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Woodstock como pombo-correio, no irreal do passado (Mackenzie 2009)

Tira do Peanuts em quatro quadrinhos, em preto e branco. Snoopy, de pé junto à casinha, diz a Woodstock: "Woodstock, you’d have made a great carrier pigeon! You could have carried messages back to headquarters...". Em seguida: "If you were captured, you would refuse to talk even if you were tortured!". No terceiro quadrinho, Woodstock desaba de costas com o efeito sonoro "Klunk!". No quarto, Snoopy emenda: "Well, maybe you could talk a little...". [Assinatura de Schulz, a data 6-7 e o crédito Charles M. Schulz abaixo da tira.]

Fonte: Mackenzie 2009.

According to Snoopy,

  1. A) Woodstock used to carry messages to headquarters.
  2. B) Woodstock could have been a carrier pigeon.
  3. C) Woodstock was brave and didn't talk even when he was tortured.
  4. D) Woodstock could talk a little when he was small.
  5. E) Woodstock has never been captured by the enemies.
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Resposta correta: B

Tudo o que Snoopy diz está no campo do irreal: “you’d have made a great carrier pigeon!” e “You could have carried messages back to headquarters...” descrevem o que Woodstock teria sido, não o que foi. O distrator mais forte dá a bravura por fato consumado, apoiado em “you would refuse to talk even if you were tortured!”; a frase é hipótese, e o próprio Snoopy recua depois do tombo: “Well, maybe you could talk a little...”.

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As pressões sociais sobre meninos e meninas (ITA 2001)

Considere as afirmações a seguir: I. Os personagens estão discutindo pressões sociais sobre as crianças. II. Para manter a forma física, meninos devem praticar esportes e fazer dieta. III. Meninos praticam esportes para que, na vida adulta, possam beber cerveja à vontade. Está(ão) condizente(s) com o texto:

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