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AFA2027Fase unicaQuestao 33InglêsReading comprehensionFacil
TEXT I **Snake, with My Name** After Latt Loon Wai Oo’s “The One Left Behind in the Womb” By Nay Thit Before I was born, my mother says, there was another boy. My brother. One day, half-asleep during lunch, he turned into a snake, just like that. Shed his human skin. They said something in him snapped wild, and he slithered away. Never came back. That’s why I’m told to sit up straight when I eat, chew properly, and don’t play with my food. I never believed any of it. But one day, coming home from preschool, my father pulled a small photo from the old family album. Pointing: a tiny snake, grainy and dark in the black-and-white frame. That’s him, he said. Your brother. He would’ve been your age when it happened. That’s why we had you. Started over. So lucky you’re here, eating carefully, staying human. Mother looked sad. She said he had my name. That it was passed down from him. In the photo, the snake isn’t clear—just a smudge of shadow, barely a shape. Small enough to believe it once was a boy. A five-year-old like me, maybe. Sitting outside our house. Among plastic toys, little cars, and a broken tricycle. The picture is still, but I could feel him moving. Pulling away from his place in the frame, inching toward somewhere else. That must be how he left our lives. Quiet and slow, but already on his way. Adapted from: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1731701/snake-with-my-name Accessed on November, 17th, 2025 How does the narrator react to the story about the brother turning into a snake?
  1. A)He is excited and wants to find the snake.
  2. B)He immediately believes the story and becomes afraid.
  3. C)He didn’t know the story before his parents show the photo to him.
  4. D)At first, he doesn’t believe it, but the photo makes him think differently.
AFA2027Fase unicaQuestao 34InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT I **Snake, with My Name** After Latt Loon Wai Oo’s “The One Left Behind in the Womb” By Nay Thit Before I was born, my mother says, there was another boy. My brother. One day, half-asleep during lunch, he turned into a snake, just like that. Shed his human skin. They said something in him snapped wild, and he slithered away. Never came back. That’s why I’m told to sit up straight when I eat, chew properly, and don’t play with my food. I never believed any of it. But one day, coming home from preschool, my father pulled a small photo from the old family album. Pointing: a tiny snake, grainy and dark in the black-and-white frame. That’s him, he said. Your brother. He would’ve been your age when it happened. That’s why we had you. Started over. So lucky you’re here, eating carefully, staying human. Mother looked sad. She said he had my name. That it was passed down from him. In the photo, the snake isn’t clear—just a smudge of shadow, barely a shape. Small enough to believe it once was a boy. A five-year-old like me, maybe. Sitting outside our house. Among plastic toys, little cars, and a broken tricycle. The picture is still, but I could feel him moving. Pulling away from his place in the frame, inching toward somewhere else. That must be how he left our lives. Quiet and slow, but already on his way. Adapted from: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1731701/snake-with-my-name Accessed on November, 17th, 2025 By the story the parents tell the little kid, they intend to
  1. A)scare him to death.
  2. B)show him how lucky he is.
  3. C)teach him some etiquette.
  4. D)avoid telling him the painful truth.
AFA2027Fase unicaQuestao 38InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT II **The Grapes of Wrath** By John Steinbeck The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. Adapted from: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114322-the-grapes-of-wrath. Accessed on November, 17th, 2025 What did Text II discuss?
  1. A)How poor people are galvanized in the face of injustice.
  2. B)The harsh reality of a country divided between the rich and the wealthy.
  3. C)The majesty of human relationships and how people benefit from one another.
  4. D)How parity and fairness sway a country divided into Haves and Have-Nots.
AFA2027Fase unicaQuestao 43InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT II **The Grapes of Wrath** By John Steinbeck The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. Adapted from: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114322-the-grapes-of-wrath. Accessed on November, 17th, 2025 It is possible to say that the author
  1. A)shows neutral view from events without moral judgment.
  2. B)searches for justice, although he adds a romantic tone to the story.
  3. C)expresses human suffering, yet admirations for individual perseverance.
  4. D)calls for sympathy towards the powerless and critique towards social injustices.
AFA2027Fase unicaQuestao 44InglêsReading comprehensionFacil
TEXT III **Book Review: Blood Relations: The Rise and Fall of the Du Ponts of Delaware** Barbara Klaw By Leonard Mosley It is hard to read the history of America since 1800 without running into du Ponts. The first patriarch helped Jefferson negotiate the Louisiana Purchase; generations later, du Ponts designed the first secret atomic plants in World War II. The family business has provided gunpowder of increasing sophistication for all of America’s wars from 1812 on, and du Pont chemists have produced dozens of items as indispensable in our lives as cellophane and nylon. That we know less about individual du Ponts than about Rockefellers or Vanderbilts, Mosley says in this highly entertaining history of the dynasty, is because self-appointed family archivists and the company’s “tight-lipped public relations men” have for years sanitized the record. Only recently have scholars been permitted to poke around in family papers. The first Pierre Samuel du Pont advocated marriage between cousins to ensure “honesty of soul and purity of blood.” Several generations later, the reigning patriarch was grumbling that “the thinning” of that pure blood by inbreeding was producing freaks. But the intermarrying cousins, most of them clustered around the original family holdings on the Brandywine River, went right on producing scores of little Pierre Samuels, Alfreds, and Irénées with the typical long du Pont noses, and the family disposition toward tuberculosis. By the 1920’s, the close Delaware clan was the richest family in America. Mosley’s lively chronicle weaves together a sweeping business history—well larded with corporate dirty tricks—and the personal stories of dozens of du Ponts, the honorable ones, the stuffy ones, and the outrageous ones. The family may regret that they ever let the scholars in. Adapted from: https://www.americanheritage.com/blood-relations-rise-and-fall-du-ponts-delaware Accessed on November, 17th, 2025 How does the author portray the long-term influence of the du Pont family on American history?
  1. A)Largely exaggerated by historians.
  2. B)Declining after the early industrial period.
  3. C)Limited mainly to political negotiations in the 19th century.
  4. D)Significant across military, industrial and scientific development.
AFA2027Fase unicaQuestao 45InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT III **Book Review: Blood Relations: The Rise and Fall of the Du Ponts of Delaware** Barbara Klaw By Leonard Mosley It is hard to read the history of America since 1800 without running into du Ponts. The first patriarch helped Jefferson negotiate the Louisiana Purchase; generations later, du Ponts designed the first secret atomic plants in World War II. The family business has provided gunpowder of increasing sophistication for all of America’s wars from 1812 on, and du Pont chemists have produced dozens of items as indispensable in our lives as cellophane and nylon. That we know less about individual du Ponts than about Rockefellers or Vanderbilts, Mosley says in this highly entertaining history of the dynasty, is because self-appointed family archivists and the company’s “tight-lipped public relations men” have for years sanitized the record. Only recently have scholars been permitted to poke around in family papers. The first Pierre Samuel du Pont advocated marriage between cousins to ensure “honesty of soul and purity of blood.” Several generations later, the reigning patriarch was grumbling that “the thinning” of that pure blood by inbreeding was producing freaks. But the intermarrying cousins, most of them clustered around the original family holdings on the Brandywine River, went right on producing scores of little Pierre Samuels, Alfreds, and Irénées with the typical long du Pont noses, and the family disposition toward tuberculosis. By the 1920’s, the close Delaware clan was the richest family in America. Mosley’s lively chronicle weaves together a sweeping business history—well larded with corporate dirty tricks—and the personal stories of dozens of du Ponts, the honorable ones, the stuffy ones, and the outrageous ones. The family may regret that they ever let the scholars in. Adapted from: https://www.americanheritage.com/blood-relations-rise-and-fall-du-ponts-delaware Accessed on November, 17th, 2025 What connection does the text suggest between the du Ponts’ business practices and their personal values?
  1. A)Emphasis on control and continuity is reflected in both areas.
  2. B)Business ethics were entirely separate from their private lives.
  3. C)Their personal values had no influence on their industrial success.
  4. D)Business decisions were driven purely by external market influence.
AFA2027Fase unicaQuestao 48InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT II **The Grapes of Wrath** By John Steinbeck The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. Adapted from: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114322-the-grapes-of-wrath. Accessed on November, 17th, 2025 --- TEXT III **Book Review: Blood Relations: The Rise and Fall of the Du Ponts of Delaware** Barbara Klaw By Leonard Mosley It is hard to read the history of America since 1800 without running into du Ponts. The first patriarch helped Jefferson negotiate the Louisiana Purchase; generations later, du Ponts designed the first secret atomic plants in World War II. The family business has provided gunpowder of increasing sophistication for all of America’s wars from 1812 on, and du Pont chemists have produced dozens of items as indispensable in our lives as cellophane and nylon. That we know less about individual du Ponts than about Rockefellers or Vanderbilts, Mosley says in this highly entertaining history of the dynasty, is because self-appointed family archivists and the company’s “tight-lipped public relations men” have for years sanitized the record. Only recently have scholars been permitted to poke around in family papers. The first Pierre Samuel du Pont advocated marriage between cousins to ensure “honesty of soul and purity of blood.” Several generations later, the reigning patriarch was grumbling that “the thinning” of that pure blood by inbreeding was producing freaks. But the intermarrying cousins, most of them clustered around the original family holdings on the Brandywine River, went right on producing scores of little Pierre Samuels, Alfreds, and Irénées with the typical long du Pont noses, and the family disposition toward tuberculosis. By the 1920’s, the close Delaware clan was the richest family in America. Mosley’s lively chronicle weaves together a sweeping business history—well larded with corporate dirty tricks—and the personal stories of dozens of du Ponts, the honorable ones, the stuffy ones, and the outrageous ones. The family may regret that they ever let the scholars in. Adapted from: https://www.americanheritage.com/blood-relations-rise-and-fall-du-ponts-delaware Accessed on November, 17th, 2025 Which alternative is true to both Texts II and III?
  1. A)They illustrate the remarkable moments of the United States’ elite.
  2. B)Both discuss the hardships of a society composed of Haves and Have-Nots.
  3. C)The texts talk about how the US citizens, both simple and noble, are subject to the market.
  4. D)It is clear in the texts that the US society confers different treatment to poor and rich people.
AFA2024Fase unicaQuestao 33InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT I “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark.” [...] Warsan Shire, “Home”. (SHIRE apud YOUSAFZAI, 2019, p. V) “I have had the immense privilege of meeting many individuals who had to rebuild their lives, often in totally foreign places. People who have lost so much - including loved ones – and then had to start over. This means learning a new language, new culture, a new way of being. I share my story of being displaced not out of a desire to focus on my past, but to honour the people I´ve met and those I´ll never meet. I wrote this book because it seems that too many people don´t understand that refugees are ordinary people. All that differentiates them is that they got caught in the middle of a conflict that forced them to leave their homes, their loved ones, and the only lives they had known. They risked so much along the way, and why? Because it is too often a choice between life and death. And, as my family did a decade ago, they chose life”. (YOUSAFZAI, 2019, P. XI) (Source: YOUSAFZAI, M. We are Displaced. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019 – London) Mark the option in which the information DISAGREES with the text.
  1. A)The idea of begin again is related to danger – if the refugees had a choice, they’d probably live in their homeland.
  2. B)The majority of people who live in a place where there is a conflict and opt for not leaving dies within a short period of time.
  3. C)Talking about refugees and being displaced is a way to celebrate the ones who went through this kind of situation.
  4. D)In a general way, people who do not come from a place where there is a conflict do not have the exact idea of what it means to be a refugee.
AFA2024Fase unicaQuestao 34InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT I “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark.” [...] Warsan Shire, “Home”. (SHIRE apud YOUSAFZAI, 2019, p. V) “I have had the immense privilege of meeting many individuals who had to rebuild their lives, often in totally foreign places. People who have lost so much - including loved ones – and then had to start over. This means learning a new language, new culture, a new way of being. I share my story of being displaced not out of a desire to focus on my past, but to honour the people I´ve met and those I´ll never meet. I wrote this book because it seems that too many people don´t understand that refugees are ordinary people. All that differentiates them is that they got caught in the middle of a conflict that forced them to leave their homes, their loved ones, and the only lives they had known. They risked so much along the way, and why? Because it is too often a choice between life and death. And, as my family did a decade ago, they chose life”. (YOUSAFZAI, 2019, P. XI) (Source: YOUSAFZAI, M. We are Displaced. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019 – London) Choose the statement that best explains the metaphor “home is the mouth of a shark” (ℓ. 2)
  1. A)Due to the conflicts, prices went up and it is unaffordable to live at their homeland without starving.
  2. B)Home is a unique place in the world and one can only find complete joy and satisfaction there.
  3. C)Home is seen as a threatening place, full of risks and uncertainty.
  4. D)As the mouth of a shark, home is now a distant place from their new reality.
AFA2024Fase unicaQuestao 35InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT I “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark.” [...] Warsan Shire, “Home”. (SHIRE apud YOUSAFZAI, 2019, p. V) “I have had the immense privilege of meeting many individuals who had to rebuild their lives, often in totally foreign places. People who have lost so much - including loved ones – and then had to start over. This means learning a new language, new culture, a new way of being. I share my story of being displaced not out of a desire to focus on my past, but to honour the people I´ve met and those I´ll never meet. I wrote this book because it seems that too many people don´t understand that refugees are ordinary people. All that differentiates them is that they got caught in the middle of a conflict that forced them to leave their homes, their loved ones, and the only lives they had known. They risked so much along the way, and why? Because it is too often a choice between life and death. And, as my family did a decade ago, they chose life”. (YOUSAFZAI, 2019, P. XI) (Source: YOUSAFZAI, M. We are Displaced. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019 – London) Choosing life over death means
  1. A)deciding to start a new life in a foreign country due to poverty.
  2. B)needing to learn a new language in order to make a living.
  3. C)being unfairly convicted of crimes and having to escape.
  4. D)opting for leaving home because it’s hazardous to stay.
AFA2024Fase unicaQuestao 36InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT II “Of course, when I first arrived in Australia, the emphasis was on the future, not the past. I was being introduced to a new life in a very different world from the one I´d been born into, and my new mum and dad were putting a lot of effort into facing the challenges that experience brought. Mum didn´t worry too much about my learning English immediately, since she knew it would come through dayto-day use. Rather than trying to rush me into it, she thought it was far more important at the outset to comfort and care for me, and gain my trust. You don´t need words for that. She also knew an Indian couple in the neighborhood, Saleen and Jacob, and we would visit them regularly to eat Indian food together. They would speak with me in my own language, Hindi, asking simple questions and translating instructions and things Mum and Dad wanted me to know about how we´d live our life together. Being so young when I got lost and coming from a very basic background, I didn´t speak much Hindi, either, but being understood by someone was a huge help in becoming comfortable about my new surroundings. Anything my new parents weren´t able to communicate through gestures and smiles, we knew Saleen and Jacob could help us with, so we were never stuck. […] My transition to life in another country and culture wasn´t as difficult as one might expect, most likely because, compared to what I´d gone through in India, it was obvious that I was better off in Australia. Of course, more than anything, I wanted to find my mother again, but once I´d realized that was impossible, I knew I had to take whatever opportunity came my way to survive. Mum and Dad were very affectionate, right from the start, always giving me lots of cuddles and making me feel safe, secure, loved, and, above all, wanted. […] I had often heard music emanating from other people´s radios. Seeing or hearing babies cry also affected me strongly, probably because of memories of my little sister, Shekila. The most emotional thing was seeing other families with lots of children. I suppose that, even in my good fortune, they reminded me of what I´d lost.” (BRIRLEY, 2016 p. 7 - 10) (Source: BRIERLEY, Saroo. Lion. Penguin: Canada, 2019) It is correct to say that
  1. A)being understood helps people feel welcome in a new setting.
  2. B)people are not able to communicate through gestures and smiles.
  3. C)the background is crucial for the process of learning a language.
  4. D)the transition to another country is never as difficult as it seems to be.
AFA2024Fase unicaQuestao 37InglêsReading comprehensionMedia
TEXT II “Of course, when I first arrived in Australia, the emphasis was on the future, not the past. I was being introduced to a new life in a very different world from the one I´d been born into, and my new mum and dad were putting a lot of effort into facing the challenges that experience brought. Mum didn´t worry too much about my learning English immediately, since she knew it would come through dayto-day use. Rather than trying to rush me into it, she thought it was far more important at the outset to comfort and care for me, and gain my trust. You don´t need words for that. She also knew an Indian couple in the neighborhood, Saleen and Jacob, and we would visit them regularly to eat Indian food together. They would speak with me in my own language, Hindi, asking simple questions and translating instructions and things Mum and Dad wanted me to know about how we´d live our life together. Being so young when I got lost and coming from a very basic background, I didn´t speak much Hindi, either, but being understood by someone was a huge help in becoming comfortable about my new surroundings. Anything my new parents weren´t able to communicate through gestures and smiles, we knew Saleen and Jacob could help us with, so we were never stuck. […] My transition to life in another country and culture wasn´t as difficult as one might expect, most likely because, compared to what I´d gone through in India, it was obvious that I was better off in Australia. Of course, more than anything, I wanted to find my mother again, but once I´d realized that was impossible, I knew I had to take whatever opportunity came my way to survive. Mum and Dad were very affectionate, right from the start, always giving me lots of cuddles and making me feel safe, secure, loved, and, above all, wanted. […] I had often heard music emanating from other people´s radios. Seeing or hearing babies cry also affected me strongly, probably because of memories of my little sister, Shekila. The most emotional thing was seeing other families with lots of children. I suppose that, even in my good fortune, they reminded me of what I´d lost.” (BRIRLEY, 2016 p. 7 - 10) (Source: BRIERLEY, Saroo. Lion. Penguin: Canada, 2019) Concerning the Indian couple (Saleen and Jacob), it is correct to say that they
  1. A)used to cook traditional Indian food at the narrator’s house for a living.
  2. B)were hired as translators for the family when the narrator arrived.
  3. C)helped the narrator to improve his Hindi skills by teaching him new words.
  4. D)were important to the narrator as they contributed to him to feel comfortable at his new home.
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