Questão de Inglês — Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension — UNIVALI 2025
InglêsInterpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- Código
- qg626639
- Banca
- UNIVALI
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de Luiz Alves - SC
- Ano
- 2025
- Nível
- Superior
- Cargo
- Professor de Língua Inglesa - Edital nº 15
Read the excerpt below:"Troy's trash heaps are the bronze age's search history. To know what mattered 4,500 years ago, don't ask poets − ask the garbage."An English teacher analyzing this metaphorical statement with advanced students examines how the author employs contemporary digital-age imagery to explain archaeological methodology. When discussing the rhetorical effectiveness of comparing ancient waste deposits to modern "search history" and the implicit critique of literary sources versus material evidence, the most accurate interpretation of the author's argumentative strategy is that _________________.Fill in the blank above and select the correct alternative.
- AThe statement indicates that Bronze Age people had internet access and digital technology, which archaeologists have discovered through excavating computer devices and electronic equipment in Troy's waste layers, proving that modern conveniences existed thousands of years earlier than previously believed.
- BThe metaphor implies that literary sources and archaeological evidence are completely identical in their informational value and methodological approaches, with no meaningful differences in how they construct historical knowledge or the types of insights they provide about ancient societies.
- CThe metaphor establishes an accessible analogy for contemporary readers by equating refuse deposits with digital data trails, suggesting that mundane material remains reveal authentic patterns of daily life and social priorities more reliably than epic poetry, which privileges heroic narratives over ordinary existence, though both literary and archaeological sources contribute complementary perspectives on the past.
- DThe author's comparison trivializes archaeological research by reducing complex scientific methodology to simple garbage collection, undermining professional credibility and suggesting that waste analysis requires no specialized training, expertise, or theoretical framework to interpret material culture accurately.