EXPRESSÃO IDIOMÁTICA – ON MY RETURN HOME – IME-2019/2020 – LÍNGUA INGLESA.

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➧ TEXTO: 

On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

CHARLES DARWIN, M.A.

Fellow of the Royal, Geological, Linnæan, etc. societies; Author of Journal of researches during H. M. S. Beagle's Voyage round the world. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1859. 

Introduction 

When on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species–that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. _____ my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it.

(...) 

Joseph Migga Kiza. Cryptography. In: Computer network

security. Chattanooga: Springer, 2005, p. 257-8 (adapted).

(IME-2019/2020)

Escolha a alternativa que completa o texto apropriadamente:

(A) Over

(B) For

(C) Inbound

(D) Due to

(E) On 

Resposta :  E

 - Questão sobre COLLOCATION:

• ON MY RETURN HOME  - NO MEU RETORNO PARA CASA, DE REGRESSO PARA CASA.

- NO TEXTO:

• ON my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it.
• (Ao voltar para casa, ocorreu-me, em 1837, que talvez algo pudesse ser feito sobre essa questão, acumulando e refletindo pacientemente sobre todos os tipos de fatos que poderiam ter alguma influência sobre isso.)
• Contextualmente, a preposição  ON é parte integrante da expressão idiomática ON MY RETURN HOME que quer dizer DE REGRESSO PARA CASA.
• Portanto a opção correta aqui da questão é a alternativa (E).
• Demais opções incorretas.

- RESOLUÇÃO RÁPIDA:

Escolha a alternativa que completa o texto apropriadamente:

(IME-2019/2020) 

(A) Over

(B) For

(C) Inbound

(D) Due to

(E) On