INGLÊS - 2o ANO
MÓDULO 05
PRONOUNS:
REFERENCES
Fixação
E.g.: Let your husband cook himself.
The kids are doing the homework themselves.
Help yourselves!
I myself can do the job.
1) Substitute the correct pronouns for the underlined words.
a) Maria and Cecilia are friends.
b) The teacher was talking to the students.
c) Paul and I love Brazilian pop songs.
d) Martha said, “ My house is bigger than your house”.
e) Laura’s boat is more modern than my boat.
Fixação
2) Choose the best alternative in parentheses:
a) She wasn’t talking to you. She was talking to (myself / me).
b) If it’s notebook is not (yours / your), it must be mine.
c) Pat is not modest. He keeps praising (him / himself) all the time.
d) That’s the picture of (me / I) at five years old.
Fixação
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(PUC)
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You don’t have to be mentally ill
SANELINE is the national out of hours telefone helpline providing information and support
for anyone affected by mental health problems, including family and careers.
Mental health issues are far more common than is generally thought. One in four people
will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year.
SANELINE receives thousands of calls every year from people seeking advice and help
for themselves or someone close to them. The nonjudgemental support and information it
provides can make all the diference. People faced with mental health concerns can find it
difficult to get facts about symptoms and treatments, the service that are available to them,
or even to find someone who is prepared to listen. That’s where we can help. Call 0845 767
8000 for help at the end of the line.
3) The pronouns “it” and “them” refer, respectively, to:
a) mental health – facts.
b) SANELINE – people.
c) support – symptoms and treatments.
d) advices – services.
e) someone – concerns.
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a
b
c
d
Fixação
(UERJ)
“Meet the Brazilian Beatles (again)”
“Initially, the brothers denied the rumors. But then they began to consider the possibility,
and roped original Os Mutantes drummer Ronaldo “Dinho” Leme into the discussion. “Dinho
is a very serious, down-to-earth person”, insists Dias. “When he said, ‘if they want us to play,
I can play’, I knew this was the real thing”.
4) Observe the fragment:
“When he said, ‘if they want...’”. The underlined pronouns refer, respectively, to:
a) Dias and the rumors
b) the drummer and news
c) the group and the brothers
d) Dinho and people at Barbican
Fixação
F
(UERJ)
(
Scientists call on journals to disclose authors conflicts of interest
In the last few years, a number of spectacular failures of disclosure and editorial oversight
have come to light. In one case that resulted in a revision of the journal’s policy, the New
England Journal of Medicine published a negative review of a widely hailed book linking
chemical pollution to cancer but failed to disclose that the review was written by the medical
director of a major polluter. In another case, the journal Neurobiology of Aging published a
panel report endorsing a proprietary blood test for Alzheimer’s disease but did not disclose
that one of the panelists held a patent on the test and another was a co-founder of the
company that planned to market the test. Nonetheless, most scientific journals still do not
disclose authors’ conflicts of interest, and for those that do, there is very little uniformity in
the requirements or consistency in the application of the policies.
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a
b
c
d
5) Nonetheless, most scientific journals still do not disclose authors’ conflicts of interest, and fore
those that do. The pronoun those above refers to:
a) authors;
b) journals;
c) conflicts;
d) scientists.
Fixação
(UNIRIO)
The Future of Humankind
The focus of Garreau’s book, however, is not on the nuts and bolts of the technology itself
but rather on what it will all mean for humans. His reporting skills well honed by his work as
a journalist and editor at the Washington Post, Garreau is constantly on the lookout for the
human story behind the ideas.
6) The pronoun “it” in the sentence “…rather on what it will all mean for humans…” refers to:
a) technology
b) nuts
c) bolts
d) the focus
e) Garreau’s book
Fixação
Why is life expectancy longer for
women
than it is for men?
E. Baierl
Lake Elmo, Minn
The diversity in worldwide longevity alone
indicates that the difference in mortality
between the sexes is not purely biological
and that there are intervening social factors.
The current range of situations actually
reflects different stages of a three-part
historical evolution.
Women most probably have a biological
advantage that allows them to live longer,
but in the past – and in several places,
still today – the status and life conditions
of women nullified this benefit. Today,
given the general progress in female life
conditions, women have not only regained
their biological advantage, but have gone
much beyond it, both because they tend to
engage in fewer behaviors that are bad for
health than men do and because they better F
profit from current advances in health care
and living conditions.
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The biological advantage that women
have is taken as a certainty, because the
mortality of males is higher than that of
females from the very outset of life: during
the first year of life, in the absence of any
outside influence which could differentiate
mortality between the sexes, male mortality
is 25 to 30 percent greater than is female
mortality. The genetic advantage of females
is evident. When a mutation of one of the
genes of the X chromosome occurs, females
have a second X to compensate, where as
all genes of the unique X chromosome of
males express themselves, even if they are
deleterious.
(www.sciam.com/askexpert, access on Sep. 24, 2004)
7) Transcreva do texto as palavras que foram
substituídas por cada um dos seguintes termos:
a) It
b) Themselves
Fixação
8) Que fatores estão relacionados à longevidade do ser humano?
Fixação
F
9) A que se refere o índice de 25 a 30%?
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Fixação
10) Por que o fato de as mulheres terem dois cromossomos X lhes concede uma vantagem?
Proposto
1) Choose the best alternative:
a) I hope this secret can remain just between you and (I/ me).
b) Maryl (she / herself) read the text.
c) They took Paul to the airport because (his / him) car didn’t work.
d) It depends on (we/ us) how we see the things.
e) The men (theirselves / themselves) confessed their secrets.
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Proposto
Diplomat fears increase in dangerous illegal
immigration routes to the US
Brasília - The Mexican decision to suspend
the existing agreement and once again require
visas from Brazilians may heat up the illegal
immigration market to the United States.
Besides being more expensive, border–
crossing should become even more dangerous.
This is the opinion of the head of consular
services in the Brazilian Embassy in Mexico,
Gustavo Guimarães.
“The visa requirement should reduce the flow
of Brazilians who try to enter the United States
by way of Mexico,” the diplomat acknowledges.
“Our concern now is with the remaining flow. The
routes will become more and more unfriendly.
When the border-crossing becomes a big
business, it attracts the participation of criminal
gangs connected with trafficking and all other
sorts of crime.”
According to Guimarães, two years ago
it cost around US$ 4 thousand to enter the
United States by way of the Mexican border.
The price is currently US$ 15 thousand, and
it could possibly rise to US$25 thousand in
consequence of stricter border control.
Besides being financially vulnerable,
Brazilians are likely to be subjected to longer
treks across remote regions, far away even
from Mexican villages. The Brazilian Embassy
has received reports of various acts of violence
committed against illegal migrants in these
areas. And, precisely in view of their irregular
situation, the crimes against them go unreported.
Between January and July of this year,
7.2 thousand Brazilians were denied entry to
Mexico, that is, they were not even allowed to
leave the airport. Another 1.3 thousand were
deported after being arrested by Mexican
police at border checkpoints. Approximately,
40 Brazilians return daily from Mexico to Brazil.
Those who are barred at the airport usually
await their flights in the departure terminal of
the airport. Those arrested at the border spend
nearly 2 weeks in detention centers awaiting
deportation.
(By Juliana Nunes, Reporter – Agência Brasil, translation: David
Silberstein) (access 12/09/2005)
2) Indique quem são os referentes dos pronomes:
a) it
b) their
c) those