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Alternativa correta: c) Justificativa I. (V) Essa informação está no final do primeiro parágrafo. Podemos inferir que os cientistas sabem o montante de resíduos plásticos que são despejados anualmente nos oceanos mas desconhecem o paradeiro de 99% desse total. Desse fato surge a pergunta da pesquisa: onde estão esses 99%? (“Despite this and the 8 million tons of plastics entering our ocean each year, researchers can account for only one percent of that ends up: our ocean surface. Where is the missing 99 percent?”) II. (F) Segundo o texto, os cientistas sabem do paradeiro de 1% dos resíduos plásticos sem o auxílio do banco de dados. Esse 1% de resíduos está visível na superfície dos oceanos (“Despite this and the 8 million tons of plastics entering our ocean each year, researchers can account for only one percent of that ends up: our ocean surface. Where is the missing 99 percent?”). O banco de dados elaborado pelo projeto de pesquisa visa auxiliar na localização do restante dos resíduos plásticos (99%), cujo o paradeiro é ignorado. Segundo o texto, a localização desses 99% de rejeitos plásticos será possível quando for desenvolvido um programa que possa autodetectar os resíduos. Isso será possível somente depois das análises das fotografias tiradas pelo drone. (“Plastic Tide citizen science project harnesses drone imagery from a series of beaches and the power of computer programs,[...] , to eventually create a program that can autodetect, measure and monitor the levels of plastics and marine litter washing up on our beaches”). III. (F) O texto cita esses tipos de lixo plástico como exemplos daquilo que os voluntários precisam identificar nas fotografias. Os resíduos são considerados de maneira geral e nenhum tipo é destacado como sendo de maior importância. IV. (V) Segundo o texto, ao marcarem os resíduos plásticos nas fotos, os participantes estarão “ensinando” o computador a detectar esses resíduos sozinho. “By tagging plastics and litter in the images we take with our drone, citizen scientists directly teach our computer program to autodetect, measure and monitor plastic”s. V. (V) Essa informação pode ser confirmada pelo trecho “with over 60 percent of the oceans being heavily contami- nated with plastics”. Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões de 24 a 27.

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19th century, a relatively unknown author named Pedro Carolino rapidly gained intercontinental popularity over a small Portuguese-to-English phrasebook. English as She Is Spoke (or O novo guia da conversação em portuguez e inglez) was originally intended to help Portuguese speakers dabble in the English tongue, but was penned by a man who spoke little to no English himself. And, instead of helping Portuguese speakers learn a second language, it became a cult classic for fans of inept and unintentional humor. It quickly gained notoriety among English speakers, including author Mark Twain, who wrote the introduction for the first English edition, published in 1883. Twain expressed his approval of the book, saying “Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.” It is presumed that Carolino wrote the book through the aid of a Portuguese-to-French dictionary and a French-to-English dictionary, using the former for an initial translation of a word or phrase from Portuguese, and the latter to convert it from French into English. The result, of course, is a mishmash of cloudy gibberish. Perhaps the most notorious section of the book is an appropriately named chapter entitled “Idiotisms and Proverbs,” which again features phrases that vary between barely understandable and completely nonsensical. Examples of Carolino’s twice-translated proverbs include: “it is better be single as a bad company”; “there is no better sauce who the appetite”; and simply “That not says a word, consent”. The book opens with a preface written in a peculiar style of English. It details the book’s intended audience, stating that it “may be worth the acceptation of the studious persons, and especially of the Youth, of which we dedicate him particularly.” Perhaps predictably, English as She Is Spoke did not become popular among Portuguese-speaking students. In fact, it was never published in Portugal, although it did find an audience 133 years later in Brazil, when it was released as a comedy title. Adaptado de LEIGHTY-PHILLIPS, Tucker. How a Portuguese-to-English Phrasebook became a cult comedy sensation. In: Atlas Obscura (online). 29 jun. 2016. Disponível em www.atlasobscura.com