QUESTÃO ANULADA!!
(AFA - 2009)
The Car Washer Who Became An Executive
Robert L. Johnson is the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of BET. Black Entertainment Television, a cable TV channel in the United States, BET specializes in producing programs for the African-American community.
Read what this successful executive says about his first job.
“I ________ in Freeport, Illinois. My first job was at the local carwash. I ________ sixteen years old. I ________ every day, all summer, for a dollar an hour. I worked with ten other [10] guys. All of us ________from different racial, religious and economic backgrounds. We had to clean cars in teams, and we quickly learned to work together.
I learned the better1 way to become indispensable: you know how to do all aspects of your2 job. At the carwash, ‘all aspects’ included vacuuming the interior, scrubbing whitewalls and polishing chrome until it shined. Sixteen years later, when I started my own business, I again had to know how to do every job in the company – advertising, marketing, producing and negotiation contracts.
Working at the carwash taught me that there is a direct connection between work and a feeling of self-esteem. Young people who refuse jobs that they consider inferior or low-paying are only hurting themselves3. As long as you do your best, every job is a learning experience and a step to a better4 job.”
(Adapted from Reader’s Digest, January, 1999)
Another way to write the sentence “BET specializes in producing programs for the African-American community” (lines 3 and 4), is
a) the African-American community is specialized in producing programs by BET.
b) programs are specialized for the African-American community by BET.
c) producing programs is a specialization for the African-American community in BET.
d) BET is specialized in producing The African-American community.
QUESTÃO ANULADA!!
MARQUE A ALTERNATIVA [C]
MARQUE A ALTERNATIVA [C]
PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO
MARQUE A ALTERNATIVA [C]
Gabarito:
PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO
Nenhuma das alternativas reescreve corretamente o que foi colocado, o que acarretou na anulação da questão. Na alternativa a o erro se encontra ao falar que a comunidade africana-americana é especializada, e não a comunidade BET. Na alternativa b, o erro se encontra ao falar que os programas são especializados para a comunidade americana-africana, só que a expressão original diz que quem é especializada é a BET. Na alternativa c, o erro está em falar specialization (ao invés de specialty), porque a especialização quer dizer um curso, enquanto a especialidade é uma característica. Na alternativa d, o erro está em falar que a BET é especializada na produção das comunidades africanas-americanas, o que está totalmente errado.