UPE 2013
Texto 5 (questão 23)
Sammy Sosa has been playing for the Chicago Cubs, a professional baseball team located in Chicago, ……I…… 1993. In 1998, he and McGwire ………………II……………… the record for the most home runs in a single season. He has hit more than 50 home runs in four seasons in a row.
When Sammy was a child, his family ……………III……………………… . They couldn’t buy him a baseball bat, so he made one from a tree branch. Now the Sammy Sosa Foundation raises money for poor children in Dominican Republic and Chicago. Sammy is married and has four children.
STEMPLESKI, S., MORGAN, J., DOUGLAS, Nancy. World Link: developing English fluency - book 3B. Thomson Heinle: Boston, 2010. (Adaptado)
Vocabulary:home
run – tacada de beisebol que permite que o jogador (na posição de batedor)
percorra todas as bases e faça o ponto.
Considerando a gramática e o contexto, a sequência cujas palavras completam CORRETAMENTE as lacunas I, II e III está na alternativa
in – broken – were very poor
for – reach – wasn’t very poor
in – break down – was wealthy
since – have broken – were careful
since – broke – was very poor
E mais: nota TRI a todo o momento.
