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Questões de Concurso Sobre discurso direto e indireto | reported speech em inglês

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A reporting verb is used according to rules of grammar in sentence:

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Q3325809 Inglês
Which of the alternatives below is NOT an example of a correctly written indirect question? 
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Transform the sentence into indirect speech:
"I will call you tomorrow," she said. 
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'A part of me was crying for freedom': The people embracing their stutter

By Krupa Padhy, BBC


Eighty million people around the world have a natural stammer. Krupa Padhy speaks to those who've decided to embrace it – and discovers surprising benefits.

It was the summer of 2011 and Joshua St Pierre was working in Edmonton, Canada. He was mid-conversation when he realised the other person wasn't listening. It was a moment that changed his life.

St Pierre has a stammer, and until then, had always focused on trying to speak as fluently as he could, to make it more comfortable for others to listen to him. But now, he began to wonder if it was fair for him to be the one doing all the work – and what a more balanced effort might feel like.

"I I I, like most people, spent most of my l lifetime desperately trying to come up to a standard of nooormalcy," says St Pierre, who has asked that his quotes in this article include the words he stammers on. "I was doing a whole lot to try and make other people feel comfortable when it really actually wasn't much about communication itself."

An estimated 80 million people around the world speak with a stammer (also known as a stutter in many countries), meaning, they know what they wish to say, but have difficulty saying the words. Their speech is disrupted by repetitions, pauses or stops. There is still no clear explanation of what exactly causes stammering, but research suggests that the region of the brain responsible for planning and executing our speech functions differently in those with a stammer.

Many children – between 60-80% – who have a stutter will recover spontaneously. But contrary to popular belief, there isn't a permanent fix to overcoming a stammer. Whilst treatment and support are available (such as speech language therapy), a high number of people with  stammers may relapse after completing therapy. It can be a life-long effort to suppress a stammer, something US President Joe Biden has spoken about openly.


As St Pierre notes, however, the physical impact is only one aspect of the condition. Another is social and may be more about how stammering is perceived in the mind of the listener. Studies suggest, for example, that people who stammer openly may be considered anxious, nervous or embarrassing, purely because of that speech pattern. In a paper inspired by his conversation in Edmonton, St Pierre, who is now a researcher in critical disability studies at the University of Alberta, Canada, argues that this social perception of stammering as "broken speech" is not really about the stammer itself. It's about the listener's "cultural norms of efficiency, pace, and self-mastery", and their expectations of what successful communication should be like: succinct and fluent.


"It's not the fact that having d d d dysfluent speech that causes the breakdown,” argues St Pierre. "It's the way in which these forms of speech aren't able to be taken up within the world and heard urm as speech. That's a really cruel thing, and that's a political thing."


St Pierre and others, including some speech therapists, are suggesting an alternative view of stammering: not as a deficiency, but as a way of speaking that is no better or worse than any others.


In fact, stammering openly can have many benefits, says Courtney Byrd, a professor of speech, language and hearing sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, US. She and her team have been working on a model of treatment that encourages people to stammer with confidence, even if others around them see it as a deficiency.


"We encourage stuttering openly for effective communication, because when you are avoiding it, you are essentially stifling your own intellect," says Byrd. "I'm going to say [to people who stutter]: you can be the most effective communicator and still openly stutter. And I'm going to show you the path to that. And I also want you to know that no matter where you live, you are going to encounter highly educated people who are completely ignorant about stuttering, and because they are ignorant they are going to treat you ignorantly. They are going to say things that will hurt, and they'll say things to you out of trying to help you."


Speaking to people with a stammer from different countries and cultures, it is striking how similar some of their experiences are – both in terms of the pain they suffered through due to the prejudices of those around them, but also, the relief of no longer hiding it.


Jia Bin was born in a small village in Sichuan province in southwest China. Her parents were poor, and she felt she was adding to their burden when she began to stammer as a child.


"It came to a point where I hated myself," she says. "There were two forces in me – one was to communicate, the other was not to speak. I feel like I compromised a lot of my authenticity."


Bin chose to leave China, and move to the US, partly because she feared her stutter would never be fully accepted at home. "I was holding down a job, I was married, I gave birth to my daughter before coming to America at 32. I completed what society wants a normal Chinese girl to do, but I was so miserable. There was a part of me crying for freedom. I'd never seen a successful person who stutters in China."


Bin now runs a stammer support group on the Chinese social media platform WeChat, and is studying for a PhD in communicative sciences and disorders at Michigan State University. She no longer hides her stutter, and finds this freeing, but her family still struggles to accept it. Upon a recent trip to China, she decided to stammer openly for the first time at a family gathering. Older relatives gossiped and the children laughed at her. "If you were able to hide it for 30 years, why don't you continue to hide it for another 30 years?" asked her mother.


Classifying stammering as a disability is a divisive subject, because as St Pierre puts it, "the power of ableism is so strong" – meaning, some people with a stammer may not wish to identify as disabled.


 Former Ernst and Young partner Iain Wilkie spent 40 years of his life feeling ashamed of his stammer. He first started stammering at the age of seven and was bullied for it by other children. But in 2022, he gave a TED talk in London in which he described stuttering as a gift: "I'd like to start by telling you that I stutter and I'm ok with that," he began. "It took me 35 years to be ok with that. And I hope it's ok with you."


Wilkie, who heads the charity 50 Million Voices, which offers support to people with a stammer in the workplace, believes those who stammer are a huge pool of under-used talent.


"It's rubbish to think people who stutter can't communicate well," he says. On the contrary, he is convinced that people who stammer are very good with words. "There's great presence, we give each other time, it's like a slow down and we just wait for those words to arrive," says  Wilkie, referring to meetings with colleagues who stammer. "This is the team that listens best. When the stuttered word arrives, it comes with a power and weight."


Ronan Miller has studied the relationship between stammering and language-learning for his PhD at the University of Valencia, in Spain. It's something he has firsthand experience of. As a young adult, he moved from Britain to Spain, to leave behind the stress he had experienced when stammering in English. Now, even though he stammers more in Spanish than in English, he finds freedom in speaking another language.


Miller also finds that people who stammer have a different relationship with language than fluent speakers. "Many of us are used to being quite nimble linguistically as a way of navigating a fluency-centric world, for example by varying syntax or using synonyms to reduce the impact of stammering," he says. "However, I think that for this to happen the needs of students who stammer need to be understood and recognised in the classroom."


As one research paper notes, people with a stammer still face social rejection from childhood through adulthood, with studies documenting wide-ranging discrimination including worse job prospects and lower earnings. As St Pierre points out in his paper on how cultural norms shape ideas of "broken speech", we as a society also have an important part to play in normalising voices that don't sound like our own, for example, by focusing on the speaker's message and intention, not how fluent they are. There is much more to language than just words.


St Pierre has found his own liberation in not just accepting but enjoying his way of communicating. "I now speak thinking about my own pleasure that I find in speaking as opposed to the the displeasure that my l l listeners are going to receive," he says. "So so that's way more important."


 
(Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news)
After reading the article, identify the instance where direct speech is used in the text, and transform it into indirect speech while maintaining the original meaning. 
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Choose the best answer to complete the sentence: Her mom________ Jenny that she couldn’t go to the party.
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Reported speech, a fundamental aspect of English grammar, involves conveying someone else's words or thoughts indirectly. It requires changes in pronouns, tenses, and sometimes word order. Now, consider the following statements:
I.In reported speech, the reporting verb can change from present tense to past tense when the reported statement is about a past event.
II.When reporting statements, modal verbs such as 'can' change to their past equivalents, such as 'could', to reflect the shift from direct to reported speech.
III.Reported speech often entails backshifting, where verb tenses shift back one tense in indirect speech compared to the original direct speech.
It is correct what is stated in:
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Text 2 

(Part II) Students’ skills


But graduation rates, while important, speak little to the quality of education received. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) reviews the extent to which students near the end of their compulsory education (usually around age 15) have acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in modern societies, particularly in reading, mathematics and science.


In 2018, PISA tested students from 79 countries, including OECD countries, Brazil, the Russian Federation and South Africa. The students were tested on their reading ability, their skills in maths and level in sciences. Research shows that these skills are more reliable predictors of economic and social well-being than the number of years spent in school or in post -formal education. The average student in the OECD area scored 488. On average in the OECD, girls scored 491 compared with 485 for boys.


Estonia is the highest-performing OECD country, with average PISA scores of 526, followed by Japan and Korea with 520 points. The lowest performing OECD country, Colombia, has an average score of 406. This means that the gap between the highest and lowest performing OECD countries is 120 points.


 The best-performing school systems manage to provide highquality education to all students. In Canada, Estonia, Finland and Ireland for example, students tend to perform well regardless of their social background. In Israel and Luxembourg however, the gap between the students with the lowest socio-economic background and the students with the highest socio-economic background reaches more than 120 points, suggesting students’ socio-economic background tends to have an impact on their results. On average across OECD countries, there is a widening 89-point difference in PISA scores between the students with the highest and lowest socio-economic background.


https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/education/

If the sentence “. . . PISA tested students from 79 countries.” is transformed into indirect speech, we will have:
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Associate the direct statements with their respective indirect statements.



DIRECT



1 - No, I’m sorry. I haven’t the time.


2 - Could I go to see that film with you?


3 - Be careful if you go walking in the hills alone.


4 - You can be sure I’ll be at the station to meet you.


5 - Why don’t we spend the day walking in the country hills?



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( ) She promised to be at the station to meet him.


( ) She refused to help as she didn´t have the time.


( ) She was warned about walking in the hills alone.


( ) She asked if she could go to see the film with him.


( ) She suggested they spent the day walking in the country hills.




The correct sequence of this association is: 

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Q3426501 Inglês
Consider the transformation from direct to indirect speech. Given the direct speech sentence: "I will go to the cinema tonight," how would it be correctly converted into indirect speech after the phrase: "She said that"?
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Q3403870 Inglês
Transform the direct speech into indirect speech correctly: “Will you join me for dinner?” She asked them.
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The Role of the Teacher in Promoting Intercultural Approaches


Today, it would be an exaggeration to say that cultural diversity is perceived as a problem within education systems, since the teachers, in general, accept it and have positive attitudes towards the contribution of diversity. However, even if it is not a problem within the school, one must nevertheless address its complexity. Cultural diversity is not only an auspicious resource for extra-curricular activities; it has a social dimension with an impact on the life of the pupils and their parents. From this point of view, it seems important to us that teachers are aware of the issues concerning such themes as integration, openness, social justice and equality. Otherwise, it should be said that a certain number of stereotypes persist and their effects should be thoroughly examined within the school.

One of the theoretical foundations which seems productive for us in promoting cultural diversity is culturally relevant teaching. Indeed, further to exploiting otherness as a resource, it subjects it to critical analysis and in this way addresses inequalities connected with cultural, social or ethnic affiliations. This form of teaching addresses inequalities, but also takes the form of an approach to combat them.

Finally, research has demonstrated the advantage of opening the teaching profession to people from diverse origins. Indeed, their knowledge and the resemblance between their own experiences and those of their pupils, particularly those with cultural minority origins, contribute an educational added-value. Furthermore, we believe that the experiences of these teachers may represent a resource for the educational enterprise, while accepting its limits: the need for each individual to choose their own affiliation and not to be assigned an identity that could be detrimental.


(Based and adapted from AKKARI, Abdeljalil; RADHOUANE, Myriam. Intercultural approaches to education: From theory to practice. Springer Nature, 2022.) 
In reported speech, how is the correct form of rephrasing the following statement from the excerpt: "Their knowledge and the resemblance between their own experiences and those of their pupils, particularly those with cultural minority origins, contribute an educational added-value?" 
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Q3367756 Inglês

Convert the following sentence into indirect speech:


Direct Speech: "She said, 'I will finish the report by tomorrow evening.'"

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NO KID-DING Why you should never let your kids take a bag on the plane − even if it's free


(§ 1) A TRAVEL expert has revealed you should never let your kids bring a bag on the plane if you want a stress-free journey.


(§ 2) Experienced flyer, Vanessa Grant recommends parents don't let their kids take a bag with them after sharing her recent experience of travelling with her kids - aged 8 and 11.


(§ 3) "Smart packing is what really saved us," she said.


(§ 4) Vanessa did two long-haul flights with her family from Canada to Indonesia which went smoothly because the kids didn't have bags, she claims.


(§ 5) It is important to "instil a sense of responsibility" in kids however, it is not worth the stress of tracking down a lost backpack __ a busy international airport, according to the travel expert.


(§ 6) Vanessa explained: "The stakes are just too high and even replacing a charging cord can be pricey at a duty-free shop, let alone a whole backpack's worth of stuff."


(§ 7) It is also important to bring the right type of carry-on when travelling with your family, to make your life a lot easier.


(§ 8) A small rolling suitcase is perfect for long-haul flights and "is like the clown car of carry-ons".


(§ 9) Vanessa added: "It fits a change of clothes for three of us, plus toiletries and some snacks."


(§ 10) Instead of storing your carry-on in the overhead bins you should put it __ the seat of your shortest child so they'll be able to rest their feet on it, Vanessa recommends.


(§ 11) This clever hack will stop your child from complaining as it is "uncomfortable to have your legs hanging for hours".


(§ 12) Packing a change of clothes for everyone will ensure you have a smoother journey, according to the experienced flyer.


(§ 13) "Spills and vomiting can happen to anyone," she said.


(§ 14) Vanessa added: "One of my kids lost multiple socks __ the plane and in the hotel.


(§ 15) "Luckily most airlines give passengers a little package including a toothbrush and toothpaste, ear plugs, an eye mask and socks so we had a few extra pairs."


(§ 16) Bringing snacks for your kids can end up saving a lot of money as they likely won't eat all the food offered by airlines, "unless your child is a unicorn".


(§ 17) Vanessa also recommends bringing an empty water bottle you can fill up before getting on the plane.


(§ 18) Most kids on flights are thrilled to get "hours of uninterrupted screen time, both on their tablets and the screens on the back of seats in front of them".


(§ 19) However, screens even for kids can get old quickly.


(§ 20) Parents should bring alternative activities for their children.


(§ 21) Vanessa brought a book, notepad and pens which kept them entertained throughout the flight.


(§ 22) Forgetting either your charger or headphones can spoil the whole journey, the travel expert claims.


(§ 23) Parents will need the chargers to make sure their children can stay entertained on the screens.


(§ 24) "We brought headphones for everyone," Vanessa said.


(§ 25) She added: "No one—including you—wants to hear the sound effects from your kid's favourite video game for hours on end."



https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/26306770/never-let-your-kidstake-a-bag-on-plane/ (adaptado)
Choose the option that contains a sentence in indirect speech:
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Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds

    Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and could disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS. The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet.
    The phenomenon is a striking demonstration of how humanity’s actions are transforming the Earth, scientists said, rivalling natural processes that have existed for billions of years. The change in the length of the day is on the scale of milliseconds but this is enough to potentially disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS navigation, all of which rely on precise timekeeping.
    The length of the Earth’s day has been steadily increasing over geological time due to the gravitational drag of the moon on the planet’s oceans and land. However, the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets due to human-caused global heating has been redistributing water stored at high latitudes into the world’s oceans, leading to more water in the seas nearer the equator. This makes the Earth more oblate – or fatter – slowing the rotation of the planet and lengthening the day still further.
   The planetary impact of humanity was also demonstrated recently by research that showed the redistribution of water had caused the Earth’s axis of rotation – the north and south poles – to move. Other work has revealed that humanity’s carbon emissions are shrinking the stratosphere.
    “We can see our impact as humans on the whole Earth system, not just locally, like the rise in temperature, but really fundamentally, altering how it moves in space and rotates,” said Prof Benedikt Soja of ETH Zurich in Switzerland. “Due to our carbon emissions, we have done this in just 100 or 200 years. Whereas the governing processes previously had been going on for billions of years, and that is striking.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/climate-crisis-making-days-longer-study
Qual destes exemplos está usando discurso indireto?
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Google News, Thursday, June 16, 2021


Teaching methods keep changing with the times,................... the blackboard of the old days ........... electronic teaching today. Mr. Kam, physics instructor the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is one of those who has changed ......... the times.


Mr. Kam employs a two-pronged approach. First, he uses multimedia teaching materials during lectures. Second, he arranges internships for undergraduates. These can take the form of learning assistantships at the university or teaching assistantships at secondary schools, and also there’s always the odd science project at the Space Museum.

The initiatives have earned him the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2020. A CUHK alumnus, he is grateful for the chance to teach at the university after earning his doctoral degree there. His teaching position actually represents the fulfillment of a dream, for the status of professors during his days as a university student was extremely high and he could meet them only during lectures.

After being a teacher for 10 years, Mr. Kam has found no apparent regression in the learning abilities of students, but he believes teachers should not just force knowledge on students - they have to pay careful attention to their needs too. 

The multimedia materials that Mr. Kam uses to illustrate his area of interest includes animation and video clips. He encourages students to read popular astronomy magazines and share any note-worthy content they find. Mr. Kam also gets his undergraduates to help prepare students sitting for physics papers in public exams or to help out on research projects undertaken by meteorological officers at the observatory.

He also arranges for his undergraduates to teach students from other faculties during physics liberal studies classes through talks and star-gazing expeditions. Such responsibilities serve two greater purposes.

First, undergraduates become even more motivated to learn when they find out they have to guide other students. Second, physics students are, unlike arts students, not at their best when called upon to express themselves. Acting as assistants allows them to practice their skills and build up their self- confidence.

I asked Mr. Kam what he found most satisfying in teaching.

And the answer is obvious. It is the deep friendship he forms with students. Mr. Kam says many former students still come back to see him occasionally despite being busy parents. He draws considerable satisfaction from seeing his students grow into mature adults.

For Mr. Kam, the best teachers will never find extracurricular activity a burden because the good work that is done today plants the seed for future generations. 
Choose the alternative that contains the correct indirect form (indirect speech) of the sentence “I enjoyed some subjects more than others. I’ve preferred science subjects.”.
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Q3180955 Inglês

Indirect Speech is used when we want to report what someone said without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words.


Analyze the following sentence:


“If I had any money, I would buy you a drink.”


Choose the alternative that correctly corresponds to its Indirect Speech.

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Discourse markers play a fundamental role in achieving textual coherence by linking ideas and signaling relationships between them. However, their function often depends on the context in which they are used. Analyze the sentences below and select the option where the discourse marker's function is misinterpreted:
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O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão. 


Duct-taped banana artwork sells for $6.2m in NYC


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Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New York - four times higher than pre-sale estimates.


The auction house says Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun outbid six other rivals to get the "Comedian" installation of the Italian visual artist on Wednesday.


"In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience," Mr Sun was quoted as saying.


The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.


"Comedian" was first unveiled to the public in 2019, instantly becoming a viral sensation and also provoking heated debates about what art is.


The installation - which has travelled around the world - comes with instructions on how to replace the banana whenever it rots.


 In fact, the fruit has been eaten not once, but twice.


In 2023, a South Korean art student helped himself when the installation went on display at Seoul's Leeum Museum of Art.


The museum later placed a new banana in the same spot, local media reported.


Four years earlier, a performance artist pulled the banana from the wall after the artwork was sold for $120,000 at Art Basel in Miami.


The banana was swiftly replaced, and no further action was taken.


Justin Sun runs the Tron blockchain network, which facilitates some cryptocurrency transactions. Last year the US Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of fraud, saying he had falsely inflated trading volumes of TRX, Tron's crypto token. Mr Sun denies the charges.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87202v43no

How would the sentence "In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience," be correctly converted into indirect speech? 
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O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão. 


Duct-taped banana artwork sells for $6.2m in NYC


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Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New York - four times higher than pre-sale estimates.


The auction house says Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun outbid six other rivals to get the "Comedian" installation of the Italian visual artist on Wednesday.


"In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience," Mr Sun was quoted as saying.


The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.


"Comedian" was first unveiled to the public in 2019, instantly becoming a viral sensation and also provoking heated debates about what art is.


The installation - which has travelled around the world - comes with instructions on how to replace the banana whenever it rots.


 In fact, the fruit has been eaten not once, but twice.


In 2023, a South Korean art student helped himself when the installation went on display at Seoul's Leeum Museum of Art.


The museum later placed a new banana in the same spot, local media reported.


Four years earlier, a performance artist pulled the banana from the wall after the artwork was sold for $120,000 at Art Basel in Miami.


The banana was swiftly replaced, and no further action was taken.


Justin Sun runs the Tron blockchain network, which facilitates some cryptocurrency transactions. Last year the US Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of fraud, saying he had falsely inflated trading volumes of TRX, Tron's crypto token. Mr Sun denies the charges.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87202v43no

In the sentence, "The installation - which has travelled around the world - comes with instructions on how to replace the banana whenever it rots," what is the function of the discourse marker "whenever"?
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What is the primary advantage of using discourse analysis in foreign language writing instruction?
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81: D
82: D
83: B
84: C
85: A
86: C
87: D
88: C
89: E
90: A
91: X
92: B
93: A
94: D
95: B
96: E
97: C
98: A
99: B
100: B