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Investigators trying to find out what happened to a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared en route to Beijing on Saturday morning were examining the causes of plane crashes: mechanical failure, pilot error, bad weather. But the discovery that two of the passengers were carrying stolen passports also raised the possibility of criminal violence.
(Adapted from “Passport Theft adds mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Jet”)
GLOSSARY
raised — aumentou, ampliou
The underlined verbs in the text are in the
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The Goose and the Golden egg
There was once ________ Countryman who
possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine,
for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had
laid a beautiful, glittering, Golden egg.
[5] The Countryman took the eggs to the market and
soon began to get rich. But he grew impatient with
________ Goose because she gave him only a single
Golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.
Then one day, after he had finished counting his
[10] money, he thought that he could get all the Golden eggs
at once by killing the Goose and cutting 1t open. But
when he killed her, he didn't find a single Golden egg
and his precious Goose was dead.
(Adapted from “The Goose and the Golden egg”)
GLOSSARY
nest – ninho
ghttering – brilhante
Fill in the blanks, in the text, with the appropriate articles, respectively:
Read the text and answer question.
The Goose and the Golden egg
There was once ________ Countryman who
possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine,
for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had
laid a beautiful, glittering, Golden egg.
[5] The Countryman took the eggs to the market and
soon began to get rich. But he grew impatient with
________ Goose because she gave him only a single
Golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.
Then one day, after he had finished counting his
[10] money, he thought that he could get all the Golden eggs
at once by killing the Goose and cutting 1t open. But
when he killed her, he didn't find a single Golden egg
and his precious Goose was dead.
(Adapted from “The Goose and the Golden egg”)
GLOSSARY
nest – ninho
ghttering – brilhante
“can”, (line 2), gives us an idea of
Read the text and answer question.
The Goose and the Golden egg
There was once ________ Countryman who
possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine,
for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had
laid a beautiful, glittering, Golden egg.
[5] The Countryman took the eggs to the market and
soon began to get rich. But he grew impatient with
________ Goose because she gave him only a single
Golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.
Then one day, after he had finished counting his
[10] money, he thought that he could get all the Golden eggs
at once by killing the Goose and cutting 1t open. But
when he killed her, he didn't find a single Golden egg
and his precious Goose was dead.
(Adapted from “The Goose and the Golden egg”)
GLOSSARY
nest – ninho
ghttering – brilhante
“At once”, in bold type in the text, can be replaced by
Read the text and answer question.
The Goose and the Golden egg
There was once ________ Countryman who
possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine,
for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had
laid a beautiful, glittering, Golden egg.
[5] The Countryman took the eggs to the market and
soon began to get rich. But he grew impatient with
________ Goose because she gave him only a single
Golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.
Then one day, after he had finished counting his
[10] money, he thought that he could get all the Golden eggs
at once by killing the Goose and cutting 1t open. But
when he killed her, he didn't find a single Golden egg
and his precious Goose was dead.
(Adapted from “The Goose and the Golden egg”)
GLOSSARY
nest – ninho
ghttering – brilhante
“enough”, underlined in the text, is
Read the text and answer question.
The Goose and the Golden egg
There was once ________ Countryman who
possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine,
for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had
laid a beautiful, glittering, Golden egg.
[5] The Countryman took the eggs to the market and
soon began to get rich. But he grew impatient with
________ Goose because she gave him only a single
Golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.
Then one day, after he had finished counting his
[10] money, he thought that he could get all the Golden eggs
at once by killing the Goose and cutting 1t open. But
when he killed her, he didn't find a single Golden egg
and his precious Goose was dead.
(Adapted from “The Goose and the Golden egg”)
GLOSSARY
nest – ninho
ghttering – brilhante
Based on the text,