correctly reports what he says, is:
A) Angelo says that when they arrive, they will build a hut from sticks.
B) Angelo would have said that if they had arrived, they would have built a hut from sticks.
C) Angelo had said that when they arrived, the first thing they have done is to build a hut from sticks.
D) Angelo said that when they arrived, the first thing they did was to build a hut from sticks.
E) Angelo had said that when they arrived, the first thing they have done is to build a hut from sticks.
The only sentence which is similar in meaning to "He has grown accustomed to being hungry" (Line 29) is ...
A) He was used to being hungry.
B) He got used to being hungry.
C) He has been used to hunger.
D) He is used to being hungry.
E) He used to be hungry.
According to the text, Angelo eats ...
A) enough food.
B) some food.
C) very little food.
D) almost no food.
E) a little food.
"So, he must simply accept his hunger," (lines 35-36) is the same as ...
A) he should accept his hunger.
B) he has to accept his hunger.
C) he may accept his hunger.
D) he cannot accept his hunger.
E) he will accept his hunger.
From the text, we can infer that ...
A) there is no easy solution for hunger in Sudan.
B) there is a lot of help coming from other countries.
C) other countries don't seem to care about the problems in Sudan.
D) the Sudanese government is acting to relieve hunger in the country.
E) the problem is common to many countries, but the governments don't want to help the needy families.