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The arm of Liberty
Anonymous
The Statue of Liberty is probably the ______ icon of the USA.
When the American Civil war ended, Édouard de Laboulaye wanted to commemorate the end of the slave trade with a gift. He and other people who opposed slavery raised money and hired a sculptor, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, to design the Statue. Bartholdi later employed the French engineer, Gustave Eiffel, to devise its structure.
Eiffel designed the Statue to be built around a massive metal skeleton, similar to the Eiffel Tower. In 2018, a map dealer bought some historic papers at an auction in Paris, which included original plans. After special treatment, the papers clearly showed that Eiffel’s plans had been changed by Bartholdi.
We don’t know what Eiffel thought of Bartholdi’s changes. By then, Eiffel was working on other projects, and only his assistants were working with Bartholdi.
At first, visitors could climb a ladder to the torch in Liberty’s arm, but in 1916, there was an explosion on a nearby island. It damaged the Statue and made it unsafe, and the stairway to the torch has been closed ever since. During restoration work in the 1980s, engineers noticed that the structure inside Liberty’s head, shoulders, and arm were different from how they were shown on Eiffel’s plans. The newly discovered papers confirm that Bartholdi had changed Eiffel’s design.
🔗 Adapted from: https://test-english.com/reading
🟨 QUESTÃO 32
The alternative that fills in the blank in the text is:
🄰 most famous.
🄱 more famous.
🄲 less famous than.
🄳 more famous than.
🔐 Gabarito trancado (clique para revelar)
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
A frase apresenta uma avaliação geral e superlativa sobre a Estátua da Liberdade: ela é apresentada como um ícone dos EUA, sem comparação explícita com outro elemento. Isso pede o uso do superlativo absoluto.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica das alternativas
(A) ✅ most famous
Superlativo de “famous”, adequado para indicar o grau máximo sem comparação explícita.
🚩 Pegadinha: simplicidade excessiva pode fazer o candidato procurar algo comparativo.
(B) ❌ more famous
Forma comparativa que exige um segundo termo de comparação, inexistente na frase.
🚩 Pegadinha: confundir comparativo com superlativo.
(C) ❌ less famous than
Comparativo de inferioridade que também exige complemento comparativo.
🚩 Pegadinha: estrutura correta, mas sentido incompatível com o contexto elogioso.
(D) ❌ more famous than
Comparativo de superioridade incompleto, pois falta o termo de comparação.
🚩 Pegadinha: indução pela palavra “than” sem suporte sintático.
🧠 Resumo Final
✔ Frase exige superlativo, não comparação
✔ “Most famous” expressa grau máximo adequadamente
✔ As demais opções exigem termo comparativo inexistente
🎯 Gabarito confirmado: (A)