Atividades do livro 1 - páginas 91 e 92 - Unidade 9

A) Underline the appropriate meaning for the words in bold type.

1. "(...) a black child had a fifty-fifty chance (1) of seeing a sibling (2) die."
 

(1) place - time - opportunity
(2) father and mother - brother and sister - uncle and aunt
 

2. "(...) we no longer sweep problems under the rug."
 

put - brush - wash
 

3. "We are right to be concerned about inattentive parents (...)."
 

be OK - be needed - be worried
 

4. "But we need to realize that many of our worries (...)."

recognize - look - write
 

B) Rewrite the sentences from the text using the appropriate given synonyms.

1. "Many things were worse at the start of the 20th century than they are today."

English for all. Vol. 1. Aun, Eliana. Moraes, Maria Clara Prete de. Sansanovicz, Neuza Bilia. 1. ed. - São Paulo: Saraiva, 2010. p 91.

2. "But we need to realize that many of our worries today reflect how much better we want to be, not how much better we used to be."

English for all. Vol. 1. Aun, Eliana. Moraes, Maria Clara Prete de. Sansanovicz, Neuza Bilia. 1. ed. - São Paulo: Saraiva, 2010. p 92.

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