Question

Read the text below to answer questions 1, 2 and 3


Seven dead in Brazil floods


(1) SÃO PAULO: Floods caused by torrential rains in and around Brazil’s financial hub São Paulo killed seven people overnight, firefighters said on Monday (Mar 11)


(2) “We regret the unfortunate deaths of seven people”, the fire service said on twitter, adding that four other were injured.


(3) Four of the dead and two of the injured were members of the same family, whose house collapsed in Ribeirão Pires on the outskirts of Brazil’s largest city, located in the southeast of the country.


(4) Three others drowned, two of them on a São Paulo boulevard and the other in São Bernardo do Campo, not far from the huge city, officials said.


(5) The late summer rains submerged several neighbourhoods and blocked major arteries into the metropolis, cutting train and bus services in some areas.


(6) Mudslides also occurred in some parts of the sprawling metropolis, with more heavy rain forecast for later Monday.


Adapted from: Channel Newsasia – March 11th, 2019



1) Analyzing the verbs in the text below, it is possible to affirm:

a) They are mostly in Simple Present

b) They are mostly in Present Perfect

c) They are mostly in Gerund form

d) They are mostly in Simple Past

e) They are mostly forms of the verb to be


2) An example of “Superlative” can be found in:

a) “[…]whose house collapsed in Ribeirão Pires […]”

b) “[…]Brazil’s largest city[…]”

c) “Floods caused by torrential rain […]”

d) “[…]the fire service said on twitter[…]”

e) “The late summer rains submerged several neighbourhood[…]”


3) Which word in the text is a synonym of “very big”:

a) Boulevard

b) services

c) huge

d) rain

e) overnight

   
Gente por favor... Alguem que é bom de inglês, pode me falar quais são as alternativas certas e o porque?
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Answer 1

Resposta:

1) D

2) B

3)C

Explicação:

1)

CAUSED-Simple Past

Said-Simple past

Were-Simple past

collapsed-Simple past

2)LARGEST- Superlative verb

3)HUGE-The biggest -Very Big