# Questão c40530f0-3e — Inglês

> Questão de múltipla escolha com gabarito, do acervo do Dicas do ENEM.
> Página com a questão respondível: https://dicasdoenem.com.br/questao/c40530f0-3e

- **Código:** c40530f0-3e
- **Disciplina:** [Inglês](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/disciplina/16-ingles)
- **Área:** [Linguagens](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/area/linguagens)
- **Ano:** [2019](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/ano/2019)
- **Instituição:** Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas
- **Assuntos:** Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- **Gabarito:** alternativa A

## Enunciado

When we think of deadly poisons, most of our minds will
jump instantly to arsenic. George III of England, Napoleon
Bonaparte and the Gaungxu Emperor of China are all thought to
have died from its effects — either from a deliberate
assassination or accidental exposure. Just 200 milligrams —
around the weight of a raindrop — is enough to kill someone
within two hours. The first sign is a metallic taste in your mouth,
followed by vomiting and seizures, and death. It sounds horrific
— but arsenic is positively innocuous compared to other
substances.

Consider tetrodotoxin (TTX), a poison found in puffer
fish and blue-ringed octopuses that leaves you paralysed as your
body goes through some agonising reactions. “Your lips and
tongue will begin to burn, your mouth will erupt with saliva and
you’ll get very sweaty,” Dominic Burgess from BritLab explains.
“You’ll no longer be able to speak, swallow, seizures will begin
and your body will slowly shut down — all while you are
completely lucid but unable to move.” Death comes after six
hours of symptoms and there is no antidote.

Often these poisons are alarmingly close to home. One
lethal chemical — cardiac glycoside digoxin — can be found in a
common garden flower, while the deadliest can be seen in many
hospitals; just 2 kg would be enough to wipe out the whole of the
human race.


Disponível em: www.bbc.com. Acesso em: out. 2016 (adaptado).


O objetivo do texto apresentado é

## Alternativas

- **A)** acabar com o mito de que arsênico é o veneno mais letal. ✔ **correta**
- **B)** informar as quantidades letais de arsênico e tetrodotoxina.
- **C)** elencar as personagens históricas que foram mortas com
 arsênico.
- **D)** alertar para o fato de que venenos letais são facilmente
 encontrados.
- **E)** comparar os efeitos da tetrodotoxina e do arsênico no corpo
 humano.

## Resposta correta

Alternativa **A**.

## Como citar

Dicas do ENEM. Questão c40530f0-3e. Disponível em: https://dicasdoenem.com.br/questao/c40530f0-3e