Questões de Inglês para Concurso

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quote with the verb TO READ in the present continuous, the verb TO AGREE in the simple future, and the verb TO NEED in the simple present.

“I ______¹ six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you _____² , one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one ______ ³ ten others at the same time.” (Virginia Woolf)

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts.” (William Shakespeare)

Considering the rules for the formation of the plural of nouns in the English language and considering the tense of verbs, it is correct to state that, in these verses, the plural of the nouns falls into the category of ______ ¹and the verbs are in the ______. ²

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks of the following quote with the simple past of the verb TO TAKE and the present perfect of the verb TO MAKE respectively.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I ______¹ the one less traveled by,

And that ______² all the difference.” (Robert Frost)

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”¹ (Jane Austen)

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.”² (Emily Dickinson)

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”³ (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

The verb tenses in the three quotes above are, respectively,

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” (Ernest Hemingway)

“I try to be as historically accurate as possible, but I think the story's more important than the history.” (Louis Bayard)

In the passages above the use of ‘s expresses, respectively, the