VOCABULÁRIO – A STEEP PRICE – FMJ-VESTIBULAR-2020-MEDICINA – LÍNGUA INGLESA – Adjective + Noun Collocation – RESOLUÇÃO DA QUESTÃO Nº47.

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• TEXTO - FMJ-VESTIBULAR-2020-MEDICINA:

Internet celebrities in Asia: from behind the screens

As darkness falls over Taipei City, an image of a woman illuminates the night sky. She’s one of Taiwan’s most famous live streamers, a niche group of celebrities who earn their fame through front-facing video cameras. Her face beams from a 100-foot-tall billboard overlooking Taipei. Across Asia, countless other live streamers joke, eat, and sleep while being watched by thousands on smart phones and computer screens. The most successful among them can make fortunes enough to buy their own islands.

After a long day’s work, Junji Chen treasures time spent gazing into the eyes of his personal favorite, Yutong. Having moved away from his village to work in Taipei, the 42-year-old has little social life. Most of his relationships are with Facebook friends, many of whom he has never met in person — and with live streamers.

Yutong cannot see Chen or hear his voice but, to him, their connection feels raw, real, maybe even reciprocated. In the comment’s section, he can flatter her with compliments or send her money in the form of virtual stickers. One sticker can cost thousands of dollars, a steep price for a factory worker. But for lonely viewers like Junji, who spends a third of his salary on virtual stickers, the companionship is worth it.

(...)

(Claire Wolters.

www.nationalgeographic.com.

31.07.2019. Adaptado.)

01 – (FMJ-VESTIBULAR-2020-MEDICINA) 

In the fragment from the third paragraph

“a steep price for a factory worker”,

the underlined word could be replaced, with no change in meaning, by

(A) acceptable.

(B) appropriate.

(C) excessive.

(D) unexpected.

(E) undesirable.

Resposta :  C

 - Questão sobre VOCABULÁRIO / ADJECTIVE + NOUN COLLOCATION:

• STEEP PRICE ( = EXORBITANT PRICE, A PRICE UNREASONABLE HIGH, A PRICE TOO HIGH) que significa "PREÇO EXORBITANTE, UM PREÇO MUITO ELEVADO", por exemplo, no texto:

• One sticker can cost thousands of dollars, a steep price for a factory worker.  – Um adesivo pode custar milhares de dólares, um preço exorbitante para um operário de fábrica..

• RESOLUÇÃO RÁPIDA:

No fragmento do 3º parágrafo

“a steep price for a factory worker”,

a palavra sublinhada pode ser substituída, sem alteração de significado, por...

(A) acceptable. (aceitável.)

(B) appropriate. (apropriado)

(C) excessive. (excessivo)

(D) unexpected. (inesperado)

(E) undesirable. (indesejável)

➽ Contextualmente "STEEP" significa "EXCESSIVE, EXORBITANT".