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Atenção: Para responder à questão, considere o texto abaixo. English spelling is ridiculous. Sew and new don’t rhyme. Kernel and colonel do. When you see an ough, you might need to

Interpretação de Textos (Understanding)

FCC · 2022

Atenção: Para responder à questão, considere o texto abaixo.

English spelling is ridiculous. Sew and new don’t rhyme. Kernel and colonel do. When you see an ough, you might need to read it out as ‘aw’ (thought), ‘ow’ (drought), ‘uff’ (tough), ‘off’ (cough), ‘oo’ (through), or ‘oh’ (though). The ea vowel is usually pronounced ‘ee’ (weak, please, seal, beam) but can also be ‘eh’ (bread, head, wealth, feather). Those two options cover most of it – except for a handful of cases, where it’s ‘ay’ (break, steak, great). Oh wait, one more… there’s earth. No wait, there’s also heart.


The English spelling system, if you can even call it a system, is full of this kind of thing. Yet ...I... do most people raised with English learn to read and write it; millions of people who weren’t raised with English learn to use it too, to a very high level of accuracy.


Admittedly, for a non-native speaker, such mastery usually involves a great deal of confusion and frustration. Part of the problem is that English spelling looks deceptively similar to other languages that use the same alphabet but in a much more consistent way. You can...II... an afternoon familiarising yourself with the pronunciation rules of Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish and many others, and credibly read out a text in that language, even if you ...III... it. Your pronunciation might be terrible, and the pace, stress and rhythm would be completely off, and no one would mistake you for a native speaker – but you ...IV... it.


(Adapted from https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent)

 

Preenche corretamente a lacuna I em Yet ...I... do most people raised with English learn to read and write it; é:

  1. rather than
  2. even though
  3. not only
  4. provided that
  5. as long as
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A expressão not only introduz uma ideia de acréscimo/ênfase: indica que algo é verdadeiro e que há ainda outra informação relevante a seguir.

Quando not only aparece no início da oração, há inversão entre o verbo auxiliar e o sujeito: por isso surge do antes de most people — Not only do most people raised with English learn to read and write it;.

Essa construção destaca que, além dos nativos aprenderem a ler e escrever o inglês, existe um fato adicional importante (millions of non-natives also use it accurately). A pausa/ponte marcada por not only cria contraste e reforço entre as duas informações.

Em português, traduz-se como “não apenas”, preservando o sentido de que algo é verdadeiro e há algo mais igualmente significativo.

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