# Questão aff570fb-00 — Inglês

> Questão de múltipla escolha com gabarito, do acervo do Dicas do ENEM.
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- **Código:** aff570fb-00
- **Disciplina:** [Inglês](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/disciplina/16-ingles)
- **Área:** [Linguagens](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/area/linguagens)
- **Ano:** [2025](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/ano/2025)
- **Instituição:** Universidade Estadual Paulista
- **Assuntos:** Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- **Nível:** Fácil
- **Gabarito:** alternativa E

## Enunciado

Leia o texto para responder à questão.

Dr. Mariangela Hungria will receive the $500,000 award 
for her work to utilize biological processes to sustainably 
improve crop1 nutrition, yields2 and productivity. The scientist 
whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural 
powerhouse has been named the 2025 World Food Prize 
Laureate.

Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist from São 
Paulo, has developed dozens of biological seed and soil 
treatments that help crops source nutrients through soil 
bacteria, significantly increasing yields of major crops while 
also reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Her products 
are estimated to have been used across more than 40 million 
hectares in Brazil, saving farmers up to US$40 billion a year in 
costs while avoiding more than 180 million metric tons of CO2

equivalent emissions per year.

Dr. Hungria’s work has helped improve yields of wheat, 
corn, rice, common beans, and other major crops, including 
soybean, which is now Brazil’s top agricultural export. Over 
her 40-year career with the Brazilian Agricultural Research 
Corporation (Embrapa), national soybean production 
increased from 15 million tons in 1979 to an anticipated 
173 million tons in the next harvest3 in 2025.

Dr. Hungria, who overcame prejudices against women 
and young mothers in academia to be named one of the 
100 most powerful women in agriculture in Brazil by Forbes 
magazine in 2021, said she was inspired by Dr. Norman 
Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution and founder of 
the World Food Prize. “I like to say that he made the Green 
Revolution possible, and we had this great opportunity to 
start a ‘micro green revolution’ — a green revolution, but with 
microorganisms,” she added. “I can’t quite believe I am now 
receiving the World Food Prize. Many people questioned 
me and my abilities throughout my career but I believed in 
what I was doing and persevered. The role of women 
in agriculture, from farming to science, deserves more 
recognition. I hope my achievement inspires others to pursue 
their passions in science.”

(www.worldfoodprize.org, 13.05.2025. Adaptado.)

1crop: cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially grain, fruit or 
vegetable.

2yields: the full amounts of an agricultural product.

3harvest: the crops that are cut and collected.

According to the fourth paragraph, during her career, 
Dr. Hungria had to face

## Alternativas

- **A)** excessive supervision by Dr. Norman Borlaug.
- **B)** problems with young mothers in her team.
- **C)** strange questions posed by her friends.
- **D)** pressure to please Forbes magazine editors.
- **E)** gender bias against women in science. ✔ **correta**

## Resposta correta

Alternativa **E**.

## Como citar

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