# Questão 8bc3fa56-05 — Inglês

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- **Código:** 8bc3fa56-05
- **Disciplina:** [Inglês](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/disciplina/16-ingles)
- **Área:** [Linguagens](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/area/linguagens)
- **Ano:** [2020](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/ano/2020)
- **Instituição:** Fundação Getulio Vargas
- **Assuntos:** Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- **Nível:** Difícil
- **Gabarito:** alternativa E

## Enunciado

Read the text to answer question.

The aliens among us

Humans think of themselves as the world’s apex predators. Hence the silence of sabre-tooth tigers,
the absence of moas from New Zealand and the long list of endangered megafauna. But sars-cov-2
shows how people can also end up as prey. Viruses have caused a litany of modern pandemics, from
Covid-19, to hiv/aids to the influenza outbreak in 1918-20, which killed many more people than the first
world war. Before that, the colonisation of the Americas by Europeans was abetted – and perhaps made
possible – by epidemics of smallpox, measles and influenza brought unwittingly by the invaders, which
annihilated many of the original inhabitants.

(www.economist.com, 22.08.2020. Adapted.)

According to the text,

## Alternativas

- **A)** humans can be either victims or aggressors, depending on the virus we refer to.
- **B)** viruses have always posed a threat, not only to humans but also to the megafauna.
- **C)** the absolute silence of viruses contradicts their extensive destructive power.
- **D)** pandemics have always existed despite human efforts throughout centuries to control them.
- **E)** the settlement of new peoples in the Americas was favoured by the epidemics decimating native
 populations. ✔ **correta**

## Resposta correta

Alternativa **E**.

## Como citar

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