Questões de Inglês

Unsinkable Ship

 

Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger and car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those that managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.

The pronoun that in “: Of those that managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived” can be replaced with:

Unsinkable Ship

 

Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger and car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those that managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.

According to the passage, when the Estonia sank:

Unsinkable Ship

 

Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger and car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those that managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.

 

It is clear from the passage that the survivors of the accident:

Unsinkable Ship

 

Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger and car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those that managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.

 

We can infer from the reading that:

The Checkup

HEALTH NEWS EXAMINED

 

Headline says: “Vampire Mice Hold the Key to

Eternal Youth”

Science says: When researchers injected the

blood of young mice into old mice, compounds in the

5 borrowed blood helped rejuvenate old tissue, effectively

reversing aging. While exciting, this doesn’t mean a

Benjamin Button future is upon us. More research is

needed.

Headline says: “Nail Salon Dryers Can Cause Skin

10 Cancer”

Science says: UV lamps vary wildly in the amount

of radiation they emit, but a study of 16 nail salons

estimates that as few as 24 sessions under some lamps

could trigger cancer-causing DNA damage. Air-dry,

15 anyone?

Headline says: “You Don’t Need Daily Aspirin to

Prevent Heart Attacks”

Science says: Evidence is lacking to support a

daily dose for people who don’t have heart disease or

20 haven’t had a stroke, the FDA said, and it comes with

risks. Daily aspirin can help prevent a heart-attack

recurrence, though.

 

THE Checkup. Time, May 19, 2014, p.

The word “While” (l. 6) can be replaced, without any change of meaning, by

The Checkup

HEALTH NEWS EXAMINED

 

Headline says: “Vampire Mice Hold the Key to

Eternal Youth”

Science says: When researchers injected the

blood of young mice into old mice, compounds in the

5 borrowed blood helped rejuvenate old tissue, effectively

reversing aging. While exciting, this doesn’t mean a

Benjamin Button future is upon us. More research is

needed.

Headline says: “Nail Salon Dryers Can Cause Skin

10 Cancer”

Science says: UV lamps vary wildly in the amount

of radiation they emit, but a study of 16 nail salons

estimates that as few as 24 sessions under some lamps

could trigger cancer-causing DNA damage. Air-dry,

15 anyone?

Headline says: “You Don’t Need Daily Aspirin to

Prevent Heart Attacks”

Science says: Evidence is lacking to support a

daily dose for people who don’t have heart disease or

20 haven’t had a stroke, the FDA said, and it comes with

risks. Daily aspirin can help prevent a heart-attack

recurrence, though.

 

THE Checkup. Time, May 19, 2014, p.

The only alternative in which the word from the text is in the singular is