Questão FC225135
Has Higgs been really discovered?
Interpretação de Textos (Understanding)
CESGRANRIO · 2012
Has Higgs been really discovered?
by Scientific American
Top physicists have recently reached a frenzy over the announcement that the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is planning to release what is widely expected to be tantalizing - although no conclusive - evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle hypothesized to be the origin of the mass of all matter.
Many physicists have already swung into action, swapping rumors about the contents of the announcement and proposing grand ideas about what those rumors would mean, if true. “It’s impossible to be excited enough,” says Gordon Kane, a theoretical physicist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
The spokespeople of the collaborations using the cathedral-size ATLAS and CMS detectors(a) to search for the Higgs boson and other phenomena(b) at the 27-kilometer-circumference proton accelerator of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are scheduled to present updates based on analyses of the data collected to date(c). “There won’t be a discovery announcement, but it does promise to be interesting(d), since there are rumors that scientists have seen hints of the elusive Higgs boson(e)” says James Gillies, spokesperson for CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), which hosts the LHC.
Joe Lykken, a theoretical physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill, and a member of the CMS collaboration, says: “Whatever happens eventually with the Higgs, I think we’ll look back on this meeting and say. ‘This was the beginning of something.’” (As a CMS member, Lykken says he is not yet sure himself what results ATLAS would unveil; he is bound by his collaboration’s rules not to reveal what CMS has in hand.)
Available at: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57341543-76/has-higgs-been-discovered-rumors--of-watershed-news-build/?tag=mncol;topStories>. Retrieved on: 11 Dec. 2011. Adapted.
The following fragment of Text is NOT completed correctly in
- “using the cathedral-size ATLAS and CMS detectors,”– has as its subject “the spokespeople of the collaboration”.
- “and other phenomena”– has a word whose plural form is phenomenon.
- “based on analyses of the data collected to date.”– means the analyses collected up to that time.
- “it does promise to be interesting”– hasan auxiliary verb used for emphasis.
- “have seen hints of the elusive Higgs boson”– has words whose synonyms are respectively cues and obscure
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B
Comentário do professor
A opção B é a correta porque aponta um erro de flexão lexical no fragmento "and other phenomena". A própria alternativa indica, equivocadamente, que a forma plural seria phenomenon, quando na verdade as formas estão invertidas.
Regra curta: do grego, substantivos em -on mudam para -a no plural. Assim, phenomenon = singular e phenomena = plural. Em inglês corrente, "other phenomena" significa corretamente "outros fenômenos".
Portanto, B é a resposta porque identifica a inversão entre singular e plural — o erro que torna a conclusão do fragmento incorreta.
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