Portuguese activity, aimed at 9th grade students, proposes the study of indeterminate subject, taking as reference an excerpt from a work written by Joseph Campbell. The activity consists of multiple choice questions.
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They say that what we are all looking for is a meaning in life. I don't think so. I think what we are looking for is an experience of being alive, so our life experiences, on the purely plane physical, resonate within our innermost being and reality, so that we really feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph Campbell. the power of myth. São Paulo: Palas Athena, 1990.
Question 1 - In “I think what we're looking for is an experience of being alive, inso that our life experiences […]”, the term indicates one:
a) cause
b) consequence
c) conclusion
d) purpose
Question 2 - In “[…] so that we really feel the rapture of being alive.”, the highlighted expression could be replaced by:
a) the importance
b) the charm
c) the challenge
d) the complexity
Question 3 - The use of an indeterminate subject is registered in the following excerpt:
a) "They say that what we are all looking for is a meaning in life."
b) "I don't think so."
c) “[…] what we are looking for is an experience of being alive […]”
d) “[…] have resonance within our being […]
Question 4 - In the passage “[…] our life experiences, in the purely physical plane, have resonance within the […]”, the commas signal:
a) an omission of the term of the sentence.
b) an enumeration of characteristics.
c) an explanation insert.
d) an inversion in the order of the terms of the clause.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
