Questões de Inglês - Grammar - Verbs - Gerund and present participle
30 Questões
Questão 8 485538
FAG Demais Cursos 2018/2Complete the sentence below with the correct verbs. Choose the CORRECT answer.
I ______ you in the park yesterday. You ______ on the grass and ______ a book.
Questão 18 317113
ACAFE Medicina 2013/2Brazilian medical council condemns plan to bring in 6,000 Cuban doctors
Published by The Guardian (The text below has been slightly modified to better suit the exam)
1. Brazil plans to hire 6,000 Cuban doctors to serve in remote parts of the country where medical services are deficient or nonexistent, despite controversy over the quality of their training.
2. The Brazilian foreign minister, Antonio Patriota, said negotiations were under way involving the Washington-based Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) to allow the Cuban doctors to practice in Brazil.
3. Brazilian medical associations have opposedCuban-trained doctors practicing in their country, arguing that standards at Cuba's medical schools are lower than in Brazil and equivalent in some cases to a nursing education.
4. Over the past decade Cuba's communist government has sent 30,000 doctors to work in poor neighbourhoods of Venezuela, Havana's closest political ally in Latin America, under an agreement reached with the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez that involved an exchange of medical services for cheap oil.
5. The Cubans are expected to be sent to poor corners of the northeast of Brazil and the Amazon jungle, where Brazilian doctors are reluctant to serve.
6. "Cuba is very proficient in the areas of medicine, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology and Brazil is considering receiving Cuban doctors in talks that involve PAHO," Patriota said at a news conference with the Cuban foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez.
7. The Federal Council of Medicine, a body that represents doctors in Brazil, said the proposal was "irresponsible" as the Cuban doctors' "technical and ethical quality was in doubt". It issued a statement demanding foreign doctors be recertified in Brazil before being allowed to practice.
8. Patriota said the plan would strengthen ties between Havana and Brasília that have expanded since the leftist Worker's party came to power a decade ago.
9. He said Brazil would pay for the modernisation of five airports in Cuba, where Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht is already building a container terminal at the port of Mariel.
10. On Monday, Brazil's trade minister Fernando Pimentel signed an agreement in Havana setting conditions for a $176m (£113m) loan from its giant development bank BNDES to upgrade and expand the airports of Havana, Santa Clara, Holguín, Cayo Coco and Cayo Largo.
What are the past participle forms of the verbs bring (title) and strengthen (eighth paragraph)?
Questão 49 10781639
UFN Verão 2023Fonte: https://musebycl.io/advertising/klarna-gets-veryvery-swedish-loony-first-ads-us-market
A campanha publicitária da imagem é da empresa Klarna, uma empresa sueca de pagamentos. Campanhas utilizam tanto a linguagem verbal quanto não verbal para atrair futuros clientes. Sobre a linguagem usada na propaganda, é possível afirmar:
I. Na expressão Swedish for smoother shopping, o termo Swedish é um substantivo.
II. O adjetivo smoother, em grau comparativo de igualdade, relaciona-se com a textura do uso da cor rosa na imagem.
III. O termo shopping é um verbo e está no gerúndio.
IV. O adjetivo smoother poderia ser substituído, sem mudança de significado, para o adjetivo easier.
As alternativas corretas são:
Questão 50 6307418
UNITINS Tarde 2020/1Leia o trecho da notícia “Amazon fires: what is happening and is there anything we can do?” publicada no jornal The Guardian e responda às questões.
What is happening in the Amazon? Thousands of fires are burning in Brazil, many of them in the world’s biggest rainforest, which is sending clouds of smoke across the region and pumping alarming quantities of carbon into the world’s atmosphere.
Does this happen every year? Yes, but some areas have suffered far more than usual. In the worst-affected Brazilian state of Amazonas, the peak day this month was 700% higher than the average for the same date over the past 15 years. In other states, the amount of ash and other particulates in August has hit the highest level since 2010.
What is the cause? Most of the fires are agricultural, either smallholders burning stubble after harvest, or farmers clearing forest for cropland. Illegal land-grabbers also destroy trees so they can raise the value of the property they seize. But they are manmade and mostly deliberate. Unlike the huge recent blazes in Siberia and Alaska, the Amazon fires are very unlikely to have been caused by lightning.
Fonte: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/23/ amazon-fires-what-is-happening-anything-we-can-do. Acesso em: 24 set. de 2019.
O gerúndio na Língua Inglesa é caracterizado pelo acréscimo do –ING ao verbo. Entretanto, muitas vezes essa terminação não indica gerúndio, mas sim, adjetivos ou mesmo substantivos.
Assinale a alternativa que não corresponde ao verbo no gerúndio, de acordo com o contexto do texto.
Questão 48 4017236
FMJ 2020Leia o texto para responder à questão.
Internet celebrities in Asia: from behind the screens
As darkness falls over Taipei City, an image of a woman illuminates the night sky. She’s one of Taiwan’s most famous live streamers, a niche group of celebrities who earn their fame through front-facing video cameras. Her face beams from a 100-foot-tall billboard overlooking Taipei. Across Asia, countless other live streamers joke, eat, and sleep while being watched by thousands on smart phones and computer screens. The most successful among them can make fortunes enough to buy their own islands.
After a long day’s work, Junji Chen treasures time spent gazing into the eyes of his personal favorite, Yutong. Having moved away from his village to work in Taipei, the 42-year-old has little social life. Most of his relationships are with Facebook friends, many of whom he has never met in person — and with live streamers.
Yutong cannot see Chen or hear his voice but, to him, their connection feels raw, real, maybe even reciprocated. In the comment’s section, he can flatter her with compliments or send her money in the form of virtual stickers. One sticker can cost thousands of dollars, a steep price for a factory worker. But for lonely viewers like Junji, who spends a third of his salary on virtual stickers, the companionship is worth it.
A streamer’s job can cause physical and mental harm. Peak hours are late at night, meaning irregular sleep schedules and fatigue. Some become isolated from friends and family or grow depressed. In Korea, live streamers who eat large quantities of food in front of the camera — known as Mukbang — are prone to obesity. Because a live streamer’s success depends on their digital popularity, they may continue unhealthy behaviors to please their fans. Once intimacy is lost, so is their source of income — even though, financially, few can live off the industry alone.
Live streaming fans can manifest “parasocial relationships,” one-sided friendships that appear reciprocated, with their favorite live streamers. For a person who lacks social skills, parasocial relationships can create the illusion of companionship when, in reality, the other person offers them little or nothing in return.
Fans believe that they are truly cared for, says Jerome Gence, who photographed live streamers and their fans throughout Asia, but “in the end, [the live streamer] just takes the money and the fan ends up even more lonely than before.” Still, he adds, some fans still say the videos help cultivate friendship, or even love. “Some fans say to us, ‘I follow the live streamer because they are the only one who knows my name.’”
(Claire Wolters. www.nationalgeographic.com. 31.07.2019. Adaptado.)
According to the fourth paragraph, streamers may persist with an unhealthful lifestyle because they
Questão 21 11552754
UNIG Nova Iguaçu 2019/2TEXTO:
Bigger yet Better
On ‘magic island,’ a virtuous cycle began with a ban on heavy industry
One of the sad truths of the developing
world is that an urban population boom has
so often been bad news. From Jakarta to Rio
de Janeiro, more people have typically meant
[5] more ghettoes, more crime, and less economic
life. That’s one reason urbanites in big cities are
moving to places like Florianópolis, an island city 700
kilometers south of São Paulo, where bigger doesn’t
always mean worse.
[10] Between 1970 and 2004, Florianópolis’s
population tripled. So did the number of slums. But
the local economy grew fivefold, and incomes grew
in step. Opportunity seekers, urban and rural, white
collar and blue, arrived in large groups. With a hundred or so
[15] beaches lining the “magic island,” tourism is thriving.
And while many Brazilian cities are struggling to
graduate from smokestacks to services, Florianópolis
is succeeding. Thanks in part to a federal rule that for
decades barred heavy industry on the island, town
[20] officials promoted cleaner public works, and now it
has a network of public and private universities that
make this one of the most scholarly cities in Brazil.
To tend to the demanding academic crowd, the city
invested heavily in everything from roads to schools,
[25] and now Florianópolis ranks high on every development
measure, from literacy (97%) to electrification (near
100%). By the late 1990s, private companies were
flocking to the island, or emerging from a technology
“incubator” at the federal university. (Among its
[30] innovations: the computerized voting machines that
have made Brazilian elections fraud-free and efficient.)
Local officials now say their goal is to be the Silicon
Valley of Brazil, with beaches. Don’t count them out.
MARGOLIS, Mac. Newsweek, New York, p. 56July 3/10 s.d Adaptado.
The word “struggling” (l. 16) is closest in meaning to
Pastas
06