9°Ano – Atividade Avaliativa Mensal – 1º bimestre

1. Read the text and answer the questions: (1,5)

1 A In this age of mass communication, it is easy to have very large numbers of

friends. If you ask the average teenager how many friends they have, they
may well give an answer in the hundreds. The conversation becomes more
interesting if you ask what people mean by a “friend”. Who should we call a
friend?
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B For most of us, the definition of a friend is fairly broad, ranging from
someone you chat with occasionally online to the old truthful friends you
turn to in times of need and share your most secret feelings with.
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined three different kinds of
friends: friends of utility, who help each other; friends of pleasure, who have
fun together; and friends of virtue, who try to make each other better
10 people. It is true that friends can have very different roles in our lives. There
are the friends that you’ve known for a long time. You might not have much
in common with them now, and they may be critical or sarcastic, or have
other qualities that you don’t like, but although you have your ups and
downs, you are still bound to them by the past, and you’re unlikely to break
off the friendship. Then there are people you see regularly in social
situations, say, in a sports team or at an art class. You might chat about
15 day-to-day things with them, but know very little about their life. Finally,
there are our few “good friends”, people we feel particularly close to and
feel we can trust with our most personal thoughts and feelings.
C But how do we choose our friends? We certainly don’t plan it. We don’t
wake up one morning and think: I need a group of twenty friends in my life,
how am I going to find them? If we did this, we might then target suitable
20 people and send out invitations. But it doesn’t happen like that. Some of our
friends lived close to us, others shared an interest, such as sports, and over
time we got to know them better. Did we choose them, or is it all down to
chance?

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 a) According to an ancient Greek 3. Now, complete the sentences below
philosopher, what are the three using the words from exercise 2 and
different kinds of friends that we their negative prefixes: (1,5)
have?
_________________________
_________________________ a) It was ________________for
________________ her to arrive on time to the
_________________________ meeting. She was on traffic.
________ b) I saw Jane taking money from
Lisa´s purse. She´s so
___________.
b) If you had to choose between c) Many_____________________i
two friends, who would you mmigrants were arrested last
choose: someone who is
envious and understanding or night.
someone who is nosy and d) The attacks are
loyal? Explain it. _______________ and the
_________________________
international community cannot
_________________________
accept them.
_________________________
e) I don´t know why she´s been
_________________________
so____________! She didn´t tell
_________________________
the real story.
_______
f) They
2. Write the words below in the correct are______________________,
columns: (1,0) or obviously poorly educated.
honest – comfortable - g) It seems from this information
sincere – legal – literate - that there is nothing
moral – kind – possible – ______________________in
loyal – regular this case and its appeals
process.
h) I saw Robert cheating on Lisa
DIS UN IM IN IR
last night. Why is he being
_____________? I think I am
going to have to tell her what I
saw.
i) This bed is
totally_________________in
my opinion. I think I am not
keeping it.

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 j) Did you see that? That man
almost hurt that old lady and did
not apologize! He had such an
______________behaviour.

4. Check the correct option: (1,0) Doctor Mark Morffet (Doctor Bugs)

A) A person who helps all

the time...

( ) helpful ( Most people don’t like / doesn’t like

) helply
bugs, but Doctor Mark Moffet love /

loves them! In fact, his nickname is

B) Someone who has no fear.
Doctor Bugs. He’s a photographer and
( ) fearful (
) fearless an entomologist. An entomologist

studies bugs. Doctor Moffett’s favorite

C) A person who doesn’t bug is the ant. He go / goes all over
help all the time...
the world to study ants. He watch /
( ) helpless (
) helply watches them as they eat / eats, work,

rest, sleep, and fight. He take / takes

D) A place that is full of photographs of the ants. He lie/ lies on

comfort
the ground with his camera and wait /
( ) comfortable (
) comfortious waits for the right moment. The ants

and other bugs often bite / bites him,

E) Something that is easy but that don’t stop / doesn’t stop

to break.
Doctor Bugs. He has an interesting and
( ) breakful ( )
breakable unusual job, and he loves it!

5. Read the article about Doctor Bugs

and circle the correct option according 6. Complete the sentences using the
to the Simple Present: (1,5) Present Continuous: (1,5)

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 1. I
____________________
______ (watch) a reality
show on TV.

2._____my favorite team “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The
___________ (play)? most certain way to succeed is always to try just
one more time.”Thomas Edison
3. Robert and Lisa
________________ (swim) in
the sea.
HAVE A NICE TEST!
4. They ________________
(cook) dinner on the beach.

5. We
________________________
_ (not/ watch) a soap opera.

7. Check () the correct

sentences. Correct the
wrong ones: (1,5)

a) I go to school from
Mondays to Fridays. ( )

__________________
_____________

b) Jack isn´t studying

Arts. He´s studying Math
right now. ( )

__________________
_____________

c) You doesn´t play

soccer very well. ( )

__________________
_____________

d) Does Jane cook at

the moment? ( )

__________________
_____________