Kevin Adkins almost kicked the Ice Age skull to the side because he thought it was just debris from a recent…

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Kevin Adkins almost kicked the Ice Age skull to the side because he thought it was just debris from a recent flood – then he saw that it had teeth. When Kevin Adkins took his father-in-law, Tony Hager, on his first turkey hunt on May 8, 2022, the two West Virginians spotted an animal skull in a Putnam County creek. Covered in mud from a flood that had hit the region two days earlier, it was initially unidentifiable. So Adkins took it home – and later learned that it belonged to an 11,000-year-old giant sloth. While 36-year-old Adkins had hunted turkeys in Putnam County plenty of times before, he had never come across something like this. Trudging through the muddy wilderness, the Red House resident and his father-in-law were primarily interested in nabbing some wild birds when they encountered the relic. “We were running and gunning for toms,” Adkins told Outdoor Life. “We’d worked a gobbler for about 30 minutes, then the bird moved off, so we picked up and headed up the creek. I looked down in the middle of the creek as we crossed it and saw a big blob of something I thought was a root ball, so I almost kicked it away.” “But I noticed something different about it and looked closer,” Adkins went on. “That’s when I saw some molar teeth, so I picked it up.” Determined not to let the potential find of a lifetime distract from his turkey hunt, Adkins propped the skull next to the creek and forged ahead. When he and Hager concluded their hunt later that morning, they retrieved the skull and carried it home. “[My wife] thought it was a cow skull because it was so big,” Adkins said. The skull weighed about 30 pounds and sported tufts of hair. It had four molar teeth on either side of its jawbone. “But my father-in-law said no, it was something very different,” continued Adkins. “That’s when we started searching the internet, sending photos to family and friends, and then I posted it on social media. That really got things moving along with trying to ID what I’d found.” (Available in: https://allthatsinteresting.com/tag/news.) According to the text, it is correct to say that: (UFPR 2023)

1. A) Adkins and his father-in-law had been hunting turkeys before.
2. B) Adkins decided to go turkey hunting during the morning because the region was dry and it was sunny.
3. C) Both Adkins and Hager were from West Virginia.
4. D) As both men finished hunting, they went home and Adkin’s wife realized the relic was a sloth skull.

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa C

Resolução passo a passo

1. Leia o enunciado com atenção para verificar quais afirmações têm apoio direto no texto. Passo 2: O texto diz, logo no início do segundo parágrafo, que 'the two West Virginians' (os dois homens da Virgínia Ocidental) avistaram o crânio. Logo, a alternativa C está correta: tanto Adkins quanto Hager são de West Virginia. Passo 3: A alternativa A está errada, pois o texto informa que aquela era a primeira caçada de perus de Hager ('his first turkey hunt'). Só Adkins já tinha caçado perus muitas vezes em Putnam County, e não há indicação de que ambos já tivessem caçado juntos. Passo 4: A alternativa B está errada, pois o texto relata que a região havia sido atingida por uma enchente dois dias antes, e não que estava seca e ensolarada; além disso, eles saíram para caçar perus, não por causa do clima. Passo 5: A alternativa D está errada, pois a esposa de Adkins achou que o crânio era de vaca, e foi somente depois, pesquisando na internet e consultando outras pessoas, que descobriram tratar-se de uma preguiça-gigante, e não de uma preguiça. Passo 6: Conclusão: a única afirmação correta, segundo o texto, é a C, que coincide com o gabarito oficial.

💡 Dica: Leia atentamente o texto para identificar informações implícitas e explícitas.

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