Questão 2510893

• Banca: FCC
• Órgão: ARCE
• Ano: 2012
• Provas: FCC - 2012 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação - Analista de Sistemas
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

 Para responder a questão, considere o texto a seguir:

       Historically, cachaça is directly linked to the introduction of sugarcane and the production of sugar in Brazil during the mid- 1500s. The slaves who were working at the sugar mills discovered that the garapa, the cooked sugarcane juice that was left standing, would ferment, turning into an alcoholic beverage. Apparently in the beginning, the beverage was given only to slaves at the end of their workday, but soon it became a popular drink consumed by all types of people. With the increase of demand, cachaça distilleries proliferated, and cachaça turned into the favorite alcoholic drink of the whole colony, becoming a threat to bagaceira, a Portuguese brandy made with grapes. As a consequence, during the gold rush, the consumption of cachaça was such that a royal court order of 1743 prohibited the distilleries in all Minas Gerais, probably starting cachaça’s first steps on its long social underground history. (Only in the 1990s did cachaça exit this social stigma to gain status and national and then international recognition.)

      With the excuse of producing sugar, people continued to secretly produce cachaça, which prompted the court to attach high taxation on the Brazilian beverage.

      Later, during the first movements for independence, cachaça was converted to a political statement when Brazilians served it instead of Porto wine during important receptions.

(Roberts, Yara Castro & Richard Roberts. 2009. The Brazilian Table. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith., p. 29) 

Infere-se do texto que

• A. a produção da cachaça, por razões políticas, não alcançou o merecido lugar no rol dos produtos exportados.
• B. Portugal cobrou altos impostos sobre a cachaça para auferir maior receita com sua exportação.
• C. a cachaça agrada mais ao gosto brasileiro do que o vinho do Porto.
• D. a produção clandestina da cachaça foi um dos fatores que contribuíram para dar início ao movimento de independência do Brasil.
• E. a produção da cachaça foi proibida a partir de 1743 por representar uma ameaça à bagaceira portuguesa.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• e-

  ....becoming a threat to bagaceira, a Portuguese brandy made with grapes. As a consequence....

• "the consumption of cachaça was such that a royal court order of 1743 prohibited the distilleries in all Minas Gerais, probably starting cachaça’s first steps on its long social underground history."

• (E)

  With the increase of demand, cachaça distilleries proliferated, and cachaça turned into the favorite alcoholic drink of the whole colony, becoming a threat to bagaceira, a Portuguese brandy made with grapes. As a consequence, during the gold rush, the consumption of cachaça was such that a royal court order of 1743 prohibited the distilleries in all Minas Gerais, probably starting cachaça’s first steps on its long social underground history.

  Tradução-->Com o aumento da demanda, as destilarias de cachaça se proliferaram, e a cachaça se tornou a bebida alcoólica preferida de toda a colônia, tornando-se uma ameaça para a bagaceira, uma aguardente portuguesa feita com uvas. Como consequência, durante a corrida do ouro, o consumo da cachaça era tão elevado que uma ordem da corte real de 1743 proibiu as destilarias em toda a Minas Gerais, provavelmente dando início aos primeiros passos da cachaça em sua longa história social underground.