Questão 5030005

• Banca: AMEOSC
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC
• Ano: 2021
• Provas: AMEOSC - 2021 - Prefeitura de Guarujá do Sul - SC - Professor de Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Presente perfeito progressivo | Present perfect continuous; Presente perfeito | Present perfect; Verbos | Verbs

INSTRUÇÃO: Leia o texto abaixo para responder a questão.

Close relatives of the coronavirus may have been in bats for decades

    Viruses from the coronavirus lineage responsible for Covid-19 have been circulating in bats for decades, long before the virus started infecting people last year, a new study suggests.

    How exactly the virus jumped to humans is still a mystery. But the study suggests the coronavirus most likely evolved in bats — such as intermediate horseshoe bats, the source of the coronavirus that caused the 2003–2004 SARS outbreak — not snakes or pangolins as some researchers have suggested. Pangolins or another animal might still have been an intermediate host before the virus made it to humans.

    Based on the evolutionary relationship among the 68 coronaviruses, the researchers estimate that the coronavirus lineage that gave rise to the virus behind the pandemic has been present in bats for decades.

    That long period hints that more bat viruses with the potential to infect humans are circulating in horseshoe bats. Searching for such bat viruses can help identify potential threats before the pathogens make the jump, the team writes.

Adaptado de https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-coronavirus-evolution-close-relatives-bats?

No texto, a frase “have been circulating in bats for decades”, escrita na forma negativa, é:

• A. Has not been circulating in bats for decades.
• B. Does not have been circulating in bats for decades.
• C. Don’t have been circulating in bats for decades.
• D. Have not been circulating in bats for decades.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• The present perfect continuous is formed using has/have + been + present participle. Questions are indicated by inverting the subject and has/have. Negatives are made with not.

  • Statement: You have been waiting here for two hours.
  • Question: Have you been waiting here for two hours?
  • Negative: You have not been waiting here for two hours.

  Correct answer: letter D.

• A questão cobra conhecimento gramatical, especificamente sobre o Present Perfect Continuous.
  
  A questão nos pede a forma negativa da forma verbal "have been circulating", que representa o Present Perfect Continuous.
  
  Neste tempo verbal, a forma negativa é formada pelo verbo "have , has" + not. Pode-se também abreviar usando "haven´t, hasn´t".
  
  
  Analisando as alternativas teremos:
  
  A) Incorreto - Has not been circulating in bats for decades.  - Como a sentença apresenta "have", a forma negativa deve ser "have not".
  
  B) Incorreto - Does not have been circulating in bats for decades.  - Forma verbal inexistente na Língua Inglesa.
  
  C) Incorreto - Don't have been circulating in bats for decades.  - Forma verbal inexistente na Língua Inglesa.
  
  D) Correto - Have not been circulating in bats for decades. 
  
  Gabarito do Professor: Letra D.