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

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

The text

• a.

  focuses on the effort by insurers to reassess risk.

• b.

  predicts the losses to be faced by insurance companies.

• c.

  states that reinsurance prices will rise in 2006.

• d.

  foresees a sluggish growth for the sector in 2006.

• e.

  also recalls a period of financial growth.

Read the text below, which is entitled "Time to Toss the Textbook", in order to answer questions 27 to 30.

The text is introduced by

• a.

  a figure.

• b.

  an answer.

• c.

  a query.

• d.

  an explanation.

• e.

  a forecast

Read the text below, which is entitled "Time to Toss the Textbook", in order to answer questions 27 to 30.

According to the author, globalization has shattered the previous model. In other words, globalization has

• a.

  destroyed it.

• b.

  regulated it.

• c.

  reinforced it.

• d.

  deepened it.

• e.

  strengthened it.

Your answers to questions 21 to 24 must be based on the text below entitled "A dip in the middle":

According to the text,

• A. a commission introduced a flat income tax into Britain.
• B. a war once justified the payment of income tax.
• C. a flat income tax would be made up of three tax rates.
• D. the reform would yield many economic benefits.
• E. George Osborne has managed to introduce the single rate.

Your answers to questions 21 to 24 must be based on the text below entitled "A dip in the middle":

According to paragraph 2, Margaret Thatcher's government brought in

• A. major alterations to British income tax rates.
• B. measures that made cosmetic changes only.
• C. a tax system that discourages hard work.
• D. proposals imitated by a shady politician.
• E. a substantial increase in top taxation rates.

Your answers to questions 21 to 24 must be based on the text below entitled "A dip in the middle":

The flat income tax

• A. is intended to hinder enterprise and hard work.
• B. would be below the present top rate.
• C. ought to please low-earners and high-fliers.
• D. must generate a cut in public spending.
• E. might be financed by increases in other taxes.

Your answers to questions 21 to 24 must be based on the text below entitled "A dip in the middle":

In paragraph 3, the author notes that the present tax-free personal allowance would

• A. remain unchanged.
• B. be cut. .
• C. rise.
• D. be abolished.
• E. be phased out.

Your answers to questions 25 to 27 must be based on the text below entitled "Flight of the French":

The text refers to France's

• A. historic decision to drop its wealth-tax.
• B. recent proposal to suppress the wealth-tax.
• C. commitment to prevent the so-called capital flight.
• D. current fiscal policy in relation to the rich.
• E. controversial attempt to penalize its fiscal refugees.

Your answers to questions 25 to 27 must be based on the text below entitled "Flight of the French":

According to the author, France

• A. might change its fiscal system
• B. must preserve its wealth tax.
• C. has not changed its fiscal policy
• D. ought to slash its public spending.
• E. could lose from a tax reform

Your answers to questions 28 to 30 must be based on the text below entitled "The real medicine":

According to the text, the executive

• A. actually refused to eat right, exercise and avoid smoking.
• B. seems to have increased his risk of early death.
• C. agrees that medicine should focus primarily on drugs
• D. declined new choices and priorities in his life.
• E. went further in his search for recovery and health