Questões de Inglês - Infinitivo e gerúndio | Infinitive and gerund para Concurso
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Judge the following item, on the linguistic aspects of text 19A1AAA.
The verbal phrase “allowed him to live abroad” (l.4) can be
correctly replaced by allowed him living abroad.
Based on the text, judge the following items.
If we want avoiding is a suitable alternative for “If we
want to avoid” (line 4).
In the text, the words “making" (l.14), “training" (l.29) and “ruling" (l.43) are all used as verbs indicating actions.
The conductor agreed. The man fell asleep, and when he awoke he heard the announcement that the train was approaching New York, which meant they had passed Philadelphia a long time ago. Furious, he ran to the conductor. “I gave you $100 to make sure I got off in Philadelphia, you idiot!" “Wow," another passenger said to his traveling companion. “Is that guy mad!" “Yeah," his companion replied. “But not half as mad as that guy they forced off the train in Philadelphia."
(English2Go, No 7,The Reader's Digest Association, 2005. P. 80.)
In “ ...the train was approaching New York" a gerund is used as a/an
“When I _____________ (meet) 1 Serge, it ____________ (be) 2 love at first sight for me – I absolutely adored him, he was this wonderful mad, extrovert Russian Jew who _____________ (spend) 3 half of World War II up a tree, according to him. I _____________ (think) 4 he actually spent a couple of nights up a tree, although he’d worn the yellow star for years in occupied France. For a project, I met Hitler’s architect Albert Speer at his Heidelberg eyrie in 1971, and he asked if Jane and Serge would sign a copy of Je t’aime] for him. Serge did so, probably relishing the irony, and when he made his Rock Around The Bunker album a few years later [featuring lyrics about Nazi Germany], he gave me a copy _______________ (send) 5 to Speer. His parents had arrived in Paris after _____________ (flee) 6 the 1917 Russian Revolution, and his father – who was a brilliant pianist – had to perform in casinos.”