Questão 4870153

• Banca: UFPR
• Órgão: PM-PR
• Ano: 2017
• Provas: UFPR - 2017 - PM-PR - Aspirante da Polícia Militar
• 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

Comentários

• GAB C

  People in different countries react differently to going over time in talks based on cultural backgrounds.

  Pessoas em países diferentes reagem de maneira diferente ao longo do tempo em conversas com base em origens culturais.

  Difficulty interpreting what I have come to call ‘Ahorita Time’ is a reflection of different cultural understandings of time.

  A dificuldade de interpretar o que passei a chamar de "Tempo Ahorita" é um reflexo de diferentes entendimentos culturais do tempo.

  Vejamos, que as pessoas de outras cidades têm dificuldades de entender as diferentes culturas.