Text interpretation, aimed at 1st year high school students, allows the development of different reading skills. The various questions are about the reflective text Don't run after the butterflies, take care of your garden.
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… Oftentimes, we spend a long time of our lives desperately chasing after something we want, be it love, a job, a friendship, a home, etc.
Life often uses symbols, events that are signs so that we can understand that before we deserve what we want, we need to learn something important, we need to be ready and mature to live determined situations.
If this is happening in your life, stop and reflect on the following sentence: “Don't run after the butterflies. Take care of your garden and they will come to you!”. We must understand that life goes its flow and that flow is perfect.
Everything happens in its due time.
We humans are the ones who become anxious and are constantly wanting to "push the river". The river goes alone, following the rhythm of nature. If we spend all our time wishing for the butterflies and complaining because they don't come near us but live in our neighbor's garden, they really won't come.
But, if we dedicate ourselves to taking care of our garden, to transforming our space [our life] into a pleasant, fragrant and beautiful environment, it will be inevitable… the butterflies will come to us!
Give your best and life will repay you…!
Available in:. Accessed on: November 19, 2016.
Question 1 - The purpose and text is:
a) make reflect
b) inform
c) disclose
d) entertain
Question 2 - The text is constructed using the following metaphor:
a) “We often spend a long time of our lives running desperately […]”
b) “Don't run after the butterflies. Take care of your garden and they will come to you!”.
c) "Everything happens in its due time."
d) “Give your best and life will repay you…!”
Question 3 – In “[…] we become anxious and we are constantly wanting to "push the river", the highlighted term could be replaced by:
a) randomly
b) consequently
c) undoubtedly
d) incessantly
Question 4 - In the excerpt “[…] but they live in our neighbor's garden, they really won't come.”, the underlined term establishes a relationship of:
a) adversity
b) reciprocity
c) continuity
d) conclusion
Question 5 - In all segments, the use is registered in the imperative mode, except in:
a) "If this is happening in your life, stop and reflect on the following sentence [...]"
b) "Don't run after the butterflies."
c) “But if we dedicate ourselves to taking care of our garden […]”
d) “Give your best and life will repay you…!”
Question 6 – In “[…] transforming our space [our life] in a pleasant environment […]”, the part in the square brackets consists of one:
a) specification
b) illustration
c) citation
d) opinion
Question 7 – In the excerpt “[…] and complaining because they they don't come close to us, but they live in our neighbor's garden, they they really won't come.", the underlined pronouns replace:
Question 8 – In the passage "If this is happening in your life, stop and reflect on the following sentence [...]", the comma indicates a:
a) insertion of an evaluative comment.
b) inversion in the order of the sentence's constituents.
c) omission of the term of the sentence.
d) enumeration of advice.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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