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The New York Times

SCHOOLS RELAX CELLPHONE BANS, NODDING TO TREND

By Matt Richtel

LANSING, Mich. - Sitting in his second-period computer class at Eastern High School, Gray
Taylor, 15, felt his cellphone vibrate. To avoid being caught by the teacher, he answered quietly
- and discovered an unexpected caller.
"Why are you answering the phone in class?" Gray's mother asked. He whispered back, "You're
the one who called me". His mother said she had intended to leave a question on Gray's voice
mail.
Such scenes are playing out across the country, as hundreds of high schools have reluctantly
agreed to relax their rules about cellphones in schools. Rather than banning the phones
outright, as many once did, they are capitulating to parent demands and market realities, and
allowing students to carry phones in school - though not to use them in class.
The reversal is a significant change from policies of the 1990's, when school administrators
around the country viewed cellphones as the tools of drug dealers. In Florida, carrying a
cellphone in school could be punishable by a 10-day suspension. In Louisiana, it was deemed a
crime, with a potential penalty of 30 days in jail.
But now the phones have become tools used by parents to keep in touch with, and keep track
of, their children. And schools are facing a more basic reality: it is no longer possible to enforce
such bans.
Thanks to the falling prices of mobile phones, and the aggressive efforts by carriers to market
"family plans" to parents and teenagers, the phones have become so commonplace that trying
to keep them out of schools would be like trying to enforce a ban on lip gloss or combs.
Adapted from The New York Times, September 2004, www.nytimes.com

1. (Mackenzie 2005) The question "Why are you answering the phone in class?" in the reported
speech will be:
a) Gray's mother asked him why is he answering the phone in class?
b) Gray's mother wanted to know the reason why was he answering the phone in class.
c) Gray's mother wondered why he was answering the phone in class.
d) Gray's mother inquired him about the reason that he has been answering the phone in class.
e) Gray's mother doubted why he was answering the phone in class.

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TEXT 1
Harvard Business Online
The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist

Description:
The Elephant and the Flea is both a poignant personal memoir and a deep reflection on the
past and future of world capitalism, with all its possibilities and pitfalls. In a tone that is at once
learned, genial, witty, and wise, Handy takes us on his life's journey, looking back to his
childhood and education and how they prepared (or, rather, did not prepare) him for a career in
business, the changing nature of organizational life within the context of the old economy and
the new, the great variety of capitalism around the world, and through it all, his struggle to find
meaning and fulfillment in work. Handy uses the quirky, powerful metaphor of the elephant and
the flea to describe vividly and critique the great shift from the prevalence of behemoth, slow-

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moving, bureaucratic organizations that provided a lifetime of security and not much freedom or
room for creativity, to a world in which we are much more independent and flea-like, flitting from
job to job, latching onto elephants when we need to, but mostly flying solo and without a net.
Subjects Covered: Business & government, Business history, Career changes, Careers &
career planning, Entrepreneurship, General management, Global business, International
business.
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu

TEXT 2
THE ELEPHANT AND THE FLEA: reflections of a reluctant capitalist
Charles Handy
London: Random House, Ltd.
BOARD OPTIONS/AMAZON PRICE: $11.20

Charles Handy has been an oil company executive, a university lecturer, and a much sought
after convention speaker.
A 48 year old advertising executive was complaining to Handy that there were no longer any
jobs in the ageist advertising world for people like him. While he was talking, the electrician
repairing the wiring in Handy's home put his head round the door to say he would be back in a
week. "I'm sorry", he said, "but I've got too many jobs on at the moment".
"That was the future", Handy told this his account executive; lots of clients for the independent
worker, but fewer and fewer jobs for full-time executives of large organizations.
The employee-oriented society of the twentieth century had delivered so much that was good. It
had replaced the world of the individual farmer/craftsman/ merchant. The new flea-oriented
world that Charles Handy sees is "fraught with insecurity, uncertainty, and fear".
"We don't want that sort of world" people say. Handy is sympathetic. "I, too, didn't much like the
worst of world that I saw emerging, but wishing it away was not going to help".
In 1996, 67% of British businesses have only one employee, the owner.
In 1994, employees with less than five people represented 89% of all British businesses.
This is a book about how to survive as a flea and in world of few elephants and many fleas. It is
written in typical Charles Handy humor and insight. It is also his most personal book to date.
ELEPHANT AND THE FLEA is easy to read and too important to ignore.
http://www.boardoptions.com

2. (Mackenzie 2005) The sentence "We don't want that sort of world" (Text 2) in the reported
speech will be:
a) They said that he hasn't wanted that sort of world.
b) They told me that they didn't wanted those sort of world.
c) It was said that they didn't want that sort of world.
d) It was said that they didn't want that sorted of world.
e) It was requested that we didn't want that sorted of world.

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Right Hand, Left Hand

The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures

CHRIS MCMANUS

A labor of love and enthusiasm as well as deep scientific knowledge, Right Hand, Left Hand

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takes the reader on a trip through history, around the world, and into the cosmos, to explore the
place of handedness in nature and culture. Chris McManus considers evidence from
anthropology, particle physics, the history of medicine, and the notebooks of Leonardo to
answer questions like: Why are most people right-handed? Are left-handed people cognitively
different from right-handers? Why is the heart almost always on the left side of the body? Why
does European writing go from left to right, while Arabic and Hebrew go from right to left? Why
do tornadoes spin counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
hemisphere? And how do we know that Jack the Ripper was left-handed?
McManus reminds readers that distinctions between right and left have been profoundly
meaningful - imbued with moral and religious meaning - in societies throughout history, and
suggests that our preoccupation with laterality may originate in our asymmetric bodies, which
emerged from 550 million years of asymmetric vertebrate evolution, and may even be linked to
the asymmetric structure of matter. With speculations embedded in science, Right Hand, Left
Hand offers entertainment and new insight to scientists and general readers alike.

Chris McManus is Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at "University College

London". and co-editor of the "Cambridge Handbook of Psychology" - Health, and Medicine and
the journal Laterality.
(From: www .hup. harvard .edu/ catalog I MCMRIG. html)

3. (Mackenzie 2003) The question

"Are left-handed people cognitively different from right-handers?"
in the indirect speech is:
a) The book intended to answer why left-handed people are cognitively different from right-
handers.
b) It was asked whether left-handed people were cognitively different from right-handers.
c) They asked if there are left-handed people cognitively different from right-handers.
d) He inquired if left-handed people had been cognitively different from right-handers.
e) It was discussed the reason left-handed people had to be cognitively different from right-
handers.

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O texto a seguir faz parte de um artigo publicado na revista TIME. O artigo foi baseado na
opinião de leitores da revista que participaram de uma discussão na Internet sobre a
interatividade.
Leia o texto a seguir e responda a(s) questão(ões).

Wired, but a bit worried

Will interactivity improve our lives? TIME's readers praise easy communication and openness
but think we should slow down

I find that my professional and personal lives are merging together and sometimes I hate that!
Dina Zaman - Malaysia

I doubt that it will improve our lives; it may lead to more confusion.
M. Michiel van der Mey - Germany

Unless we are careful, we will become too immersed in the interactive reality we create.
Jürgen Swanepoel - South Africa

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By enabling people to get to know each other, interactivity will allow us to understand each
other better.
Bamigbetan Kehinde - Nigeria

lnteractivity creates togetherness with other people. It makes life so much more exciting.
Dinah Samuel - Malaysia

Technology breaks barriers and allows people of all races to interact with less prejudice.
Connie Vivero - The Philippines

Superficially, interactivity improves our lives. But at the end of the day we're still stuck in traffic
and we don't have enough time for our families.
Angela Ballas - Israel

Technology will eventually make us lazy and impatient.

Vivek Shankar - India

Interactivity will not improve our lives. With the flood of information, finding things that are of
quality and enriching becomes much more difficult.
Aaron Jeffrey Hames - Japan

TIME, June 4, 2001

4. (Fatec 2002) 0 trecho "Unless we are careful, ...", extraído da opinião de Jürgen Swanepoel,
poderia ter um significado equivalente se fosse substituído por
a) "If we are not careful, ..."
b) "If we are careful, ..."
c) "In case we are careful, ..."
d) "Even if we are careful, ..."
e) "Whether we are careful, ..."

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1 Potatoes are supposed to be one of the world's greatest foods, filled with calcium,
niacin, iron, vitamin C and plenty of carbohydrates. A diet of milk and potatoes, the textbooks
say, will provide all the nutrients the human body needs. But there is trouble lurking beneath the
skin. According to a controversial new theory, potatoes, eaten in large quantities by a population
increasingly sedentary and overweight, may be a major contributor to America's alarming rates
of heart disease and diabetes.
2 The problem, according to Meir Stampfer, a nutrition professor at the Harvard School of
Public Health, is potato starch. When you eat a potato and that starch hits the saliva in your
mouth, its tightly bundled molecules immediately get turned into sugars, which make a beeline
for the blood. "You ate a potato," says Stampfer, "but your body is getting pure glucose." The
flood of blood sugar sets off a chain reaction. Insulin pours out of the pancreas. Triglycerides
shoot up. HDL (good) cholesterol takes a dive. "lt's a perfect setup for heart disease and
diabetes," says Stampfer.
3 This is not just a potato problem. It's also a problem with white bread, bagels and most
white rice. But couch potatoes don't have to give up their spuds altogether, as long as they eat
them in moderation. Or they could switch to sweet potatoes and yams, which metabolize less
rapidly and wreak less havoc with blood sugar.
TIME, January 21, 2002

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5. (Fatec 2002) Considere a frase "It's a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes, says
Stampfer.", no segundo parágrafo do texto.
Assinale a alternativa em que a transposição dessa frase para o discurso indireto está correta,
completando a frase a seguir.
Stampfer says
a) it was a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.
b) it is a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.
c) it has been a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.
d) it had been a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.
e) it will be a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.

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LEARNING TO THINK

Asians (I) proud of how well they educate their children. Thanks to the prodding of
their determined parents, Asians score highest in science and math in worldwide comparisons.
But from Tokyo to Taipei and Singapore, governments are realizing their children are so
overstressed and overtested that they are ill equipped for the Information Age, (II) thinking
and creativity hold a premium. Reform-minded educators share a similar complaint: ask a
Korean student to write a creative essay or a Japanese student to pose a challenging question
and or a Hong Kong student to even ask a question and, more often than not, they will be
unable to stray from the script.
Two years ago Kishore Mahbubani, a senior official in Singapore, posed a challenging
question at a conference: "Can Asians think?" It was a remarkable moment of self-doubt. For
years, Singapore's leaders had been 1crowing about the advantages of Asian values, the idea
that order in schools and government alike works better in Asia than Western-style freedom. But
across Asia, that approach (III) efficient, obedient workers (IV) let their bosses do the
thinking for them. Governments merrily invested in production lines and gleaming skyscrapers,
and even school buildings, but skimped on developing modern teaching methods and training
teachers. The result: Asia's schools (V) so neglected that in many countries kids attend for
half-day sessions in classrooms so crowded they are ready to bust. Asian students are too busy
memorizing deadening answers to learn to think. In too many Asian classrooms, thinking
actually 2gets in the way.
(Adapted from Newsweek. September 6, 1999.)

6. (Mackenzie 2000) The sentence 'He said, "Can Asians think?"' in the reported speech would
be:
a) He asked can Asians think?
b) He said that Asians can think.
c) He asked that Asians could think.
d) He asked if Asians could think.
e) He said that could Asians think.

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (REUTERS) - Thursday, September 2and, 1999.

1 California schoolchildren will no longer learn their classroom lessons by 1counting

M&M's, 2calculating the cost of Nike tennis shoes or pondering the benefits of Gatorade drinks.
2 Under a new law signed by Gov. Gray Davis Wednesday, product logos and brand
names will be 3banned from textbooks in California - the first state in the nation to act against
overt advertising in schoolbooks.
3 The law 4prohibits 5product references in textbooks bought with state money, unless the

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state education board finds they are needed for educational purposes or if they appear
incidentally in illustrations or pictures.
4 "I don't think our children should be subjected to needless 6advertising", democratic
Assemblywoman Kerry Mazzoni, the 11bill's author, 7said in a telephone interview.
5 Mazzoni introduced the bill after a parent approached her about his child's math
textbook, which was filled with references to products such as Gatorade drinks, M&M candies
and Oreo cookies.
6 One math textbook, for example, asked: Bob is saving his allowance to buy a pair of
Nike shoes that cost $68.25. If Bob 9earns $3.25 a week, how many weeks will he need to
10save?"

7 "That is very typical of one example," she said.

8 Most of the product examples were found in word problems in books at a wide range of
levels, Mazzoni added. The state Board of Education has a policy against such references since
1997, but enforcement has been lax.
9 Although the publisher 8maintained it used the product examples to make lessons more
relevant and did not receive money for including them, Mazzoni said textbooks were no place
for advertising - whether intended or not.

7. (Pucrs 2000) The correct INDIRECT STATEMENT for the sentence

"I don't think our children should be subjected to needless advertising" said Ms. Mazzoni

is "Ms. Mazzoni said she

a) doesn't think their children should be subjected to needless advertising".
b) has not thought their children should be subjected to needless advertising".
c) would not think their children should be subjected to needless advertising".
d) will think their children should be subjected to needless advertising".
e) thinks their children should be subjected to needless advertising".

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DO PARENTS KNOW THEIR KIDS?

There are now 31 million kids in the 12-to-19 age group, and demographers predict that
there will be 35 million teens by 2010, a population bulge bigger than even the baby boom at
(I) peak. In many ways, these teens are uniquely privileged. They've grown up in a period of
sustained prosperity and haven't had to worry about the draft (as (II)__ fathers did) or
cataclysmic global conflicts (as (III) grandparents did). Cable and the Internet (IV) them
access to an almost infinite amount of information.
In survey after survey, many kids - even those on the honor roll - say they feel
increasingly alone and alienated, unable to connect with (V) parents, teachers, and
sometimes even classmates. They're desperate for guidance, and when they don't get ___(VI)
they need at home or in school, they cling to cliques or immerse themselves in a universe out of
their parents' reach, a world defined by computer games, TV and movies, __ (VII) brutality is
so common it (VIII) mundane.
Many teens say they feel 1overwhelmed by pressure and responsibilities. They are
juggling part-time jobs and hours of homework every night; sometimes they're so exhausted that
they're nearly asleep in early-morning classes. Half (IX) through their parents' divorce. Sixty-
three percent are in households (X) both parents work outside the home, and many look
after younger siblings in the afternoon. Still others are home by themselves after school. That
unwelcome 2solitude can extend well into the evening; mealtime for this generation too often
begins with a 3forlorn touch of the microwave.
In fact, of all the issues that trouble adolescents, loneliness ranks at the top of the list.
University of Chicago sociologist Barbara Schneider (XI) 7,000 teenagers for five years and
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privacy, but they also crave and need attention - and they're not getting it.
(Adapted from Newsweek. May 10, 1999.)

8. (Mackenzie 2000) The sentence

'They said, "Do parents know their kids?"'

in the reported speech would be:

a) They said that did parents know their kids?
b) They asked that parents know their kids.
c) They said that parents knew the kids.
d) They argued that do parents know their kids.
e) They asked if parents knew their kids.

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1 1On the way to the hardware store my husband and I noticed that our 15-year-old son's

bike was parked outside the drugstore - unlocked and unattended. We were thoroughly
annoyed because during the past year, two of his bikes had been stolen. 2In the name of tough
love, we tossed the bike into the back of the truck and continued with our errands.
2 Several hours later we returned home. Our 17-year-old daughter met us at the door with
a cat-that-swallowed-the-canary look. "Mom and Dad, the police were here while you were
gone," she reported. "Someone called in your license-plate number for stealing a bike from the
parking lot at the drugstore."

Reader's Digest - September 1998

9. (Puc-rio 2000) The girl said to her parents: "Mom and Dad, the police were here while you
were gone." If we turned this statement into reported speech, we would have: "The girl said to
her parents that the police..."
a) had been there while they had been gone.
b) had been here while they had gone.
c) have been there while they were gone.
d) have been here while they would be gone.
e) would have been there while they have been gone.

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1 In a 2distressed neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, social psychologist Daniel Hart
of Rutgers University interviewed an African-American teenager who was active in community
serpresidente vice-presidente:
1How would you describe yourself?

2 "I am the kind of person who wants to get involved, who believes in getting involved. I
just had this complex, I call it, where people think of Camden as being a bad place, which
bothered me. Every city has its own bad places, you know. I just want to work with people, work
to change that image that people have of Camden. You can't start with adults, because they
don't change. But if you can get into the minds of young children, show them what's wrong and
let them know that you don't want them to be this way, then it could work, because they're more
persuadable."
(From Scientific American, August 1999, p.59)

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10. (Unirio 2000) "How would you describe yourself?" (ref.1) is a direct question. Complete the
sentence below with the appropriate indirect question form.
Daniel Hart asked an African-American teenager______________.
a) how to describe it.
b) how to describe yourself.
c) how he would describe yourself.
d) to describe himself.
e) to describe yourself.

11. (Mackenzie 1998) A forma indireta de "WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO OUT TONIGHT?" é:
a) He asked her if she would have liked to go out tonight.
b) He asked if would she like to go out that night.
c) He asked whether she'd like to go out that night.
d) He asked whether she had liked to go out that night.
e) He asked if she'd liked to go out tonight.

12. (Ufpb 1998) Read this sentence:

The doctor says:

"I'm happy we found this trend toward reduced risk."

The INDIRECT SPEECH is:

He said that he ___________ this trend toward reduced risk.
a) is happy they found
b) has been happy we have found
c) was happy they had found
d) will be happy we will find
e) would be happy they would find

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1 My house is haunted by the screams of slow digital death. I'm referring to the last gasps
of the Tamagotchi, a "digital craze" that infected my kids like chicken pox last spring.
2 Since the day they were born, I have tried to 2give my children the right toys. So when I
first read about Tamagotchis, I felt here was a toy that would appeal to my daughters. In case
you are childless or an alien from outer space and managed to avoid this craze, the Tamagotchi
is a Keychain-size plastic egg that houses a small LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) in which "lives"
a creature that you nurture by pushing a 1variety of buttons.
3 It was love at first beep for my kids. The silicon pets completely satisfied their
"mothering needs". The Tamagotchi had to be fed, played with and even changed regularly. A
"normal" digital pet lives for a few weeks, at which point it's "called back to the home planet",
according to the instruction book. Anyway, the thing "dies", so you have to 3hit the reset button
and 4grow another one. The cycle repeats endlessly period before losing interest. But the
Tamagotchis, bless their little chips, keep on beeping, beeping, always beeping.

13. (Ufrs 1998) Considere a frase: If you don't feed your Tamagotchi, it will die.
Escolha a melhor opção para reescrevê-la, começando com
She told me that ...
a) if I won't feed my Tamagotchi, it would die.
b) if you didn't feed your Tamagotchi, it had died.
c) if I didn't feed my Tamagotchi, it would have died.
d) if I didn't feed my Tamagotchi, it would die.
e) if you haven't fed your Tamagotchi, it will have died.

14. (Mackenzie 1997) Change the following sentence to the Reported Speech:

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... Warren said to me, "I can't find my glasses in this room."
a) Warren told me that he couldn't found his glasses in that room.
b) Warren told me he couldn't find her glasses in these room.
c) Warren told me that he couldn't find his glasses in that room.
d) Warren told me that he can't find his glasses in those room.
e) Warren said to me that he could not found his glasses in this room.

15. (Mackenzie 1997) Change the following sentence to the Reported Speech:

'Helen said to Paul, "Is this a free country?" '

a) Helen told Paul if this was a free country?
b) Helen asked Paul if that was a free country.
c) Helen asked Paul whether that is a free country.
d) Helen told Paul this is a free country.
e) Helen told Paul if that is a free country.

16. (Mackenzie 1996) Choose the correct alternative.

Change the following sentence to the Reported Speech:

The patient said to me, "How long have the doctors been operating her?"'
a) The patient asked me how long the doctors had been operating her.
b) The patient told me how long her had been operating by the doctors.
c) The patient asked me how long had the doctors been operating her.
d) The patient told me whether have the doctors been operating her.
e) The patient asked me how long had been the doctors operating her.

17. (G1 1996) Transforme as orações a seguir para o Discurso Indireto:

a) My mother said: "Don't arrive late".

_______________________________________

b) The teacher said to the students: "Study a lot for the tests".
_______________________________________

c) My boyfriend told me: "I'll always love you".

_______________________________________

d) The president said: "I promise you to be honest".

_______________________________________

e) My father asked me: "Are you studying for the tests"?

_______________________________________

f) The man asked me: "Where are you from"?

_______________________________________

18. (Pucpr 1996) Choose the correct indirect form for:

Oliver said to her: "What will you do tomorrow?"

a) He asked her what she would do the following day.
b) He told her what she would do the following day.
c) She wondered what he will do the next day.

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d) He wanted to know what he would do the following day.
e) She asked what she would do the next day.

19. (Mackenzie 1996) Choose the correct alternative.

Change the following sentence to the Reported Speech:
"ARE THERE ANY MESSAGES FOR ME?, said Helen."
a) Helen asked if there is any messages for her.
b) Helen asked whether there were any messages for she.
c) Helen asked whether were there any messages for herself.
d) Helen asked if there were some messages for her.
e) Helen asked if there were any messages for herself.

20. (Mackenzie 1996) Change the following sentence to the Reported Speech:

Sally said to me, " Do you know what time it is?"

a) Sally asked me if I knew what time it was.
b) Sally told me whether she knew what time it was.
c) Sally asked me whether she know what time it is.
d) Sally asked me if I know what time it is.
e) Sally told me if I knew what time was it.

21. (Mackenzie 1996) Choose the correct alternative.

Change the following sentence to the Reported Speech:

'The director said to the boys, "Behave yourselves."'

a) The director asked the boys to behave yourselves.
b) The director told the boys to behave himself
c) The director asked the boys to behave themselves.
d) The director told the boys to behave ourselves.
e) The director told the boys, "Behave themselves."

22. (Mackenzie 1996) Change the following sentence to the Reported Speech:

Jeff said to Meg, " You don't understand me."

a) Jeff told Meg she didn't understand him.
b) Jeff asked Meg that her didn't understand herself.
c) Jeff told Meg that she didn't understood him.
d) Jeff told Meg that he didn't understand her.
e) Jeff told Meg she did understand him.

23. (Ufmg 1995) REPORTED SPEECH

A wife is telling us what happened this morning.

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Complete the following text according to the comic strip.

"This morning, my husband stepped on our scale and shouted that he ________ (1) that much.
He pointed at the machine and said it _______(2) a dirty liar."

24. (Fuvest 1986) Reescreva completando o discurso direto:

a) Mary suggested that they should all go to the theater.

" ..................................," said Mary.

b) Bob asked if I wanted him to help me.

Bob said, "....................................?"

25. (Fuvest 1984) Reescreva completando o discurso indireto:

a) "Don't forget to take your medicine" said Mary to her husband.

Mary told her husband ..........

b) "I can't do it now".

He said ..........

26. (Fuvest 1983) Reescreva completando o discurso indireto:

a) He said, "don't smoke in the classroom."

He told us ..........

b) She said, "I've just hurt myself."

She said that ..........

27. (Fuvest 1981) Reescreva completando o discurso indireto:

a) She said: "I want a new umbrella because I lost mine." - She told me ....
b) He said: "Watch your step!" - He told me ....

28. (Fuvest 1980) Complete transformando em interrogativas indiretas as sentenças entre

parênteses:
a) I asked him.... (Where does he live?)
b) I don't know.... (What time is it?)

29. (Fuvest 1978) Assinale a alternativa que equivale ao seguinte:

Suddenly Peter said to me, "Are you hungry?"

a) Suddenly Peter said that I was hungry.
b) Suddenly Peter told me that I was hungry.
c) Suddenly Peter asked if he were hungry.
d) Suddenly Peter asked me whether I was hungry.
e) Peter informed me that he was hungry.

30. (Fuvest 1978) Complete empregando o discurso indireto:

a) Last month Peter said, "Mary, you are going to receive an invitation for my party."
Last month Peter told Mary that ...................
b) Last Sunday Mary said, "I'm going to see my friend this afternoon."

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Last Sunday Mary said that ..........................

31. (Fuvest 1977) Transcreva, completando o diálogo:

John: I congratulate you on your success.
Peter: Pardon me.
John: I said ..........

32. (Fuvest 1977) Qual destas formas está correta se usada por uma pessoa que narra um
acontecimento:
a) He thought she has not known what she is going through;
b) He thought she will never know what she will have to go through now;
c) He thought she would never know what she had gone through then;
d) He thinks she did not know what she was going through;
e) He will think she did not know what she went through then.

33. (Fuvest 1977) Qual é a forma indireta, correspondente à forma direta "The teacher said,
Are you sure you have all understood me"?
a) The teacher said if you are sure you had understood him;
b) The teacher asked whether we were sure we did understand him;
c) The teacher said if we all are sure we have understood him;
d) The teacher asked if they were sure they had all understood him;
e) The teacher asked them to be sure to understand him.

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