Questões de Língua Inglesa

In the excerpts of Text II: “The US economic and social systems are set up to provide opportunity for immigrants to prosper” (lines 10-12) and “if immigrants are instead brought in as low-wage replacements for American workers” (lines 60-61) set up and brought in mean, respectively,

• A. established – introduced
• B. ignored – incorporated
• C. organized – discarded
• D. forbidden – eliminated
• E. created – returned

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

In spite of the pervasiveness of IT in many organizations, it is essential for enterprises to balance risks and detect fraud.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

In the excerpt of Text II: “living standards are severely damaged for both immigrants and native-born Americans, that is for everyone but the 0.1% wealthiest Americans who benefit from cheap labor” (lines 64-67), that is introduces a(n)

• A. contrast
• B. solution
• C. hypothesis
• D. addition
• E. explanation

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

Although considerable research has been devoted to IT governance, rather less attention has been paid to corporate governance mechanisms.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

U.N., who wrote Comment 1 in Text II, defends that

• A. a country becomes a superpower when it takes up in its workforce more qualified immigrant professionals and rejects unskilled workers.
• B. low-skilled immigrants to the US find more opportunities to prosper than they would in their countries of origin.
• C. Brazil is still an emerging country because it has closed its doors to immigration of unskilled workers from South American countries.
• D. Brazil offers its immigrant population appropriate educational conditions to become valuable citizens.
• E. Brazil’s illiterate population and El Salvador’s immigrants to the US have no opportunity to prosper and help the countries’ economic growth.

The words below were taken from the text and are used according to two grammatical categories; all of them in this text are, respectively, an adjective and a noun, EXCEPT

• A.

  enviable – knowledge (line 01, both occurrences).

• B.

  demanding – understanding (line 01 and 02, both occurrences).

• C.

  societal – individual (lines 03 and 05).

• D.

  early – rewards (lines 04 and 10).

• E.

  good – calling (lines 07 and 08).

When relating the ideas in Text I with those in Text II, one concludes that the

• A. author of Comment 1, U.N., has a view that is contrary to that manifested by the author of Text I in terms of a country’s economic standards.
• B. author of Comment 2, T. McK, supports the argument on the relation between economic growth and foreign workforce exposed in Text I.
• C. author of Comment 1, U.N., and the author of Comment 3, J.I., side with the author of Text I about immigration and economic development.
• D. authors of Comments 2 and 3, T. McK and J.I., respectively, oppose the view on the relation between economic development and rates of immigration expressed in Text I.
• E. three commentators agree with the perspective on the importance of immigration defended by the author of Text I.

The function word As, in As children advance through the educational system (lines 06),

• A.

  is used to show a comparison.

• B.

  is used for referring to what is known.

• C.

  means in the same way.

• D.

  means when or while.

• E.

  means although.

The term bow has several meanings, besides one in the text. It is used correctly in all of the sentences below, EXCEPT:

• A.

  The organizers of the event can take a welldeserved bow.

• B.

  There were three goldfish swimming in the bow.

• C.

  She wrapped the present and tied it in a beautiful bow.

• D.

  Everyone has seen their picture on the bow of the Titanic.

• E.

  Do people still have to bow to the Queen of England?

O que possibilitou muitas melhorias no Word 2007

• A.

  foi o Microsoft Office Fluent.

• B.

  foi o novo formato de arquivos.

• C.

  foi o Quick Access.

• D.

  foi o Ribbon.

• E.

  foram os menus, submenus e barras de ferramentas.