Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2013

Lista completa de Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2013 para resolução totalmente grátis. Selecione os assuntos no filtro de questões e comece a resolver exercícios.

The author’s main claim in Text I is that

  • A. higher standards of living in the US have attracted more immigrants from neighboring countries.
  • B. American salaries have risen because of the lowskilled immigrants that have left the US.
  • C. the increase of immigrant population in the USA has benefitted the economy and created more job opportunities.
  • D. the additional influx of immigrant workers and professionals had a positive impact on the educational standards of Americans.
  • E. more businesses and high-technology enterprises take advantage of undereducated workers moving into the US.

According to Text I, studies have NOT proved that

  • A. high immigration rates lead to a decline in economic growth and affect the citizens’ standards of living by reducing the prices of goods.
  • B. higher rates of immigration help support national welfare programs because the foreign population expands the share of contributors to these programs.
  • C. wages are not reduced even when the country experiences high rates of immigrant populations in all educational levels.
  • D. foreign professionals have set up many successful IT start-ups and integrated research projects contributing to scientific development.
  • E. more innovation efforts are seen in the economy when a large number of high-skilled professionals are attracted to the country.

In the excerpt of Text I: “other estimates find that immigration raises the wages of all US workers, regardless of education” (lines 23-25), regardless of, is substituted, without change in meaning, by

  • A. as a result of
  • B. because of
  • C. except for
  • D. despite
  • E. due to

In Texts I and II, in terms of reference, one notices that

  • A. other (Text I, line 23) refers to impacts (Text I, line 23).
  • B. these (Text I, line 33) refers to programs (Text I, line 31).
  • C. them (Text II, line 46) refers to working folks (Text II, line 48).
  • D. it (Text II, line 48) refers to way of life (Text II, line 47).
  • E. these (Text II, line 56) refers to workplaces (Text II, line 56).

In Texts I and II, in terms of meaning, one notices that

  • A. cutting-edge (Text I, line 17) and vanguard convey opposite meanings.
  • B. further (Text I, line 25) and additional have equivalent meanings.
  • C. actually (Text I, line 32) and nowadays are synonyms.
  • D. boost (Text I, line 41) and raise are antonyms.
  • E. sub par (Text II, line 21) and extraordinary express similar ideas.

In Text II, the sentence that expresses the idea of absolute certainty in the future is

  • A. “even poor campesinos from El Salvador can prosper in the US” (lines 4-5)
  • B. “many predicted Brazil would become a world power” (lines 17-18)
  • C. “There are many reasons and factors that could explain Brazil’s backwardness” (lines 22-23)
  • D. “It may be that these jobs are now forever changed” (lines 39-40)
  • E. "globalization will bring benefits” (line 46)

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

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

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.

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.
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