Questões de Concurso Prefeitura de Sobral CE

“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,

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)

“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 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)

“There are four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” (Lord Byron)

“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” (William Shakespeare)

In terms of grammatical features, the two passages above have two aspects in common, which are the use of

“All¹ that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edgar Allan Poe)

“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves² happened rather than what actually happened.” (Kazuo Ishiguro)

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something³ you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” (Doris Lessing)

“There is nothing⁴ either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” (William Shakespeare)

In these sentences, the pronouns in bold are, respectively,