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
The original meaning of text CB1A2 would be maintained if the word “scant”, in “the technical details are pretty scant” (fourth sentence of the last paragraph) were replaced with
short.
small.
poor.
ample.
sparse.
📝 Resolução Comentada – Questão 15
A questão cobra Lexical Synonymy. O verbo nuclear do comando é "were replaced with", indicando que o candidato deve identificar qual palavra pode substituir scant sem alterar o significado original da frase.
O problema é que o CEBRASPE construiu duas alternativas semanticamente aceitáveis, tornando impossível apontar uma única resposta correta.
O trecho decisivo é:
"...the technical details are pretty scant."
Nesse contexto, scant significa escasso, limitado, insuficiente ou pouco detalhado. Tanto sparse quanto poor preservam adequadamente essa ideia quando modificam o substantivo details.
- O Comando: identificar uma substituição lexical que preserve o significado contextual de scant.
- O Gatilho da Anulação: perceber que duas alternativas são semanticamente equivalentes dentro do contexto apresentado.
- Por que é difícil? A questão exige leitura contextual refinada e conhecimento das nuances semânticas dos adjetivos ingleses, mas falha ao oferecer duas respostas defensáveis.
(A) ❌ short.
Incorreta. Short refere-se principalmente a comprimento ou duração, não à insuficiência de informações técnicas.
(B) ❌ small.
Incorreta. Small indica tamanho reduzido, não quantidade insuficiente de detalhes.
(C) ✅ poor.
Também correta. Quando modifica substantivos como details, information ou documentation, poor significa insuficiente, incompleto, fraco ou pouco satisfatório, preservando o sentido contextual de scant.
(D) ❌ ample.
Incorreta. Ample significa abundante, amplo ou suficiente, produzindo exatamente o sentido oposto ao do texto.
(E) ✅ sparse.
Também correta. É o sinônimo lexical mais direto de scant, significando escasso, pouco abundante ou distribuído de forma limitada. A substituição preserva integralmente o significado da frase.
- Questão típica de Lexical Synonymy.
- Scant significa escasso, insuficiente ou limitado.
- O CEBRASPE anulou corretamente a questão porque poor e sparse preservam o significado contextual da frase.
Chunk family:
- Scant details (detalhes escassos)
- Sparse information (informação escassa)
- Poor documentation (documentação insuficiente)
- Insufficient details (detalhes insuficientes)
- Lexical synonymy (sinonímia lexical)
- Contextual meaning (significado contextual)
Motivo: as alternativas (C) poor e (E) sparse preservam o significado contextual de scant, produzindo dupla resposta válida.