🔖ESPCEX 2025 — Questão 55 de Inglês Comentada | 🏛️ B3GE™
⬛ Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 54, 55 e 56.
Stateless People
Stateless people are not recognized as citizens by any country. UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) advocates for their rights and works to prevent and end statelessness globally. Millions of people around the world are denied the right to a nationality, which leaves them stateless. As a result, they may be unable to access other basic rights and services. They are also often at a higher risk of exploitation and abuse. At the end of June 2024, UNHCR’s statistical reporting counted 4.4 million stateless people. Given that most countries do not report statelessness data, the actual figure is believed to be substantially higher. Stateless people can be found in almost every country and in all regions of the world, and most live in the same country in which they were born.
Stateless people face a lifetime of missed opportunities and disappointment. When they are born, their parents may not be able to register their birth, obtain a birth certificate or other legal identity documents. Without this, they often cannot be enrolled in school. If they do manage to enter school and receive education, they may be barred from sitting formal exams to progress or enter university, unless they can prove their legal identity. As an adult, they may not be allowed to work legally, which leaves them at an increased risk of exploitation and abuse as they take low-paying and informal jobs. They often cannot access public services like health care. They also frequently cannot open a bank account, vote, get a passport to travel, buy a home or even get married. Stateless people cannot confer a nationality on their children. If the child is unable to obtain a nationality through either of their parents or from the country of birth, they will also end up stateless, perpetuating statelessness across generations.
What is the difference between a stateless person and a refugee? A stateless person is not considered a national of any country. A refugee is someone who has fled their country to escape conflict or persecution and has crossed an international border. While most refugees have a nationality, a person can be both stateless and a refugee. However, the majority of stateless people live within the country in which they were born and have never crossed an international border.
⬛ Adapted from: https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/who-we-protect/stateless-people
55. Choose the alternative that has the same meaning as the word sitting in the sentence “...they may be barred from sitting formal exams to progress...” (paragraph 2).
[A] paying
[B] making
[C] taking
[D] standing
[E] failing
⬛ Gabarito: (C)
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada da questão
A questão cobra vocabulário em contexto, pedindo o sentido de sitting na expressão “sitting formal exams”.
Em inglês, especialmente no inglês britânico, to sit an exam significa fazer / prestar uma prova, ou seja, realizar o exame como candidato.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica das alternativas (uma a uma)
[A] ❌
Incorreta. Paying significa “pagando”, não tem relação com realizar prova.
[B] ❌
Incorreta. Making é “fazendo/criando” em sentido geral, mas não é o verbo idiomático para
prestar um exame.
[C] ✅
Correta. Taking é o equivalente padrão em inglês americano e geral para “prestar/fazer uma prova”.
Assim, sitting formal exams = taking formal exams.
[D] ❌
Incorreta. Standing literalmente é “ficar em pé”.
Embora exista a expressão stand an exam em alguns contextos históricos/regionais, não é o equivalente direto
e mais seguro aqui; a opção correta e usual para o sentido é taking.
[E] ❌
Incorreta. Failing significa “reprovando”.
O texto fala de ser impedido de fazer a prova, não de falhar nela.
⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da banca
A banca explora aqui o fato de sitting ter um sentido literal óbvio (“sentando”), mas funcionar como expressão idiomática em contexto acadêmico: sit an exam = prestar/fazer exame.
❗ Regra de ouro: quando o verbo parece “simples demais”, desconfie. Em provas, muitas vezes ele é um idiom acadêmico.
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ To sit an exam (BrE) = to take an exam (AmE).
✔ No texto, “barred from sitting formal exams” = impedidos de prestar exames formais.
✔ “Failing” é consequência; aqui o sentido é realizar.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (C)
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