Mackenzie 2019: In the excerpt: “Via doesn’t see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn’t feel like she needs to protect me as much.”

MACKENZIE 2019: QUESTÃO 13 (MANHÃ) Questions  12  and 1 3  will be based on the folllowing text: Ordinary I know I’m not an ordinary...

MACKENZIE 2019: QUESTÃO 13 (MANHÃ)

Questions 12 and 13 will be based on the folllowing text:

Ordinary

I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid. I mean, sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I have an XBox. Stuff like that makes me ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go.

If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.

But I’m kind of used to how I look by now. I know how to pretend I don’t see the faces people make. We’ve all gotten pretty good at that sort of thing: me, Mom and Dad, Via. Actually, I take that back: Via’s not so good at it. She can get really annoyed when people do something rude. Like, for instance, one time in the playground some older kids made some noises. I don’t even know what the noises were exactly because I didn’t hear them myself, but Via heard and she just started yelling at the kids. That’s the way she is. I’m not that way.

Via doesn’t see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn’t feel like she needs to protect me as much. And Mom and Dad don’t see me as ordinary, either. They see me as extraordinary. I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.

My name is August, by the way. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.

From: Wonder Copyright © 2012 by R. J. Palacio.

Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf.

QUESTÃO 13

Mackenzie 2019: In the excerpt: “Via doesn’t see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn’t feel like she needs to protect me as much.” We find the usage of the second conditional. This means that:

a) The narrator views there is a possibility that his sister sees him as a normal boy.

b) The narrator viewed there was a possibility that his sister saw him as a normal boy.

c) The narrator states that he is an ordinary boy, despite his looks.

d) The narrator views his situation as a comfortable one, that’s why the second conditional is used to express it.

e) The narrator views his situation as an unreal one, like the ones represented by this structure.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:
- Mackenzie 2019: Considering the words below, select the sequence of synonyms that fits them better

RESOLUÇÃO:
O narrador considera sua situação como uma situação irreal como aquelas representadas por essa estrutura (If + Simple Past + Conditional)

GABARITO:
e) The narrator views his situation as an unreal one, like the ones represented by this structure.

PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
- Mackenzie 2019: Read the comic strip and select the option that best interprets it.