CEBRASPE • BANRISUL
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Currently, the Digital Euro has not been launched — though there are signs that a launch may be coming sooner rather than later. By October 2025, the ECB (European Central Bank) has indicated a second phase of the preparation for the Digital Euro. By then, the ECB will have prepared an outreach plan, procurement standards, and technology providers.
The Digital Euro has potential downsides, many of them echoed in the other launches of central bank digital currencies. For example, the central bank will become a technology company focused on procurement with central points of failure. This was a breeding ground for corruption for the bureaucrat fortunate enough to make these technical choices in China.
While the Digital Euro is slated to “coexist” with cash, this also comes when EU (European Union) nations are voting on ending end-to-end encryption (a critical digital privacy tool) and have started to restrict cash with limits being placed on how much you can spend in cash to accelerate its slow demise.
User privacy is said to be the ECB’s “chief concern” as it has been designing the central bank’s digital currency. Certainly, the ECB is aware of public perception that has negative surveillance, control, and privacy implications in mind. The ECB has been at pains to say that the Digital Euro will “coexist” with cash and that unlike the e-CNY (China’s central bank digital coin) it will not be tied to a “social credit” score or place limits on how money is spent.
A big part of the ECB’s drive towards the Digital Euro is to compete and pry Europeans away from Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and “stablecoins”.
Central bank digital currencies are a direct liability of the central bank. Since the central bank has the power to issue currency, this means that the central bank can essentially create “digital euros” if it wishes to. The architecture and data within a central bank digital currency are usually built completely by the central bank supported by private vendors of its choice. In China, the central bank has turned away from a distributed ledger technology to a centralized data store, in which the technical details are pretty scant. Hence, the central bank controls everything, and the system has no external access.
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QUESTÃO
Choose the option that presents a rephrasing of “pry Europeans away from Bitcoin” (fifth paragraph) that would preserve both the original meaning and the grammar correctness of text CB1A2.
make Bitcoins more accessible to Europeans.
discourage the use of Bitcoin by Europeans.
hinder Europeans’ access to Bitcoin.
draw Europeans toward Bitcoin.
persuade the use of Bitcoin in Europe.
📝 Resolução Comentada – Questão 14
A questão avalia Lexical Synonymy. O CEBRASPE não pergunta o significado isolado do phrasal verb pry ... away from; exige identificar uma reformulação equivalente que preserve simultaneamente o significado e a correção gramatical da frase.
No quinto parágrafo, o autor explica que um dos objetivos do Banco Central Europeu é fazer com que os cidadãos europeus deixem de utilizar Bitcoin e outras criptomoedas, migrando para o Digital Euro.
O trecho decisivo é:
"A big part of the ECB's drive towards the Digital Euro is to compete and pry Europeans away from Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and 'stablecoins'."
O phrasal verb pry someone away from something significa afastar alguém de algo, desencorajar seu uso ou convencer alguém a abandonar determinada prática. Nesse contexto, a melhor equivalência é discourage the use of Bitcoin by Europeans.
- O Comando: identificar a reformulação que preserva o significado da expressão original.
- O Gatilho do Gabarito: reconhecer que pry...away from transmite a ideia de afastar ou desencorajar alguém em relação a alguma coisa.
- Por que é médio? O CEBRASPE utiliza um phrasal verb pouco frequente e oferece distratores semanticamente próximos, exigindo leitura contextual em vez de tradução literal.
(A) ❌ make Bitcoins more accessible to Europeans.
Incorreta. A alternativa produz exatamente o efeito contrário ao texto, sugerindo facilitar o acesso ao Bitcoin.
(B) ✅ discourage the use of Bitcoin by Europeans.
Correta. Preserva fielmente o sentido de pry Europeans away from Bitcoin: desencorajar ou afastar os europeus do uso do Bitcoin em favor do Digital Euro.
(C) ❌ hinder Europeans' access to Bitcoin.
Incorreta. O texto não trata de impedir o acesso ao Bitcoin, mas de persuadir as pessoas a deixarem de utilizá-lo espontaneamente.
(D) ❌ draw Europeans toward Bitcoin.
Incorreta. A alternativa inverte completamente o sentido do trecho, indicando aproximação, e não afastamento.
(E) ❌ persuade the use of Bitcoin in Europe.
Incorreta. Além de contrariar o sentido do texto, apresenta construção lexical inadequada. O objetivo do BCE é promover o Digital Euro, não incentivar o uso do Bitcoin.
- Questão típica de Lexical Synonymy.
- Pry someone away from significa afastar ou desencorajar alguém em relação a alguma coisa.
- Em provas do CEBRASPE, a equivalência deve preservar simultaneamente o significado e a correção gramatical.
Chunk family:
- Pry away from (afastar de)
- Discourage the use of (desencorajar o uso de)
- Steer away from (afastar de)
- Move away from (afastar-se de)
- Lexical synonymy (sinonímia lexical)
- Contextual rephrasing (reformulação contextual)
Gabarito Oficial: B