Prefeitura de Santa Rosa 2018 — Questão 46 · Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

Instruction: Answer questions 46 to 55 based on the following text.

Why Major in English?

1. As an English major, you ___ take courses that span the historical breadth of literature and
2. culture in Britain, America, and beyond. In your senior year, you ____ have the opportunity to
3. carve out a personal area of expertise in the form of the Senior Project, an extended research
4. essay that serves as the culmination of your achievements in writing and scholarship at Yale.
5. And while faculty, graduate students, coursework and department-sponsored events are
6. rich resources for English majors, so are your fellow majors. English majors contribute to and
7. often take the lead in campus publications, readings, and events. They will challenge and
8. inspire you in the classroom and beyond it.
9. Here are some reasons our students ..... chosen to major in English…
10. To acquire tools that will never lose value. The skills you acquire in college are not just
11. things you know about; they’re skills for approaching the world. Many of those skills, like the
12. ability to read analytically and write well, are more and more prized, as the support for reading
13. education ..... declined while the need for it ..... increased. Unlike most technical knowledge,
14. the English major’s tools will never be obsolete. More important, the English major’s training
15. goes beyond such marketable skills; to read well is to reflect on values and ends, not just
16. means. The English major’s skill-set is not tied to technology or markets or nations. It’s value
17. never depreciates, and lies beyond price. What will you do with yours?
18. To navigate a world of global English. English literature is produced and consumed
19. around the world. 54% of the worldwide web is in English. No other language comes close
20. (Russian, 6%). Non-Anglophone nations are now offering university classes conducted in
21. English in response to the globalization of our language and the rise of new English-speaking
22. populations around the world. The skills you acquire will put you in a position to thrive in this
23. complex, multinational, transcultural world of English.
24. To understand the effects of changing media. Although some ..... claimed that “print
25. is dead,” the book persists. Online, on tablets, smartphones, and e-readers, we read
26. constantly. How is our society changing as a result? What does it mean to read on a screen
27. instead of on a page? This is not the first media revolution in the history of writing; there was
28. literature before there were books, and there were books before print. In courses on the history
29. of the book, on new media, on literature and technology, you will find in our department new
30. ways to understand the dynamism of a written world that ..... always been in flux. As we find
31. ourselves inundated with media, your ability to read will become all the more essential.
32. To explain your world. The challenges of the present lead many to place their faith in
33. technology, science, and economics. Equally important is the ability to articulate values and
34. alternatives, to persuade others to share a common vision. Major tech companies, including
35. Google, actively pursue English majors and others from the humanities who can explain not
36. just how technology works but what it means. Corporations, governments, and NGOs
37. increasingly ask: how do we communicate better? As an English major, you’ll be the one to tell
38. them.
39. To learn how language shapes the world. The social world consists of discourse.
40. Politics, religion, and philosophy live in language, in the ear, on page and screen. In the forms
41. and histories of writing, we observe the movement of ideas and technologies. Studying
42. narrative, we learn about the experience of time and history. In the writing of the past, we
43. discover both its intimacy and its distance from us. In the writing of the present, we encounter
44. the experiences of others at their most articulate, and most various.

(Source: https://english.yale.edu/undergraduate/why-major-english)

Consider the following statements:

I. The blanks in the first paragraph should be filled in with ‘will’,

because

II. ‘will’ is used to talk about things that are certain and will take place in the near future.

Considering the sentences above: