Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson, refused to accept it on any terms.At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted residence.He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska, support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give it away.Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place, the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been achieved.One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair: 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to us.'Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370. The sequence 'was not easily diverted' (line 28) presents the same passive voice structure in all of the following, EXCEPT for:

The sequence 'was not easily diverted' (line 28) presents...

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Língua Inglesa Gramática - Língua Inglesa

Ano: 2016

Banca: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul - IFRS

Prova: IFRS - IFRS - Professor do Ensino Básico, Técnico e Tecnológico - Área: Letras Português/Inglês - 2016

Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.

The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
refused to accept it on any terms.
At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
residence.
He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
it away.
Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
achieved.
One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
us.'

Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.

The sequence 'was not easily diverted' (line 28) presents the same passive voice structure in all of the following, EXCEPT for:

was picked up (line 7)

was finally taken (line 36)

was completed (line 39)

was almost negated (line 36)

was nervously eager (line 2)

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