Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2010

Julgue se os itens a seguir, escritos em língua inglesa, estão técnica e gramaticalmente corretos.

A middleware system is one that serves as interface between other systems, so we could say that a translator program works like a middleware.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Julgue se os itens a seguir, escritos em língua inglesa, estão técnica e gramaticalmente corretos.

An attribute is a special characteristic related to an entity, but not to an object.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Julgue se os itens a seguir, escritos em língua inglesa, estão técnica e gramaticalmente corretos.

Information technology people know the importance of periodical backup to make possible to restore non important information.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Julgue se os itens a seguir, escritos em língua inglesa, estão técnica e gramaticalmente corretos.

Whenever a new release of a software package is announced, the organization needs to buy it immediately for its own safe.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Julgue se os itens a seguir, escritos em língua inglesa, estão técnica e gramaticalmente corretos.

User can have privilege to update, delete and insert data; while none of them can be revoked when needed.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Atenção: As questões de números 53 a 60 referem-se ao texto abaixo.

Qual dos verbos abaixo não pertence ao mesmo grupo semântico?

• A.

  Grow.

• B.

  Increase.

• C.

  Augment.

• D.

  Research.

• E.

  Proliferate.

This text refers to questions 40 to 43.

In the fragment, "lured him into boasting that Americans admired him" (l
.38-39), the words "lured" and "boasting" mean, respectively,

• A.

  pressed and stating.

• B.

  tempted and denying.

• C.

  enticed and bragging.

• D.

  challenged and acknowledging.

• E.

  coerced and showing off.

According to the text, businesses

• A. are fully prepared to deal with an ancient workforce.
• B. cannot cope with an influx of elderly workers.
• C. are incapable of growing old gracefully.
• D. must get rid of older workers through streamlining operations.
• E. must learn to deal with the need to keep older staff employed.

In paragraph 2, the author claims that the recent economic recession has

• A. awakened an interest in science and engineering among younger workers.
• B. caused the number of young people seeking jobs in business to increase.
• C. extinguished what little interest
  afirms had shown in how to manage an older staff.
• D. made a mountain of business management out of a managerial molehill.
• E. led many afirms to dismiss older workers in their periodic staff reductions.

The text suggests that the governments of industrialized countries are

• A. trying to stop companies dismissing older members of their workforce.
• B. refusing to employ younger workers because of their expensive pensions.
• C. cutting the retirement pensions of valuable workers on the basis of age.
• D. making desperate attempts to cope with an ineficient labour market.
• E. regretting their generosity to workers who have taken early retirement.