Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 0000

Read the text below in order to answer questions 51 to 55:

The social security deficit

• A.

  ought to have been addressed in the present program

• B.

  may cause fiscal desequilibria within the period 1999/2001

• C.

  is seen as a key element in the fiscal imbalance

• D.

  would have been included in the present program, if necessary

• E.

  will be generating deeper fiscal desequilibria in the future

Read the text below in order to answer questions 51 to 55:

What elements are intended to be decreased?

• A. The budget expenditures and the interest rates
• B. The standard of living and the GDP
• C. The GDP and the international debt
• D. The local interest rates and the foreign GDP
• E. The social security deficit and the GDP

Read the text below in order to answer questions 56 to 60:

The introductory quotation by Benjamin Franklin points out that death and taxes

• A. show that there is nothing certain in this world
• B. are the only certainties in this world
• C. may be the only certainties in this world
• D. prove the uncertainty of life in this world
• E. represent uncertainties in our present life

Read the text below in order to answer questions 56 to 60:

According to the text, a major concern at the moment is how to

• A.

  increase taxation imposed on commerce via the telegraph

• B.

  exempt companies from paying taxes derived from e.commerce

• C.

  audit those companies which sell via the telegraph

• D.

  impose levies on commercial transactions made through the Internet

• E.

  finance e.commerce via the Internet until it reaches $1.3 trillion

Read the text below in order to answer questions 56 to 60:

• A.

  has been studied and negotiated through the Internet

• B.

  would stabilize the commerce via the Internet

• C.

  could be caused by the basic characteristics of the Internet

• D.

  would generate severe sanctions on e.commerce

• E.

  will represent a source of concern by the year 2003

Read the text below in order to answer questions 56 to 60:

Which of the statements below does not reflect the content of the text?

• A.

  In the 19^th century, levies had not been created yet

• B.

  $1.3 trillion is a possible figure concerning e.commerce in the future

• C.

  Anonymity is one of the features of the Internet

• D.

  Governments are worried about a decrease in tax-collection

• E.

  The absence of frontiers is a reality in the Internet

Read the text below in order to answer questions 56 to 60:

• A. an irrelevant worry
• B. disregarded by governments
• C. avoidable in the long-term
• D. a future tax exemption
• E. a cause of present concern

Read the text below in order to answer questions 31 to 35.

According to the text, in 2000, tax revenues

• A.

  went up.

• B.

  fell off.

• C.

  dropped.

• D.

  went down

• E.

  doubled

Read the text below in order to answer questions 31 to 35.

Brazil's pension system

• A.

  strengthens human capital

• B.

  was devised by civil servants

• C.

  is fiscally suitable.

• D.

  is too heavy a fiscal burden.

• E.

  reduces social disparities

Read the text below in order to answer questions 31 to 35.

External shocks

• A.

  result in severe reductions in wages.

• B.

  lower the level of inflation.

• C.

  impact the Brazilian economy

• D.

  induce the dismissal of federal employees.

• E.

  were beneficial in 2000