Língua InglesaExpressões idiomáticasCOSEAC UFF 2016
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Questão de Língua Inglesa
Texto 1 “John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities. He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks. He ought now to have been at school; but his mama had taken him home for a month or two, „on account of his delicate health.‟ Mr. Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother‟s heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John‟s sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home. John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came near. There were moments when I was bewildered by the terror he inspired, because I had no appeal whatever against either his menaces or his inflictions; the servants did not like to offend their young master by taking my part against him, and Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject: she never saw him strike or heard him abuse me, though he did both now and then in her very presence, more frequently, however, behind her back.” (Extract from http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/jane_eyre_nt.pdf Accessed on 20 April 2016.)
As questões 03 a 05 referem-se ao Texto 1.
The expression “on account of” has similar meaning to the underlined expression in:
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