1) Norway [1. To issue] a blunt threat to Brazil that if rising deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is not reversed, its billion-dollar financial assistance [2. To fall] to zero. The leaders of the two nations meet in Oslo on Friday. The oil-rich Scandinavian nation [3. To provide] $1.1bn to Brazil’s Amazon fund since 2008, tied to reductions in the rate of deforestation in the world’s greatest rainforest. The destruction of forests by timber and farming industries [4. To be] a major contributor to the carbon emissions that drive climate change and Norway views protecting the Amazon as vital for the whole world. Vocabulário: Norway (Noruega); blunt (franco); rate (grau; taxa; índice); timber (madeireira); farming (agrícola). Choose the alternative in which the verbs are used on the proper verb tense: Alternativas: a) 1-was issued / 2-fell / 3-provide / 4-was b) 1-have issued / 2-feel / 3-provided / 4-will be c) 1-has issued / 2-will fall / 3-has provided / 4-is d) 1-will issue / 2-would fall / 3-was provided / 4-were e) 1-had issued / 2-will fall/ 3-has provided / 4-were