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Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.
TEXT IV
Rocket Man
My father was a rocket man
He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars
My mother and I would watch the sky
And wonder if a falling star
5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
10 Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
My father was a rocket man
He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond
15 the sky
And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in
space
I could read the silent cry
That if my father fell into a star
20 We must not look upon that star again
Tears are often jewel-like
My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels
were the stars
25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find
In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star
One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him
inside
Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.
The use of “Unless” (ℓ. 9) introduces a condition for the speaker and his/her mother to
Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.
TEXT IV
Rocket Man
My father was a rocket man
He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars
My mother and I would watch the sky
And wonder if a falling star
5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
10 Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
My father was a rocket man
He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond
15 the sky
And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in
space
I could read the silent cry
That if my father fell into a star
20 We must not look upon that star again
Tears are often jewel-like
My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels
were the stars
25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find
In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star
One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him
inside
Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.
The use of “Unless” (ℓ. 9) introduces a condition for the speaker and his/her mother to
Resolução comentada
'Unless' introduz a condição para eles saírem.
'Unless' significa 'a menos que'. A frase diz que mãe e filho nunca saíam, a menos que o céu estivesse nublado ou o sol coberto. Portanto a condição se refere a eles saírem (go out).
Análise das alternativas
B) Errada: 'never go out' é o comportamento geral, não a condição. C) Errada: escapar da dor é outra circunstância ('Or to escape the pain'). D) Errada: a condição é de tempo nublado, não especificamente 'durante o dia'.
Referência: Conjunção condicional 'unless'.
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