Question

LOVE
For most of us, love is the most absorbing subject in
Existence. There is an enormous range of meanings in this one little word: motherly love and
self-love, fatherly love and children’s love fc
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Their parents; there is brotherly love and there is the love of one’s home and one’s
country; there is love of money and there is love of power. Love clearly includes all of these,
but the love in which one can be oneself is the pre-eminent love for most of us. Love at its
fullest can include an enormous range of emotions and sentiments. It can combine humility
with pride, passion with peace, self- assertion with self-surrender; it can reconcile violence of
feeling with tenderness.
“Being in love” is love at its most intense, and is personally focused in a very special way.
Our common speech reflects this fact, as we talk of “falling in love” as if it were something
into which we are precipitated against our will, like falling into a pond.
Choose the correct answer according to the passage.
4. Love, according to the passage,
a) Makes us experience all emotions more intensely
b) Enables the balancing of extreme feelings
c) Happens against our will
d) İs only real when we are “in love”
e) İs sometimes really difficult to achieve
5. It is stated in the passage that
a) We frequently mention love in our speech
b) There are various kinds of love
c) Nobody wants to “fall in love”
d) İt requires effort to maintain any kind of love
e) Everyone is more interested in love than in anything else

Answer 1

Resposta:

4. b)

5. b)

Explicação:

4. O amor, de acordo com a passagem," permite um equilibrio entre sentimentos extremos (opostos)".É o que diz a letra b:

b) Enables the balancing of extreme feelings

Isso está nesse trecho:

"It can combine humility

with pride, passion with peace, self- assertion with self-surrender; it can reconcile violence of

feeling with tenderness."

"Ele (o amor) pode combinar humildade com orgulho, paixão com paz, autoconfiança co. resignação; pode reconciliar um sentimento de violência com a ternura."

5. É afirmado na passagem que:

"Existem vários tipos (formas) de amor."

b) There are various kinds of love

Sim, o texto menciona diversas formas de amor:

motherly love - amor maternal

fatherly love- amor paternal

brotherly love- amor fraternal

self-love - amor próprio

love of money- amor pelo dinheiro

love of power- amor pelo poder

etc...