Questões de Concurso Sobre verbos | verbs em inglês

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Q3821062 Inglês
Mark the correct statement about the excerpt “After the samples were returned to Earth” (l. 25). 
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Q3821060 Inglês
Mark the alternative that fills in, correctly and respectively, the blanks in the first paragraph. 
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Q3819000 Inglês
Conversion (or zero derivation) is a word-formation process in which a word changes its grammatical class without any change in form. Identify the sentence in which a word functions as a verb derived from a noun by means of conversion.
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Q3818997 Inglês
The Mandative Subjunctive is a mood used in formal English to express necessity, demand, or recommendation after specific verbs or adjectives. Considering the sentence "The board requires that the motion ___ immediately so that further discussion ___ avoided," select the option that correctly completes the sentence maintaining the formal subjunctive mood. 
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Q3818996 Inglês
Advanced grammar involves understanding the nuances of epistemic modality and the restrictive nature of relative clauses. Mark T (True) or F (False) for the statements regarding these structures.

(__)The modal verb "must" in "He must be exhausted after the marathon" expresses epistemic necessity (logical deduction), not obligation.
(__)In the sentence "The theory, that I described earlier, is complex," the use of "that" is grammatically correct for a non-restrictive clause.
(__)The pronoun "whom" is mandatory, in formal English, when it functions as the complement of a preposition (e.g., "The person to whom I spoke").
(__)The conjunction "lest" is followed by the subjunctive mood or "should", expressing a negative purpose (e.g., "Lest he forget").

Select the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
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Q3818258 Inglês

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence.


“By the end of the week, the committee ______ its final decision.”  

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Q3818254 Inglês
“I have been working on this paper all day.” This sentence is in the:
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Q3818252 Inglês

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentences below.


- A football match starts with a ____________.


- First, you ____________ the website address.


- Every morning, my alarm ___________ at 6:00.  

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Q3818249 Inglês

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence below.


“Why did you stay at a hotel when you went to San Diego? You ___________ with Patrick.” 

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Q3802306 Inglês
“In laboratory simulations, liquid methane condenses rapidly when exposed to sudden drops in pressure, forming transient clouds that resemble those observed on Titan.”
The verb “condenses” in the passage is used as:
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Q3802300 Inglês
        SpaceX has pulled off a successful test flight of its newest generation rocket Starship, reversing a trend of disappointing failures. The world's largest and most powerful rocket blasted off from Texas just after 18:30 local time, for a 60-minute flight. Parts of the engine appeared to explode at one stage, and flaps on the side of the rocket caught fire and swung from side to side. The US space agency Nasa plans to use Starship to send humans to the Moon for its Artemis programme in 2027.

       "Great work by the SpaceX team!!", posted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on X, who is spending billions on developing Starship, with each launch costing an estimated $100m. He will be welcoming the success after three Starship launches ended in failure this year, and one rocket exploded on its test stand in June. Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket built to date, made up of a booster called Super Heavy and the spacecraft Starship.

        The signs were positive from the start of Tuesday's test flight. All of the booster's 33 engines fired up, and after about seven minutes, the booster separated from the spacecraft and fell into the Gulf of Mexico. Starship continued to ascend, reaching a maximum height of almost 200 km above Earth before coasting around the planet. SpaceX said it intended to put the rocket under stress to test its limits, and parts of the rocket's flaps appeared to burn and swing wildly during the descent. The company has designed Starship to one day be a fully reusable transport system capable of carrying people to the Moon and Mars.


BBC News. “SpaceX pulls off Starship rocket launch in muchneeded comeback.” 27 August 2025.
The sentence "SpaceX has pulled off a successful test flight" uses which verb tense? 
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Q4362354 Inglês
Choose the alternative that best completes the text, maintaining semantic coherence, formal tone, and correct use of a phrasal verb.

After years of internal resistance and strategic miscalculations, the company was forced to ______ its traditional business model when emerging technologies began to undermine its market dominance. Although executives initially attempted to dismiss the changes as temporary, mounting financial pressure eventually compelled them to reconsider their longterm strategy.
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Q4362342 Inglês
Which alternative completes the sentence in a way that is grammatically accurate and temporally coherent?

The engineers presented the prototype only after they ______ every limitation identified during the preliminary trials.
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Q4362341 Inglês
Complete the sentence using the past simple form of the verb missing.

The unusually meticulous design of the prototype clearly ______ a level of foresight that was uncommon for the technological standards of the period.
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Q4362338 Inglês
Which option correctly reports the following statement in indirect speech, applying the appropriate tense shift and preserving the original meaning?

“The company became synonymous with film photography because it controlled every stage of the process.”
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Q4257974 Inglês
Should all pupils get the right to an outdoor education week?

Kirsten Campbell


    In a matter of days the government will make a decision that could affect generations of children to come. For many, the Primary 7 outdoor residential trip is one of the highlights of their school days. For some, it is inspirational, even lifechanging. A members bill making its way through the Scottish Parliament would guarantee a week of residential outdoor education for every pupil. When it was put first put forward by Conservative MSP Liz Smith, the Schools (Residential Outdoor Education) (Scotland) bill won majority support, but it faces what could prove to be an insurmountable obstacle. Without government financial backing it looks doomed to fall. And at a time when budgets are already tight, not everyone is convinced such a commitment is the best use of resources.
    Liz Smith, herself a former teacher, says she has seen the benefits of outdoor education first hand and wants to ensure every child gets the opportunity during their time at school. Her proposed new law would mean every pupil in Scotland is entitled to four nights and five days of outdoor education. But while it was backed in principle in March, it cannot proceed unless the government tables a financial resolution - and so far that hasn't happened. Smith believes the experience of outdoor education can be transformative for children. “I think we should be trying to level up, to ensure that young people, whoever they are, whatever their background, whatever their family circumstances, they should have that opportunity.” She argues the benefits are powerful - and backed up by evidence. “The statistics we have show that if they have participated in residential outdoor education, their attendance is better, their behaviour is better, their self-discipline is better.”
    “What could be better than that?”
    But there is a postcode lottery in provision of residential outdoor education, with research for the University of Edinburgh stating that just a third of secondary schools and only a quarter of primary schools offer this type of experience. Thirty minutes from Glasgow, Dounans outdoor education centre, in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, gives school groups a taste of the outdoors. A Primary 7 group from Fife is spending a week taking part in activities like canoeing, tree climbing and raft-building. Harris, 11, was first to climb to the top of a tall tree as his classmates looked on. “When everyone was cheering me on that helped,” he said. “I was proud of myself for doing that because it was really high.” Ten-year-old Orla was next. “I was nervous and shivery and thought it did look pretty high. It was like a feeling of accomplishment - I felt super happy and joyful.”
    One of the biggest problems though is that the experience doesn't come cheap. Liz Smith estimates the policy would cost between £25m and £40m a year. The minister for children, Natalie Don-Innes, told MSPs that was unaffordable and ringfencing cash for outdoor education could be to the detriment of other activities. She said: “Where would you seek to cut funding from in education? Would it be our teachers, our schools, would it be nurseries or our colleges?”
   A Scottish government spokesman said: “Both the education committee and the Scottish government have been clear that outstanding issues on the affordability of the bill, impact on the education workforce and ensuring provision is equitable for children across Scotland, need to be addressed   before a decision can be taken to lodge a motion for a financial resolution.”
     The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) also has concerns about the practicalities, questioning the impact on staffing, the costs of transport and what it would mean for schools' ability to take part in other trips relating to geography, history or the arts. But the Outward Bound Trust believes it would be an investment. It has highlighted the findings of a global study across eight countries, including the UK, which concluded that for every £1 invested in Outward Bound programmes, there is a return of between £5 and £15 in societal value.
     Chief Executive Martin Davidson said: “Outward Bound doesn't teach young people to canoe or to climb, what we teach young people is about themselves. “But we do that through fantastic adventures and outdoor activities that help them learn about themselves and working with others.” The Scottish Parliament will continue to grapple with the issues in both the chamber and in committee over the next couple of days. But time is running out. If the funding issues aren't resolved by the end of the month, the legislation will fall, despite having the backing of most MSPs.

Available on https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4rnjxwjyyo
In the sentence, “The Scottish Parliament will continue to grapple with the issues...”, the use of the Future Continuous tense (“will continue to grapple”) serves to emphasize:  
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Q4240723 Inglês

Cryptography is the process of hiding or coding information so that only the person a message was intended for can read it. The art of cryptography has been used to code messages for thousands of years and continues to be used in bank cards, computer passwords, and ecommerce. Modern cryptography techniques include algorithms and ciphers that enable the encryption and decryption of information, such as 128‑bit and 256‑bit encryption keys. Modern ciphers, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), are considered virtually unbreakable.

A common cryptography definition is the practice of coding information to ensure only the person that a message was written for can read and process the information. This cybersecurity practice, also known as cryptology, combines various disciplines like computer science, engineering, and mathematics to create complex codes that hide the true meaning of a message. Cryptography can be traced all the way back to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics but remains vital to securing communication and information in transit and preventing it from being read by untrusted parties. It uses algorithms and mathematical concepts to transform messages into difficult‑to‑decipher codes through techniques like cryptographic keys and digital signing to protect data privacy, credit card transactions, email, and web browsing.

Cryptography remains important to protecting data and users, ensuring confidentiality, and preventing cyber criminals from intercepting sensitive corporate information. Individuals and organizations use cryptography on a daily basis to protect their privacy and keep their conversations and data confidential. The technique ensures confidentiality by encrypting sent messages using an algorithm with a key only known to the sender and recipient. A common example of this is the messaging tool WhatsApp, which encrypts conversations between people to ensure they cannot be hacked or intercepted. It also secures browsing, such as with virtual private networks (VPNs), which use encrypted tunnels, asymmetric encryption, and public and private shared keys.

Similar to how cryptography can confirm the authenticity of a message, it can also prove the integrity of the information being sent and received. The technology also ensures information is not altered while in storage or during transit between the sender and the intended recipient. For example, digital signatures can detect forgery or tampering in software distribution and  financial transactions.Cryptography confirms accountability and responsibility from the sender of a message, which means they cannot later deny their intentions when they created or transmitted information. Digital signatures are a good example of this, as they ensure a sender cannot claim a message, contract, or document they created to be fraudulent. Furthermore, in email nonrepudiation, email tracking makes sure the sender cannot deny sending a message and a recipient cannot deny receiving it.

There are many types of cryptographic algorithms available. They vary in complexity and security, depending on the type of communication and the sensitivity of the information being shared.

Internet: (adapted).

In the period “Cryptography can be traced all the way  back to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics but remains vital to securing communication and information in transit and preventing it from being read by untrusted parties.”, the modal verb can has the meaning of
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Q4203408 Inglês

Read the following excerpt of a book review:


Machado de Assis is one of Brazil’s most cherished writers. Born in 1839, he was the grandson of freed slaves. ________ was not abolished in Brazil until 1888, when Machado de Assis was already 49 years old, a fact I learned after being _____ surprised by the casual mention of slaves throughout this novel. In spite of his family’s poverty and lack of opportunity for education, Machado de Assis _____ through various bureaucratic positions until finally gaining prominence as a writer and poet. He taught himself French, English, German, and Greek, and eventually founded the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Nevertheless, he has never had a vast following among English-speaking readers, which is a shame.


Dom Casmurro is a simple tale about an aging man named Bento Santiago, who is one day moved to document the story of his life. His life is not all that extraordinary, to be honest. He falls in love with the girl next door, ______ with her and a close family friend to avoid being sent to the seminary, eventually marries and has a son, and then becomes jealous and suspicious. In his old age, where the novel begins, he has taken to living in a reproduction of his ________ home, suggesting a sort of Citizen Kane-type regret (rather, I guess Citizen Kane suggests a type of Dom Casmurrotype regret).


Source: https://cannonballread.com/2023/09/dom-casmurrokimmie/


Choose the option that best completes the gaps in the excerpt: 

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Q4202057 Inglês

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    It has been common in second language teaching to stress the role of interference – that is, the interfering effects of the native language on the target (the second) language. It is of course not surprising that this process has been so singled out, for native language interference is surely the most immediately noticeable source of error among second language learners. The saliency of interference has been so strong that some have viewed second language learning as exclusively involving the overcoming of the effects of the native language. It is clear from learning theory that a person will use whatever previous experience he or she has had with language to facilitate the second language learning process. The native language is an obvious set of prior experiences. For example, a French native speaker might say in English, “I am in New York since January,” a perfectly logical transfer of the comparable French sentence “Je suis a New York depuis Janvier.” Because of the negative transfer of the French verb form to English, the French system has, in this case, interfered with the person’s production of a correct English form.


(Brown, D. 1994. Principles of Language

Learning and Teaching. Adaptado)

Não só o falante francês citado no texto sofre influência de sua língua materna no uso de tempos verbais em inglês. Também o falante de português comete frequentemente erros devido às diferentes formas como as duas línguas expressam suas noções de tempo. Há erro de interferência do português na frase da alternativa
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Q4176419 Inglês
Modal verbs in English express different functions such as logical possibility, ability, necessity, and permission. Considering these uses, choose the alternative in which the modal verb is correctly used according to its function.
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Respostas
441: D
442: E
443: A
444: A
445: C
446: D
447: D
448: E
449: A
450: A
451: B
452: C
453: B
454: B
455: C
456: E
457: A
458: E
459: B
460: B