Questões de Concurso Sobre inglês para professor - inglês

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quotes with the comparative form of WIDE¹, the superlative form of GOOD², the superlative form of BAD³, the superlative form of LONG⁴, the superlative form of BEAUFIFUL⁵, and the comparative form of GOOD⁶.

“The brain is ______¹ than the sky.” (Emily Dickinson)

“It was the ______ ² of times, it was the ______³of times.” (Charles Dickens)

“Time is the ______ ⁴ distance between two places.” (Tennessee Williams)

“The ______⁵ thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” (Wallace Stevens)

“Most men are a little ______⁶ than their circumstances give them a chance to be.” (William Faulkner)

“Beginning next week, the Adjutant and I will be making¹ a series of snap inspections of section barrack-rooms. […] Just ordinary soldierly cleanliness and tidiness is all I want.” (Kingsley Amis)

“And I thought then, Just living long enough wipes out the problems. Puts you in a select club. […] Everybody’s face will have suffered², never just yours.” (Alice Munro)

“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise³ to the heights you are no doubt capable of.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)

In the sentences above, the tenses of the verb forms in bold are, respectively,

“I have often thought¹ what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

“She had had² to change her limbs. She had had to get limbs that ordinary people have and walk, but every step she took, agonizing pain! This is what she was willing³ to go through, to get the prince. So, I thought she deserved more than death on the water.” (Alice Munro)

In terms of verb tenses, the verb forms in bold in these sentences are, respectively, in the

Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the blanks in the following quote respectively with the simple past of the verb TO HUM, the past perfect of the verb TO FORGET, and the simple past of the verb TO BE.

“On his desk, a huge old electric typewriter ______¹ — he ______² to turn it off. He was among the many word-processing holdouts in the literary world. The typescript ______ ³ right there, in a neatly squared-off pile, six hundred pages — long, but not vast.” (Ian McEwan)

“Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which¹ the flood did not sweep away.” (William Blake)

“Keep away from people who² try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” (Mark Twain)

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself³ in.” (W.H. Auden)

The pronouns in bold in the three sentences above are, respectively,