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( D ) Autor do gazal com quinze dísticos com que Halim
conquistou Zana, após a leitura emocionante e vibrante.
Abbas.
2 0 .Ainda sobre a obra de Guimarães Rosa, o título "Uma
estória de amor” pode remeter a tudo isto, E X C E T O :
( A ) A mensagem alegre e positiva que o autor quer
transmitir, numa reunião de respeito e amizade entre os
convivas.
( B ) A confraternização entre homens, mulheres, gente
rica e pobre, brancos e negros, daqui, dali, e de longas
distâncias.
( C ) A doação do dinheiro - ganho com o leilão de
oferendas das mais variadas espécies - para a compra do
sino da capela.
( D ) A rudeza de um sertão inóspito ter se transformado
em cenário à felicidade de se saber pai de um filho
bastardo.
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The Age of Revolution
1 This book traces the transformation of the world
between 1789 and 1848 in so far as it was due to what is
here called the 'dual revolution' -the French Revolution in
1789 and the contemporaneous (British) Industrial
Revolution. It is therefore strictly neither a history of
Europe nor of the world. ln so far as a country felt
repercussions of the dual revolution in this period, I have
attempted to refer to it, though often cursorily. ln so far.as
the impact of the revolution on it in this period was
negligible, l have omitted it. Hence the reader will nd
something about Egypt here, but not about Japan; more
about Ireland than about Bulgaria, about Latin America
than about Africa. Naturally this does not mean that the
histories of the countries and peoples neglected in this
volume are less interesting or important than those which
are included. lf its perspective is primarily European, or
more precisely, Franco-British, it is because in this period
the world - or at least a large part of it - was transformed
from a European, or rather a Franco-British, base.
However, certain topics which might well have deserved
more detailed treatment have also been left aside, not only
for reasons of space, but because (like the history of the
USA) they are treated at length in other volumes in this
series.
2 The object of this book is not detailed narrative, but
interpretation and what the French call haute
vulgarisation. Its ideal reader is the intelligent and
educated citizen, who is not merely curious about the past,
but wishes to understand how and why the world has come
to be what it is today. Hence it would be pedantic and
uncalled-for to load the text with as heavy na apparatus of
scholarship as it ought to carry for a more learned public.
My notes therefore refer almost entirely to the sources of
actual quotations and gures, or in some cases to the
authority for statements which are particularly
controversial or surprising.
Eric Hobsbawn - adapted from the preface of the book
"The Age of Revolution”.
2 1 .According to the text, Eric Hobsbawn:
( A ) writes chiefly about the British Revolution as well as
the continental one.
( B ) asserts that French Revolution occurred in conspiracy
with the British Industrial one.
( C ) has attempted to study in detail countries on which
the impact of the revolutions was not negligible.
decided not to treat the American Revolution in the book
"The Age of Revolution" in so far as he dedicated a
separated volume to the subject.
2 2 .According to the text, choose the correct answer.
( A ) In paragraph 1, "traces” could be replaced with
comprises and this would not alter the meaning of the
sentence nor the correctness of the grammar.
( B ) The changes which took place in the period extending
from 1789 to 1848 are a result of the 'dual revolution'.
( C ) While the 'dual revolution' exerted significant
influence on European and Latin American countries,
such as Bulgaria, Ireland, it impacted only slightly African
and Asian countries like Japan.
( D ) Though both revolutions took place in Great Britaiñ
and France soils, it is more accurate to qualify the
transformation stemming from them as European rather
than Franco-British.
2 3 .Based on the text, choose the correct answer.
( A ) The footnotes of the book provide the sources of
quotations and the figures which support Hobsbawn's
statements.