A questão corresponde ao texto abaixo:

“It is not every day you can walk down a Transylvanian village street under a barrage of stones, especially when the stones are being hurled by the woman who will be your wife. Anyone likely to run this risk should know that it helps to walk fast and wear a protective backpack, and console oneself with the thought it is possibly these little moments of shared tenderness and understanding (recalled, perhaps, by glowing firelight in later years), which make affection grow.

A walk from Poland to Istanbul is a pretty odd ritual of courtship. We didn’t wash our hair for six months, we talked all day, we shared some heroically disgusting meals, and ten years down the road, Kate and I have swapped our backpacks for livelier baggage – two boys, and a bump – and hung up our boots for the present. Metaphorically speaking, of course: in reality Kate’s boots got lost in the post and mine broke, so I threw them away. (...)”

Goodwin, J. On Foot to the Golden Horn (p.1).

A questão corresponde ao texto cujo vocabulário principal segue abaixo.

• barrage = barragem

• stones = pedras

• to hurl = arremessar

• likely = provável

• to run the risk = correr o risco

• to walk fast = andar rapidamente

• to wear a backpack = usar uma mochila

• thought = pensamento

• shared tenderness = ternura compartilhada

• understanding = compreensão, entendimento

• to recall = relembrar

• glowing firelight = lareira incandescente

• later years = anos posteriores

• to grow = crescer

• pretty = bastante

• odd = estranho

• courtship = corte

• disgusting meals = refeições repulsivas

• to swap = trocar

• livelier baggage = bagagem mais viva

• bump = inchaço, calo

• to hang up one’s boots = “pendurar as chuteiras”

• to get lost = perder-se

• post = correio

• to break, broke, broken = quebrar

• to throw (threw, thrown) away = jogar

As funções gramaticais dos termos ‘Iikely’ ; ‘understanding’ e ‘pretty’, destacados no texto, são, respectivamente: