Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

Read the text below in order to answer questions 27 to 30:

THE CONFIDENCE QUESTION

What's absent from today's economic discourse is the concept of consumer and investor confidence in a nation's government and economy. This wasn't always the case. As the Cambridge don John Maynard Keynes put it: "The state of confidence, as they term it, is a matter to which practical men pay the closest and most anxious attention". Another Cambridge economist of his era, Frederick Lavington, identified confidence as a key component of the business cycle. His 1922 book The Trade Cycle described the "tendency for confidence to pass into errors of optimism or pessimism", which triggers booms and busts.

To see how misguided economic theories have laid waste to confidence lately, look at Argentina. Consumers, investors and businessmen are gloomy, fed up with the government's policies. Foreign direct investment has fallen 66% in the last year. The economy is flat, rising just 0.9% in this year's first quarter, compared with the first quarter of 1999. There are even dire warnings of debt default.

Argentina suffers from a lack of confidence. The only way to cure it is with a big bang, as Thatcher did in Britain. Cut taxes and government spending to start.

In the writer's opinion, what elements ought to be reduced?

• A. Investments and taxes
• B. Government spending and confidence
• C. Foreign investment and tariffs
• D. Foreign debt and interest rates
• E. Taxation and government expenditure

"Há palavras que ninguém emprega. Apenas se encontram nos dicionários como velhas caducas num asilo. Às vezes uma que outra se escapa e vem luzir-se desdentadamente, em pú-blico, nalguma oração de paraninfo. Pobres velhinhas... Pobre velhinho!" (QUINTANA, Mário, "Porta Giratória", São Paulo, Globo, 1988, p. 20)

Quando, no texto, o autor diz : "pobres velhinhas... Pobre velhinho" está se referindo, respectivamente :

• A.

  às palavras que caíram em desuso e ao paraninfo que usou as palavras

• B.

  aos paraninfos e às palavras que caíram em desuso

• C.

  às velhinhas que usam as palavras e às velhinhas que não sabem usá-las

• D.

  às desdentadas que usam as palavras e às orações.

• E.

  às orações e às desdentadas

TEXT I

Brazil's Northeast is attracting the most interest on part of national and international investors because it is undoubtedly one of the region's that has shown the greatest potential when it comes to development of new businesses. Over the last few years, a greater and greater number of investors have turned to the Northeast. This has been reflected in the region's growth rate. From 1990 to 1999, for example, the Northeast's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 3.1%, compared to the national average of 2.51%. Business groups from the most diverse sectors have been quick to set up office in the region with plans for expansion.

Adapted from: http://www.brazilnow.com/arquivos/bn20/coverstory.html

Answer questions 016 to 021 according to TEXT I.

Mark the option that contains the correct statement about Brazil's Northeast.

• A.

  National and international investors are turning their attention to the region.

• B.

  No other region in Brazil has shown potential when it comes to economic development.

• C.

  The region has never attracted the attention of national and international investors before.

• D.

  The region has finally called the world's attention to the development of its new businesses.

TEXT I

Brazil's Northeast is attracting the most interest on part of national and international investors because it is undoubtedly one of the region's that has shown the greatest potential when it comes to development of new businesses. Over the last few years, a greater and greater number of investors have turned to the Northeast. This has been reflected in the region's growth rate. From 1990 to 1999, for example, the Northeast's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 3.1%, compared to the national average of 2.51%. Business groups from the most diverse sectors have been quick to set up office in the region with plans for expansion.

Adapted from: http://www.brazilnow.com/arquivos/bn20/coverstory.html

Answer questions 016 to 021 according to TEXT I.

After reading the sentence "Over the last few years, a greater and greater number of investors have turned to the Northeast." (lines 2 and 3), we may say that the investments poured into the region have increased

• A.

  slowly.

• B.

  timidly

• C.

  doubtfully.

• D.

  considerably

TEXT I

Brazil's Northeast is attracting the most interest on part of national and international investors because it is undoubtedly one of the region's that has shown the greatest potential when it comes to development of new businesses. Over the last few years, a greater and greater number of investors have turned to the Northeast. This has been reflected in the region's growth rate. From 1990 to 1999, for example, the Northeast's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 3.1%, compared to the national average of 2.51%. Business groups from the most diverse sectors have been quick to set up office in the region with plans for expansion.

Adapted from: http://www.brazilnow.com/arquivos/bn20/coverstory.html

Answer questions 016 to 021 according to TEXT I.

In the sentence "This has been reflected in the region's growth rate." (lines 3 and 4), the pronoun this refers to

• A.

  the profitable return on investments.

• B.

  the region's greatest economic potential.

• C.

  the continuous and rising flow of investments.

• D.

  the lack of interest on part of national and international investors.

TEXT I

Brazil's Northeast is attracting the most interest on part of national and international investors because it is undoubtedly one of the region's that has shown the greatest potential when it comes to development of new businesses. Over the last few years, a greater and greater number of investors have turned to the Northeast. This has been reflected in the region's growth rate. From 1990 to 1999, for example, the Northeast's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 3.1%, compared to the national average of 2.51%. Business groups from the most diverse sectors have been quick to set up office in the region with plans for expansion.

Adapted from: http://www.brazilnow.com/arquivos/bn20/coverstory.html

Answer questions 016 to 021 according to TEXT I.

Business groups have been quick to establish office in the region motivated by

• A.

  the increase of the national average during the 1990's.

• B.

  the Northeast's 3.1% gross domestic product exclusively.

• C.

  the yearly-released report on the Northeast's gross domestic product.

• D.

  the difference of 0.59% favoring the Northeast's GDP compared to the national average.

If the International Finance Corporation (IFC) loaned some US$ 20 million to a Brazilian shoe manufacturer so that it moved its facilities to the state of Ceará, it could help bring jobs and economic growth to a state which has rapidly diversified and enriched its economy. This US$ 20 million loan would allow the company to relocate and modernize its facilities, and would generate some 2,200 jobs in the state, helping to reduce unemployment and poverty.

Adapted from: ESGUERRA, Jannette. IFC invests in Brazilian shoe manufacturer. http://ifcln1.ifc.org

Answer questions 022 TO 025 according to TEXT II.

The main idea of the text is based on

• A.

  a hypothetical IFC US$ 20 million loan.

• B.

  the International Finance Corporation policies.

• C.

  the imaginary existence of the International Finance Corporation.

• D.

  the imaginary existence of the International Finance Corporation.

If the International Finance Corporation (IFC) loaned some US$ 20 million to a Brazilian shoe manufacturer so that it moved its facilities to the state of Ceará, it could help bring jobs and economic growth to a state which has rapidly diversified and enriched its economy. This US$ 20 million loan would allow the company to relocate and modernize its facilities, and would generate some 2,200 jobs in the state, helping to reduce unemployment and poverty.

Adapted from: ESGUERRA, Jannette. IFC invests in Brazilian shoe manufacturer. http://ifcln1.ifc.org

Answer questions 022 TO 025 according to TEXT II.

The situation presented in the text refers to

• A.

  the opening of a shoe company financially supported by the IFC.

• B.

  the international corporations' need for financial support.

• C.

  the relocation of a Brazilian company within the country.

• D.

  the reopening of a shoe manufacturer in Ceará.

If the International Finance Corporation (IFC) loaned some US$ 20 million to a Brazilian shoe manufacturer so that it moved its facilities to the state of Ceará, it could help bring jobs and economic growth to a state which has rapidly diversified and enriched its economy. This US$ 20 million loan would allow the company to relocate and modernize its facilities, and would generate some 2,200 jobs in the state, helping to reduce unemployment and poverty.

Adapted from: ESGUERRA, Jannette. IFC invests in Brazilian shoe manufacturer. http://ifcln1.ifc.org

Answer questions 022 TO 025 according to TEXT II.

Insert T (TRUE) or F (FALSE) in the parentheses.

( ) The IFC has never loaned money to shoe manufacturers before.

( ) The shoe manufacturer would have to make a loan to move its facilities to Ceará.

( ) It is obvious that all Brazilian companies have always benefited from the IFC's loans.

( ) IFC's loan would have a positive impact on the social and economic development of Ceará. The CORRECT option is

• A.

  F-T-T-F

• B.

  F-T-F-T

• C.

  T-F-T-F

• D.

  T-F-F-T

Read the following text and answer the question given accordingly:

According to the article, the author bought one of the latest ultraportables:

• A. to drive better
• B. to work in different places
• C. to rest under a tree
• D. to help his 7-year old
• E. to have a cell phone