Gramática ⇒ Present Simple Tópico resolvido

[ASPIRADEDEU]

(ITA 1997) Leia.
BRAZIL'S NETWORK BOOM
BRAZIL IS ON THE VERGE OF A NETWORK SURGE. BUT EXACTLY
HOW THEY'LL ALL IS STILL UP IN THE AIR.
Probably the only thing that Brazil's two pay TV heavyweights,
Globo and TVA, agree ___(I)___ is that the country's multichannel
business is on the verge of a boom.
The two companies, which have fought one of the most
IMPASSIONED battles for dominance to be found anywhere in the
pay TV world, ___(II)___ the intensity of their cable and wireless
competition and extending it to direct-to-home television this year.
And with the number of Brazilian pay TV subscribers expected to ___
(III)___ fivefold to 5 million by the end of the decade, both sides are
FEVERISHLY putting together new programming services to make their
packages as ALLURING as possible. (...)
(Ian Katz. Multichannel News. International, April, 1996)
Quais os verbos que devem preencher as lacunas II a III respectivamente?
a) are rising - raise
b) are raising - rise
c) are rising - rise
d) is raising - raise
e) is rising - rise

Resposta

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GAB:B,PORQUE ?

[Fibonacci13]

Olá, ASPIRADEDEU.

O verbo "are raising" no presente contínuo indica que as empresas Globo e TVA estão aumentando a intensidade de sua competição no mercado de TV paga, enquanto o verbo "rise" no presente simples indica que o número de assinantes de TV paga no Brasil esperado aumentará cinco vezes até o final da década.