Questões de concursos sobre "Verbos modais | Modal verbs" | Inglês - página 1

The only INCORRECT sentence below is:

The modal verb “may” (line 8) could be replaced, with
no change in meaning, with:

TEXT 1 below,
retrieved and adapted from https://chroniclingamerica.
loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/ on
July 9th, 2018.

Text 1 

                    Women’s rights convention – Sojourner Truth

      One of the most unique and interesting
speeches of the convention was made by Sojourner
Truth, an emancipated slave. It is impossible to
transfer it to paper or convey any adequate idea of the
effect it produced upon the audience. Those only can
appreciate it who saw her powerful form, her whole-souled,
earnest gesture, and listened to her strong and
truthful tones. She came forward to the platform and
addressing the President said with great simplicity:
      "May I say a few words?" Receiving an
affirmative answer, she proceeded: I want to say a few
words about this matter. I am a woman's rights. I have
as much muscle as any man and can do as much work
as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked
and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more
than that? I have heard much about the sexes being
equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat
as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man
that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman
has a pint, and a man a quart -- why can't she have
her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our
rights for fear we will take too much; -- for we can't take
more than our pint will hold. The poor men seem to be
all in confusion, and don't know what to do. Why
children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and
you will feel better. You will have your own rights, and
they won't be so much trouble. I can't read, but I can
hear. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve
caused man to sin. Well, if a woman upset the world,
do give her a chance to set it right side up again. The
Lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned
woman from him, and she was right. When Lazarus
died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love
and besought him to raise their brother. And Jesus
wept and Lazarus came forth. And how came Jesus
into the world? Through God who created him and the
woman who bore him. Man, where was your part? But
the women are coming up blessed be God and a few
of the men are coming up with them. But man is in a
tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming
on him, he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard.

Reference: Robinson, M. (1851, June 21). Women’s
rights convention: Sojourner Truth. Anti-slavery Bugle, vol. 6
no. 41, Page 160.

Question must be answered by looking at the following sentence from Text 1:


Well, if a woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again.

 The use of “do” in the sentence is:

TEXT 1 below,
retrieved and adapted from https://chroniclingamerica.
loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/ on
July 9th, 2018.

Text 1 

                    Women’s rights convention – Sojourner Truth

      One of the most unique and interesting
speeches of the convention was made by Sojourner
Truth, an emancipated slave. It is impossible to
transfer it to paper or convey any adequate idea of the
effect it produced upon the audience. Those only can
appreciate it who saw her powerful form, her whole-souled,
earnest gesture, and listened to her strong and
truthful tones. She came forward to the platform and
addressing the President said with great simplicity:
      "May I say a few words?" Receiving an
affirmative answer, she proceeded: I want to say a few
words about this matter. I am a woman's rights. I have
as much muscle as any man and can do as much work
as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked
and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more
than that? I have heard much about the sexes being
equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat
as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man
that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman
has a pint, and a man a quart -- why can't she have
her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our
rights for fear we will take too much; -- for we can't take
more than our pint will hold. The poor men seem to be
all in confusion, and don't know what to do. Why
children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and
you will feel better. You will have your own rights, and
they won't be so much trouble. I can't read, but I can
hear. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve
caused man to sin. Well, if a woman upset the world,
do give her a chance to set it right side up again. The
Lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned
woman from him, and she was right. When Lazarus
died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love
and besought him to raise their brother. And Jesus
wept and Lazarus came forth. And how came Jesus
into the world? Through God who created him and the
woman who bore him. Man, where was your part? But
the women are coming up blessed be God and a few
of the men are coming up with them. But man is in a
tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming
on him, he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard.

Reference: Robinson, M. (1851, June 21). Women’s
rights convention: Sojourner Truth. Anti-slavery Bugle, vol. 6
no. 41, Page 160.

Question must be answered by looking at the following sentence from Text 1:

I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

When Sojourner chooses to use “can” in “and can
any man do more than that?”, she does it because:

TEXT 1 below,
retrieved and adapted from https://chroniclingamerica.
loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/ on
July 9th, 2018.

Text 1 

                    Women’s rights convention – Sojourner Truth

      One of the most unique and interesting
speeches of the convention was made by Sojourner
Truth, an emancipated slave. It is impossible to
transfer it to paper or convey any adequate idea of the
effect it produced upon the audience. Those only can
appreciate it who saw her powerful form, her whole-souled,
earnest gesture, and listened to her strong and
truthful tones. She came forward to the platform and
addressing the President said with great simplicity:
      "May I say a few words?" Receiving an
affirmative answer, she proceeded: I want to say a few
words about this matter. I am a woman's rights. I have
as much muscle as any man and can do as much work
as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked
and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more
than that? I have heard much about the sexes being
equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat
as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man
that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman
has a pint, and a man a quart -- why can't she have
her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our
rights for fear we will take too much; -- for we can't take
more than our pint will hold. The poor men seem to be
all in confusion, and don't know what to do. Why
children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and
you will feel better. You will have your own rights, and
they won't be so much trouble. I can't read, but I can
hear. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve
caused man to sin. Well, if a woman upset the world,
do give her a chance to set it right side up again. The
Lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned
woman from him, and she was right. When Lazarus
died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love
and besought him to raise their brother. And Jesus
wept and Lazarus came forth. And how came Jesus
into the world? Through God who created him and the
woman who bore him. Man, where was your part? But
the women are coming up blessed be God and a few
of the men are coming up with them. But man is in a
tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming
on him, he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard.

Reference: Robinson, M. (1851, June 21). Women’s
rights convention: Sojourner Truth. Anti-slavery Bugle, vol. 6
no. 41, Page 160.

Question must be answered by looking at
the following sentence from Text 1:

“May I say a few words?”

We may keep the sentence grammatically correct
by substituting “May” for: 

TEXT I

Five Effective Strategies for English Teachers





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The word “might” (line 33) is used to convey
the idea of

TEXT I

Five Effective Strategies for English Teachers





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Mark the option that correctly complete the blank 37 in Text I.

READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT AND CHOOSE THE OPTION WHICH BEST
COMPLETES EACH QUESTION ACCORDING TO IT:

                 Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed

      The battle between men and machines goes back centuries. Are they taking
our jobs? Or are they easing our workload? A study by economists at the consultancy
Deloitte seeks to shed new light on the relationship between jobs and the
rise of technology by searching through census data for England and Wales going
back to 1871.
      Their conclusion is that, rather than destroying jobs, technology has been
a “great job-creating machine”. Findings by Deloitte such as rise in bar staff since
the 1950s or a surge in the number of hairdressers this century suggest to the
authors that technology has increased spending power, therefore creating new demand
and new jobs. Their study argues that the debate has been twisted towards
the job-destroying effects of technological change, which are more easily observed
than its creative aspects.
      Going back over past figures paints a more balanced picture, say authors
Ian Stewart and Alex Cole. “The dominant trend is of contracting employment in
agriculture and manufacturing being more than balanced by rapid growth in the
caring, creative, technology and business services sectors,” they write. “Machines
will take on more repetitive and laborious tasks, but they seem no closer to eliminating
the need for human labor than at any time in the last 150 years.” 
      According to the study, hard, dangerous and dull jobs have declined. In
some sectors, technology has quite clearly cost jobs, but they question whether
they are really jobs we would want to hold on to. Technology directly substitutes
human muscle power and, in so doing, raises productivity and shrinks employment.
“In the UK the first sector to feel this effect on any scale was agriculture,” says the
study. 
      The study also found out that ‘caring’ jobs have increased. The report cites
a “profound shift”, with labor switching from its historic role, as a source of raw
power, to the care, education and provision of services to others.
Technological progress has cut the prices of essentials, such as food, and the price
of bigger household items such as TVs and kitchen appliances, notes Stewart. That
leaves more money to spend on leisure, and creates new demand and new jobs,
which may explain the big rise in bar staff, he adds. “_______ the decline in the
traditional pub, census data shows that the number of people employed in bars
rose fourfold between 1951 and 2011,” the report says.
      The Deloitte economists believe that rising incomes have allowed consumers
to spend more on personal services, such as grooming. That in turn has driven
employment of hairdressers. So, while in 1871 there was one hairdresser or
barber for every 1,793 citizens of England and Wales; today there is one for every
287 people.
                                  (Adapted from: https://goo.gl/7V5vuw. Access: 02/02/2018.)

The use of the modal verb may in “which may explain the big rise in bar staff”
(paragraph 6) indicates that

In the clause ‘the greatest guy you could meet’ (ℓ.4), the modal verb
“could” expresses

In the sentence “The rainbow troops must constantly defend their
extremely poor school against plans to close it” (ℓ.15-16), the modal
verb “must” expresses