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

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

MACKENZIE 2019: QUESTÃO 14 (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 14
Mackenzie 2019: Look at the following sentence transcribed from the text and choose the alternative that best explains it:

"(…), whose cash-starved curators, even before the fire, became so desperate that they took to crowdsourcing funds to repair tattered displays."

a) Curators were only asking money for the government to repair the museum.

b) After the fire, curators tried different paths to raise money to repair the museum.

c) Curators were so desperate that they tried other possibilities of raising money, such as crowdsourcing funds.

d) Curators intended to replace the old displays.

e) Even before the fire, curators were desperate with the crowded museum.

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

RESOLUÇÃO:
A alternativa que melhor explica a sentença proposta é:
Os curadores estavam tão desesperados que tentaram outras possibilidades de levantar dinheiro, tais como financiamentos coletivos.

GABARITO:
c) Curators were so desperate that they tried other possibilities of raising money, such as crowdsourcing funds.

PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
- Mackenzie 2019: Choose the alternative that is INCORRECT about the meaning of philosophy and the role of the philosopher, in a wide perspective.