Questões de Conhecimentos Gerais

The diplomat must be ready to compromise.

O pesquisador cumpriu suas metas rigorosamente dentro do prazo e do orçamento e, portanto, honrou uma vez mais sua própria autobiografia.

the targets thought of were set up last year.

The main idea of the text can be correctly said to be: Th e p roblem of deforestation seems to overcome the human capability of finding a final solution to it. Lots of economic interests prevail over the unquestionable need to control the s en s ible use of the forests worldwide. Forest management turns out to be a crucial factor not only for rural but also for urban life. The effect of the pharmaceutical industry on forest resources is rather alarming, an d that is the reason why the USA is so keen on tryi n g t o maintain the sustainable management of the world's forests.

From text II, it can be deduced that many problems involving refugees occur in frontier areas.

One of the arguments offered by the opponents of the ban on veils is that women are forced by their male relatives to wear them.

Em que pese o bom andamento da pesquisa, contudo, essa comissão sugere a manutenção da mesma equipe, não obstante, a contratação de estagiários, conforme carta com pedido em anexo.

greenhouse-gas emissions can be reduced as much as a fifth by 2020 and, along the same period, energy produced from renewable sources should more than double.

The substitution of the phras e " slew of" (L.9) and the verb " boost" (L.19) by mess of and soar respectively would keep the same semantic and syntactic relations as those presented in the text

In the sentence "But none supports a blanket Dutch-style ban" (l.38-39) the word "blanket" can be replaced, with no change in the meaning, by

Based on text II, it can be concluded that in any case, the sooner preventive actions are implemented the better.

O verbo confinar tem a mesma significação no texto e na frase seguinte: De acordo com o mapa da época, via-se que vários reinos confinavam.

The word "harbinger" (l.8) means: a sign that something will happen soon, often something bad.

In line 13, the word " replenish" is synonymous with f ill up.

In the sentence "He had rooted his regime sufficiently in Portuguese social realities to garner for it a small measure of popular approbation" (l.8-10), "rooted" and "to garner" mean, respectively,

diplomacy has been present all over the world for centuries on end.

O prefixo extra-, nos vocábulos "extraordinária" (l.3) e "extravagante" (l.10), tem efeito de superlativo.

the Egyptian authorities and Hamas forces both have the same position regarding Egyptian people who want to cross the border to go to Gaza strip.

In line 1, the phras e " in the dock" means accused in court, and, in line 1 6, " underpins" can be correctly replaced by supports.

The diplomat sometimes has to face contradictory situations.

The last sentence of the text has been left with two blank spaces. Choose the option below that contains the correct sequence of words that fill in the blanks, keeping the main ideas of the text. "For a long time Portugal very successfully disguised the nature of her presence ____ a skilful amalgam of historical mythmaking, claims ____ multiracialism, and good public relations."

A convivência de manifestações religiosas heterogêneas explica-se pela "aproximação violenta de tendências distintas" (l.5-6).

"mammoth" (l.1) means huge.

The verbal phrase " striking at" (L.15) indicates that the UN is striv i n g t o establish the principle of territorial jurisdicition.

Both as man of peace and as a man of power the diplomat has the same goals.

The Dutch immigration minister has exploited the ban on the Muslim veil for political gain.

A afirmação "É desnecessário descrevê-las." (l.6) deve ser entendida literalmente.

10% of the fuel used in transport ought to come from plants in twelve years' time.

In the latest revelation on 26th January, Dick Thornburgh, t h e man nominated to examine the fall of World-Co m, delivered a report saying that, as well as a lot of other dishones t transactions of which the insolvent telecoms company is blameworthy, it also swindled the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) out of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes by means of a t ax s h elter dishonestly invented by KPMG, its auditor.

The wearing of the veil is an unequivocal and universal symbol of female oppression.