THE PERFECT TENSES

INGLÊS - 3o ANO
MÓDULO 21
THE PERFECT TENSES
Como pode cair no enem
(MACKENZIE)
Snoring - Half of men over 50 do it, but the real danger comes from apnea
Marcel Ascue used to snore so loudly that his 5- year-old son Nathan made a joke of ZZZing whenever he came near. Tired of being a punch line (and just plain tired), Ascue, 44, finally
went to the doctor and found he had sleep apnea. Last month he started sleeping with a mask,
hooked to an air pressurizer, that covers his nose and forces a steady stream of air down his
throat. The jokes haven’t stopped yet - now his wife quips that she’s sleeping with Darth Vader
- but at least the snoring has.
Ascue’s story might amuse people who don’t snore or have bed partners who do. But
that’s not many people. By 50, half of men and a quarter of women snore; 10 to 20 percent of
Americans seek treatment for snoring each year. The numbers are expected to jump as baby
boomers age, since snoring is a side effect of growing old, gaining weight and losing muscle
tone. During the day the brain keeps the throat muscles taut and the airway open. When sleep
descends, the muscles relax and vibrate as air rushes by.
(Mary Carmichael, Newsweek - adapted)
The same verb tense used in “The jokes haven’t stopped yet” is appropriately used in:
a) The books have been read last week.
b) They’ve done that before.
c) The noise has stopped when I went to bed.
d) The film has started at 6:00 p.m. before long.
e) We’ve seen each other the night before.
Fixação
(UNIRIO)
The world comes to London
Net immigration into Britain is higher than it has
- ever been. Good.
London now has a higher inflow of foreigners
, than do either New York or Los Angeles. More are
s coming, and staying, than ever before. According
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to many voices in the papers, politics and pressure
groups, this must be a time-bomb.
For 20 years, until the early 1990s, net immigration to Britain hovered around the zero mark, plus
or minus 50,000. Then numbers started rising. The
end of the cold war led to civil conflicts that drove
people out of their homelands.
Growing prosperity gave more and more people
access to air travel. The trains through the Channel Tunnel, which started running in 1993, offered
them another route into Britain.
And there were good reasons to come to Britain. Its economy has done better, over the past
ten years, than those of the other big European
countries. London was the magnet. Big Bang – the
liberalization of the financial services industry in the
late 1980s – led to a decade-long boom in the City.
That meant jobs not just for American and French
bankers, but also for Colombian and Somali cleaners. London, where the police never check your
identity papers, is a great place for a foreigner, legal
or illegal. Anybody can find a comforting bunch of
people of their own nationality somewhere in the
city. Anybody can turn up one evening and find a
job, of some sort, the next morning. Anybody can
disappear.
Getting in became easier, too. The government has
encouraged immigration by issuing more work permits,
specially in areas where skills are in short supply –
nurses, doctors, IT professionals, for instance. In the
mid-1990s, around 30,000 work permits a year were
being issued. In 2002, 137,500 were. More people have
been given asylum; and, as the system got bogged
down, more people have waited longer while their applications were processed. So, by 2001, net migration to
Britain as a whole had risen to 172,000, with 120,000 of
them bound for London and the South-east. And they’re
only the legal ones.
(Adapted from The Economist, 2003)
Vocabulary:
inflow:
foreigner:
hovered:
route:
bunch:
issuing:
asylum:
bogged down:
Responda em português
1) Qual é o nome que muitos políticos e grupos de pressão
dão ao fluxo migratório para Londres hoje em dia?
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
Fixação
2) Dê dois motivos para as pessoas preferirem migrar para a Grã-Bretanha, de acordo com o
texto.
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
Fixação
3) Qual o atrativo para os imigrantes ilegais optarem pela Grã-Bretanha?
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
Fixação
Answer in English
4) In which areas has the British government encouraged immigration?
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
Fixação
5) What do the following population counts refer to?
30,000:______________________________________
137,500:______________________________________
172,000:______________________________________
120,000:______________________________________
Fixação
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6) Practice some very useful travel-related vocabulary:
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a) Is there anything ____________ (worth/good) seeing ( = anything interesting) in this part ofi
the city?
a
b) I gave him $20, and he was supposed to give me $10 back. He only gave me $5. He didn’tb
give me enough ____________ (change/remainder) back.
c
c) How much are the ____________ (tickets/entry) for this concert?
d
d) It’s too far to walk. You should take a ____________ (cap/cab). ( = taxi)
e
e) Someone ____________ (stole/robbed) my wallet! I can’t see it anywhere.
f) Is it ____________ (safe/secure) to walk around here at night?
g) The Eiffel Tower is one of Paris’ main ____________ (attributes/attractions).
h) You don’t have to buy tickets in ________________ (advance/advantage). You can buy them
on the train.
i) Does this bus ____________ (go/drive) to Chicago?
j) Where’s the nearest gas(US)/petrol(UK) ____________ (provider/station)?
Fixação
7) (UNESP) As the IELTS tests all four skills, it ___________ worldwide to assess proficiency
in English.
a) is
tb) has used
c) had been used
d) has been using
e) has been used
Fixação
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8) (UFSM) Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente os espaços no trecho a seguir. 9
Britain __________ been an industrialised nation for two centuries. It _________ a varietyW
of industries __________ can be divided __________ three main categories.
a) has - has - which - into
a
b) have - has - who - in
b
c) has - have - which - in
c
d) have - has - who - into
d
e) has - has - who – in
e
Fixação
9) (UFF) “Even HAD we KNOWN from the beginning he was suffering from yellow fever it
yWOULD NOT HAVE CHANGED the treatment”.
The verb phrases in bold indicate that the change in treatment:
a) will happen in future
b) may happen in future
c) could have happened but didn’t
d) can happen but will not any way
e) might still happen
Fixação
10) (MACKENZIE) Indicate the alternative that best completes the following sentence. “WHEN
THE MANAGER ARRIVED, THE PROBLEM ________.”
a) was been solved already.
b) should to be solved yet.
c) had already been solved.
d) has still been solved.
e) had already solved.
Proposto
1) (FEI) Preencha os espaços em branco com a forma verbal correta: When she _________ I
_________ to do my work.
a) has arrived - had tried
b) arrived - was trying
c) arrives - was trying
d) has arrived - has tried
e) arrived - try
Proposto
2) (UNESP) Assinale a alternativa correta: When John came in ______ a book.
a) she was reading
b) Mary is reading
c) will read
d) should read
e) reads
Proposto
3) (FUVEST) Traduza para o inglês:
a) Eu estava ouvindo música.
b) Não ouvi a campainha.
Proposto
4) (FUVEST) Transcreva, usando o verbo na forma certa: She was proud of her son who (win)
a prize at school.
Proposto
)5) (FUVEST) Transcreva, usando o tempo verbal adequado a uma ação passada:
a) I saw clearly that we (to take) the wrong road.
b) When I (to call) for John, his mother told me that he (to leave) five minutes before.
Proposto
6) (PUC) Choose the RIGHT alternative to complete the passage:
“Everything ____________ ready for the party. The room _____________, the furniture _______. There ______________ bottles of wine and food on the table. A jazz record
__________ and the atmosphere was just right.”
a) is - is clean - is moved - are - is playing
b) was - had been cleaned - had been moved - were - was playing
c) had been - had been cleaned - had been moved - were - had been played
d) was - had cleaned - had moved - was - had played
e) were - was cleaned - was moved - were - was playing