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Sobre passado perfeito | past perfect em inglês
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The verb tenses used in the sentence is:
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A man stepped onto the overnight train and told the conductor, “I need you to wake me up in Philadelphia. I'm a deep sleeper and can be angry when I get up, but no matter what, I want you to help me make that stop. Here's $100 to make sure".
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.)
Choose the item that does NOT belong in the group.
In the sentence “A crossing in central London had programmed intervals for red and green lights” (l.14-15), the underlined verbal locution is in the ________________. If we put it in the present perfect continuous, it would be written as ______________.
Mark the alternative that correctly and respectively fill in the blanks above.
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 “They had passed Philadelphia a long time ago" the verb tense is a:
I. These bees ___________ kept in a large hive before they were taken out and examined by the beekeeper.
II. A thief came into his house, tied him up, took his money, and left. He ___________ tied up for several hours.
III. John doesn't cook very well. He _____________ helped by his wife.
IV. Amanda is pregnant. She expects her baby ______________ in November.
“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.”

lacunas.
By Brian X. Chen, August 28, 2008
Just as small, fast-moving mammals replaced lumbering
dinosaurs, pocketable gadgets are evolving to fill niches that
larger, deskbound computers can't reach. But as they shrink,
these gadgets are faced with problems mammals face, too,
such as efficiently dissipating heat.
The recent example of Apple's first-generation iPod nanos
causing fires in Japan raises the question of whether
increasingly innovative product designs are impinging on
safety. The nano incident illustrates how risk can increase as
devices decrease in size, says Roger Kay, an analyst at
EndpointTechnologies.
"As [gadgets] get smaller, the tradeoffs become more difficult,
the balance becomes more critical and there's less room for
error," Kay said. "I'm not surprised it's happening to the nano
because that's the small one. You're asking it to do a lot in a
very, very small package and that's pushing the envelope.”
There's no question that industrial designers' jobs have
become much more difficult as the industry demands ever
more powerful and smaller gadgets. With paper-thin
subnotebooks, ultrasmall MP3 players, and pinkie finger-
sized Bluetooth headsets becoming increasingly popular, it's
questionable where exactly designers draw the line between
innovation and safety.

