Questões de Inglês do UFSC

• Interpretação de texto36% · 29 questões
• Reading comprehension (atribuição de fala)16% · 13 questões
• Vocabulário e expressões idiomáticas14% · 11 questões
• Compreensão de texto10% · 8 questões
• Gramática6% · 5 questões
• Tradução6% · 5 questões
• Leitura de infográfico3% · 2 questões
• Discurso indireto (inglês)1% · 1 questão

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UFSC2026Prova 1Questao 13InglêsInterpretação de textoFacil

The U.S. will lead the HUMAN world in artificial intelligence intelligence... not so much… Source: AI and Trump Education policy by Jimmy Margulies. Politicalcartoons.com. Published 07/28/2025. Available at: https://politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/298286. [Adapted]. Select the correct proposition(s) according to the information in text 1.

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1. 01)The man reading the newspaper thinks that the U.S. will lead the world in human intelligence.
2. 02)The term ‘the U.S.’ is an abbreviation of ‘the United States’.
3. 04)The newspaper informs about problems in education.
4. 08)The word ‘human’ is capitalized in the text to indicate opposition to animals.
5. 16)The term ‘AI’ is an abbreviation of ‘artificial intelligence’.

UFSC2026Prova 1Questao 14InglêsInterpretação de textoMedia

‘The US system is being destroyed’: researchers talk about leaving America for a safer place to do science in France Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump initiated his attack on academia Ashifa Kassam. Sat 5 Jul 2025 In March, Brian Sandberg, a political scientist working at a top US university, realized it was time to leave his home country. He had been watching how Trump’s administration had launched devastating attacks on academia: cutting funding, targeting international students and forbidding certain research fields and keywords. “Things have really changed … The entire system of research and higher education in the United States is under attack,” he said. Soon after, he became one of the many researchers to apply for a French university’s groundbreaking offer of “scientific asylum”. The program, launched by Aix-Marseille University, is one of Europe’s first initiatives to help US researchers. The program offers three years of funding to around 20 scientists seeking escape from the academic repression in America. Three months after they launched their program – named Safe Place for Science – the university said it had received more than 500 applications from researchers in top US institutions. In interviews, some of the applicants explained why they had applied for the program. “There’s a lot of censorship now, it’s crazy,” said Carol Lee, an evolutionary biologist, “There are a lot of words that we’re not allowed to use when applying for grants: diversity, women, LGBTQ.” Many scientists don’t want to compromise their academic freedom. “People are moving, for sure,” said Lee. “A lot of top people have already moved to China. And China is laying out the red carpet. If people are getting an offer from Canada, people are moving to Canada.” “It’s a very discouraging time to be a scientist,” said James, a climate researcher who asked that his full name not be used. “I think America has always had some people who don’t trust scientists—and right now, they have a lot of influence, even though they’re not the majority. I have very mixed feelings about the move,” he said. “I’m very grateful that I’ll have the opportunity, but really quite sad that I need the opportunity.” Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/05/academics-leaving-us-scientific-asylum-france-trump. [Adapted]. Select the correct proposition(s) according to the information in text 2.

1. 01)China has created a program called ‘red carpet’ to hire US scientists.
2. 02)Some American scientists are moving abroad because they don’t agree with the government actions in higher education.
3. 04)James is not entirely happy with the prospect of moving to another country.
4. 08)Keywords like ‘diversity’ and ‘LGBTQ’ are now allowed in research grant applications.
5. 16)The duration of the funding in the Aix-Marseille program is three months.
6. 32)A French university has created a program to aid American scientists.

UFSC2026Prova 1Questao 15InglêsInterpretação de textoMedia

‘The US system is being destroyed’: researchers talk about leaving America for a safer place to do science in France Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump initiated his attack on academia Ashifa Kassam. Sat 5 Jul 2025 In March, Brian Sandberg, a political scientist working at a top US university, realized it was time to leave his home country. He had been watching how Trump’s administration had launched devastating attacks on academia: cutting funding, targeting international students and forbidding certain research fields and keywords. “Things have really changed … The entire system of research and higher education in the United States is under attack,” he said. Soon after, he became one of the many researchers to apply for a French university’s groundbreaking offer of “scientific asylum”. The program, launched by Aix-Marseille University, is one of Europe’s first initiatives to help US researchers. The program offers three years of funding to around 20 scientists seeking escape from the academic repression in America. Three months after they launched their program – named Safe Place for Science – the university said it had received more than 500 applications from researchers in top US institutions. In interviews, some of the applicants explained why they had applied for the program. “There’s a lot of censorship now, it’s crazy,” said Carol Lee, an evolutionary biologist, “There are a lot of words that we’re not allowed to use when applying for grants: diversity, women, LGBTQ.” Many scientists don’t want to compromise their academic freedom. “People are moving, for sure,” said Lee. “A lot of top people have already moved to China. And China is laying out the red carpet. If people are getting an offer from Canada, people are moving to Canada.” “It’s a very discouraging time to be a scientist,” said James, a climate researcher who asked that his full name not be used. “I think America has always had some people who don’t trust scientists—and right now, they have a lot of influence, even though they’re not the majority. I have very mixed feelings about the move,” he said. “I’m very grateful that I’ll have the opportunity, but really quite sad that I need the opportunity.” Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/05/academics-leaving-us-scientific-asylum-france-trump. [Adapted]. Select the question(s) that can be answered with information from text 2.

1. 01)What is James’ full name?
2. 02)How much is the grant the 20 scientists will receive?
3. 04)When did Brian Sandberg decide he wanted to move from the United States?
4. 08)What is the name of the program created by Aix-Marseille University?
5. 16)In which university is Carol Lee working?
6. 32)In which country do the program applicants currently work?

UFSC2026Prova 1Questao 16InglêsVocabulário e expressões idiomáticasMedia

‘The US system is being destroyed’: researchers talk about leaving America for a safer place to do science in France Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump initiated his attack on academia Ashifa Kassam. Sat 5 Jul 2025 In March, Brian Sandberg, a political scientist working at a top US university, realized it was time to leave his home country. He had been watching how Trump’s administration had launched devastating attacks on academia: cutting funding, targeting international students and forbidding certain research fields and keywords. “Things have really changed … The entire system of research and higher education in the United States is under attack,” he said. Soon after, he became one of the many researchers to apply for a French university’s groundbreaking offer of “scientific asylum”. The program, launched by Aix-Marseille University, is one of Europe’s first initiatives to help US researchers. The program offers three years of funding to around 20 scientists seeking escape from the academic repression in America. Three months after they launched their program – named Safe Place for Science – the university said it had received more than 500 applications from researchers in top US institutions. In interviews, some of the applicants explained why they had applied for the program. “There’s a lot of censorship now, it’s crazy,” said Carol Lee, an evolutionary biologist, “There are a lot of words that we’re not allowed to use when applying for grants: diversity, women, LGBTQ.” Many scientists don’t want to compromise their academic freedom. “People are moving, for sure,” said Lee. “A lot of top people have already moved to China. And China is laying out the red carpet. If people are getting an offer from Canada, people are moving to Canada.” “It’s a very discouraging time to be a scientist,” said James, a climate researcher who asked that his full name not be used. “I think America has always had some people who don’t trust scientists—and right now, they have a lot of influence, even though they’re not the majority. I have very mixed feelings about the move,” he said. “I’m very grateful that I’ll have the opportunity, but really quite sad that I need the opportunity.” Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/05/academics-leaving-us-scientific-asylum-france-trump. [Adapted]. Select the proposition(s) which contains(contain) the correct translations for the underlined words as they are used in text 2.

1. 01)asylum: auxílio
2. 02)applicants: candidatos
3. 04)researcher: pesquisa
4. 08)compromise: compromisso
5. 16)funding: financiamento
6. 32)quite: livre de dívida

UFSC2026Prova 1Questao 17InglêsInterpretação de textoMedia

Affirmative action changes “face of Brazil’s universities,” study says Isabela Vieira, 18/06/2025 Brazil, a country with 112.7 million black and brown people (55.2% of the population) and over 1.6 million indigenous people, took a long time to recognize its ethno-racial diversity among university students. But in the past 20 years, affirmative action has changed the profile of Brazilian universities. These changes have helped to correct this limitation and positively transform the spaces responsible for knowledge and the education of new generations, according to sociologists Luiz Augusto Campos and Márcia Lima. Campos and Lima are the editors of the book The Impact of Quotas: Two Decades of Affirmative Action in Brazilian Higher Education, which offers a detailed assessment of the policy and highlights ongoing challenges, such as student retention. In the book, they compiled 35 chapters that review the policy from its origins, beginning with a 1987 bill introduced by then-Congressman Abdias Nascimento—shortly after his return from exile in the United States—proposing the application of affirmative action in education. Since then, a sector once dominated by young white students from the middle and upper classes until the late 1990s has come to include a majority of black, brown, and indigenous students, who made up 52.4 percent of public university enrollment in 2021, up from 31.5 percent in 2001. Over the same period, the share of students from socioeconomic classes D and E rose from 20 percent to 52 percent, highlighting the economic dimension of the shift. As Gomes observed, the quotas “have not only expanded access to universities but also brought about changes in teaching and curricular practices, destabilizing exclusionary structures in the educational system.” Source: https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/educacao/noticia/2025-06/affirmative-action-changes-face-brazils-universities-study-says. [Adapted]. Select the correct proposition(s) according to information in text 3.

1. 01)Affirmative action in Brazil was initiated by an American politician.
2. 02)The book The Impact of Quotas was organized by two sociologists.
3. 04)The number of white students enrolled in public universities was similar in 1990 and 2021.
4. 08)More than 50% of the Brazilian population is black or brown.
5. 16)In 2021, middle class students were the majority in Brazilian public universities.
6. 32)The curricula of Brazilian public universities have remained the same since 1987.

UFSC2026Prova 1Questao 18InglêsVocabulário e expressões idiomáticasMedia

Affirmative action changes “face of Brazil’s universities,” study says Isabela Vieira, 18/06/2025 Brazil, a country with 112.7 million black and brown people (55.2% of the population) and over 1.6 million indigenous people, took a long time to recognize its ethno-racial diversity among university students. But in the past 20 years, affirmative action has changed the profile of Brazilian universities. These changes have helped to correct this limitation and positively transform the spaces responsible for knowledge and the education of new generations, according to sociologists Luiz Augusto Campos and Márcia Lima. Campos and Lima are the editors of the book The Impact of Quotas: Two Decades of Affirmative Action in Brazilian Higher Education, which offers a detailed assessment of the policy and highlights ongoing challenges, such as student retention. In the book, they compiled 35 chapters that review the policy from its origins, beginning with a 1987 bill introduced by then-Congressman Abdias Nascimento—shortly after his return from exile in the United States—proposing the application of affirmative action in education. Since then, a sector once dominated by young white students from the middle and upper classes until the late 1990s has come to include a majority of black, brown, and indigenous students, who made up 52.4 percent of public university enrollment in 2021, up from 31.5 percent in 2001. Over the same period, the share of students from socioeconomic classes D and E rose from 20 percent to 52 percent, highlighting the economic dimension of the shift. As Gomes observed, the quotas “have not only expanded access to universities but also brought about changes in teaching and curricular practices, destabilizing exclusionary structures in the educational system.” Source: https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/educacao/noticia/2025-06/affirmative-action-changes-face-brazils-universities-study-says. [Adapted]. Select the proposition(s) which contains(contain) a correct synonym for the underlined words as they are used in text 3.

1. 01)profile: line
2. 02)knowledge: learn
3. 04)ongoing: current
4. 08)compiled: wrote
5. 16)enrollment: registration
6. 32)shift: change

UFSC2026Prova 1Questao 19InglêsInterpretação de textoMedia

Book review Industrial Park: A Proletarian Novel Author: Patricia Galvao (Pagu) English edition, Elizabeth Jackson and K David Jackson (Translators), University of Nebraska Press, 1993 A member of Brazil’s avant-garde in its heyday, Patrícia Galvão (or to use her nickname, Pagu) was extraordinary. Not only was her work among the most exciting and innovative published in the 1930s, it was unique in portraying an avant-garde woman’s view of women in São Paulo during that audacious period. Industrial Park, first published in 1933, is Galvão’s most notable literary achievement. It is a book about the voices, clashes, and traffic of a city in the middle of rapid change. It includes fragments of public documents as well as dialogue and narration, giving a panorama of the city in a sequence of colorful slices. The novel dramatizes the problems of exploitation, poverty, racial prejudice, prostitution, state repression, and neocolonialism, but it is by no means a doctrinaire tract. Like many of her contemporaries, Galvão was a member of the Brazilian Communist Party. She was imprisoned and tortured under the Vargas dictatorship between 1935 and 1940. In the 1940s she returned to the public through her journalism and literary activities. She died in 1962. Source: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803270411/industrial-park. [Adapted]. Select the question(s) that can be answered with information from text 4.

1. 01)When was Pagu born?
2. 02)Who are the main characters in Industrial Park?
3. 04)Where was the writer born?
4. 08)What are some themes explored in the novel Industrial Park?
5. 16)What was the first book published by Pagu?
6. 32)When was the book translation published?

UFSC2026Prova 1Questao 20InglêsGramáticaMedia

Book review Industrial Park: A Proletarian Novel Author: Patricia Galvao (Pagu) English edition, Elizabeth Jackson and K David Jackson (Translators), University of Nebraska Press, 1993 A member of Brazil’s avant-garde in its heyday, Patrícia Galvão (or to use her nickname, Pagu) was extraordinary. Not only was her work among the most exciting and innovative published in the 1930s, it was unique in portraying an avant-garde woman’s view of women in São Paulo during that audacious period. Industrial Park, first published in 1933, is Galvão’s most notable literary achievement. It is a book about the voices, clashes, and traffic of a city in the middle of rapid change. It includes fragments of public documents as well as dialogue and narration, giving a panorama of the city in a sequence of colorful slices. The novel dramatizes the problems of exploitation, poverty, racial prejudice, prostitution, state repression, and neocolonialism, but it is by no means a doctrinaire tract. Like many of her contemporaries, Galvão was a member of the Brazilian Communist Party. She was imprisoned and tortured under the Vargas dictatorship between 1935 and 1940. In the 1940s she returned to the public through her journalism and literary activities. She died in 1962. Source: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803270411/industrial-park. [Adapted]. In relation to the sentence below, as it is used in text 4, select the correct proposition(s). “Not only was her work among the most exciting and innovative published in the 1930s, it was unique in portraying an avant-garde woman’s view of women in São Paulo during that audacious period.”

1. 01)It starts with a grammatical inversion.
2. 02)There is an example of the superlative form.
3. 04)There is a verb in the past continuous tense.
4. 08)It provides a positive evaluation of the writer’s work.
5. 16)It reveals facts about the author’s personal life.
6. 32)It explains the title of the book.

UFSC2025Prova 1Questao 13InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Facil

Select the correct proposition(s) according to information in text 1.

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1. 01)Many people have viewed this text.
2. 02)This narrative involves a young boy.
3. 04)There are two positive comments following the text.
4. 08)Nobody has shared the text yet.
5. 16)The boy used the computer to contact the teacher.
6. 32)The story has a happy-ending.

UFSC2025Prova 1Questao 14InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Media

In relation to the comments at the end of text 1, it is correct to say that:

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1. 01)they show how much people liked the narrative.
2. 02)one of them criticizes the text grammar.
3. 04)one of them suspects that AI was used to create the text.
4. 08)one of them is offering some help to the boy.
5. 16)they were posted in the same month as the narrative was posted.
6. 32)the website administrators posted one comment.

UFSC2025Prova 1Questao 15InglêsCompreensão de textoFacil

“A 10-year-old boy entered a computer store in Recife, Brazil and asked one of the clerks if he could use the tablet that was on display for customers to use.” Considering the sentence of the post in text 1, reproduced above, it is correct to say that:

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1. 01)it explains what the boy did when he entered the store.
2. 02)it indicates the place where the story took place.
3. 04)it brings the boy’s name.
4. 08)it reveals the boy’s age.
5. 16)it mentions the brand of the tablet.
6. 32)it explains what was written on the tablet display.

UFSC2025Prova 1Questao 16InglêsTraduçãoMedia

Select the proposition(s) which contains(contain) a correct translation for the underlined words or expressions as they are used in text 1.

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1. 01)Clerks: atendentes.
2. 02)Noticed: noticiado.
3. 04)Approached: abordagem.
4. 08)Surveillance: pesquisa.
5. 16)To trace: localizar.
6. 32)To provide: preparar.