Questões de Concurso Militar EFOMM 2018 para Oficial da Marinha Mercante - Primeiro Dia

Which option is correct?

Based on the text below, mark the correct option.
Russian jet intercepts US Navy plane
    A Russian Su-27 fighter jet performed an "unprofessional" intercept of a US Navy P-8 surveillance plane while it was flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea Tuesday, two defense officials told CNN.     The Russian jet came within about 20 feet of the US aircraft, one official said, adding that the encounter lasted about nine minutes.     The intercept was described by officials as safe but unprofessional, though a US Navy official told CNN that the Navy does not officially classify aerial encounters that way. The Navy classifies aviation intercepts simply as either safe or unsafe.     Lt. Cdr. Zach Harrell, a spokesman for US Naval Forces Europe, declined to comment on the specific incident, saying, "US Navy ships and aircraft routinely interact with military units from other countries.". He added that the Navy would provide information on unsafe interactions.     The last unsafe intercept of a US Navy aircraft by a Russian jet occurred in January when a Russian Su-27 jet flew within five feet of a US Navy EP-3, forcing the Navy plane to fly through its jet wash. The US Navy deemed that intercept unsafe and unprofessional.     Following that incident, the US State Department issued a statement accusing the Russians of "flagrantly violating existing agreements and international law.".
(Adapted from: http://www.cnn.com)
Considering the text, the word “declined” in “[...] a spokesman for US Naval Forces Europe, declined to comment on the specific incident [...] (4^thparagraph) means “______ ”.

Read the extract below and choose the only sequence that can complete it.
The female voice.
The vast majority of projects in speech synthesis have used male voices. The early synthesizers of the 1980s were very limited in the kind of speech they could cope with. The Haskins Laboratories Pattern Playback, for example, could only produce a fundamental frequency of 120Hz. ______, very little information was available on the acoustics of female speech. ______ several efforts were made to produce female-sounding speech, none of them was convincing.______, since the 1980s, the use of more sophisticated acoustic analyses and equipment has led to the synthesis of several utterances with an acceptable female quality.
(Adapted from: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language)