The following text refers to questions 12 and 13. In Newsweek Magazine Will Melinda Gates Change the Game for…

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The following text refers to questions 12 and 13. In Newsweek Magazine Will Melinda Gates Change the Game for Women? She plans to use the Gates Foundation’s billions to revolutionize contraception worldwide. In the 12 years since Melinda Gates and her husband, Bill, created the Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropic organization, she has done a lot of traveling. A reserved woman who has long been wary of the public glare attached to the Gates name, she comes alive, her associates say, when she’s visiting the foundation’s projects in remote corners of the world. “You get her out in the field with a group of women, sitting on a mat or under a tree or in a hut, she is totally in her element, totally comfortable,” says Gary Darmstadt, director of family health at the foundation’s global health program. Visiting vaccine programs in sub-Saharan Africa, Gates would often ask women at remote clinics what else they needed. Very often, she says, they would speak urgently about birth control. “Women sitting on a bench, 20 of them, immediately they’ll start speaking out and saying, ‘I wish I had that injection I used to get,’” says Gates. “‘I came to this clinic three months ago, and I got my injection. I came last week, and I couldn’t get it, and I’m here again.’” They were talking about Depo-Provera, which is popular in many poor countries because women need to take it only four times a year, and because they can hide it, if necessary, from unsupportive husbands. As Gates discovered, injectable contraceptives, like many other forms of birth control, are frequently out of stock in clinics in the developing world, a result of both funding shortages and supply-chain problems. Women would tell her that they’d left their farms and walked for hours, sometimes with children in tow, often without the knowledge of their husbands, in their fruitless search for the shot. “I was just stunned by how vociferous women were about what they wanted,” she says. Because of those women, Gates made a decision that’s likely to change lives all over the world. As she revealed in an exclusive interview with Newsweek, she has decided to make family planning her signature issue and primary public health a priority. Which question below CANNOT be answered with information from the text? (Mackenzie 2013)

1. A) How often do women have to take Depo-Provera as part of a contraceptive treatment?
2. B) What is Melinda Gates like?
3. C) How come some women’s husbands are so unsupportive in situations like these?
4. D) When was the Gates Foundation created?
5. E) Why are clinics in the developing world out of injectable contraceptives?

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa C

Resolução passo a passo

1. A pergunta pede a alternativa que NÃO pode ser respondida com informações do texto. Para isso, verificamos cada opção contra o que o texto diz.
2. Alternativa A (quantas vezes por ano as mulheres precisam tomar Depo-Provera): o texto diz que a Depo-Provera precisa ser tomada apenas quatro vezes por ano, então a pergunta pode ser respondida.
3. Alternativa B (como é Melinda Gates): o texto descreve-a como uma mulher reservada, que se sente à vontade quando visita projetos em regiões remotas. Logo, é respondível.
4. Alternativa C (por que os maridos de algumas mulheres são tão pouco solidários): o texto só menciona que as mulheres podem esconder o contraceptivo de maridos pouco solidários e que muitas buscam o remédio sem o conhecimento deles. Não há explicação sobre as razões do comportamento dos maridos. Esta é a alternativa correta, pois a resposta não está no texto.
5. Alternativa D (quando a Fundação Gates foi criada): o texto informa que, nos 12 anos desde a criação da fundação pelo casal Gates, houve muitas viagens. Assim, a data pode ser deduzida, sendo respondível.
6. Alternativa E (por que clínicas dos países em desenvolvimento estão sem contraceptivos injetáveis): o texto explica que a falta decorre de escassez de financiamento e de problemas na cadeia de suprimentos. Portanto, é respondível.
7. Conclusão: apenas a pergunta sobre as razões do comportamento dos maridos (alternativa C) não tem resposta no texto, por isso o gabarito é C.

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