(PUC - RS - 1999)
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Sylvia, a plump, pint-sized sexagenarian who 1may even be 2slightly septuagenarian, was indignant, "Hay-on-Wye is a town, not a village!," she says. Sylvia claims to have a "typical Welsh face". In other words, the features of a 3rather special ethnic group that looks upon the nearby English with scornful disdain. 4This town of 1,500 has acquired a unique status because of the 500,000 people who visit the place each year.
5Local tourist brochures say that Hay, located at the foot of the verdant Radnorshire Hills, is 6the northernmost point in Brecon Beacons National Park south of the Wye river and has the Black Mountains to 7its south and west. But 10neither the park nor the mountains are enough to explain why Hay attracts so many visitors. Even Golden Valley, which 8stretches eastward into English - in other words, foreign - territory is not sufficient. The exotic Welsh language - strings of consonants with an occasional stray vowel tossed in here and there - can also be 9ruled out.
No, the real reason is that Hay has 31 bookstores for a population of 1,500. Thirty-two if you count the beekeeper's shop located on the edge of town, where a hundred or so books on bees stand next to jars of honey.
(Air France Magazine, March 99.)
The correct passive form of "This town of 1,500 has acquired a unique status" (ref.4) is "A unique status...
Gabarito: has been acquired by this town of 1,500."