SóProvas


ID
9526
Banca
ESAF
Órgão
MRE
Ano
2004
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
Assuntos

Read the text below in order to answer questions 38
to 40:

Unhappy families
Source: www.economist.co.uk
July 1st, 2004 (Adapted)

The story of Elián González, a small, shipwrecked
Cuban boy who was the center of an international
custody battle in 2000, should have taught that splitting
families makes for bad politics. Apparently, it seems not
to have done.
With his eye on holding Florida in this year's
presidential election, George Bush has tightened the
rules on contacts between Cuban-Americans and their
families back on the island. From June 30th, Cuban-
Americans can make only one two-week visit every
three years, instead of unrestricted annual visits. They
will not be able to send as much money to people on
the island, and none beyond their immediate families.
All humanitarian visits have been scrapped.

Analyze the following alternatives in order to find
the appropriate translation for their underlined
pieces into Portuguese:

"should have taught that splitting families makes for bad politics."

Alternativas
Comentários
  • should
    1 ps of shall. 2 modal verb: a) dar conselho, recomendar. you should always obey your parents / você deveria sempre obedecer seus pais. b) expressar arrependimento. I should have studied german / eu deveria ter estudado alemão. c) pedir permissão, informação, conselho. should we tell her the truth? / devemos contar-lhe a verdade?

    http://michaelis.uol.com.br/moderno/ingles/index.php?lingua=ingles-portugues&palavra=should

    taught
    vt+vi ps, pp de teach.

    teach
    vt+vi (ps, pp taught) 1 ensinar, mostrar, instruir. the boys were taught reading (to read) / os meninos aprenderam a ler. they were taught what to read / eles foram instruídos sobre o que deviam ler. can’t you teach him manners? / você não pode ensiná-lo a comportar-se? 2 lecionar. he teaches English / ele leciona inglês, ele dá aulas de inglês. 3 educar. 4 amestrar. experience teaches por experiência se aprende. you can’t teach an old dog new tricks macaco velho não aprende arte nova, burro velho não pega andadura. to teach someone better dar uma lição a alguém. they taught him better / eles lhe deram uma lição.

  • a-

    should as a modal verb is usually employed when dispensing advice or suggestion. When coupled with have + past participle, it means something that was supposed to have happened, but something else took place instead