(IME - 2019/2020 - 2ª FASE)
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HALF A CENTURY AGO, THE MOON LANDING SHOWED US THE FRAGILITY OF OUR PLANET, AND THAT NOTHING WAS IMPOSSIBLE.
Dr Dame SUE ION, DBE FREng FRS
Chair of the UK Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board and chair of the judging panel for the MacRobert Award for engineering innovation.
“Fifty years ago, the Apollo 11 space mission took its place in global history.
I remember watching the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was an amazing achievement, enabled by a brilliant team of engineers, scientists and technicians at Nasa. I was still at school, and we were utterly awed by the engineering and ingenuity that made it happen. [...]
Today, half a century later, it’s important to remember how crucial the inspiration of that one small step was to a new generation of engineers around the world – it would underpin so many of the innovations we take for granted today.
Here in the UK, a “new Britain” was being forged in the “white heat” of technology. The MacRobert Award for Engineering Innovation was presented for the first time in 1969. Established by the MacRobert Trust, the medal features a man leaping for the moon to commemorate the lunar landing, and the £50,000 prize recognises those that meet three key criteria – commercial success, societal benefit, and true innovation.
In a year that saw Americans on the moon, ___________(33)_____________. They announced joint winners: a team from Freeman, Fox and Partners for the aerodynamic deck design of the Severn Bridge – later used for long-span bridges all over the world – and a team from Rolls-Royce for the Pegasus engine that powered the Harrier, the world’s first vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Since 1969, the global influence of winning British innovations has been maintained, with a host of world firsts, including the CT scanner in 1972, the first bionic hand in 2008 and Raspberry Pi, the world’s most affordable computer, in 2017.”
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Choose the appropriate continuation for "In a year that saw Americans on the moon”, ________.
(A) the government leaders had to set up a committee to establish new criteria for the medal.
(B) the British could not think of anything else but planet Earth.
(C) all countries started the arms race people would witness in decades to come as a threat to world peace.
(D) British citizens thought of a new concept for invention but came up with ideas not so new.
(E) the judges had a tough decision as to who should win that first award for British innovation
Gabarito:
(E) the judges had a tough decision as to who should win that first award for British innovation
A alternativa E
("os juízes tiveram uma decisão difícil sobre quem deveria ganhar o primeiro prêmio pela inovação britânica") completa a lacuna, uma vez que o parágrafo informa que foram anunciados vencedores conjuntos.
As outras alternativas estão erradas e não se encaixam no contexto.
A) os governantes tiveram que formar uma comissão para estabelecer novos critérios para a medalha.
B) os britânicos não conseguiam pensar em mais nada além do planeta Terra.
C) todos os países começaram a corrida armamentista que as pessoas testemunhariam nas próximas décadas como uma ameaça à paz mundial.
D) Os cidadãos britânicos pensaram em um novo conceito de invenção, mas tiveram ideias não muito novas.