Question

1. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value"



David Sarnoff was a telecommunications whizz from the early-20th century, which - at the time - meant being able to send a signal from one person to another, like a wireless version of the old tin-can-and-string toys children play with. But he realised that radio transmissions could be sent from one voice to many ears, and he was among the front line of people committed to creating radio as a broadcasting network.



Sarnoff met stiff resistance along the way, particularly from investors in his company, RCA. As Pragmatic Capitalism report, one said: "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"



His eventual answer was to help arrange the broadcast of a heavyweight boxing match - Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier, in July 1921 - to an audience of up to 300,000 people. Radio has done pretty well ever since.



2. "Groups of guitars are on the way out"



This is perhaps the most famous quote about the early years of The Beatles, and while it's definitely based on real events, it has perhaps been distorted by what happened next to such an extent that it looks far worse than it was intended to be.



The source of the quote is Beatles manager Brian Epstein, relaying the message he was given by Dick Rowe, head of Decca Records, on why they were not interested in signing the band in 1962. In Hunter Davies' authorised biography, The Beatles, Epstein remembered: "He told me they didn't like the sound. Groups of guitars were on the way out. I told him I was completely confident that these boys were going to be bigger than Elvis Presley."



To be fair to Mr Rowe, in 1962's pop charts "groups of guitars" meant The Shadows. No record label was interested in signing The Beatles at that time. The fact that his was the sole quote attributed to this fairly enormous misjudgment of the band's commercial potential by all the major London labels seems unfair. Then again, he did turn down the biggest group of all time. (…)



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Suffixes are affixes added to the end of a word or stem in order to form a new word. They normally change the category of words, e.g an a noun into an adjective (happy - happiness). Bearing that in mind, analyze the following word formations in each paragraph of the text:



health - healthy (introduction)

wire - wireless (text 1, para. 1)

particular - particularly (text 1, para. 2)

event - eventual (text 1, para. 3)

base - based (text 2, para. 1)

big - bigger (text 2, para. 2)

sign - signing (text 2, para. 3)



Taking the context into account, use the ESP strategies of inference and background knowledge to analyze the following statements:



I) Five of these words are adjectives.

II) The suffix -less means “without”.

III) The suffixes -y, -al and -er transform a noun into an adjective.

IV) The suffix -ly is being used to form an adverb in the word “particularly”.

V) “Based” is a verb being in used in the passive voice in the text.

VI) In the text “signing” is an adjective, like “broadcasting” in paragraph 1.



The alternative that contains the correct statements is:




II, IV and V.


I, III and VI.


IV, V and VI.


I, II and III.


II, III and IV.

Answer 1

Resposta:

II, III and IV.