(IME - 2011/2012 - 2ª FASE)
Leia o texto seguinte e complete as lacunas com a palavra ou expressão correta de acordo com o espaçamento 04.
Atmospheric Physics is the study of physical processes in the atmosphere; understanding the climate and the weather, and the physical reasons ____01______ it is as it is and how it might change in the future. My own particular research background is in radiative transfer and ____02______ I mean the transport of electromagnetic radiation through the atmosphere; _____03_____ the Sun’s radiation coming in, getting absorbed and scattered in the air, and the transfer of heat radiation emitted by the Earth’s surface. From a _____04_____ physics perspective there’s an awful lot of things about the atmosphere that we don’t understand, and of course, it’s very classical physics in the ____05______ that it’s looking at fluid dynamics and thermodynamics applied to the natural environment. What motivates us really is to try and explain what we see in the environment, what _____06_____ it and what might change it in the future, both in _____07_____ of local weather but also climate, by _____08_____ I mean larger areas and larger timescales. My background has led me to an interest in how solar radiation _____09_____ in the atmosphere, so ____10______ at how changes in the Sun might affect the climate for the past year.
Gabarito:
purely
Resolução:
O enunciado pede para que seja selecionada a palavra que melhor preenche a lacuna 4. A frase original é "From a _____04_____ physics perspective there’s an awful lot of things about the atmosphere that we don’t understand [...]", assim, podemos perceber, através do contexto, que o autor quer dizer que de uma perspectiva estritamente física/científica, deixando de lado explicações esotéricas e religiosas, existem diversas coisas as quais ainda não possuem explicação.
Dessa forma, temos:
a) Alternativa incorreta. Propositalmente não preenche bem a lacuna 4.
b) Alternativa incorreta. Possivelmente não preenche bem a lacuna 4.
c) Alternativa correta. Puramente está adequada ao contexto, sendo um sinônimo, nesse caso, de estritamente.
d) Alternativa incorreta. Meramente ou pouco não preenche bem a lacuna 4.
e) Alternativa incorreta. Anteriormente não preenche bem a lacuna 4.