Dica de Inglês: A ou An? – Como usar os artigos indefinidos

(ITA)

________ Pacific and ________ Atlantic are ________ oceans. ________ Alps are ________ mountains, and ________ Amazon is a river.

(UNIP)

It’s ________ honor to meet ________ young lady from ________ Sweden.

¹“Fan” is …….. abbreviated form of ²“fanatic”, which has …….. roots in …….. Latin word “fanaticus”, which simply meant “belonging to the temple, a devotee”. But these words quickly assumed negative connotations, to the point of becoming references to excessive religious belief and to any mistaken enthusiasm.

Based on such connotations, news reports frequently characterize fans as psychopaths …….. frustrated fantasies of intimate relationships with stars or unsatisfied desires to achieve stardom take violent and antisocial forms. Whether viewed as a religious fanatic, a psychopathic killer, a neurotic fantasist, or a lust-crazed groupie, the fan remains a “fanatic” with interests alien to the realm of “normal” cultural experience and a mentality dangerously out of touch with reality.

To understand the logic behind this discursive construction of fans, we must  reconsider what we mean by taste. Concepts  of “good taste,” appropriate conduct, or  aesthetic merit are not natural or universal; rather, they are rooted in social experience and reflect particular class interests. Taste becomes one of the important means by which social distinctions are maintained and  class identities are forged. Those who “naturally” possess appropriate tastes “deserve” a privileged position, while the tastes of others are seen as underdeveloped. Taste distinctions determine desirable and undesirable ways of relating to cultural objects, strategies of interpretation and styles of consumption.

The stereotypical conception of the fan reflects anxieties about the violation of dominant cultural hierarchies. The fans’ transgression of bourgeois taste disrupt dominant cultural hierarchies, insuring that their preferences be seen as abnormal and threatening by those who have an interest in the maintenance of these standards (even by those who may share similar tastes but express them in different ways).

Adapted from: JENKINS, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and
Participatory Culture. New York / London: Routledge, 1992. p. 12-16.

Select the alternative which correctly fills in the gaps in references 1 and 2, in the order they appear.

(Unemat MT/2012)

LIVING WITHOUT ENERGY

(1) Everyone says that we must use less energy! But how? That is the big question. In this article, you can read about the house of the future, which uses hardly any energy at all…

Most houses use energy – lots of it. We use energy for heating, (5) lighting, for running our household appliances – TV’s, washing machines, fridges, and so on. In winter time, most houses use dozens of kilowatts of electricity every day, or the equivalent in gas.

The house in the photo, on the other hand, uses virtually nothing: (10) most of the energy that it uses comes straight from the sun, the wind or the ground. This is an experimental house at the University of Nottingham, and it could be the kind of house that most people are living in fifty years from now.

During the daytime, it is rarely necessary to turn on an electric (15) light, even in rooms without windows. Sunlight, or daylight, is “piped” through the house, into each room, through special high-reflection aluminium tubes. You can see how well they reflect light, by looking at the reflections of the faces in the picture!

http://linguapress.com/intermediate/no-energy.htm

Na frase “This is an experimental house at the University of Nottingham” (ref. 10), observe o artigo sublinhado e assinale a alternativa correta.

(UFAC/2002)

Assinale a alternativa na qual o uso do artigo  está incorreto:

(UNIFOR CE/1998)

“Gordon Sumner is  ___  exceptionally good-looking man,  idolized by millions and so rich he can afford all he could ever wish for.  Better known as Sting,  he was the lead singer of The Police.  His naturally fair hair  ___  replaced the dyed blond hair of his stage act.  But still the face magnetizes  −  the voice is low and husky,  the eyes are bright and intelligent.  “It is hard to be a pop-star”,   he  says,  “I can’t walk  ___  a street any more without feeling people are watching me, I can’t be anonymous any longer, and that is a drag.”

(MACK-SP)

Paul, _____ doctor, was _____ first person in _____ city to swim in _____ Mississipi River on _____ tenth of _____ October, 1970 and in ____ Lake Michigan in _____ 60s.

(FAC.DIR.-PR)

Smith, _____ man you met yesterday is _____ honest man.

(UFSM/2012)

Mark the alternative that complete the sentence correctly:

_______angry boyfriend is ______unpredictable man.

(UFES/2016)

Assinale a questão em que o artigo “The” não é necessário: