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NORTH KOREAN BRIDESBy Melanie Kirkpatrick1Steven Kim, an American businessman from Long Island, New York, may be the world's leading expert on the market for North Korean brides. He acquired this expertise accidentally. He likes to say it was God's plan.2A decade or so ago he was living in China, overseeing the manufacture of chairs he sold to retail clients in the United States, when he heard about a secret church that catered to the South Korean businessmen who worked in the Shenzhen industrial zone, not far from his apartment. It wasn't registered with the Chinese government, as required by law, so it operated underground, billing itself as a cultural association. There was no sign on the door and no cross on the roof. The TOO or so congregants had learned about the church as Kim had, by word of mouth.3Kim, a practicing Christian, became a regular attendee. One Sunday he noticed two shabbily dressed men seated in a corner of the room. After worship, he went up to them, said hello, and learned to his astonishment that they were from North Korea. They had escaped across the Tumen River to northeast China and traveled 2,000 miles south to Guangdong province, a journey that took two months. They hoped to find a way to slip across the border into Hong Kong. "They came to church asking for help," he says. "But the church would only feed them, give them a few dollars, and let them go."4Kim was outraged. 7 asked the pastor, 'Why do you let them go?'" "Because we’re afraid," the pastor replied. "If we're caught helping North Koreans, the church will be shut down." Kim took the two men home.5That was the start. Kim began to assist North Korean refugees clandestinely. He provided safe houses, food, clothing, and money; eventually he organized secret passage across China to third countries. Before Iona, he aained a reputation alona the new underaround railroad as someone North Koreans could count on for assistance. Many of them turned out to be women fleeing from the Chinese men who had purchased them as brides.6Today he runs 318 Partners, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing trafficked women in China.7Kim clearly has his hands full. The only practical escape route for fugitives from North Korea is through China, and human-rights groups say roughly 80 percent of those thousands of refugees are women and girls who have become "commodities for purchase," in Kim’s words.Adapted from Newsweek. August 27, 201239In paragraph 1, "God's plan," in the sentence "He likes to say it was God's plan," most likely refers to the fact thatA Steven Kim became a practicing Christian when he lived in China and started helping North Korean refugees.B Steven Kim became deeply, seriously involved in helping North Korean women who had been sold into marriage.C it is illegal to buy and sell human beings.D the voice of God told Steven Kim to help women in North Korea.E in China, North Korean brides have no one to protect them except Steven Kim.

Answer 1

Vamos analisar cada alternativa da questão por vez para, ao final, indicar a resposta correta:

a) Falsa. Em nenhum momento do texto é indicado que Steven Kim tornou-se cristão quanto morava na China.

b) Verdadeira. É indicado pelo texto que cerca de 80 % das pessoas que Steven Kim ajuda hoje são norte-coreanas vendidas para chineses.

c) Falsa. Embora este seja um fato, não é o tratado no texto.

d) Falsa. Em nenhum momento isso é indicado.

e) Falsa. É dito no texto que Steven Kim é uma referência para o auxílio de norte-coreanos, mas não que ele é a única pessoa que pode ser procurada.

Como a única alternativa verdadeira é a b, trata-se da resposta correta da questão.