Exercícios sobre Simple Past: resumo com lista de Inglês

(UFMS/2021)

Daniel Ferreira, 24, is a guy who had to learn to overcome expectations from the day he was born, without his arms, due to a treatment with thalidomy that his mother had to do during pregnancy. “Some relatives did not bet a chip on me; they saw me as a poor thing,” he says. It turns out that he did not put any brakes on any ambition, he did very well in life and, painting with his feet and mouth, he became a fine artist.
About the International Day of People with Disabilities, celebrated last Wednesday (3), he says: “Unfortunately, we still need special days to remember minorities, such as blacks, homosexuals and the disabled. Brazil is not prepared in any way to meet the needs of people with disabilities. There is no accessibility. Neither public nor private schools have a structure. We still have a lot to fight for ”.
The boy speaks properly on the subject, since he had to fight hard to be able to study in a regular public school, from the age of seven. The principal argued that the state institution was not supported to receive a student with a disability. His father, Francisco, was the one who had to build a special desk, without State aid, so that Daniel could write with his feet.
(Fonte: Texto Adaptado. Disponível em: https://www.vidamaislivre.com.br/2014/12/04/conheca-daniel-ferreira-o-artista-que-pinta-com-os-pes-e-aboca/>.
Acesso em: 15 dez. 2020).

Considerando o terceiro parágrafo do texto, assinale a alternativa que indica corretamente o tempo verbal predominante nas frases destacadas.

“(…) since he had to fight hard to be able to study in a regular public school, from the age of seven. The principal argued that the state institution was not supported to receive a student with a disability. His father, Francisco, was the one who had to build a special desk, without State aid, so that Daniel could write with his feet”.

(Famerp SP/2020)

The Mona Lisa was recently moved from her usual gallery in the Salle des États, currently being renovated, to a temporary home in the Galérie Médicis. Visitors to the Louvre who have queued patiently for hours are complaining that museum staff are allowing them less than a minute to view the masterpice. The relocation has created bottlenecks of visitors lining corridors and the Louvre is now advising that only those who have pre-booked will be guaranteed a glimpse of the world’s most famous portrait.
(David Chazan. http://www.telegraph.co.uk, 13.08.2019. Adaptado.)

In the excerpt “only those who have pre-booked will be guaranteed a glimpse of the world’s most famous portrait”, the underlined word refers to

(UFMS/2020)

Located within the Indigenous Nations Park, the MARCO offers permanent and temporary works by modern and contemporary visual artists.
Its collection originates in 1979, in the former State Pinacoteca, enriched later by spontaneous donations of artists, private collectors and cultural institutions. It currently consists of approximately 1,600 works in various artistic modalities, including a significant set of works that record the course of visual arts in Mato Grosso do Sul, from the beginning to the present day (FONTE: Disponível em: http://www.visitms.com.br/en/atrativo/425>. Acesso em: 4 nov. 2019).

Read Text again and answer the question correctly: in which verb tense was it written?

(Uncisal AL/2018)

Las Vegas shooter’s brain to undergo microscopic study

Scientists are preparing to carry out a microscopic study of the brain of the Stephen Paddock, the gunman who this month killed 58 people and injured nearly 500 in Las Vegas, in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.
Paddock’s brain is being sent to Stanford University for a months-long examination after a visual inspection during an autopsy found no abnormalities, Las Vegas authorities said.
Doctors will perform multiple forensic analyses, including an examination of the 64-year-old’s brain tissue, to find any possible neurological problems. The brain will arrive in California soon, and Stanford has been instructed to spare no expense for the work, the New York Times reported.
[…]
Paddock shot more than a thousand bullets through the windows of a 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel and into a crowd attending an outdoor country music festival. Paddock killed himself with a shot through his mouth, police say.
Investigators remain frustrated by a lack of clues that would point to his motive. Authorities have resorted to putting up billboards in southern Nevada seeking tips and now the intensive brain study. Medical experts say it probably will not yield definitive answers.
[…]
Experts say the brain study on Paddock will be a worthy effort for scientific reasons. Paul S Appelbaum, a psychiatry expert at Columbia University, said that at minimum it might yield something even tangential that could be passed on to the public, such as awareness of psychological disorders or brain diseases.
“Are we ever going to know for certain what caused his brain to do that?” Appelbaum asked. “Probably not from a neuropathological examination, but it’s not unreasonable to ask and see whether it might contribute to our understanding of what occurred.”
Disponível em: https://www.theguardian.com/us -news/2017/oct/29/las-vegas-shooter-stephenpaddock-brain -study>. Acesso em: 30 out. 2017.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta apenas formas verbais no passado.

(UEG GO/2018)

Who’s driving? Autonomous cars may be entering the most dangerous phase

Autopilot controls are not yet fully capable of functioning without human intervention – but they’re good enough to lull us into a false sense of security.
When California police officers approached a Tesla stopped in the centre of a five-lane highway outside San Francisco last week, they found a man asleep at the wheel. The driver, who was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, told them his car was in “autopilot”, Tesla’s semi-autonomous driver assist system.
In a separate incident, firefighters in Culver City reported that a Tesla vehicle parked at the rear of their fire truck as it attended an accident on the freeway. Again, the driver said the vehicle was in autopilot.
The oft-repeated promise of driverless technology is that it will make the roads safer by reducing human error, the primary cause of accidents. However, those vehicles have a long way to go before they can eliminate the drivers.
However, research has shown that drivers get lulled into a false sense of security to the point where their minds and gazes start to wander away from the road. People become distracted or preoccupied with their smartphones. So when the car encounters a situation where the human needs to intervene, the driver can be slow to react.
During tests the IIHS recorded a Mercedes having problems when the lane on the highway forked in two. The radar system locked onto the right-hand exit lane when the driver was trying to go straight.
Concern over this new type of distracted driving is forcing engineers to introduce additional safety features to compensate. For example, GM has introduced eye-tracking technology to check the driver’s eyes are on the road while Tesla drivers can be locked out of autopilot if they ignore warnings to keep their hands on the steering wheel.
In spite of these problems, Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, remains bullish about his company’s autonomous technology, even suggesting that by 2019 drivers would be able to sleep in their cars – presumably without being arrested by highway patrol officers.

Disponível em: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/24/self-driving-cars-dangerous-period-false-security>. Acesso em: 23 fev. 2018. (Adaptado).

Analisando-se aspectos linguísticos e estruturais do texto, constata-se que

(PUC GO/2018)

[…]
O Caçula preferia ignorar que parte daquele dinheiro vinha de São Paulo. Dinheiro e mercadorias: Yaqub conhecia alguns fabricantes na capital e no interior de São Paulo, gente que frequentava os mesmos clubes que ele e para quem ele construíra casas e edifícios. Rânia recebia as amostras, escolhia os tecidos, as camisetas, carteiras e bolsas. Quando Halim se deu conta, já não vendia quase nada do que sempre vendera: redes, malhadeiras, caixas de fósforo, terçados, tabaco de corda, iscas para corricar, lanternas e lamparinas. Assim, ele se distanciava das pessoas do interior, que antes vinham à sua porta, entravam na loja, compravam, trocavam ou simplesmente proseavam, o que para Halim dava quase no mesmo.
Agora a fachada da loja exibia vitrines, e pouca coisa restava que lembrasse o antigo armarinho situado a menos de duzentos metros da praia do Negro. Restou, sim, o cheiro, que resistiu ao reboco, à pintura e aos novos tempos. A sobreloja, espaço exíguo onde Halim às vezes rezava ou se refugiava com a mulher, não havia sido reformada. Ali ele empilhou seus badulaques e ali ele se entocava, agora sem Zana, sozinho. De vez em quando eu o via na janela, picando tabaco e enrolando um cigarro, o olhar na rua dos Barés, seus quiosques, camelôs, mendigos e bêbados em meio aos urubus, atento para o burburinho da rua que era uma extensão do Mercado e do atracadouro do pequeno porto.
[…]
(HATOUM. Milton. Dois irmãos.19. reimpr. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2015. p. 99.)

The text contains many verbs in a past tense called pretérito imperfeito in Portuguese (“preferia”, “vinha”, “frequentava” and “era”). In English, there are different past tenses like: simple past, past continuous and past perfect. Point out the correct alternative about the past tenses in English:

(EsPCEx SP/2018)

Learn to code, it’s more important than English as a second language

Apple CEO Tim Cook says coding is the best foreign language that a student in any country can learn. The tech executive made the remarks to French outlet Konbini while in the country for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. The tech leader gave some brief thoughts on education:
“If I were a French student and I were 10 years old, I think it would be more important for me to learn coding than English. I’m not telling people not to learn English in some form – but I think you understand what I am saying is that this is a language that you can use to express yourself to 7 billion people in the world. I think that coding should be required in every public school in the world.”
Of course, it’s in Cook’s best interest to have the world learning how to code. He runs a tech company that depends on access to a constantly growing pipeline of talent. But it could be in your interest too: studying coding could increase your chances of pulling in a big salary. A computer-science education, at least in countries like the US, is one of the most viable and lucrative career paths open to young people today.
But, Cook says, the benefits go beyond that. “It’s the language that everyone needs, and not just for the computer scientists. It’s for all of us”. He added that programming encourages students of all disciplines to be inventive and experimental: “Creativity is the goal. Coding is just to allow that. Creativity is in the front seat; technology is in the backseat. With the combination of both of these you can do such powerful things now.”

Adapted from https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/apple-ceo-tim-cook-lear-ning-to-code-is-so-important.html

Which one from the underlined verbs in the text conveys a verb tense that is different from the others?

(IFMT/2018)

I. (…) public interest in race has skyrocketed.
II. The issue of race in Brazil has moved to the center of the social-policy agenda.
III. (…) the whole idea sounded preposterous and highly unlikely just a few years ago.
IV. (…) social policies have begun to explicitly promote social integration of blacks and mulatos.

Qual fragmento se refere a uma ação que aconteceu em um tempo específico no passado?

(Uncisal AL/2017)

There were lots of stuff in Friends that people had missed the first time, only for it to be rediscovered 12 years after the series finale. If you spend a lot of your time on the Internet then you’ll probably be aware of that. Fans have noticed famous scenes where Matthew Perry almost cracked-up, and people have even spotted pies going missing from tables when Brad Pitt appeared on the show. And there’s the moment an extra chewed her coffee. […]
Disponível em: http://www.theladbible.com>.
Acesso em: 16 nov. 2016 (adaptado).

Os verbos em destaque estão empregados, respectivamente, nos seguintes tempos verbais:

(UNITAU SP/2017)

Leadless Pacemakers

Pacemakers have come a long way since the 60s, when inventor Dr. Wilson Greatbatch accidentally invented it. The story goes that Greatbatch, working for a doctor at the Chronic Disease Research Institute, was designing a circuit to help record fast heart sounds. By mistake, he grabbed the wrong resistor from a box and plugged it into the circuit he was making. The circuit pulsed for 1.8 milliseconds and then stopped for 1 second and then repeated. Greatbatch recognized the lub-dub rhythm.
“I stared at the thing in disbelief,” he said. This was exactly what was needed to drive a sick human heart! For the next five years, most of the world’s pacemakers used that simple blocking oscillator design – just because of Greatbatch’s accident.
Nowadays, companies like Medtronic and St. Jude Medical have created versions called Micra (Medtronic) and Nanostim (St. Jude) that reduce potential risks of transvenous pacemakers such as serious infection.

Adapted from https://getreferralmd.com/2017/01/17-future-healthcare-technology-advances-of-2017-referralmd/

Tick the alternative that shows the verb tense of the following sentence as found in the text:

“Pacemakers have come a long way since the 60s […]”