Questão 2183827

• 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: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

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 text claims that “The icecaps will be history”, suggesting that they will be:

• A. extinct in the future
• B. included in history books
• C. forgotten
• D. described only in stories

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• Letters B, C and D are not correct because their ideas are entirely different from the sentence. We have one that says that icecaps are going to be in history books (B), another says that it will be forgotten, but maybe it can come back (C), and the other says that it's going to be in tales (D).
  
  As letras B, C e D não estão corretas pois suas ideias são completamente diferentes da sentença. Temos uma que diz que as calotas polares estarão em livros de História (B), outra que diz que serão esquecidas, mas nada impede que lembrem delas (C), e uma dizendo que virará contos.
  
  
  Resposta: A
  
  This is correct because if you use the future tense to talk about something, you make a prediction, and here the prediction is that icecaps will be extinct.
  
  Esta resposta está correta pois se usarmos o futuro para falar sobre algo, nós fazemos uma profecia, e aqui a profecia é de que as calotas polares serão extintas.