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Questão de Inglês — Vocabulário | Vocabulary — CESPE / CEBRASPE 2023

InglêsVocabulário | Vocabulary
Código
ce166467
Banca
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão
TBG
Ano
2023
Nível
Superior
Text CB1A2-I

        Oppenheimer’s brief advance into astrophysics began with a 1938 paper about neutron stars, which continued in a 1939 installment that further incorporated the principles of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He then published a third paper on black holes on September 1st, 1939—but at the time, it was scarcely noticed because this was the very day Germany invaded Poland, launching World War II. Oppenheimer never wrote on the topic again.
        Even if it hadn’t been overshadowed by war, Oppenheimer’s work on neutron stars and black holes “was not understood to be terribly significant at the time,” says Cathryn Carson, a historian of science at the University of California, Berkeley.
        Each paper was written with a different member of the swarm of graduate students that Oppenheimer carefully cultivated. These protégés facilitated his ability to jump between research topics—and ultimately, helped him develop some of his most important contributions to physics.
        Oppenheimer’s climactic third paper, written with his student Hartland Snyder, explores the implications of general relativity on the universe’s most massive stars. Although the physicists needed to include some assumptions to simplify the question, they determined that a large enough star would gravitationally collapse indefinitely—and within a finite amount of time, meaning that the objects we now know as black holes could exist.

Internet: <scientificamerican.com> (adapted)
Based on the vocabulary and linguistic aspects of text CB1A2-I, judge the following item.The word “overshadowed” (first sentence of the second paragraph) means, in the context of text CB1A2-I, “made less noticeable”.
  1. CCerto
  2. EErrado
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Vocabulário em Contexto – "overshadowed"

Gabarito: Certo. No contexto do texto, a palavra "overshadowed" significa "tornado menos notável" ou "ofuscado". O segundo parágrafo afirma que, mesmo se não tivesse sido overshadowed pela guerra, o trabalho de Oppenheimer não foi considerado terrivelmente significativo na época. A guerra fez com que o trabalho ficasse menos notado, confirmando o sentido de "made less noticeable".

A banca cobra a capacidade de inferir o significado de uma palavra a partir do contexto imediato. O texto usa "overshadowed by war" para indicar que a guerra ofuscou/ocultou a importância do trabalho, exatamente como descrito na assertiva.

✅ CERTO.

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