EFOMM 2026 — Inglês | Questão 4
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Esta página apresenta a análise da questão 04 de Inglês da prova da EFOMM 2026. O exercício avalia vocabulário em contexto e exige identificar um sinônimo adequado para a palavra 'indulging'. No trecho apresentado, o termo possui sentido de apoiar ou favorecer determinadas investigações acadêmicas, sendo corretamente substituído por 'supporting'.
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The universe is not locally real
By Daniel Garisto
One of the most unsettling discoveries in the past half a century is that the universe is not locally real. In this context, "real" means that objects have definite properties independent of observation - an apple can be red even when no one is looking. "Local" means that objects can be influenced only by their surroundings and that any influence cannot travel faster than the light. Investigations at the frontier of quantum physics have found that these things cannot both be true. Instead the evidence shows that objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings, and they may also lack definite properties prior to measurement.
This is, of course, deeply contrary to our everyday experiences. As Albert Einstein once bemoaned to a friend, "Do you really believe the moon is not there when you are not looking at it?" To adapt a phrase from author Douglas Adams, the demise of local realism has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Blame for this achievement has now been laid squarely on the shoulders of three physicists: John Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger. They equally split the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science ('Bell inequalities" refers to the pioneering work of Northern Ireland physicist John Stewart Bell, who laid the foundations for the 2022 Physics Nobel in the early 1960s). Colleagues agreed that the trio had it coming, deserving this reckoning for overthrowing reality as we know it. "It was long overdue," says Sandu Popescu, a quantum physicist at the University of Bristol in England. "Without any doubt, the prize is well deserved."
"The experiments beginning with the earliest one of Clauser and continuing along show that this stuff isn't just philosophical, it's real – and like other real things, potentially useful," says Charles H. Bennett, and eminent quantum researcher at IBM. "Each Year I thought, 'Oh, maybe this is the year," says David Kaiser, a physicist and historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2022 "it really was. It was very emotional - and very thrilling."
The journey from fringe to favor was a long one. From about 1940 until as late as 1990, studies of so-called quantum foundations were often treated as philosophy at best and crackpottery at worst. Many scientific journals refused to publish papers on the topic, and academic positions indulging such investigations were nearly impossible to come by. In 1985 Popescu's adviser warned him against a Ph.D. in the subject. "Hе said, 'Look, if you do that, you will have fun for five years, and then you will be jobless, "Popescu says. Today quantum information science is among the most vibrant subfields in all of physics.
📘 Question
QUESTÃO
"[...] academic positions indulging such investigations were nearly impossible to come by", the word "indulging" can be correctly replaced - with no change in meaning - by:
suppressing.
restraining.
denying.
supporting.
withholding.
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📘 Detailed Solution
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🧭 Leitura orientada
A questão avalia vocabulário em contexto, exigindo a substituição da palavra “indulging” por um sinônimo que mantenha exatamente o mesmo sentido no trecho citado do texto.
🔍 Análise do trecho
A frase afirma que, por décadas, academic positions indulging such investigations eram quase impossíveis de encontrar.
Nesse contexto, “indulging” significa permitir, apoiar ou favorecer esse tipo de pesquisa, e não restringi-la.
🧠 Núcleo de sentido
A ideia central é que posições acadêmicas que apoiavam investigações em fundamentos quânticos praticamente não existiam.
🔍 Análise alternativa por alternativa (com pegadinhas)
(A) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: suppressing significa reprimir,
o oposto de indulging.
(B) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: restraining indica limitar ou conter,
sentido contrário ao do texto.
(C) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: denying implica negar,
e não apoiar.
(D) ✅ Correta — GABARITO
Supporting mantém exatamente o mesmo sentido contextual
de indulging no trecho,
indicando apoio institucional.
(E) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: withholding significa reter ou negar algo,
novamente o oposto do significado pretendido.
🧠 Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ Questão de sinonímia contextual.
✔ Indulging = permitir / apoiar / favorecer.
✔ Eliminar sinônimos de restrição acelera a resposta.
✔ Contexto institucional define o sentido correto.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (D)
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