Questões de Inglês - UFRGS 2005 | Gabarito e resoluções

(UFRGS -2005) It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but I did not believe there would ever be future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened to me when I got there. As it turned out, I nearly did not make it. Little by little, I saw my money dwindle to zero; I lost my apartment; I wound up living in the streets. If not for a girl named Kitty Wu, I probably would have starved to death. I had met her by chance only a short time before, but 1eventually I came to see that chance as a form of readiness a way of saving myself through the minds of others. That was the first part.From then on, strange things happened to me. I took the job with the old man in the wheelchair. I found out who my father was. I walked across the desert from Utah to California. That was a long time ago, of course, but I remeber them as the beginning of my life. AUSTER, Paul. Moon Palace. Chatham, Kent: Faber Faber, 1989. p. 1. The word EVENTUALLY (ref. 1) could be substituted, without any change in meaning, by:

(Ufrgs 2005) Sydney Possuelo, a Brazilian jungle explorer, has recently been to London to receive the Royal Geographical Society gold medal, an annual (1)............. for "the encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery", which dates back to 1832.While one might think that in the 21st century there is not much of the world left to explore, this explorer has proved (2) otherwise. As the head of Brazil's Department for Isolates Indians, his job is discovering lost tribes. Searching carefully the Brazilian Amazon, he has estabilished the existance of more than 20 previously unknown groups of indigenous Indians and he believes there are more yet to be discovered.He made his first expedition into the Amazon in 1959. There he got to know the Indians and understood the terrible drama of their bad situation. Although a century ago the estabilished view was that Indians groups should be contacted for their own good, Possuelo saw what contact did. As well as being introduced to diseases, alcohol and firearms, Indians could not (3) cope with the culture shock and their communicaties were destroyed.Since 1986, when he founded the department for isolated Indians, Possuelo and his team of several men have aimed to find lost tribes (4) so that they can left alone. When a group is located, the area around them is demarcated to stop anyone enetering it. "I need to prove that they exist without making contact".(6) Possuelo 7is very grateful for (8) the gold medal. It's good for (9) his ego, he says, but most importantly it keeps up 10his international profile. 5This helps to raise money for his work. However, he is resigned to the fact that he is just buying the Indians time, as contact with the outside world is inevitable for them. "Yet I think that it is a useful way to spend your life. It's about human rights." Adapted from: The Times, 24 June 2004. A palavra OTHERWISE (ref. 2) poderia ser substituída, sem alteração do sentido contextual, por

(Ufrgs 2005) It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but I did not believe there would ever be future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened to me when I got there. As it turned out, I 1nearly did not make it. Little by little, I saw my money dwindle to zero; I lost my apartment; I wound up living in the streets. If not for a girl named Kitty Wu, I probably 2would have starved to death. 3I had met her by chance only a short time before, but 4eventually I came to see that chance as a form of readiness a way of saving myself through the minds of others. That was the first part. From then on, strange things happened to me. I took the job with the old man in the wheelchair. I found out who my father was. I walked across the desert from Utah to California. That was a long time ago, of course, but I remeber them as the beginning of my life. AUSTER, Paul. Moon Palace. Chatham, Kent: Faber & Faber, 1989. p. 1. The form WOULD HAVE STARVED (ref. 2) indicates a