Questões de Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension para Concurso

In line 1, the preposition “away” could be correctly substituted by “of”, and the phrase would maintain the same meaning.

In line 6, the verb “support” represents a false cognate with regards to “suportar” in the Portuguese language of Brazil.

In line 3, the phrase “whom she married” would remain grammatically correct if the preposition “with” were added, as in “whom she married with”.

The expression “By the time” (line 3) could be substituted by “When”, and the phrase would maintain the same meaning.

The relative pronoun “whom” (line 3) could be changed to “who”, and the phrase would remain grammatically correct.

In line 1, the verb phrase “Peixoto was born in 1889” would be correct if “was” were subtracted.

The phrase “During her childhood” (line 3) could be correctly written as “On her childhood”.

The verb “writing” (line 7) would not be correct if used in the infinitive form, as in “she began to write…”.

In lines 5 and 6, the verbs “read, write and perform” could be used in the gerund form, as in “learned reading, writing and performing basic…”.

The verb “divided” (line 4) could be replaced by “classified”.

The expression “tight up against” (line 7) points to the idea that places on the right side of the river bank are far away from the the north-western hills.

From the text, one can infer that only enslaved people were allowed to worship at the church of Rosario.

The pronoun “It” (line 5) refers to the historic center of the town of Goiás.

The phrase “climbing towards the hill”, (lines 14 and 15) means that to get to Chapeu do Padre, one must go mountaineering.

In lines 15 and 16, the phrase “are also to be found” means that the historic residential quarter and a characteristic market place will be established.

In line 1, the phrase “the state capital until 1937” would be incorrect if “until” were replaced by “up to”.

The word “superseded” (line 2) could be properly replaced by “was supplanted”.

The preposition in the phrase “to the southeast” (line 3) could be correctly substituted by “from”, as in “from the southeast”.

The phrase “The town’s historic centre” (line 3) would remain correct if “’s” were subtracted from “town”, as in “The town historic centre”.

In line 6, the adjective “small” could be replaced by “little”.

The preposition “in” (line 10) may be correctly substituted by “during”.

To emphasize the possessive, the phrase “the Portuguese possessions” (lines 5 and 6) could be correctly written as “the Portuguese’ possessions”.

In line 9, the word “interior” could be properly substituted by “on the inside of”.

The word “flourished” (line 10) could be substituted by “furnished”, without change in meaning.

The phrasal verb “related to” (line 7) if written as “related with”, would be grammatically correct.