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Q587690 Inglês

                                                      GM wheat no more

                                 pest-resistant than ordinary crops, trial shows

GM wheat designed to repel aphids is no more effective at repelling the bugs than standard varieties a major field trial has revealed

                                               

Ian Sample

June 25, 2015

      A major field trial of GM wheat that is designed to repel aphids (small insects) has found the crop is no better protected against the pests than conventional wheat. The results come from two years of trials that compared aphid attacks on standard wheat plants with those suffered by a GM version modified to release a natural aphid repellent.

      Scientists created the GM wheat strain in the hope that it would deter aphids, which devour the crops and can leave them with infections. They modified the wheat to produce a natural pheromone which aphids release when under attack from predators. The “aphid alarm” makes the bugs flee to safety. Aphids are not the only organisms that release the odour though. More than 400 plants have evolved to secrete the same substance, called E-betafarnesene, or EBF, including peppermint. The chemical doubles up as an attractant for some insects that kill aphids, such as parasitic wasps.

      Prior to the field trial, lab tests at Rothamsted found that the pheromone worked as a highly-effective aphid repellent. The work bolstered researchers’ hopes that the trial would demonstrate the crop’s resilience against aphids in the wild. An aphid-resistant wheat crop could have huge benefits for farmers and the environment because the plants would no longer need to be sprayed with insecticides.

      “The disappointing thing is that when we tested it in the field, we didn’t find any significant reduction in aphid settlement in the test plots,” said Toby Bruce, who worked on the trial. Details of the trial are published in the journal Scientific Reports.

                                                                                                   (www.theguardian.com. Adaptado.)

O trecho do terceiro parágrafo “An aphid-resistant wheat crop could have huge benefits for farmers and the environment because the plants would no longer need to be sprayed with insecticides.”
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Q587689 Inglês

                                                      GM wheat no more

                                 pest-resistant than ordinary crops, trial shows

GM wheat designed to repel aphids is no more effective at repelling the bugs than standard varieties a major field trial has revealed

                                               

Ian Sample

June 25, 2015

      A major field trial of GM wheat that is designed to repel aphids (small insects) has found the crop is no better protected against the pests than conventional wheat. The results come from two years of trials that compared aphid attacks on standard wheat plants with those suffered by a GM version modified to release a natural aphid repellent.

      Scientists created the GM wheat strain in the hope that it would deter aphids, which devour the crops and can leave them with infections. They modified the wheat to produce a natural pheromone which aphids release when under attack from predators. The “aphid alarm” makes the bugs flee to safety. Aphids are not the only organisms that release the odour though. More than 400 plants have evolved to secrete the same substance, called E-betafarnesene, or EBF, including peppermint. The chemical doubles up as an attractant for some insects that kill aphids, such as parasitic wasps.

      Prior to the field trial, lab tests at Rothamsted found that the pheromone worked as a highly-effective aphid repellent. The work bolstered researchers’ hopes that the trial would demonstrate the crop’s resilience against aphids in the wild. An aphid-resistant wheat crop could have huge benefits for farmers and the environment because the plants would no longer need to be sprayed with insecticides.

      “The disappointing thing is that when we tested it in the field, we didn’t find any significant reduction in aphid settlement in the test plots,” said Toby Bruce, who worked on the trial. Details of the trial are published in the journal Scientific Reports.

                                                                                                   (www.theguardian.com. Adaptado.)

The field tests with the GM wheat proved ineffective because
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Q587688 Inglês

                                                      GM wheat no more

                                 pest-resistant than ordinary crops, trial shows

GM wheat designed to repel aphids is no more effective at repelling the bugs than standard varieties a major field trial has revealed

                                               

Ian Sample

June 25, 2015

      A major field trial of GM wheat that is designed to repel aphids (small insects) has found the crop is no better protected against the pests than conventional wheat. The results come from two years of trials that compared aphid attacks on standard wheat plants with those suffered by a GM version modified to release a natural aphid repellent.

      Scientists created the GM wheat strain in the hope that it would deter aphids, which devour the crops and can leave them with infections. They modified the wheat to produce a natural pheromone which aphids release when under attack from predators. The “aphid alarm” makes the bugs flee to safety. Aphids are not the only organisms that release the odour though. More than 400 plants have evolved to secrete the same substance, called E-betafarnesene, or EBF, including peppermint. The chemical doubles up as an attractant for some insects that kill aphids, such as parasitic wasps.

      Prior to the field trial, lab tests at Rothamsted found that the pheromone worked as a highly-effective aphid repellent. The work bolstered researchers’ hopes that the trial would demonstrate the crop’s resilience against aphids in the wild. An aphid-resistant wheat crop could have huge benefits for farmers and the environment because the plants would no longer need to be sprayed with insecticides.

      “The disappointing thing is that when we tested it in the field, we didn’t find any significant reduction in aphid settlement in the test plots,” said Toby Bruce, who worked on the trial. Details of the trial are published in the journal Scientific Reports.

                                                                                                   (www.theguardian.com. Adaptado.)

O objetivo do experimento com trigo geneticamente modificado foi
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                                    Genetically modified foods

      Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally, e.g. through the introduction of a gene from a different organism. Currently available GM foods stem mostly from plants, but in the future foods derived from GM microorganisms or GM animals are likely to be introduced on the market. Most existing genetically modified crops have been developed to improve yield, through the introduction of resistance to plant diseases or of increased tolerance of herbicides.

      In the future, genetic modification could be aimed at altering the nutrient content of food, reducing its allergenic potential, or improving the efficiency of food production systems. All GM foods should be assessed before being allowed on the market. FAO/WHO Codex guidelines exist for risk analysis of GM food.

                                                                                                                                    (www.who.int)

De acordo com o texto, uma das vantagens dos produtos agrícolas geneticamente modificados existentes é que esses produtos
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                                    Genetically modified foods

      Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally, e.g. through the introduction of a gene from a different organism. Currently available GM foods stem mostly from plants, but in the future foods derived from GM microorganisms or GM animals are likely to be introduced on the market. Most existing genetically modified crops have been developed to improve yield, through the introduction of resistance to plant diseases or of increased tolerance of herbicides.

      In the future, genetic modification could be aimed at altering the nutrient content of food, reducing its allergenic potential, or improving the efficiency of food production systems. All GM foods should be assessed before being allowed on the market. FAO/WHO Codex guidelines exist for risk analysis of GM food.

                                                                                                                                    (www.who.int)

According to the text, genetically modified foods
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Q587683 Inglês

Examine o quadrinho para responder à questão.

                                    

O trecho “Isn’t genetic engineering amazing?” sugere que a mulher
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Q587681 Inglês

Examine o cartum.

Imagem associada para resolução da questão

The cartoon means that

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TEXTO 5

      NA VIRADA DO SÉCULO, o biólogo Roosmarc conheceu o ápice da fama ao descobrir um novo gênero de primata: o sagui-anão-de-coroa-preta. Foi considerado pela revista Time o grande herói do planeta. Entre os mais de 500 primatas no mundo, Roosmarc descobrira o Callibella humilis, o macaquinho mais saltitante e alegre, anãozinho, com aquela coroa preta. Enquanto outros primatólogos matavam os animais para descrevê-los, dissecando-os em laboratórios, longe da Amazônia, ele criava macacos em sua casa. Esperava que morressem de forma natural e, aí sim, dissecava-os.

      O sagui-anão-de-coroa-preta foi a sensação mundial. Então, ele viveu o ápice da glória. As publicações científicas não se cansaram de elogiá-lo. Quase todos os dias, jornais e revistas estampavam: “Protetor dos animais”, “O bandeirantes da Amazônia”, “O último primatólogo”. De Manaus para o mundo. Os ribeirinhos o saudavam; os políticos o pajeavam; os estudantes de biologia o veneravam. Sim, Roosmarc era visto e considerado como herói do planeta.

      Vida simples, com suas vestes quase sempre largas cobrindo o corpo magro e alto, enfiado semanas na floresta, nunca quisera dinheiro, jamais almejara fortuna. O verdadeiro cientista, dizia, quer, antes de tudo, reconhecimento. Não havia prêmio maior do que isso. Sequer gastava o que ganhava. Aprendera com os bichos que, na vida, não se precisa de muitas coisas...

      Nascera no sul da Holanda e, aos 17 anos, mudou-se para Amsterdã. Queria estudar biologia. Nos fins do ano 60, a cidade fervilhava, era a capital da contestação. John Lennon e Yoko Ono haviam escolhido a cidade para protestar contra a Guerra do Vietnã. Os rebeldes desfilavam pelas ruas, enquanto John Lennon e Yoko Ono incitavam a quebra de valores deitados uma semana num hotel da cidade, consumindo droga e criando suas canções. O gosto pela contracultura crescia, agigantava-se. Rebelde, Roosmarc desfilava pelas ruas, gritando pela paz, também queimando maconha e outras ervas.

      Mas foi, nesta época, que ele se interessou pelos primatas. Depois que terminou a universidade, fez amizade com uma estudante, que também saboreava a contracultura, o desprezo a normas e procedimentos, e com ela, vivendo um romance apaixonado, deu volta ao mundo, como se fosse o famigerado navegante português Vasco da Gama. Estudante de artes plásticas, Marie tinha sede por aventuras: o novo lhe apetecia; o velho não era mais do que um mundo cinzento. A Europa, com seus prédios cinzentos e frios, uma população resignada, não lhe apetecia. Queria quebrar barreiras, outras fronteiras. Não queria apodrecer naquelas cidadezinhas holandesas, onde as mulheres envelheciam rapidamente e só cuidavam de casa. Não queria se transformar num símbolo de cama, fogão e igreja. Menosprezava o título “rainha do lar”, que os pastores tanto veneravam entre a população fiel. Tinha horror ao ver sua mãe de lenço na cabeça e avental cobrindo a gordura da barriga. Se ficasse numa daquelas cidadezinhas, em poucos anos estaria como a mãe – brigava constantemente com o seu pai, saía de casa aos domingos para assistir a mesmice do partor Simeão, e que, rapidamente, voltava para casa para preparar o almoço para os filhos. Que destino! A liberdade a chamava. Não era o que dizia a canção de John Lennon? Ao conhecer Roosmarc, o desejo por aventuras avivou como brasa viva. Quando convidada para segui-lo, e ela queria produzir desenhos e aquarelas jamais vistas no mundo, não titubeou, como se a oportunidade fosse um cavalo encilhado. E cavalo encilhado passa por nós somente uma vez ...

                     (GONÇALVES, David. Sangue verde. Joinville: Sucesso Pocket, 2014. p. 200-201.Adaptado.)

From the following options, choose the one which is correct according to Text 5:
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Titles of books might help readers create images in their minds.

The title of Angelou’s book which contains an image that relates directly to confinement is:

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Maya Angelou’s strategy to deal with racial injustice in America was to call it by its right name (l. 13-14).

The action that best shows her adoption of such strategy is:

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Maya Angelou was a writer of both poetry and prose.

According to the text, she wrote the following types of prose:

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Q583780 Inglês

I loved and admired Angelou, (l. 9)

The fragment above hints at the purpose of the text, which is an exemplar of genre known as eulogy.

The purpose of this genre can be described as:

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Working for on demand startups like Uber and TaskRabbit is supposed to offer flexible hours and higher wages, but many workers have found the pay lower and the hours less flexible than they expected. Even more surprising: 8 percent of those chauffeuring passengers and 16 percent of those making deliveries said they lack personal autoinsurance.

Those are among the findings from a survey about the work life of independent contractors for on-demand startups, a booming sector of the tech industry, being released Wednesday.

"We want to shed light on the industry as a whole," said Isaac Madan, a Stanford master's candidate in bioinformatics who worked with two other Stanford students and a recent alumnus on the survey of 1,330 workers. "People need to understand how this space will change and evolve and help the economy."

On-demand, often called the sharing economy, refers to companies that let users summon workers via smartphone apps to handle all manner of services: rides, cleaning, chores, deliveries, car parking, waiting in lines. Almost uniformly, those workers are independent contractors rather than salaried employees.

That status is the main point of contention in a recent rash of lawsuits in which workers are filing for employee status. While the survey did not directly ask

contractors if they would prefer to be employees, it found that their top workplace desires were to have paid health insurance, retirement benefits and paid time off for holidays, vacation and sick days - all perks of full time workers. Respondents also expressed interest in having more chances for advancement, education sponsorship, disability insurance and human relations support. Because respondents were recruited rather than randomly selected, the survey does not claim to be representational but a conclusion one may come to is that flexibility ofnew jobs comes with a cost. Not all workers are prepared for that!


SFChronicle.com and SFGate.com, May 20, 2015. Adaptado

Outro resultado da mesma pesquisa indica que
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Working for on demand startups like Uber and TaskRabbit is supposed to offer flexible hours and higher wages, but many workers have found the pay lower and the hours less flexible than they expected. Even more surprising: 8 percent of those chauffeuring passengers and 16 percent of those making deliveries said they lack personal autoinsurance.

Those are among the findings from a survey about the work life of independent contractors for on-demand startups, a booming sector of the tech industry, being released Wednesday.

"We want to shed light on the industry as a whole," said Isaac Madan, a Stanford master's candidate in bioinformatics who worked with two other Stanford students and a recent alumnus on the survey of 1,330 workers. "People need to understand how this space will change and evolve and help the economy."

On-demand, often called the sharing economy, refers to companies that let users summon workers via smartphone apps to handle all manner of services: rides, cleaning, chores, deliveries, car parking, waiting in lines. Almost uniformly, those workers are independent contractors rather than salaried employees.

That status is the main point of contention in a recent rash of lawsuits in which workers are filing for employee status. While the survey did not directly ask

contractors if they would prefer to be employees, it found that their top workplace desires were to have paid health insurance, retirement benefits and paid time off for holidays, vacation and sick days - all perks of full time workers. Respondents also expressed interest in having more chances for advancement, education sponsorship, disability insurance and human relations support. Because respondents were recruited rather than randomly selected, the survey does not claim to be representational but a conclusion one may come to is that flexibility ofnew jobs comes with a cost. Not all workers are prepared for that!


SFChronicle.com and SFGate.com, May 20, 2015. Adaptado

Um dos resultados da pesquisa realizada com prestadores de serviços de empresas do tipo "on-demand" mostra que esses trabalhadores
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Working for on demand startups like Uber and TaskRabbit is supposed to offer flexible hours and higher wages, but many workers have found the pay lower and the hours less flexible than they expected. Even more surprising: 8 percent of those chauffeuring passengers and 16 percent of those making deliveries said they lack personal autoinsurance.

Those are among the findings from a survey about the work life of independent contractors for on-demand startups, a booming sector of the tech industry, being released Wednesday.

"We want to shed light on the industry as a whole," said Isaac Madan, a Stanford master's candidate in bioinformatics who worked with two other Stanford students and a recent alumnus on the survey of 1,330 workers. "People need to understand how this space will change and evolve and help the economy."

On-demand, often called the sharing economy, refers to companies that let users summon workers via smartphone apps to handle all manner of services: rides, cleaning, chores, deliveries, car parking, waiting in lines. Almost uniformly, those workers are independent contractors rather than salaried employees.

That status is the main point of contention in a recent rash of lawsuits in which workers are filing for employee status. While the survey did not directly ask

contractors if they would prefer to be employees, it found that their top workplace desires were to have paid health insurance, retirement benefits and paid time off for holidays, vacation and sick days - all perks of full time workers. Respondents also expressed interest in having more chances for advancement, education sponsorship, disability insurance and human relations support. Because respondents were recruited rather than randomly selected, the survey does not claim to be representational but a conclusion one may come to is that flexibility ofnew jobs comes with a cost. Not all workers are prepared for that!


SFChronicle.com and SFGate.com, May 20, 2015. Adaptado

Segundo o texto, empresas do tipo "on-demand"
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About half of the world's population is at risk of contracting dengue, according to the World Health Organization. The mosquito is found in tropical and subtropical climates around the world; however, dengue does not naturally occur in these creatures: the mosquitoes get dengue from us.
The mechanism of dengue infection is simple. Female mosquitoes bite humans because they need the protein found in our blood to produce eggs. (Male mosquitoes do not bite.) Ifthe mosquito bites someone with dengue - and then, after the virus's roughly eight- to 12-day replication period, bites someone else - it passes dengue into its next victim's bloodstream.
There is no vaccine against dengue, but infecting mosquitoes with a natural bacterium called Wolbachia blocks the insects' ability to pass the disease to humans. The microbe spreads among both male and female mosquitoes: infected females lay eggs that harbor the bacterium, and when Wolbachia-free females mate with infected males, their eggs simply do not hatch. Researchers are now releasing Wolbachia infected females into the wild in Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Brazil.

Scientific American, June 2015, Adaptado.
Segundo o texto, a bactéria Wolbachia, se inoculada nos mosquitos, bloqueia a transmissão da dengue porque
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About half of the world's population is at risk of contracting dengue, according to the World Health Organization. The mosquito is found in tropical and subtropical climates around the world; however, dengue does not naturally occur in these creatures: the mosquitoes get dengue from us.
The mechanism of dengue infection is simple. Female mosquitoes bite humans because they need the protein found in our blood to produce eggs. (Male mosquitoes do not bite.) Ifthe mosquito bites someone with dengue - and then, after the virus's roughly eight- to 12-day replication period, bites someone else - it passes dengue into its next victim's bloodstream.
There is no vaccine against dengue, but infecting mosquitoes with a natural bacterium called Wolbachia blocks the insects' ability to pass the disease to humans. The microbe spreads among both male and female mosquitoes: infected females lay eggs that harbor the bacterium, and when Wolbachia-free females mate with infected males, their eggs simply do not hatch. Researchers are now releasing Wolbachia infected females into the wild in Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Brazil.

Scientific American, June 2015, Adaptado.
De acordo com o texto, a infecção por dengue
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Machiavellianism" is a ...... used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described in The Prince. The book itself gained enormous notoriety and wide readership because most readers assumed the author was teaching and endorsing evil and immoral behavior. Because of this, the term "Machiavellian" is often associated with deceit, deviousness, ambition, and brutality. However that was Machiavelli's stylistic device to gain the reader's attention for his close analysis of the actual techniques used by rulers.

(Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3% B2_Machiavelli)

Machiavelli’s actual purpose in writing The Prince was to

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TEXTO 8

CAPÍTULO XVIII

Rubião e o cachorro, entrando em casa, sentiram, ouviram a pessoa e as vozes do finado amigo. Enquanto o cachorro farejava por toda a parte, Rubião foi sentar-se na cadeira, onde estivera quando Quincas Borba referiu a morte da avó com explicações científicas. A memória dele recompôs, ainda que de embrulho e esgarçadamente, os argumentos do filósofo. Pela primeira vez, atentou bem na alegoria das tribos famintas e compreendeu a conclusão: “Ao vencedor, as batatas!”. Ouviu distintamente a voz roufenha do finado expor a situação das tribos, a luta e a razão da luta, o extermínio de uma e a vitória da outra, e murmurou baixinho:

— Ao vencedor, as batatas! 

     Tão simples! tão claro! Olhou para as calças de brim surrado e o rodaque cerzido, e notou que até há pouco fora, por assim dizer, um exterminado, uma bolha; mas que ora não, era um vencedor. Não havia dúvida; as batatas fizeram-se para a tribo que elimina a outra a fim de transpor a montanha e ir às batatas do outro lado. Justamente o seu caso. Ia descer de Barbacena para arrancar e comer as batatas da capital. Cumpria-lhe ser duro e implacável, era poderoso e forte. E levantando-se de golpe, alvoroçado, ergueu os braços exclamando: 

— Ao vencedor, as batatas!

      Gostava da fórmula, achava-a engenhosa, compendiosa e eloquente, além de verdadeira e profunda. Ideou as batatas em suas várias formas, classificou-as pelo sabor, pelo aspecto, pelo poder nutritivo, fartou- -se antemão do banquete da vida. Era tempo de acabar com as raízes pobres e secas, que apenas enganavam o estômago, triste comida de longos anos; agora o farto, o sólido, o perpétuo, comer até morrer, e morrer em colchas de seda, que é melhor que trapos. E voltava à afirmação de ser duro e implacável, e à fórmula da alegoria. Chegou a compor de cabeça um sinete para seu uso, com este lema: AO VENCEDOR AS BATATAS. 

    Esqueceu o projeto do sinete; mas a fórmula viveu no espírito de Rubião, por alguns dias: — Ao vencedor as batatas! Não a compreenderia antes do testamento; ao contrário, vimos que a achou obscura e sem explicação. Tão certo é que a paisagem depende do ponto de vista, e que o melhor modo de apreciar o chicote é ter-lhe o cabo na mão.

(ASSIS, Machado de. Quincas Borba. São Paulo: Ática, 2011. p. 38-39.)

    In Text 8, the expression “Ao vencedor as batatas" is similar in meaning to the English expression “To the victor belong the spoils". Published originally only four years after the official end of slavery in Brazil, when we consider the last part of the excerpt from Quincas Borba, “Tão certo é que a paisagem depende do ponto de vista, e que o melhor modo de apreciar o chicote é ter-lhe o cabo na mão", we note a sociopolitical undertone to the text.

    Reflecting upon the idea that we understand literature through society, and society through its literature, which of the texts below gives us a similar window on the historical moment of slavery throughout the Americas?

I - “There was much activity in the year – men unhitching horses, curious children scurrying about, Romero assigning quarters to the new slaves [...] Never known for patience, Romero snatched his whip and swung it overhead. But his hand froze in midair, the whip swinging impotently in the morning breeze" (Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma. Daughters of the stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. p. 6.).

II - “They unhitched from schoolteacher's horse the borrowed mule that was to carry the fugitive woman back to where she belonged, and tied it to the fence […] All testimony to the results of a little so-called freedom imposed on people who needed every care and guidance in the world to keep them from the cannibal life they preferred" (Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Vintage Books, 1987. p. 177.).

III - “What fueled those who were leaving was less fear of communism, which Fidel had only hinted at at that point, or shortages of any kind, because the U.S. embargo was still a distant concern, but the persistent rumors of invasions and imminent combat that were sweeping Havana" (Obejas, Achy. Days of awe. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. p. 6.). 

Choose from the following options:


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Q534004 Inglês
TEXTO 5

    TODO PIONEIRO É UM FORTE, pensava Bambico. Acredita nos sonhos. Se não fosse por ele, o mundo ainda estaria no tempo das cavernas... Quanto mais pensava nisso, mais se fortalecia. 

     Bambico chegara à Amazônia com as mãos vazias, vindo do Sul. Mas tinha na cabeça projetos grandiosos. Queria extrair da natureza toda a riqueza intacta, como o garimpeiro faz. Não desejava, entretanto, cavar rio e terra para achar pepitas de ouro. Não tinha vocação para tatu. Não faria como os garimpeiros: quando não havia mais nada, eles se mudavam, atrás de outros garimpos.

    — Garimpeiro vive de ilusões. Eu gosto de projetos! 

    Que projetos grandiosos eram? Cortar árvores, exportar madeiras preciosas para a casa e a mobília dos ricos. Em seguida, semear capim, povoando os campos com as boiadas de nelore brilhando de tanta saúde. A riqueza estava acima do chão. A imensidão verde desaparecia no horizonte. Só de olhar para uma árvore, sabia quantos dólares cairia em seus bolsos. Quando ouvia os roncos das motosserras, costumava dizer, orgulhoso: 

    — Eis o barulho da fortuna! 

    Montes de serragem eram avistados de longe quando o visitante chegava às pequenas comunidades. Os caminhões de toras gemiam nas estradas esburacadas. Índios e caboclos eram afugentados à bala. A floresta se transformava num pó fino, que logo apodrecia. Quando os montes de serragem não apodreciam, eram queimados, sempre apressadamente. Por dias, os canudos negros de fumaça subindo pesadamente ao céu. Havia o medo dos fiscais. Quando apareciam, quase nunca eram vistos, era conveniente que houvesse pouca serragem...

    Que história, a de Bambico! Teria muita coisa a contar para os netos que haveriam de chegar. 

    Em seu escritório, fumando um Havana, que um importador americano lhe presenteara, estufou o peito, vaidoso. 

    — Sim, muitas coisas! Quem te viu, quem te vê!

    [...]

    Sentia prazer com seus projetos grandiosos. Toda manhã se levantava para conquistar o mundo. Vereança era merreca. Não se rastejava em pequenos projetos. Muito menos desejava ser deputado... Ambicionava altos voos. Todo deputado era pau-mandado dos ricos. O Senado, sim, era o grande alvo. Lá, ele poderia afrontar esses “falsos profetas protetores da natureza". Essas ONGs de fachada... Lá, o seu cajado cairia sem dó, como um verdugo, sobre o costado dessa gente tola. Enquanto isso, ele poderia continuar seus projetos grandiosos. Cortar árvores, exportar madeiras preciosas para a casa e a mobília dos ricos, e semear capim. 

    Sonhara em ter uma dúzia de filhos, mas o destino lhe dera apenas dois. Sua mulher, após o segundo parto, ficara impossibilitada de procriar. Não queria fêmea entre os seus descendentes, mas logo no primeiro parto veio a decepção. Uma menina. Decepcionado, nada comentou com a esposa. No segundo, depois de uma gravidez tumultuada, veio o varão. Encheu-se de alegria. Com certeza, mais varões estavam para vir... [...]

                               (GONÇALVES, David. Sangue verde. São Paulo: Sucesso Pocket, 2014. p. 114-115.)


Pick out the sentence which is correct according to Text 5.
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Respostas
1581: A
1582: C
1583: C
1584: E
1585: A
1586: C
1587: B
1588: C
1589: C
1590: A
1591: D
1592: B
1593: B
1594: E
1595: B
1596: D
1597: A
1598: A
1599: A
1600: D