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1Diplomacy has never enjoyed a wholly favourable
reputation. Often confused with its clandestine cousin,
espionage, it has for centuries been associated with deviousness
4and duplicity. Only the other day, when I was giving a talk, a
woman came up to me afterwards and expressed astonishment
that I had actually given straight answers to questions. “I
7expected”, she said, “the usual wishy-washy that you get from
diplomats.” In modern times, diplomacy has also become
associated with appeasement of one kind or another, with
10kowtowing to foreign governments.
These criticisms have acquired the rancid flavour of
class warfare, a deeply ingrained British pastime. For centuries,
13diplomacy recruited from the aristocracy and upper classes.
When I joined the Foreign Office in 1966, recruitment had
become more widely meritocratic; but it was overwhelmingly
16a male meritocracy drawn from a few elite universities. Today,
the recruitment pool is vastly bigger in every way. But, the old
myths persist. The image of a diplomat clad in pinstripes,
19quaffing champagne, and leading the good life in a magnificent
embassy, dies hard.
Christopher Meyer. Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009, p. 6 (adapted). !FimDoTexto!
Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text I, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).
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The words “clad” (R. 18) and “quaffing” (R.19) could be correctly replaced by dressed and sipping without this altering the meaning of the sentence, although this substitution would make the text less humorous.
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There would be no change in the meaning of the passage from “Often” (R. 2) to “duplicity” (R.4) if it were replaced by Even though it is often confused with espionage, which is its illegitimate cousin, diplomacy has been linked with misbehaviour and duplicity for centuries.
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The excerpt “that you get from diplomats” (R. 7 and 8) could be correctly replaced by which one gets from diplomats without this changing the meaning of the text.
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The recruitment policy of the British diplomatic service was designed and planned by elite academics and university intellectuals.
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