Questões de Concurso

The text "'Simply astonishing': Experts just found a massive lost civilisation hiding in the Amazon" reports archaeological findings by combining research data, explanations of LiDAR technology, numerical estimates, and statements from a specialist. Its organization reflects particular choices related to audience, communicative purpose, and the circulation of scientific information.

Considering textual genres and language practices, mark T, for true, and F, for false.
(__)The text is structured as an academic research article because it presents findings published in Nature and includes information about the methods used by researchers.
(__)The text combines journalistic explanation, numerical evidence, and expert quotations to communicate scientific findings to a broader audience.

(__)The expressive language used in the headline transforms the text into an opinion article whose primary purpose is to defend the author's personal interpretation of the discovery.
(__)The direct quotations function mainly as examples of informal spoken English and have no relevant role in supporting or explaining the information reported.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.

The article alternates active and passive constructions according to the information being foregrounded. In the opening section, the discovery itself receives prominence before the text turns to the researchers and the methods used to obtain the evidence.

Considering verb tense, aspect, and voice in sentences from the article, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__)In "A civilisation [...] has been uncovered beneath the Amazon rainforest's dense canopy, has been uncovered" is a present perfect passive construction.
(__)In "Researchers used LIDAR", the simple past active presents researchers as the grammatical subject performing the action expressed by used.
(__)In "The findings were published in Nature", the passive construction foregrounds the findings rather than requiring the agent responsible for publication to occupy subject position.
(__)In "The survey uncovered thousands of geometric patterns", the verb uncovered is passive because the geometric patterns receive the action described in the sentence.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.

The article uses relative clauses to expand noun phrases and connect information without repeatedly naming the same referents. Consider the excerpt below and the syntactic relations established within it.

"The survey uncovered thousands of geometric patterns built into the Earth, known as geoglyphs, which take various shapes including circles and squares and appear to be connected by straight roads or pathways."

Regarding the highlighted linguistic structures, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__)The word which functions as a possessive relative pronoun and could be replaced by whose without changing the syntactic organization of the clause.
(__)The phrase by straight roads or pathways contains by introducing the element interpreted as connecting the geoglyphs in the passive construction.
(__)The relative pronoun which has geoglyphs as its antecedent and introduces information about their forms and apparent connections.
(__)In various shapes including circles and squares, including introduces examples belonging to the broader category expressed by shapes.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom. 

The article establishes temporal, causal, additive, and comparative relations through connective expressions. These relations are important because they organize the explanation of how technological limitations influenced earlier interpretations of Amazonian settlement.

Considering the connective structures used in the text, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__)In Before LIDAR technology was able to peek through the trees, before introduces a finite subordinate clause expressing temporal anteriority.
(__)In such as those bearing nuts or fruit, such as introduces examples of the tree species the researchers intend to investigate.
(__)In as well as to the locations of earthworks and ancient road networks, as well as contributes an additive relation to the description of variables whose relationships will be investigated.
(__)In than previously assumed, than introduces a causal subordinate clause explaining why researchers revised their interpretation of population density.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.

The opening sentence describes archaeological evidence as being found beneath the Amazon rainforest's "dense canopy." Later, the article explains that LiDAR sends laser pulses through gaps between trees in order to map the surface below.

In this context, "canopy" refers to: