Questão 2183821

• 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 main function of the sentence beginning “The deserts of Central Asia are growing…” is to:

• A. contradict
• B. contrast
• C. exemplify
• D. explain

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• A) contradict - This is not correct because it gives the idea of denying  the truth of a statement, especially by asserting the opposite.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta porque dá a ideia de negar uma informção, especialmente afirmando o contrário.
  
  B) contrast - This is not correct because it gives the idea of something being entirely different from something else.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta pois dá a ideia de que algo é totalmente diferente de outro.
  
  D) explain - This is not correct because it gives the idea of making something clear to someone by describing it in more detail.
  
  Esta resposta não está correta pois trata-se de tornar algo claro para uma pessoa descrevendo em detalhes.
  
  Resposta: C
  
  This is correct because when we exemplify something we illustrate by giving an example.
  
  Esta resposta está correta pois quando exemplificamos algo nós estamos ilustrando através de exemplos.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Gabarito está C.

   

  Marquei B, pelo contraste entre "deserts of central Asia are growing" e "areas of the US (and now Rio) are drenched."

• Questão mal elaborada. Ele exemplifica (desertos aumentando, outras regiões sendo inundadas) para poder contrastar, mostrar os extremos, argumentando assim pela tese do aquecimento global.