English
Vestibulares
2012 – Centro-Oeste
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Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG) – 2012
Leia o texto que segue. As questões 1 e 2 referem-se a ele.
DIGITAL LITERACY
The concept of digital literacy, as the term is now generally used, was introduced
by Paul Gilster, in his 1997 book of the same name. The term itself had been used
during the previous decade, though with a more restricted meaning – the ability
to deal with hypertextual information. Gilster’s idea was much broader, and did
not involve the enumeration of lists of particular skills, competences or attitudes
defining what it is to be digitally literate. Rather, he explained the concept quite
generally, as an ability to understand and to use information from a variety of digital
sources, and regarded it simply as literacy in the digital age. It is therefore the
current form of the traditional idea of literacy per se; the ability to read, write and
otherwise deal with information using the technologies and formats of the time. In an
‘information society’ and a ‘knowledge economy’, it is plainly an essential life skill.
This generic expression of the idea, although it has irritated some commentators, is
one of the strengths of Gilster’s concept, allowing it to be applied without concern
for the sometimes restrictive ‘competence lists’ which have afflicted some other
descriptions of the literacies of information.
Disponível em: <http://www.scitopics.com/Digital_Literacy.html>. Acesso em: 19 ago. 2011. (Adaptado).
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De acordo com o texto, o conceito de letramento digital introduzido por Paul Gilster é
a) explicitado a partir de listas de habilidades, competências e atitudes específicas, embora
estas sejam consideradas restritivas pelo autor.
b) uma contraposição à ideia tradicional de letramento, a qual não leva em consideração o uso
de tecnologias contemporâneas no acesso à informação.
c) um termo genérico que se refere à habilidade de se compreender e usar a informação
veiculada por diferentes fontes digitais.
d) usado esporadicamente, nos dias atuais, por alguns autores, com o sentido de favorecer a
habilidade em se lidar com informação hipertextual.
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Considerando-se os aspectos estruturais do texto,
a) a sentença The term itself had been used during the previous decade, na voz ativa, seria:
“They have been using the term itself during the previous decade”.
b) na sentença he explained the concept quite generally, o termo quite é empregado com o
sentido equivalente ao termo “quase”.
c) na sequência although it has irritated some commentators, o termo em destaque expressa
concordância com a ideia que será expressa posteriormente.
d) o oposto da afirmação presente na sentença Gilster’s idea was much broader seria: “Gilster’s
idea was much narrower”.
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Leia o texto abaixo.
Figure 3.2: Digital leteracies include a number of abilities that extend
notions of (a) screen reading and internet surfing (reading)
and (b) texting, keyboarding, and mailing (writing)
Digital Literacies include ability to...
use ICT tools to create
and share information
search, sift, scan
and sort information
navigate throught
screens of information
locate and evaluate
information
screen read, surf internet
and text, keyboard, mail
use ICT to research
and solve problems
make multimedia
presentations
retrieve, organize,
manage and create
information
send and receive
messages
Disponível em: <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_duQx7gT08y0/TKH5JewoPsI/AAAAAAAAAhs/sucACM3p91Y/s400/
EsquemaUNESCo.bmp>. Acesso em: 19 ago. 2011.
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Conforme o conteúdo do texto, letramento digital pressupõe a habilidade de
a) apply technological tools to express ideas and discuss different points of view.
b) interpret correctly the content of hypertexts and be able to reproduce their ideas.
c) select information and exchange messages through the use of digital sources.
d) use multimedia with the purpose of disseminating knowledge and beliefs.
Analise o cartum para responder às questões 4 e 5.
Disponível em: <http://www.creativityatwork.com/images-media/Diagrams-logos/digi1image001.png>.
Acesso em: 22 ago. 2011.
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4 Analisando-se a relação entre o conteúdo verbal e não verbal do cartum, chega-se à
conclusão de que
a) the boy wants to learn how to download some data to his computer.
b) the woman is trying to explain to the boy how babies are given birth to.
c) the woman is clearing up the boy’s doubts about how he came to the world.
d) the woman and the boy are talking about technological changes in their lives.
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Em relação à fala da mulher, observa-se que
a) as orações encontram-se respectivamente na voz passiva negativa e afirmativa.
b) o contrário da afirmação seria: “Yes, you were downloaded. You were born”.
c) se refere a uma ação iniciada no passado e que se estende até o presente.
d) se trata de uma resposta à pergunta do garoto: “How are people downloaded?”
Leia o cartum abaixo.
Disponível em: <http://www.waynebarry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/digital-natives.gif>.
Acesso em: 22 ago. 2011.
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Analisando-se o cartum, conclui-se que
a) a fala da professora reforça a mensagem transmitida pelo cartaz que se encontra fixado ao
lado da lousa.
b) a professora apresenta ao aluno uma lousa digital, o que lhe causa espanto por tratar-se de
uma novidade para ele.
c) o conteúdo texto faz uma critica ao descompasso entre o contexto escolar e a realidade
dos alunos, considerados nativos digitais.
d) os papéis tradicionais dos personagens encontram-se invertidos, visto que a professora
está aprendendo com seu aluno.
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Read the comic graph.
Disponível em: <http://www.google.com.br/search?q=comic+graphs&hl=pt-BR&sa=G&rlz=1R2ACAW_ptBRBR445
&biw=819&bih=337&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=qxNlTuaVBanA0AGS3f2mCw&ved=0CC4QsAQ.
Acesso em: 5 set. 2011.
81 According to the graph, when people say “I’m fine”,
a) most of them mean what they say.
b) very few of them feel really happy.
c) more than 40% of them are thrilling.
d) all of them must be very bored.
e) half of them is asking for help.
Read the text and answer the questions 82 and 83.
Slavoj Žižek: the world’s hippest philosopher
Slavoj Žižek has got an opinion on every subject from decaffeinated coffee to
sex, from seagulls and swearing to the end of the world. He talks to Helen Brown.
Žižek dismisses those who dub him “The Elvis of Philosophy” with a brisk: “To
the gulag! All of them!”. “It is too traumatic for me to see myself. Whenever I see
such a thing, my reaction is to ask: ‘Would a woman allow me to take her daughter
to the cinema?’ My God! Of course not! I don’t want to deal with myself. I don’t
want to exist. I just want to think.”
But whether he wanted to or not, Slavoj Žižek came into independent existence in
March 1949, in the then-Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. His father was an economist
and civil servant and his mother was an accountant.
“My life is straightforward,” he says. “Nothing happened. At 15, I wanted to be
a movie director. But I saw some really good European films and I accepted that I
couldn’t do that. Then, at 17, I decided to become a philosopher.”
BROWN, Helen. Slavoj Zizek: the world’s hippest philosopher. Disponível em:<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
culture/books/authorinterviews/7871302/Slavoj-Zizek-the worlds-hippest-philosopher.html>. Acesso em: 12 set. 2011.
[Excerpt]. [Adapted].
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Glossary:
hippest: mais famoso
gulag: agência do governo da União Soviética responsável pelos principais
instrumentos de repressão política.
82 Though Žižek has an opinion on every subject, he does not want to think about
a) life.
b) love.
c) himself.
d) women.
e) family.
83 Which sentence concerns Žižek?
a) He disregards he is a famous philosopher.
b) He dislikes the country where he was born.
c) He believes his parents influenced him.
d) He has good memories of his childhood.
e) He considers becoming a movie director.
84 Read the excerpt.
A guide for new fathers
Being a new dad is overwhelming, confusing, intimidating and tiring, but also
amazing and really cool.
That’s the message fathers are sharing with fathers on a new website designed
as a “manual” for taking care of your newborn.
WHITE, L. A guide for new fathers. 24 Hours Toronto: Wednesday, p. 21.15 jun., 2011. [Excerpt].
What piece of advice illustrates the idea of the new fathers sharing experiences between
themselves?
a) Spend more time at home.
b) Support your children’s mother.
c) Talk to other dads about fathering.
d) Show affection toward your family.
e) Take on more responsibility.
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Read the text and answer the questions 85 and 86.
Potatoes Can Reduce Blood Pressure
Just a couple of servings of potato a day can reduce blood pressure in obese
or overweight people with high blood pressure, calling into question the lowly
spud’s current reputation as a fattening, unhealthy food, according to new research
presented at a conference in Denver, Colorado, USA, on Wednesday.
“The potato, more than perhaps any other vegetable, has an undeserved bad
reputation that has led many healthconscious people to ban them from their diet,
“said Dr Joe Vinson, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University
of Scranton in Pennsylvania, who led the research that was presented at the 242nd
National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
But before you go out and order French fries, the preferred way of eating this
most consumed of all vegetables in the US, consider this: the research was done
with purple potatoes cooked in the microwave oven, with no oil or fat whatsoever.
Disponível em: <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233690.php>. Acesso em: 1o set. 2011.
85 The main aim of the report is to
a) try to stimulate the reader to have a more balanced and healthy diet.
b) emphasize the importance of being aware of recent scientific findings.
c) criticize conflicting results in research in terms of what a healthy lifestyle means.
d) point out that consumers must be more critical of bad eating habits.
e) provide the reader with information about recent results in health research.
86 The potato’s current reputation is bad, though it might change after Dr Joe Vinson’s
research. Which item below also has a bad reputation?
a) Water
b) Yogurt
c) Milk
d) Soft drink
e) Orange juice
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Read the extract taken from the novel “The God of Small Things,” by Arundhati Roy, and
answer the questions 87 and 88.
“The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories
are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter
anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick
endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the
house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you
listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will
die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who
dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. THAT is their
mystery and magic.”
Disponível em: <http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6134. ArundhatiRoy>. Acesso em: 13 set. 2011.
87 What characterizes Great Stories is their
a) simplicity.
b) timelessness.
c) originality.
d) unpredictability.
e) mystery.
88 The text is metalinguistic because it
a) focuses on aesthetic effects.
b) is a reflection on the literary text.
c) appeals to the reader’s feelings.
d) expresses a character’s emotions.
e) gives information about reading.
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89 Read the excerpt.
Gaddafi vows: ‘we won’t surrender again; we are not women’
A defiant Muammar Gaddafi vowed to fight to the end against Libya’s new
government and its Nato backers, warning that his forces would turn the country
“into a hell” rather than surrender like “women”.
[...]
“We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town,” he
said. “We won’t surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting,” he said,
referring to loyal tribes in the towns of Sirte and Bani Walid.
Disponível em: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/01/muammargaddafi-libya>. Acesso em: 12 set. 2011.
[Excerpt.].
Glossary:
Nato: Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte (OTAN)
backers: apoiadores
Women in Gaddafi’s words are
a) faithful.
b) arrogant.
c) daring.
d) weak.
e) dependent.
90 Read the cartoon.
DILBERT
ADAMS, S. The globe and the mail. Toronto: Wednesday, 15 jun. 2011. p. B2.
When the man says to the other guy that he needs to participate more in meetings, he is
being contradictory since he had
a) attested the guy had said important things.
b) ignored the guy had contributed his way.
c) misunderstood the guy’s role in the meeting.
d) been aware of the guy’s excellent job.
e) seen the guy had tried to participate.
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Johannes Vermeer. Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665,
oil on canvas, 44,5 cm × 39 cm,
Mauritshuis, the Hague, the Netherlands.
Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft (1632–1675), a Dutch genre painter who
lived and worked in Delft all his life, created some of the most exquisite paintings in
Western art.
His works are rare. Of the 35 or 36 paintings generally attributed to him, most
portray figures in interiors. All his works are admired for the sensitivity with which
he rendered effects of light and color and for the poetic quality of his images. He
produced meticulously constructed interiors with just one or two figures — usually
women. These are intimate genre paintings in which the principal figure is invariably
engaged in some everyday activity. Often the light enters Vermeer’s paintings from
a window. He was a master at depicting the way light illuminates objects.
During the late 1650s, Vermeer began to place a new emphasis on depicting
figures within carefully composed interior spaces. Other Dutch painters painted
similar scenes, but they were less concerned with the articulation of the space than
with the description of the figures and their actions.
Little is known for certain about Vermeer’s life and career. Not much is known
about Vermeer’s apprenticeship as an artist either. After his death, Vermeer was
overlooked by all but the most discriminating collectors and art historians for more
than 200 years. His few pictures were attributed to other artists. Only after 1866,
when the French critic W. Thore-Burger ‘rediscovered’ him, did Vermeer’s works
become widely known and his works heralded as genuine Vermeer.
Internet: <www.ibiblio.org>.
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Judge the items that follow according to the previous text.
1
It took around two centuries for Vermeer’s paintings to be attributed to him again.
2
Some of Vermeer’s paintings are considered strange.
3 Even though there were just a few of them, Vermeer’s paintings proved to be very influential
in the history of Dutch painting.
4 Whenever Vermeer’s paintings portray human figures, these individuals are shown performing
ordinary tasks.
5
Vermeer got his inspiration from poems about women.
6
Vermeer paid meticulous attention to the scenery in his paintings.
7
Light did not play a significant role in Vermeer’s paintings.
8
Vermeer gave greater emphasis to interior spaces than other painters did.
9
Vermeer’s life and work history were widely documented.
10 Vermeer was neglected by most collectors and art historians after he died.
This text refers to items from 11 to 20.
Interview with Tracy Chevalier — author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
— What inspired you to write about the girl in Vermeer’s painting?
— I have had a copy of that painting for a long time. I love it because it is
so beautiful and mysterious. The expression on the girl’s face is ambiguous —
sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes innocent, sometimes seductive. I
was always curious about what she was thinking, and one day I thought there must
be a story behind her look, but we don’t know who the model for the painting was,
so I realized I would have to make up the story myself.
— Why did you make the girl a servant? Did Griet really exist?
— In the painting the girl’s clothes are very plain compared to other women’s
Vermeer painted, and yet the pearl is clearly luxurious. I was fascinated by that
contrast, and it seemed clear to me that the pearl was not hers. However, I also
felt she knew Vermeer well, as her gaze is very direct and knowing. So I thought,
who would be close to him but not related? And I thought of a servant. Griet did not
exist. We don’t know who the girl in the painting is, nor any of the other models for
Vermeer’s works.
— Why do you think there is such a big interest in Vermeer these days? Why do
people like his paintings so much?
— I think people like Vermeer because he reflects our everyday lives, yet makes
them more beautiful and more ideal. He paints a whole world in a little corner of a
room. The paintings are beautiful and simple and yet complicated too, with lingering
depths and understated meanings. They are very calm paintings, and you’re forced
to slow down when you look at them. In this noisy, frenetic world, that tranquility
can be quite seductive.
Internet: <www.tchevalier.com> (adapted).
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Judge the items that follow according to the text above.
11 The writer likes the fact that Vermeer’s paintings force her to face daily reality.
12 The scenery in Vermeer’s paintings is usually intimate.
13 Vermeer’s works are very modern descriptions of contemporary urban life.
14 Tracy Chevalier got the idea to write the book as soon as she received a copy of the painting
as a birthday present.
15 The writer felt intrigued by the girl in the painting.
16 Tracy Chevalier had to imagine who the girl in the painting was because there was no
information available about her.
17 One of the reasons for Tracy Chevalier to suppose that the girl was a servant is the fact that
her clothes looked a little too ordinary.
18 The writer supposes the pearl earrings were a present, because the girl could not have
possibly bought them.
19 Griet was the name of one of Vermeer’s daughters.
20 The models for other Vermeer’s paintings were known, unlike that who posed for Girl with a
Pearl Earring.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring is a quiet movie about things not said, opportunities
not taken, potentials not realized, lips unkissed. All of these elements are guessed
at by the filmmakers as they regard a painting made in about 1665 by Johannes
Vermeer. The painting shows a young woman looking at us over her left shoulder.
She wears a simple blue headband, a modest smock and a pearl earring. Her red
lips are slightly parted. Is she smiling?
Not much is known about Vermeer, who left about 35 paintings. Nothing is known
about his model. You can hear that it was his daughter, a neighbor, a tradeswoman,
but not his lover, because Vermeer’s household was under the iron rule of his
mother-in-law, who was vigilant as a hawk. The painting has become as intriguing
in its modest way as the Mona Lisa. The girl’s face turned toward us from centuries
ago demands that we ask, “Who was she? What was she thinking? What was the
artist thinking about her?”
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Tracy Chevalier’s novel speculating about the painting has now been filmed by
Peter Webber, who cast Scarlett Johansson as the girl and Colin Firth as Vermeer.
The girl’s name is Griet, according to this story. She lives nearby and is sent by her
blind father to work in Vermeer’s house.
Roger Ebert. Review of girl with a pearl earring. Internet: <www.rogerebert.suntimes.com> (adapted).
Judge the items that follow according to the text above.
21 In the writer’s opinion, the girl’s facial expression is ironic.
22 In the sentence “You can hear that it was his daughter” (l.8), “it” can correctly be replaced
with she.
23 It is likely that Vermeer’s mother-in-law met the girl shown in the painting.
24 In the text, the word “iron” (l.9) can correctly be replaced with strict.
25 The painting is compared to the Mona Lisa because of the mystery which involves it.
26 The movie answers the questions raised by the painting.
27 Griet’s father did not realize that she was in love with Vermeer.
28 The filmmakers had more information than Tracy Chevalier about the girl in the painting.
29 The text contains many details about the girl’s clothes.
Why is Girl with a Pearl Earring Vermeer’s best-loved painting? It must have
something to do with the fact that the girl looks over her shoulder, as though
hoping to see who is standing behind her. Equally important, though, is the subtle
rendering of light effects. The pearl is very special, consisting of little more than two
brushstrokes. Then there is the girl herself, wide-eyed, her lips slightly parted. She
makes an uninhibited, somewhat expectant impression that excites our interest,
even though we have no idea who she is.
Internet: <www.mauritshuis.nl>.
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D
B
C
E
F
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30 Analyze the text and the pictures above and choose the correct answer.
a) Picture A matches the description of the mouth and the eyes, and picture D matches the
description of the earring.
b) Picture C matches the description of the mouth and the eyes, and picture E matches the
description of the earring.
c) Picture D matches the description of the light effects and picture F matches the description
of the earring.
d) Picture C matches the description of the earring and picture B matches the description of
the light effects.
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Answer Key
UEG – 2012
1 C
2 D
5 A
6 C
3 C
4 C
UFG – 2012
81 B
82 C
83 A
84 C
85 E
86 D
87 A
88 B
89 D
90 E
UnB – 1o vestibular de 2012
1 C
2 E
3 C
4 C
5 E
6 C
7 E
8 C
9 E
10 C
11 E
12 C
13 E
14 E
15 C
16 C
17 C
18 E
19 E
20 E
21 E
22 C
23 C
24 C
25 C
26 E
27 E
28 E
29 E
30 B
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