Bats: inversão com no sooner... than (C1)
Bats have long been the beneficiaries of indifference. Nocturnal, unglamorous and difficult to count, they attracted little popular attention and correspondingly little persecution. That changed when virologists began tracing several emerging pathogens to bat reservoirs. ___ the association entered general circulation than culls were reported in caves across three continents, sometimes organised by local authorities and sometimes improvised by frightened residents. Ecologists responded with two arguments. The first was practical: destroying a colony disperses its survivors, increasing rather than reducing contact with people. The second was economic: insectivorous bats suppress crop pests at a value estimated in the billions annually, and their pollination of agave and durian sustains entire industries. Neither argument travels well through fear. What the episode revealed is less about zoonosis than about the machinery of public response, which reliably converts a statistical risk into a visible enemy and then destroys the enemy at a cost nobody troubles to calculate until the harvest fails.
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Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente a lacuna do texto.
- A) No sooner did
- B) Hardly had
- C) No sooner had
- D) No sooner
- E) Not sooner had