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Top Brazil reporter allegedly killed by drug lord01. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A leading Brazilian journalist, who had been missing for a02. week, was confi rmed killed Sunday, with Rio police saying a drug lord tortured him and03. then shot him to death.04. Tim Lopes, 51, who worked for Brazilian television network TV Globo, disappeared on05. June 2 after he slipped into a party given by a drug gang. He had planned to report on06. the drug trade and alleged sexual abuse of young girls.07. His driver sounded the alarm when Lopes failed to meet him as they had arranged.08. Charred fragments and traces of blood were later found in a cave near the slum.The 09. caves, known locally as "microwaves," are used by drug traffi ckers to burn their10. victims' bodies.11. Police arrested four suspects Sunday.12. Citing a statement from one of the detainees, police said the journalist was tortured.13. Rio's head of civilian police, Zaqueu Teixeira, said Lopes had been shot personally by14. a drug lord known as Elias Maluco.15. "We are working vigorously to catch Elias Maluco and his gang members," Teixeira16. told TV Globo Sunday. "This was a heinous crime, a barbarous act and the police have17. to give a response to society."18. Rio's slums, or "favelas," are crawling with drugs and crime above the city's famous20. Lopes had entered the slum four times, two of them reporting with a hidden camera.21. TV Globo said in a statement on Sunday: "Tim died while exercising the profession22. that he so dearly loved, in defense of a population that is powerless in the face of the23. terror of (drug) traffi cking and organized crime."The -ING form that has, in the text, the function of ad-jective isleading (l.1).saying (l.2).citing (l.12).working (l.15).exercising (l.21).

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Letra d.

Nota-se que o termo "working" está relacionado com a ação de policiais em frente ao desaparecimento de Tim, bem como ao jornalismo que exerciam. Portanto, compreende um termo no gerúndio que está devidamente associado com um adjetivo.

O adjetivo que o acompanha é "vigorously", indicando a presença de grande intensidade na atividade que está sendo desempenhada, isto é, trata-se de uma atividade que recebe grande desempenho.