Exercícios

Faça os exercícios de artigos definidos e indefinidos em inglês com gabarito.

1. (UNIFOR CE/2006)

Coughing Kitties

Maryann Mott

Feline asthma [TO BE] a new disease. It was first described in scientific literature more than 90 years
ago, says veterinarian Philip Padrid of the Family Pet Animal Hospital in Chicago.

Nicki Reed, a veterinarian at the University of Edinburgh’s Hospital for Small Animals, says that when a
coughing cat is brought to the clinic, she must first establish if [ARTICLE] cause is [ARTICLE] infection,
asthma, or something more sinister, like a lung mass.

To do this, Reed usually performs an x-ray, takes a lung fluid sample, and conducts a bronchcoscopy _
an examination that uses a flexible microscope inserted into the cat’s airway.

Most of the time, asthma is a mild disease, Reed says. But in some cases cat’s lungs collapse or their
ribs fracture due to difficulty in breathing.

“I think if we can identify asthmatic cats quite early and get treatments on board to suppress their cough,
then hopefully we can avoid them coming to such extremes,” she said.
(Adapted from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1025_051025_cat_asthma.html)

In she must first establish if [ARTICLE] cause is [ARTICLE] infection…, the correct forms of the articles
are, respectively,

a) the _ an.
b) the _ the.
c) a _ the.
d) a _ an.
e) a _ a.

2. (UFMA/2006)

DISCOVERING NEW YORK

This month TRAVEL magazine will take you to _____ unforgettable journey through _____ most
charming and posh places of _____ city claimed to be _____ capital of _____world, New York City.

The Island of Manhattan, one of the five districts of New York, is the richest, most urban and most filled
with attractions. The largest green area of the Manhattan Island, with 340 hectares of woods, grass and
lakes, Central Park is one of the great surprises in the city.

Fifth Avenue, one of the most famous addresses in the world, marks the middle of the city, like
Greenwich Meridian, in London, marks the middle of the Earth. Some of the most expensive and
luxurious stores are located there, just like some of the best museums.

A present from the French government to the United States in 1866, The Statue of Liberty is one of the
most visited spots in New York. It is not located in Manhattan, but rather in Liberty Island, a small island
between Wall Street and Staten Island.
The missing articles in the first paragraph are respectively:

a) a – the – a – the – a.
b) the – a – a – the – the.
c) a – an – the – a – the.
d) an – the – a – the – a.
e) an – the – a – the – the.

3. (URCA CE/2008)

Survival of the cutest

Thousands of creatures will qietly disappear if we only focus on the most fascinating species.

The struggle to preserve the world’s biodiversity is being compromised by fatal flaws in the way
conservations draw up their lists of endangered species. An australian botanist warms that the lists
reflect the plants and animals that scientists are most interested in studying, rather than the most
threatned species or those at risk of extinction. For instance, says Mark burgman of the University of
Melbourne, lists compiled and used by organizations such as the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and
the Secretariat to the CITES agreement are heavily biased toward birds, mammals and flowering plants,
to the detriment of less charismatic species such as insects and fungi. If no one tackles the problem,
Burgman believes we will unwittingly focus our conservation efforts in the wrong places, and fail to stop
the biggest mass extinction since dinosaurs. Rare species lists contain fewer threatened insects than
birds, although we know of nearly a milion insect species and fewer than 10,000 birds. That’s because
most insects are poorly studied, says Burgman. For most, all that we have is a specimen in a museum
and a brief formal description, he says. Generally, little or nothing is known about their habitat and
abundance, and no one may have looked for them since their discovery. ―We assume all’s well
because we don’t have any evidence, and we don’t have evidence because we haven’t looked‖,
Burgman says. Georgina Mace, director of science athe Zoological Society of London and chair of the
Species Survival Comittee, thinks Burgman has identified real problems. Yet she says that groups like
the IUCN are adressing them. Starting with amphibians, it has begun assessing the global health of
whole groups of related animals, species by species. Putting a species on the Red List is like assessing
people coming into a hospital emergency room, she says. It’s not a robust prediction of what will
happen, but it’s a quick way to pick out the sickest. But Burgman says that the criteria for assessing
whether a species will go extinct vary from country to country and from study to study. He has
compared a range of studies and found that different methods produce very inconsisitent results. He
says conservation scientists ―need to get our act together‖ and develop a uniform set of tools that
everyone can test and agree upon. Even ―extinction‖ can be hard to define, he points out. A surprising
number of species have been declared extinct, only to resurface later after people had given up looking
for them.
(Jeff Hecht in New Scientists, jan, 2002, p.5)

VOCABULARY:

Struggle – effort; fight Flaw – fault; error

Draw up – compose; design
Threatened – at risk, endangered
Biased – inclined; to be disposed to a certain preference
Tackle (v) – confront, attack
Unwittingly – unintentionally
Brief – short
Pick out (v) – select, choose
Range – variety
Tool – instrument
Resurface (v) – reappear

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence:

Carol is _________ economist. She used to work in _________ investment department of Loyds bank.
Now she works for ______ American bank in ________ United States.

a) a – an – the – the
b) an – a – an – Ø
c) a – an – an – Ø
d) an – the – an – the
e) an – the – Ø – the

4. (EEAR/2007) Choose the alternative in which the definite article is used correctly:

a) The old man is arriving right now.

b) The spring is the season of flowers.
c) The Brazilians are very friendly.
d) The New York is a very beautiful city.

5. (PUC-PR/1996) Fill in the blanks of the following sentence with the definite article:

__________ Brazil is __________ most industrial country in __________ South America, while
__________ United States holds __________ same position in _______ North America.

a) the; *; *; *; the; the

b) *; the; *; the; the; *
c) *; the; the; *; the; *
d) the; the; the; the; the; the
e) *; the; the; the; the; *