Questão 2545990

• Banca: NC-UFPR
• Órgão: UFPR
• Ano: 2017
• Provas: NC-UFPR - 2017 - UFPR - Vestibular
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Consider the following excerpt:

Difficulty interpreting what I have come to call ‘Ahorita Time’ is a reflection of different cultural understandings of time. Dr Company explained that if she is giving a talk in Mexico and goes over her allotted time, Mexicans “feel like I am giving them a gift”. In the UK or the US, however, “The audience starts to leave, feeling like I am wasting their time”.

Choose the alternative that conveys the same meaning of the excerpt above.

• A. Mexicans tend to feel lack of respect when talks or lectures go beyond the destined time frames.
• B. Dr Company believes that negative feelings from different audiences in talks are due to lack of language comprehension.
• C. People in different countries react differently to going over time in talks based on cultural backgrounds.
• D. In the US or the UK, it is customary for the audiences to stay over the allotted times of talks and lectures.
• E. The interpretation of time by Mexicans and people from different nationalities is a language barrier. 

Gabarito: C