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Questão 25 (CFS 1) da EEAR 2020

CFS 1 · Inglês: Vocabulário em contexto e falsos cognatos

Read the text to answer questions 25, 26 and 27. · CFS 1

Selecting the Olympic Sports

There are 28 sports permitted in the Summer Olympic Games. The list of Olympic Sports has many of the world’s best-loved sports on it, such as baseball, judo, soccer, tennis, and volleyball. This list of sports hadn’t changed in 70 years, and the process for changing these sports is long and difficult.

That is why it was surprising news when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that it was studying new sports for the list. At a meeting in Singapore in 2005, the IOC voted on each of the 28 sports from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Twenty-six of the 28 sports were selected for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, which took place in London, England. The two sports that did not receive 50 percent of the votes were baseball and softball.

Because these two sports were not selected, the IOC started the process of voting for two new sports. The five sports to select from were roller skating, golf, rugby, squash, and karate. After the first vote, karate and squash were submitted to the IOC for the final vote.

To become an Olympic sport, a sport must receive two- thirds of the votes of the IOC. When the final vote took place, squash received 39 “yes” votes and 63 “no” votes. Karate received 38 “yes” votes and 63 “no” votes. It meant that neither squash nor karate would feature in the 2012 Olympic Games. And sad fans didn’t believe that their sports could be selected for the 2016 Olympic Games.

Adapted from Anderson, Neil J. - Active Skills for Reading - second Edition

– The numbers 28, 70, 2005 and 2016, in bold type in the text, are respectively expressed in words as _______.

  1. A
    twenty-eight, seventy, two thousand and five, two thousand and sixteen
  2. B
    twenty-eight, seventy, two thousand and fifty, two hundred and sixteen
  3. C
    twenty-eight, seventeen, two hundred and five, two thousand and six
  4. D
    twenty-eight, seventeen, two thousand and five, two hundred and six
Escolha uma alternativa para conferir o gabarito.
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A questão pede apenas a escrita por extenso dos números em negrito, na ordem em que aparecem no texto.

  1. 28 = twenty-eight (dezenas de 20 a 90 usam hífen com a unidade: twenty-eight).
  2. 70 = seventy. Cuidado para não confundir com seventeen, que é 17 (sufixo -teen, de 13 a 19, contra -ty, para as dezenas).
  3. 2005 = two thousand and five: 2000 (two thousand) + 5 (five).
  4. 2016 = two thousand and sixteen: 2000 + 16 (sixteen).

A sequência completa é: twenty-eight, seventy, two thousand and five, two thousand and sixteen, que corresponde exatamente à primeira opção.

Alternativa A.

Pegadinha: As alternativas C e D usam seventeen no lugar de seventy, confundindo -teen (13 a 19) com -ty (dezenas).

Por que as outras alternativas estão erradas

  • Bescreve 2005 como two thousand and fifty (2050) e 2016 como two hundred and sixteen (216).
  • Ctroca seventy por seventeen (17), 2005 por two hundred and five (205) e 2016 por 2006.
  • Dusa seventeen (17) para 70 e two hundred and six (206) para 2016.

Assunto: Vocabulário em contexto e falsos cognatos.

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