Questão 57

[…] According to the National Institute for Space Research, the number of fires detected in Brazil so far this year is 84 percent higher than in the comparable period last year; more than half of those are in the Amazon region. More than 1,300 new fires were added over the course of just two days this week. Satellites have captured images of the smoke from the flames sweeping across several Brazilian states. In São Paulo, where I live, dark clouds blackened the sun on Monday, turning day into night. The city is thousands of miles away from the Amazon. Meteorologists scrambled to explain what had happened, but many suspect that the culprit was low-lying clouds from a cold front combining with smoke. […]

By Vanessa Barbara. The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2019.

Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/ opinion/sunday/amazon-fire.html?searchResultPosition= 5&login=facebook&auth=login-facebook. Accessed on: Sept. 7, 2019.

A jornalista Vanessa Barbara estrutura o parágrafo anterior de forma que sua função comunicativa seja