Portuguese Activity: Past more-than-perfect

Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, proposes the study of the employment of the more-than-perfect past tense, in the construction of the news Dogs were domesticated in China 16,000 years ago.

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Dogs were domesticated in China 16,000 years ago

A study published this week in the scientific journal Molecular Biology and Evolution claims to have discovered the exact location and time when dogs were incorporated into human society. It was known before that the domestication of dogs had taken place in East Asia, but no precise place had ever been pinpointed.

According to researchers, the dogs appeared less than 16 thousand years ago, south of the Yangtze River, in China. The survey results also claim that, although they have a unique geographic origin, dogs are descended from a "large number of animals - at least a few hundred domesticated wolves."

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Questions

Question 1 - The study, published by “Biology and Evolution”, identified that, except:

a) “the domestication of dogs had taken place in East Asia”.

b) “the dogs appeared less than 16 thousand years ago”.

c) “the dogs appeared south of the Yangtze River, in China”.

d) “dogs descend from a few hundred domesticated wolves”.

Question 2 - In the segment “[…] but never a precise place had been pointed out.”, the highlighted term indicates the idea of:

a) addition.

b) comparison

c) opposition

d) explanation

Question 3 – In “It was known, before, that the domestication of dogs will occur in East Asia […]”. the use of the more-than-perfect past tense indicates an action:

a) that was recently completed.

b) occurred in the distant past.

c) habitual in the past.

d) started in the past and continues in the present.

Question 4 - “It was known, before, that the domestication of dogs […]”. The subject of this sentence is classified as:

a) simple

b) composite

c) hidden

d) undetermined

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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