Questões de Concurso Comentadas sobre passado simples | simple past em inglês

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Q1721771 Inglês
Select the correct two forms of the verb 'To Forsake’ according to the order: Past simple - Past Participle.
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Q1709568 Inglês
The alternative that contains the correct conjugation of the verb “to be” in the simple past is:
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Q1705162 Inglês

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The Literary Influences of Superstar Musician David Bowie

BY JOHN O'CONNELL ON 10/31/19 AT 5:00 AM EDT


David Bowie was a pop star for most of his career from the 1960s until his death in 2016. He was known for his flamboyant style, songwriting and the ability to artistically turn on a dime. But Bowie, who died of cancer at 69, was more than a multi-platinum rock and roller. He was also one of the more literate composers in the business.

So much so, in fact, that in conjunction with a career retrospective in 2013 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Bowie issued a list of the one hundred books he considered the most important and influential. British music columnist John O'Connell linked this list to Bowie's prolific music. The result? A book called Bowie's Bookshelf out this month from Gallery Books.

William S. Burroughs first made the link between Bowie's lyrics and T. S. Eliot's poetry. In a Rolling Stone interview, Burroughs asked if Hunky Dory's "Eight Line Poem" had been influenced by Eliot's "The Hollow Men." Bowie's reply: "Never read him." But Bowie was definitely exposed to Eliot's influence. "Goodnight Ladies" on Transformer, the album Bowie produced for Lou Reed in 1972, is a riff on the end of the second section, "A Game of Chess," from Eliot's poem "The Waste Land." Eliot, for his part, is deliberately quoting Ophelia's "Good night, sweet ladies" speech from Hamlet. Eliot's method established a new protocol for artistic theft—the modern poet in dialogue with his or her predecessors. Bowie, too, was candid about how much he took from other artists. "You can't steal from a thief," he said when LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy admitted to stealing from Bowie's songs.


Avaiable in : https://www.newsweek.com/2019/11/15, accessed on February 20th, 2020. Adapted.
The tense used in “British music columnist John O'Connell linked this list to Bowie's prolific music.”
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Q1705149 Inglês

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Lessons for Americans, From a Chines Classroom


Observing how Chinese 2- and 3-year-olds navigated a second language, I wondered whether I could have done this for my children.

SHANGHAI — We sat in toddler-size wooden chairs around an orderly circle of Chinese 2-year-olds, busy with circle time. As a parent of three children who collectively spent 15 years in American day care, I am very familiar with circle time.

But I was in this Shanghai classroom as a professor, with college students from many different countries in a class I’m teaching here on children and childhood.

We were observing in a private kindergarten, designed to provide young children — starting at age 2 — with a carefully structured, fully bilingual curriculum, especially important because English language skills are vital for educational success in China.

Visits to Chinese educational institutions allow the college students in my course to get a look at real children and the ways that they learn, while also thinking about Chinese society today. They get windows onto certain slices of this complex country: a high-end private bilingual program that starts with toddlers; a city high school for academically gifted students; a middle school created for the children of the rural migrants who have come by the millions from China’s poorer provinces to work in Shanghai, but whose rights to social benefits are severely limited in the city.

These visits offer the college students insights into many of the social issues facing China, and we spend time in class discussing questions like the huge role that the annual gaokao college entrance exam plays in determining a child’s educational destiny (English is one of the required subjects), the pressures on families that create a culture of cram schools, and the controversies over reserving spots in colleges for kids from rural areas.

But all of those questions have powerful resonances when you think about the issues of childhood education and child development, which have to be addressed in every country. As my college students discuss the different facets of childhood around the world, visiting the Chinese schools also helps them in remembering and thinking about what children look like at different ages, and how they play and interact and learn.


Available in : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/, accessed on February 26th, 2020. Adapted

Read the sentences below and choose one which has a verb in the Simple Past.
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Q1694812 Inglês
Analyze the following sentences regarding the verb tenses and direct or reported speech. Choose the alternative that best describes them and in the correct order:
i. None of them were, leaving global biodiversity in a parlous state, the statement says. (line 4) ii. Thompson said Scotland was set to meet nine of the Aichi goals. (line 34)
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Q1694634 Inglês

Analise as tabelas abaixo:


TABELA 1

I Water boils at 100°C.
II Mary heard the sound of a bell.
III I will drive the car tomorrow.


TABELA 2

A Passado
B Presente
C Futuro


Assinale a alternativa que relaciona a frase da “Tabela 1” ao tempo verbal correto da “Tabela 2”:


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Q1681540 Inglês
Choose the best option and complete the sentences:

1. ________ that movie with Brad Pitt?
2. I _________ home when I saw the accident.
3. They were sleeping when I ______.
4. We ______ TV all night long last night.
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Q1620946 Inglês

Complete the sentence below with the correct verbs. Choose the CORRECT answer.


“The plane _________ to make a strange noise when we _________.”

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Q1620945 Inglês

Complete the sentence below with the correct verbs. Choose the CORRECT answer.


“He _________ breakfast before he _________ his teeth.”

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Q1610892 Inglês
A lot of common verbs have irregular simple past forms. In this sense, choose the right alternative that presents the irregular simple past form of the verbs: know, bring, begin, and do, respectively.
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Q1142885 Inglês

Australia fires: What's being done to fight the flames?

Large parts of Australia __________ (devastate) by the worst wildfires the country __________ (see) in decades, with huge blazes tearing through bush, woodland and national parks. Record-breaking temperatures and months of drought __________ (help) the fires burn an estimated 10 million hectares (100,000 sq km) of land since 1 July.

Bushfire conditions EASED over the weekend, giving fire crews a period of temporary respite. But authorities __________ (say) the huge fires will persist until there is substantial rainfall. More hot weather is __________ (expect) next week and the risk was far from over, they said. Thousands of firefighters are still battling blazes across large swathes of Australia - ranging in size from small fires to infernos burning across hectares of land. Entire towns have been engulfed and residents across several states have lost their homes. At least 28 people have died.

State and federal authorities have been working together to try to stem the spread. While they have managed to contain some within a matter of days, the biggest blazes have been burning for months.

At least 3,700 firefighters are on the ground at any one time across the country during the worst periods, according to the country's state fire services. Most are in the worst-hit states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria. When fires have been at their worst, about 2,700 firefighters have been battling the blazes at any one time in NSW alone. Ben Shepherd, of the NSW Rural Fire Service, said his colleagues had dealt with 4.2m hectares of burning land this season, compared with the typical 300,000 hectares. "It's been an incredibly long campaign," he said.

Fire crews across the country have been joined by 3,000 army, navy and air force reservists who are assisting with search and rescue and clean-up efforts. Further support coming from the US, Canada, and New Zealand, who have sent additional teams and equipment to help.

                                         (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51008051 )

Fill the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in parenthesis:
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Q2026111 Inglês
Read the text below and answer the question that follow:
Text 1:

What makes a school good? (Part I)

Everyone is concerned about the quality of education a school offers, but how is quality measured? We often hear that schools in some countries are excellent, while schools in other countries are filled with problems. What factors should we be looking at to judge how 'good' schools are or aren't? I decided to do some research on the topic to see if I could come up with some answers.

One way of deciding if a school is good is by looking at how many students go on to university when they leave. If you look at all the schools in the world, the country which sends the highest numbers of its students to university is Finland. So, I looked at conditions in Finnish schools to see what made them so successful.

Often you will hear people say that the best schools are those that are strict. So, are the schools in Finland very strict? The answer is no, they aren't. They are usually very informal places with teachers and students sharing ideas. In fact, Finnish schools have a unique way of dealing with students and this could be the reason why they are so successful. While students in many countries spend long hours in school studying boring subjects, lucky students in Finland have short school days and ten weeks of summer holidays.Added to that, lunch is free and there are lots of lessons in sport, music and art.

Also, Finnish schools seem to have a different philosophy. They believe in equality and making school seem like a home away from home, so students feel comfortable and enjoy going there. The aim of the schools is not only to focus on 'good' students but also to provide extra help to students that need it. The result of this is that less able students do much better in Finland than they would in other countries.

Taken from: Chapman, Joanne. Laser B1 +. Teacher's book. Macmillan, 2008.
Notice the use of the past simple in the sentence: “So, I looked at conditions in Finnish schools to see what made them so successful.” (second paragraph)
The past simple is correct in the sentence:
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Q1819123 Inglês
Qual das alternativas abaixo preenche corretamente a lacuna da frase: “I have _____ there several times”?
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Q1757991 Inglês
Language changes all the time. Even though grammar changes more slowly than vocabulary, it is not a set of unalterable rules. There are sometimes disagreements about what is correct English and what is incorrect. 'Incorrect' grammar is often used in informal speech. Does that make it acceptable? John Eastwood, author of Oxford Guide do English Grammar says: "Where there is a difference between common usage and opinions about correctness, I have pointed this out." This information is important for learners. In some situations, it may be safer for them to use the form which is traditionally seen as correct. The use of a correct form in an unsuitable context, however, can interfere with understanding just as much as a mistake. To help learners to use language which is appropriate for a given occasion, students must know that there are usages as formal, informal, literary and so on. Only one alternative has no grammatical error. Which is it?
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Q1743965 Inglês
Last year I ____in Mexico that‘s where I ____ my holiday and that‘s where I ____ that lady I have _____ her name ‘l - o - v - e’ (http://www.classicrocks.com/english-grammar/irregular-verbs.html)
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Q1739951 Inglês
Which of the sentences below expresses the correct use of past simple form?
I- They understanded what the student said in class yesterday. II- The dog bit his finger. III- He throwed the ball at me. IV- The strong wind blew off her hat.
Check the correct alternative:
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Q1739940 Inglês
Which alternative presents the correct option to complete the blanks in the text below, according to cohesion and coherence:
Born in poverty, he moved with his family to Indiana and Illinois. Largely self-taught, he became a lawyer. He served in the state legislature (1834-41), moving to Springfield, during his tenure, and in the U.S House of Representatives (1847-49). A supporter of the new Republican Party in its antislavery stand in 1858 he ____ for U.S. Senate against the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas though he was unsuccessful, their eloquent debates _______ Lincoln to national attention. In 1860 he won the Republican presidential nomination and was elected president. Though Lincoln ____ expressed a moderate view on slavery during the campaign, opposing only its extension into new states, the South seceded and the Civil War began in 1861. The war dominated Lincoln’s administration. To unite the North and influence foreign opinion, he issued the landmark Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. His extraordinary Gettysburg Address later that year further ennobled the war's purpose; it contains the most celebrated language ____ spoken by an American politician. He was re-elected in 1864, and in his eloquent Second Inaugural Address he ______ for moderation in reconstructing the South and in building a harmonious Union. Five days after the war's end, he was shot by the fanatic John Wilkes Booth. His reputation among U.S. presidents remains unsurpassed.
Check the alternative with the correct sequence:
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Q1738395 Inglês
If I__________ you, I wouldn't marry him.
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Q1738386 Inglês
Seven people (ring)_________ while you were out.
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Q1738385 Inglês
I (tear) ___________my shirt when I fell off my bike.
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161: A
162: A
163: C
164: E
165: A
166: D
167: B
168: C
169: D
170: D
171: C
172: B
173: A
174: D
175: A
176: E
177: D
178: C
179: C
180: C