Questões sobre Vocabulário

In the text, a cinch means

• A. easy.
• B. nice.
• C. hard.
• D. annoying.
• E. cumbersome.

Read the following incomplete sentence: "Há diferenças marcantes ___I___ da urbanização entre ___II___." Mark the set that could fill in the blanks so as to make this sentence a suitable Portuguese equivalent to "There are marked differences in the level and pace of urbanization among less developed regions." (lines 40-41).

• A.

  

• B.

  

• C.

  

• D.

  

• E.

  

The sentence "Being less urbanized, Africa and Asia are liable to experience rapid rates of urbanization during 2000-2030."(lines 46-48) is adequately rendered in Portuguese as

• A.

  Sendo menos urbanizadas, África e Ásia irão experimentar índices rápidos de urbanização entre 2000 e 2030.

• B.

  Sendo pouco urbanizadas, a Ásia e a África estão aptas a apresentar rápidos índices de urbanização de 2000 a 2030.

• C.

  Por serem menos urbanizadas, é provável que a África e a Ásia registrem taxas de urbanização aceleradas no período 2000-2030.

• D.

  Devido a serem pouco urbanizadas, é esperado que a África e a Ásia vivenciem uma taxa de urbanização crescente no período entre 2000 e 2030.

• E.

  Ao terem menos urbanismo, África e Ásia deverão apresentar taxas de urbanização rápidas durante o período compreendido entre 2000 e 2030.

In the excerpt "soja lidera as remessas para o exterior e pode levar o Brasil a superar os EUA no comércio internacional" (lines 3-5), the phrases "lidera", "remessas para o exterior" and "comércio internacional" can be suitably translated as, respectively,

• A.

  prevails -– foreign shipments -– international - commerce.

• B.

  heads -– external consignments - foreign - exchange.

• C.

  directs -– transfers - from abroad -– world - commerce.

• D.

  tops –- external - payments –- international - trade.

• E.

  leads -– foreign remittances -– foreign - trade

In the sentence "Este crescimento foi maior até mesmo que o do PIB nacional, que subiu 5,4% em 2007 e alcançou R$ 2,55 trilhões." (lines 19-21), the verb forms "subiu" and "alcançou" would correspond in English to

• A.

  had increased – had attained.

• B.

  has risen – has reached.

• C.

  rose – has achieved.

• D.

  went up – reached.

• E.

  hit – matched.

The terms "...Produto Interno Bruto" (line 1) and "...balança comercial." (line 39) are correctly translated as:

• A.

  Gross Internal Product – balance of payments.

• B.

  Gross National Product – balance of payments.

• C.

  Gross National Product – trade balance.

• D.

  Gross Domestic Product – balance of trade.

• E.

  Gross Domestic Product – trade surplus.

Read the excerpts below.

I - "Os altos preços das commodities e uma safra recorde de 133,3 milhões de toneladas de grãos" (lines 7-9).

II - "A previsão foi respaldada também pelos números da atual safra (2007/2008)." (lines 31-32).

III - "Com 90% dos grãos colhidos, a Conab [...] estimou um novo recorde:" (lines 32-34).

The item that contains suitable translations for the words in boldtype is

• A.

  Harvest – anticipation – actual – reaped.

• B.

  Crop – forecast – current – harvested.

• C.

  Farming – projection – present – cropped.

• D.

  Output – outlook – prevailing – picked off.

• E.

  Production – prevision – updated – gathered.

Text VII, for questions from 39 through 43.

After the class had covered subject-verb agreement in __________ teaching, I realized that the _________ teaching became __________.

After the experience presented in the third and fourth paragraphs of the text VII, Betty Azar would probably fill in the blanks above using alternative:

• A.

  reactive / proactive / easier

• B.

  proactive / reactive / easier

• C.

  reactive / proactive / unnecessary

• D.

  reactive / proactive / more difficult

• E.

  proactive / reactive / unnecessary

Text VII, for questions from 39 through 43.

The word “worthwhile” (line 7) is close in meaning to

• A.

  hollow.

• B.

  invaluable.

• C.

  useless.

• D.

  rubbish.

• E.

  void.

In “By 2030, when Earth’s population will likely top 8 billion,” (lines 9-10), “will likely” means the same as

• A.

  will certainly.

• B.

  will similarly.

• C.

  will probably.

• D.

  will eventually.

• E.

  will considerably.