Read an excerpt from the article, How Studying or Working Abroad Makes You Smarter.
A study (LEAD) by William Maddux, an associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, (FIND)
that among students enrolled in an international MBA program, their "multicultural engagement-the extent
to which they adapted to and learned about new cultures-predicted how "integratively complex their
thinking (BECOME).
11. (SEDUC-2016)
That is, students who adopted an open and adaptive attitude toward foreign cultures (BE) more able to make connections among disparate ideas. The students' multicultural engagement also predicted the number of job offers they (RECEIVE) after the program ended.
The verbs in parentheses originally appeared in the simple past in the article. The correct of the simple past
of these verbs is:
a. Lead/finded/become / was/receive b. Lead/find/became / were / received c. Led/found/became / were/received d. Led/finded/become / was / received
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A forma correta do pretérito simples para os verbos entre parênteses é:
c. Liderou/encontrou/tornou-se/foram/receberam
Explicação:
1. O verbo "Lead" (no presente) deve estar no pretérito simples como "Liderou" para se adequar ao contexto do artigo.
2. O verbo "Find" (no presente) deve estar no pretérito simples como "Encontrou" para se adequar ao contexto do artigo.
3. O verbo "Become" (no presente) deve estar no pretérito simples como "Tornou-se" para se adequar ao contexto do artigo.
4. O verbo "Be" (no presente) deve estar no pretérito simples como "Foram" para se adequar ao sujeito "estudantes" (plural).
5. O verbo "Receive" (no presente) deve estar no pretérito simples como "Receberam" para se adequar ao contexto do artigo.
Assim, a opção correta é c. Liderou/encontrou/tornou-se/foram/receberam.