Questão 574714

• Banca: Marinha
• Órgão: ESCOLA NAVAL
• Ano: 2009
• Provas: Marinha - 2009 - ESCOLA NAVAL - Aspirante - 2º Dia
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Passado simples | Simple past; Verbos | Verbs

Which sequence best completes the text below?

WHY SO MANY BOOKS?

Conventional wisdom among college and university students (and many of their parents) in early 2007 is that "everything needed for research is available free on the Web." Therefore, academic libraries are often viewed as costly dinosaurs- unnecessary expenses in today's environment. This idea is uninformed at best and foolish at worst. If college and university libraries and librarians (1) _______ , we (2)_______ to invent, better yet, re-invent them.

(Adapted from http: /hme.educause.edu)

• A. don' t exist - will have
• B. existed - would have
• C. didn' t exist - would have
• D. exist - won't have
• E. didn't exist - wouldn't have

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• Trata-se de uma If Clause:

  A frase é classificada como Second Conditional que indica uma hipótese... Se algo tivesse acontecido, outra coisa também teria acontecido. São situações pouco prováveis e, na maioria das vezes, irreais no futuro.

  • A estrutura para second condicionals é: If + simple past / auxiliaries (= would, could, might, should) + verb

  If college and university libraries and librarians didn't exist, we would have to invent, better yet, re-invent them.

  Se bibliotecas, bibliotecários de faculdades e universidades não existissem, teríamos que inventá-los, melhor ainda, reinventá-los.