🔖 AFA 2025 — Inglês | Questão 40 Comentada — 🏛️ B3GE™
TEXT II – Directions: Read text II to answer questions 39–45.
Generational conflict
(...) The generations are turning over faster than ever before. While the Silent generation (1925 to 1945) was a strech of 21 years, the Millennial generation (1980 – 1994) ended just 15 years after it began. As technological change accelerates, people born a mere ten years apart can be released into an utterly different environment. A person born into the era of the smartphone, for example, will exhibit different behaviours to one who predates it, helping explain those teenagers lip-syncing pop songs and pacing out dance trots in supermarkets and carparks. Technology, like the television, the internet, and the smartphone, have a marked effect on not only how we live but on our values and beliefs. (...)
In his 2020 book Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them, Karl Pillemar surveyed 1,340 Americans aged 18 and over, asking them the question: “Do you have any family members from whom you are currently estranged?” He discovered that more than a quarter of Americans, surveyed, or 27 per cent, reported being estranged from a family member – a parent, grandparent, sibling, child, and so on. Extrapolated to the US adult population, that amounts to some 67 million people who are estranged from a family member. Pillemar found that ten per cent are estranged from a parent or child and eight per cent are no longer talking to a sibling. Some in the media are calling it a “silent epidemic” of family break-ups.
“When we meet people, it’s devastating to tell the truth,” Skye Ferrero laments, a mother quoted in Pillemar’s book. “We deal with it by being straightforward: ‘Oh, there are problems... we don’t see each other’.” Five years ago, Skye and her husband were cut off from their daughter and nothing they have done since has brought the couple any closer to her. “I’ve been approached by former neighbours and they say, ‘Well, you seem like such nice people. How come it’s like this? We’ve been labelled with this black cloud.’” Skye thinks the issue is more widespread than it appears, it’s just that people don’t wish to talk it. “This is happening in many families,” she says.
Family estrangement can happen for any number of reasons, notwithstanding highly justifiable ones for why someone may wish to cut contact. But such serious offenses aside, fissures in the nuclear family can also happen as family members squabble over rival ideologies: politics, Brexit, vaccinations, conspiracy theories, pronouns, and any number of headline-grabbing social issues. Nasty comments on social media can inflame grievances, prompting one member to declare, “I’m done. I never want to see or speak to them again.”
🔗 Adapted from: https://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/generationalconflict (accessed on March 21st, 2024).
40. The most appropriate alternative regarding the text is:
[A] People are living shorter due to isolation.
[B] Almost 30% of American kids have been abandoned.
[C] The American adult population is even estranged from first-degree relatives.
[D] People don’t talk about personal issues anymore, causing family break-ups.
💡 Gabarito: (C)
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada da questão
A questão exige a identificação da alternativa que resume corretamente uma informação factual apresentada no texto, sem exageros ou distorções.
O trecho central apresenta dados estatísticos sobre estranhamento familiar (estrangement) na população adulta dos Estados Unidos.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica das alternativas (uma a uma)
[A] ❌
Incorreta. O texto não menciona expectativa de vida nem associa isolamento
à redução do tempo de vida.
[B] ❌
Incorreta. O dado de 27% refere-se a adultos estranhados de familiares,
não a crianças abandonadas.
[C] ✅
Correta. O texto afirma que parte significativa da população adulta americana
está afastada de parentes de primeiro grau, como pais, filhos e irmãos.
[D] ❌
Incorreta. Embora o texto mencione que as pessoas evitam falar sobre o tema,
isso não é apresentado como a causa principal das rupturas familiares.
⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da banca
A banca costuma:
• transformar dados estatísticos em afirmações emocionais;
• trocar o sujeito (adultos × crianças);
• sugerir causalidades que o texto não estabelece.
❗ Regra de ouro: números no texto devem ser interpretados com precisão absoluta.
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ 27% dos adultos americanos relataram afastamento familiar.
✔ O afastamento inclui pais, filhos e irmãos.
✔ A alternativa correta mantém fidelidade absoluta ao texto.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (C)
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