Conhecimentos Específicos: Letras - Inglês - FUNECE/UECE 2018 - Professor de Língua Inglesa

TEXT II

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

Jean M. Twenge

Compiled from:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/ha s-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/and https://blog.12min.com/have-smartphones-destroyed-ageneration-summary/

The underlined item “shruging” (line 82) is a nonsense word, merely invented for the purposes of this exam. After analyzing the co-text and context, it is correct to conclude that “shruging” means