EFOMM 2026 — Inglês | Questão 5
📘 CONTEXTO DA QUESTÃO
Esta página apresenta a análise da questão 05 de Inglês da prova da EFOMM 2026. O exercício avalia vocabulário em contexto, exigindo a identificação do significado da palavra 'bemoan'. No trecho apresentado, o verbo indica lamentar ou expressar tristeza ou insatisfação em relação a algo.
📘 PALAVRAS-CHAVE DA QUESTÃO
📘 Text Comprehension
🔐 🔎 Ver texto de apoio
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
In "As Albert Einstein once bemoaned to a friend [... ]", the word "bemoan" means:
to complain or express sadness about something.
to show that you really mean the opposite of what you are saying.
to express admiration and approval for something or someone.
to speak very quietly, using the breath but not the voice, so that only the person close to you can hear you.
to shout something or make a loud noise, usually when you are angry, in pain, or excited.
📘 Answer Key
🔐🔎 Ver gabarito
📘 Detailed Solution
🔐🧠 Ver resolução comentada
🧭 Leitura orientada
A questão avalia vocabulário em contexto, pedindo o significado correto do verbo “bemoan” no trecho “As Albert Einstein once bemoaned to a friend [...]”.
🔍 Análise do trecho
O texto menciona que Einstein bemoaned a ideia de que a Lua não existiria quando ninguém estivesse olhando para ela.
Nesse contexto, o verbo indica lamentação, descontentamento ou tristeza expressa verbalmente, e não ironia, elogio ou grito.
🧠 Núcleo de sentido
Bemoan significa reclamar, lamentar ou expressar tristeza diante de uma situação considerada absurda ou indesejável.
🔍 Análise alternativa por alternativa (com pegadinhas)
(A) ✅ Correta — GABARITO
“To complain or express sadness about something”
corresponde exatamente ao sentido de bemoan.
(B) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: descreve ironia ou sarcasmo,
inexistentes no trecho.
(C) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: admiração ou aprovação
é o oposto do sentimento expresso por bemoan.
(D) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: descreve o verbo whisper,
não bemoan.
(E) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: refere-se a gritar ou berrar,
sentido incompatível com o contexto.
🧠 Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ Questão de vocabulário contextualizado.
✔ Bemoan = lamentar / reclamar / expressar tristeza.
✔ Contexto emocional define o sentido correto.
✔ Eliminar sinônimos extremos facilita a escolha.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (A)
🏛 Informações do site
O portal B3GE Concursos Militares disponibiliza questões comentadas de provas de inglês de concursos militares, com foco em análise pedagógica, compreensão textual e preparação estratégica para candidatos.