<ul><ol><ol><li>........ September 11, 2001, at 8:46 A.M., a</li><li>hijacked airliner crashed into the north tower</li><li>of the World Trade Center in New York. At</li><li>9:03 A.M. a second plane crashed into the</li><li>south tower. The resulting infernos caused</li><li>the buildings to collapse, the south tower</li><li>after burning for an hour and two minutes, the</li><li>north tower twenty-three minutes after</li><li>that. The attacks were masterminded by</li><li>Osama bin Laden in an attempt to intimidate</li><li>the United States and unite Muslims for a</li><li>restoration of the caliphate.</li><li>9/11, as the happenings of that day are now</li><li>called, has set off debates on a vast array of</li><li>topics. But I would like to explore a lesser</li><li>known debate triggered by it. Exactly how</li><li>many events took place in New York on that</li><li>morning ........ September?</li><li>It could be argued that the answer is one.</li><li>The attacks on the two buildings were part of</li><li>a single plan conceived by one man in service</li><li>of a single agenda. They unfolded ........ a few</li><li>minutes and yards of each other, targeting</li><li>the parts of a complex with a single name,</li><li>design, and owner. And they launched a</li><li>single chain of military and political events in</li><li>their aftermath.</li><li>Or it could be argued that the answer is two.</li><li>The towers were distinct collections of glass</li><li>and steel separated by an expanse of space,</li><li>and they were hit at different times and went</li><li>out of existence at different times. The</li><li>amateur video that showed the second plane</li><li>closing in on the south tower as the north</li><li>tower billowed with smoke makes the twoness</li><li>unmistakable: while one event was frozen in</li><li>the past, the other loomed in the future</li><li>The gravity of 9/11 would seem to make this </li><li>discussion frivolous to the point of impudence,</li><li>a matter of mere "semantics," as we say, with</li><li>its implication of splitting hairs. But the</li><li>relation of language to our inner and outer</li><li>worlds is a matter of intellectual fascination</li><li>and real-world importance.</li><li>______ "importance" is often hard to</li><li>quantify, ........ this case I can put an exact</li><li>value on it: 3,5 billion dollars. That was the</li><li>sum in a legal dispute for the insurance</li><li>payout to Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of</li><li>the World Trade Center site. Silverstein’s</li><li>insurance policies stipulated a maximum</li><li>reimbursement for each destructive "event."</li><li>If 9/11 comprised a single event, he stood to</li><li>receive 3,5 billion dollars; if two, he stood to</li><li>receive 7 billion. In the trials, the attorneys</li><li>disputed the applicable meaning of the term</li><li>event. The lawyers for the leaseholder defined</li><li>it in physical terms (two collapses); those for</li><li>the insurance companies defined it in mental</li><li>terms (one plot). There is nothing "mere"</li><li>about semantics!</li></ol></ol><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Adapted from: PINKER, Steven. The Stuff of Thought. New York: Penguin, 2007. p. 1-2</li></ul>&nbsp;Marque V para verdadeiro e F para falso de acordo com o que está no texto<ul><li style="text-align: left;">( ) The semantic conflict between our inner and outer worlds frames the thesis of the text.</li><li style="text-align: left;">( ) Semantics provides undisputed evidence to the claim that 9/11 comprised two events.</li><li style="text-align: left;">( ) The author suggests that the amounts insured determine the importance of 9/11 as an event.</li><li style="text-align: left;">( ) The legal dispute ensuing 9/11 aimed to determine either the oneness or the twoness of the event.</li></ul>A forma correta de preencher a sequência em parênteses, de cima para baixo, é

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........ September 11, 2001, at 8:46 A.M., ahijacked airliner crashed into the north towerof the World Trade Center in New York. At9:03 A.M. a second plane crash

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