Questão 1945276

• Banca: CECIERJ
• Órgão: CEDERJ
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: CECIERJ - 2016 - CEDERJ - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

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Houston’s Poor Neighborhoods Could Be Prime Zika Real Estate

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the potential for the explosive spread of the Zika virus through the Americas. Margaret Chan, the director of the WHO, advised that the Americas could be hit by 4 million cases of Zika this year. The outbreak of Zika virus now centered in Brazil has been linked to a sudden increase in severe birth defects including microcephaly, babies born with smaller heads and brains. The National Public Radio – USA (NPR) recently reported that other neurological problems, such as babies born blind, may also be linked to Zika. Researchers do not fully understand Zika or have not yet proven causality, but the circumstantial evidence connecting the Zika outbreak to the sudden, large increase in birth defects is very strong.

Reports quoted experts who said that Zika was a low risk to the United States because the U.S. doesn’t have the poverty and high population densities that have caused the explosive spread of Zika in Brazil. However, Dr. Peter Hotez, a tropical disease researcher who lives in Texas, has warned that poverty and high population density makes Houston highly vulnerable to a Zika outbreak. He warned that the whole Mexican Gulf coast is already sufferingfrom increasing levels of tropical diseases spread by mosquitoes, in particular dengue fever. Because Zika virus is related to dengue fever and has the same mosquito vector, the expansion of dengue in the Gulf coast region is a good indicator of the potential spread of Zika virus

Adapted from: <http://www.democraticunderground.com/

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O conector “However”, no segundo parágrafo do TEXTO 1, estabelece uma relação de

• A. oposição entre a pobreza de Houston e a pobreza no Golfo do México.
• B. semelhança entre as taxas de pobreza e densidade populacional dos Estados Unidos, de uma forma geral, e a pobreza e a alta densidade populacional de Houston, no Texas.
• C. contraste entre as baixas taxas de pobreza e densidade populacional dos Estados Unidos, de uma maneira geral, e a pobreza e a alta densidade populacional de Houston, no Texas.
• D. paralelismo entre densidade populacional e doenças tropicais.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• Reports quoted experts who said that Zika was a low risk to the United States because the U.S.  doesn't have the poverty and high population densities that have caused the explosive spread of Zika in Brazil. However, Dr. Peter Hotez, a tropical disease researcher who lives in Texas, has warned that poverty and high population density makes Houston highly vulnerable to a Zika outbreak.
  
  
  Tradução: Relatórios apontaram que o Zika era um risco baixo para os Estados Unidos porque os EUA não têm a pobreza e a alta densidade populacional que causaram a propagação explosiva do Zika no Brasil. No entanto, o Dr. Peter Hotez, um pesquisador de doenças tropicais que vive no Texas, alertou que a pobreza e a alta densidade populacional tornam Houston altamente vulnerável a um surto de Zika.
  O conector “However", no segundo parágrafo do TEXTO 1, estabelece uma relação de contraste entre as baixas taxas de pobreza e densidade populacional dos Estados Unidos, de uma maneira geral, e a pobreza e a alta densidade  populacional de Houston, no Texas.
  Gabarito do Professor: C