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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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If after some time a certain product that has enjoyed the protection of industrial property laws loses its unique qualities, it will cease to have that status.
It is correct to infer that if wine-producers from the French province of Champagne decide to prevent a new kind of sparkling wine made in Brazil to be called champagne, they will have the full support of industrial property laws.
The word “aims” (l.9) can be correctly replaced with goals.
When you “make informed choices” (l.11), you are still in doubt about something and need further information to make up your mind.
If industrial property laws did not exist, it is likely that there would be less interest in and money for research and development of new technology.
The chief aim of the WTO is to make its agreements seem flexible
In the fragment “for enforcing the rules and therefore for ensuring that trade flows smoothly” (l.11-13), “therefore” expresses the idea of in consequence of that.
The WTO provides technical expertise to developing countries.
In the text, the word “smoothly” (l.13) means cautiously.
One of the roles the WTO plays is that of an arbitrator that will hear the cases of countries arguing about trade.
In the sentence “United States government notes with maturities of 10 years or longer, however, lost an average of 10.8 percent over the same period.” (l.24-26), the adverb “however” may be moved to the beginning of the sentence without interfering in the meaning.
In the sentence “That includes scaling back its bond- buying program beginning later this year.” (l.17-18), the pronoun “its” refers to “economy”, in the previous sentence.
In general, bonds provide stability to an investor’s portfolio.
The bond market is in such a predicament due to misjudgment on the part of the American central bank’s chairperson.
The main contention of the article is that investors should be skeptical about Bernanke’s remark in relation to the effects of the American economic recovery.