Questão 1056001

• Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
• Órgão: STF
• Ano: 2013
• Provas: CESPE - 2013 - STF - Analista Judiciário - Área Administrativa; CESPE - 2013 - STF - Analista Judiciário - Área Judiciária; CESPE - 2013 - STF - Analista Judiciário - Revisor de Texto; CESPE - 2013 - STF - Todos os Cargos - Conhecimentos Básicos - Cargos 3 e 5
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

          The aging process affects us all at different rates. Some people of fifty-three, like the esteemed author, look a mere thirty-five, with sparkling brown eyes, a handsome gait and the virility of a steam train. Others, like the author’s friend Colin, look like little middle-aged men at twenty-one with middle-aged outlooks of set ways and planned futures. In women the former condition is common but women rarely suffer from the latter, being fired with the insatiable drive of ambition for either an independent and distinguished career in a still male-dominated world, or a home and seven children by the time they are thirty followed by an independent and distinguished career as a Cheltenham councillor or a public relations agent for Jonathan Cape, in later life.
         No such luck for Charles Charlesworth, who was born on the 14th of March, 1829, in Stafford. At the age of four Charles had a beard and was sexually active.
         In the final three years of his life his skin wrinkled, he developed varicose veins, shortness of breath, grey hair, senile dementia and incontinence. Some time in his seventh year he fainted and never gained consciousness
         The coroner returned a verdict of natural causes due to old age.

Hugh Cory. Advanced writing with english in use. Oxford University Press, p. 34.

According to the text above,

Colin looks and behaves as if he were much older than he actually is.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• Colin tem 21 anos de idade e se comporta como um homem de meia-idade.

• "Others, like the author’s friend Colin, look like little middle-aged men at twenty-one with middle-aged outlooks of set ways and planned futures."

•  Colin parece e se comporta como se ele fosse muito mais velho do que ele realmente é.

  Comentários: Veja que o texto cita exatamente o que é afirmado na questão: Colin, com apenas de 21 anos de idade, já parece um homem de meia idade tanto no aspecto físico, como no seu comportamento. 

          The aging process affects us all at different rates. Some people of fifty-three, like the esteemed author, look a mere thirty-five, with sparkling brown eyes, a handsome gait and the virility of a steam train. Others, like the author’s friend Colin, look like little middle-aged men at twenty-one with middle-aged outlooks of set ways and planned futures. 

           O processo de envelhecimento afeta a todos nós em velocidades diferentes. Algumas pessoas de cinquenta e três anos, como o estimado autor, parecem ter meros trinta e cinco anos, com brilhantes olhos castanhos, um belo andar e a virilidade de uma locomotiva a vapor. Outros, como Colin, amigo do autor, parecem pequenos homens de meia idade aos vinte e um, com aspecto de meia-idade de formas definidas e futuros planejados.

  Gabarito: CERTO