A amiga que fretou um helicóptero pelo e-mail (Fuvest 2003)
[Ao lado do texto há uma ilustração colorida: um homem de rosto distorcido, com os olhos substituídos por ícones de mensagens, suando em frente a um computador portátil, enquanto uma caixa de e-mail com a palavra "Read" e o ícone de correio aparece na tela.]
I USED TO THINK I COULD quit checking my e-mail any time I wanted to, but I stopped kidding myself years ago. My e-mail program is up and running 24 hours a day, and once I submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet café. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth it. I know how she felt. You never know when you're going to get that note from Uncle Eric about your inheritance. Or that White House dinner invitation with a time-sensitive R.S.V.P.
TIME, JUNE 10, 2002
Fonte: TIME, 2002-06-10.
According to the passage, the writer's friend
- A) was flown to Panama because the cruise ship had made her feel sick.
- B) regretted having chartered a helicopter, after she checked her e-mail in the café.
- C) left the cruise ship on a helicopter sent by her uncle to check her e-mail in the nearest Internet café.
- D) was offered a helicopter to take her to Panama when her cruise ship was stuck.
- E) was glad she had left the cruise ship on a helicopter to check her e-mail in the café.