Questões de Língua Inglesa da Fundação CESGRANRIO (CESGRANRIO)

According to paragraphs 7 and 8 (lines 38-49), educating customers to become green is beneficial to green businesses because customers

• A.

  must learn about the all limitations imposed by a green lifestyle.

• B.

  do not want to give up fashionable branded shopping bags for reusable ones.

• C.

  will not be tricked by promotions, handouts and special deals for green products.

• D.

  are not interested at all in learning about modern green practices that will raise the price of products.

• E.

  will identify with an environmentally-friendly shop if they perceive the importance of being green.

According to the text, “…the inclusion of local growers in big chain grocery stores,” (lines 55-56) is seen as a(n)

• A.

  effort made by all shops in order to attract local consumers.

• B.

  excuse used by some irresponsible stores that pretend to be green.

• C.

  frequent strategy used by local producers to please small restaurants.

• D.

  tendency already adopted by food markets that follow green practices.

• E.

  attempt to develop the sense of a green community in the poorest environments.

Based on the meanings in the text,

• A.

  “…goals…” (line 6) cannot be substituted by aim.

• B.

  “…loyalty.” (line 32) and suspicion express similar ideas.

• C.

  “…accountable…” (line 35) and responsible are synonyms.

• D.

  “…reusable…” (line 46) is the opposite of recyclable.

• E.

  “…beneficial…” (line 60) and advantageous express contradictory ideas.

The fragment “to the advantage of both.” (line 72) indicates that there will be

• A.

  advantages for customers exclusively.

• B.

  benefits for customers and green businesses alike.

• C.

  gains for the customers and loss for the businesses.

• D.

  positive results for clients and more environmental impact.

• E.

  further development of green matters regardless of customers.

In “you may be surprised at how fast they can become a standard accepted business process in 2010 and beyond.” (lines 77-79) the verb form “may” expresses

• A.

  necessity.

• B.

  certainty.

• C.

  obligation.

• D.

  capability.

• E.

  possibility.

The term in parentheses expresses the idea introduced by the term in bold in

• A.

  “Instead, they made radical changes to their initial models,” – lines 3-4 (replacement).

• B.

  “Unfortunately, they are usually wrong.” – line 15 (reason).

• C.

  “Alternatively, some good ideas take something in customers’ lives that’s pretty boring…” – lines 45-47 (cause).

• D.

  “Next, you’ll need to identify some analogs,” – line 50 (exemplification).

• E.

  “beliefs you hold about the answers to your questions despite having no real evidence…” – lines 64-66 (consequence).

The word “might” in “… you have a solution that might work.” (lines 44-45) can be replaced without change in meaning by

• A.

  must surely.

• B.

  will certainly.

• C.

  may probably.

• D.

  can eventually.

• E.

  should definitely.

The wordplay in the title refers to the fact that the

• A.

  IMF has not dared to open its reserved archives in Washington to the public in general.

• B.

  IMF has been adopting a transparency policy so as to enhance its credibility and legitimacy.

• C.

  IMF must be freed from the impositions of the world leaders on its financial decisions.

• D.

  once secret information kept by the IMF is not freely discussed nor is it easily negotiable.

• E.

  world economies are trying to get rid of the excessive control of the IMF over their financial systems.

The only argument that CANNOT be considered supportive of publishing the IMF documents is that the

• A.

  public must be made aware of what the IMF has been doing and the support it is giving to economic policy issues.

• B.

  IMF will be regarded as a more trustworthy institution if it releases its documents and financial decisions to the public at large.

• C.

  language used in documents that circulate publicly is usually more controlled and therefore less frank and direct in exposing opinions and facts.

• D.

  lack of access of external stakeholders to the issues the IMF supports and the actions it takes makes the institution more vulnerable and less effective.

• E.

  relevant changes made to the financing structure of the institution were only effected in recognition of the IMF as a reputable and candid organization.

The expression in boldtype and the item in parenthesis are semantically equivalent in

• A.

  "In all, it makes us a more effective and legitimate institution." - lines 21-22. (all things considered).

• B.

  "the Fund cannot be a genuine leader on economic policy issues unless it is seen as transparent." - lines 23-24. (given that).

• C.

  "Rather, further efforts should focus on making progress on a broad front, on issues that may catch fewer headlines," - lines 45-47. (moreover).

• D.

  "To this end, there is a long-standing and fundamental principle that Fund reports are not 'negotiated' documents." - lines 52-54. (last but not least).

• E.

  "We should also consider whether we can make some archived material available more quickly to the public." - lines 58-60. (while).