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The Assistants, by Camille Perri
Chapter 1
In less than a second I was at his desk, notepad in hand. Behind me a wall of flat-screens flashed the news being broadcast by Titan and its so-called competitors. Robert had the uncanny ability to devote a small portion of his gaze to each screen simultaneously. In all he owned nine satellite television networks, one hundred seventy-five newspapers, one hundred cable channels, forty book imprints, forty television stations, and one movie studio. His total audience reached around 4.7 billion people, which came out to around three-fourths of the population of the entire globe. But the news was his baby. He was never not watching it, analyzing it, shaping it. That’s why he situated his office at Titan News headquarters, where he could keep close watch not only on his wall of flat-screens but also on his journalists. A man as powerful as Robert could have hidden himself anywhere, pulling at the strings of the world from a lounge chair in the Seychelles, unseen by his employees—but he needed to be here at the center of it all, at the hub.
Our office didn’t look like a newsroom that you’d imagine from movies or TV drama series. The floors below ours were more like that—the broadcast, print media, and digital newsrooms, each of which could have easily passed for something out of The Matrix. And there was an entire floor of flashy studios used for our non-stop news coverage and thrill-a-minute opinion shows. But our office on the fortieth floor was far less exciting, just row after row of desks and cubicles. Still, we were the brain of the whole operation, the source from which all orders trickled down. Titan’s chief editors and all of Robert’s most trusted deputies had desks on our floor so Robert could pull them into impromptus with the business leaders and celebrities he met with— and so he could foster relationships between them and the political-party representatives (yes, from both parties) who came to lobby him. I guess what I’m trying to say is, what the fortieth floor lacked in flash it made up for in influence.
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A alternativa correta é a A. Vamos entender o motivo e analisar as outras alternativas.
A - Many leading researchers have published their findings in journals.
Essa alternativa está correta pois há uma concordância adequada entre sujeito e verbo. O sujeito "Many leading researchers" está no plural, portanto, o verbo "have" também está no plural. Além disso, "their findings" refere-se apropriadamente ao plural "researchers".
B - The only excuse possible are the ones we invented together.
Esta alternativa está incorreta porque o sujeito "The only excuse possible" está no singular, mas o verbo "are" está no plural. O correto seria usar o verbo no singular: "The only excuse possible is the ones we invented together."
C - To keep these students inside the classroom all the time are not healthy.
Esta alternativa está errada porque o sujeito "To keep these students inside the classroom all the time" é uma oração infinitiva, que deve ser tratada como singular. O verbo "are" está no plural, o que não é correto. A forma correta seria: "To keep these students inside the classroom all the time is not healthy."
D - The New York Times are the best newspaper in the USA.
Aqui, o sujeito "The New York Times" é singular, pois se refere a um jornal, e não a um grupo de pessoas. Portanto, o verbo "are" deveria estar no singular. A forma correta seria: "The New York Times is the best newspaper in the USA."
E - A number of documents is missing from the office since yesterday.
Embora "A number of" seja seguido por um substantivo no plural, o verbo deve concordar com "A number", que é singular. No entanto, o substantivo "documents" é plural e a concordância correta seria com um verbo no plural: "A number of documents are missing from the office since yesterday."
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