Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

Atenção: As questões de números 96 a 100 referem-se ao texto abaixo.

O texto pode ser sintetizado na seguinte oposição:

• A. Tax evasion is acceptable conduct. Tax avoidance is contravention.
• B. Tax evaded remains due. Tax avoided is not due.
• C. Tax evasion implies fiscal debt. Tax avoidance implies legally reduced debt.
• D. Tax evasion is tax paid. Tax avoidance is tax not paid.
• E. Tax evaded can be returned. Tax avoided cannot be returned.

When a country becomes more developed

• A.

  work hours decreases.

• B.

  there is a lot of competition.

• C.

  people tend to work more.

• D.

  there is a lot of productivity.

France and Germany cut work hours to

• A.

  cultivate wealth.

• B.

  limit productivity

• C.

  increase the number of working places.

• D.

  give employees more leisure time

It’s stated in the text that, in Japan,

• A. the young population is on the rise.
• B. rural communities are getting very crowded.
• C. there’s a growing number of old people.
• D. most young people would like to go on living in the countryside.
• E. the elderly people who live in the rural area can’t wait to move to the city.

According to the text, globalization

• A.

  raises salaries.

• B.

  creates more jobs.

• C.

  brings longer working hours.

• D.

  makes countries wealthy.

According to the text, the young Japanese are leaving the rural areas because they

• A. refuse to help with the household tasks.
• B. would like to have a more exciting life.
• C. can’t stand the countryside any more.
• D. don’t want to work hard.
• E. want to find a job.

May is used to convey:

• A. ability.
• B. possibility.
• C. prohibition
• D. permission.

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False). About the “Shunran-no-Sato’ project, it’s correct to say that it

( ) was started by a few number of young adults.

( ) aims at not letting their village disappear.

( ) gives people the chance to be in contact with nature.

( ) can house its guests in comfortable hotels.

According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

• A. F T T F
• B. T F F T
• C. F T F T
• D. T F T F
• E. T T T T

According to this cartoon, the alternative that suitably completes the blank is

• A. hurt.
• B. contest.
• C. dismiss.
• D. encourage.
• E. disappoint.

Read the text below in order to answer questions 15 to 18:

THE GOLDILOCKS SCENARIO CONTINUES

As the new Millennium gets under way, the US economy completes its ninth year of expansion. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates three times last year to temper the economy's expansion, which is the longest in US history. The benchmark lending rate was 5.5% at the start of the new year.

Analysts have been predicting that US interest rates would go up again when the Federal Open Market Committee meets. The economy's performance in the past calendar years (1996 to 1999) has surpassed all but the most optimistic predictions at the beginning of the period.

Growth of the economy has exceeded 4% in each of these years – with the exception of 1999 for which figures have yet to be announced, although 4% looks increasingly likely.

Few analysts thought the economy could sustain a growth performance like this without an increase in inflation. This situation has been dubbed the Goldilocks scenario.

According to the text, what does the verb temper refer to in relation to the US economy's expansion last year?

• A. An attempt to make it less extreme.
• B. An attempt to accelerate it.
• C. A considerable reduction in investments.
• D. A drastic tax reduction.
• E. A change of legal approach.