Question

1. In the popular tale of Little Red Riding Hood a girls meets a wolf dressed as her grandmother, the following dialogue then happens:

“‘Oh, grandmother’, she said, ‘what big EARS you have’. / ‘The better to HEAR you with, my child’, was the reply by the wolf”.

The same sentences are repeated with the capital words replaced, which alternative shows words that could NOT be part of this dialogue?
A) eyes / see
B) nose / touch
C) hands / hug
D) mouth / eat

2. The classic song “New York, New York”, performed by the singer Frank Sinatra, has the following verse:

“I want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep”.

What does it mean?

A) That he wants to follow his dreams in New York.
B) It means the subway of New York is open 24 hours per day.
C) That the city of New York has a very agitated nightlife.
D) The song refers to insomnia, a common problem in New York because of all the lights and noises


3. Imagine you want to point to a friend that a frog is sitting close to his feet, what’s the easiest way to say that?

A) Over there, look, is a frog!
B) Hey man, there's a frog here!
C) Hey, over there has a frog!
D) Look, there’s a frog!

4. What does the pronoun “it” replace in the classic children’s song

“If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it /If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.”?

A) You’re happy
B) If you’re
C) You know
D) Clap your hands

5. Read the verses of a popular nursery rhyme:

“One, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive, / Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, then I LET go again.”

What’s the tense of the capital word?

A) Simple past
B) Simple present
C) Past participle
D) None of the above

6. Choose the alternative that correctly completes the following sentence:

“I paid a visit to my parents __ the 1st of May, since I was not working that day”.

A) on
B) at
C) in
D) of

7. Which of the following alternative presents the correct question tag for the sentence:

“You’ve got a dirt bike,____”?

A) don’t you?
B) haven’t you?
C) didn’t you?
D) gotn’t you?

8. There’s an old saying in English that goes like this:

“When cobwebs are plenty kisses are scarce”.

What does it mean?

A) Dirty houses are not sexy.
B) Spiders are romantic.
C) Women shouldn’t kiss their husbands.
D) Cleaning and kissing are the duties of a good wife.

Answer 1

Resposta:

1) B

2) A

3) B/D

4) A

5) B eu acho

6) on

7) B

8)??? (provavelmente o D, mas muito machista)