Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

Which option describes accurately the meaning relationship between the pairs of words?

• A.

  "actually" (line 9) means rarely.

• B.

  "curtail" (line 11) is the opposite of reduce

• C.

  "overwhelmed" (line 34) and unaffected are synonymous.

• D.

  "immediacy" (line 41) and proximity are antonyms

• E.

  "spawned" (line 47) could be replaced by generated.

According to the text, it can be concluded that

• A.

  the American serious worry about becoming independent of foreign oil is pointless, in a way.

• B.

  energy independence and globalization are not related issues.

• C.

  the fast exploitation of domestic oil will make it possible for the USA to get rid of foreign imports.

• D.

  American's will is all that is required to overcome the difficulties in importing oil.

• E.

  the USA is able to get free from foreign oil.

In the text,

"those" (l.13) refers to "contexts" (l.13).

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Mark the sentence in which the idea introduced by the word in bold type is correctly described.

• A.

  "as well as curtail the common practice of cc-ing everybody when sending out an e-mail." (lines 11-13) – contrast

• B.

  "but when an e-mail goes out and five people get cc-ed," (lines 15-16) – reason.

• C.

  "In fact, he loves it." (lines 18-19) – condition.

• D.

  "Besides, during tough economic times, who will want to miss any information…" (lines 30-32) – addition

• E.

  "Work is very seductive, but yet we're actually less effective." (lines 52-53) – consequence

This text refers to items from 41 to 50

According to the text, judge the following items.

At present, new technological devices are being made public to help with the needs of system administrators.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Check the only alternative that presents a statement that is INCONSISTENT with the arguments and reasoning introduced in the text you have read.

• A.

  62 percent of professionals report that they spend a lot of time sifting through irrelevant information to find what they need; 68 percent wish they could spend less time organizing information and more time using the information that comes their way.

• B.

  Workers admit that not being able to lay their hands on the right information at the right time impedes their ability to work efficiently; 85 percent agree that not being able to access the right information at the right time is a huge time-waster.

• C.

  More than 80 percent of the survey participants admit they have no problem in handling increases in information flow because they have learned to sort the important messages.

• D.

  While an average workday for white-collar workers is 8.89 hours, the survey finds that, on average, 7.89 working hours are used conducting research, attending meetings, and searching for previously created documents.

• E.

  Though white-collar professionals, in general, spend an average of 2-3 hours daily conducting online research, at least one in 10 spend four or more hours with the same task on an average day.

This text refers to items from 41 to 50

According to the text, judge the following items.

Computers have undergone tragic changes recently.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

This text refers to items from 41 to 50

According to the text, judge the following items.

To maintain CIOs and IT directors is the most crucial job to be done to keep the security of their IT environments.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

This text refers to items from 41 to 50

According to the text, judge the following items.

The consequence of a security breach can be disastrous.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

This text refers to items from 41 to 50

According to the text, judge the following items.

The occurrence of a security breach can bring about only three undesirable results.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado