Questões de Inglês

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[1] Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials
in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none
worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, “All our
work is in vain. We have learned nothing.”
[5] Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long
way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two
thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good
light bulb.”
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According to the text, Thomas Edison

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The story of a blind girl

 

[1]    There was a blind girl who hated herself just because
she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving
boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she
could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.
[5]    One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and
then she could see everything, including her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend asked her, “Now that you can see the world,
will you marry me?”
    The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend
[10] was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her boyfriend
walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying:
“Just take care of my eyes dear.”
Fonte: http://academictips.org/

The underlined verbs, in the text, are in the

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The story of a blind girl

 

[1]    There was a blind girl who hated herself just because
she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving
boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she
could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.
[5]    One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and
then she could see everything, including her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend asked her, “Now that you can see the world,
will you marry me?”
    The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend
[10] was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her boyfriend
walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying:
“Just take care of my eyes dear.”
Fonte: http://academictips.org/

According to the text, all the alternatives are true, except

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The verb “clear”, in the cartoon, can be replaced by

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A Region’s Soccer Strongmen are facing a hard fall
[1] After rising as a governor under Brazil’s military
dictatorship, José Maria Marin became such a towering
figure in the world of Brazilian sports that the
headquarters of the nation’s soccer federation was
[5] recently named in his honor.
Now, the United States Justice Department’s charging
Mr. Marin, 83, and 13 other senior sports officials and
executives across the Americas with taking part in a
sweeping bribery and kickback scheme within FIFA, the
[10] governing body of global soccer.
Of the 14 men named as defendants in the indictment,
all but two of them are citizens of Latin American and
Caribbean nations, a reflection of the investigation’s
focus on corruption in the hemisphere.
(Fonte: www.nytimes.com)

 

GLOSSARY
but: exceto
bribery: suborno
headquarters: sede

All the extracts below, in the text, present a possessive noun, except:

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A Region’s Soccer Strongmen are facing a hard fall
[1] After rising as a governor under Brazil’s military
dictatorship, José Maria Marin became such a towering
figure in the world of Brazilian sports that the
headquarters of the nation’s soccer federation was
[5] recently named in his honor.
Now, the United States Justice Department’s charging
Mr. Marin, 83, and 13 other senior sports officials and
executives across the Americas with taking part in a
sweeping bribery and kickback scheme within FIFA, the
[10] governing body of global soccer.
Of the 14 men named as defendants in the indictment,
all but two of them are citizens of Latin American and
Caribbean nations, a reflection of the investigation’s
focus on corruption in the hemisphere.
(Fonte: www.nytimes.com)

 

GLOSSARY
but: exceto
bribery: suborno
headquarters: sede

All the words below, in the text, are adjectives, except: