Verbo to be – Simulado de Inglês

(UNAMA AM/2002)

The verb to be in the sentence shows:

 (UNIFOR CE/2018)    

Complete o texto abaixo com o presente simples ou o presente contínuo dos verbos entre parênteses.

 Profile PRET A MANGER

Pret A Manger __________¹ (be) a UK company and one of the world’s leading sandwich chains. It ________² (sell) freshly made sandwiches in busy city centres. At the end of each day, the shops __________³ (give) any unsold products to the homeless. Currently, Pret ________⁴ (do) very well in south of England.

Pret ________ ⁵(operate) a total of 232 UK outlets, and this year it ________⁶ (plan) new outlets for London. In the US, it ________⁷ (have) 23 outlets in New York and another 10 in Hong Kong.

Pret’s international activities ________⁸ (grow) in importance. This month, as part of the next stage of expansion, Pret ________ ⁹(open) its first two shops in Paris. At the same time, the marketing team ________¹⁰ (work) with Lewis PR, a global PR company, to improve the brands international image.

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(UEFS BA/2014)    

Clever spider

¹ With the help of small pieces of leaf, dead insects ² and other debris, a spider in the Amazon rainforest has ³ created a detailed replica of a spider larger than itself. ⁴ The crafty spider is thought to be a new member of the ⁵ genus Cyclosa, a family of spiders which has created ⁶ decoys before using spare egg sacs. But this new ⁷ spider’s sculpture is the first to have leg-like appendages.

⁸ Phil Torres, a biologist from the Rainforest ⁹ Expeditions, thinks they might have discovered a ¹⁰ completely new species. He says, “When you first see ¹¹ it, it just looks like a spider hanging in a web. It’s about ¹² an inch and an half long. As you approach, it kind of ¹³ looks like a dead spider as well but, as you approach, it ¹⁴ starts to move back and forth. There’s a little spider ¹⁵ hanging on the back of it so you’ll see little pieces of ¹⁶ leaf, little pieces of twig. There’s even a dead insect in ¹⁷ there. There must be very heavy predatory influence that ¹⁸ it would evolve to have such an intriguing defense.”

¹⁹ Mr. Torres will be returning to the Amazon rainforest ²⁰ in January next year to investigate further as this masterful ²¹ spider is yet to be recognized as a new species. Mr. ²² Torres’ discovery will be registered, verified and his ²³ findings published if this spider proves to be biologically ²⁴ different from the known species of Cyclosa.

ZARINDAST, Karen. Clever spider. Disponível em:
<www.bbc.co.uk/ worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
2012/12/ 121224_clever_spider.shtml>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2013.

The crafty spider is thought to be a new member of the genus Cyclosa” (Refs. 4-5)

The equivalent of this sentence in the Active Voice is

People ____ that the crafty spider ____ a new member of the genus Cyclosa.

The alternative that suitably completes the two blanks is

(UNESP SP/2013)    

No trecho do primeiro quadrinho – she’s sick and tired of smelling beer –, ’s pode ser reescrito como

(UFRR/2009)    

Complete the dialogue below by choosing the right option:

A: They_________air traffic controllers.

B: Really? So, what________their jobs?

A: He________a waiter and she________ a bank manager.

(PUC RS/2018)    

London: the city that ate itself

⁰¹ London is a city ruled by money. The things that ⁰² make it special – the markets, pubs, high streets and ⁰³ communities – are becoming unrecognisable. The ⁰⁴ city is suffering a form of entropy whereby anything ⁰⁵ distinctive is converted into property value. Can the ⁰⁶ capital save itself?

⁰⁷ London is without question the most popular city ⁰⁸ for investors,” says Gavin Sung of the international ⁰⁹ property agents Savills. “There is a trust factor. It ¹⁰ has a strong government, a great legal system, the ¹¹ currency is relatively safe. It has a really nice lifestyle”. ¹² There are parks, museums and nice houses. Its arts ¹³ of hedonism are reaching unprecedented levels: its ¹⁴ restaurants get better or at least more ambitious and ¹⁵ its bars offer cocktails previously unknown to man. In ¹⁶ some ways, the city has never been better. It has a ¹⁷ buzz. Its population keeps growing and investment ¹⁸ keeps ______, both signs of its desirability. As its ¹⁹ mayor likes to boast: “London is to the billionaire as ²⁰ the jungles of Sumatra are to the orangutans. It is their ²¹ natural habitat.”

²² At the same time, to use a commonly heard phrase, ²³ the city is eating itself. Most obviously, its provision of ²⁴ housing is failing to ______ its popularity, with effects ²⁵ on price that breed bizarre reactions at the top end ²⁶ of the market and misery at the bottom. Thousands ²⁷ are being forced to leave London because their local ²⁸ authorities can’t find them homes and people on middle ²⁹ incomes can’t acquire a place where anyone would ³⁰ want to raise a family.

³¹ There are also effects beyond housing, although often ³² driven by residential property prices. The spaces for ³³ work that are an essential part of the city’s economy ³⁴ are being squeezed, its high streets diminished, its ³⁵ pubs and other everyday places closing. It is suffering ³⁶ a form of entropy whereby the distinctive or special is ³⁷ converted into property values. Its essential qualities, ³⁸ which are that it was not polarised on the basis ³⁹ of income, and that its best places were common ⁴⁰ property, are being eroded. (…)

⁴¹ This would matter less if the city were making new ⁴² places with the qualities of those now packaged up ⁴³ and commodified – if the supply of good stuff _____ ⁴⁴ expanding – but it _____ not. Although the cranes ⁴⁵ swing, much of the new living zones now _____ created ⁴⁶ range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic. The ⁴⁷ skyline _____ plundered for profit, but without creating ⁴⁸ towers to be proud of or making new neighbourhoods ⁴⁹ with any positive qualities whatsoever. If London is an ⁵⁰ enormous party, millions of people are on the wrong ⁵¹ side of its velvet rope.

⁵² In the rest of Britain, a common view of London is ⁵³ that it is a parasitic monster or, as Alex Salmond ⁵⁴ put it, quoting Tony Travers of the London School of ⁵⁵ Economics: “The dark star of the economy, inexorably ⁵⁶ sucking in resources, people and energy. Nobody quite ⁵⁷ knows how to control it.” Both the SNP and Ukip can ⁵⁸ be seen as anti-London parties, as expressions of a ⁵⁹ feeling that national decisions are made in the capital, ⁶⁰ by the capital, for the capital. Those Scots who want ⁶¹ independence are less concerned about being part of ⁶² the same country as Middlesbrough or Ipswich than ⁶³ they are about London. But these views overlook the ⁶⁴ extent to which the city is feeding on its own.

Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.
com/uk-news/2015/ jun/28/london-the
-city-that-ate-itself-rowan-moore

The alternative that presents all the correct forms to fill in the blanks between reference 43 and 47 are, respectively,

(UNIFOR CE/2006)       

Coughing Kitties

Maryann Mott

Feline asthma [TO BE] a new disease. It was first described in scientific literature more than 90 years ago, says veterinarian Philip Padrid of the Family Pet Animal Hospital in Chicago.

Nicki Reed, a veterinarian at the University of Edinburgh’s Hospital for Small Animals, says that when a coughing cat is brought to the clinic, she must first establish if [ARTICLE] cause is [ARTICLE] infection, asthma, or something more sinister, like a lung mass.

To do this, Reed usually performs an x-ray, takes a lung fluid sample, and conducts a bronchcoscopy _ an examination that uses a flexible microscope inserted into the cat’s airway.

Most of the time, asthma is a mild disease, Reed says. But in some cases cat’s lungs collapse or their ribs fracture due to difficulty in breathing.

“I think if we can identify asthmatic cats quite early and get treatments on board to suppress their cough, then hopefully we can avoid them coming to such extremes,” she said.

(Adapted from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1025_051025_cat_asthma.html)

The correct form of the verb in “Feline asthma [TO BE] a new disease.” is

(UNIFOR CE/2001)     

Robotic Engineers:

Engineers [TO BE] needed to build robots that do everything from assembling machinery to caring for aging parents.

Tech Teachers:

As technology use increases in all industries, more adulteducation teachers are needed to give workers the skills to survive. About half of all adults are currently enrolled in an adult-education class.

Tech Support:

Technology isn’t infallible, and skilled workers who can fix frustrating problems are rarely needed. Estimates show a 222 percentage boost in computer-support jobs by 2008.

(Newsweek, April 30, 2001)

The correct form of the verb to be in the first paragraph is

(UniCESUMAR PR/2018)    

Yikes: Your Blood Type Might Put You at Risk for These Diseases

Here’s what you should do about it.

BY MERRITT WATTS March 18, 2016

Do you know your blood type? Whether you’re A, B, AB, or O — it’s time to learn (your M.D. or parents should have the info handy). Recent studies show certain blood types may be linked to illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Scientists are still unraveling exactly why, but in the meantime, here’s what you should know.

Taking into account the excerpt “Scientists are still unraveling exactly why”, mark what is TRUE concerning its structure.

(ENEM/2014)

George: Hi Paul. This ________ Mariah, my cousin.
Paul: Hello Mariah. I ______ Paul. _______ you a student?
Mariah: No, I __________ a doctor. I work in Atlanta.