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Which option completes the text below correctly?
A Beijing company has unveiled spectacularly futuristic designs for a pollution-busting, elevated bus
[...] Song Youzhou, the project's chief engineer, claimed the busses could be produced for 20% of the price of an underground train and rolled out far more quickly since the ______ infrastructure was relatively simple.
The project has been greeted with ______ in China, where traffic jams have grown as the country ______ the United States to become the largest car market on earth in 2009.
However, ______ over the ______ was tempered by the fact that a virtually identical contraption was unveiled at the same expo in 2010 without catching on. Its ______? A Chinese engineer by the name of Song Youzhou.
(Adapted from https://www.ltheguardian.com)
A Beijing company has unveiled spectacularly futuristic designs for a pollution-busting, elevated bus
[...] Song Youzhou, the project's chief engineer, claimed the busses could be produced for 20% of the price of an underground train and rolled out far more quickly since the ______ infrastructure was relatively simple.
The project has been greeted with ______ in China, where traffic jams have grown as the country ______ the United States to become the largest car market on earth in 2009.
However, ______ over the ______ was tempered by the fact that a virtually identical contraption was unveiled at the same expo in 2010 without catching on. Its ______? A Chinese engineer by the name of Song Youzhou.
(Adapted from https://www.ltheguardian.com)
Resolução comentada
supporting infrastructure, anticipation, overtook, excitement, innovation, designer.
'Supporting infrastructure' é a infraestrutura de apoio. 'Greeted with anticipation' é natural. O país 'overtook' (ultrapassou) os EUA. Depois vêm 'excitement over the innovation' e 'Its designer?', referindo-se ao engenheiro chinês.
Análise das alternativas
A) 'mistook' não faz sentido, e 'anticipated' não completa 'with ___'. B) 'mistook' e 'excited' estão incorretos. D) 'anticipated' após 'with' e 'excited' após 'however,' são incorretos. E) 'supports' não é adjetivo, 'undertook' não cabe e 'designings' é inexistente.
Referência: Formação de palavras e vocabulário em inglês.
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