Question

Poderiam me ajudar em uma questão da UERJ do ano 2000 do 1º exame de qualificação? Eu achei que a resposta seria item D, porém o gabarito é letra B. Segue texto base e pergunta.
GUGA LEAVES SORE BACKS IN HIS WAKE
Watch out for Gustavo Kuerten. He is the most gentle soul on the tennis tour – a trace of the samba in
his walk, a hint of a Brazilian beach in his smile – but watch out for him, all the same.
Just by being on the same court with them, he has dispatched two players from the United States Open,
with sudden pain in their lower backs.
First, he sent Pete Sampras home from a practice session before the tournament ever began. Then he
disrupted Magnus Norman’s alignment in one set Tuesday in the Round of 16, without setting a pick or
tackling anybody.
Kuerten is the human version of the killer artificial turf at Giants Stadium, which disabled a Jets football
receiver and a MetroStars soccer midfielder in the past week without their being touched by friend or
foe. In all, seven players have retired from Open matches with injuries and three others withdrew beforehand, but Kuerten is leading the league with two notches on his racquet. He doesn’t look like the
poltergeist type. Known as Guga in the one-name Brazilian fashion, Kuerten doesn’t seem to have a
mean bone in his body. Or any bones at all. Willowy at 6 feet 3 inches and allegedly 167 pounds, he
seems a throwback to an age when most tennis players could not be imagined committing any other
form of sport.
“How come you never became a soccer player?” somebody asked Kuerten yesterday, a reasonable question of a man from the spiritual home of the world’s most popular sport.
“You never watch me play soccer,” he said with a laugh that caused reporters to laugh.
Guga has that impact on people. Still two days short of turning 23, he has lived with his image of the
onetime wonder who sambaed his way through the 1997 French Open and supports a school for poor
children in his hometown, but has not won a Grand Slam event since.
“You know, I’m play a lot of match,” Kuerten said yesterday in charming English. “I won four match
here in the Open. I don’t have to be worry about the surface anymore.”
He came here as the fifth-seeded player and was practicing with Sampras when Pete suddenly lumbered
off the court, later to be found to have a herniated disk in the lower back.
He had the same effect yesterday on Norman, who felt a pain in his back late in the first set and retired
after losing the tie breaker.
His next opponent is Cédric Pioline from the country that beat Brazil in the World Cup final in 1998. razil
The bongos might return for this one. And Pioline just might want to watch his back.

“Kuerten is the human version of the killer artificial turf at Giants Stadium...” (line 8)
Gustavo Kuerten is compared to a killer artificial turf because:
(A) one soccer player got badly hurt
(B) two of his opponents were injured
(C) seven players went home with backache
(D) three players gave up before the matches started

Answer 1

Resposta:

Eu concordo com o gabarito (resposta B). No texto, fala-se dos dois oponentes (Pete Sampras e Magnus Norman), que se lesionaram em quadra com o Guga Kuerten.