Inglês — CACD 2010

From the text, it can be inferred that Oriana Fallaci grew tired of the Vietnam War.

From the text, it can be inferred that Oriana Fallaci tried deliberately to use the music-like quality of her mother tongue to lure her interviewers.

From the text, it can be inferred that Oriana Fallaci had become a close friend of the Italian Ambassador in Hanoi at the time of the war.

From the text, it can be inferred that Oriana Fallaci had just quit smoking cigarettes.

From the text, it can be inferred that Oriana Fallaci seemed at times defenceless, vulnerable, and child-like.

The relationship established between the ideas of “unfailingly courteous” (l.9) and “cross” (l.10) is one of contrast.

The relationship established between the ideas of “unfailingly courteous” (l.9) and “cross” (l.10) is one of inclusion.

The relationship established between the ideas of “unfailingly courteous” (l.9) and “cross” (l.10) is one of addition.

The relationship established between the ideas of “unfailingly courteous” (l.9) and “cross” (l.10) is one of reiteration.

The relationship established between the ideas of “unfailingly courteous” (l.9) and “cross” (l.10) is one of result.

In this fragment, the words “lured” and “boasting” mean, respectively, challenged and acknowledging.

In this fragment, the words “lured” and “boasting” mean, respectively, coerced and showing off.

In this fragment, the words “lured” and “boasting” mean, respectively, pressed and stating.

In this fragment, the words “lured” and “boasting” mean, respectively, enticed and bragging.

In this fragment, the words “lured” and “boasting” mean, respectively, tempted and denying.

Although fascinated by power, Fallaci was more lenient with democratically elected politicians.

One of the basic criteria Fallaci adopted to handpick her interviewees was gender-based: half of them had to be necessarily women politicians.

Kissinger believed he rightfully belonged to the very select group of world politicians Fallaci had already interviewed.

Fallaci, in her interview with Kissinger, praised President Nixon to constraint Kissinger.

In this fragment, the verb “trump” means to foster.

In this fragment, the verb “trump” means to be bracketed with.

In this fragment, the verb “trump” means to hold on to.

In this fragment, the verb “trump” means to prevail over.

In this fragment, the verb “trump” means to vie against.

Fallaci exploited Kissinger’s somewhat big ego to trick him into making some public statements he would later regret.

Fallaci had either been a heavy smoker or had smoked for a long time.

The highly professional sense of Fallaci as a journalist in search of truth made her avoid any sort of tricks in approaching her interviewees, both powerful figures and common people.

Kissinger seems to suggest that Fallaci was not entirely professionally ethical or honest when dealing with the interview he had granted her.

South-east Asian classical economics rather than European philosophy laid the main theoretical and practical foundation for Sen’s theses.

Sen’s work, although focused on the individual and on the idea of liberty, does not lose sight of the inherent dynamics of the different communities.

Communitarian opponents make up the largest and most vocal group of Sen’s critics.

Sen dismisses out of hand the ideas advanced by English philosophers of the XVII and XVIII centuries.

The author creates in the reader’s mind the distinct impression that her father was a caring parent who was well-aware of the peculiar atmosphere that pervaded college campuses in the late ‘70s: permissive, in a state of constant political unrest, and overindulgent in terms of drinking.

The overall view the author outlines of late ‘70s South Africa is basically descriptive and provides information about a politically, socially, and racially unequal and unfair society poised on the verge of momentous changes.

The author creates in the reader’s mind the distinct impression that her father was prudish parent who persistently demanded that his daughter be or appear to be very prim, proper, modest and righteous at all times.

The author creates in the reader’s mind the distinct impression that her father was an overprotective and controlling individual who wanted to be an integral part in all aspects of his daughter’s life.

The author creates in the reader’s mind the distinct impression that her father was a paranoid father who refused to let go, and clamped her down with hard and fast rules and strict discipline.

The overall view the author outlines of late ‘70s South Africa is inherently flawed and, therefore, pointless for it fails to place the country in a broader regional, African, or world context.

The overall view the author outlines of late ‘70s South Africa is unduly optimistic, coloured by the typically unattainable idealism of young people.

The author creates in the reader’s mind the distinct impression that her father was a doting father whose motto could very well be “Spare the rod, spoil the child”.

The overall view the author outlines of late ‘70s South Africa is predictably hopelessly distorted by the author’s white middle-class background and petit bourgeois values.

The overall view the author outlines of late ‘70s South Africa is oddly detached and unemotional due, perhaps, to the fact that she can only sympathize with the oppressed black population’s plight up to a point.

Despite having a usually gentle disposition, Sen often flies into a nasty temper whenever any of his ideas are challenged.

Sen finds the theses put forward by Ashoka and Kautilya to be more ground-breaking and insightful than those proposed by some major Western philosophers 14 or 15 centuries later.

Communitarians’ major objection against Sen is based on his vigorous defence of unmitigated individualism.

Even Sen’s followers resent the sheer lack of purism in his championing of freedom.

“scattering” (l.38) can be paraphrased as an unruly mob.

“tipped over” (l.19) can be replaced by was plunged.

“hotbed” (l.10) is synonymous with breeding ground.

“posse” (l.42) and entourage are interchangeable.

The author clearly underscores the striking resemblance the Nationalist Party of South Africa bears to its Nazi counterpart.

Students decided to burlesque Botha’s performance as an ineffectual and chicken-hearted foreign minister by doing a ludicrous and crude imitation of a bird.

Of the three journalism students mentioned in the text, it can be said that the most self-effacing and reserved of them all turned out to be the one to deliver a most violent blow against the apartheid security apparatus.

The university the author attended can be described as a place where neither the teaching staff nor school officials exacted blind obedience from students.