Questão 46

Leia atentamente o texto a seguir, do qual foram suprimidos alguns parágrafos, para responder às questões 46 e 47.

Few individuals have shaped the trajectory of an entire industry the way Ozires Silva shaped aviation. As a military pilot, engineer, entrepreneur, and public servant, Silva did not merely found Embraer — he repeatedly rescued, redirected, and reinvented it.

[I]

After joining the Brazilian Air Force at the age of 17, he flew missions across remote areas of the Amazon. There, he saw firsthand the vast distances and difficult terrain that separated Brazilians from one another, and began to understand aviation's power not just as a tool of transport, but as an agent of national integration.

[II]

After graduation, he joined the Centro Técnico Aeroespacial (CTA) and led the design of a small regional aircraft, the EMB-110 Bandeirante. But when it came time to move from prototype to production, Silva faced a defining obstacle: no investor would back the project. Brazil's industrial elite believed aircraft manufacturing was too risky, too expensive, and best left to the Americans or Europeans.

[III]

Under his leadership, Embraer launched successful aircraft like the Xingu, the Tucano, and the EMB-120 Brasilia, proving that Brazilian technology could compete globally. Each aircraft addressed a logistical challenge for Brazil while being designed with international scalability in mind.

[IV]

The privatization, completed in 1994, marked a turning point. Embraer quickly transitioned from a government-dependent firm to a lean, focused competitor in the international market. That transformation paved the way for the ERJ-145 regional jet, a commercial success that secured Embraer's position as a leader in regional aviation.

In 2021, Silva received the Daniel Guggenheim Medal, the most prestigious award in aeronautical engineering, becoming the first Brazilian to earn the honor. His personal convictions and professional decisions were inseparable from the company's transformation from a state-backed experiment into one of the world's most competitive aircraft manufacturers.

{ Fonte: OLIVEIRA, Renato. Ozires Silva: The living legend who built Embraer and transformed Brazil. AeroTime Hub, 15 ago. 2025. Adaptado.}

PARÁGRAFOS SUPRIMIDOS E EMBARALHADOS

(A) With conviction and diplomatic skill, Silva took his case to the federal government. In 1969, his efforts bore fruit: the state created Embraer, and Ozires Silva became its first president. As Silva built Embraer from the ground up, he faced the full spectrum of challenges: funding gaps, foreign competition, military skepticism, and bureaucratic inertia. But he also gained allies — engineers, test pilots, and industrialists who believed in the mission.

(B) Silva's story begins not in a boardroom or a laboratory, but in the interior of Sao Paulo state. Born in 1931 in Bauru, he came of age in a Brazil that relied on imported technologies and foreign industries. His journey began not with ambition for wealth or fame, but with a simple, patriotic question: Why can't Brazil build its own airplanes?

(C) Determined to change his country's course, Silva enrolled at the Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA), a newly created engineering school designed to empower Brazil's aerospace future. There, he honed the technical skills needed to turn vision into reality.

(D) Though the company grew, Silva realized Embraer's long-term success required independence from political cycles. In the late 1980s, he stepped away to serve as president of Petrobras and later as Minister of Infrastructure. But Embraer faltered under state control, and by the early 1990s, it faced severe financial trouble. Silva returned in 1991 to lead a bold and controversial initiative: privatization.

A sequência que restitui ao texto sua organização original, garantindo COESÃO e COERÊNCIA ao desenvolvimento argumentativo, é

A questão exige reconstruir a cronologia da vida de Ozires Silva a partir das pistas que os parágrafos fixos deixam antes e depois de cada lacuna. O caminho mais seguro é ler o que vem imediatamente antes e imediatamente depois de cada marcador e procurar, entre os quatro trechos embaralhados, aquele que fecha os dois lados.

A lacuna [I] vem logo depois da apresentação geral de Silva e logo antes da frase "After joining the Brazilian Air Force at the age of 17". O trecho que abre a narrativa é o (B), que começa com "Silva's story begins" e situa o nascimento em Bauru, em 1931, num Brasil dependente de tecnologia importada. Ele termina com a pergunta que move toda a história, "Why can't Brazil build its own airplanes?", e prepara a entrada do jovem na Força Aérea. Nenhum outro trecho poderia abrir o texto, porque só esse fala do começo da vida.

A lacuna [II] fica entre a experiência na Amazônia, em que Silva percebe a aviação como instrumento de integração nacional, e a frase "After graduation, he joined the Centro Técnico Aeroespacial". Essa frase pressupõe um curso concluído, e o único trecho que menciona formação é o (C), em que Silva, "determined to change his country's course", se matricula no ITA e adquire a base técnica para transformar visão em realidade. A expressão "determined to change his country's course" retoma diretamente a compreensão adquirida nos voos pela Amazônia.

A lacuna [III] fica depois do obstáculo de que nenhum investidor apoiaria o Bandeirante e antes da frase "Under his leadership, Embraer launched successful aircraft". Para que Silva lidere a Embraer, a empresa precisa ter sido criada, e é isso que o trecho (A) narra. Diante da recusa dos investidores privados, ele leva o caso ao governo federal, o Estado cria a Embraer em 1969 e Silva se torna seu primeiro presidente. O trecho responde ao problema deixado em aberto e entrega o sujeito que a frase seguinte exige.

A lacuna [IV] fica depois da lista de aeronaves bem-sucedidas e antes de "The privatization, completed in 1994, marked a turning point". O artigo definido em "the privatization" indica que a privatização já foi mencionada, e quem a menciona é o trecho (D), que abre com "Though the company grew", em concessão aos sucessos recém-listados, narra o afastamento de Silva no fim dos anos 1980, a crise da empresa sob controle estatal e o retorno em 1991 para conduzir a privatização. A frase seguinte apenas registra a conclusão desse processo.

A sequência que restitui a organização original é, portanto, B, C, A, D. As demais alternativas quebram a cronologia em algum ponto, seja colocando a privatização antes da fundação da empresa, seja colocando a matrícula no ITA antes do nascimento, seja abrindo o texto com a criação da Embraer.