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O que Mary Hallan Fiorito viu na missa — Fuvest 2000

CHICAGO, July 29 – On a Sunday morning at a Roman Catholic church here, Mary Hallan Fiorito glanced at a nearby pew to see a woman drinking a can of Coke at Mass. At a musical in a Broadway theater, Alex Wang turned to the row behind him to discover people eating corn on the cob. In schools that once forbade chewing gum, students now bring doughnuts and candy to class – along with chewing gum. Americans seem to be eating all the time, and wherever they please. “Consumers now see eating as something to be done while you do something else,” said Bobby Calder, a marketing professor at Northwestern University. “Everybody wants to save time by multitasking. So you don’t just sit down and eat. You eat while you work, while you’re watching TV, while you drive.” The automobile, among the favorite places for people to snack, is well on its way to becoming a rolling dining room. A car is scarcely considered worth driving now without cup holders in the front and back. Some cars now have refrigerated glove-boxes. And within the next six months, the Samsung Corporation plans to market the first microwave for cars and mini-vans. The microwave will plug into the cigarette lighter.

THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1999

Fonte: The New York Times, 30 July 1999.

According to the passage, Mary Hallan Fiorito

  1. A) was sitting in the back row of a Roman Catholic Church when she saw a woman drinking a Coke beside her.
  2. B) caught sight of a woman drinking a Coke while attending Mass in a Roman Catholic Church.
  3. C) was standing nearby a Roman Catholic Church when a woman drinking a Coke glanced at her.
  4. D) was attending Mass at a Roman Catholic Church when a woman drinking a Coke stared at her.
  5. E) was drinking a Coke at Mass when she noticed that a woman standing nearby was watching her.
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Resposta correta: B

A frase de abertura resolve tudo: “Mary Hallan Fiorito glanced at a nearby pew to see a woman drinking a can of Coke at Mass”. Pew é o banco da igreja, então ela estava na missa, olhou para um banco próximo e deu com uma mulher bebendo refrigerante — exatamente a alternativa B, em que caught sight of significa “avistou”. D é o distrator mais perigoso porque mantém o cenário certo, mas inverte a direção do olhar: quem olhou foi Fiorito, e a mulher não a encarou. E é a mesma inversão aplicada ao refrigerante, colocando a Coca-Cola na mão errada. A inventa a última fileira, detalhe que o texto não dá, e C tira Fiorito de dentro da igreja, contrariando o at Mass.

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