(ITA - 2005 - 1 FASE )As questes de 11 a 17 refere

(ITA - 2005 - 1 FASE ) As questões de 11 a 17 referem-se aos seguintes parágrafos:

1 The smaller boys were known by the generic title

of “littluns”. The decrease in size, from Ralph down, was

gradual; and though there was a dubious region inhabited by

Simon and Robert and Maurice, nevertheless no one had any

5 difficulty in recognizing biguns at one end and littluns at the

other. The undoubted liltluns, those aged about six, led a

quite distinct, and at the same time intense, life of their own.

They ate most of the day, picking fruit where they could reach

it and not particular about ripeness and quality. They were

0 used now to stomach-aches and a sort of chronic diarrhoea.

They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for

comfort. Apart from food and sleep, they found time for

play, aimless and trivial, among the white sand by the bright

water. They cried for their mothers much less often than

15 might have been expected; they were very brown, and filthily

dirty. They obeyed the summons of the conch, partly because

Ralph blew it, and he was big enough to be a link with the

adult world of authority; and partly because they enjoyed the

entertainment of the assemblies. But otherwise they seldom

20 bothered with the biguns and their passionately emotional

and corporate life was their own.

They had built castles in the sand at the bar of the

little river. These castles were about one foot high and were

decorated with shells, withered flowers, and interesting

25 stones. Round the castles was a complex of marks, tracks,

walls, railway lines, that were of significance only if inspected

with the eye at beach-level. The littluns played here, if not

happily at least with absorbed attention; and often as many as

three of them would play the same game together.

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Os termos “withered” em “withered flowers” (linha 14): “railway lines” (linha 15): “absorbed” em “absorbed attention” (linha 16) e “often” em “and often as many as three of them” ( linha 16) têm, respectivamente, as funções gramaticais de