Questões de Concurso Sobre verbos | verbs em inglês

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Q1278833 Inglês

Observe the paragraph below.

A Friday morning crash ____ all lanes yesterday.

Identify the best option that completes the context.

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Q1278832 Inglês

Read the fragment below.

[…] probably the only thing that _____ worked for me is honesty.

Choose the best option that completes the context.

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Q1278829 Inglês

Read the fragment below:

The actress reveals that she especially ___ because it's a good stress reliever.

Observing the context, choose the best option that completes the sentence.

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Q1278015 Inglês
TEXT

01 At least 100 Sussex children and staff are thought to be
02 suffering from food poisoning after a Christmas meal. A third
03 of all pupils – aged between nine and 13 – and 10 teachers
04 were struck down after eating a turkey lunch on Wednesday.
05 No one is hospitalized. 
From: www.tv411org/reading
The two part verb in the sentence “…and 10 teachers were struck down.” (lines 4) is not:
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Q1278013 Inglês
TEXT

01 At least 100 Sussex children and staff are thought to be
02 suffering from food poisoning after a Christmas meal. A third
03 of all pupils – aged between nine and 13 – and 10 teachers
04 were struck down after eating a turkey lunch on Wednesday.
05 No one is hospitalized. 
From: www.tv411org/reading

According to the article no one is hospitalized. Choose the best option to express advice:


“But I think they ______ be under observation for a while.”

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Q1278010 Inglês

John´s mother used the imperative “Warm it up for ten minutes.” to:


John,

Your dinner is already in the oven. Warm it up for ten minutes.

Love, Mommy

Adapted from: www.tv411org/reading

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Q1278005 Inglês
What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour

Which was a more important innovation: indoor plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones? 

  We’re in the golden age of innovation, an era in which digital technology is transforming the underpinnings of human existence. Or so a techno-optimist might argue. 
  We’re in a depressing era in which innovation has slowed and living standards are barely rising. That’s what some skeptical economists believe.
   The truth is, this isn’t a debate that can be settled objectively. Which was a more important innovation: indoor plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones? You could argue for any of them, and data can tell plenty of different stories depending on how you look at it. Productivity statistics or information on inflation-adjusted incomes is helpful, but can’t really tell you whether the advent of air-conditioning or the Internet did more to improve humanity’s quality of life. […]

(Source: Neil Irwin, at “The NY Times”. Retrieved at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/upshot/what-was-the-greatest-era-foramerican-innovation-a-brief-guided-tour.html)
In the statement “You could argue for any of them” (3rd paragraph), the modal verb COULD is correctly replaced, with no change in meaning, on the following item:
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Q1253821 Inglês

Available at:< http://time.com/5363764/argentina-abortion-vote-progress/html>. Access on: Aug. 10, 2018 

Observe o trecho retirado do Texto II: “This was a vote on whether these abortions should continue to be life-threatening, or whether they should be carried out safely and legally.” (l. 46-47). O auxiliar modal should nesse contexto específico implica:
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Q1253818 Inglês

Available at:< http://time.com/5363764/argentina-abortion-vote-progress/html>. Access on: Aug. 10, 2018 

Observe a seguinte sentença retirada do texto: “(…) generations of feminists who have been fighting for women’s rights for years” (l. 26-27) e assinale a alternativa que descreve o tempo verbal destacado.
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Q1253811 Inglês

Available at:< http://time.com/5363764/argentina-abortion-vote-progress/html>. Access on: Aug. 10, 2018 

A forma verbal que completa a lacuna III (l. 34-35) é:
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Q1253810 Inglês

Available at:< http://time.com/5363764/argentina-abortion-vote-progress/html>. Access on: Aug. 10, 2018 

A expressão verbal que completa a lacuna II (l. 26-27) é:
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Q1253804 Inglês

Available at:< https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/magazine/a-diagnosis-update-a-young-womans-extreme-muscle-pain-persists.html>. Acess on: Aug. 10, 2018 

Se a frase “ She also spoke with doctors and patients who suggested diseases they knew well through professional [...]” (l. 39) fosse escrita no simple present, os verbos destacados seriam substituídos por:
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Q1253803 Inglês

Available at:< https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/magazine/a-diagnosis-update-a-young-womans-extreme-muscle-pain-persists.html>. Acess on: Aug. 10, 2018 

Alguns verbos em inglês são seguidos por preposição ou por partículas adverbiais e pertencem a categorias distintas, de acordo com critérios sintáticos e fonológicos. No critério sintático, a expressão “look for” (l. 29) pertence à categoria de verbo conhecida como:
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Q1253796 Inglês

Available at:< https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/magazine/a-diagnosis-update-a-young-womans-extreme-muscle-pain-persists.html>. Acess on: Aug. 10, 2018 

No trecho “In April, I shared the story of Angel, a 23-year-old woman who for nine years has suffered from repeated episodes of extreme muscle pain and injury” (l. 1-2), segundo o contexto, os tempos verbais foram usados para:
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Q1253772 Inglês
Fair trade – but what’s in it for the world?

 The fair trade movement, which aims ensure that fair prices are paid to producers in developing countries, is one of the true global success stories recent decades. The International Fairtrade Certification Mark, a guarantee that producers are getting a fair price, has become one of the most recognizable logos the world, which 91 percent of customers associate positive values. When the logo first appeared in the UK, the country where the largest number of fair-trade products are sold, nobody expected that the number of certified products would grow from only 3 to over 4,500 in just 18 years. In 2011, people around the world spent more than 6.5 billion US dollars on fair- -trade certified goods, signifying a 12 percent increase in sales from the previous year. This was at a time when most market segments in the developed world were still shrinking or stagnating from the after effects of the 2008 banking crisis. Over 1.2 million farmers and workers living in 66 countries benefit from fair- -trade certification by being able to sell their products at competitive prices, to ensure sustainability.

 Fair-trade initiatives have been growing steadily since the late 1960s, when the fair trade movement started with only a handful of committed individuals in the West who believed there was an alternative to the exploitation of farmers and workers in the developing world. Fair trade ensures fair prices for suppliers, as well as payment of a premium that can be reinvested in the local communities (for example, in schools or sanitation) or in improving productivity. In India, for instance, a group of rice farmers used the premium to buy farm machinery, which meant a 30 percent improvement in production.

 As consumers look for, and recognize, the logo and purchase fair-trade products, they put pressure on companies and governments to do more for global welfare. They also put pressure on supermarkets to sell fair-trade goods at the same price as conventional products, shifting the extra costs involved from consumers to the corporations that collect the profits.

 Critics of the fair trade movement say it is still not doing enough. They stress that the key to long-term development is not in small local improvements, but in moving the developing world from the production of raw materials into processing them, which can bring in greater profit. There are already some signs of this happening. A group of tea growers in Kenya recently set up a processing factory to deliver the final products directly to their customers in the West. By switching from the export of raw tea to boxed fair-trade products, they achieved 500 percent higher profits.

 It is important to realize that, despite all of its benefits, the fair trade movement has its limitations. Some of the poorest farmers can’t afford to pay the certification fees required for each fair-trade initiative, while others work for big, multinational employers that are excluded from participating. Fair trade is certainly a step in the right direction, but there is a lot more we must continue to do in order to help people in the world’s poorest regions.
Study these sentences and decide if they are true ( T ) or false ( F ):
( ) The underlined words “As consumers look for …” can be replaced by ‘seek out’ without changing its meaning. ( ) The words ‘meant’; ‘been’ and ‘started’ are irregular verbs. ( ) “Fair-trade initiatives have been growing steadily since the late 1960s.” The underlined words are in the Present perfect continuous Tense. ( ) “They also put pressure on supermarkets to sell fair-trade goods….” The underlined word is the plural form of “good”.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
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Q1252656 Inglês
Mark the CORRECT alternative according to the correct grammar use of the Infinitive and Gerund forms:
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Q1252651 Inglês

Read the text and mark the CORRECT alternative form question:


Windsurfing around Britain


   Kevin Cookston, a 23-year-old engineering student, has been keen on windsurfing for many years. Recently, he set a new record for travelling all the way round the coast of Great Britain on a windsurf board.

   'I don‟t really know why I did it,‟ says Kevin, ‟just for the fun of it, I suppose. It was there to be done, that was all.‟ Despite lacking both the obsessive ambition and the funds that normally go with attempts to break records, Kevin made the journey in eight weeks and six days, knocking one week off the previous record set in 1984.

   Leaving from Exmouth in the south-west of England, Kevin travelled up the west coast of England and Wales, before going round the top of Scotland and then coming back down the other side. The journey officially covered 2.896 kilometres, although given the changes of direction to find the right wind paths, the actual distance Kevin travelled is probably closer to 4.000 km.

    Kevin fitted his fitness training in around his final year university examinations. ‟I didn‟t have that much time to prepare,‟ he explains. ‟But I went running often and supplemented that with trips to the gym to do weight training. I found I got a lot better during the trip itself actually. At the start, I was tired and needed a rest after four hours, but by the end I found I could do ten hours in a row no trouble.‟

   Kevin had a budget of £7.000 to cover the whole expedition. The previous record had been set with a budget twice that size, while a recent unsuccessful attempt had cost £40.000. Budgets have to meet the cost of fuel, food and accommodation for the support team, as well as the windsurfer's own equipment and expenses.

   Previous contenders had been accompanied by a boat on which they slept at night, as well as a fleet of vehicles on land to carry their supplies. Kevin made do with an inflatable rubber boat and an old van manned by four friends who followed his progress. Overnight arrangements had to be found along the way. Apart from the odd occasion when they enjoyed the hospitality of friends, the team made use of the camping equipment carried in the van, and slept on the beach.

   When asked if his athlete‟s diet was a closely kept secret, Kevin replied that he ate a lot of pasta and added the odd tin of tuna to keep up his energy. ‟Basically, we had anything that was on special offer in the nearest supermarket, he confided.

  Such a prolongued period of gruelling windsurfing made relaxation important however, and for this, Kevin favoured the pub method. This also provided social opportunities.“The people we met were really encouraging he recalls“. 'They thought what we were doing was really great. It was hard work, but we had a lot of fun along the way“. 

   Kevin has been windsurfing since he was thirteen years old and he is also a highly-ranked competitor at national level. ‟I don‟t know where I‟m ranked now,‟ he says, `because I‟ve missed a lot of important competitions this year. But what I did has more than made up for that and I‟ll be doing my best to be up there amongst the winners once I get back into the competitive sport next season‟. Given his unique achievement this year, Kevin seems well-placed to take on the world‟s top windsurfers. 


Fonte: First Certificate Practice Tests Plus 1, pg 116 Kenny/ Luque-Mortimer, Ed. Longman


What does the phrasal verb “made do with” in paragraph 6 mean?
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Q1248518 Inglês
Which of the following options displays a correct spelling in both words?
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Ano: 2018 Banca: FUNDEPES Órgão: Prefeitura de Lagoa Santa - MG
Q1230134 Inglês
TEXT 2 The taxi, an old Rover smelling of old cigarette smoke, trundled along the empty, country road at an unhurried pace. It was early afternoon at the very end of February, a magic winter day of bitter cold, frost, and pale, cloudless skies. The sun shone, sending long shadows, but there was little warmth in it, and the ploughed fields lay hard as iron. From the chimneys of scattered farmhouses and small stone cottages, smoke rose, straight as columns, up into the still air, and flocks of sheep, heavy with wool and incipient pregnancy, gathered around feeding troughs, stuffed with hay. Sitting in the back of the taxi, gazing through the dusty window, Penelope Keeling decided that she had never seen the familiar countryside look so beautiful. The road curved steeply; ahead stood the wooden signpost marking the lane that led to Temple Pudley. The driver slowed and with a painful change of gear, turned, bumping downhill between high and blinding hedges. Moments later they were in the village, with its golden Cotswold stone houses, newsagent butcher, the Sudeley Arms, and the church – set back from the street behind an ancient graveyard and the dark foliage of some suitably gloomy yews. There were few people about. The children were all in school, and the bitter weather kept others indoors. Only an old man, mittened and scarved, walked his ancient dog. “Which house is it?” the taxi driver inquired over his shoulder. She leaned forward, ridiculously excited and expectant. “Just a little way on. Through the village. The white gates on the right. They’re open. There! Here we are.” He turned in through the gates and the car drew up at the back of the house. She opened the door and got out, drawing her dark blue cape around her against the cold. She opened her bag and found her key, went to unlock the door. Behind her, the taxi driver manhandled open the boot of the car and lifted out her small suitcase. She turned to take it from him, but he held on to it, somewhat concerned. “is there nobody here to meet you?” “No. Nobody. I live alone, and everybody thinks I’m still in the hospital.” “Be all right, will you?” She smiled into his kindly face. He was quite young, with fair bushy hair. “Of course.” He hesitated, not wishing to presume. ‘If you want, I’ll carry the case in. Carry it upstairs, if needs be.’ “Oh, that’s kind of you. But I can easily manage…” “No bother.” He told her, and followed her into the kitchen. She opened the door, and led him up the narrow, cottage stairs. Everything smelt clinically clean. Mrs. Plackett, bless her heart, had not been wasting time during the few days of Penelope’s absence. She quite liked it when Penelope went away, because then she could do things like wash the white paint of the bannisters, and boil dusters, and buff up the brass and silver. Her bedroom door stood ajar. She went in, and the young man followed her, setting her case on the floor. “Anything else I can do?” he asked. “Not a thing. Now, how much do I owe you?” He told her, looking shamefaced, as though it were an embarrassment to him. She paid him, and told him to keep the change. He thanked her, and they went back down the stairs. But still he hung about, seeming reluctant to leave. He probably, she told herself, had some old granny, of his own, for whom he felt the same sort of responsibility. “You’ll be all right, then?” “I promise you. And tomorrow my friend Mrs. Plackett will come. So then I won’t be alone anymore.” This, for some reason, reassured him. “I’ll be off then.’” “No trouble.” PILCHER, Rosamund. The shell seekers. London: Coronet Books, Hodder and Stoughton,1989. p. 9-11.
In the phrase “Only an old man, mittened and scarved”, the two words “mittened” and “scarved” are
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Ano: 2018 Banca: CONPASS Órgão: Prefeitura de Santa Cruz - RN
Q1230109 Inglês
Check the correct answer to fill in the blanks.
My mother ____ already ____ ten books.
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Respostas
2301: E
2302: E
2303: C
2304: E
2305: B
2306: A
2307: A
2308: B
2309: B
2310: A
2311: B
2312: B
2313: B
2314: D
2315: C
2316: A
2317: A
2318: A
2319: A
2320: A