“In fact” (R.12) means As a matter of fact.
This text refers to items from 16 through 25.
1 Japan and Korea are outstanding markets in terms
of the world’s advances in cellular telephony, where
multimedia applications have surged into feverish
4 popularity. Users in these countries have demanded
velocity and high quality data transmission – such as
images, videos and sounds – as the principal distinctive
7 features for the cellular telephone. Although the industry in
Brazil is not yet experiencing the same phase as in the
Asian countries, innovative third generation services,
10 aligned with world-class technology, are already present,
with data transmission speeds of up to 2.4 Mbps.
In fact, in some cases, Brazil has held multimedia
13 application launches simultaneously with the United States,
tremendously increasing the economic and digital inclusion
that cellular telephony has fomented in recent years. The
16 heavy impact of mobile communication on Brazilian
society can be measured by the expansion of the customer
base, which has been growing at historic rates of 30% a
19 year and now serves over 50 million customers. In other
words, four out of every ten Brazilians have a cellular
telephone.
22 The importance of mobile telephony has already
surpassed that of the traditional fixed telephone system,
because the cell phone actually fulfills the function of
25 taking communication to all levels of the population. Its
widespread network has opened gateways to regions that
formerly had not been benefited by the implementation of
28 a fixed telephone system, such as, for example, many rural
areas that are now mobile telephone customers.
The responsibility that cellular telephony carries
31 as an instrument for transforming people’s lives tends to
increase enormously in the short term. In Brazil, third
generation CDMA 3G EVDO service is already offered and
34 is able to provide handheld resources, similar to CD, DVD
and TV, anywhere and at any time, based on Qualcomm’s
cutting edge CDMA technology.
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Based on the text above, judge the following items.
“In fact” (R.12) means As a matter of fact.
- C) CERTO
- E) ERRADO
Resposta:
A alternativa correta é C)
O item analisa a expressão "In fact" presente no texto (linha 12) e afirma que seu significado equivale a "As a matter of fact".
A expressão "In fact" é uma locução adverbial amplamente utilizada no inglês para introduzir uma informação que confirma, enfatiza ou exemplifica uma declaração anterior, funcionando como um reforço factual. Sinônimos comuns incluem "as a matter of fact", "indeed" e "actually".
No contexto do texto, a frase "In fact, in some cases, Brazil has held multimedia application launches simultaneously with the United States" utiliza a expressão para introduzir um argumento concreto que corrobora e fortalece a afirmação feita anteriormente sobre o Brasil possuir serviços de tecnologia de ponta. A tradução para "De fato" ou "Na verdade" em português confirma que o sentido é de afirmação e ênfase de um fato real.
Portanto, a equivalência semântica entre "In fact" e "As a matter of fact" está correta, tornando a afirmação do item verdadeira.
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