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Read the text below to answer questions 17 and 18: Woman in India admits poisoning six family members with cyanide Murders took place over 14-year period and each victim ate a meal prepared by the killer A woman in the southern Indian state of Kerala has confessed to poisoning six members of her family over a 14-year period by adding cyanide to their food. Police began investigating earlier this year when the brother-in-law of 47-year-old suspect Jolly Thomas became suspicious that she may have forged his parents’ will. Authorities discovered that Thomas had been at the scene of all six deaths, and that each death had occurred after eating a meal she had prepared. Up to that point the deaths had not been treated as suspicious because of the timeframe. Thomas, a popular member of the community in Kozhikode, was allegedly motivated by wanting control of the family finances and property, police said. According to police, the first poisoning was of Thomas’s mother-in-law, who died in 2002 after eating mutton soup. In 2008, her father-in-law died, followed by her husband in 2011, who police said died after eating rice and curry. An autopsy conducted on his body at the time confirmed poisonous substances in his stomach, but police treated his death as suicide. Thomas’s husband’s uncle was then allegedly given coffee laced with cyanide as punishment for insisting that a postmortem be carried out on his nephew. In 2014, police said Thomas killed the two-year-old daughter of her dead husband’s cousin, Scaria Shaju. The cousin’s wife was then killed in 2016. A year later Thomas and Shaju married. Shaju told police he had no idea that Thomas was behind his wife and daughter’s death, but he has been arrested along with a third person. On Friday, police exhumed remains from the local cemetery and said that they confirmed cyanide poisoning in each of the deaths. On Monday, they said Thomas confessed to all the murders. SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/07/woman-in-india-admits-poisoning-six-family-members-with-cyanide access on Oct. 7th, 2019. Select the WRONG alternative, according to the text: (Mackenzie 2020)

1. A) Jolly Thomas became suspicious of having forged her parents’ will.
2. B) Authorities discovered that Thomas had been at the scene of all six deaths.
3. C) Thomas confessed to poisoning six members of her family over a 14-year period.
4. D) Thomas confessed to all the murders.
5. E) She used cyanide in all the poisonings.

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa A

Resolução passo a passo

1. A questão pede a alternativa ERRADA, de acordo com o texto. Passo 2: Verifiquei cada uma. A alternativa A diz que Jolly Thomas ficou suspeita de ter falsificado o testamento dos pais. O texto diz outra coisa: quem ficou desconfiado foi o cunhado (brother-in-law) da suspeita, e não ela. Logo, A é a afirmação errada. Passo 3: A alternativa B está correta, pois o texto afirma que as autoridades descobriram que Thomas esteve presente nas seis mortes. Passo 4: A alternativa C está correta, pois o texto diz que ela confessou ter envenenado seis familiares ao longo de um período de 14 anos. Passo 5: A alternativa D está correta, pois o texto informa que, na segunda-feira, a polícia disse que Thomas confessou todos os assassinatos. Passo 6: A alternativa E está correta, pois o texto diz que ela adicionava cianeto à comida e que a exumação confirmou envenenamento por cianeto em cada uma das mortes. Passo 7: Conclusão: o gabarito A está correto, e a única afirmação incorreta segundo o texto é a A.

💡 Dica: Leia atentamente o texto para identificar a alternativa incorreta.

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