Questão 2183803

• Banca: Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro - RJ
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Rio de Janeiro - RJ
• Ano: 2010
• Provas: Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro - RJ - 2010 - Prefeitura de Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Professor I - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Vocabulário | Vocabulary

Answer question according to TEXT 1 below, adapted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8606466.stm (accessed on April 7th, 2010) .

TEXT 1

At least 200 people have died in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro after another storm. This is arguably the worst torrential rain for decades, causing flooding and landslides. Our website readers in Rio de Janeiro have been sharing their experiences.

Comment 1 - I’ve never seen such chaos. We weren’t prepared for this, even though we were warned that a big storm was about to come. Newspapers are saying that the reason for the catastrophe is the garbage. Well it may have been. We need to teach recycling at schools and community groups, otherwise we will have more disasters like this. (Lia, Niterói)

Comment 2 - Today I witnessed Rio de Janeiro on the brink of collapse. I ventured out around midday, just as the electric power blacked out in my neighbourhood. Three hours later, looking out of my office window, the city still reminded me of a war zone. “What´ve we done to deserve this?”, I thought. It’s night time now and I haven’t been able to return home. I might do so tomorrow. (José, Rio)

Comment 3 - Worldwide, we are seeing more and more climate instability. The deserts of central Asia are growing, while areas of the US (and now Rio) are drenched. The lakes in Minnesota have never thawed this early, at any time in the recorded record. The icecaps will be history, and islands around the world are disappearing under the surf. The oceans are warming, the coral reefs are dying. How much more evidence do we need of global warming? (João, Brasília)

The correct paraphrase for “We need to teach recycling at schools and community groups, otherwise we will have more disasters like this” is:

• A. Unless we teach recycling at schools …, we will have more disasters like this.
• B. Less we taught recycling at schools…, we would have more disasters like this.
• C. If we don´t teach recycling at schools…, we will have had more disasters like this.
• D. Should we not teach recycling at schools…, we will not have more disasters like this.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• B)  This is not correct because less is used to refer to something that can't be counted or doesn't have a plural.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta pois less é usado para coisas que não podem ser contadas ou não têm plural.
  
  C) This is not correct because the structure is grammatically wrong. In conditionals, if we have the simple present, we must have another present or future structure to make a right sentence.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta pois a estrutura está gramaticalmente errada. Em condicionais, quando há o presente simples, devemos usar outra estrutura no presente ou no futuro para criar uma sentença correta.
  
  D) This is not correct because the structure is grammatically wrong. We don't use should in the begining of an affimartive sentence, just for questions, and should and will are never used together in a sentence.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta pois a estrutura está gramaticalmente errada. Não deve-se usar should em início de frase na afirmativa, apenas para perguntas, e should e will nunca são usados juntos em uma frase.
  
  Resposta: A
  
  This is correct because the conjunction unless gives the idea of a condition for something to happen. If we don't teach recycling at schools, we will have more disasters like this.
  
  Esta resposta está correta pois a conjunção unless nos passa a ideia de uma condição para que algo aconteça. Se não ensinarmos reciclagem nas escolas, teremos mais desastres como este.