FATEC 2002: Considere a frase “It’s a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes, says Stampfer.”

Leia o texto e responda às questões de 25 a 28.

Potatoes are supposed to be one of the world’s greatest foods, filled with calcium, niacin, iron, vitamin C and plenty of carbo-hydrates. A diet of milk and potatoes, the textbooks say, will provide all the nutrients the human body needs. But there is trouble lurking beneath the skin. According to a controversial new theory, potatoes, eaten in large quantities by a population increasingly sedentary and overweight, may be a major contributor to America’s alarming rates of heart disease and diabetes.

The problem, according to Meir Stampfer, a nutrition professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, is pototato starch. When you eat a potato and that starch hits the saliva in your mouth, its tightly bundled rnolecules immediately get turned into sugars, which make a beeline for the blood. “You ate a potato,” says Stampfer, “but your body is getting pure glucose.” The flood of blood sugar sets off a chain reaction. Insulin pours out of the pancreas. Triglycerides shoot up. HDL (good) cholesterol takes a dive. “lt’s a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes,” says Stampfer.

This is not just a potato problem. It’s also a problem with white bread, bagels and most white rice. But couch potatoes don’t have to give up their spuds altogether, as long as they eat them in moderation. Or they could switch to sweet potatoes and yams, which metabolize less rapidly and wreak less havoc with blood sugar.

TIME, January 21, 2002

As questões de 25 a 28 referem-se ao texto cujo vocabulário se segue:

• greatest foods = melhores alimentos

• filled with = cheio de

• plenty of = muitos

• to provide = fornecer, prover

• to lurk = ocultar-se, esconder-se

• beneath the skin = sob a pele

• controversial = polêmico

• increasingly = cada vez mais, gradativamente

• major = importante

• alarming rates = índices alarmantes

• starch = amido

• to hit = atingir, chegar a

• tightly bundled = bem compactadas

• to turn into = transformar-se em

• to make a beeline for = ir direto para

• flood = fluxo

• to set off = desencadear

• a chain reaction = reação em cadeia

• to pour out = despejar, fluir

• to shoot up = aumentar consideravelmente

• to take a dive = diminuir

• setup = organização, estrutura

• bagel = pão, rosca

• white rice = arroz branco

• couch potatoes = viciados em TV

• to give up = largar, deixar de, abandonar

• spuds = batatas

• as long as = enquanto

• to switch to = mudar para

• yam = inhame

• to wreak = causar

• havoc = dano, destruição

QUESTÃO 28

FATEC 2002: Considere a frase “It’s a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes, says Stampfer.”, no segundo parágrafo do texto.

Assinale a alternativa em que a transposição dessa frase para o discurso indireto está correta, completando a frase abaixo.

Stampfer says

a) it was a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.

b) it is a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.

c) it has been a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.

d) it had been a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.

e) it will be a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:

- FATEC 2002: Assinale o trecho do texto que tem o significado mais próximo de “couch potatoes” em “But couch potatoes don’t have to give up their spuds altogether,...”, no último parágrafo do texto.

RESOLUÇÃO (Cursos Objetivo):

Quando o verbo da oração introdutória estiver no “Simple Present”, não há alteração no tempo verbal no discurso indireto: He says it is a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.

GABARITO:

b) it is a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.

PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:

- FATEC 2002: Com base no texto, assinale a afirmativa correta sobre a doença misteriosa constatada na cerimônia pré-Oscar.

QUESTÃO DISPONÍVEL EM:

- Prova FATEC 2002.1 com Resolução e Gabarito

REDAÇÃO:

- Redação Fatec 2002.1: Construindo novas cidades – Cidades sem medo