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BREAKING BADBreaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, NewMexico, Breaking Bad is the______( I)____story of Walter White (BryanCranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosedwith____(II)___lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to alife of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine, in order to secure his family’s financial future before he dies, teaming with his former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). The series has been labeled a contemporary western by its creator.The series premiered on January 20, 2008 in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, and the series finale aired on September 29,2013. Breaking Bad received______( III)__critical acclaim, and is widelyregarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. By its end, theseries was among the_____(IV)_____cable shows on American television,with audience numbers that doubled in the fifth season from the previous year’s episodes.Breaking Bad was created by Vince Gilligan, who spent several years writing the Fox series The X-Files. Gilligan wanted to create a series in which the protagonist became the antagonist. “Television is historically good at keeping its characters in a self-imposed stasis so that shows can go onfor years or even decades,” he said. “When I realized this, the_( V )___next step was to think, how can I do a show in which the fundamental drive is toward change?” He added that his goal with Walter White was to turn him from Mr. Chips into Scarface.While Gilligan defines the term “breaking bad” as “to raise hell”, it apparently means more than that. According to Lily Rothman, it is an old phrase which “connotes more violence than ‘raising hell' does.... The words possess a wide variety of nuances: to ‘break bad’ can meanto ‘go__( VI)_____to ‘defy authority’ and break the law, to be verbally‘combative, belligerent, or_( VII)___or, followed by the preposition ‘on,’to ‘completely dominate or humiliate.’”The concept emerged as Gilligan talked with his fellow writer ThomasSchnauz regarding their_____( VIII)__unemployment and joked that thesolution was for them to put a “meth lab in the back of an RV and drive around the country cooking meth and making money.”htfrv//en wikinedia oro/wiki/Rrpakinp RadQuestão n° 16The adjectives that properly fill in blanks I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII, in the text, area)I -clumsy / II - hospitable / III - unusual / IV - watchable /V- coherent / VI - trendy / VII - committed / VIII - presentb)I -short / II - busy / III - popular / IV - widely-shown /V- well informed / VI - crazy / VII - strange / VIII - wildc)I - unfinished / II - incurable / III - well known / IV - famous /V- struggling / VI - impeccable / VII - terrifying / VIII - brand newd)I - two-year-long / II - inoperable / III - widespread / IV - most-watched /V-logical / VI - wild / VII - threatening / VIII - currente)I - formidable / II - confusing / III - long-living / IV - unheard-of/V- unbeatable / VI - unforgettable / VII - mad / VIII - afterward

Answer 1

Olá!

O texto fala sobre a série de televisão Breaking Bad, criada e produzida por Vince Gilligan. Com cinco temporadas, a série conta a história de um professor de química do ensino médio que, ao ser diagnosticado com câncer de pulmão, se torna um criminoso para poder garantir a situação financeira da família quando ele morrer.

As lacunas apresentadas no texto podem ser preenchidas sequencialmente por two-year-long, inoperable, widespread, most-watched, logical, wild, threatening e current. Logo, a alternativa correta é a letra D.