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Text 2 (questions 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34)

Firefighters on the outskirts of Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, on Feb. 1.

By Damien Cave

SYDNEY, Australia — In a country where there has always been more space than people, where the land and wildlife are cherished like a Picasso, nature is closing in. Fueled by climate change and the world‘s refusal to address it, the fires that have burned across Australia are not just destroying lives, or turning forests as large as nations into ashen moonscapes.

They are also forcing Australians to imagine an entirely new way of life. When summer is feared. When air filters hum in homes that are bunkers, with kids kept indoors. When birdsong and the rustle of marsupials in the bush give way to an eerie, smoky silence.

"I am standing here as a traveler from a new reality, a burning Australia," Lynette Wallworth, an Australian filmmaker, told a crowd of international executives and politicians in Davos, Switzerland, last month. "What was feared and what was warned is no longer in our future, a topic for debate — it is here."

"We have seen," she added, "the unfolding wings of climate change."

Like the fires, it‘s a metaphor that lingers. What many of us have witnessed this fire season does feel alive, like a monstrous gathering force threatening to devour what we hold most dear on a continent that will grow only hotter, drier and more flammable as global temperatures rise.

It‘s also a hint of what may be coming to a town, city or country near you.

And in a land usually associated with relaxed optimism, anxiety and trauma have taken hold. A recent Australia Institute survey found that 57 percent of Australians have been directly affected by the bush fires or their smoke. With officials in New South Wales announcing Thursday that heavy rain had helped them finally extinguish or control all the state‘s fires that have raged this Australian summer, the country seems to be reflecting and wondering what comes next.

Politics have been a focal point — one of frustration for most Australians. The conservative government is still playing down the role of climate change, despite polls showing public anger hitting feverish levels. And yet what‘s emerging alongside public protest may prove more potent.

In interviews all over the fire zone since September, it‘s been clear that Australians are reconsidering far more than energy and emissions. They are stumbling toward new ways of living: Housing, holiday travel, work, leisure, food and water are all being reconsidered.

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"If there‘s not a major shift that comes out of this, we‘re doomed," said Robyn Eckersley, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne who has written extensively about environmental policy around the world. "It does change everything — or it should."

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The biggest shifts, however, may not be structural so much as cultural. Climate change threatens heavy pillars of Australian identity: a life lived outdoors, an international role where the country "punches above its weight," and an emphasis on egalitarianism that, according to some historians, is rooted in Australia‘s settlement by convicts.

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It‘s "a place of childhood vacations and dreams," as one of Australia‘s great novelists, Thomas Keneally, recently wrote. There‘s an absurdity even to the signs. The ones that aren‘t melted warn of wet roads. Just beyond them are trees black as coal and koalas and kangaroos robbed of life.

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The fear of ferocious nature can be tough to shake. Fires are still burning south and west of New South Wales. Last month in Cobargo, a dairy and horse town six hours‘ drive from Sydney, I stood silently waiting for the start of an outdoor funeral for a father and son who had died in the fires a few weeks earlier. When the wind kicked up, everyone near me snapped their heads toward where a fire burned less than a mile away.

The New York Times, fevereiro de 2020.

Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/australia/fires-climate-change.html (Adaptado). Photo by Matthew Abbott.

QUESTÕES 30

Considerando o conteúdo do texto, há apenas um título adequado entre os apresentados abaixo. Assinale-o!

a) Australian Kangaroos are in Danger

b) Australia‘s Outback is Changing

c) The Australian Population is Changing

d) The End of Australia as We Know it

e) Australia is almost destroyed by a Flood

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:

- In the 5th paragraph, the word "our" is used four times as a

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