Mackenzie 2019: In the text, Washington Fajardo, an architect in Rio, asserts that

MACKENZIE 2019: QUESTÃO 13 (TARDE) Read the text below and answer questions  12 ,  13  and  14 : What Is Lost When a Museum Vanishes? ...

MACKENZIE 2019: QUESTÃO 13 (TARDE)

Read the text below and answer questions 12, 13 and 14:

What Is Lost When a Museum Vanishes? In Brazil, a Nation’s Story

By Michael Kimmelman

Ash is still blowing through the park surrounding Brazil’s National Museum, which continues to tally its losses. According to the deputy director at the museum, a 200-year-old Rio de Janeiro institution, the fire that burned down much of the building two weeks ago may have consumed 90 percent of the collection.

That’s thousands, maybe millions, of objects — incomprehensible numbers

It’s always easier to think in smaller terms, specific examples. The museum preserved documentation of indigenous languages for which there are no longer any living native speakers, as The New York Times has reported. Every one of those records apparently went up in smoke, taking with it a culture, a civilization, the story of a life, a chapter of us.

Because that’s what museums like the National Museum ultimately do. They piece together the narrative of who we are, where we come from, where we belong — in the universe, on this planet, as nations, communities, individuals.

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But during recent years, residents have watched government officials funnel billions toward the Olympics, the World Cup and projects like Santiago Calatrava’s Museum of Tomorrow, ignoring public services and bedrock institutions like the National Museum, whose cash-starved curators, even before the fire, became so desperate that they took to crowdsourcing funds to repair tattered displays.

Writing in the newspaper El País, Washington Fajardo, an architect and planner from Rio, described Brazil as “a happy prisoner of modernity.” His point: The country’s political and business leaders, grasping and reckless, have fixated on projecting Brazil as a global front-runner and neglected the country’s cultural patrimony.

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Adapted version from The New York Times, September, 2018.

QUESTÃO 13
Mackenzie 2019: In the text, Washington Fajardo, an architect in Rio, asserts that:

a) Authorities in Brazil are so interested in leading the country to modernity that they forget the past.

b) Authorities are worried about the country’s cultural patrimony.

c) The prisons in Brazil are planned and modern.

d) Modernity is concerning the Brazilian government.

e) Government and business leaders don’t agree on projecting Brazil to the world.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:
- Mackenzie 2019: According to the text, select the alternative that is INCORRECT

RESOLUÇÃO:
No texto, Washington Fajardo, um arquiteto do Rio, afirma que:
As autoridades no Brasil estão tão interessadas em conduzir o país à modernidade que se esquecem do passado.

GABARITO:
a) Authorities in Brazil are so interested in leading the country to modernity that they forget the past.

PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
- Mackenzie 2019: Look at the following sentence transcribed from the text and choose the alternative that best explains it