Questões de Concurso Sobre verbos | verbs em inglês

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Q1696776 Inglês
Read the following sentences and complete, respectively, with the appropriate verbs.

I. “At the touch of love everyone ______ a poet.”
II. “Don’t let yesterday ______ up too much of today.”
III. “Blessed are the curious for they ______ have adventures.”
IV. “The journey, not the arrival _______.”
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Q1694827 Inglês
Analyze the excerpts below regarding verb tenses respectively in the order they appear:
i. “[…] that’s how we’re going to meet those targets.” (line 12) ii. The Aichi biodiversity goals for 2020 included removing all incentives or subsidies harmful to nature (line 19, 20) iii. […] which will now be opened to signatories worldwide […] (line 24) iv. […] but the UK is not yet meeting the targets […] (lines 34, 35)
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Q1694818 Inglês
The document was drafted for the latest round of talks on the Convention of Biological Diversity, which had been due to take place this autumn in China but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. It has been rescheduled for next year. (lines 17, 18, 19)
The extract has four (4) underlined elements, analyze them carefully and choose the alternative that best describe them:
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Q1694815 Inglês
“The current approach is bust,” said Prof Des Thompson, principal science adviser at NatureScot, Scotland’s conservation agency, which contributed to the declaration process run by the Scottish government. “What we need to do is work with local communities, local governments and local communities – that’s how we’re going to meet those targets.” (lines 9 – 12) 
Analyze the items below and choose the appropriate alternative:
i. Scotland’s conservation agency ii. that’s how iii. we’re
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Q1694814 Inglês
“The current approach is bust,” said Prof Des Thompson, principal science adviser at NatureScot, Scotland’s conservation agency, which contributed to the declaration process run by the Scottish government. “What we need to do is work with local communities, local governments and local communities – that’s how we’re going to meet those targets.” (lines 9 – 12) 
After reading the extract, choose the best option:
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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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Q1694810 Inglês
The worldwide effort to combat critical levels of biodiversity loss will fail without far greater involvement from local communities, according to an international declaration. (lines 1, 2)
Which verb tense is seen in the excerpt?
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Q1694636 Inglês
Considere a frase abaixo: He is a music teacher. A negação está corretamente apresentada em:
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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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Q1694244 Inglês

Newly discovered primate 'already facing extinction'


   The Popa langur, named after its home on Mount Popa, is critically endangered with numbers down to about 200 individuals.
   Langurs are a group of leaf-eating monkeys that are found across south east Asia.
   The newly described animal is known for its distinctive spectacle-like eye patches and greyish-coloured fur. It is at risk from habitat loss and hunting.
   Scientists have long suspected there might be a new species in Myanmar, based on DNA extracted from the droppings of wild monkeys, but evidence has been hard to find. 

(Adaptado de https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54894681)

O negativo da frase “Scientists have long suspected” é:
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Q1694193 Inglês


(Avaliable in: https://theplaylist.net/matrix-4-keanu-reeves-script-20200608/ – text adapted specially for this test). 

About the sentence “That’s the only reason to do it” (l. 10) it is possible to say:

I. The verb “do” is in the infinitive form. II. The verb “do” is in the gerund form. III. The noun “reason” must be followed by “to”.

Which statements are correct?
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Q1694106 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


Parker Solar Probe: How Nasa is trying to 'touch' the Sun


   Nasa is all set to launch one of the most ambitious missions in its history. It's sending a satellite called the Parker Solar Probe into the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Scheduled for launch on Saturday, the spacecraft promises to crack some longstanding mysteries about our star's behaviour.

(Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-45113552).

In the text, the verbal tense of “the spacecraft promises” is:
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Q1694103 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching


   Octopus arms have minds of their own. Each of these eight supple yet powerful limbs can explore the seafloor in search of prey, snatching crabs from hiding spots without direction from the octopus’ brain. But how each arm can tell what it’s grasping has remained a mystery.

   Now, researchers have identified specialized cells not seen in other animals that allow octopuses to “taste” with their arms. Embedded in the suckers, these cells enable the arms to do double duty of touch and taste by detecting chemicals produced by many aquatic creatures. This may help an arm quickly distinguish food from rocks or poisonous prey, Harvard University molecular biologist Nicholas Bellono and his colleagues report online October 29 in Cell.

   The findings provide another clue about the unique evolutionary path octopuses have taken toward intelligence. Instead of being concentrated in the brain, two-thirds of the nerve cells in an octopus are distributed among the arms, allowing the flexible appendages to operate semiindependently.


(Adapted from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/octopus-taste-touch-arm-suckers). 

The negative form of the phrase “Octopus arms have minds of their own” is:
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Q1694102 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching


   Octopus arms have minds of their own. Each of these eight supple yet powerful limbs can explore the seafloor in search of prey, snatching crabs from hiding spots without direction from the octopus’ brain. But how each arm can tell what it’s grasping has remained a mystery.

   Now, researchers have identified specialized cells not seen in other animals that allow octopuses to “taste” with their arms. Embedded in the suckers, these cells enable the arms to do double duty of touch and taste by detecting chemicals produced by many aquatic creatures. This may help an arm quickly distinguish food from rocks or poisonous prey, Harvard University molecular biologist Nicholas Bellono and his colleagues report online October 29 in Cell.

   The findings provide another clue about the unique evolutionary path octopuses have taken toward intelligence. Instead of being concentrated in the brain, two-thirds of the nerve cells in an octopus are distributed among the arms, allowing the flexible appendages to operate semiindependently.


(Adapted from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/octopus-taste-touch-arm-suckers). 

The contracted form presented in the phrase “But how each arm can tell what it’s grasping has remained a mystery” is correctly replaced by: 
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Q1692845 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta uma frase no tempo verbal futuro:
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Q1692844 Inglês

Considere a frase abaixo:

Jonathan collects golden coins.


A forma negativa é:


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Q1692535 Inglês
GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
“I can’t breathe.”
The modal verb in the phrase above express
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Q1692530 Inglês
GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him.”
Which sentence below has the same justification about the use of -ing as in the one above?
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Q1692529 Inglês
GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
What is the verb tense in the sentence below?
[...] A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating... [...]
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Q1681541 Inglês
Choose the best option and complete the sentences:

1. He ______ me lunch yesterday.
2. Did you _____ the question?
3. They didn’t _____ to California.
4. We ______ squash at lunch yesterday.
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Respostas
1921: D
1922: D
1923: A
1924: E
1925: D
1926: A
1927: D
1928: C
1929: D
1930: B
1931: A
1932: A
1933: B
1934: B
1935: D
1936: C
1937: B
1938: A
1939: C
1940: D