Consider the following statements about the text, judging if they are true (T) or false (F).

( ) Pressing a placebo button does not bring us any benefits, as we cannot control over a specific system.

( ) Professor Lange proved that is psychologically better to do nothing than to do something.

( ) Even though it has no control over the system, pressing a button when crossing the street creates a sense of closeness to people around you.

The correct order of filling in the parenthesis, from the top to the bottom, is:

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.

Consider the fragment of the text and the following statements:

“A gaggle of commuters assembles inside and outside the train” (l.02).

I. ‘gaggle’ means, informally, a disorderly or noisy group of people.

II. ‘commuters’ designates people who travel some distance to work on a regular basis.

III. ‘assembles’ indicates a crowd that gather together in one place for a common purpose.

Which ones are correct?

– Consider the sentence: “If I’m just standing at the corner, I may not even see the light change” (l.38), and the following statements:

I. It is an example of the first conditional.

II. The modal verb ‘may’ expresses possibility.

III. ‘may’ could be replaced by ‘will’ without causing any difference in meaning.

Which ones are INCORRECT?

Consider the suggestions of word replacement in the text:

I. ‘Yet’ (l.05) could be replaced by ‘Nevertheless’.

II. ‘even though’ (l.25) could be replaced by ‘besides’.

III. ‘Also’ (l.40) could be replaced by ‘Furthermore’.

Which ones DO NOT cause difference in meaning?

Analyse the translations of the sentence “pedestrian crossings all over the UK were the wellspring of placebo buttons.” (l.13-14).

I. Os pedestres que atravessaram o Reino Unido foram considerados abençoados por botões de placebo.

II. Pedestres atravessando o cruzamento na Inglaterra fizeram a festa com os botões de efeitos placebo.

III. Faixas de pedestre em todo o Reino Unido foram a fonte dos botões com efeito placebo.

Which ones are possible?

The expression ‘green-rimmed button’ (l.04):

I. Contains an adverb and a noun.

II. Contains a compound adjective.

III. Could be translated as “botão verde vivo”.

Which ones are correct?

Choose the alternative that presents the interrogative form of the sentence below.

“[_] it affects many more people from the shanty towns [_]”.

Read the following extract, taken from the text, to answer question .

“[_] hungry children are especially vulnerable [...]”.

Choose the noun that has an irregular plural as the word “children”.

Read the following extract, taken from the text, to answer question .

“[_] hungry children are especially vulnerable [...]”.

“Hungry” and “vulnerable” are adjectives. Choose the alternative that contains only words of the same grammatical class.