Questão 1471822

• Banca: IDECAN
• Órgão: CBM-MG
• Ano: 2015
• Provas: IDECAN - 2015 - CBM-MG - Aspirante do Corpo de Bombeiro
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Pronome relativo | Relative clauses; Pronomes | Pronouns

                              Mysterious ancient cemetery in Egypt could contain a million mummies


            A mysterious ancient cemetery in Egypt could contain more than a million mummified human remains, archaeologists have claimed.
            Around 1,700 bodies have so far been uncovered at the Fag el-Gamous (Way of the Water Buffalo) site, around 60 miles south of Cairo. But experts believe that countless more are contained in the burial ground.
            “We are fairly certain we have over a million burials within this cemetery. It's large, and it's dense,” said project director Kerry Muhlestein, an associate professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University (BYU), which has been examining the site for around 30 years.             They were placed there between the 1st and the 7th centuries AD, but the scale of the site has left many baffled.             A nearby village has been deemed too small to warrant such a large cemetery, while the closest major settlements had their own burial grounds.
            “It's hard to know where all these people were coming from,” Professor Muhlestein told Live Science.
            Another interesting find was that the corpses appeared to be grouped together by hair colour, with one section containing the remains of those with blonde hair and another for those with red hair.             The bodies, which included a man of more than seven feet in height, are thought to be of ordinary citizens, rather than the royalty found at many famous Egyptian sites. They were not buried in coffins, according to Muhlestein, and were in fact mummified not by design but by the arid natural environment.
            “The people in the cemetery represent the common man. They are the average people who are usually hard to learn about because they are not very visible in written sources. A lot of their wealth, or the little that they had, was poured into these burials.”
            His team discovered objects including glassware, jewellery and linen. The findings were presented to the Scholars Colloquim at the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in Toronto last month.
The Telegraph, London.

                              (http://www.traveller.com.au/mysterious-ancient-cemetery-in-egypt-could-contain-a-
                                                                                                                              million-mummies-12aaq7.)

In: “The bodies, which included a man of more than seven feet in height are thought to be of ordinary citizens, rather than the royalty found at many famous Egyptian sites.” WHICH is a:

• A. Conjunction.
• B. Relative pronoun.
• C. Possessive pronoun.
• D. Interrogative pronoun.

Gabarito: B

Comentários

• Usage Note: The relative pronoun which can sometimes refer to a clause or sentence, as opposed to a noun phrase: She ignored him, which proved to be unwise. They swept the council elections, which could never have happened under the old rules. More than 80 percent of the Usage Panel approved both of these examples in our 2009 survey. Sometimes which clauses of this sort are presented as separate sentences. These are technically sentence fragments, and they often pack a rhetorical punch: "I was caught for a week on the Siachen Glacier, in a giant blizzard. There is no harsher place on this earth; it belongs to no one. Which won't keep people from squabbling over it someday" (Andrea Barrett). While this example is perfectly acceptable, writers who want to avoid this use of which and adhere to the traditional rules can usually substitute this for it at the start of a new sentence, though often at the loss of some dramatic flair. · Note that which clauses that modify whole sentences can sometimes create ambiguities. The sentence It emerged that Martha made the complaint, which surprised everybody may mean either that the complaint itself was surprising or that it was surprising that Martha made it. This ambiguity may be avoided by using other constructions such as It emerged that Martha made the complaint, a revelation that surprised everybody. Remember that which is used in this way only when the clause or sentence it refers to precedes it. When the clause or sentence follows, writers must use what, particularly in formal style: Still, he has not said he will withdraw, which is more surprising. Still, what is more surprising, he has not said he will withdraw.
  

• Em: "Os corpos, que (which) incluíram um homem de mais de sete pés de altura ...........",
  Que (which)  é um:
  
  "which" pode ser usado como pronome interrogativo, quando temos um número limitado de opções.
  Por exemplo:
  Which color do you prefer? Black or white?
  
  E pode ser usado também como pronome relativo.
  Ex: 
  There are several small ponds which a variety of fish live in.
  No caso da questão acima, which está sendo usado como pronome relativo.
  Alternativa B
  
  
  
  
  

• Which = qual = pronome relativo.

• Wich , Who , Whose, That = pronome relativos recorrentes nas questões.

  LETRA B

  APMBB