Read
the following text:
Whitney Balliett, jazz critic for the New Yorker magazine, has
called jazz "the sound of surprise." And it is that
expectation of surprise which partly explains the compelling hold
of jazz on listeners in just about every country in the world.
Most of us lead lives of patterned regularity. Day by day, surprises
are relatively few.
And
except for economic or physical uncertainties, we neither face
nor look for significant degrees of risk because the vast majority
of us try to attain as much security as possible.
In this sense, jazzmen, of all musicians, are our surrogates for
the unpredictable, our models of constant change.
(Source: WEGMANN, Brenda. Mosaic II, an intermediate reader)
About this text, it is stated that:
1. Jazz is as surprising as our lives of patterned
2. Jazz is unpredictable.
3. To attain means "to assert."
4. The word surrogates means "substitutes."
After reading the text and the sentences provided above, we
should say that:
a) Sentences 2 and 4 are correct.
b) Sentence 2 is the only correct one.
c) Sentences 3 and 4 are correct.
d) Sentences 2 and 3 are correct.
e) Sentences 1, 2 and 4 are correct.
Comentários
do Prof. Francisco.
Questão
de interpretação de texto que apresenta pequena
dificuldade por exigir vocabulário de palavras pouco conhecidas,
como: "surrogates" (substituto) e os verbos "to
attain" (alcançar) e "to assert" (afirmar).
