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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 21 a damn
what humans think.
DICKEY, Christopher. Dogged determination. In
“Big Think: Around the world in six ideas.” Newsweek, Feb. 25, 2013. p. 9.

Questão 01)
Analyze the following:
“he’d” (Ref. 5) – “they’re” (Ref. 10) — “man’s” (Ref. 18)

It’s correct to say that the ‘d, ‘re and ‘s are, respectively,

a) contraction of “had” — contraction of “were” — contraction of “is”.

b) contraction of “should” — contraction of “are” — “contraction of “was”.
c) contraction of “would” — contraction of “were” — genitive suffix.
d) contraction of “had” — contraction of “are” — contraction of “is”.
e) contraction of “would” — contraction of “are” — genitive suffix.

Gab: E