(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.
The sentence “Then all hell breaks loose.” means that ...
Gabarito:
the U.S. soldiers were caught in a tremendously serious situation
Resolução:
A) INCORRECT: pois não há nada no texto que indique essa liberação e que o inferno se refira a isso, mas, na verdade, esse "inferno" se dá por conta do acionamento das placas de pressão também.
B) INCORRECT: pois a expressão "o inferno se abre" não se refere ao fogo inimigo que eles recebem (que só vem depois dessa expressão), mas sim devido ao fato da explosão causada por um dos IEDs.
C) INCORRECT: dizer que os militares dos EUA não têm medo dos insurgentes sunitas nem das milícias xiitas não corresponde à ideia de "o inferno se abre", mas sim essa expressão se refere a um evento que ocorreu, uma explosão, algo grandioso.
D) INCORRECT: pois analisando o contexto da expressão, não podemos dizer que "o inferno se abre" se refere aos combatentes dos EUA que lutaram como demônios libertados do inferno, mas sim que a explosão causou um pandemônio na região.
E) CORRECT: porque a expressão "o inferno se abre" só vem após a situação de uma explosão ocorrer e, assim, os soldados americanos terem sido pegos em uma situação tremendamente grave, de mortes, ataques e mais explosões.