Questões de Inglês

According to the Text II answer the question.




TEXT II
Just in the last century, the way in which we consume material goods has shifted radically. For our grandparents, and some of our parents, shopping meant buying provisions of satisfy physical needs. Today, in addtion to buying necessities, we shop to indulge ourselves in luxuries-high-priced gym shoes or the latest, most high-tech entertainment system. And we shop for the sheer fun of it. Most of us acquire continuosly-everything from groceries to cars, from clothing to toiletries, from home furnishings to Sporting equipment-and through our acquisitions, we Express a sense of identy, taste, and lifestyle.
But some people go overboard. Their spendind becomes excessive and often carries troubling consequences. Some people cannot resist the temptation, and very often they buy merely to acquire. This type of impulsive buying can become so obsessive that people find themselves in considerable financial debt and psychological distress. Recent studies suggest that extreme impulsive buying is on the increase, affecting na estimated 5 to 10 percent of the adult population in many countries.
We tend to define ourselves by what we buy and have. This often affects how we feel as well. For many, buying things on impulsive is a way of avoifing or hiding feelings of anxiety and loneliness. The long and short of it is this – You can’t buy happiness.


According to the Text II, how have shopping habits changed over the last few generations?

a) In the past, people bought just the necessities. Now people shop continuosly to indulge themselves.
b) In the past our parents used to buy too much food to protect the family.
c) In the past our grandparenst shopped for the sheer fun of it.
d) In the past, people used to go home with a lot of things.
e) Just in the last century, the way in which we consume material goods hasn"t shifted radically.

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According to the Text II answer the question.




TEXT II
Just in the last century, the way in which we consume material goods has shifted radically. For our grandparents, and some of our parents, shopping meant buying provisions of satisfy physical needs. Today, in addtion to buying necessities, we shop to indulge ourselves in luxuries-high-priced gym shoes or the latest, most high-tech entertainment system. And we shop for the sheer fun of it. Most of us acquire continuosly-everything from groceries to cars, from clothing to toiletries, from home furnishings to Sporting equipment-and through our acquisitions, we Express a sense of identy, taste, and lifestyle.
But some people go overboard. Their spendind becomes excessive and often carries troubling consequences. Some people cannot resist the temptation, and very often they buy merely to acquire. This type of impulsive buying can become so obsessive that people find themselves in considerable financial debt and psychological distress. Recent studies suggest that extreme impulsive buying is on the increase, affecting na estimated 5 to 10 percent of the adult population in many countries.
We tend to define ourselves by what we buy and have. This often affects how we feel as well. For many, buying things on impulsive is a way of avoifing or hiding feelings of anxiety and loneliness. The long and short of it is this – You can’t buy happiness.


According to the Text II, the main idea of the of the paragraph 2 is:

a) Compulsive shopping often increases anxiety and depression.
b) Many people shop to avoid and loneliness.
c) People now shop for fun and to indulge themselves in addition to getting the necessities.
d) Many people can"t shop.
e) Many people today are in considerable financial debt because of impulsive buying.

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CHANGE the sentence "The boy eats yogurt" to PASSIVE. Which is CORRECT?

a) Is eaten, the yogurt.
b) He is eating the yogurt
c) The yogurt is eaten by the boy.
d) It"s eaten of him.
e) The yogurt is eaten by he.

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Stocks and the Stock Market

The stock exchange is a marketplace where brokers buy and
sell stocks and bonds for other people. Many countries have
one or more stock exchanges. Smaller stock exchanges often
handle only national stock, whereas the big stock exchanges
handle the stock of big international corporations. (…)
A person who buys stock becomes one of the company’s
owners. They buy a share of a company. A bond is an
agreement to lend money to a company for a certain period of
time. Companies sell stocks and bonds to people because
they need money and want to expand. Sometimes they want
to build more factories or develop more products.
If a company makes profits it can use the earned money in a
few ways. It may decide to invest more into the company and
expand. Most of the time the shareholders of the company get
a dividend, which is a part of the yearly profit. This dividend is
not always the same and can change from year to year.
Most corporations offer two kinds of stock. Owners of common
stock can go to the annual meetings of stockholders, present
their own ideas there, ask questions about the company and
have a right to vote for the board of directors.Owners of
preferred stock usually do not have voting rights or the right to
attend stockholders’ meetings. However, they get dividends.
A person who buys a bond is not buying ownership in a
company but lending the company money. It promises to give
back the money to the bondholder after a certain time, such
as ten or twenty years. In return for the money, the companies
pay interest. Not only companies but also governments can
issue bonds if they need money.
People buy stocks and bonds because they hope that a
corporation will earn money as it grows. As time goes on
shareholders usually earn more money by owning stock than
by saving their money in a bank or investing in other things.
Buying stock is also a risky business. If you buy a share of a
certain company and it does well over the years the value of
your shares will go up. You could sell them at a much higher
price than when you bought them. Sometimes, however,
things happen that make the value of certain stocks go down.
If a company does badly or goes bankrupt the value of your
shares goes down too and you actually lose money.
There are many reasons why the price of a company’s stock
rise or fall. For example if people are afraid that prices will go
down, they may start selling their shares. If many people sell a
large number of stocks, they can actually make prices go
down. If this continues for a longer time it may lead to a crash.
Prices of stocks fall so low that people don’t want to buy them
anymore because they are afraid they won’t get their money
back. (…)
Each year investors trade billions of shares worth hundreds of
billions of dollars. But not all companies are listed on the stock
market. You must be pretty big and have a lot of power. You
must also show the stock exchange that you are in a good
financial position and that you company is doing well. The
world’s biggest stock exchange in New York has about 30000
companies listed.
To see how well or badly stocks are doing most stock
exchanges have an index. This is a number that shows the
average share prices of the major companies. The most
important indices are the Dow Jones (New York), FTSE
(London), DAX (Frankfurt), Nikkei (Tokyo), Hang Seng
(Hongkong). (…)
The first European stock exchange was founded in Antwerp,
Belgium in 1531. The first stock exchange in England was
formed by a group of brokers in London in 1773. Until that
time people usually went to coffee houses to buy and sell
stocks because they found the brokers there.
In New York City brokers met under an old tree on Wall
Street. They organized the New York stock exchange in 1792.
For many years only rich people bought and sold stock. It was
not until World War I that more and more private investors
started investing their money in stocks. There was a huge rise
in value and investors made a lot of money.
The worst crash happened in the United States in October
1929. Over many days investors sold so many stocks that the
whole market collapsed. This affected the economy not only in

America but in Europe as well. Farmers could not sell their
crops, factories couldn’t sell their products, banks had to close
and workers earned very little money. This lasted for almost
ten years and became later known as the Great Depression.

Acesso em 16/07/2013

NOTA: De acordo com site economywatch.com, stocks e shares são

basicamente a mesma coisa: “Stocks and Shares are the two sides of the

same coin. Basically, they both mean the same thing. (...)
Stock is a general term for Shares. Stock is the ownership of certificate (either
in physical or dematerialized form) of any company. Hence we can say that
Stock is the share of any company.” (…)


Dos trechos a seguir, qual o único cujo termo grifado está exercendo a função de adjetivo?

a) "This lasted for almost ten years" […]
b) "You must be pretty big and have a lot of power."
c) […] "became later known as the Great Depression."
d) "If this continues for a longer time it may lead to a crash."
e) "The stock exchange is a marketplace where brokers buy" […]

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Fill in the blank, in the following question.


She ______ a black dress but she changed her mind.

a) Going to put on.
b) Putting on.
c) About to put on.
d) Was going to put on.
e) Had putted on.

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Fill in the blank, in the following question.


The child _____ crying a few minutes ago.

a) Had stopped.
b) Stops.
c) Will stop.
d) Stopped.
e) Has stopped.

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Fill in the blank, in the following question.


When she arrived, he ______.

a) Already left.
b) Has already left.
c) Had already left.
d) Left.
e) Had been leaving.

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Fill in the blank, in the following question.


He remembers being _________to the fair as a child.

a) Visited.
b) Brought.
c) Taken.
d) Shown.
e) Submitted.

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Fill in the blank, in the following question.


Wendy is ___________ Paul to get up now.

a) Telling.
b) Saying.
c) Saying to.
d) Telling to.
e) Speaking with.

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Fill in the blank, in the following question.


The kids were _______the table eating their food.

a) In.
b) At.
c) On.
d) Over.
e) Next.

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