Portuguese activity, suitable for first-year high school students, explores the determined subjects. Simple subject, compound subject and hidden subject! Let's analyze them in the interesting text What do city lights show us? So, answer the various questions proposed!
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Seen from space, the night lighting on earth shows where and how humans live!
When it's night and you walk into a dark room, what's the first thing you do? Look for the switch and turn on the light, don't you?
In our daily life, we deal with two types of lights: natural and artificial. From the first few minutes of the morning until late afternoon, the Sun lights up the Earth naturally... Just like the Moon, when it's very bright in the sky! We don't have to do anything to make these space stars appear and make the environment clearer.
But we cannot always count on the sun and a well-lit moonlight. That's why humans made artificial lights. Today, light bulbs, lamps, lanterns and lamp posts are powered by electricity.
And so, our homes, offices, factories, highways, amusement parks, airports and city squares are brightly lit! And they make the Earth glow when it's night.
When astronauts look from up there, to the side of the Earth where the sun is not shining, they see these lights go on and off, and they know: in those little dots of light people live.
Artificial lights can tell us where people live and how they shape the Earth. They also help us figure out how much energy we're using and when it's been cut off by storms, earthquakes, or floods.
Night lights help us map human settlements. Many are along the coast, on beaches, in rivers and waterways. And dark areas can be deserts, mountains or forests (places with little or no light).
For 40 years, satellites and astronauts have gathered images of the Earth at night. These photos and data show patterns and changes in where and how we live. […]
Luiza Lages. Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - In “[…] what is the first thing you do?”, the subject of the verb “does” is:
( ) hidden.
( ) nonexistent.
( ) undetermined.
Question 2 - In the period "Today, lamps, lamps, lanterns and lighting poles are powered by electricity.", the composite subject is:
( ) agent of the action expressed by the verb.
( ) patient of the action expressed by the verb.
( ) agent and patient of the action expressed by the verb.
Question 3 - In the sentence "[…] like they shape the Earth.”, the underlined term modifies the meaning of the simple subject verb, expressing a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 4 - In the excerpt “[…] how much energy are we using […]”, the hidden subject is the pronoun:
( ) "We".
( ) "You".
( ) "They".
Question 5 - In the part “Many are along the coast, on beaches, in rivers and water courses.”, the simple subject “Many” resumes:
( ) “human settlements”.
( ) “rivers”.
( ) “watercourses”.
Question 6 – In the segment “These photos and data show patterns and changes […]”, the nuclei of the composite subject are:
( ) adjectives.
( ) pronouns.
( ) nouns.
Question 7 – Identify the subject of the sentence, listing as indicated:
(1) Single subject
(2) Compound subject
(3) hidden subject
( ) “In our daily life, we deal with two types of lights […]”
( ) "That's why humans manufactured artificial lights."
( ) “For 40 years, satellites and astronauts gathered images of the Earth at night.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
