Questão 3172181

Instruction: answer questions 38 to 40 based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.

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1. Hopper is the #1 most downloaded travel app in North America and the founder of the
2. Hopper Trees program. With every booking, Hopper will plant two trees for free as part of their
3. new carbon offset program. The planet is facing an unfolding climate crisis and unfortunately,
4. travel plays a role in the carbon emissions that contribute to this crisis. They are super keen to
5. take this step toward a more sustainable future, and it’s great to see that customers are viewing
6. this as a priority too.
7. Guests won’t have to worry about a thing, as Hopper will be donating trees directly to their
8. partner, Eden Reforestation Projects, which has planting locations all over the world — Kenya,
9. Madagascar, and Mozambique. Go ahead and book your flight, hotel, home, or car rental as you
10. normally would, they’ve got this covered.
11. Apart from drawing down a bunch of carbon over the trees’ lifetime (about 900kg of CO2),
12. planting trees and reforestation in general have other great benefits: it provides growing habitats
13. for animals, purifies water sources, controls flooding and erosion, and replenishes the soil with
14. the nutrients needed for farming. They’ve planted 24,002,538 trees so far, and expect to plant
15. many more!

(Available at: https://hopper.com/trees?utm_source=web&utm_medium=hp&utm_campaign=nav – textespecially adapted for this test).

Analyze the following statements about the word “planting” in line 12:

I. It is a gerund verb.

II. It is used as the subject of this sentence.

III. It is and adjective connected to the noun “trees.”

Which statements are correct?