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TEOREMA MILITAR 
PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
Coronavirus: Venice Carnival closes as Italy 
imposes Iockdown 
23 February 2020 
Italian officials have cut short the Venice Carnival as 
they try to control what is now the worst outbreak of 
the coronavirus in Europe. 
 Authorities in the Veneto region said the event 
would end later on Sunday, two days earlier than 
scheduled. Italy has by far the highest number of 
coronavirus cases in Europe, with 152. Three people 
have died. Italy has imposed strict quarantine 
restrictions in two northern “hotspot” regions dose to 
Milan and Venice. 
 About 50,000 people cannot enter or leave several 
towns in Veneto and Lombardy for the next two weeks 
without special permission. Even outside the zone, 
many businesses and schools have suspended 
activities, and sporting events have been cancelled. 
The BBC’s Mark Lowen described the situation just 
outside the zone. In neighbouring Austria, a train from 
Venice was stopped at the Austrian border after it 
emerged that two passengers had fever symptoms. 
Austria’s Interior Minister Karl Nehammer later 
confirmed to the BBC that the pair tested negative for 
coronavirus. 
 "All authorities have acted quickly and with great 
caution in this case," said Mr Nehammer in a 
statement. "The reporting chain worked without 
delay." 
Elsewhere, authorities in South Korea and Iran are 
battling to control rising numbers of infections. South 
Korea has raised its coronavirus alert to the "highest 
level". 
 The new strain of coronavirus, which originated last 
year in Hubel province in China, causes a respiratory 
disease called Covid-19. China has seen more than 
76,000 infections and 2,442 deaths. 
What is happening in Italy? 
 Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on 
Saturday that "extraordinary measures" would come 
into force to try to stem the rising number of 
coronavirus cases. 
He said the quarantine restrictions could last for 
weeks, Police, and if necessary the armed forces, will 
have the authority to ensure me regulations are 
enforced. 
 Angelo Borrelli, the head of Italy’s Civil Protection 
Department, told reporters that 110 of the confirmed 
cases were in Lombardy, with 21 in Veneto with others 
in Emilia-Romagna and Lazio. Officials reported a third 
death on Sunday, an elderly woman from the town of 
Crema suffering from cancer. Italian officials say they 
are still trying to trace the source of the outbreak. 
 Universities in Milan have been closed and the city’s 
mayor, Giuseppe Sala, said schools would also close 
their doors while the outbreak continued. “As a 
precaution I think that the schools have to be closed in 
Milan. I will propose to the president of the region to 
enlarge the precaution to the entire metropolitan city 
area. It is just a precaution, we don’t want to create 
panic," he said. 
 Meanwhile Giorgio Armani’s fashion show, 
scheduled to be held __________ (I) Milan 
__________ (II) Sunday, went ahead but without any 
media or buyers present. The show was live streamed 
__________ (III) its website, Instagram and Facebook 
pages. 
Adapted from: htts://www.bbc.com/news/world-
europe-51602007 
1. Mark the sentence from the text that contains the
use of Present Continuous.
a) "Three people have died."
b) "The reporting chain worked without delay."
c) "He said the quarantine restrictions could last for
weeks."
d) "Officials reported a third death on Sunday, an
elderly woman from the town of Crema suffering
from cancer."
e) "Italian officials say they are still trying to trace the
source of the outbreak."
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
WHAT IS MODERN SLAVERY? 
1Slavery did not end with abolition in the 19th 
century. 2Slavery 3continues today and harms people in 
every country in the world. 
Women forced into prostitution. People forced 
to work in agriculture, domestic work and factories. 
Children in 4sweatshops producing 5goods sold 
globally. Entire families forced to work for nothing to 
pay off generational debts. Girls forced to marry older 
men. 
There are estimated 40.3 million people in 
modern 
slavery around the world, including: 
1. 10 million children
2. 24.9 million people in forced labour
3. 15.4 million people in forced marriage
4. 4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation
6Someone is in slavery if they are:
5. forced to work – through coercion, or mental or
physical threat;
1. 7owned or controlled by an ’employer’, through
mental or physical abuse or the 8threat of
abuse;
2. dehumanised, treated as a commodity or bought
and sold as ‘9property’;
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3. physically constrained or have restrictions placed 
on their freedom of 10movement. 
Slavery has been a disgraceful aspect of 
human society for most of human history. However, 
Anti-Slavery International has refused to accept that 
this bloody status quo should be allowed to persist 
(Aidan McQuade, former director). 
Forms of modern slavery 
Purposes of 11exploitation can range from 
forced prostitution and forced labour to forced 
marriage and forced organ removal. Here are the most 
common forms of modern slavery. 
1. Forced labour – any work or services which 
people are forced to do against their 12will under 
the threat of some form of punishment. 
2. Debt bondage or bonded labour – the world’s 
most widespread form of slavery, when people 
borrow money they cannot repay and are 
required to work to pay off the debt, then losing 
control over the conditions of both their 
employment and the debt. 
3. Human trafficking– involves transporting, 
recruiting or harbouring people for the purpose 
of exploitation, using violence, threats or 
coercion. 
4. Descent-based slavery – where people are born 
into slavery because their ancestors were 
captured and enslaved; they remain in slavery 
by descent. 
5. Child slavery – 13many people often confuse 
child slavery with child labour, but it is much 
worse. 14Whilst child labour is harmful for 
children and 15hinders their education and 
development, child slavery occurs when a child 
is exploited for someone else’s gain. It can 
include child trafficking, child soldiers, child 
marriage and child domestic slavery. 
6. 16Forced and early marriage – 17when someone 
is married against their will and cannot leave the 
marriage. 18Most child marriages can be 
considered slavery. 
Many forms of slavery have more than one 
element listed above. For example, human trafficking 
often involves advance 19payment for travel and a job 
abroad, using money often borrowed from the 
traffickers. Then, the debt contributes to control of the 
victims. Once they arrive, victims cannot leave until 
they pay off their debt. 
Many people think that slavery happens only 
overseas, in developing countries. In fact, no country 
is free from modern slavery, even Britain. The 
Government estimates that there are tens of 
thousands people in modern slavery in the UK. 
Modern slavery can affect people of any age, 
gender or race. However, contrary to a common 
20misconception that everyone can be a victim of 
slavery, some groups of 21people are much more 
vulnerable to slavery than others. 
People who live in 22poverty and have limited 
opportunities for decent work are more vulnerable to 
accepting deceptive job offers that can turn 
exploitative. People who are discriminated against on 
the basis of race, caste, or gender are also more likely 
to be enslaved. Slavery is also more likely to occur 
where the rule of law is weaker and corruption is rife. 
Anti-Slavery International believes that we have to 
23tackle the root causes of slavery in order to end 
slavery for good. That’s why we published our Anti-
Slavery Charter, listing comprehensive measures 24that 
need to be taken to end slavery across the world. 
 
(Adapted from https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-
today/modern-slavery/)Glossary: 
4. sweatshop – a factory where workers are paid very 
little and work many hours in very bad conditions 
11. exploitation – abuse, manipulation 
12. will – wish, desire 
14. whilst – while 
15. to hinder – obstruct, stop 
20. misconception – wrong idea/ impression 
22. poverty – the condition of being extremely poor 
23. to tackle – attack 
 
 
2. Mark the INCORRECT statement according to the 
text. 
a) Slavery still exits worldwide. 
b) The modern forms of slavery are encouraging 
helpless people. 
c) The issue of modern slavery hasn’t finished yet. 
d) Slavery has continued until now. 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
Leia o texto e responda à(s) questão(ões) a seguir. 
 
This is how UN scientists are preparing for the 
end of capitalism 
 
Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests 
a new report commissioned by a group of scientists 
appointed by the UN secretary general. The main 
reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically 
different global economy, due to our increasingly 
unsustainable exploitation of the planet’s 
environmental resources and the shift to less efficient 
energy sources. 
Climate change and species extinctions are 
accelerating even as societies are experiencing rising 
inequality, unemployment, slow economic growth, 
rising debt levels, and impotent governments. Contrary 
to the way policymakers usually think about these 
problems these are not really separate crises at all. 
These crises are part of the same fundamental 
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transition. The new era is characterized by inefficient 
fossil fuel production and escalating costs of climate 
change. Conventional capitalist economic thinking can 
no longer explain, predict or solve the workings of the 
global economy in this new age. 
 
Energy shift 
Those are the implications of a new 
background paper prepared by a team of Finnish 
biophysicists who were asked to provide research that 
would feed into the drafting of the UN Global 
Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), which will be 
released in 2019. 
For the “first time in human history”, the paper 
says, capitalist economies are “shifting to energy 
sources that are less energy efficient.” Producing 
usable energy (“exergy”) to keep powering “both basic 
and non-basic human activities” in industrial civilisation 
“will require more, not less, effort”. 
At the same time, our hunger for energy is 
driving what the paper refers to as “sink costs.” The 
greater our energy and material use, the more waste 
we generate, and so the greater the environmental 
costs. Though they can be ignored for a while, 
eventually those environmental costs translate directly 
into economic costs as it becomes more and more 
difficult to ignore their impacts on our societies. 
Overall, the amount of energy we can extract, 
compared to the energy we are using to extract it, is 
decreasing across the spectrum – unconventional oils, 
nuclear and renewables return less energy in 
generation than conventional oils, whose production 
has peaked – and societies need to abandon fossil 
fuels because of their impact on the climate. 
Whether or not this system still comprises a 
form of capitalism is ultimately a semantic question. It 
depends on how you define capitalism. 
Economic activity is driven by meaning – 
maintaining equal possibilities for the good life while 
lowering emissions dramatically – rather than profit, 
and the meaning is politically, collectively constructed. 
Well, this is the best conceivable case in terms of 
modern state and market institutions. It can’t happen 
without considerable reframing of economic-political 
thinking, in short words: rethinking capitalism as it is 
nowadays. 
 
Disponível em: 
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/ca
pitalism-un-scientists-preparing-end-fossil-fuels-
warning-demise-a8523856.html>. Acesso em: 12 mar. 
2019. (Adaptado). 
 
 
3. Considerando os aspectos linguísticos e estruturais 
presentes no texto, constata-se que 
a) a sentença It depends on how you define 
capitalism, na forma interrogativa seria “Does it 
depends on how do you define capitalism?”. 
b) em Though they can be ignored, o vocábulo 
“though” pode ser substituído pelo termo “through” 
sem alterar o sentido na sentença. 
c) na sentença societies are experiencing rising 
inequality, os termos “experiencing” e “rising” são 
verbos e estão função de gerúndio. 
d) a sentença societies need to abandon fossil fuels, 
na forma negativa seria “societies don´t need to 
abandon fossil fuels”. 
e) na sentença unconventional oils, nuclear and 
renewables, os termos “unconventional” e 
“renewables” são advérbios de modo. 
 
4. Complete the sentences with the correct use of the 
Simple Past and the Past Continuous. 
 
- I was waiting for the bus when I __________ (see) 
her. 
- The children __________ (argue) when the teacher 
arrived. 
- Everyone __________ (listen) to music when the 
lights __________ (go) out. 
 
To fill in the gaps respectively, mark the right option. 
a) saw / was arguing / were listening / went 
b) was seeing / was arguing / listened / were 
c) were weeing / argued / listenned / were 
d) saw / were arguing / was listening / went 
e) was seing / argued / listened / were going 
 
TEXTO PARA AS PRÓXIMAS 2 QUESTÕES: 
Helping at a hospital 
 
 Every year many young people finish school and 
then take a year off before they start work or go to 
college. 1Some of them go to other countries and work 
as volunteers. Volunteers give their time to help 
people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, 
or they help with conservation. 
 Mike Coleman is 19 and __________ in Omaha, 
Nebraska, in the United States. He wants to become a 
teacher, but now he __________ in Namibia. He’s 
working in a hospital near Katima Mulilo. He says, “I’m 
working with the doctors and nurses here to help sick 
people. For example, I help carry people who can’t 
walk. Sometimes I go to villages in the mobile hospital, 
too. There aren’t many doctors here so they need help 
from people like me. I don’t get any money, but that’s 
OK, I’m not here for the money.” 
 “I’m staying here for two months, and I’m living in 
a small house with five others volunteers. The work is 
hard and the days are long, but I’m enjoying my life 
here. I’m learning a lot about life in Southern Africa 
and about myself! 2When I finish the two months’ 
work, I want to travel in and around Namibia for three 
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weeks. For example, I want to see the animals in the 
Okavango Delta in Botswana.” 
 
http://vyre-legacy-access.cambridge.org 
 
 
5. Which verb forms respectively complete the gaps 
in the text? 
a) is living / leaves 
b) lives / is living 
c) is living / lives 
d) leaves / is living 
e) leaves / is leaving 
 
6. Read the fragment from the text. 
 
“When I finish the two months’ work, I want to travel 
in and around Namibia for three weeks.” (reference 2) 
 
Because it is a plan, it is possible to rewrite the 
sentence substituting the underlined part for: 
a) am traveling. 
b) like traveling. 
c) am going traveling. 
d) can travel. 
e) traveled. 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
Read the text that follows and answer the question(s) 
according to it. 
 
EU farmers protest 
 
The warning from farmers is that Europe 1is 
drowning in milk. Plummeting milk prices 2have led 
farmers to protest on the streets of Brussels. Police 
said that 4,800 farmers and close to 1,500 tractors 
were at the 3demonstration. And the scenes seemed to 
4have made a difference. EU Agricultural ministers 
announced a 500 million euro aid package focused on 
helping milk producers. 
 Russia is one of the EU’s main agricultural export 
markets worth some € 5.5 billion5annually. The 
Russian ban on imports of EU food products and the 
deregulation of the market hit dairy farmers this year. 
Changing dietary habits and slowing demand from 
China have also affected prices for dairy products. The 
environment secretary Liz Truss planned to call for the 
creation of a dairy future’s market, similar to those for 
grain and 6sugar, 7which the government says will give 
the UK’s dairy farmers more certainty over future 
prices. Some 8farmers have called for milk production 
quotas to be reintroduced to avoid 9them having to sell 
at a loss. 
 
Available at 
http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/eu-farmers-
protest-level-3/ 
Accessed on Sept. 15th, 2015. Adapted. 
 
 
7. Read the sentences I, II, III and IV. Then, check 
the correct answer according to the Text. 
 
I. “is drowning” (ref. 1) is a future action. 
II. “have led” (ref. 2) and “have made” (ref. 4) are 
both actions happening in the present. 
III. “demonstration” (ref. 3) and “annually” (ref. 5) are 
words formed with prefixes. 
IV. “which” (ref. 7) refers to “sugar” (ref. 6) and 
“them” (ref. 9) refers to “farmers” (ref. 8). 
a) I and III are correct. 
b) II and IV are correct. 
c) III and IV are correct. 
d) All sentences are correct. 
e) All sentences are incorrect. 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
STICKERNOMICS 
 
Football albums 
Got, got, got, got, got, need 
 
 THE World Cup is still two weeks away, but for 
children worldwide (plus 6disturbing numbers of adults) 
the race to complete the Brazil 2014 sticker book 
started long ago. 1Panini, an Italian firm, has produced 
sticker albums for World Cups since Mexico 1970; this 
year’s version has 640 stickers to collect. 7Collecting 
them is no idle pursuit, however. Getting every slot 
filled delivers an early lesson in probability, the value 
of statistical tests and the importance of liquidity. 
 When you start an album, 8your first sticker (in 
Britain, they come in packs of five) has a 640/640 
probability of being needed. 2As the spaces get filled, 
the odds of opening a pack and finding a sticker you 
want fall. 9According to Sylvain Sardy and Yvan 
Velenik, two mathematicians at the University of 
Geneva, the number of sticker packs that you would 
have to buy on average to fill the album by 
mechanically buying pack after pack would be 899. 
11That assumes there is no supply shock to the market 
(the theft of hundreds of thousands of stickers in Brazil 
in April 12left many fearful that Panini would run short 
of cards). 
 It also assumes that 10the market is not being 
rigged. Panini says that 3each sticker is printed in the 
same volumes and randomly distributed. In a 2010 
paper Messrs Sardy and Velenik gamely played the role 
of “regulator” by checking the distribution of stickers 
for a 660-sticker album 13sold in Switzerland for that 
year’s World Cup. Out of their sample of 6,000 
stickers, they expected to see each sticker 9.09 times 
on average (6,000/660), 4which was broadly borne out 
in practice. 
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 Even in a fair market, it is inefficient to buy endless 
packs as an individual (not to mention bloody 
expensive for the parents). The answer is to create a 
market for collectors to swap their unwanted stickers. 
The playground is 14one version of this market, 5where 
a child who has a card prized by many suddenly 
understands the power of limited supply. Sticker fairs 
are another. As with any market, liquidity counts. The 
more people who can be attracted into the market 
with their duplicate cards, the better the chances of 
finding the sticker you want. 
 Messrs Sardy and Velenik reckon that a group of 
ten astute sticker-swappers would need a mere 1,435 
packs between them to complete all ten albums, if 
they take advantage of Panini’s practice of selling the 
final 50 missing stickers to order. Internet forums, 
where potentially unlimited numbers of people can 
swap stickers, make this number fall even further. The 
idea of a totally efficient market 15should dismay 
Panini, which will sell fewer packs as a result. But as in 
all markets, behaviour is not strictly rational. 16Despite 
entreaties, your correspondent’s son is prepared to 
tear out most of his stickers to get hold of Lionel 
Messi. 
 
Fonte: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-
economics/21603019-got-got-got-got-got-need-
stickernomics Acesso: 13/ago/2014 
 
 
8. Marque a opção em que o uso do ing denota ação 
contínua. 
a) … disturbing number of adults… (ref. 6) 
b) Collecting them is no idle pursuit… (ref. 7) 
c) … your first sticker […] has a 640/640 probability of 
being needed. (ref. 8) 
d) According to Sylvain Sardy and Yvan Velenik… (ref. 
9) 
e) … the market is not being rigged. (ref. 10) 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
TEXT 
 
BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s highest court has long 
viewed itself as a bastion of manners and formality. 
Justices call one another “Your Excellency,” dress in 
billowing robes and wrap each utterance in 
grandiloquence, as if little had changed from the era 
when marquises and dukes held sway from their vast 
plantations. 
In one televised feud, Mr. Barbosa questioned 
another justice about whether he would even be on 
the court had he not been appointed by his cousin, 
aformer president impeached in 1992. With another 
justice, Mr. Barbosa rebuked him over what the chief 
justice considered his condescending tone, telling 
him he was not his “capanga,” a term describing a 
hired thug. 
In one of his most scathing comments, Mr. 
Barbosa, the high court’s first and only black justice, 
took on the entire legal system of Brazil — where it is 
still remarkably rare for politicians to ever spend time 
in prison, even after being convicted of crimes — 
contending that the mentality of judges was 
“conservative, pro-status-quo and pro-impunity.” 
“I have a temperament that doesn’t adapt well 
to politics,” Mr. Barbosa, 58, said in a recent interview 
in his quarters here in the Supreme Federal Tribunal, a 
modernist landmark designed by the architect Oscar 
Niemeyer. “It’s because I speak my mind so much.” 
His acknowledged lack of tact notwithstanding, 
he is the driving force behind a series of socially liberal 
and establishment-shaking rulings, turning Brazil’s 
highest court — and him in particular — into a 
newfound political power and the subject of popular 
fascination. 
The court’s recent rulings include a unanimous 
decision upholding the University of Brasília’s 
admissions policies aimed at increasing the number of 
black and indigenous students, opening the way for 
one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping 
affirmative action laws for higher education. 
In another move, Mr. Barbosa used his sway 
as chief justice and president of the panel overseeing 
Brazil’s judiciary to effectively legalize same-sex 
marriage across the country. And in an anticorruption 
crusade, he is overseeing the precedent-setting trial of 
senior political figures in the governing Workers Party 
for their roles in a vast vote-buying scheme. 
Ascending to Brazil’s high court, much less 
pushing the institution to assert its independence, long 
seemed out of reach for Mr. Barbosa, the eldest of 
eight children raised in Paracatu, an impoverished city 
in Minas Gerais State, where his father worked as a 
bricklayer. 
But his prominence — not just on the court, 
but in the streets as well — is so well established that 
masks with his face were sold for Carnival, amateur 
musicians have composed songs about his handling of 
the corruption trial and posted them on YouTube, and 
demonstrators during the huge street protests that 
shook the nation this year told pollsters that Mr. 
Barbosa was one of their top choices for president in 
next year’s elections. 
While the protests have subsided since their 
height in June, the political tumult they set off persists.The race for president, once considered a shoo-in for 
the incumbent, Dilma Rousseff, is now up in the air, 
with Mr. Barbosa — who is now so much in the public 
eye that gossip columnists are following his romance 
with a woman in her 20s — repeatedly saying he will 
not run. “I’m not a candidate for anything,” he says. 
But the same public glare that has turned him 
into a celebrity has singed him as well. While he has 
won widespread admiration for his guidance of the 
high court, Mr. Barbosa, like almost every other 
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prominent political figure in Brazil, has recently come 
under scrutiny. And for someone accustomed to 
criticizing the so-called supersalaries awarded to some 
members of Brazil’s legal system, the revelations have 
put Mr. Barbosa on the defensive. 
One report in the Brazilian news media 
described how he received about $180,000 in 
payments for untaken leaves of absence during his 19 
years as a public prosecutor. (Such payments are 
common in some areas of Brazil’s large public 
bureaucracy.) Another noted that he bought an 
apartment in Miami through a limited liability company, 
suggesting an effort to pay less taxes on the property. 
In statements, Mr. Barbosa contends that he has done 
nothing wrong. 
In a country where a majority of people now 
define themselves as black or of mixed race — but 
where blacks remain remarkably rare in the highest 
echelons of political institutions and corporations — 
Mr. Barbosa’s trajectory and abrupt manner have 
elicited both widespread admiration and a fair amount 
of resistance. 
As a teenager, Mr. Barbosa moved to the 
capital, Brasília, finding work as a janitor in a 
courtroom. Against the odds, he got into the University 
of Brasília, the only black student in its law program at 
the time. Wanting to see the world, he later won 
admission into Brazil’s diplomatic service, which 
promptly sent him to Helsinki, the Finnish capital on 
the shore of the Baltic Sea. 
Sensing that he would not advance much in 
the diplomatic service, which he has called “one of the 
most discriminatory institutions of Brazil,” Mr. Barbosa 
opted for a career as a prosecutor. He alternated 
between legal investigations in Brazil and studies 
abroad, gaining fluency in English, French and 
German, and earning a doctorate in law at Pantheon-
Assas University in Paris. 
Fascinated by the legal systems of other 
countries, Mr. Barbosa wrote a book on affirmative 
action in the United States. He still voices his 
admiration for figures like Thurgood Marshall, the first 
black Supreme Court justice in the United States, and 
William J. Brennan Jr., who for years embodied the 
court’s liberal vision, clearly drawing inspiration from 
them as he pushed Brazil’s high court toward socially 
liberal rulings. 
Still, no decision has thrust Mr. Barbosa into 
Brazil’s public imagination as much as his handling of 
the trial of political operatives, legislators and bankers 
found guilty in a labyrinthine corruption scandal called 
the mensalão, or big monthly allowance, after the 
regular payments made to lawmakers in exchange for 
their votes. 
Last November, at Mr. Barbosa’s urging, the 
high court sentenced some of the most powerful 
figures in the governing Workers Party to years in 
prison for their crimes in the scheme, including bribery 
and unlawful conspiracy, jolting a political system in 
which impunity for politicians has been the norm. 
Now the mensalão trial is entering what could 
be its final phases, and Mr. Barbosa has at times been 
visibly exasperated that defendants who have already 
been found guilty and sentenced have managed to 
avoid hard jail time. He has clashed with other justices 
over their consideration of a rare legal procedure in 
which appeals over close votes at the high court are 
examined. 
Losing his patience with one prominent justice, 
Ricardo Lewandowski, who tried to absolve some 
defendants of certain crimes, Mr. Barbosa publicly 
accused him this month of “chicanery” by using 
legalese to prop up certain positions. An outcry ensued 
among some who could not stomach Mr. Barbosa’s 
talking to a fellow justice like that. “Who does Justice 
Joaquim Barbosa think he is?” asked Ricardo Noblat, a 
columnist for the newspaper O Globo, questioning 
whether Mr. Barbosa was qualified to preside over the 
court. “What powers does he think he has just because 
he’s sitting in the chair of the chief justice of the 
Supreme Federal Tribunal?” 
Mr. Barbosa did not apologize. In the 
interview, he said some tension was necessary for the 
court to function properly. “It was always like this,” he 
said, contending that arguments are now just easier 
to see because the court’s proceedings are televised. 
Linking the court’s work to the recent wave of 
protests, he explained that he strongly disagreed with 
the violence of some demonstrators, but he also said 
he believed that the street movements were “a sign of 
democracy’s exuberance.” 
“People don’t want to passively stand by and 
observe these arrangements of the elite, which were 
always the Brazilian tradition,” he said. 
 
 
9. In the sentences “Mr. Barbosa took on the entire 
legal system,” “he is overseeing the precedent-setting 
trial,” and “Mr. Barbosa has at times been 
exasperated,” the verbs are, respectively, in the 
a) simple present, present perfect, and present 
continuous. 
b) past perfect, simple present, and present perfect. 
c) simple past, present continuous, and present 
perfect. 
d) simple past, present perfect, and present 
continuous. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
How money works: Will China on us all? 
 
It’s no secret China has been booming while 
the West declines. In fact, it’s been growing so fast it’s 
expanding overseas, too: buying up businesses in the 
UK, U.S. and elsewhere. So, how worried should we 
be? 
Napoleon once said, apparently. ‘Let China 
sleep because when she wakes she’ll shake the world’. 
Indeed, for much of the industrial revolution, 
China was taking a nap — so to speak. But in 1978 
things began to change. The Communist country 
encouraged private enterprise and unleashed its 
biggest asset: 975 million citizens. 
Where then ensued mass migrations to urban 
areas where people took up jobs in factories to 
manufacture goods for export. Since then the economy 
dubbed ‘the dragon’ has doubled its slice of the global 
economy and it’s predicted that by 2016 China will be 
the world’s biggest economy. 
Can anything stand in the way of the Asian 
powerhouse? 
 
From Yahoo Finance UK Friday Mar 8, 2013. 
 
 
10. In text, the Verb forms booming, growing, 
expanding and buying indicate that the events 
described are situated 
a) in the near future. 
b) in the present. 
c) long ago. 
d) in the era of the Communist Revolution. 
e) in the Napoleonic period. 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
Microsoft is buying Skype 
 
One is the giant business, whose software powers 
more than 90% of the world's computers. The other is 
the firm, which has revolutionised the way many 
communicate. Now Skype is being swallowed up by 
Microsoft. 
It's just eight years since Skype started helping people 
to make calls over the internet for nothing, and this is 
the third time it's been bought and sold. 
Microsoft has been struggling to prove it can compete 
with the likes of Google and Apple. Now as it tries to 
make an impact on the mobile-phone world, it wants 
Skype to help it become a bigger force. 
Skype is now used by 170 million people around the 
world (each month), not just on their computers, but 
on the move – on their mobile phones and even on 
their tablet devices. 
Microsoft wants to tap in to this connected community, 
but it's paying a huge price fora business that isn't 
even profitable. 
 
Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News. 
 
Fonte: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/lan
guage/wordsinthenews/2011/05/110511witn_skype_p
age.shtml 
 
 
11. Onde se lê “Microsoft is buying Skype”, é correto 
afirmar que 
a) a Microsoft está vendendo o Skype. 
b) o Skype está sendo vendido pela Microsoft. 
c) a Microsoft está comprando o Skype. 
d) o Skype está se despedindo da Microsoft. 
e) a Microsoft está perdendo o Skype. 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
INSIDE A MAKEOVER 
One Company's story illustrates how music-industry 
giants are retooling in an attempt to survive the digital 
future. 
by Karen Lowry Miller 
 
The battle for digital control (I) in the movie 
business, but (II) virtually over in music. The 
giants are winning. Court rulings have forced free 
music upstarts like Grokster and Napster out of 
business, and earlier this month required Kazaa, the 
producer of file-sharing technology, to introduce filters 
to prevent piracy. The idea that free music would gut 
the big record companies seems a distant memory, 
even though it was still the conventional wisdom just a 
year ago. "We're finally seeing a raft of new initiatives 
from really big players", says Eric Nicoli, chairman of 
one of the big four music companies, the EMI Group. 
"This stuff is happening all day, every day now". 
Just consider the last month: Apple and Motorola 
unveiled a phone that can play music from iTunes, and 
announced partnerships with big U.S. and British 
phone companies to develop the mobile music market. 
In London, two giant retailers, HMV and Virgin, 
announced digital music ventures, a sign that the 
online sector is reaching mass-market size. The big 
labels have arrested a four-year, 25 percent plunge in 
sales and can now concentrate on exploring new 
business models to navigate the digital landscape. 
Nicoli has the buoyant air of a man who has just 
survived a close scrape with death. In a recent series 
of interviews, he and other top execs at EMI offered a 
detailed glimpse at the recent tumult, and where EMI - 
and their industry - is likely to go from here. 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
(Adapted from Newsweek.) 
 
 
12. The words and verb forms which properly fill in 
blanks I and II in the text are: 
a) has still raged - it'll have been 
b) will have raged - it-s being 
c) is still raging - it's 
d) was still raged - it had been 
e) would still be raged - it has been 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
CELL PHONES - THE CLEAN AND DIRTY 
 
Here's a useful thing to do with an old cell phone: 
throw it in the garden. 6British researchers are 
developing a biodegradable cell phone casing 
embedded with a flower seed. Use the phone until 
1you're done (in some places that's roughly every 18 
months), and 4then you 7can compost the cover with 
yesterday's coffee grounds. The rest of 8the phone 
contains precious metals and circuits boards that can 
be 9recycled, says Kerry Kirwan, chief researcher of the 
project at the 10University of Warwick. He says he's 
figured out how to make the phone 11-13out of a 
biodegradable polymer with a plastic window to 
protect the 12flower seed until 2it's planted. 3His 
department has been experimenting with various 
seeds, but 5so far it has successfully grown dwarf 
sunflowers with its old phones. 
Imagine the entrepreneurial possibilities - and the 
downloadable ringtones. 
 
Newsweek. May, 2005. p. 55. 
 
 
13. Em "British researchers are developing..." (ref. 
6), o aspecto verbal indica uma ação em andamento, o 
que ocorre também na(s) referência(s) 
a) 7. 
b) 8 - 9. 
c) 10. 
d) 11. 
e) 12. 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
PLAGIARISM ON THE INTERNET 
 
 For Anna, 22, a final year student in south-east 
England, internet plagiarism is a natural part of 
undergraduate life. 
 For the past three years, she says, she has been 
submitting essays bought and copied from the internet 
and passing them off as her own. 
 She is currently working on her final-year project 
and most of the materials in the dissertation are 
coming off the net. 
 Anna (not her real name) says she cheats because 
it is easy to get away with it. 
 "It is easier, because sometimes when you go to 
the library you can't find the necessary books or you 
have too much to read," she says. 
 "But I'm always careful. The best way is to combine 
library materials with essays bought from the internet." 
Texto:"http://www.newsbbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/326
5143.stm" 
 
 
 
14. Pode-se observar, nos parágrafos 2, 3 e 4 do 
texto, a ocorrência de três tempos verbais distintos na 
língua inglesa. As afirmativas a seguir contêm ideias 
relativas a cada um desses tempos verbais. 
 
I. Algo que Anna faz com regularidade. 
II. Algo que Anna tem feito há algum tempo. 
III. Algo que Anna está fazendo no momento. 
 
Com base nas asserções, assinale a alternativa que 
apresenta a ideia contida em cada um desses tempos 
verbais, segundo a ordem em que aparecem nos 
referidos parágrafos. 
a) II, I e III. 
b) III, I e II. 
c) III, II e I. 
d) I, II e III. 
e) II, III e I. 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
COULD IT BE YOU? 
 
World Challenge, a competition in association with 
Shell, is looking to find individuals or groups from 
around the world who have shown enterprise and 
innovation at a grass roots level. We want to hear 
about the people (I) projects (II) a difference 
in their communities. We're looking for nominations of 
innovative projects or ideas with a social as well as 
financial dividend in mind... 
 
- Innovative ideas working in practice 
- Profit making schemes benefiting communities 
- Business ideas with spark 
 
The nominated projects can be in any area of 
enterprise, and the organizers of the project can be a 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
company, an individual, or even yourself. The winner 
will receive U.S.$20,000, courtesy of Shell, towards 
their project. 
 
But you only have two more weeks to submit 
nominations. Visit www.theworldchallente.co.uk for 
details. Entries must be received by 5 p.m. (GMT) on 
April 4, 2005. 
(Adapted from NEWSWEEK) 
 
 
 
15. Blanks I and II are correctly filled in by: 
a) that, have been making 
b) which, make 
c) whom, have made 
d) whose, are making 
e) by which, can make 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
Has technology ruined childhood? 
 
1. Today, parents are increasingly worried about the 
safety of their children, and because of this, 1they are 
not letting their children out to play. As a result, 
children are no longer playing outside but shutting 
2themselves away in their rooms and losing themselves 
in individualistic activities such as television viewing 
and computer games. 
2. Yet, if they had the chance, they would rather get 
out of the house and go to the cinema, see friends or 
play sport. In fact, when asked what their idea of a 
good day was, only 1 in 7 said that they would turn on 
the television. 
3. British teenagers have always retreated to their 
bedrooms, leaving the 3younger children to play in 
communal spaces such as the sitting room, garden or 
kitchen. However, children from the age of 9 are now 
turning to their bedrooms as a place to socialise. 
4. Bedroom culture is a phenomenon of the past 20 
years with families getting 4smaller and homes getting 
more spacious. Increasing prosperity has also 
contributed to the rise of the bedroom culture. 
5. Of British children aged 6 to 17, 72% have a room 
they do not have to share with a sibling, 68% have 
their own music installation, 34% have an electronic 
games 5controller hooked up to the television, 21% 
have a PC. Only 1%, on theother hand, have an 
Internet connection in their bedroom. 
6. On average children devote 5 hours a day to screen 
media. Even so, only 1 child in 100 can be classed as a 
real screen addict, a child who spends a worrying 7 
hours or more watching TV or playing computer 
games. 
7. Although children generally have a few favourite 
programmes, they mostly use television to kill time 
when they are bored and have nothing special to do. 
Moreover, the distinction between individualistic media 
use and social activities such as chatting with friends is 
less extreme than is commonly assumed. Children 
gossip about television soap characters, make contact 
with other children on the Internet, and visit friends to 
admire 6their new computer games. 
8. As the use of PCs proliferates, reading skills are 
expected to suffer. Nevertheless, 57% of children say 
they still enjoy reading, and 1 in 5 teenagers can be 
classed as a book-lover. 
9. As a result of the bedroom culture, it is becoming 
7rarer for children over the age of 10 to watch 
television with their parents. Once in their rooms, 
children tend to stay up watching television for as long 
as they wish. Consequently it is getting 8harder to 
control children's viewing. 
10. One father told researchers that 9he drew the line 
at 9 pm. His son, on the other hand, said: "They tell us 
to go up at about 9.30 or 10 or something, and then 
we just watch until they come up and tell us to switch 
10it off at 11 or 11.30." 
 
 
16. Choose the alternative in which the capital word -
ING form is an example of the present continuous: 
a) "a child who spends a WORRYING 7 hours or more" 
(paragraph 6) 
b) "INCREASING prosperity has also contributed to the 
rise of" (paragraph 4) 
c) "children from the age of 9 are now TURNING to 
their bedrooms" (paragraph 3) 
d) "children say they still enioy READING" (paragraph 
8) 
e) "harder to control children's VIEWING" (paragraph 
9) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
BUNKER DOWN 
 
FORGET HIDING IN THE basement. Brits worried 
about their safety can now purchase a completely 
bombproof house, made by the steel manufacturer 
Corus. The Surefast shelter, launched earlier this 
month, is constructed out of steel panels that are 
slotted together and filled with concrete. But don't 
expect to just throw it together at the last minute: it 
takes several people 10 hours - and the help of a 
heavy crane - to assemble the two-story, 50,000 
pounds structure. In tests the shelter has successfully 
withstood everything from car bombs to blowtorches. 
Still, it offers no protection from biological or chemical 
weapons. For clean air, inhabitants had best outfit 
their bombproof homes with the Dominick Hunter 
Group's regenerative NBC filtration system. (The British 
Army is now installing it in its tanks.) Breathable air 
doesn't come cheap, either: a filter to support 10 
people starts at 50,000 pounds. 
Newsweek, April 14, 2003. 
 
 
17. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta o uso 
correto do presente contínuo como em "The British 
Army is now installing it in its tanks.". 
a) The British Army is liking the new program. 
b) The British Army is understanding the needs of the 
population. 
c) The British Army is listening to the population. 
d) The British Army is preferring the new general. 
e) The British Army is possessing many tanks. 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
THE RISE OF THE ONLY CHILD 
 
Around the globe, birthrates are falling. Growing up 
without siblings is now the norm in some places. It's 
good for the planet. So why is everyone so worried? 
BY SUSAN H. GREENBERG 
 
 Family size is shrinking in many places around the 
globe, particularly in the richest countries. Across 
Europe, the average fertility rate in 2000 was 1.46, 
down from 1.72 10 years before. Asia's dropped from 
just over three children per woman to 2.54 in the 
same period. Even in heavily Roman Catholic Latin 
America the fertility rate is plunging. Women in Brazil 
now average 2.3 children each, down sharply from 6.3 
40 years ago. The big picture is more dramatic still: 
according to the United Nations, the fertility rate in the 
most developed nations ___(I)___ an all-time low of 
1.57 children per woman. 
 Most striking, more parents than ever are having 
just one child, whether by necessity or by choice. 
Demographer Margarita Delgado says that in Spain the 
declining birthrate, ___(II)___ has halved in the past 
28 years to 1.2 in 2000, paired with the rising 
percentage of first births - more than 50 percent now, 
compared with 38 percent 25 years ago - illustrates 
the trend. "The one-child family is on the rise," she 
says. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one-child 
families are the fastest-growing unit in America, 
jumping from 9.6 percent in 1976 to more than 17 
percent in 1998. In China parents ___(III)___ stop 
after one child are merely complying with the law. But 
the birthrate there ___(IV)___ so dramatically that the 
government is, unofficially at least, beginning to relax 
its draconian 20-year-old policy. 
 Who would have guessed? Thirty years ago the big 
worry was that runaway population growth would 
decimate the earth's resources. Stanford biologist Paul 
Ehrlich warned direly of "The Population Bomb" in his 
1968 book; four years later a team of MIT researchers 
predicted that the world would soon run out of gold, 
oil and arable land. None of it happened. And though 
the world's population is still growing rapidly - 6.1 
billion today, and expected 1to swell to 9.3 billion by 
2050 - the rate of growth ___(V)___ to 1.2 percent. 
 There's another reason for having fewer kids that 
today's exhausted, overworked parents may be 
reluctant to admit: it's easier. And cheaper. French 
sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufman attributes the rise in 
one-child families to "the growth of individualism." 
When it comes to education, there's no comparison: 
only children are much more likely than their friends 
with brothers and sisters to go to elite private schools. 
"I wanted one child so I could give her the best 
education possible," says Brazilian Ana Claudia Jucá, a 
37-year-old single mother ___(VI)___ organizes lavish 
birthday parties for kids. The decline in population 
growth is occurring almost exclusively in the most 
developed nations; the poorest, according to the U.N., 
will triple in size by 2050, ___(VII)___ nine out of 
every 10 people will live in a developing country. 
 In this changing family landscape, no group comes 
under more 2scrutiny than only children. 3They are 
routinely accused of being self-centered and 
uncompromising. In China, only children - known as 
"little emperors" - ___(VIII)___. for everything from 
increased juvenile crime to 4rampant materialism. 
(Adapted from Newsweek) 
 
 
 
 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
 
18. As lacunas I e IV devem ser preenchidas 
respectiva e corretamente por: 
a) approach; had shrank 
b) is approaching; has shrunk 
c) have being approaching; shrink 
d) are approaching; have shrunken 
e) approached; are shrinking 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
WANTED: COLLEGE STUDENTS 
 
1 Japan's rapidly graying population is no secret. But 
while many people worry about a looming worker 
crisis, a sharp falloff in the number of young people is 
having other effects - most notably, a shortage of 
college students. College applications in Japan (I) 
steadily since 1992 - and the problem promises to get 
much worse. Japan has 1.5 million 18-year-olds this 
year, but only 1.27 million 10-year-olds as future 
college prospects. And in Japan, 2ROUGHLY HALF OF 
ALL HIGH-SCHOOL GRADS GO TO COLLEGE.The 
trend spells trouble for the country's 1,200 junior 
colleges and universities, (II) are scrambling to fill 
student seats. A recent survey conducted by the 
Promotion and Mutual Aid Corp. for Private Schools in 
Japan (III) that nearly 60 percent of private junior 
colleges and nearly 30 percent of private universities 
failed this year to achieve their quotas of new 
students. "These days, students get to choose colleges 
instead of schools' selecting students," says Yasuhiko 
Nishii of the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corp. He 
1ASSERTS that to survive, Japanese colleges "must 
restructure and make [certain] departments and 
courses as attractive as possible." 
2 That is already happening. While prestigious 
national universities like Tokyo University and Kyoto 
University retain their 3ALLURE, many colleges (IV) 
less selective about the qualifications of incoming 
students - and resorting to increasingly aggressive 
marketing ploys to fill their classrooms. For example, 
Hakodate University, on the northern island of 
Hokkaido, (V) inviting top corporate executives to 
give lectures on business. And Hakodate plans to lower 
its admission requirements beginning next spring. 
Tokai University, (VI) main campus is in Kanagawa 
Prefecture, plans to expand its information and 
technology curriculum and will begin a creative-writing 
course featuring well-known poets and critics. 
According to a survey by a leading "cram school" in 
Japan, a significant number of college departments no 
longer pay attention to applicant test scores - a radical 
move in Japan. The media now call such institutions 
"free-pass colleges." Even elite schools are sending 
professors out on recruiting tours. 
(Adapted from Newsweek) 
 (I) 
 
 
19. As lacunas IV e V devem ser preenchidas, 
corretamente, por: 
a) IV- is becoming; V- is beginning 
b) IV- have become; V- have begun 
c) IV- are becoming; V- has begun 
d) IV- becomes; V- has been beginning 
e) IV- have been becoming; V- begin 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
1 It is a nice irony, given that scientific genetics 
started with the manipulation of a crop plant, the pea, 
that the most vehement public opposition to it in 
recent years has come from those who object to the 
genetic manipulation of crops. 
2 At the moment, so-called genetically modified (GM) 
crops are in disgrace. Consumers, particularly in 
Europe, are wary of buying food that may contain 
them. Environmental activists are ripping up fields 
where they are being tested experimentally. And 
companies that design them are selling off their GM 
subsidiaries, or even themselves, to anyone willing to 
take on the risk. 
3 Yet the chances are that this is just a passing fad. 
No trial has shown a health risk from a commercially 
approved GM crop (or, more correctly, a transgenic 
crop, as all crop plants have been genetically modified 
by selective breeding since time immemorial). And 
while the environmental risks, such as cross-pollination 
with wild species and the promotion of insecticide-
resistant strains of pest, look more plausible, they also 
look no worse than the sorts of environmental havoc 
wreaked by more traditional sorts of agriculture. 
THE ECONOMIST, July 1ST 2000 
 
 
 
20. Choose the correct ACTIVE VOICE FORM for... 
"fields where they are being tested experimentally" 
(par.2) 
a) fields where scientists have been testing them 
experimentally. 
b) fields where environmentalists are testing them 
experimentally. 
c) fields where genetic engineers had been testing 
them experimentally. 
d) fields where genetic engineers are testing them 
experimentally. 
e) fields where one has been testing them 
experimentally. 
 
 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
 
21. Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente 
cada lacuna da frase apresentada. 
 
I __________ to the radio every day, but I 
__________ listening to it now. 
a) listen ... am not 
b) listened ... had 
c) listening ... was not 
d) was listening ... not 
e) not listen ... was 
 
22. Em inglês, "Você está esperando alguma carta?" 
seria: 
a) Have you been waiting for a chart? 
b) Are you expecting a letter? 
c) Are you attending any lecture? 
d) Are you staying for the lecture? 
e) Have you been hoping for a lecture? 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
Battling the Bloodlines 
 
1 It's the small things the Brazilians do that annoy 
some Japanese in Toyota City. The immigrants don't 
throw their garbage where they are supposed to. They 
gather outside and play loud music at night. They play 
a strange card game that involves yelling "Truco!" at 
the top of their lungs. To Japanese in one densely 
populated public housing complex, it feels as if the 
foreigners are closing in on them, the smoke from the 
barbecues suffocating them, the Latin music drowning 
out an imagined tranquility. Ten years ago there were 
200 Brazilians in the complex. Today there are 3,500. 
"The sidewalks are getting narrower," said a Japanese 
woman as she maneuvered a grocery cart through a 
gathering of Brazilian families. "There's no room for us 
anymore," said her friend. 
2 Foreigners of any stripe can be upsetting in Japan, 
where conformity is a national creed and wa, the 
concept of harmony, is integral to maintaining stability 
and peace in a country of 126 million people crowded 
onto four islands. "I don't think it's a good idea to 
concentrate Brazilians in one place," said Masae 
Matsui. Two years ago, a residents' association Matsui 
headed proposed restricting the number of foreigners 
in his public housing complex; in April, he was elected 
to the city assembly. 
3 The dark side of "wa", the part that excludes 
outsiders, erupted into violence earlier this summer in 
Toyota City, home to thousands of workers of the 
carmaker Toyota, its subsidiaries and suppliers. After a 
dispute with a noodle vendor got out of hand, about 
100 supporters of a right-wing nationalist group 
paraded around the public housing complex where 
3,500 Brazilians live. They shouted through a loud-
speaker, "Foreigners go home," taunted the Brazilians 
to come out and fight and waved metal pipes in the 
air. 
Time, August 9, 1999, p.19. 
 
 
 
23. Na expressão "The sidewalks are GETTING 
narrower" (par. 1) você poderia substituir GETTING 
por: 
a) closing 
b) having 
c) beginning 
d) coming 
e) becoming 
 
24. Indicate the alternative that best completes the 
following sentence. 
 
"Our plan______ by the members of the committee." 
a) will consider 
b) has being considered 
c) has considered 
d) have been considered 
e) is being considered 
 
25. Indicate the alternative that best completes the 
following sentence. 
 
"SHE __________ HIS PROPOSAL, BUT SHE 
__________ A DECISION FOR A WHILE." 
a) considers - doesn't need to make 
b) is considering - doesn't want to make 
c) has considered - had to take 
d) has been considering - is taking 
e) considered - needs to take 
 
26. Assinale a alternativa correta: 
 
The whole world ........... against drugs now. 
a) is fighting 
b) fought 
c) had been fighting 
d) has fought 
e) fight 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
Mexico 
 
 The story of Mexico echoes the land itself, an 
arduous landscape of peaks and valleys rising and 
failing like the country's tumultuous history. Growth 
and decline, hope and disappointment all play out 
across the centuries here. The Mexican land 5which 
nourished America's first great civilizations, has 
2endured the shock of European conquest, frequent 
wars, and hard poverty to be born again as something 
new. Richin natural resources, blessed with strong 
family ties and a hardworking people, Mexico is ready 
to move from the ranks of 4developing nations into a 
new role, this time as a modern player on the world 
stage. But those hopes have been 1tarnished, at least 
for the moment, by political corruption, civil unrest, 
environmental pollution, and the Mexican 
government's devaluation of the peso. The resulting 
economic woes have exacerbated tensions along the 
US - Mexican border, where drug trafficking and illegal 
immigration rise each time the peso falls. Such ripples 
touch neighbors in all directions, for our lives are ever 
more closely linked - by the North American Free 
Trade Agreement, by the recent guarantee of 20 billion 
dollars in US loans to Mexico, by the growing influence 
of Hispanic culture spreading north of the border, and 
by modern communications that shrink the world with 
each 3passing day. 
 
27. Choose the best alternative to complete the 
sentence below correctly: 
 
Mexico __________ many difficult crises in history, but 
now it _________ its own future. 
a) has faced - is shaping 
b) faced - was shaped 
c) have faced - shapes 
d) have been facing - shaped 
e) faces - has been shaped 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
TOMORROW'S WORLD 
This text is going to be a little different. It's about 
predictions. What is going to happen tomorrow? What 
will the future bring? Things like that. Optimists and 
pessimists have their own answers. We are going to 
know what they are. Then you are going to decide 
which group (optimists or pessimists) made each 
prediction. You are also going to give your own opinion 
about each prediction (whether you consider it 
possible or impossible to happen). 
- The City of the Future will have a roof - a huge 
geodesic dome that will cover the buildings and 
population. 
 - Man will invent a kind of machine that will be able to 
think. 
- We'll be able to go to the Moon and to the planets. 
Scientists will live and work in space colonies. 
- The population of the world will exceed 10 billion 
people before the beginning of the next century. 
- There will be wars in every part of the world. 
- Medical science will find a cure for several different 
diseases before the year 2000. 
- We'll have a lot of free time because computers will 
do much of our work. 
- Nuclear energy will be safe. There won't be any 
danger of accidents. 
- Noise and air pollution will belong to the past. 
- Big cities will continue to grow and there won't be 
enough food for everybody. 
How many of these predictions do you consider 
possible? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? 
 
 
28. Complete com palavras do texto: 
 
The population of the world is .......... . 
a) going 
b) covering 
c) finding 
d) growing 
e) beginning 
 
TEXTO PARA A PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO: 
BRAZIL'S NETWORK BOOM 
BRAZIL IS ON THE VERGE OF A NETWORK SURGE. 
BUT EXACTLY HOW THEY'LL ALL IS STILL UP IN THE 
AIR. 
 
 Probably the only thing that Brazil's two pay TV 
heavyweights, Globo and TVA, agree ___(I)___ is that 
the country's multichannel business is on the verge of 
a boom. 
 The two companies, which have fought one of the 
most IMPASSIONED battles for dominance to be found 
anywhere in the pay TV world, ___(II)___ the intensity 
of their cable and wireless competition and extending 
it to direct-to-home television this year. And with the 
number of Brazilian pay TV subscribers expected to 
___(III)___ fivefold to 5 million by the end of the 
decade, both sides are FEVERISHLY putting together 
new programming services to make their packages as 
ALLURING as possible. (...) 
by Ian Katz 
Multichannel News. International, April, 1996 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
 
29. Quais os verbos que devem preencher as lacunas 
II a III respectivamente? 
a) are rising - raise 
b) are raising - rise 
c) are rising - rise 
d) is raising - raise 
e) is rising - rise 
 
30. Complete with Simple Present or Present 
Continuous (Progressive) 
 
She usually _______________ against injustice, but at 
this moment she _______________ against 
unemployment. 
a) protest / protesting 
b) protests / is protesting 
c) is protesting / protests 
d) protest / are protesting 
e) protested / are protesting 
 
31. Complete with Simple Present or Present 
Continuous (Progressive) 
 
Smith always_______________ to class on time. 
a) is coming 
b) comes 
c) come 
d) cames 
e) had come 
 
32. Complete with Simple Present or Present 
Continuous (Progressive) 
 
She generally _______________ the piano, but at 
present she _______________ the guitar. 
a) is playing / plays 
b) is plaing / plays 
c) plays / is playing 
d) playing / are playing 
e) plays / is plaing 
 
33. Complete with Simple Present or Present 
Continuous (Progressive) 
 
Today he _______________ jeans and T-shirts, but he 
usually _______________ a suit at work. 
a) is wearing / wears 
b) wears / is wearing 
c) wearing / wear 
d) wear / are wearing 
e) has wearing / wearing 
 
34. Usamos o Present Progressive Tense para: 
a) ação há pouco completada; 
b) ação que começou no passado e continua no 
presente; 
c) ação premeditada; 
d) ações habituais; 
e) ação praticada no momento em que se fala. 
 
35. CHECK THE CORRECT ANSWER. 
 
What ___________ you ____________ now? 
I ________________ my car. 
a) do/do - am wash 
b) are/do - washing 
c) are/doing - am washing 
d) do/doing - washing 
 
36. Em que alternativa devo usar o present 
continuous? 
a) They (wait) _____________ for us on the corner 
now. 
b) I (be back) ___________ in an hour. 
c) We (drive) _____________ at about forty miles an 
hour when the accident happened. 
d) If you come at noon, we (eat) ___________ lunch. 
 
37. Choose the correct alternative to complete the 
sentence. 
 
A: "Where's your mother?" 
B: "She's_________tonight. 
a) being operated on 
b) going to be operated 
c) operating on 
d) having to be operated 
e) been operated 
 
38. Complete with Simple Present or Present 
Continuous (Progressive) 
 
Sergio _______________ to the radio while his little 
brother _______________ outside in the park. 
a) is listenning / is runing 
b) is listening / is runing 
c) is listening / is running 
d) is listenning / is running 
e) is listenning / runs. 
 
39. Assinale a alternativa correta. 
 
Many countries ______ with nuclear reactors. 
a) is experimenting 
b) experiments 
c) experimenting 
d) would experiment 
e) are experimenting 
 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
Gabarito: 
 
Resposta da questão 1: 
 [E] 
 
A alternativa [E] está correta, pois possui uso correto 
do tempo verbal present continuous (presença do 
verbo to be no simple present e o verbo principal no 
present participle). 
 
Resposta da questão 2: 
 ANULADA 
 
Gabarito SuperPro®: Anulada 
Gabarito Oficial: [B] 
 
A alternativa [A] está errada, pois a fim de que a 
oração seja inteligível, o verbo a ser usado deveria ser 
exists (existir) ao invés de exits (sair) 
A alternativa [B] está correta, pois não há erros 
sintáticos ou morfológicos. 
A alternativa [C] está errada, pois o verbo to finish é 
transitivo, portanto, exigindo complemento. Em 
contrapartida, to end é intransitivo. Sendo assim, a 
forma verbal ended deveria ter sido usada. 
A alternativa [D] está correta, pois apresenta uso 
adequado do present perfect. 
 
Pelos motivos apresentados, não há alternativa a ser 
escolhida. 
 
Resposta da questão 3: 
 [D] 
 
A alternativa [D] está correta, pois a forma negativa da 
terceira pessoa do plural do simple present é don’t. 
 
Resposta da questão 4: 
 [D] 
 
Aalternativa [D] está correta, pois completa 
corretamente as lacunas com o Simple Past e Past 
Continuous. 
 
Tradução das frases: 
Eu estava esperando o ônibus quando eu a vi. 
As crianças estavam discutindo quando o professor 
chegou. 
Todo mundo estava ouvindo música quando as luzes 
se apagaram. 
 
Resposta da questão 5: 
 [B] 
 
A alternativa [B] está correta, pois a primeira lacuna 
deve ser completada pelo Simple Present do verbo to 
live (viver) por se tratar de um fato. A segunda lacuna, 
por sua vez, deve ser completada pelo Present 
Continuous do mesmo verbo, uma vez que se trata de 
uma quebra de rotina (o fato de estar morando 
momentaneamente na Namíbia). 
 
Resposta da questão 6: 
 [A] 
 
Gabarito Oficial: [C] 
Gabarito SuperPro®: [A] 
 
A alternativa correta é a [A], pois se trata do uso do 
Present Continuous como uma ideia futura 
planejada. Desse modo, a oração "am traveling" pode 
ser entendida como "viajarei". 
A alternativa [B] está errada, pois modifica o sentido 
original para "gosto de viajar". 
A alternativa [C] está gramaticalmente errada, pois 
deveria ter a forma "am going to travel". 
A alternativa [D] está errada, pois modifica o sentido 
original para "posso viajar". 
A alternativa [E] está errada, pois modifica o sentido 
original para "viajei". 
 
Resposta da questão 7: 
 [E] 
 
Afirmação I – Incorreta: A expressão "is drowning" 
refere-se a uma ação que ocorre no momento em que 
se fala (está se afogando). 
Afirmação II – Incorreta: As expressões "have led" e 
"have made" referem-se a ações indefinidas no 
passado. 
Afirmação III – Incorreta: As palavras "demonstration" 
e "annually" são formadas por sufixação. 
Afirmação IV – Incorreta: O pronome which refere-se 
a market e them refere-se a farmers 
 
Resposta da questão 8: 
 [E] 
 
A única alternativa em que a forma -ing está sendo 
usada em um tempo contínuo (no caso, o present 
continuous) é a [E]. Tradução: "o mercado não está 
sendo fraudado". 
 
Resposta da questão 9: 
 [C] 
 
O verbo “took” é simple past de “to take”; “is 
overseeing" é present continuous de ‘to oversee’” e 
“has been” é present perfect de “to be”. Assim, a 
alternativa correta é a [C]. 
 
Resposta da questão 10: 
 [B] 
 
TEOREMA MILITAR 
LISTA 1 – PRESENT CONTINUOUS 
PROF. MATEUS TEIXEIRA 
 
A alternativa correta é a [B], pois os verbos 
destacados foram retirados de exemplos de uso do 
present perfect continuous, cuja função é 
descrever ações que foram iniciadas no passado e 
que ainda são feitas no presente, e do present 
continuous, o qual possui como uma de suas funções 
a descrição de eventos que ocorrem no momento 
em que se fala. A seguir, encontram-se grifadas as 
estruturas com esses tempos verbais: “It’s no secret 
China has been booming while the West declines. In 
fact, it’s been growing so fast it’s expanding 
overseas, too: buying up businesses in the UK, U.S. 
and elsewhere”. 
 
Resposta da questão 11: 
 [C] 
 
O verbo “buying” significa “comprando”. 
 
Resposta da questão 12: 
 [C] 
 
Resposta da questão 13: 
 [E] 
 
Resposta da questão 14: 
 [E] 
 
Resposta da questão 15: 
 [D] 
 
Resposta da questão 16: 
 [C] 
 
Resposta da questão 17: 
 [C] 
 
Resposta da questão 18: 
 [B] 
 
Resposta da questão 19: 
 [C] 
 
Resposta da questão 20: 
 [D] 
 
Resposta da questão 21: 
 [A] 
 
Resposta da questão 22: 
 [B] 
 
Resposta da questão 23: 
 [E] 
 
Resposta da questão 24: 
 [E] 
 
Resposta da questão 25: 
 [B] 
 
Resposta da questão 26: 
 [A] 
 
Resposta da questão 27: 
 [A] 
 
Resposta da questão 28: 
 [D] 
 
Resposta da questão 29: 
 [B] 
 
Resposta da questão 30: 
 [B] 
 
Resposta da questão 31: 
 [B] 
 
O simple present é usado com advérbios de 
frequência, no caso always (sempre), para denotar 
ações habituais. 
 
Resposta da questão 32: 
 [C] 
 
Resposta da questão 33: 
 [A] 
 
Resposta da questão 34: 
 [E] 
 
Resposta da questão 35: 
 [C] 
 
Resposta da questão 36: 
 [A] 
 
Resposta da questão 37: 
 [A] 
 
Resposta da questão 38: 
 [C] 
 
Resposta da questão 39: 
 [E]