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The suitable prepositions to fill in blanks 1, 2 and 3 in text 2 are respectively
Read text 2 and answer the question according to it.
TEXT 2
GOOGLE HAS REFUSED GOVERNMENT
DEMANDS TO TAKE DOWN A
GAY MUSIC VIDEO IN KENYA
DEMANDS TO TAKE DOWN A
GAY MUSIC VIDEO IN KENYA
Kenya’s attempt to stop people from
watching a music video celebrating gay
couples is backfiring. Three weeks after
trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of
Same Love, (1)__________ Macklemore
and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused
to pull the video from YouTube, where it has
now been viewed (2)____________ 140,000
times. Kenyan regulators banned the video
in late February, claiming that the content
threatens to turn the country
(3)___________ “Sodom and Gomorrah”
and declaring that anyone caught distributing
it would be punished. But the agency that
banned it also retweeted a link to it—which
ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s
nascent gay rights campaign. (…)
watching a music video celebrating gay
couples is backfiring. Three weeks after
trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of
Same Love, (1)__________ Macklemore
and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused
to pull the video from YouTube, where it has
now been viewed (2)____________ 140,000
times. Kenyan regulators banned the video
in late February, claiming that the content
threatens to turn the country
(3)___________ “Sodom and Gomorrah”
and declaring that anyone caught distributing
it would be punished. But the agency that
banned it also retweeted a link to it—which
ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s
nascent gay rights campaign. (…)
Source: http://qz.com/638461/google-hasrefused-government-demands-to-take-downa-gay-music-video-in-kenya
(adapted).
Access: March 22nd, 2016.
(adapted).
Access: March 22nd, 2016.
The suitable prepositions to fill in blanks 1, 2
and 3 in text 2 are respectively
and 3 in text 2 are respectively
- A)by, over, into.
- B)at, beside, through.
- C)by, from, beside.
- D)over, on, from.
- E)through, by, into.
Resposta:
A alternativa correta é A)
A resposta correta para as lacunas 1, 2 e 3 é a alternativa A) by, over, into.
Na lacuna 1, a preposição "by" é utilizada para indicar autoria, referindo-se ao remake feito por Macklemore e Ryan Lewis. Na lacuna 2, "over" expressa uma quantidade superior a 140.000 visualizações. Na lacuna 3, "into" completa a expressão "turn into", que significa transformar-se em, neste caso comparando o país a "Sodom and Gomorrah".
As outras alternativas não se adequam semanticamente: "at" não indica autoria, "beside" significa ao lado, "through" indica atravessar ou por meio de, e "from" indica origem ou afastamento, não se encaixando no contexto das frases.
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