Future (WILL and GOING TO) and Verb Patterns
1 – (UFRR, 2010)
Mary: "I am about to fall asleep. I need
to wake up!"
Clare: "I______you some coffee."
a) will go
b) am going to get
c) will get
d) am going to go
e) will go to get
2 – (CESGRANRIO, 2018) All
the boldfaced verb phrases express a
future action, EXCEPT in
A “The resurgence in oil and gas
production from the United States, deep
declines in the cost of renewables and
growing electrification are
changing the face of the global energy
system” (lines 1-4)
B “the world’s growing energy
needs are met first by renewables and
natural gas as fast-declining costs turn
solar power into the cheapest source of
new electricity generation” (lines 9-12)
C “WEO-2017 (…) finds that over the
next two decades the global energy
system is being reshaped by four
major forces” (lines 20-23)
D “meanwhile in the European Union,
wind becomes the leading source of
electricity soon after 2030” (lines 31-33)
E “the United States is projected to
become the world’s largest LNG
exporter and a net oil exporter by the
end of that decade.” (lines 71-73)
3 – (UEM, 2016) Choose the
alternative(s) in which the sentence(s)
or expression(s) indicate(s) future
ideas.
01) “For the next two years” (line 1).
02) “Osiris-Rex will survey Bennu for
more than a year” (line 27).
04) “... the spacecraft, [...] is to slowly
descend and bounce off the surface like
a pogo stick...” (lines 29-31).
08) “... Bennu passes fairly close every
six years...” (lines 46 and 47).
16) “... the asteroid that is thought to
have killed off the dinosaurs 66 million
years ago was about six miles wide”
(lines 55-57).
4 – (Mackenzie) In which sentence is
the expression “look forward to”
correctly used?
a) She looks forward to moving abroad.
b) I’ll look forward the applications and
pick out the best.
c) They wanted a financial controller to
look forward the city’s accounts.
d) Shall we look forward the cathedral
this afternoon?
e) They must look forward to their
defense.
5 – (IME-RJ) Before... ways to
accelerate the process, I should give a
few more details on how the system
works.
a) suggest
b) suggested
c) suggests
d) suggesting
e) had suggested
6 – (UFRGS, 2007) The use of -ING
is the same in “LOCAL ADVICE IS
ALSO COMFORTING” (ref. 3) and in
a) Several issues are coming up.
b) He complained about traveling too
much.
c) Reading is a common habit.
d) Paperwork can be exhausting.
e) Mr. Sheperd's cooking is awful.