(IME - 2009/2010 - 1ª FASE)
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Billions of dollars spent on defeating improvised explosive devices (IED) are beginning to show what technology can and cannot do for the evolving struggle.
Two platoons of U.S. Army scouts are in a field deep in the notorious “Triangle of Death” south of Baghdad, a region of countless clashes between Sunni insurgents and Shia militias. The platoons are guided by a local man who’s warned them of pressure-plate improvised explosive devices, designed to explode when stepped on. He has assured them that he knows where the IED’s are, which means he is almost certainly a former Sunni insurgent.
The platoons come under harassing fire. It stops, but later the tension mounts again as they maneuver near an abandoned house known to shelter al-Qaeda fighters. A shot rings out; the scouts take cover. They don’t realize it’s just their local guide, with an itchy trigger finger, taking the potshot at the house. The lieutenant leading the patrol summons three riflemen to cover the abandoned house.
Then all hell breaks loose. One of the riflemen, a sergeant, steps on a pressure-plate IED. The blast badly injures him, the two other riflemen, and the lieutenant. A Navy explosives specialist along on the mission immediately springs into action, using classified gear to comb the area for more bombs. Until he gives the all clear, no one can move, not even to tend the bleeding men. Meanwhile, one of the frozen-inspace scouts notices another IED right next to him and gives a shout, provoking more combing in his area. Then a big area has to be cleared so that the medevac helicopter already on the way can land.
That incident, which took place on 7 November 2007, exhibits many of the hallmarks of the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan – a small patrol; a local man of dubious background; Navy specialists working with soldiers on dry land; and costly technologies pressed into service against cheap and crude weapons. And, most of all, death by IED.
What scene is narrated in this passage?
Gabarito:
U.S. Army platoons face trouble on a mined field.
Resolução:
A) INCORRECT: a história não gira entorno de um helicóptero que pousa em uma área perigosa, mas esse aontecimento é apenas uma das ações que se refere à cena de guerra.
B) INCORRECT: pois não há a descrição explícita de um confronto entre os sunitas e os xiitas, mas apenas a análise do local pelos pelotões americanos.
C) CORRECT: pois o que o texto nos mostra é exatamente que pelotões do Exército dos EUA enfrentam problemas em um campo minado, que vai narrar toda a trama dos soldados americanos e da sua vivência em países orientais.
D) INCORRECT: não há menções que um dos membros dos pelotões se mostrou ser um traidor, mas apenas que a situação saiu do controle quando um dos soldados é atingido por um IED.
E) INCORRECT: pois o foco do texto não está na invasão de uma casa abandonada no “Triângulo da Morte”, mas sim a situação de pelotões do exército em um espaço de campo minado.