144 exercícios originais de gramática em contexto. Cada um traz um texto curto com lacuna, cinco alternativas e a explicação da regra em português.
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There is no comfortable way to think about a whale. The scale defeats the ordinary machinery of sympathy: an animal whose heart a person could crawl through, whose calls cross an entire basin, whose life may run to two centuries and may therefore have begun be…
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The lion arrived in our imagination as a king and has been paying rent on that metaphor ever since. Everything we notice about it is filtered through the sovereignty we assigned: the mane read as a crown, the sleeping read as leisure, the hunting done by other…
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A library is an argument about the future disguised as a room. Everything in it was chosen, and the choosing is invisible, which is precisely what gives the collection its air of neutrality: the shelves look like the world rather than like a committee's opinio…
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Cheese is spoilage that somebody agreed to supervise. That is the whole of it: milk, which goes bad reliably and fast, is persuaded to go bad in a direction, and the direction is enforced by salt, by temperature and by an inherited set of gestures nobody in th…
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A pond is not a place; it is a slow argument about light. Everything in it is competing for the same few centimetres immediately beneath the surface, and the plants that win are the ones that stop being plants in the ordinary sense, that abandon the stiff engi…
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The parrot is the only animal that can quote us, and we have never quite forgiven it. What comes out of the bird is not language, since there is no syntax behind it, no proposition, nothing that could be true or false, and yet it is not mimicry in the way a re…
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The story we tell is a story of ascent: hunters wander, farmers settle, the settling produces surplus, and the surplus produces everything we mean by civilisation. The archaeological record ___ a rather less flattering arrangement. Skeletons from the first far…
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Teeth are the part of us that is already a fossil. Everything else is provisional, replaced and rebuilt on a schedule the body keeps to itself, but enamel is laid down once, in childhood, and thereafter can only be lost. There is no repair. There is only the m…
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The two drinks arrived in Europe within a few decades of each other, both bitter, both stimulant, both requiring apparatus and ceremony, and within a century they had divided the continent along lines that had nothing to do with taste. Tea went where the empir…
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The strangest thing about keeping an animal is not the expense or the mess. It is the discovery, usually made too late to be of any use, that one has contracted an attachment out of all ___ to the creature's actual span, and that no part of the surrounding cul…
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Nobody chooses a pet. People believe they do; they read about temperament and shedding and life expectancy, they consider the size of the flat and the hours they work, and then they go to the place where the animals are, and something happens that has nothing …
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We like to say the contest is decided on the day, by the better performance, and that everything before the whistle is preparation rather than destiny. The ledgers of the last hundred years suggest ___. Money predicts outcome with a reliability that would be c…
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Consider what the game has to work with: a field, a ball, a rule against hands. From that poverty it has built something no state religion has managed in a century, which is a set of rituals that people who agree on nothing else will perform simultaneously, we…
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No animal has been more thoroughly conscripted. The panda is a logo before it is a bear, and the logo has done real work, since money has been raised, habitat bought and treaties signed, at the cost of turning a living thing into a permanent invitation to cond…
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A city is the only artefact large enough to be experienced from the inside, which is why nobody can describe one honestly. The visitor sees a skyline and calls it ambition. The commuter sees the same skyline for the eleven thousandth time and sees nothing at a…
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We were promised a tool and we received a habitat. That is not a complaint about screens; it is a claim about what tools do when they become continuous. A hammer shapes the hand for as long as the hand holds it, and then the hand is returned to itself. The mac…
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___, the word arrived in European languages already carrying its verdict, and no amount of later botany has managed to strip that verdict out. Jungle came in from Sanskrit by way of administration, and what it named, in the mouths of the men who brought it hom…
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The aeroplane persuades; the helicopter argues. One shapes itself to the air and is carried, and the physics of that arrangement feel almost like consent. The other beats the air into temporary submission and stays up only for as long as the argument is mainta…
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There is a kind of attention that looks exactly like absence, and the crocodile has perfected it. For an hour, for an afternoon, for whatever unit of time a reptile can be said to keep, it ___ its time at the waterline, and nothing in its posture distinguishes…
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Every calendar we have ever kept is a negotiation with a rock that is slowly leaving. The moon recedes by a few centimetres a year, which is nothing in a human life and everything across the span in which tides carved estuaries and organisms learned to time th…
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The eighteenth-century naturalists who first crawled into church roofs wrote in a register we have lost, and their caution reads now like piety. Move slowly through the loft, one of them advises, and keep the lantern low, lest a single careless beam ___ the co…
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The dolphin was given its reputation before it was ever given a hearing. Sailors credited it with rescue; the nineteenth century read tenderness into that permanent upturned mouth, as the twenty-first century still ___, though it now files the reading under co…
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The zoo is the only museum whose exhibits can die of boredom, and the only one whose curators are obliged to argue that captivity is a form of care. The argument is not absurd. Breeding programmes have pulled several species back from the edge, and the visitor…
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No animal has been asked to carry so much on so little. The snake has no limbs to gesture with, no face capable of expression, no voice beyond a warning; and yet, across languages that share nothing else, it has been made to stand for cunning, for medicine, fo…
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