Prefeitura de Capao da Canoa 2019 — Questão 36 · Língua Inglesa - Compreensão e Interpretação de Texto

Instruction: Answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text.

The Eurohug, Is It a Thing? : A Global Guide to Embrace

1. I write these words as an American. While we here in this country might lack a commonly agreedupon
2. modus operandi when it comes to physical expression, there are places in the world where
3. they have things like “customs” and “protocol.”
4. First off, chances are good that the occasion of a visit from the Brussels office isn’t a good time
5. to get huggy — workplace customs are fraught enough without the added potential for cultural
6. misunderstanding. But what do you do? Herewith, some highly subjective and unscientific
7. guidelines.
8. Europe, Northern: These people will happily get completely starkers with you in a sauna, but
9. they’re not especially physically demonstrative. I know, I think it’s weird, too.
10. Europe, Southern: Red-wine people tend more often than not to be cheek-kiss people. This
11. freaks Americans out, because we don’t know how to kiss anything that isn’t a baby without
12. spinning out into a puritanical lust-guilt cycle.
13. Russia: That’s not a hug, he’s just patting you down to check for wires.
14. Asia and the Middle East: These countries ________ practicing social conventions since before
15. Europe even got it together enough to die in droves of the Black Plague, so do some Google
16. research and try not to screw it up too badly, you barbarian.
17. Australia: These people will hug, arm-wrestle, back-slap, whatever. Think of them as Americans
18. who know a lot about bugs.
19. Africa: It’s a big place. Find out what country ………… visitors are from, Google it, and then
20. default to shaking hands like you always do.
21. Latin America: Also cheek-kiss people, but sometimes just the one cheek. The disaster here is
22. when you think you’re being culturally correct, but you forget that you don’t kiss the other cheek
23. and wind up smacking your forehead straight into the forehead of the person ………….. trying to
24. greet, making the notion of a “first impression” regrettably literal.
25. Canada: Do whatever you want to these people; …….… too nice to say anything. Tell them that
26. butt-patting is a time-honored (honoured!) tradition in your state/city/men’s club, and they will
27. fall all over themselves trying to lay ……..… paws on your bottom, no matter how much it’s killing
28. them inside.
29. Canada, but Quebec: WARNING: THESE ARE DOUBLE-CHEEK KISS PEOPLE. YOU THINK
30. THEY’RE CANADIAN, BUT THEY’RE NOT. THEY WILL NOT FALL FOR YOUR TRICKS — USE
31. EXTREME CAUTION.
32. England: Sweet Jesus, don’t touch the English. The only way to win the affection of an English
33. person is to land a particularly nuanced insult, and he or she will express that affection by
34. drinking you under the table at some absurdly early-evening hour.
35. Antarctica: AAAAAAH, IT’S A PENGUIN!!! HUG IT! IT’S THE CUTEST THING!!!

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-eurohug-is-it-a-thing-a-global-guide-to-embrace

According to the context of use, consider the following replacement of words of the text:

I. fraught (l.05) for hostile.

II. starkers (l.08) for crazy.

III. land (l.33) for ground.

Which ones completely change the meaning of the utterance?