🔖 PUCRS Inglês | Vestibular Verão 2025 | Medicina | Questão 06 Comentada | 🏛️ B3GE™

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🟨 QUESTÃO 06

Match expressions 1, 2, and 3 to the sentences, keeping the same meaning they have in text 1.

1. Calling a Spade a Spade
2. splitting […] hairs
3. reinventing a wheel

( ) In sci-fi and climate fiction, the constant act of [_________] with dystopian futures seems like a waste of time, when the real challenge lies in translating these speculative visions into actionable strategies for our present environmental crises.
( ) In the midst of a climate crisis, with cities sinking and forests ablaze, debating minor technicalities in policy feels like [_________] when we should be taking bold actions to save our planet.
( ) It’s time we start [_________] and acknowledge that our current environmental policies are inadequate in addressing the urgent threat of climate change.

The alternative that presents the correct top-down answers is

A) 1 – 2 – 3
B) 2 – 3 – 1
C) 3 – 2 – 1
D) 1 – 3 – 2

Gabarito: C

🧭 Leitura orientada

É preciso reconhecer o sentido idiomático das expressões no texto-base e aplicá-las a novos contextos.

Sentença 1 → reinventing a wheel (3). 🚩 Pegadinha evitada: indica fazer algo desnecessariamente quando algo já existe.

Sentença 2 → splitting hairs (2). 🚩 Pegadinha evitada: refere-se a discutir detalhes insignificantes.

Sentença 3 → calling a spade a spade (1). 🚩 Pegadinha evitada: significa falar direta e francamente.

🚩 Armadilhas da banca

A banca tenta confundir os candidatos com contextos diferentes, mas o sentido idiomático permanece o mesmo.

🧠 Resumo B3GE™ Master

As correspondências corretas são 3 – 2 – 1. Portanto, a alternativa correta é C.