🔖ESPCEX 2025 — Questão 52

⬛ Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 51, 52 e 53.

A New Trend in Cryptocurrency: Selling Your Iris

Characters of countless sci-fi films have relied on iris scans to unlock hidden rooms, power up advanced gadgets, or authenticate their identities in a tech-centric world. What once was only a Hollywood fantasy is now becoming a reality, with similar applications just around the corner. These days, it’s not unusual to hear about shopping malls in cities like Barcelona featuring tiny booths where visitors scan their eyes. The concept is puzzling, especially when they explain that the goal is to “scan your iris to give you cryptocurrencies.”

Worldcoin, one of Sam Altman’s (director of OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT) ventures, has recently gained increased attention due to their new initiative: offering money in exchange for iris scans. Worldcoin scans the biometric data of the eye and then compensates individuals with cryptocurrency. However, many ask the same questions: What (1)____ Worldcoin gain from our iris? What (2)____ they really planning to do with it? Why (3)____ the iris so important? How (4)____ it affect your privacy?

Unlike data such as phone numbers, credit cards, or passwords, biometric data is unchangeable. Biometric data includes traits that can be used to identify you, such as your voice, fingerprint, or iris. They are inherently yours and non-transferable. Sharing biometric data could expose individuals to risks of tracking and surveillance, potentially enabling identification without consent through various technologies. Often without realizing it, people have given permission for their data to be sold.

After carefully studying the legality of this practice, Spain has banned these operations and is removing the stands and iris scanners used by Worldcoin. In countries like France or Brazil, Worldcoin has also faced bans on conducting their activities, while claiming they’re leaving voluntarily rather than because it’s illegal.

⬛ Adapted from: https://theswitch.es/en/selling-your-iris-worldcoin/

52. Choose the alternative with words that correctly and respectively complete gaps (1), (2), (3) and (4) (paragraph 2).

[A] do, are, is, do

[B] do, is, is, does

[C] does, do, is, does

[D] do, do, are, is

[E] does, are, is, does

⬛ Gabarito: (E)

🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada da questão

A questão avalia concordância verbal e o uso correto de verbos auxiliares (do / does) e do verbo to be de acordo com o sujeito de cada lacuna.

O método correto é identificar, em cada pergunta indireta, quem é o sujeito e se ele está no singular ou no plural.

📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica das alternativas (uma a uma)

[A] ❌
Incorreta. A primeira lacuna exige does, pois o sujeito é Worldcoin (3ª pessoa do singular), não do.

[B] ❌
Incorreta. A segunda lacuna pede are, pois o sujeito é they, e não is.

[C] ❌
Incorreta. A segunda lacuna novamente falha: do não concorda com o sujeito plural expresso pelo verbo to be.

[D] ❌
Incorreta. A terceira lacuna exige is, pois o sujeito é the iris (singular), não are.

[E] ✅
Correta. Does concorda com Worldcoin; are concorda com they; is concorda com the iris; e does concorda com it. Todas as formas verbais estão corretamente ajustadas aos seus sujeitos.

⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da banca

A banca explora principalmente:
• confusão entre do e does;
• distração causada por termos longos entre o sujeito e o verbo;
• erro de concordância com pronomes substitutivos (they / it).

❗ Regra de ouro: ignore o tamanho da frase e ache o núcleo do sujeito antes de escolher o verbo.

🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master

✔ Does → sujeito singular (Worldcoin / it).
✔ Are → sujeito plural (they).
✔ Is → sujeito singular (the iris).
✔ Concordância sempre manda mais do que “sensação de leitura”.

🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (E)

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