Questão 2183815

• 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: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

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 sentence “The city reminded me of a war zone” can be paraphrased as:

• A. The city reminded me of an urban war which I had seen.
• B. The city reminded me of a previous war zone.
• C. I was reminded of a war zone by looking at the city.
• D. I remembered seeing a city war zone.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• A) This is not correct because we have a past perfect idea, with actions related to a distant past.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta pois temos a ideia de passado perfeito, com ações relacionadas a um passado distante.
  
  B) This is not correct because the idea is that a previous situation that he experienced reminded him of something.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta pois a ideia é de que uma situação anterior que ele viveu o lembrou de algo.
  
  D)This is not correct because the verb remember is used when you remember someone or something and you keep it in your mind. The verb remind is used when something unexpected reminds you of a person or something.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta pois o verbo remember é usado quando você lembra de alguém ou algo e mantém em sua mente. O verbo remind é usado quando algo inesperado te faz lembrar de uma pessoa ou alguma coisa.
  
  Resposta: C
  
  This is correct because the person reminds something because another thing that he looked at  at that moment made him remind it.
  
  Esta resposta está correta pois alguém se lembra de algo porque uma outra coisa para qual ele olhou naquele momento o fez lembrar daquilo.