Questões de Língua Inglesa

Microsoft next year plans to update Windows XP to support two technologies left out of the new operating system: USB 2.0 and Bluetooth. Both technologies are used for connecting peripherals to PCs, USB 2.0 at speeds up to 480 megabits per second (mbps) and Bluetooth over the air without wires. USB 2.0 support is expected early next year, and the Bluetooth ad-dition should come by mid-2002. (ZedNet news, Dec. 2001) According to the text:

• A. Microsoft is planning to launch next year its new operating systems: USB 2.0 and Bluetooth
• B. USB 2.0 is slightly faster than Bluetooth, which uses a different technology for connecting peripherals.
• C. The current version of Windows XP does not include the technologies USB 2.0 and Bluetooth.
• D. The update to Bluetooth is expected to come sooner than that to USB 2.0.

In the passage: ¨DFor the organization to break even, the assistant must make the executive 8% more productive than he or she would be working solo¡¬, the highlighted expression can be replaced ¨C without changing the original meaning ¨C by:

• A. turn a loss.
• B. turn a profit.
• C. balance books.
• D. make a profit.
• E. gain money.

PROCSEQ specifies the name of a secondary index that is used to process the database named in the DBNAME operand through a secondary processing sequence. The operand is optional. It is valid only if a secondary index exists for this database. According to the text, which is the correct answer?

• A.

  PROCSEQ doesn't specify the name of a secondary index that is used to process the database named in the DBNAME.

• B.

  PROCSEQ specifies the name of a secondary index that is used to process the database named in the DBNAME.

• C.

  PROCSEQ specifies the name of a primary index that is used to process the database named in the DBNAME.

• D.

  PROCSEQ specifies the name of a first index that is used to process the database named in the DBNAME.

Currently, there exist a large number of superb digital librari-es (DLs), all of which are, unfortunately, vertically integrated and all presenting a monolithic interface to their users. Ideally, a user would want to locate resources from a variety of digital libraries dealing only with one interface. A number of approa-ches to this interoperability issue exist including: defining a u-niversal protocol for all libraries to adhere to; or developing mechanisms to translate between protocols. (D-Lib, March 1999) The problem which the text point to is:

• A. That there is an excessive number of digital libraries (DLs) in the market today.
• B. The fact that users need to use more than one interface to locate resources from different libraries.
• C. That there are too many different approaches to tackle intero-perability.
• D. That there is still strong resistance to the issue of interoperabi-lity.

Our office didn’t look like a newsroom that you’d imagine from movies or TV drama series. The underlined expression refers to:

• A. the assistant’s office.
• B. the assistant and the boss’s office.
• C. the boss’s office.
• D. all the employers’ office.
• E. all the employers’ and the boss’s offices.

Read the text carefully, then answer questions 16 to 20 below. Choose the answer that is correct according to the ideas in the text.

The main purpose of the new Russian tax measure is to

• A.

  reduce the revenue the government collects from income tax.

• B.

  entice more people to pay more income tax than they ought to

• C.

  improve the country's current unfair income distribution.

• D.

  provide more benefits for the lower paid Russian workers.

• E.

  Encourage more Russian people to become tax-payers.

Applications are defined as a top-down structure of processing logic blocks called processes and statement groups. The top level in the structure is a sequence of one or more processes called main processes. Each process and statement group contains CSP/AD language processing statements. According to the text, which is the correct answer?

• A.

  Applications isn't defined as a Top-down structure structure.

• B.

  Applications has not defined as a Top-down structure.

• C.

  Applications are defined as a Top-down structure.

• D.

  Applications have not as define as a Top-down structure.

WEB DEVELOPER.COM GUIDE TO CREATING WEB CHANNELS by Lee Purcell reviewed by Deborah Wiley for Database, Feb. 1999 This book sheds more light on push technology, focusing on the three major technologies, Microsoft's Active Channels, Netscape's Netcaster and Backweb's InfoCenter. In particular, this book provides some details on software that can help you develop channels, with updates posted on the Web site listed earlier. This book does not go into quite as much detail on us-ing and developing channels, although it certainly provides plenty of information to get you started. According to the review, the book gives less emphasis to:

• A. Softwares.
• B. Web site lists.
• C. The use of channels.
• D. Push technology.

When writing a correspondence, it is essential to be careful about the tone of the language to communicate the content. According to ASHLEY (2005:34), ¨D[i]t is important to try to get the right 'tone' in your letter. This means that, generally speaking, you should aim for a neutral tone, avoiding pompous language on the one hand and language which is too informal or colloquial on the other.¡¬ The best alternative to illustrate the appropriate tone for opening a commercial letter to Ron Barron, CEO of an educational startup, is:

• A. Dear Ron.
• B. Hi, Ron.
• C. Mr Ron.
• D. Ron.
• E. Dear Mr Barron.

Read the text carefully, then answer questions 16 to 20 below. Choose the answer that is correct according to the ideas in the text.

In the short term, the principal beneficiaries of the new tax system will be

• A. the lower-paid workers
• B. higher-paid tax-payers
• C. prosperous tax evaders
• D. all Russian workers
• E. national tax dodgers