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Direction: Consider text I to answer questions 01 to 04.
TEXT I
Aliens
I pointed my flashlight’s beam into the doorway to reveal the
interior of the spaceship. I called inside. “Hello. Is anybody
there?” No response. A big round silver table was in the
middle of the room with a smaller black spot on top of it. Test
5 tubes lined the far wall, some small and others large enough
to fit a cow. Most of them were occupied with creatures I had
never seen before in any book I had ever read. Then I heard
a noise. I turned around to see the door close. Everything was
really dark and all I could hear was my own breathing. Then I
10 smelled something that made me feel calmer. I felt so relaxed
like I could fall asleep. Like I could just fall asleep. I fell
asleep.
I opened my eyes to a bright light shining in my face. I stood
up to see where I was and what happened. I was still on the
15 ship but it was different. I was laying on a long silver chair with
a light over me like I was in a hospital. The walls were radiating
a violet purple, the floor was glowing white and the top bar that
was connecting the middle table to the ceiling was glowing
blue. I turned to my left to see what was behind me and what
20 I saw was space. Stars and meteors were floating outside the
window. Venus was so close I could see the rocks floating in
its ring. I got up to observe the table when a metal door
opened up to reveal something. Or someone. It had a
humanoid body and a handsome face but with extraordinary
25 features. It had grey skin that looked like sandpaper with
glitter. It was wearing a white lab coat and black pants while
holding what looked like an iPad but longer.
Adapted from: SCHWIEBERT, Jesse. Short Story: Aliens. The Mustangmoom,2020. Available on: https://themustangmoom.com/13473/creative-corner/short-story-aliens. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025.
In the sentence “Or someone” (ℓ. 23), the use of “Or” expresses the emphasis on
Direction: Consider text I to answer questions 01 to 04.
TEXT I
Aliens
I pointed my flashlight’s beam into the doorway to reveal the
interior of the spaceship. I called inside. “Hello. Is anybody
there?” No response. A big round silver table was in the
middle of the room with a smaller black spot on top of it. Test
5 tubes lined the far wall, some small and others large enough
to fit a cow. Most of them were occupied with creatures I had
never seen before in any book I had ever read. Then I heard
a noise. I turned around to see the door close. Everything was
really dark and all I could hear was my own breathing. Then I
10 smelled something that made me feel calmer. I felt so relaxed
like I could fall asleep. Like I could just fall asleep. I fell
asleep.
I opened my eyes to a bright light shining in my face. I stood
up to see where I was and what happened. I was still on the
15 ship but it was different. I was laying on a long silver chair with
a light over me like I was in a hospital. The walls were radiating
a violet purple, the floor was glowing white and the top bar that
was connecting the middle table to the ceiling was glowing
blue. I turned to my left to see what was behind me and what
20 I saw was space. Stars and meteors were floating outside the
window. Venus was so close I could see the rocks floating in
its ring. I got up to observe the table when a metal door
opened up to reveal something. Or someone. It had a
humanoid body and a handsome face but with extraordinary
25 features. It had grey skin that looked like sandpaper with
glitter. It was wearing a white lab coat and black pants while
holding what looked like an iPad but longer.
Adapted from: SCHWIEBERT, Jesse. Short Story: Aliens. The Mustangmoom,2020. Available on: https://themustangmoom.com/13473/creative-corner/short-story-aliens. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025.
In the sentence “Or someone” (ℓ. 23), the use of “Or” expresses the emphasis on
Resolução comentada
'Or someone' enfatiza a possibilidade de ser alguém (um ser) e não apenas algo.
O narrador diz 'reveal something. Or someone.'. A conjunção 'or' corrige/reformula a ideia anterior, destacando que o que apareceu era uma pessoa/ser, ou seja, a ênfase recai em 'someone'. Isso se confirma na descrição seguinte, que fala de um corpo humanoide.
Análise das alternativas
B) Inverte a ênfase. C) 'Or' não exclui 'something' por completo; apenas dá destaque a 'someone'. D) Se não houvesse diferença, não haveria o efeito de ênfase da frase isolada.
Referência: Conjunções (or) e efeito de sentido.
Resolução comentada do VaiConcursos.