Questão 5068561

• Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
• Órgão: SEED-PR
• Ano: 2021
• Provas: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEED-PR - Professor - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension; Vocabulário | Vocabulary

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    It was Maria’s first day at school, her first week in the United States. Her middle school in San Francisco was the biggest building she’d ever seen. It was bigger than the entire Best Buy store she’d walked through in awe on her first day in the city.

     Eventually, Maria found her way to class, a special setting for Spanish-speaking newcomers. There she would practice English words for colors and numbers, learn how to introduce herself and how to say thank you. By eighth grade she was moved into mainstream classes, where she struggled. It didn’t help that her math teacher started each class by saying, “Okay, my little dummies.” He spoke really fast. Maria never raised her hand in his class.

     One day Maria stopped by the administrative office, looking for someone to help her with multiplication. She took her spot in line behind a middle-aged woman who chatted with her in Spanish as they waited. Maria said school was really hard for her. The woman told her not to worry. “Latinas usually don’t finish high school,” she said. “They go to work or raise kids.”

     The woman was right, statistically speaking, and Maria’s middle-school experience all but ensured she’d join the 52 percent of foreign-born Latinos who drop out of high school. She graduated from eighth grade without learning to speak English. She had a hard time writing in Spanish and didn’t know how to multiply.

Everything you’ve heard about failing schools is wrong.

Internet: <www.motherjones.com> (adapted).

The expression “in awe” (in the second sentence of the first paragraph) indicates a feeling that is a mixture of

• A. hope and optimism.
• B. confusion and sadness.
• C. wonder and fear.
• D. curiosity and happiness.
• E. regret and disappointment.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• Nunca nem vi kkkk Fui pesquisar e o que encontrei bateu com o que eu previra pelo contexto.

  In awe é utilizado para significar "maravilhado, admirado"

  O que faz sentido, já que era o seu primeiro dia de aula, primeira semana nos EUA. O Prédio de sua escola era o maior que ela já viu. Enfim...tudo leva a entender que ela está animada.

  O gabarito está dizendo que quis dizer "desejo e medo" ??? Oi?

  Pra mim, deveria ser anulada.

  @francis.castiglione_

• No google tradutor a expressão "in awe" significa "em temor",

  logo a resposta C é realmente a mais adequada uma vez que

  wonder(maravilha) and fear(medo) faz sentido ao contexto de uma menina no

  seu primeiro dia de aula em uma cidade tão grande. Ela estava maravilhada e

  ao mesmo tempo com medo.

• Apesar de não impactar nada, disse estar na segunda, mas está na terceira.

• awe (noun)

  an emotion variously combining dread, , and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or .

  Source: Merriam Webster

• Olha só o que o Lexico by Oxford diz:

  Awe: A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.

• A questão requer conhecimento de vocabulário.
  A expressão “in awe" (admirado, impressionado) (na segunda frase do primeiro parágrafo) indica um sentimento que é uma mistura de
  A) esperança e otimismo.
  B) confusão e tristeza.
  C) admiração e medo.
  D) curiosidade e alegria.
  E) arrependimento e decepção.
  It was bigger than the entire Best Buy store she'd walked through in awe on her first day in the city.
  Era maior do que toda a loja Best Buy que ela, muito admirada (in awe) havia visitado em seu primeiro dia na cidade.
  
  Gabarito do Professor: Letra C.