Questões de Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension para Concurso

1____Despite increases in education spending over the

years, Brazil has only seen limited improvements in national

and international assessments. To sustain and accelerate

4 progresses in teaching and learning, Brazil will need to

retain current levels of education resources. However, there

is also significant scope to use resources more equitably and

7 effectively. For example, at present, Brazil invests more in

tertiary education than in ECEC, despite evidence that

access to high-quality ECEC not only contributes to better

10 learning outcomes but can also help reduce inequalities.

Even within tertiary education, funding arrangements tend

to disproportionately benefit students from advantaged

13 backgrounds.

OECD. Education in Brazil: an international perspective,

OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/60a667f7-en. 238 pgs.

with adaptations.

After reading the text, choose which one of the following items is correct.

1____Over the last few decades, Brazil has enhanced the

participation of children and young people, closing the gap,

at least in some respects, with high-performing countries.

4 Early childhood education has been expanded, enrolment in

primary education is close to universal, and around 80% of

the cohort participate in lower secondary education, with

7 well over half now progressing to upper secondary

education. Tertiary participation has also grown, and access

enhanced for the most disadvantaged. Despite major

10 advances, attainment and participation is still behind the

OECD average. Moreover, disadvantaged individuals face

barriers both in accessing and remaining in education. As a

13 result, levels of attainment and participation in education

vary significantly across Brazil’s population. While socioeconomic

background and regional differences are factors in

16 all systems, their impacts are stronger in Brazil than in many

comparable countries. Moreover, a large proportion of

18 young people do not complete education on time or at all.

OECD. Education in Brazil: an international perspective, OECD

Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/60a667f7-en. 238 pgs. with

adaptations.

After reading the text, choose which one of the following items is correct.

1____Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the social and

economic development which Brazil achieved over recent

decades had stalled and gone into reverse. Against that

4 background, the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the

economic recession, and has hit hardest those least able to

cope with the downturn, exacerbating inequalities that still

7 place Brazil among the more unequal countries globally.

Education, the topic of this report, has played a big part in

Brazil’s progress, and has the potential to support the

10 country’s recovery.

OECD. Education in Brazil: an international perspective, OECD

Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/60a667f7-en. 238 pgs. with

adaptations.

After reading the text, choose which one of the following items is correct.

1____Fight, the vibrant word that lifts the weak and

determines the strong. Who will feel the life of these

pages… Generations that are yet to come from generations

4 that will be born. […] What is worth it in life is not the

starting point, but the walk. Walking and sowing, in the end,

6 you will be able to reap what you sowed.

TOREZAN, E. V. Cora and Me: Adventures of a lone cyclist.

Brasília, DF, 2021, p. 29 and 74, with adaptations.

After reading the text, choose which one of the following items is correct.

1____The Sower came out to sow. He sowed all day and

night caught him still with his hands full of seeds. He sowed

quietly, without thinking of harvest, because much had he

4 harvested from what others sowed. Young man, be that

sower. Sow with optimism. Sow with idealism the living

6 seeds of Peace and Justice. Cora Coralina (APUD TOREZAN, 2021)

TOREZAN, E. V. Cora and Me: Adventures of a lone cyclist.

Brasília, DF, 2021, p. 6, with adaptations.

After reading the text, choose which one of the following items is correct.