Questões de Vestibular de Inglês - Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects
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TEXTO I
Little Boy: What does your Daddy do?
Little Girl: Whatever my Momma tells him.
(JANSSEN, Arlo T. International Stories.
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1981.)
TEXTO II
George: Which candidate is your wife going to vote for?
Herman: Oh, she’ll vote for the same one I do.
George: Which one is that? Herman: I don’t know yet. She’s going to tell me
tomorrow.
(JANSSEN, Arlo T. International Stories.
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1981.)
You Can Blame the Bugs
The West epitomizes individualistic, do-your-own-thing cultures, ones where the rights of the individual equal and often trump those of the group and where differences are valued. East Asian societies exalt the larger society; behavior is constrained by social roles, conformity is prized, outsiders shunned. […] But the reason a society falls where it does on the individualism-collectivism spectrum has been pretty much a mystery. Now a team of researchers has come up with a surprising explanation: disease-causing microbes. Societies that evolved in places with an abundance of pathogens, they argue, had to adopt behaviors that add up to collectivism, for reasons of sheer preservation. Societies that arose in places with fewer pathogens had the luxury of individualism, which is less effective at limiting the spread of disease but brings with it other social benefits, such as innovation. […]
Written in March
The cock is crowing,
The relative pronoun “whom” (line 31) is used instead of “who” because it comes after preposition.