Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

Read the text below in order to answer questions 36 to 40.

According to the text

• A.

  the US Senate has been struggling to extend the Internet moratorium.

• B.

  7,600 taxing bodies could be imposing taxes on the Internet.

• C.

  President Bush has refused to sign the Internet moratorium extension.

• D.

  merchants are willing to define fiscal principles and procedures

• E.

  it is technologically difficult to impose taxes via the Internet.

Read the text below in order to answer questions 36 to 40.

According to the author, the decision to extend the moratorium was not

• A.

  quick.

• B.

  official

• C.

  made.

• D.

  sustained.

• E.

  enforced.

Read the text below in order to answer questions 41 to 45.

In paragraph 1, the text refers to individuals who

• A.

  are in charge of validating state laws.

• B.

  volunteer to pay their taxes

• C.

  have failed to pay federal levies.

• D.

  argue against the compulsory tax payment

• E.

  assess and charge federal taxes

Read the text below in order to answer questions 41 to 45.

Section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code

• A.

  sets the voluntary payment of taxes

• B.

  establishes the requirement to pay taxes

• C.

  regulates the impact of fiscal adjustment.

• D.

  addresses the issue of budget expenditures

• E.

  concerns the social security deficit.

Read the text below in order to answer questions 41 to 45.

According to the author, sanctions for noncompliance

• A.

  might be approved of.

• B.

  must soon be set.

• C.

  should be devised.

• D.

  may be established

• E.

  have been set

Read the text below in order to answer questions 41 to 45.

The text

• A.

  refers to state taxes.

• B.

  concerns taxation issues

• C.

  concerns the social system.

• D.

  sets economic criteria.

• E.

  refers to retirement benefits

Read the text below in order to answer questions 41 to 45.

According to the text,

• A.

  federal taxes are refundable

• B.

  paying levies is voluntary.

• C.

  criminal penalties are illegal.

• D.

  American states must enforce fiscal laws.

• E.

  taxpayers have fiscal obligations

With regard to public spending, the British finance minister was

• A.

  first parsimonious , then more generous.

• B.

  generous at first, then more cautious.

• C.

  first anxious to please, then more objective.

• D.

  popular in the early stages, but now unpopular.

• E.

  first concerned with education, now with health.

The text says that, as a minister, George Brown is becoming

• A.

  more and more impotent.

• B.

  increasingly pro-European.

• C.

  stronger and stronger.

• D.

  less and less influential.

• E.

  more and more tight-fisted.

Gordon Brown's plans for the National Health Service aims to

• A.

  provide more patients with low-cost free treatment.

• B.

  permit European countries to imitate Britain's health care system.

• C.

  help health services to reach the same standards as those of education.

• D.

  allow for progressive privatization of health care, on European lines.

• E.

  catch up with spending on health care in other European countries.