De acordo com o texto, Porto Rico:
Leia o texto a seguir e responda a questão:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/hurricane-irma (acessado em 07 de
setembro de 2017)
Barbuda, the first island to feel the force of Hurricane Irma
was devastated by its high winds, with Gaston Browne,
prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, saying 90% of buildings had been destroyed and 50% of the population
of around 1,000 people left homeless. Critical facilities
including roads and communications systems were
ravaged, with the recovery effort set to take months or
years. Some residents are expected to be evacuated to
the larger sister island of Antigua – where damage was
less severe – as part of relief efforts and ahead of the
prospective arrival of Hurricane Jose this weekend. At
least eight people were killed in St Martin, according to
French officials. The number of victims on the Dutch half
of the island, St Maarteen, is unknown. Netherlands prime
minister Mark Rutte says there has been “enormous
material damage” to St Maarten. The French president,
Emmanuel Macron, earlier said he expected Irma-related
damage to St Martin and another French overseas
collectivity, Saint Barthélemy (St Barts), would be
“considerable”. France’s overseas minister, Annick
Girardin, was travelling to the Caribbean with emergency
teams and supplies. The most recent island to be hit was
Puerto Rico, where lashing winds and rains have left most
of the population without power and tens of thousands
without water. Images from the island showed flash
flooding, and hospitals were forced to rely on generators.
Irma is the worst hurricane to hit the island since 1928,
when Hurricane San Felipe killed more than 2,700 people
across Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and Florida .More than
two thirds of homes in Puerto Rico are without electricity,
and 17% are without water, officials have said.. Florida’s
governor, Rick Scott, warned that the arrival of Irma’s lifethreatening wind field and storm surge was imminent, and
urged residents in coastal areas to leave immediately.
About 250,000 people were ordered to evacuate, making
it of the largest evacuations in US history as the National
Hurricane Center (NHC) placed south Florida, including
the southernmost counties of Monroe, Miami-Dade and
Broward, under a hurricane watch. Preparations were
escalating at a furious pace as the storm’s forecast path
narrowed in on the south-eastern portion of the state,
home to 7 million residents. Philip Levine, the mayor of
Miami Beach, ordered a mandatory evacuation of the
barrier island beginning at daybreak on Thursday. “This is
a nuclear hurricane,” he said. “I’ll do anything in my power
to convince them to leave. Get off Miami Beach.”Scott
warned that that effects of the storm could begin to be felt
later on Friday, with the NHC predicting Irma’s full wrath
would strike the south-east coast near Miami sometime
late Saturday or early Sunday morning then move
north.“Look at the size of the storm,” Scott said. “It’s huge,
it’s wider than our entire state right now. If you are under
an evacuation order do not wait. Leave and get out. We
can rebuild your home but you can’t get your life back.”
Gabarito comentado
Tema central da questão: Interpretação de texto – compreensão literal e inferencial de informações específicas sobre consequências do furacão Irma em Porto Rico.
Para resolver este tipo de questão em provas de Vestibular, é fundamental aplicar estratégias de leitura como o skimming e o scanning. O skimming ajuda a captar o contexto geral (huracanes, áreas afetadas), enquanto o scanning possibilita localizar informações específicas, como o que ocorreu com Porto Rico após o furacão Irma.
Justificativa para a alternativa correta:
A) foi atingido pelo furacão Irma e a maioria da população ficou sem energia.
O texto afirma claramente: “More than two thirds of homes in Puerto Rico are without electricity”, demonstrando que a maioria da população ficou sem energia. Além disso, o trecho “the most recent island to be hit was Puerto Rico” indica que Porto Rico foi sim atingido pelo furacão Irma, confirmando totalmente a alternativa.
Análise das alternativas incorretas:
B) Incorreta. O texto diz que “tens of thousands without water” (dezenas de milhares sem água), mostrando que houve, sim, falta de água.
C) Errada. O texto relata que Irma atingiu Porto Rico e menciona Guadeloupe e Flórida apenas ao citar o furacão San Felipe, em 1928, não Irma.
D) Incorreta. O texto diz que San Felipe matou mais de 2.700 em Porto Rico, Guadeloupe e Flórida, deixando claro que Porto Rico foi atingido em 1928.
E) Errada. Não há comparação direta de danos entre Irma e San Felipe, apenas que Irma é o pior desde 1928, não necessariamente maior que San Felipe.
Estratégia de resolução e dicas:
Observe as expressões quantificadoras (“more than two thirds”, “tens of thousands”), pois elas são cruciais para identificar dados relevantes, evitando erros típicos de excesso de leitura superficial. Atenção também a comparações temporais, pois confundir furacões diferentes pode levar à escolha da alternativa errada.
Conforme autores como Charles Browne & Brent Culligan (“A New Approach to Reading Comprehension”), buscar informações literais e evitar generalizações aumentam significativamente o sucesso em provas de interpretação de texto.
Conclusão: A alternativa A é a correta, pois apresenta fidelidade ao texto e dados explicitados pelo autor.
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