Avaliação Para o Ensino Médio - Grau dos Adjetivos
READING
AND COMPREHENSION
BETTER
RICE, LESS GLOBAL WARNING
Good news about rice,
the most important cereal crop in the world. Rice plants which produce higher
yields are less harmful to the environment because they make less of the
greenhouse gas methane. Scientists say new varieties of rice will make more
grain and also contribute to less global warning.
Methane is the second
most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, and rice fields are among
the biggest sources of methane. It’s produced by bacteria living in the wet
soil of the paddy field, the flooded field where rice is grown.
Now scientists from
Europe and the Philippines have discovered that less methane is made in the
fields where the plants are producing more grain. The reason is that making
methane needs carbon.
Plants absorb carbon
from the air. They use some for making grain and some fields its way to the
roots and then into the soil, where the bacteria can use it to produce methane.
So if more carbon is tied up in making grain, there’s less in the soil, and
that means less methane.
Rice is one of the
cheapest sources of food energy and protein, with half the world’s population
depending on it. But rice yields vary widely from region to region. A few
months ago scientists revealed the genome sequence if rice – a tool of great
potential use to researchers of trying to develop new varieties of rice with
higher yields.
The latest research
will now help guide scientists towards the genes they can work with to design
those new varieties of rice and at the same time help to protect the
environment.
Vocabulary:
Crop: plantação, safra Latest: mais recente
Flooded:
alagado Paddy
Field: arrozal
Greenhouse
effect: efeito estufa Root:
raiz
Harmful: prejudicial Tied up: amarrado, preso
Yield:
rendimento Tool: instrumento
A.
Answer these questions in Portuguese.
1. Existe uma relação
de causa e efeito expressa no título? Justifique.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. O texto revela um
problema ambiental relacionado à produção de arroz. Qual?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. E o que dizem os
resultados de uma pesquisa recente sobre o assunto?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GRAMMAR
A. Complete the
text with the superlative form of the adjectives in parentheses.
China is a land of
superlatives. It is ____ ___________ (large) country in East Asia and ____
_____ ___________ (populous) – 1.27
billion people – in the world. It contains the Great Wall of China, which is
the world’s _____________ (long) human-made structure, and some of the world’s
_____ ___________ (ancient) architecture. It is home to some of the world’s
___________(tall) buildings. China shares with Nepal the world’s ___________
(high) mountain – Everest - , and has the fourth ___________ (large) desert –
Gobi – and the fifth ___________ (long) river – The Yangtze. Things are
happening so fast that in just 10 years China will be ____ _____ ___________
(powerful) economy in the world. How do you say “Hi, boss!” in Chinese?
B. Complete as frases
com as formas de comparativo dos adjetivos entre parênteses. Oriente-se pelas
indicações de igualdade (=), superioridade (+)ou inferioridade (-) em cada
caso.
1.
Your new computer is ___________________________
mine. (= fast)
2.
This new govern is___________________________ the last one. (+popular)
3.Some
movies are _________________________ others. (- sensational)
4.
His grades were __________________________ mine. (+bad)
C.
Choose the correct alternative.
1.
Grace is _________________ girl in our class.
a) as intelligent as b) more intelligent than
c) the most intelligent d) the more intelligent
2.
Geraldine Ferraro is ________________ than Walter Mondale.
a) least famous b) little famous
c) the least famous d) less famous
3.
Helen is _________________ all those people.
a) the most generous of b) more generous
c) the more generous d) most generous
4. Papyrus was used ________ than
paper.
a)– early b)–
earlyer c)– earlier d)– earliest
5. His wife is
______ than his sister.
a)– prettier b) – prettiest c) – pretty d)– the prettiest
6. Our next
examination may be _______ the last one.
a)– more bad than b)– bad than c)–
worst than d)– worse than
7. Health is
________ than wealth.
a)– good b)– the best c)- better d)- best than
8. This book is
_______ the last one we used.
a)– worst than b)– worse than c)– gooder than d)– best than
9. This
exercises seems to be ________ than the last one.
a)– bad b)– very bad c)– worse d)–
the worst
10. The
dictionary you bought at that book store is ________ mine.
a)– better b)– as good as
c)– good d)– the best
D. Complete the
sentences. Use the comparative or the superlative:
1. Ann’s idea
wasn’t very good. My Idea was _____________________ hers.
2.He isn’t very
interesting. You’re ______________________ him.
3. She is a
very good Singer. She is ____________________ in our country.
4. It was a
very bad mistake. It was _____________ mistake I’ve ever done.
COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES.
A- COMPLETE THIS NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, USING COMPARATIVES.
BIG CITIES ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN
THEY USED TO BE
People are thinking
about moving from large cities to the country. Some think that life there is
_____________ (cheap); others think the country is __________ (clean), ____________ (safe), and
__________________________ (polluted). In the country, there certainly is more
space, school are ___________________ (crowded), classes are _____________
(small) ands the kids can get ___________ (good) education and a ___________
(healthy) life. Although, many seem to think, big cities are __________________
(exciting), they are ________________ (dirty) and ________________________
(dangerous).
B- Complete the sentences. Then, answer the
questions.
a) Which is _________________ (large) ocean, The Pacific or the Atlantic ?
_____________________________________________________________________
b) What is __________________(long) river?
_____________________________________________________________________
c) What’s ________________________ (fast) animal?
_____________________________________________________________________
d) Which animal is ___________________ (light), the humming bird or the
hamster?
_____________________________________________________________________
e) What’s _________________ (big) continent?
_____________________________________________________________________
f) What’s the ______________
(small) country?
_____________________________________________________________________
C- Complete the sentences using the comparative and the superlative.
a) My brother is ______________ (tall) my sister, but she is ___________________(intelligent)
him.
b) Do you like your tea ________________(sweet)?
c) He wanted to be _____________ (rich).
d) These trees are __________________ (small) those ones.
e) His compositions were ______________ (short) but ________________________(interesting)
then ours.
f) You are surely ________________ (good) pilot here.
g) Hellen is ______________ (generous) of all those people.
h) My wife is _____________ (good) cook in the world.
i)Grace is ___________________________ (intelligent) girl in our class.
j) The blue whale is ___________________ (heavy) mammal in the world.
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