Questão Q4435699 - Língua Inglesa

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Text for questions 50 and 51 I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission. I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform of robin’s-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend his “little party” that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it – signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand. Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know – though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key. FITZGERALD, F. S. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. p. 41-42 Considering the literary context of the excerpt and the details that characterize Gatsby’s party, which alternative most accurately explains the meaning of the collocation dotted about and the phrasal verbs wander around, bear out, and call on?

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dotted about – scattered in different places; wander around – to move aimlessly; bear out – to carry or transport; call on – to visit someone.

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dotted about – invited to move to another room; wander around – to travel to a distant place; bear out – to parade as part of a group; call on – to demand something formally.

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dotted about – carefully dressed; wander around – to escape from a place; bear out – to remove someone forcibly; call on – to shout at someone.

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dotted about –suddenly disappeared; wander around – travel without a specific destination; bear out – to criticize publicly; call on – to telephone someone.

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dotted about – gathered in one specific area; wander around – to march in formation; bear out – to be moved forcibly; call on – to write a letter to someone.

Considering the literary context of the excerpt and the details that characterize Gatsb...