4016488 Ano: 2026
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The return-to-office paradox, and other trends in jobs and skills this month

(...) Company leaders frequently argue that office mandates are crucial for collaboration and creativity. Face-to-face interactions can significantly increase output, research from 2022 shows. A study by MIT on Silicon Valley knowledge-sharing found that cutting in-person meetings by 25% had the power to reduce patent citations by 8%. Further analysis of Microsoft engineers in Nature found that all-remote work led to more rigid, siloed networks and less realtime collaboration. The research says remote works… Despite a growing push from corporate leaders to bring people back to the office, the data tells a different story: Productivity gains are real: A study of a call centre in Türkiye that went fully remote found agents handled 10% more calls than pre-pandemic; Flexibility supports wellbeing and retention: A study of a Chinese travel agency found that staff allowed to work from home two days a week were 33% less likely to quit and reported higher satisfaction; Flexible work and gender equity: The study in Türkiye also remote work increased the share of women in the workforce from 50% to 76% by early 2023 - well above the country's female labour force participation of 35%. (...)

But does fully remote work? While fully remote workers report more engagement and enthusiasm than their in-office peers, they also experience higher rates of stress, loneliness and emotional distress. According to Gallup's ‘remote work paradox’, the absence of daily social connection and navigating tech advance alone can take a toll, especially over time. A recent survey of 25,000 Europeans found hybrid work best for psychological health and innovation, but the key is flexibility. McKinsey highlights six practices for successful hybrids, including clear norms, regular in-person time and building trust.

Fonte: Sharma, Shuvasish.World Economic Forum, 2025. Disponível em: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/08/return-to-office-flexibility-remote-work/

What does the text suggest is the most balanced approach to work, based on the research presented?

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4016487 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: AGIRH
Orgão: Pref. Lavrinhas-SP

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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The return-to-office paradox, and other trends in jobs and skills this month

(...) Company leaders frequently argue that office mandates are crucial for collaboration and creativity. Face-to-face interactions can significantly increase output, research from 2022 shows. A study by MIT on Silicon Valley knowledge-sharing found that cutting in-person meetings by 25% had the power to reduce patent citations by 8%. Further analysis of Microsoft engineers in Nature found that all-remote work led to more rigid, siloed networks and less realtime collaboration. The research says remote works… Despite a growing push from corporate leaders to bring people back to the office, the data tells a different story: Productivity gains are real: A study of a call centre in Türkiye that went fully remote found agents handled 10% more calls than pre-pandemic; Flexibility supports wellbeing and retention: A study of a Chinese travel agency found that staff allowed to work from home two days a week were 33% less likely to quit and reported higher satisfaction; Flexible work and gender equity: The study in Türkiye also remote work increased the share of women in the workforce from 50% to 76% by early 2023 - well above the country's female labour force participation of 35%. (...)

But does fully remote work? While fully remote workers report more engagement and enthusiasm than their in-office peers, they also experience higher rates of stress, loneliness and emotional distress. According to Gallup's ‘remote work paradox’, the absence of daily social connection and navigating tech advance alone can take a toll, especially over time. A recent survey of 25,000 Europeans found hybrid work best for psychological health and innovation, but the key is flexibility. McKinsey highlights six practices for successful hybrids, including clear norms, regular in-person time and building trust.

Fonte: Sharma, Shuvasish.World Economic Forum, 2025. Disponível em: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/08/return-to-office-flexibility-remote-work/

According to the text, why are many workers resisting return-to-office mandates?

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4015625 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: IACP
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Consider the excerpt below from two different genres:

(1) News report:

"Authorities confirmed that the bridge will remain closed until structural inspections are completed."

(2) Personal narrative:

"I remember standing by the bridge that morning, watching the workers check every beam as if the whole town depended on it."

Mark the alternative with the logical linguistic difference about these two genres:

A

Both texts rely on impersonal constructions to avoid subjective involvement and maintain factual neutrality.

B

The news report uses evaluative adjectives to build emotional connection, while the narrative avoids any subjective stance.

C

The personal narrative employs passive voice to obscure agency, whereas the news report highlights the narrator’s personal perspective.

D

The news report favors objective, factual language with agentless passives, while the personal narrative uses subjective, experiential language to foreground the narrator’s viewpoint.

E

The narrative employs technical terminology to ensure precision, while the news report uses figurative language to engage the reader.

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4015624 Ano: 2026
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Voz Ativa e Passiva | Passive and Active Voice

Consider the following pair of sentences:

Active:

“Researchers conducted the experiment carefully.”

Passive:

“The experiment was conducted carefully (by researchers).”

Point the alternative that describes the functional difference between the active and passive constructions:

A

The passive construction foregrounds the patient (the experiment) by moving it to subject position, reducing the prominence of the agent.

B

The passive construction reverses the roles of agent and patient, emphasizing the doer rather than the action.

C

The active voice suppresses the agent, while the passive voice obligatorily expresses it

D

The passive form is ungrammatical because adverbs of manner cannot appear after passive verbs.

E

The passive voice changes the meaning of the verb conduct into a stative interpretation.

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4015623 Ano: 2026
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Gramática - Língua InglesaVerbos | Verbs

About the sentence:

“She had been working on the project before the manager arrived.”

Choose the alternative with the right tense–aspect combination used in the verb phrase “had been working”:

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4015622 Ano: 2026
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Gramática - Língua InglesaVerbos | Verbs

Consider the sentence:

“By the time she arrives tomorrow, they will have finished the report.”

Which option BEST explains the temporal relationship expressed by the verb forms?

A

The sentence contrasts a present action with a simultaneous future action.

B

The sentence expresses a future completed action (will have finished) that will occur before another future event (she arrives).

C

The sentence indicates that both actions will be in progress at the same future moment

D

The sentence shows that her arrival causes the completion of the report in the present

E

The sentence uses future continuous to emphasize duration prior to a past reference point

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4015621 Ano: 2026
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Análise sintática | Syntax Parsing

Consider the following sentence:

“It was John who suggested changing the curriculum.”

Which option BEST explains the function of the cleft construction in terms of word order and focus?

A

It places the new information at the end of the sentence to comply with end-focus principles.

B

It uses inversion to emphasize the verb phrase rather than the subject.

C

It changes the thematic structure from topic–comment to comment–topic.

D

It highlights John as the focused constituent by splitting the sentence into two clauses.

E

It removes the subject from its canonical position to avoid ambiguity with the verb.

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4015620 Ano: 2026
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Gramática - Língua InglesaAdjetivos | Adjectives

In the sentence below, identify which option BEST explains the grammatical reason why the comparative structure is considered incorrect and should be rewritten:

‘This book is more preferable than the other.’