Questão 3206182

• Banca: VUNESP
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Rio Claro - SP
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: VUNESP - 2016 - Prefeitura de Rio Claro - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Vocabulário | Vocabulary

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Trial with migrants

        The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is against migration there. He says that the EU risks losing another country if the migration is not stopped. Nine men were sentenced to nearly a year in jail; however, they were released at the judge’s discretion due to time already served. One of the group was kept behind bars after receiving a three-year sentence for issuing instructions to the rioters through a loudspeaker. After the trial, a United Nations spokesman said that he was worried that a country would criminalize people who are fleeing war zones.

(www.ondemandnews.com – Adaptado)

No trecho – due to time already served –, a expressão em destaque pode ser substituída, sem alteração do sentido do texto, por

• A. despite.
• B. as a consequence of.
• C. as a condition of.
• D. in the meantime.
• E. because of.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• Due to the bad weather, the match was cancelled. [Devido ao mau tempo, o jogo foi cancelado] // ‘due to‘, ‘owing to‘ e ‘because of‘ são expressões [preposições] sinônimas. Logo, significam a mesma coisa: ‘devido a‘, ‘por causa de‘.