Questão 33 (1º exame) da FUVEST 2001

Question

Which of these statements is true according to the passage?

A
Consumers will become more receptive to GM foods when trials show that they are not hazardous to health.
B
The hostility to GM crops is likely to be short-lived.
C
The environmentalists’ hostility to GM crops is unfounded, as they pose no danger to the environment.
D
GM foods are unlikely to be accepted even in the long run.
E
Even if environmentalists stop protesting, consumers will keep on regarding GM foods with suspicion.

Answer 1

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Questão 33 (1º exame) da FUVEST 2001

1º exame · Inglês: Inferência e ponto de vista do autor

Texto para as questões de 30 a 36 · V

It is a nice irony, given that scientific genetics started with the manipulation of a crop plant, the pea, that the most vehement public opposition to it in recent years has come from those who object to the genetic manipulation of crops.

At the moment, so-called genetically modified (GM) crops are in disgrace. Consumers, particularly in Europe, are wary of buying food that may contain them. Environmental activists are ripping up fields where they are being tested experimentally. And companies that design them are selling off their GM subsidiaries, or even themselves, to anyone willing to take on the risk.

Yet the chances are that this is just a passing fad. No trial has shown a health risk from a commercially approved GM crop (or, more correctly, a transgenic crop, as all crop plants have been genetically modified by selective breeding since time immemorial). And while the environmental risks, such as cross-pollination with wild species and the promotion of insecticide-resistant strains of pest, look more plausible, they also look no worse than the sorts of environmental havoc wreaked by more traditional sorts of agriculture.

THE ECONOMIST JULY 1ST 2000

Which of these statements is true according to the passage?

A
Consumers will become more receptive to GM foods when trials show that they are not hazardous to health.
B
The hostility to GM crops is likely to be short-lived.
C
The environmentalists’ hostility to GM crops is unfounded, as they pose no danger to the environment.
D
GM foods are unlikely to be accepted even in the long run.
E
Even if environmentalists stop protesting, consumers will keep on regarding GM foods with suspicion.

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O texto diz que os cultivos transgênicos estão "em desgraça" no momento: consumidores europeus desconfiam, ativistas arrancam plantações experimentais e empresas vendem suas subsidiárias. Em seguida, o terceiro parágrafo começa com "Yet the chances are that this is just a passing fad", ou seja, "é provável que isso seja apenas uma moda passageira". Para o autor, portanto, a hostilidade aos transgênicos tende a durar pouco.

O restante do parágrafo reforça essa ideia: nenhum teste mostrou risco à saúde em um transgênico comercialmente aprovado, e os riscos ambientais, embora mais plausíveis, não seriam piores que os da agricultura tradicional.

Conferindo as alternativas com isso, só a B reproduz a ideia de "passing fad": hostilidade de curta duração.

Alternativa B.

Por que as outras alternativas estão erradas

AO texto não afirma que os consumidores mudarão de opinião por causa dos testes; essa relação causal não aparece.
CO texto admite que os riscos ambientais parecem plausíveis, apenas diz que não são piores que os da agricultura tradicional.
DContradiz a ideia de que a rejeição é passageira, o que sugere aceitação futura.
EO texto não faz essa ligação entre protestos e desconfiança e, além disso, prevê que a rejeição passará.

Assunto: Inferência e ponto de vista do autor.

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Fonte: FUVEST 2001 · 1º exame. Prova oficial ↗