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Q1138099 • Inglês • Orações Condicionais Conditional Clauses • INSTITUTO AOCP • Polícia Militar PE • PM PE • 2024
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Essen: Germany's 'ugly duckling' city success (by Norman Miller)


Thanks to an innovative approach, the Germany city has catapulted from an industrial wasteland to one of Europe’s greened cities.


Located in the heart of western Germany's long-time industrial Ruhr region, the city of Essen spent much of the past 150 years marred by pollution, tainted by filthy mines and belching factories and lined by poisoned waterways. In just one year in the 1960s, a study noted that some 1.5 million tons of toxic dust, ashes and soot rained down on Essen's inhabitants, along with four million tons of sulphur dioxide. But a remarkable transformation has seen Essen go from being Germany's ugly duckling to one of Europe's greenest cities.

"Green urban development has acted as a driving force in Essen over the last decade," explained Simone Raskob, who helped oversee Essen's transformation through a mix of so-called Blue Green solutions: "Blue" for water-focused initiatives, and "Green" for land-based projects. This two-pronged approach helped catapult Essen to be declared the European Green Capital for 2017.

Essen's most high-profile project is the transformation of the Zollverein industrial complex – once the world's largest coal and coke production facility – from toxin-spewing industrial blackspot to an inspiring eco-park granted Unesco World Heritage status. Inside its giant former coal washing building, the impressive Ruhr Museum enthrals visitors with displays on the site's history and transformation between towering old machinery. A short walk away, the Red Dot Design Museum showcases examples of innovative global design in a former boiler house building repurposed by renowned architect Norman Foster. Ever since mining at Zollverein and the surrounding region ended in the late 1980s, woodland has spread across the vast site, and its trail-laced expanses are now home to more than 800 animal and plant species.

Yet, Essen isn't resting on its green laurels and is continuing to add eco-friendly initiatives. A 100km cycling 'super-highway’ is slowly taking shape atop old industrial railways. A string of nature-walking trails have also been created in and around the city to help boost local engagement with – and appreciation of – natural habitats. All the trails are easily accessible by public transport.

Among the city's many transformations are the creation of lakes and ponds by harvesting rainwater. But perhaps the toughest of Essen's solutions involved restoring the River Emscher, considered a biologically dead "open sewer" since the end of the 19th Century, thanks to the dumping of mining and factory slurry and waste water. After a two-decade clean-up programme, trout once again returned to the rejuvenated river in 2015. A recent count found more than 1,000 fish and animal species living along the Emscher, including previously endangered lapwings, kingfishers and beavers.

Though humans aren't yet encouraged to join the trout in the Emscher, an arena for swimming and boating hums with activity at Lake Baldeney, a broad expanse of water created behind a 9m dam on the similarly cleanedup Ruhr river. When swimmers splashed here back in 2017, it was the first time bathing had been officially allowed there for 46 years.

From German eyesore to proud green city, Essen's green-and-blue approach isn't just benefitting outdoor enthusiasts and the environment but is also providing a shining example of how other cities can look to their industrial past to embrace a cleaner future.


Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231106-essen-germanys-ugly-duckling-city-success. Access on: 13 nov. 2023.
Consider the following extract from paragraph 3 of the article:

“Ever since mining at Zollverein and the surrounding region ended in the late 1980s, woodland has spread across the vast site, and its trail-laced expanses are now home to more than 800 animal and plant species”.

Select the alternative which brings the most appropriate conclusion according to the extract of the article.
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  • Camila Duarte
    Camila Duarte EQUIPE
    22/09/2026 • 03:02
    Essa questão aborda a habilidade de interpretar consequências e condições expressas em um trecho do texto. O trecho do parágrafo 3 destaca que, depois que a mineração no complexo Zollverein e região adjacente terminou no final da década de 1980, a floresta se espalhou e atualmente a área abriga mais de 800 espécies de animais e plantas. Ou seja, o fim da mineração foi uma condição essencial para a recuperação ambiental e a biodiversidade atual. Isso indica uma relação de causa e efeito onde a paralisação da mineração permitiu a recuperação do meio ambiente naquela região.

    Analisando as alternativas, a que corresponde exatamente a essa ideia é a alternativa (a): "Se a mineração não tivesse terminado, a área não seria habitat de uma grande variedade de espécies atualmente". Ela expressa claramente a condição contrafactual (se não tivesse ocorrido o fim da mineração) e a consequência negativa (não abrigaria tanta biodiversidade).

    As outras alternativas apresentam erros lógicos ou temporais, como o uso incorreto do tempo verbal, ou a interpretação errada da condicionalidade, não sendo adequadas ao contexto do trecho. Portanto, a alternativa correta é a letra (a).
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