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Esta questão foi aplicada no ano de 2017 pela banca COSEAC no concurso para UFF. A questão aborda conhecimentos da disciplina de Língua Inglesa, especificamente sobre Compreensão de Texto.
Esta é uma questão de múltipla escolha com 5 alternativas. Teste seus conhecimentos e selecione a resposta correta.
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The Assistants, by Camille Perri
Chapter 1
In less than a second I was at his desk, notepad in hand. Behind me a wall of flat-screens flashed the news being broadcast by Titan and its so-called competitors. Robert had the uncanny ability to devote a small portion of his gaze to each screen simultaneously. In all he owned nine satellite television networks, one hundred seventy-five newspapers, one hundred cable channels, forty book imprints, forty television stations, and one movie studio. His total audience reached around 4.7 billion people, which came out to around three-fourths of the population of the entire globe. But the news was his baby. He was never not watching it, analyzing it, shaping it. That’s why he situated his office at Titan News headquarters, where he could keep close watch not only on his wall of flat-screens but also on his journalists. A man as powerful as Robert could have hidden himself anywhere, pulling at the strings of the world from a lounge chair in the Seychelles, unseen by his employees—but he needed to be here at the center of it all, at the hub.
Our office didn’t look like a newsroom that you’d imagine from movies or TV drama series. The floors below ours were more like that—the broadcast, print media, and digital newsrooms, each of which could have easily passed for something out of The Matrix. And there was an entire floor of flashy studios used for our non-stop news coverage and thrill-a-minute opinion shows. But our office on the fortieth floor was far less exciting, just row after row of desks and cubicles. Still, we were the brain of the whole operation, the source from which all orders trickled down. Titan’s chief editors and all of Robert’s most trusted deputies had desks on our floor so Robert could pull them into impromptus with the business leaders and celebrities he met with— and so he could foster relationships between them and the political-party representatives (yes, from both parties) who came to lobby him. I guess what I’m trying to say is, what the fortieth floor lacked in flash it made up for in influence.
(Taken from
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317172/the-assistants-by-perri-camille/9780399172540/)
When writing a correspondence, it is essential to be careful about the tone of the language to communicate the content.
According to ASHLEY (2005:34), "[i]t is important to try to get the right 'tone' in your letter. This means that, generally speaking, you should aim for a neutral tone, avoiding pompous language on the one hand and language which is too informal or colloquial on the other."
The best alternative to illustrate the appropriate tone for
opening a commercial letter to Ron Barron, CEO of an
educational startup, is: