Questões de Concurso

The linguistic variation of the English Language encompasses differences in use linked to region, social context, and medium of communication, including digital environments where netspeak emerges. Regarding this topic, mark T for the true statements and F for the false statements:

(__) English, as a global language, constitutes a standardized international norm, adopted uniformly in all English-speaking countries, with equivalent everyday uses among the different speech communities.

(__) Netspeak integrates abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons as resources of digital communication, configuring a register that coexists with other registers of the language in distinct contexts of use.

(__) The reflection on linguistic variation and on English as a global language, in school teaching, contributes to the recognition of the plurality of uses of the language in different social and cultural contexts.

(__) The variations of English spoken in different regions of the world configure deviations from a pure norm of British English and must be corrected in the teaching and learning process of the language.

After analysis, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom:

About the previous text, judge the following item.

The text states that current biocomputing systems are still limited in their capabilities and can perform only simple tasks.

About the previous text, judge the following item.

In the sentence "While complex network behavior is beginning to emerge even without much external stimulation, experts generally agree that current organoids are not conscious, nor close to it" (last paragraph), the connector "While" expresses contrast, and could be correctly replaced with Although.

About the previous text, judge the following item.

In the fragment "growing acceptance of technologies that blur the line between biology and machines" (second paragraph), the expression "blur the line" is used figuratively to indicate increasing integration between technological and biological systems.

About the previous text, judge the following item.

According to the text, the growing interest in biocomputing is mainly the result of a single recent scientific discovery.