Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, aims to study the connecting verb. The proposed questions are based on the text entitled Why do the stars shine?
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Stars are spheres of hot gas and they glow because near their center the temperature is so high. This causes the hydrogen gas that __________________ there to turn into helium gas. This reaction generates energy that appears in the form of light. The intensity of the glow depends on the temperature, mass and distance of each star from Earth. The bigger and closer to our planet, the brighter it will look. And did you know that we don't see the brightness of stars during the day because it's blinded by sunlight?
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Question 1 - The text serves the purpose of:
a) instill an idea.
b) narrate a story.
c) give an explanation.
d) make an observation.
Question 2 - In the excerpt “[…] the temperature é very high.”, the highlighted connecting verb indicates:
a) a permanent state.
b) a transient state.
c) a continuity of state.
d) an apparent state.
Question 3 - The term underlined is classified as a connecting verb in:
a) “Why the stars shine?”
b) "Stars they are hot gas spheres […]"
c) "The intensity of the brightness It depends of the temperature […]"
d) “And I knew you weren't we see the brightness of the stars […]”
Question 4 – The space, indicated in the text, must be filled with the connecting verb:
a) walk
b) was
c) makes
d) stay
Question 5 - "The bigger and closer to our planet, the brighter it will look." Point out the connecting verb that makes up this part of the text:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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