The Third Coffee Shop: o que se perde quando a rua melhora (B2)
My street acquired its third coffee shop last month, and I am told that this is called improvement. The pavement is certainly cleaner. The bakery that sold bread at seven in the morning to people going to work has become a place selling pastries at eleven to people photographing them. Nobody forced anyone out; the rent simply rose until the arithmetic stopped working, which is a quieter mechanism and much harder to protest against. I want to be fair. The street was not a paradise before, and some of my nostalgia is really nostalgia for being younger. But a neighbourhood is not only a set of buildings; it is a network of people who know each other's routines. That network is expensive to build, impossible to buy, and remarkably easy to dismantle by accident.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
Nesse texto, o autor sustenta que a transformação de sua rua
- A) ocorreu porque os antigos moradores foram formalmente obrigados a deixar seus imóveis.
- B) representa uma melhoria evidente, da qual apenas sua nostalgia pessoal o afasta.
- C) dissolve laços de convivência difíceis de reconstruir, mesmo sem expulsão explícita de ninguém.
- D) deve-se principalmente ao novo horário de funcionamento adotado pelas padarias.
- E) poderia ser revertida caso o aluguel dos imóveis retornasse ao valor anterior.