Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

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.

According to the text, current British laws on working timetables are designed mainly for

• A. women who work as secretaries for the government.
• B. parents of young children and teenagers, as well as care workers.
• C. men who have been in their current jobs for some time.
• D. women extending their maternity leave with unpaid work.
• E. those who want a change in the cultural mentality of businesses.

With regard to paternity leave, the government has given men the right to

• A. take six months’ paid leave as soon as their baby is born.
• B. care for a baby if the mother returns to work within three months.
• C. receive their full salary to look after the baby for three out of the first six months.
• D. take a three-month break receiving payment when the baby is six months old.
• E. stay at home with the baby’s mother on unpaid leave for six months.

The Work and Pensions Secretary

• A. a has been personally attacked by company bosses who dislike her plans.
• B. believes  exible working hours are a drawback for many workers.
• C. is seeking employers’ cooperation for new proposals on working hours.
• D. shows scant regard for the needs of parents wanting flexible timetables.
• E. wants pensions to be paid to fathers who care for their neonate infants.

Ms Cooper hopes her new proposals will give more flexible working hours

• A. from the outset, to workers of both genders.
• B. to fathers of babies, concurrently with mothers.
• C. after six months, to those established in their jobs.
• D. to senior staff who want to start a family.
• E. to parents and youth workers up to the age of sixteen.

The International Labour Organization seeks to

• A. encourage social equality at international level.
• B. foster workers’ rights and good working practices.
• C. stamp out protectionism and restrictive practices.
• D. promote national wealth through higher productivity.
• E. overturn protective practices in the workplace.

The founders of the ILO believed that

• A. the people must wake up again after a damaging war.
• B. decent social rights must be promoted by advanced countries.
• C. individuals’ mercenary aims reinforce community life.
• D. good working conditions are essential to maintain world peace.
• E. the ILO favours tripartite progress between men, women and the UN.

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

In the text, the expressions "comers" (l.15) and "Internet users" (l.19) refer to the same kind of people: those who access the Internet for information.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado