Text interpretation, entitled “Coffee: a natural and healthy drink”, aimed at 2nd year high school students. The proposed questions contemplate the analysis of the theme and, above all, of the linguistic resources used in the construction of the text: anaphoric terms, comma, crasis, verbal agreement.
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Coffee has been, for over a thousand years, one of the most appreciated and consumed beverages in the world. Nothing like a nice cup of coffee when you wake up or after a meal. Sweetened, bitter, with milk… to everyone's taste! The coffee gives you mood in the morning, takes away that drowsiness that sometimes comes after lunch. In addition, surveys carried out in Brazil, the United States, Europe and Japan reveal that coffee can be very good for human health and that its daily consumption is moderate (3 to 4 cups/day) contributes to the prevention of various diseases, such as diabetes in adults, colon, liver and breast cancer, Parkinson's disease, among others.
Most people who drink coffee on a daily basis ignore which substances are present in coffee and think that the drink contains only or mainly caffeine. Big mistake! Coffee contains a wide variety of macro and micro nutrients, it is a natural, healthy drink and one of the most popular in the world, and so it is worth considering the contribution of their nutrients to our diet and our welfare.
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Question 1 - It can be said that
a) Most people know the benefits of coffee.
b) Coffee helps to fight insomnia.
c) There is no determination regarding the amount of coffee to be consumed per day.
d) Coffee contains substances that help prevent a significant number of diseases.
Question 2 - Check the alternative in which the return to the term "coffee" is not adequately explained:
a) "coffee" [repeat term]
b) “the drink” [replacement of term by another equivalent]
c) “your daily consumption” [substitution of term by personal pronoun].
d) “and one of the most popular in the world” [omission of the term]
Question 3 - On what sometimes comes after lunch.”, the underlined adverbial phrase indicates:
a) mode
b) time
c) place
d) doubt
Question 4 – List:
Text passages:
1. "Coffee has been, for over a thousand years, one of the most appreciated and consumed beverages in the world."
2. "Sweetened, bitter, with milk... to everyone's taste!"
3. “Furthermore, research carried out in Brazil […]”.
Justifications for using the comma:
____ Isolate additive coordinative conjunction.
____ Insert term.
____ List aspects.
Question 5 - Watch:
“[…] coffee can do very well to human health […]”.
Using the excerpt highlighted above as a reference, mark the alternative in which the use of the back-stamping sign is not allowed:
a) Coffee is good for everyone.
b) The nutrients from coffee consumption are good for the population.
c) The researchers presented the results to the scientific community.
d) Most people mistakenly associate coffee with caffeine.
Question 6 – Identify the sentence in which the verbal agreement was incorrectly done:
a) A wide variety of nutrients were found in coffee.
b) Most individuals consume coffee daily.
c) Researchers from different parts of the world carried out the study.
d) Consume different types of coffee flavors.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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