Questões de Língua Inglesa da Escola de Administração Fazendária (ESAF)

Read the text below entitled "External Audit" in order to answer questions 54 to 56:

In paragraph 1, the text informs that an annual report for the Council and the European Parliament

• A. may be written.
• B. should have been produced.
• C. must be created.
• D. is produced.
• E. could be analyzed.

Read the text below entitled "External Audit" in order to answer questions 54 to 56:

The closing line of the text reports that the Court of Auditors is entitled to access all the documents in case. Therefore, it

• A. holds the legal right to access them.
• B. must obtain approval to look into them.
• C. has to seek legal permission from the EU.
• D. is the provider of all the papers in question.
• E. is held accountable for their safety.

Read the text below entitled "Tackling Corruption for Growth and Development" in order to answer questions 57 - 60:

In paragraph 1, tackling corruption and the increase of national incomes are described as

• A. minor governmental concerns.
• B. dissociated matters.
• C. major private initiatives.
• D. unrelated issues.
• E. closely linked.

Read the text below entitled "Tackling Corruption for Growth and Development" in order to answer questions 57 - 60:

In paragraph 2, institutions are said to be weakened by corruption. In other words, they

• A. seem to be immune to this practice.
• B. have the legal means to prevent it.
• C. remain unaffected by this practice.
• D. are undoubtedly affected by it.
• E. are in charge of legally handling it.

Read the text below entitled "Tackling Corruption for Growth and Development" in order to answer questions 57 - 60:

According to the text, the effect of corruption on the decisions made by democratically elected governments is that these decisions

• A. become more legitimate and effective.
• B. gradually become less effective
• C. are implemented in a shorter period of time.
• D. gain both credibility and morale.
• E. may lose legitimacy and credibility.

Read the text below entitled "Tackling Corruption for Growth and Development" in order to answer questions 57 - 60:

In paragraph 3, corruption is mentioned as

• A. a tool to fi ght money laundering.
• B. a weapon to combat a number of crimes.
• C. prompting a number of crimes.
• D. the main cause of drug traffi cking.
• E. a tool against illegal acts.

Read the text below, entitled "2005 – First Nine Months Results", in order to answer questions 21 to 23:

In paragraph 2, the author refers to the insurers' investment portfolio which

• a.

  is about to be created.

• b.

  has brought significant gains.

• c.

  produced fairly small gains.

• d.

  was beyond their expectations.

• e.

  has been impressively expanded.

Read the text below, which is entitled "Avian Infl uenza (Bird Flu)" in order to answer questions 24 and 25:

 

 

According to the author, insurance costs related to the avian flu

• a.

  could reach billions of dollars in Mexico.

• b.

  have been estimated by four specific countries.

• c.

  equal to the economic costs recently estimated.

• d.

  may include at least two possibilities.

• e.

  exclude workers compensation in the USA.

Read the text below, which is entitled "Avian Infl uenza (Bird Flu)" in order to answer questions 24 and 25:

In paragraph 2, the author

• a.

  resorts to scientific data to explain the virus mutation.

• b.

  points out the economic interdependence between two countries.

• c.

  provides exact figures related to the economic and social losses.

• d.

  explains why workers compensation might cause liquidity problems.

• e.

  defines the duration of the outbreak and/or quarantine.

Read the text below which is entitled "Infrastructure in Latin America" in order to answer questions 23 to 26.

 

According to the text, investment in infrastructure across Latin America

• a.

  is not the cause of its current economic growth.

• b.

  has lived up to foreign investors' expectations.

• c.

  has led to rapid population increases.

• d.

  received much government attention in the 1990s.

• e.

  has been described by pundits as high and effective.