Questões de Língua Inglesa

 

Judge the items below, based on the text above.

One of the premises of the text is that every time there is a sudden economic crisis, we tend to quickly try to find a culprit.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items, according to the text above.

The author accuses some firms of bribing unscrupulous academics to put forward compelling arguments hereby they could block proposals to create mandatory audit rotation.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items, according to the text above.

The fragment “longer tenures yield better results” (l.8) indicates that it is necessary a considerable amount of time for an auditing company which has been hired to sharpen its auditing skills and deliver superior results.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items, according to the text above.

In “to me that’s not an audit, that’s a joint venture” (l.5), the word “that” refers to the situation mentioned before, that is, the same auditing firm being responsible for a client for too long a period of time.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

An idiom has been defined as a lexical item (usually a phrase or a clause) whose meaning cannot be derived from the sum of its parts. The idiom in “summer is just around the corner” (line 1-2) means that “summer is:

• A. in our hands
• B. probably in the way
• C. hoped to happen soon
• D. nearly round the bend
• E. to take place shortly

Judge the following items, according to the text above.

The expression “magic bullet” (l.23) could be correctly replaced by cure-all, wonder drug or perfect solution, without any change in its meaning.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

The author points to a discontinuity in the history of financial bookkeeping from the end of the 15^th century to the 18^th century.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

The word “allay” (l.3) is used as a verb and it means reduce or ease.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

People have inherited from the Bible the notion that auditing is necessary because of the inherently dishonest nature of human beings.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Without changing the meaning of the text, the fragment “explains the basic rationale for instituting controls rather straightforwardly” (l.16-17) could be correctly replaced with explains a common-sense approach to retain control instead of simply handing it over.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado