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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. Consider this excerpt and answer: “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.” This suggests that: (Mackenzie 2020)

1. A) Thomas had surely premeditated each and every crime.
2. B) Thomas had been present at all deaths by accident.
3. C) Thomas had a slight idea of what was happening.
4. D) Thomas had also eaten the meals with her victims.
5. E) Thomas had also tried to commit suicide.

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa A

Resolução passo a passo

1. O enunciado pergunta o que a informação 'Thomas estava presente em todas as seis mortes e cada morte ocorreu após ela ter preparado a refeição' sugere. Passo 2: Ao reunir esses dados, o padrão é claro: a mesma pessoa esteve em todos os casos, sempre como responsável pela comida que a vítima consumiu, em um intervalo de 14 anos. Isso indica um planejamento repetido, e não coincidências isoladas. Passo 3: A alternativa A é a melhor inferência, pois a recorrência sugere que cada crime foi premeditado. O termo 'surely' é forte demais, mas, entre as opções, é a única coerente com os fatos. Passo 4: A alternativa B está errada, pois a repetição em seis casos descarta o acaso. Passo 5: A alternativa C está errada, pois o texto mostra que ela conduzia o envenenamento de forma consciente, não que tinha apenas uma vaga ideia do que ocorria. Passo 6: A alternativa D está errada, pois o texto diz que ela preparava a comida, e não que comia junto com as vítimas. Passo 7: A alternativa E está errada, pois nada no texto indica tentativa de suicídio por parte de Thomas. Passo 8: Conclusão: o gabarito oficial A está correto.

💡 Dica: Leia atentamente o texto para inferir a relação entre os fatos descritos.

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