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3084037
Banca
VUNESP
Órgão
UNICAMP
Ano
2019
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
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                                   A Free Press Needs You


By The Editorial Board

August 15, 2018


      In 1787, the year the Constitution was adopted in the USA, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to a friend, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

      That’s how he felt before he became president, anyway. Twenty years later, after enduring the oversight of the press from inside the White House, he was less sure of its value. “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper,” he wrote. “Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”

      Jefferson’s discomfort was, and remains, understandable. Reporting the news in an open society is an enterprise laced with conflict. His discomfort also illustrates the need for the right of free press he helped to preserve. As the founders believed from their own experience, a well-informed public is best equipped to root out corruption and, over the long haul, promotes liberty and justice. “Public discussion is a political duty,” the Supreme Court said in 1964. That discussion must be “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” and “may well include vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”

(www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/free-press-local -journalism-news-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Trending& pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Trending. Adaptado.)

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo – to decide whether we should have a government…–, o termo em destaque pode ser substituído, sem alteração de sentido, por

Alternativas
Comentários
  • whether e if são usados em contextos que existam possibilidade.

    whether - é usado em uma frase com opção específica (mais formal); if - é usado para condições ou suposições no geral.

  • A questão requer o uso de conectivos, também conhecidos como linking words. 

    O conectivo que tem o mesmo sentido de "whether" é "if"Ambos significam "se"

    "to decide whether (if)  we should have a government."  (para decidir se devemos ter um governo.)

    As outras alternativas são: 

    B) enquanto.
    C) ainda.
    D) preferiria.
    E) para

    Gabarito do Professor: A