Questõesde ENEM sobre Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Ao estabelecer uma relação entre a Matemática e o blues a partir da opinião pessoal de um dos rapazes, a charge sugere que

Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" hits the ground running. This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time, about a Mumbai orphan who rises from rags to riches on the strength of his lively intelligence. The film’s universal appeal presents the real India to millions of moviegoers for the first time.

The real India, supercharged with a plot as reliable and eternal as the hills. The film’s surface is so dazzling that you hardly realize how traditional it is underneath. But it's the buried structure that pulls us through the story like a big engine on a short train.

By the real India, I don't mean an unblinking documentary like Louis Malle's "Calcutta" or the recent "Born Into Brothels." I mean the real India of social levels that seem to be separated by centuries. What do people think of when they think of India? On the one hand, Mother Teresa, "Salaam Bombay!" and the wretched of the earth. On the other, the "Masterpiece Theater"-style images of "A Passage to India," "Gandhi" and "The Jewel in the Crown."

The film uses dazzling cinematography, breathless editing, driving music and headlong momentum to explode with narrative force, stirring in a romance at the same time.

EBERT, R. Disponível em: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com. Acesso em: 11 abr. 2011 (adaptado).

O texto trata do premiado filme indiano “Slumdog Millionaire". Segundo a resenha apresentada, a história retrata uma Índia real, uma vez que

Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.

My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.

Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?

Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?

(from a song by Carbon Leaf)

Disponível em: http://www.uebersetzung.at. Acesso em: 27 jun. 2011.

O trava-língua, além de funcionar como um exercício de pronúncia, também pode abordar assuntos relacionados à sociedade. No texto, o tema abordado refere-se

Last Monday was a really awful day. I got to school late because I had missed the bus. Then I had a Math test and did badly because I hadn't studied for it. Things went from bad to worse: while I was waiting for the bus home I realised I had lost my money so I had to walk home. I really wanted to go to the cinema with my parents that evening but by the time I got home they had already gone out. I put my dinner in the oven, went to watch TV and fell asleep. When I woke up an hour later, there was a terrible smell and smoke coming up the stairs: I had forgotten to take my dinner out of the oven.

ACEVEDO, A.; GOWER, M. High Flyer. Longman, 1996.

A intenção do narrador, nesse texto, é

A tirinha é um gênero textual que, além de entreter, trata de diferentes temas sociais. No caso dessa tirinha, as falas no 3° quadrinho revelam o foco do tema, que é

36 hours in Buenos Aires

Contemporary Argentine history is a roller coaster of financial booms and cracks, set to gripping political soap operas. But through all the highs and lows, one thing has remained constant: Buenos Aires’s graceful elegance and cosmopolitan cool. This attractive city continues to draw food lovers, design buffs and party people with its riotous night life, fashion-forward styling and a favorable exchange rate. Even with the uncertain economy, the creative energy and enterprising spirit of Porteños, as residents are called, prevail — just look to the growing ranks of art spaces, boutiques, restaurants and hotels.

SINGER, P. Disponível em: www.nytimes.com. Acesso em: 30 jul. 2012.

Nesse artigo de jornal, Buenos Aires é apresentada como a capital argentina, que

A emissão de gases tóxicos na atmosfera traz diversas consequências para nosso planeta. De acordo com o gráfico, retirado do texto Global warming is an international issue, observa-se que

First Footing

One of the major Hogmanay customs was "first-footing". Shortly after "the bells" — the stroke of midnight when public clocks would chime to signal the start of the new year —, neighbours would visit one another’s houses to wish each other a good new year. This visiting was known "first-footing",and the luckiest first-foot into any house was a tall, dark and handsome man — perhaps as a reward to the woman who traditionally had spent the previous day scrubbing her house (another Hogmanay ritual). Women or red heads, however, were always considered bad luck as first-foots.

First-foots brought symbolic gifts to "handsel" the house: coal for the fire, to ensure that the house would be warm and safe, and shortbread or black bun (a type of fruit cake) to symbolise that the household would never go hungry that year.

First-footing has faded in recent years, particularly with the growth of the major street celebrations in Edinburgh and Glasgow, although not the Scots love of a good party, of which there are plenty on the night!

Disponível em: www.visitscotland.com. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2011.

A partir da leitura do texto sobre a comemoração do Ano-novo na Escócia, observa-se que, com o tempo, aspectos da cultura de um povo podem ser

Horse or cow

Prior to taking retirement and selling off his land, a farmer needed to get rid of all the animals he owned, so he decided to call on every house in his village. At houses where the man was the boss, he gave a horse; at houses where the woman was the boss, he gave a dairy cow.

Approaching one cottage, he saw a couple gardening and called out, ‘Who’s the boss around here?’

‘I am,’ said the man.

The farmer said: ‘I have a black horse and a brown horse. Which one would you like?’

The man thought for a minute and said, ‘The black one.’

‘No, no, get the brown one,’ said his wife.

The farmer said, ‘Here’s your cow.’

TIBBALLS, G. The book of senior jokes. Great Britain: Michael O’Mara, 2009 (adaptado)

O texto relata o caso de um fazendeiro prestes a se aposentar e vender sua fazenda. O aspecto cômico desse texto provém da

Uma campanha pode ter por objetivo conscientizar a população sobre determinada questão social. Na campanha realizada no Reino Unido, a frase “A third of the food we buy in the UK ends up being thrown away" foi utilizada para enfatizar o(a)

A sigla “AV”, usada no texto, representa o alvo da crítica sobre a elevação do custo de um(a)

Hunger Games Review: Family Film Guide

Parent Concerns: There is definitely violence in this film. The central Hunger Games may not be as bloody and brutal as author Suzanne Collins describes in the novel, but there’s a visceral reaction to seeing the kid-on-kid violence ratherthanconjuring it inyourown imagination. The tributes kill each other in a host of ways, from spear, knife and arrow wounds to hand-to-hand battles that leave teens with their heads smashed in or necks snapped. The editing is quick and the shots never linger on anything overly graphic, but there is blood and twenty-two adolescents, aged 12-18, die in the annual blood sport pageant. Immature teens, even if they’ve read the books, may not be ready to handle to the film just yet. A good rule of thumb: if they’re not old enough to be reaped into the Hunger Games, theyYe probably not mature enough to see it.

ANGULO-CHEN, S. Disponível em: http://news.moviefone.com. Acesso em: 28jun. 2012.

Produções literárias e cinematográficas estão, muitas vezes, articuladas. No caso do filme Hunger Games, a autora da resenha chama a atenção para a questão da violência, que é mais

                         Getting Every Child to School

      Right now 67 million children are missing out on their right to an education. They can’t go to school because they have to work to survive, because they are girls or even because there are no schools where they live.

       Where will these children be when they grow up without the chance to learn?

      We’re working to make sure every child goes to school. We’re helping build schools, train teachers, advocating girl’s education and reaching children who have to work or are caught up in emergencies with learning.

      You can help uphold every child’s right to an education. Make a donation today to not only give children the chance to go to school, but also save their lives and protect their childhoods.

Disponível em: www.supportunicef.org. Acesso em: 20 maio 2013 (adaptado).

Essa campanha pretende contribuir para diminuir a desigualdade social, uma vez que

On the Meaning of Being Chinese

Ethnically speaking, I feel I am complicated to classify, but who isn’t, right? To me, being Chinese-Brazilian in America means a history of living in three opposite cultures, and sometimes feeling that I did not belong in neither, a constant struggle that immigrants, and national citizens, face when their appearance is foreign to natives in the country. Jokingly, I say that I am Asian in America, Brazilian in China, and a “gringa” in Brazil. Nevertheless, 1 believe that dealing with these hard to reconcile extremes have somehow helped me to become more comfortable with my identity.

BELEZA LI. Disponível em: www.aiisf.org. Acesso em: 28 mar. 2014.

Nesse fragmento, Beleza Li resume sua experiência de vida ao descrever a complexidade em

Are Twitter and Facebook Affecting How We Think?

Is constant use of electronic gadgets reshaping our

brains and making our thinking shallower?

By Neil Tweedie

How many times do you click on your email icon in a day? Or look at Facebook, or Twitter? And how many times when reading on the internet do you click on a link navigating away from the text that was the original object of your enquiry? The web, it seems, is like an electronic sweet shop, forever tempting us in different directions. But does this mental promiscuity, this tendency to flit around online, make us, well, thicker?

Nicholas Carr, the American Science writer, has mined this theme for his new book, “The Shallows”, in which he argues that new media are not just changing our habits but our brains. It turns out that the mature human brain is not an immutable seat of personality and intellect but a changeable thing, subject to “neuroplasticity”. When our activities alter, so does the architecture of our brain. Tm not thinking the way I used to think,” writes Carr. “I feel it most stronglywhen l’m reading.”

Disponível em: www.telegraph.co.uk. Acesso em: 27 fev. 2012.

Neil Tweedie levanta vários questionamentos sobre a utilização de diferentes recursos tecnológicos disponíveis hoje em dia. A partir desses questionamentos e dos argumentos do escritor norte-americano Nicholas Carr, o texto sugere que

If You’re Out There

If you hear this message

Wherever you stand

I'm calling every woman

Calling every man

We're the generation

We can't afford to wait

The future started yesterday

And we're already late

We've been looking for a song to sing

Searched for a melody

Searched for someone to lead

We've been looking for the world to change

If you feel the same, we'll go on and say

If you're out there

Sing along with me if you're out there

I'm dying to believe that you're out there

Stand up and say it loud if you're out there

Tomorrow's starting now...now...now [...]

We can destroy Hunger

We can conquer Hate

Put down the arms and raise your voice

We're joining hands today [...]

LEGEND, J. Evolver. Los Angeles: Sony Music, 2008 (fragmento).

O trecho da letra de If You’re Out There revela que essa canção, lançada em 2008, é um(a)

Synopsis

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores” — self-designated pickers of recyclable materiais. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

Disponível em: www.wastelandmovie.com. Acesso em: 2 dez. 2012

Vik Muniz é um artista plástico brasileiro radicado em Nova York. O documentário Waste Land, produzido por ele em 2010, recebeu vários prêmios e

A proposta da capa da revista, associando aspectos verbais e visuais, transmite a seguinte mensagem:

The Four Oxen and the Lion

A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to live. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came near, they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, they quarreled among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then the Lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all four.

Disponível em: www.aesopfables.com. Acesso em: 1 dez. 2011.

A fábula The Four Oxen and the Lion ilustra um preceito moral, como se espera em textos desse gênero. Essa moral, podendo ser compreendida como o tema do texto, está expressa em: