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Leia o texto e examine o gráfico para responder à questão. When Tinder (a mobile dating app) was launched on college campuses in America in 2012, it quickly became a hit. Although

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VUNESP · 2024

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When Tinder (a mobile dating app) was launched on college campuses in America in 2012, it quickly became a hit. Although online dating had been around since Match.com, a website for lonely hearts, launched in 1995, it had long struggled to shed1 an image of desperation. But Tinder, by letting users sift through photos of countless potential dates with a simple swipe, made it easy and fun.

 

Soon Tinder and its rivals had transformed dating. A report found that 30% of American adults had used an online dating service, including more than half of those aged between 18 and 29. One in five couples of that age had met through such a service. Usage surged during the pandemic, as lonely locked-down singles searched for partners. The market capitalisation of Bumble, a rival to Tinder, surged to $13 billion on its first day of trading2 in February 2021. Later that year the value of Match Group, which owns Tinder, Hinge and scores of other dating services, reached nearly $50 billion.

 

Today roughly 350 million people around the world have a dating app on their phone, up from 250 million in 2018, according to a research firm. In June 2024 Tokyo’s government even said it would launch a matchmaking app of its own to pair up singles in the city. Yet lately online dating has lost its spark. The apps were downloaded 237 million times globally in 2023, down from 287 million in 2020. According to a research firm, the number of people who use them at least once a month has dwindled from 154 million in 2021 to 137 million in the second quarter of 2024.

 

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2024. Adaptado.)

 

1 to shed: to get rid of something that is no longer wanted.

2 trading: the activity of buying and selling things.

 

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “But Tinder, by letting users sift through photos of countless potential dates with a simple swipe, made it easy and fun”, o termo sublinhado é empregado com o mesmo sentido do termo sublinhado em:

  1. He loves all animals but spiders.
  2. I tried all the dishes but the dessert.
  3. I had no choice but to accept the challenge.
  4. I studied hard but I didn’t pass the exam.
  5. He invited everyone but his cousin.
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"But" funciona aqui como uma conjunção adversativa, ou seja, estabelece contraste entre uma ideia anterior e a que segue.

No texto: a frase anterior apresentou uma dificuldade de imagem associada a sites de namoro; a oração com "But" mostra um fato contrário — o surgimento do Tinder que tornou a experiência fácil e divertida.

Na frase do gabarito, "I studied hard but I didn’t pass the exam.", ocorre o mesmo tipo de relação: a primeira oração cria uma expectativa (estudei muito) e a segunda apresenta um resultado oposto (não passei).

Em ambas as ocorrências, portanto, "but" indica oposição entre expectativa e realidade, ligando ideias contrastantes dentro do discurso.

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