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Eye on tsunamis



Tsunamis aren't moon-driven tides or wind-driven waves at the sea surface. They're caused by violent movements of rocks – seafloor earthquakes usually – that can put a whole ocean in motion. Since the first one on record along Syria's coast in about 2000 B.C., a few thousand tsunamis have collectively killed more than five hundred thousand people. Nearly half those deaths occurred in a single catastrophe in the Indian Ocean in 2004; as coastal populations have boomed, tsunamis have grown more lethal. Their Japanese name – it means "harbor wave" – is perhaps a bit too quiet.

Most large tsunamis arise around the rim of the Pacific and Indian oceans, along seafloor faults called subduction zones, where colliding tectonic plates trigger large earthquakes. Waves spread in opposite directions from the fault. Within minutes the first waves crash onto nearby land, as in Japan in 2011; within hours they cross the ocean. Even thousands of miles away, a harbor may not be safe. Tsunamis remain dangerous after they've crossed a whole ocean, barreling at the speed of a jetliner. The one that savaged Japan swept a man in California out to sea.

Some sixteen thousand people died in Japan last March 11, most of them along hundreds of miles of coast in the Tohoku region, and nearly four thousand are still missing. The tsunami eradicated several towns and villages in Tohoku and left hundreds of thousands homeless.

National Geographic, February 2012 (educational purposes – adapted).



A respeito do termo nearly, presente no primeiro e no terceiro parágrafos, são feitas as seguintes afirmativas. Analise-as.



I. Exerce a função de advérbio.

II. Poderia ser substituído por almost.

III. Exerce a função de adjetivo.

IV. Poderia ser substituído por every.



Está correto o que se afirma em

Escolha uma:
a. I, II, III e IV.
b. II e IV, apenas.
c. II, apenas.
d. I, II e III, apenas.
e. I e II, apenas.

Answer 1

A correta é a letra E.
Nearly é um advérbio de intensidade que modifica o adjetivo Half.
Almost e Nearly são sinônimos.