Terceiro ano

1. Choose the alternative which contains the correct form of the verbs to fill the gaps in the following
sentence: “If someone consistently ________________ stress in your life and you _____________
not turn the relationship around, limit the amount of time you _____________ with that person or
_____________ the relationship entirely.”

a) causes – can – spent – ended

b) cause – can – spend – ended;
c) causes– could – spent – end;
d) cause – can – spend – ended;
e) causes – can – spend – end.

Dogged determination
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Sometimes scientists seem to be telling us what 2 we already know. Thus a recent study at Britain’s 3
University of Portsmouth determined that if you told a 4 dog not to take a piece of meat, then turned out
the light 5 so he thought you couldn’t see him, he’d likely steal the 6 food anyway.(I once lost half a
Thanksgiving turkey like 7 that, but it was no experiment.) What the rigorous testing 8 done with scores
of dogs of different breeds at 9 Portsmouth has proved scientifically is that our canine 10 friends really do
pay attention to what they’re doing — a 11 level of cognition that puts them in a category of 12
intelligence that can begin to be compared with primates. 13 “Dogs show some specialized skills in how
they read 14 human communications, says Juliane Kaminski, one of 15 the authors of the Portsmouth
study. “This seems to be 16 a direct result of selection pressures during 17 domestication.” To put it
unscientifically, they’ve been 18 man’s best friend so long, it’s in their blood. Kaminski 19 says she
doesn’t know of any similar studies done on 20 felines. But, then, we already know cats don’t really give
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a damn what humans think.
DICKEY, Christopher. Dogged determination. In
“Big Think: Around the world in six ideas.” Newsweek, Feb. 25, 2013. p. 9.

2. The verb “do” (Ref. 10) is used in the following way:

a) as a main verb.
b) for emphasis.
c) referring back to a previous verb.
d) helping to form a question.
e) helping to form a negative.

3. The morphological function of the word “studies” as in

I. “He studies in the morning”

II. “...this routine doesn’t disturb his studies...”

is, respectively,

a) adverb/verb.
b) noun/verb.
c) adjective/adverb.
d) verb/noun.
e) adverb/noun.
 4. The form of the verb in bold in
“Sarah doesn’t play any sports.” is

a) Present
b) Simple past
c) Base
d) Past participle
e) Present participle

Gabarito

1- E
2- B
3- D
4- C