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

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

The text focuses on the relevance of

• A. current scientific and technological advances
• B. studies carried out by obscure scientists.
• C. preventive medicine in relation to some ailments.
• D. a desirable change of attitude to life.
• E. leading a healthy life in spite of loneliness.

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

The U.S. economy

• a. could have been modified.
• b. has hardly been affected at all.
• c. remains self-contained despite globalization.
• d. has been altered by global trends.
• e. should have restrained globalization.

Read the text below, which is entitled ''Another country'', in order to answer questions 21 to 23.

Another country 

Source:www.economist.com Jul 21st 2005 (Adapted)

No matter where one goes in Argentina these days, evidence of the country?s remarkable economic recovery is hard to avoid. Since its collapse in 2001-02, Argentina?s economy has grown by a quarter. According to government estimates, it has finally surpassed its previous peak of May 1998. In another sign that the worst is over, on July 18th the government issued dollar bonds for the first time since its massive debt default in 2001. But while the economy may have recovered its former size, it is different in many ways. Some of the imbalances of the 1990s have been fixed: budget deficits have turned into surpluses; devaluation has ignited exports; and the public debt has been restructured.

The author refers to Argentina's recovery as

• a.

  likely to happen.

• b.

  already taking place.

• c.

  on the verge of beginning.

• d.

  unlikely to occur.

• e.

  being severely criticized.

Read the text below, which is entitled ''Another country'', in order to answer questions 21 to 23.

Another country 

Source:www.economist.com Jul 21st 2005 (Adapted)

No matter where one goes in Argentina these days, evidence of the country?s remarkable economic recovery is hard to avoid. Since its collapse in 2001-02, Argentina?s economy has grown by a quarter. According to government estimates, it has finally surpassed its previous peak of May 1998. In another sign that the worst is over, on July 18th the government issued dollar bonds for the first time since its massive debt default in 2001. But while the economy may have recovered its former size, it is different in many ways. Some of the imbalances of the 1990s have been fixed: budget deficits have turned into surpluses; devaluation has ignited exports; and the public debt has been restructured.

In relation to Argentina's budget deficits, the text states that they

• a.

  may change into surpluses.

• b.

  ought to be looked into.

• c.

  have been dealt with.

• d.

  must become surpluses.

• e.

  have been deepened.

Read the text below, which is entitled ''Another country'', in order to answer questions 21 to 23.

Another country 

Source:www.economist.com Jul 21st 2005 (Adapted)

No matter where one goes in Argentina these days, evidence of the country?s remarkable economic recovery is hard to avoid. Since its collapse in 2001-02, Argentina?s economy has grown by a quarter. According to government estimates, it has finally surpassed its previous peak of May 1998. In another sign that the worst is over, on July 18th the government issued dollar bonds for the first time since its massive debt default in 2001. But while the economy may have recovered its former size, it is different in many ways. Some of the imbalances of the 1990s have been fixed: budget deficits have turned into surpluses; devaluation has ignited exports; and the public debt has been restructured.

According to the text,

• a.

  Argentina's exports have been sparked.

• b.

  Argentina's economic recovery should have been averted.

• c.

  Argentina's economy grew by a quarter in 2001-02.

• d.

  Argentina should be able to grow by a quarter.

• e.

  Argentina's public debt remains untouched.

Read the text below, which is entitled ''Man with a Mission'', in order to answer questions 24 to 26.

In paragraph no.1, the author outlines Britain's determination

• a.

  to nix its EU budget rebate.

• b.

  to negotiate its EU budget rebate.

• c.

  not to accept its EU budget rebate.

• d.

  to safeguard its EU budget rebate.

• e.

  to call off its EU budget rebate.

Read the text below, which is entitled ''Man with a Mission'', in order to answer questions 24 to 26.

According to Prime Minister Tony Blair, the huge agricultural subsidies paid to French farmers offset Pari`s contributions to the EU. In other words, the former is

• a.

  exceeded by the latter.

• b.

  reduced by the latter.

• c.

  promoted by the latter.

• d.

  limited by the latter.

• e.

  balanced by the latter.

Read the text below, which is entitled ''Man with a Mission'', in order to answer questions 24 to 26.

According to the text, there will be a debate at the Brussels' summit concerning

• a.

  environmental policies.

• b.

  ethnic prejudice.

• c.

  free market reforms.

• d.

  constitutional referendums.

• e.

  economic issues.

Investors in the USA are reacting negatively to

• A. Federal Reserve consumer price guarantees.
• B. a possible sharp increase in share prices.
• C. a dangerous level of nervousness in Wall Street.
• D. economic deceleration combined with higher inflation.
• E. the administration's refusal to increase interest rates.

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

The text refers to

• a.

  the lack of economic changes over the last decades.

• b.

  an increasingly interdependent global economy.

• c.

  ways of understanding and preventing recessions.

• d.

  economists' overconfidence in relation to the global markets.

• e.

  a set of policies which fully explains spending patterns.