Prova da 3ª série do EM aplicada em 2010 - Leonardo da Vinci

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Flowering Plants
If all Earth’s history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90
seconds. But once they took firm root about 100 million years ago, they swiftly diversified in an explosion of
varieties that established most of the flowering plant families of the modern world. Today flowering plant species
outnumber by twenty to one those of ferns and cone-bearing trees, or conifers, which had thrived for 200 million
years before the first bloom appeared. As a food source, flowering plants provide us and the rest of the animal
world with the nourishment that is fundamental to our existence. In the words of Walter Judd, a botanist at the
University of Florida, “If it weren’t for flowering plants, we humans wouldn’t be here. ” “Before flowering plants
appeared, ” says Dale Russeli, a paleontologist with North Carolina State University, “ the world was like a
Japanese garden: peaceful, somber, green, inhabited by fish, turtles, and dragonflies. After flowering plants, the
world became like an English garden, full of bright color and variety, visited by butterflies and honeybees. Flowers
of all shapes and colors bloomed among the greenery. “That dramatic change represents one of the great
moments in the history of life on the planet.
21) The sentence “If it weren’t for flowering plants, we humans wouldn’t be here” means:
a) flowering plants have never been our allies.
b) we owe our lives to flowering plants.
c) thanks to humans, flowering plants exist.
d) humans exist regardless of flowering plants.
e) plants are more numerous than flowers.
22) “had thrived” (l. 4) is an example of:
a) Present Participle form.
b) Simple Past Tense.
c) Present Perfect Tense.
d) Past Participle form.
e) Past Perfect Tense.
(Adapted from National Geographic,2002.)
23) The correct Tag Question for the sentence “That dramatic change represents one of the great moments in the
history of life on the planet, ____________? ” should be:
a) doesn´t that?
b) isn´t that?
c) doesn´t it?
d) does that?
e) isn´t it?
ENSINO: MÉDIO
24) The indirect speech of the adapted sentence: She said, “I´ve been growing sunflowers since 1990. ” should be:
a) She said she has being growing sunflowers since 1990.
b) She said she had been growing sunflowers since 1990.
c) She said she´s growing sunflowers since 1990.
d) She said she had been grown sunflowers since 1990.
e) She said she had had grown sunflowers since 1990.
25) The passive voice of the adapted sentence “Butterflies have visited this garden” should be:
a) This garden have being visited by butterflies.
b) Butterflies have been visited this garden.
c) This garden has been visited by butterflies.
d) Butterflies have being visited this garden.
e) This garden was visited by butterflies.
SÉRIE: 3 a – 2011
8 – 14
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