(ITA - 1996)
Up until now, Gates has largely controlled the unfolding of his remarkable story. At 39, he seems to have achieved the information age's equivalent of the American Dream. Through intelligence, ruthlessness and hard work he dominates a technology so central to modern life that it touches nearly every office, school and desktop. 1He is very, very rich and so powerful that even his enemies are eager to cut deals with him. Now he wants more, a piece of all the action - the bills people pay, the phone calls they make, the news they read, the TV they watch. But he may have reached that point in the arc of success where the very qualities that raised him high could start to drag him down.
If Gates is feeling a little cranky these days, he has good reason. The U.S. Justice Department derailed his $2 billion bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken electronic check book program, a deal that ___(I)____ realize Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction in cyberspace. Another team of U.S. government lawyers is snooping around asking questions about Microsoft Network, the new on-line service he plans to launch in August. And an antitrust suit that has been hanging over his head for nearly five years - and which he thought lie had settled last year - is in legal limbo, held hostage by an ornery federal judge.
Despite the company's reputation as a juggernaut, Microsoft is running into some unexpected snags in the marketplace as well. Gates wants desperately to seize control of the so-called local area networks, where more and more corporate business is done. But ___(II)___ company is having trouble developing ___(III)___ product that can compete with Lotus Notes, which dominates the market for "groupware" (the software that helps people brainstorm over these networks) ___(IV)___ Novell's NetWare still controls two-thirds of the market for the software that runs the office systems, despite Microsoft's best efforts with Windows NT. And Microsoft's SQL Server is still struggling to win customers from Oracle, which owns almost half the market for ___(V)___ critical database software that stores the corporate word's most important information.
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If the U. S. Justice Department had not derailed Gate's bid to acquire Intuit, the deal............ realize Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction in cyberspace.
is going to help
would have helped
would help
helps
is likely to help
Gabarito:
would have helped
Essa questão se trata de "conditional". No caso, a " Third Conditional". Para entendermos melhor a questão, vamos revisar a estrutura das outras conditionals.
Zero Conditional: IF + SUJEITO + VERBO NO PRESENTE , SUJEITO + VERBO NO PRESENTE. EX: If you heat water at 100 C, it boils. ( se você aquecer a água em 100 C, ela ferve) .
First Conditional: IF+ SUJEITO+ VERBO NO PRESENTE, SUJEITO+ WILL+VERBO NA FORMA SIMPLES. EX: If I stay in the city on the weekend, I will stay home all day long. ( Se eu ficar na cidade no final de semana, ficarei em casa o dia todo.)
Second Conditional: IF+SUJEITO+VERBO NO PASSADO, SUJEITO+WOULD+VERBO NA FORMA SIMPLES. EX: If I had more time, I would practice more sports. ( Se eu tivesse mais tempo, praticaria mais esportes.)
Third Conditional: IF+ SUJEITO+ HAD+VERBO PARTICÍPIO, SUJEITO+ WOULD+ HAVE+ VERBO PARTICÍPIO. EX: If João had studied more, he would have passed. ( Se João tivesse estudado mais, ele teria passado.).
No caso da questão, o primeiro passo é observar a estrutura e descobrir qual " conditional" deve ser usada.
If the U. S. Justice Department had not derailed Gate's bid to acquire Intuit, the deal............ realize
Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction in cyberspace.
Podemos observar nesse caso que se trata da "third conditional" devido à estrutura usada. IF + SUJEITO (the U.S. Justice Departament ) + HAD NOT ( nesse caso negativa, também pode ser usado HADN´T) + VERBO NO PARTICÍPIO (derailed). Portanto , seguindo a regra a segunda oração deve seguir a estrutura mencionada acima : SUJEITO ( the deal) + WOULD+ HAVE+ VERBO PARTICÍPIO. No caso, a única alternativa que segue essa regra é a alternativa B ( would have helped) .