Questão
ID 1493797Disciplina: Língua Inglesa
Assunto: Interpretação de Texto | Text Interpretation
Ano: 2022 Banca: QUADRIX - Instituto Quadrix Órgão: Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Distrito Federal
Text for the items from 92 to 102.
1 _____ I saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by toI saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by to
ask her how she was doing, how her family was. She looked
up, voice lowered, and just whimpered: “I’m so busy… I am
4 _ so busy… have so much going on”. The tone wasso busy… have so much going on”. The tone was
exacerbated, tired, even overwhelmed.
___ How did we end up living like this? Why do we doHow did we end up living like this? Why do we do
7 _ this to ourselves? Why do we do this to our children? Whenthis to ourselves? Why do we do this to our children? When
did we forget that we are human beings, not human doings?
And it is not only adults. Whatever happened to a
10 _ world in which kids get muddy, get dirty, get messy, andworld in which kids get muddy, get dirty, get messy, and
heavens, get bored? Do we have to love our children so
much that we overschedule them, making them stressed
13 _ and busy — just like us?and busy — just like us?
___ What happened to a world in which we can sit withWhat happened to a world in which we can sit with
the people we love so much and have slow conversations
16 _ about the state of our heart and soul, conversations thatabout the state of our heart and soul, conversations that
slowly unfold, conversations with pregnant pauses and
silences that we are in no rush to fill?
19 ___ This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what itThis disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it
is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is
spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps
22 _ our ability to be fully present with those we love the mostour ability to be fully present with those we love the most
in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of
community that we all so desperately crave.
The Disease of Being Busy.
Internet: <https://onbeing.org> (adapted).
Based on the text, judge the items from 92 to 102.
The term “Whatever” (line 9) functions as a pronoun.