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Q930149 Inglês

Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text II, decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E).


As used in the text, the word “posit” (L.26) is synonymous with ignore.

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Q930141 Inglês

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text I.


The passage “what has always happened to it:” (L.7) can be correctly replaced by what has always happened to it, which means that or by what has always happened to it, which is to say.

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Q930140 Inglês

Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text I.


In the first paragraph, the words “ongoing” (L.2) and “advocates” (L.5) can be correctly and respectively replaced by far-reaching and lawyers without this changing the meaning of the passage.

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Q929434 Inglês

Concerning the ideas of the previous text and the vocabulary used in it, judge the following items.


The word “resources” (ℓ.27) could be replaced with sources, preserving the meaning of the sentence.

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Q929431 Inglês

Concerning the ideas of the previous text and the vocabulary used in it, judge the following items.


In the text, the word “dominance” (ℓ.15) is synonymous with dominion.

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Q929429 Inglês

Concerning the ideas of the previous text and the vocabulary used in it, judge the following items.


The phrase “Surveys abound” (ℓ.8) could be correctly replaced by There are numerous surveys, without altering the meaning of the sentence.

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Q929013 Inglês
In the text, “allotted to” (ℓ.29) is synonymous with designated to.
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Q929012 Inglês
In the text, the word “field” (ℓ.12) means the same as the word sphere.
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Q929011 Inglês
Judge the following items, concerning the vocabulary used in text 6A4AAA.

The expression “resulted from” (ℓ.3) could be replaced by arose out of, without changing the meaning of the text.
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Q920710 Inglês

READ TEXT I AND ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.


TEXT I




(Source: http://cpa-scribo.com/assess-control-risk/. Retrieved on January 27th, 2018)

The Challenges Facing Government Auditors
Posted on July 26, 2013

When it comes to the pressure of successfully identifying, anticipating and dealing with risks, few auditors shoulder as much burden as those who work with the government. As the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Richard Chambers wrote, these professionals deal with career-threatening political risks on a daily basis that many private sector auditors could never comprehend.
Internal auditors play a pivotal role in the relationship between the government and citizens. It’s up to auditors to set the appropriate controls to manage federal programs and also to provide insight into the effectiveness and the soundness of the government’s inner workings. Put simply, auditors are key to ensuring the public’s trust in their government is well-founded and not abused.
That being said, there are a number of challenges associated with governmental-level internal auditing. Citing a MicKinsey paper from 2011, Chambers points to a few key issues:
1. Turnover and Outsiders: Turnover in the political sector is high, with appointed executives seldom lasting for more than two years. On top of that, newly appointed officials often come from outside departments or agencies. This means officials frequently don’t have a firm grasp on all the risks and challenges associated with their position, which can lead to poor decision making.
2. Metrics for Success: In the private sector, business objectives are clear and are conducive to metrics: more sales, more customers, more revenue, return on investment, etc. This means it’s extremely easy to determine the efficiency of audit programs and controls. In the public sphere, metrics aren’t as obvious because financial and mission objectives are more complex. This complicates the job immensely.
3. ‘Mission Over Risk’ Mindset: Most companies undervalue the importance of risk culture. Departments want to achieve their objectives, and risk management takes a back seat to that. In the public sector, officials are often even more dedicated to and passionate about the mission at hand. Additionally, people tend to assume that government budgets are big enough to bail departments out of bad decisions, which can lead to risky behaviors. […]
Internal controls are pivotal to maintaining the public trust in government operations, so despite the challenges that lay in front of auditors, it’s crucial they work with managers to develop effective campaigns and programs.
(Adapted from: https://www.resolver.com/blog/the-challenges-facinggovernment-auditors/. Retrieved on January 25th, 2018)
The word “shoulder” in “few auditors shoulder as much burden as those who work with the government” means
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Q915827 Inglês

          

Based on the cartoon and the vocabulary and language used in it, judge the items below.


In the last balloon, “weird” is synonymous with strange, bizarre.

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Q912935 Inglês

Read this text and answer to the question


Inside the world's quietest room


If you stand in it for long enough, you start to hear your heartbeat. A ringing in your ears becomes deafening. When you move, your bones make a grinding noise. Eventually you lose your balance, because the absolute lack of reverberation sabotages your spatial awareness.
In this room at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, all sound from the outside world is locked out and any sound produced inside is stopped cold. It's called an anechoic chamber, because it creates no echo at all — which makes the sound of clapping hands downright eerie.
The background noise in the room is so low that it approaches the lowest threshold theorized by mathematicians, the absolute zero of sound — the next step down is a vacuum, or the absence of sound.
This is the world's quietest place.

Deafening silence

The room offers a very rare sensorial experience.
As soon as one enters the room, one immediately feels a strange and unique sensation which is hard to describe, wrote Hundraj Gopal, a speech and hearing scientist and the principal designer of the anechoic chamber at Microsoft, in an email. Most people find the absence of sound deafening, feel a sense of fullness in the ears, or some ringing. Very ____ sounds become clearly audible because the ambient noise is exceptionally low. When you turn your head, you can hear that motion. You can hear yourself breathing and it sounds somewhat loud, he said.
In the real world, Gopal explained, our ears are constantly subject to some level of sound, so there is always some air pressure on the ear drums. But upon entering the anechoic room this constant air pressure is gone, since there are no sound reflections from the surrounding walls.
This is a novel experience, he wrote. [...]

Jacopo Prisco, CNN

Disponível em: <https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ anechoic-chamber-worlds-quietest-room/index.html>. Acesso em: 29 mar. 2018.
The words downright eerie (2nd paragraph) have the same meaning in the context as
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Q876487 Inglês

A música “Hunting High and Low” foi um dos grandes sucessos da banda norueguesa A-ha na década de 80. Leia a letra da canção e responda a questão. 


Hunting High and low

(Paul Waaktaar-Savoy)


Here I am

And within the reach of my hands

She sounds asleep

And she's sweeter now

Than my wildest dream

Could have seen her.

And I watch her sleeping away

But I know I'll be

Hunting high and low

Ah, there's no end

To the lengths I'll go to

Find her again

Upon this my dreams are depending

Through the dark

I sense the pounding of her heart

Next to mine

She's the sweetest love

I could find

So I guess I'll be

Hunting high and low

Do you know what it means

To love you

I'm hunting high and low

And now she's telling me

She's got to go away

I'll always be hunting high and low

Only for you

Watch me tearing myself to pieces,

Oh, for you I'll be hunting high and low


(Extraído do site www .vagalume.com.br)

Na frase “I sense the pounding of her heart next to mine” O autor diz que sente o batimento do coração de sua amada próximo ao seu. Qual das palavras seguintes tem o mesmo significado que “pounding of heart”?
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Q873984 Inglês

Based on text CB3A5AAA, judge the following item.


In the text, “along with” (ℓ.5) can be correctly replaced with the synonymous expression after a long time.

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Q873870 Inglês

Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.


The sentence “Michael Hayden asked to send an e-mail to all staff” (ℓ. 10 and 11) can be correctly paraphrased in the following terms: Michael Hayden enquired all his employees if he could send an electronic message.

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Q872087 Inglês

Considering the linguistic aspects and the ideas of text CB3A1AAA, judge the following items.


In text, “Mostly” (ℓ.15) is synonymous with Particularly.

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Q859168 Inglês

One day I was showing the beginning saxophone students at Ridgecrest Junior High school in Paragould, Ark the proper way to assemble and hold their instruments. It s extremely important to connect the neck strap to the loop on the back of the instrument so it doesn't fali out of your hands at a careless moment, I explained. “ Mr. Reely”, a dull student sitting in the back of the room quipped, “ Are you teaching us how to practice safe sax? “

                                                Contributed by Trey Reely Adapted from Readehs Digest, March 1997

Choose the alternative that presents a word that has the same meaning of “not interesting or exciting”:
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Q859166 Inglês

‘Intellectualism’ is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

                                                                                                                                         William James

                Read more at http://quotes.dictionary.com/search/belief?page=1#vM Pj4T57BbXTwqJA.99

Choose the alternative that presents a synonym for the expression “ comes upon a world ”:
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Q859163 Inglês

Read the Mother Teresa’s “Anyway Poem” and answer.


                          People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;

                                                     Forgive them anyway.

                          If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior

                                                                  motives;

                                                            Be kind anyway.

                         If you are successful, you will win some false friends and 

                                                        some true enemies;

                                                         Succeed anyway.

                             If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;

                                                Be honest and frank anyway.

                         What you spend years building, someone could destroy

                                                            overnight;

                                                         Build anyway.

                            If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

                                                    Be happy anyway.

                           The good you do today people will often forget tomorrow;

                                                     Do good anyway.

                              Give the world the best you have, and it may never be

                                                            enough;

                                     Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

                         You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;

                                   It was never between you and them anyway.

[Reportedly inscribed on the wall of Mother Teresa’s children’s home in Calcutta, and attributed to her. However, an article in the New York Times has since reported (March 8, 2002)] 

Choose the alternative that contains a word that replaces correctly the verb “forgive” in “Foraive them all”:
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Q859151 Inglês

Assinale a alternativa que substitui corretamente as palavras ou expressões em negrito:


Tom Hardy is a thief. He was aiven a punishment of one year in prison. He used force to aet inside the house. He intended to steal things that were worth a lot of money. The door was closed with a kev. He droooed off on a chair.

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Respostas
561: E
562: C
563: E
564: E
565: E
566: C
567: E
568: E
569: C
570: B
571: C
572: D
573: C
574: E
575: E
576: E
577: B
578: B
579: D
580: B