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Eletrotécnica Integrado – English activities

Student’s name: ____________________________________ Date: ___/___/___ 

REVIEW

I. Check the correct alternative.

1.  I don’t have __________ time to talk to you because I am very late. 

a) very b) much c) many

2.   _________ people know that there are _________ six-year-old children working on

plantations.

a) many – less b) less – little c) few – many d) fewer – much

3.  We don’t have ______ eggs. Please buy ______. 

a) 

many – a few b) much – a little c) fewer – less d) many – a fewer

4.  There isn’t _______ bread in the house. Please buy _______ packages. 

a) many – less b) much – a few c) little – much d) much – much

5.  I ordered ________ gallons of lemonade this month because the children aren’t at

home.

a) 

fewer b) less c) very d) much

6.  I want to ask you ________ questions. It won’t take _______ time. 

a) a lot of – many b) many – very c) a few – much d) much – many

7.   ______ work brings ______ money.

a) little – little b) little – few c) much – very d) less – fewer

8.  Nowadays we spend ______ money to buy ______ things.

a) less – less b) few – few c) much – less d) more – fewer

9.  She drinks _______ coffee because she has _______ problems.

a) many – much b) a lot of – some c) few – little d) very – a little

10. This dictionary is ___________ in the library.

a) the more complete b) the most complete c) more complete than d) the completest

11. Your car is _______ mine.

a) most economical b) more economical than

c) most economical than d) the most economical

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12. My project was ____________ of all.

a) more successful b) the more successful

c) more successful than d) the most successful

13. 

Teenagers are usually _________ children.

a) more busy than b) the most busy c) the busiest d) busier than

14. 

Your apartment is ________ my sister’s. 

a) more big than b) the biggest than c) bigger than d) biger than

15. 

When I was a teenager, I was _________ player in my team.

a) the baddest b) the worse c) worse than d) the worst

16. (PUC-PR) Papyrus was used ____________ than paper.

a) early b) earlier c) more early d) earlyer e) earliest

17. (PUC-RS) The “Herald” is __________ newspaper in the town. 

a) the importantest b) the more important

c) the importanter d) the most important e) the important

18. (FMU) That table is ________ this one.

a) long b) more long than c) longest d) longer than e) the most long

19. (MACKENZIE) This book is ________ the last one we used.

a) worst than b) more good than c) worse than d) gooder than e) best than

20. (MACKENZIE) Have you heard about the _________ news?

a) latest b) lasted c) more late d) most often e) lately

21. (PUC-SP) She’s surely the ____________ girl in town.

a) prettiest b) most pretty c) prettier d) prettiest e) prettier

22. (PUC) Today the weather is _________ yesterday.

a) more bad than b) worse than c) the baddest d) the worst e) worst

23. (UERJ) “If it’s noisy, call back from somewhere quieter.” 

The suffix –er in quieter is semantically equivalent to the suffix in:

a)  manners (Desperately seeking mobile phone manners)

b) 

users (Rudeness among cell phone users seems to be all the rage!)

c)  caller (Use caller ID to screen calls)

d)  louder (Don’t yell. There’s no need to speak louder than you would in any other

phone.)

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24. (PUC-RJ) The only option that contains an adjective used in the superlative form is:

a)  "The widespread destruction (…) is happening before we even know the most basic

facts about what we are losing."

b)  "Covering only 6 percent of the Earth's surface, tropical moist forests contain half of all

species."

c) 

"Scientists estimate that (…) as much as 20 or 25 percent of the world's plant species

will soon be extinct."

d)  "However, the chemical structures of most natural drugs (…) simple extraction is

usually less expensive than synthesis."

e) 

"Tropical forests offer hope for safer contraceptives for both women and men."

25. (UFSC) Complete the sentences using the right alternative

“She doesn’t drink _______ coffee” 

“How ______ cups of coffee do you drink every day ?” 

“He says there was ______ milk in the pot. It was almost empty” 

“There are ________ bottles on that shelf” 

“How _______ money do you have?” 

a) little – many – little – few – many

b) many – much – little – few – many

c) much – few – little – few – many

d) much – many – little – few – much

26. (UnB–DF)  “He has _______ friends but ______ enemies.”  

a) few – many 

b) many – one 

c) lots of – little 

d) much – a few e) a lot of – much 

27. (UFRJ) Responda às questões a, b, c e d com base na tirinha abaixo.

a)  Qual qualidade a aranha atribui a ela mesma?

 ________________________________________________________________

b)  Segundo a aranha, as demais aranhas do mundo equiparam-se a ela nessa qualidade?

Como podemos comprovar linguisticamente essa resposta?

 _______________________________________________________________________

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