Helicopters: partícula precisa em phrasal verb (C2)
The aeroplane persuades; the helicopter argues. One shapes itself to the air and is carried, and the physics of that arrangement feel almost like consent. The other beats the air into temporary submission and stays up only for as long as the argument is maintained, which is why the machine feels less like a vehicle than like a position being held. Everything about it is provisional. Stop the engine on a wing and you have a glider and some time to think; stop it here and you have a negotiation with autorotation conducted at speed. And yet the helicopter does the work no wing can do: it goes to places that have no runway and no room, and it leaves with people who would otherwise have stayed. Watch a mountain rescue pilot set her ___ on a ledge the width of a kitchen table, in wind that arrives from three directions, and the abstraction dissolves. What looks like showmanship is arithmetic performed by hand, continuously, with no margin banked anywhere. The romance of flight belongs to the fixed wing. The helicopter has no romance. It has an argument, and it wins that argument several hundred times a day, and then lands.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente a lacuna do texto.
- A) off
- B) up
- C) out
- D) down
- E) over