REVIEW / EXERCISES

INGLÊS - 1o ANO
MÓDULO 06
REVIEW / EXERCISES
Fixação
1) Complete the sentences with appropriate verbs. Use the same verb for each sentence in the
pair. Choose the present continuous if possible; if not, use the present simple.
Cost
a) It _____ us a fortune at the moment to send our daughter to dance classes.
b) It _____ a fortune to fly first class to Japan.
Love
a) I ______ sitting down at the end of a long day and reading a good book.
b) It’s a wonderful book. I ______ every moment of it.
Disagree
a) We’ve always wanted a house in the country, but we ______ on where it should be.
b) When they agree with each other on so many important issues, I can’t understand why they
____ now on this relatively minor matter.
Prefer
a) With growing concerns about the environment, people ________ to use recycled paper
products.
b) He doesn’t like publicity, and _______ to stay firmly in the background.
Have
a) Can I speak to Dorothy? She ___________ a shower. Can I take a message?
b) My brother _______ three children, all girls.
Own
a) Although he _______ three cars, all of them are extremely old.
b) In the north of the country, fewer and fewer people _________ the houses they live in.
Fixação
2) (UFRJ) Escreva, nos espaços abaixo, após as letras, dentre os valores abaixo, o algarismo
romano daquele que corresponde a cada seção.
a) ___ : Number of Brazilians who work for McDonald’s,now the country’s biggest nongovernamental employer.
b) ___: Amount of a fine to be levied against Berlin department store Kaufhof for opening on
Sunday, in violation of German law.
c) ___: Length of time after her husband’s death that Jacqueline Kennedy wrote privately to
Nikita Kruschev pleading for peaceful relations.
d) ___ : Age below which children should not be permitted to watch TV according to a recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
I
2
II
$ 27,000
III
2/3
IV
40,000
V
1 week
Fixação
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Our Research Correspondence staff responds to questions from curious readers.
Q: Do lions and tigers ever interbreed?
A: A few hybrids have been born in captivity. “Ligers” are the progeny of a female tiger
and a male lion. The offspring of a male tiger and female lion are called “tigons.” The male
hybrids are thought to be sterile, but female ligers have been successfully bred with lions,
producing cubs that reach adulthood. Tigons and ligers have never been found in the wild.
3) Explique o que são:
a) “ligers”;
b) “tigons”.
(National Geographic, Sept., 2000)
Fixação
4) Complete these sentences with an appropriate form of have got if possible. If it is not possible, use an appropriate form of have instead.
a) I’ll phone you tomorrow. I _______ your office number.
b) The car only cost $500 and runs really well. We seem _____ a bargain.
c) To do this trick you need ____ two packs of cards.
d) If you had wanted, you could ____ our new address from my parents.
e) She admitted ______ no recollection of the meeting.
f) I expected that you will ____ my letter by now.
g) As a child, he used ______ nightmares about hurricanes.
h) They put up their tent in the field, ______ permission from the farmer.
i) Have you still got that old caravan of yours? Yes, I ____ .
Fixação
In April we asked our readers: Is there humor in the workplace? Perhaps engineering too
serious to be funny – or is it? Here is one response:
Engineer in hell
To the editor:
An engineer dies and reports to the nearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says,
“ah, you’re engineer — you ‘re in the wrong place”.
So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets
dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements.
After a while, they’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer
is a pretty popular guy.
One day St. Peter calls satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, “so, how’s it
going down there in hell?”
Satan replies, “hey, things are going great! We’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets
and escalators, and there’s no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next.”
St. Peter replies, “What? You’ve got an engineer? That’s a mistake — he should never
have gotten down there; send him up here.”
Satan says. “No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and i’m keeping him.”
St. Peter says, “send him back up here or I’ll sue.” Satan laughs unpropriously and
answers, “yeah, right. And just where are you going to get the lawyer?”
(H.D.Mt vernon, iowa, usa The institute june, 1997 [adapted])
5) Considere as afirmações abaixo:
I) São Pedro telefonou ao diabo para obter informações sobre o comportamento do engenheiro
no inferno.
II) O dia a dia no inferno tornou-se muito melhor após a chegada do engenheiro.
III) São Pedro ameaçou mover uma ação judicial contra o diabo caso ele desprezasse os
serviços do engenheiro.
Está (ão) condizente (s) com o texto:
a) apenas a I.
b) apenas a II.
c) apenas a III.
d) apenas a I e III.
e) apenas a II a III.
Fixação
s
6) Ao afirmar … and there’s no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next., o diabo
quer dizer:
a) Já sabe do novo projeto do engenheiro mas não pretende contá-lo a São Pedro.
b) O engenheiro não quer divulgar o seu próximo projeto.
c) O engenheiro aguarda instruções para implementar outras benfeitorias no inferno.
d) Ninguém no inferno fala sobre os próximos projetos do engenheiro.
e) Mal pode esperar para ver a próxima benfeitoria que o engenheiro irá introduzir no inferno.
Proposto
The fight against money laundering
Money laundering allows crime to pay by permitting criminals to hide and legitimize
proceeds derived from illegal activities.
According to one recent estimate, worldwide money laundering activity amounts to
roughly $ trillion a year. These illicit funds allow criminals to finance a range of additional
criminal activities. Moreover, money laundering abets corruption, distorts economic
decision- making, aggravates social ills, and threatens the integrity of financial institutions.
Money launderers now have access to the speed and ease of modern electronic
finance. Given the staggering volume of this crime broad international cooperation between
law enforcement and regulatory agencies is essential in order to identify the source of illegal
proceeds, trace the funds to specific criminal activities, and confiscate criminal’s financial
assets.
Responda em português:
1) A que se refere a importância de $ 1 trilhão?
Proposto
2) O que indica a palavra “moreover” como marcadora do discurso?
Proposto
3) Cite três coisas que a lavagem de dinheiro permite.
Proposto
4) A quem o autor conclama a fazer uma ampla cooperação internacional?
Proposto
5) A que os criminosos que praticam lavagem de dinheiro têm acesso hoje?