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. The sentence “Gates would often ask women at remote clinics what else they needed” in the direct speech is (Mackenzie 2013)

1. A) Gates will ask to the women at remote clinics “What else have you needed?”
2. B) “What else did you need?”, Gates asked women at remote clinics.
3. C) Gates often asked to the women at remote clinics: “What else does she need?”
4. D) “What else do you need?”, Gates usually asked women at remote clinics.
5. E) Gates occasionally questioned the women at remote clinics about what they needed.

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa D

Resolução passo a passo

1. Identifique o tempo verbal da frase original. Em 'Gates would often ask women at remote clinics what else they needed', o verbo 'needed' está no passado, e a frase é um discurso indireto (reported speech). Para passar ao discurso direto, é preciso voltar o tempo verbal para o presente, pois a fala original foi dita no presente: 'they needed' vira 'you need'. Passo 2: Verifique a estrutura da pergunta. Como se trata de uma pergunta, a ordem deve ser a de interrogativa, com 'What else do you need?'. O advérbio 'often' corresponde a 'usually' no discurso direto, que é um sinônimo adequado, e a forma verbal 'asked' (sem 'to') é a correta. Passo 3: Confira a pontuação e a estrutura do discurso direto. A fala vem entre aspas, seguida de vírgula e do verbo de dizer com o sujeito 'Gates', o que está correto na alternativa D. Passo 4: Analise as demais alternativas. A alternativa A está errada porque usa 'will ask' (futuro) em vez de 'would often ask' e 'have you needed' (presente perfeito), uma forma que não corresponde ao sentido original; além disso, usa 'to the women' indevidamente. A alternativa B está errada porque usa 'did you need' (passado), que não corresponde ao tempo presente da fala original. A alternativa C está errada porque usa 'does she need', trocando a pessoa do discurso (a fala original se dirige às mulheres, com 'you') e usando 'asked to', construção incorreta para este verbo. A alternativa E está errada porque não é discurso direto: não há fala citada entre aspas, apenas uma paráfrase indireta. Conclusão: a alternativa D é a única que converte corretamente a frase para o discurso direto.

💡 Dica: Leia atentamente o texto para compreender o uso do discurso indireto.

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