Questão 753638

Read the text and answer questions 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45.

Help wanted: \$78,000 a year to taste candy while sitting on your couch

Alexandra Peers

Candy Funhouse, an online shop that sells from chocolate bars to gummies and licorice, is hiring for a \$78,000 a year, work-from-home job as its Chief Candy Officer. Duties include: “leading candy board meetings, being the head taste tester and all things fun. Several thousand candidates have already applied for the position”, said Chief Executive Officer Jamal Hejazi. He noted that he’s been surprised by the number of applications and the elaborate videos of entire families offering to share the tasting duties and the salary. (...) Candy Funhouse, based outside of Toronto, is headed by a quartet of 20-and-30-something-yearold siblings who grew up in the area and _______ parents owned donut shops and a local restaurant. (...) Hejazi noted that reports on social media claiming that the Chief Candy Officer will be required to eat 3,500 pieces of candy per month are incorrect. “That’s too many”, Hejazi said.

Adapted from https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/01/business-food/candytasting-job-posting/index.html

Which alternative can replace the word in bold in the text without changing the meaning and the structure?