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A que se refere o pronome “another” (Fuvest 2010)

[Imagem que abre o texto: capa/abertura de reportagem da revista The Economist, de 14 de março de 2009, com o título “Briefing Unemployment”; ilustração mostra uma multidão de pessoas enfileiradas atrás de grades metálicas, como numa fila de desempregados.]

Last month America’s unemployment rate climbed to 8,1%, the highest in a quarter of a century. For those newly out of a job, the chances of finding another soon are the worst since records began 50 years ago. In China 20m 5 migrant workers (maybe 3% of the labour force) have been laid off. Cambodia’s textile industry, its main source of exports, has cut one worker in ten. In Spain the building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds in a year, to 14.8% in January. And in Japan, where 10 official unemployment used to be all but unknown, tens of thousands of people on temporary contracts are losing not just their jobs but also the housing provided by their employers. The next phase of the world’s economic downturn is 15 taking shape: a global jobs crisis. Its contours are only just becoming clear, but the severity, breadth and likely length of the recession, together with changes in the structure of labour markets in both rich and emerging economies, suggest the world is about to undergo its biggest increase 20 in unemployment for decades.

The Economist, March 14th 2009.

Fonte: The Economist, March 14th 2009.

O pronome “another” (L. 3) na sentença “...the chances of finding another...” refere-se a

  1. A) país.
  2. B) trabalhador.
  3. C) emprego.
  4. D) oportunidade.
  5. E) recorde.
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Resposta correta: C

A linha 3 traz “For those newly out of a job, the chances of finding another soon are the worst since records began”: quem acabou de ficar sem emprego tem pouca chance de achar outro, então “another” retoma “a job” — alternativa C. “Another” exige um substantivo contável no singular já citado, e o único candidato imediatamente anterior é “job”. B troca quem procura pelo que se procura: “those newly out of a job” são as pessoas, mas o que elas tentam encontrar é emprego. D é tentadora porque a ideia de oportunidade está embutida em “chances”, mas “chances” é o núcleo do sujeito da frase, não o antecedente do pronome; e “records” (E) vem depois de “another” e está no plural.

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