Question

The honeybee has been part of human culture for centuries, appearing in cave paintings depicting honeycombs, swarms of bees and honey collecting However, there has been little direct evidence of when and where ancient people began harvesting honey and wax from the insects. International scientists examined over 6,000 pottery vessels to piece together a map of the honeybee at a time when the world had just emerged from the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago. Lifestyles were shifting from hunter-gathering towards growing the first crops and keeping animals for meat, milk and skin. The oldest evidence for human links with the honeybee, dating back almost 9,000 years, was found in what is now Turkey. By a few thousand years later, beeswax was detected across the Balkan peninsula, including Greece, Romania, Serbia, and then at some sites occupied by early farmers in Central Europe. The beeswax may have been used by prehistoric people to glue together stone arrows and spears or to make pots waterproof. Honey may have provided a rare source of sweetness in their diet. Prof Outram explained: "The plentiful supply of sugary foods is a very recent phenomenon, but in the past sweet foods were very hard to find and it's clear from our study that the earliest farmers in Europe had a keen interest in exploiting the valuable products of the honeybee."
Considerando o uso gramatical da língua no texto, é correto afirmar:
a. ( ) A forma verbal "had just emerged" (1. 9) refere-se ao tempo presente.
b. ( ) O modal em "may have been used" (l. 18- 19) expressa possibilidade
c. ( ) O's em "it's (1. 24) expressa o genitivo de posse.
d. ( ) O adjetivo "the earliest" (I. 25) está no grau comparative de inferioridade.
e. ( ) A palavra "bees" (I. 3) é um adjetivo.​

Answer 1

Resposta:

b. O modal em "may have been used" (l. 18- 19) expressa possibilidade.