Questão 14 · Língua Inglesa: Vocabulário
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Text CB1A2
Currently, the Digital Euro has not been launched — though there are signs that a launch may be coming sooner rather than later. By October 2025, the ECB (European Central Bank) has indicated a second phase of the preparation for the Digital Euro. By then, the ECB will have prepared an outreach plan, procurement standards, and technology providers.
The Digital Euro has potential downsides, many of them echoed in the other launches of central bank digital currencies.
For example, the central bank will become a technology company focused on procurement with central points of failure.
This was a breeding ground for corruption for the bureaucrat fortunate enough to make these technical choices in China.
While the Digital Euro is slated to “coexist” with cash, this also comes when EU (European Union) nations are voting on ending end-to-end encryption (a critical digital privacy tool) and have started to restrict cash with limits being placed on how much you can spend in cash to accelerate its slow demise.
User privacy is said to be the ECB’s “chief concern” as it has been designing the central bank’s digital currency. Certainly, the ECB is aware of public perception that has negative surveillance, control, and privacy implications in mind. The ECB has been at pains to say that the Digital Euro will “coexist” with cash and that unlike the e-CNY (China’s central bank digital coin) it will not be tied to a “social credit” score or place limits on how money is spent.
A big part of the ECB’s drive towards the Digital Euro is to compete and pry Europeans away from Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and “stablecoins”.
Central bank digital currencies are a direct liability of the central bank. Since the central bank has the power to issue currency, this means that the central bank can essentially create “digital euros” if it wishes to. The architecture and data within a central bank digital currency are usually built completely by the central bank supported by private vendors of its choice. In China, the central bank has turned away from a distributed ledger technology to a centralized data store, in which the technical details are pretty scant. Hence, the central bank controls everything, and the system has no external access.
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Choose the option that presents a rephrasing of “pry Europeans away from Bitcoin” (fifth paragraph) that would preserve both the original meaning and the grammar correctness of text CB1A2.
- A) make Bitcoins more accessible to Europeans
- B) discourage the use of Bitcoin by Europeans
- C) hinder Europeans’ access to Bitcoin
- D) draw Europeans toward Bitcoin
- E) persuade the use of Bitcoin in Europe
Marque a alternativa correta:
Gabarito: B
Gabarito definitivo divulgado pela banca Cebraspe (BANRISUL 2025).
Comentário
Gabarito: B.
A alternativa B está correta. No texto, a expressão "pry Europeans away from Bitcoin" significa afastar os europeus do Bitcoin, ou seja, desencorajar seu uso. Ao mesmo tempo, o BCE busca competir com essas criptomoedas. A reformulação "discourage the use of Bitcoin by Europeans" preserva esse sentido e a correção gramatical da frase, pois o verbo e a preposição estão adequados.
Erros das demais:
- A: errada, pois tornar o Bitcoin mais acessível é o oposto do sentido de afastar os europeus.
- C: errada, pois dificultar o acesso ao Bitcoin altera o sentido, que é de desencorajar o uso por meio de competição, e não de bloquear o acesso.
- D: errada, pois draw toward atrai os europeus para o Bitcoin, o oposto do original.
- E: errada, pois persuade the use of Bitcoin significa convencer a usar Bitcoin, sentido contrário ao texto, além de a estrutura estar incorreta.
Dica: em paráfrases, o verbo phrasal pry away from indica afastamento. Escolha a alternativa com o sentido oposto ao de atrair.
Fundamentos: Texto CB1A2: "pry Europeans away from Bitcoin" como afastamento dos europeus do Bitcoin · Paráfrase que preserva o sentido e a gramática: discourage the use
Comentário gerado pela Cravei IA a partir do enunciado e do gabarito definitivo divulgado pela banca, e conferido por uma verificação automática. A IA pode errar: o gabarito oficial sempre prevalece.
Fonte: prova Cebraspe BANRISUL 2025 (Diversos cargos), questão 14, com o gabarito definitivo da banca. Comentário: Equipe Cravei · como fazemos e revisamos.