Questões de Concurso Sobre infinitivo e gerúndio | infinitive and gerund em inglês

Complete the sentence below.

Would you like to _______ dinner with me tomorrow night?

A man stepped onto the overnight train and told the conductor, “I need you to wake me up  in Philadelphia. I'm a  deep sleeper and can be angry when I get up, but no matter what, I want you to help me make that stop. Here's $100 to  make sure".

The conductor agreed. The man  fell asleep, and when he awoke he heard  the announcement  that  the  train was  approaching New York, which meant they had passed Philadelphia a long time ago.  Furious, he ran to the conductor. “I gave you $100 to make sure I got off in Philadelphia, you idiot!"  “Wow," another passenger said to his traveling companion. “Is that guy mad!"  “Yeah," his companion replied. “But not half as mad as that guy they forced off the train in Philadelphia." 

                                                      (English2Go, No 7,The Reader's Digest Association, 2005. P. 80.) 

In “ ...the train was approaching New York" a gerund is used as a/an

Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks in the sentences below with the correct verb tense and form.

“When I _____________ (meet) ¹ Serge, it ____________ (be) ² love at first sight for me – I absolutely adored him, he was this wonderful mad, extrovert Russian Jew who _____________ (spend) ³ half of World War II up a tree, according to him. I _____________ (think) ⁴ he actually spent a couple of nights up a tree, although he’d worn the yellow star for years in occupied France. For a project, I met Hitler’s architect Albert Speer at his Heidelberg eyrie in 1971, and he asked if Jane and Serge would sign a copy of Je t’aime] for him. Serge did so, probably relishing the irony, and when he made his Rock Around The Bunker album a few years later [featuring lyrics about Nazi Germany], he gave me a copy _______________ (send) ⁵ to Speer. His parents had arrived in Paris after _____________ (flee) ⁶ the 1917 Russian Revolution, and his father – who was a brilliant pianist – had to perform in casinos.”

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter (By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE) 1. SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. 
2. This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development. 
3. They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles. (…) 
4. The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving. (…) 
5. The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.” In a study comparing German-Italian bilinguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his colleagues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but they also did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicating that they were more efficient at it. (…) 
6. Bilingualism’s effects also extend into the twilight years. In a recent study of 44 elderly Spanish-English bilinguals, scientists led by the neuropsychologist Tamar Gollan of the University of California, San Diego, found that individuals with a higher degree of bilingualism — measured through a comparative evaluation of proficiency in each language — were more resistant than others to the onset of dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset. 
7. Nobody ever doubted the power of language. But who would have imagined that the words we hear and the sentences we speak might be leaving such a deep imprint? 
(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/thebenefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=0. Acesso: 04/02/2013)
The words globalized (paragraph 01), considered (paragraph 02), blessing (paragraph 03), and like (paragraph 04), are respectively presented in text as:

The word “teaching” in the phrase “language teaching problems” (lines 2 and 3) is used in the same way as in

Read the following fragment:

"the internet has created new possibilities for those _____ studies all over the globe" (lines 20 and 21).

The alternative that is compatible with the original meaning of the sentence is

Choose the correct part of speech for found in the sentence “A whale found dead on the Southern Spanish coast (...)”

Leia os excertos a seguir, retirados do texto:

1. “ the first global football championship held in South America”

2. “roads are being built”

3. “people are being employed and trained”

As formas infinitivas dos verbos destacados acima se encontram dispostas, correta e respectivamente, na alternativa:

The inflectional {-ing} morpheme is found in the underlined word in alternative

Choose the alternative that contains the word or group of words which best completes the following sentence: “Secretaries are expected ___________ organized, punctual, cheerful and courteous.”

The word that best complete the gap 1 is:

Reading Comprehension
Cell Phones: Are they dangerous?
Do you have a cell phone? Do you use it a lot? If the answer to these questions is yes, you should read the following information very carefully.
If you keep on using a cell phone, it will probably cause premature ageing, which might be rather difficult to get over. At least this is what most scientists claim. Low-level radiation from the phone may heat up body cells, damaging skin and making it look slightly lined and tired. Scientists say that if you expose cells to the radiation from a cell phone, the natural process that repairs your skin will probably be affected. Furthermore, radiation produces mutations in the cells and these mutations could be related to other health problems.
Cell phone users have also found out that if they use their phone for a long time they feel other symptoms such as fatigue and memory loss. The fatigue may be caused because, when using phones, people suffer an involuntary speeding up of their heart beat. Apart from that, nearly two out of three people interviewed complained of regular headaches from using their phones, although this may be due to bad posture rather than radiation emissions.
The most surprising fact discovered by researchers is that people exposed to the radiation of a cell phone for 45 minutes go to the bathroom twice as much as usual. This proves that radiation has a biological effect on humans.
So if I were you, I would definitely think twice before using a cell phone if I looked in the mirror and saw wrinkles on my face, felt fatigue, had trouble remembering things, or if I started using my bathroom more often than I used to.

The underlined words in the text are all examples of:

A palavra que preenche corretamente a lacuna é