Questões de Inglês

The expression "craps up" mean, something is very:

a) Old.
b) Fresh.
c) Funny.
d) Fun.
e) High.

A resposta correta é:

Recruiters eye Brics to build business


Brazil’s dream of shedding its middle-income status is over,
some Bric observers have said. But to UK recruitment
agencies, the South American powerhouse still offers
something that is much harder to fi nd close to home – huge
growth potential. Although Brazil’s gross domestic product
is estimated to have notched up less than 1 per cent growth
in 2012, UK recruitment groups are still opening offi ces
there and expanding deeper into the region.
“You will get these hiccups along the way,” says Steve
Ingham, chief executive of recruitment agency PageGroup
(formerly Michael Page International). “The economy won’t
always be as strong, but we will continue to invest through
the cycle such that our endgame is to have a lot more
offi ces and a lot more people in [Latin America].”
His company was one of the fi rst big UK recruiters to
enter the region, about 13 years ago. There are now
more than a dozen offi ces and about 600 staff in Latin
America operating under PageGroup. Almost 10 per cent
of PageGroup’s business is generated in the region but
Mr Ingham “easily imagines” that rising to a fi fth in the
near future. “Our expectations are enormous,” he says,
highlighting the potential beyond Brazil, in countries such
as Mexico and Chile. “We’re not just depending on Brazil
[to generate fees] any more.”
Other recruiters have followed suit, as part of their
expansion away from the saturated UK market to fastergrowing
economies in Asia and beyond. Hays recently
opened offi ces in Colombia and Chile, and Brazil is already
the sixth-largest country in the group, based on net fees.


Source: Vanessa Kortekaas, Financial Times, February 4, 2013


It can be concluded from the passage that as far as Latin America is concerned,

a) Brazil and Chile have topped investments by UK recruiters.
b) Brazil has been targeted by more than one European recruitment group.
c) the PageGroup pioneered recruitment services in the region.
d) UK recruitment agencies consider its growth potential second to none.
e) the region still lags behind Asia and other emerging markets. Questions 63 to 66 refer to the following text:

A resposta correta é:

Marque a opção em que o plural foi usado corretamente em todos os substantivos:

a) Wolfes / babies / pianos / mices.
b) Men / children / foots / days.
c) Wives / tomatoes / holidays / citys.
d) Women / kisses / dolls / fathers-in-law.
e) Walls / flashes / chiefs / childrens.

A resposta correta é:

Choose the CORRECT RESPONSE:
Why didn"t they invite us to the Sanchezs?

a) They were going to, but there wasn"t enough time.
b) The Sanchezs was going to come but then they cancelled.
c) They tried, but the Sanchezs had left on vacation yet.
d) They wanted to but none answered they called.
e) They had already invited too much guests.

A resposta correta é:

The third day of the week is:

a) Wednesday.
b) Sunday.
c) Friday.
d) Thursday.
e) Tuesday.

A resposta correta é:

Can businesses learn from each other’s secrets?
It is Friday morning and the collection teams at
1-800-Got-Junk, a North American waste removal business, are
out hauling garage clutter and office cast-offs on to pick-up
trucks. Items that are salvageable will be recycled or reused;
the rest will be chucked. Back at Got Junk’s Vancouver
headquarters, a tour party is engaged in recycling of a different
kind: the recycling of ideas.

1-800-Got-Junk invites other organizations in for a
privileged view of its inner workings. Rhys Green, who
manages Got Junk’s call-center operations, says he and his
team have grown used to the fortnightly tours that file past their
desks, sometimes stopping to ask questions or eavesdrop on a
call. Visitors respect that they are working, he says, and it is
nice that a junk business is considered “cool enough” to visit.
The only time having an audience intrudes is if the pace starts
to slow. “Having people wander around, when [things are just
ticking over] can be a little awkward. You kind of think: do I
look busy enough? That can be a little strange.”
Mr. Green’s team are not alone in this;
1-800-Got-Junk is among a growing number of entrepreneurial
businesses that host visitors from other companies, often from
different sectors, in search of fresh ideas.

Learning by observing does not have to be expensive,
say proponents — even bootstrap businesses can organize
affordable visits, since they range in cost from nothing to
serious money. Zappos, the online shoe retailer, runs free tours
and sells add-ons that go from $50 question-and-answer
sessions to three-day forays into its quirky culture. Labeled
“boot camps”, these include a meeting with founder Tony
Hsieh and “No Title” Fred Mossler, and weigh in at $6,000 per
person. Three and a half days of workshops and
behind-the-scenes tours at a Disney resort, run by the Disney
Institute, Disney’s professional development arm, costs about
$4,200.

Sharing knowhow may help open doors. Brian
Scudamore, who founded Got Junk in 1989, says the ideas that
visitors share with his business make the effort worthwhile.
“Someone on a tour said: ‘Do you guys do affiliate marketing?’
At the time, I didn’t really know what it was, so they got their
marketing team to walk us through the process and the results
have been fantastic.”

Not all companies are happy with visitors. At Gold
Medal Service, a New Jersey-based home services company,
competitors are not welcome after an employee caused such an
impression on a rival taking its tour that it offered him a job.
“Now, we don’t let in companies that compete in our
backyard,” says co-founder Mike Agugliaro.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the items below.

The call-center department at 1-800-Got-Junk gets visitors four evenings every month.

A resposta correta é:

Can businesses learn from each other’s secrets?
It is Friday morning and the collection teams at
1-800-Got-Junk, a North American waste removal business, are
out hauling garage clutter and office cast-offs on to pick-up
trucks. Items that are salvageable will be recycled or reused;
the rest will be chucked. Back at Got Junk’s Vancouver
headquarters, a tour party is engaged in recycling of a different
kind: the recycling of ideas.

1-800-Got-Junk invites other organizations in for a
privileged view of its inner workings. Rhys Green, who
manages Got Junk’s call-center operations, says he and his
team have grown used to the fortnightly tours that file past their
desks, sometimes stopping to ask questions or eavesdrop on a
call. Visitors respect that they are working, he says, and it is
nice that a junk business is considered “cool enough” to visit.
The only time having an audience intrudes is if the pace starts
to slow. “Having people wander around, when [things are just
ticking over] can be a little awkward. You kind of think: do I
look busy enough? That can be a little strange.”
Mr. Green’s team are not alone in this;
1-800-Got-Junk is among a growing number of entrepreneurial
businesses that host visitors from other companies, often from
different sectors, in search of fresh ideas.

Learning by observing does not have to be expensive,
say proponents — even bootstrap businesses can organize
affordable visits, since they range in cost from nothing to
serious money. Zappos, the online shoe retailer, runs free tours
and sells add-ons that go from $50 question-and-answer
sessions to three-day forays into its quirky culture. Labeled
“boot camps”, these include a meeting with founder Tony
Hsieh and “No Title” Fred Mossler, and weigh in at $6,000 per
person. Three and a half days of workshops and
behind-the-scenes tours at a Disney resort, run by the Disney
Institute, Disney’s professional development arm, costs about
$4,200.

Sharing knowhow may help open doors. Brian
Scudamore, who founded Got Junk in 1989, says the ideas that
visitors share with his business make the effort worthwhile.
“Someone on a tour said: ‘Do you guys do affiliate marketing?’
At the time, I didn’t really know what it was, so they got their
marketing team to walk us through the process and the results
have been fantastic.”

Not all companies are happy with visitors. At Gold
Medal Service, a New Jersey-based home services company,
competitors are not welcome after an employee caused such an
impression on a rival taking its tour that it offered him a job.
“Now, we don’t let in companies that compete in our
backyard,” says co-founder Mike Agugliaro.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the items below.

Rhys Green makes sure he and his team look busy when visitors start intruding.

A resposta correta é:

Where to be born in 2013


Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful
investor, has said that anything good that happened to him
could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the
right country, the United States, at the right time (1930).
A quarter of a century ago, when The World in 1988 lightheartedly
ranked 50 countries according to where would
be the best place to be born in 1988, America indeed came
top. But which country will be the best for a baby born in
2013?
To answer this, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a
sister company of The Economist, has this time turned
deadly serious. It earnestly attempts to measure which
country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy,
safe and prosperous life in the years ahead. Its qualityof-
life index links the results of subjective life-satisfaction
surveys—how happy people say they are—to objective
determinants of the quality of life across countries. Being
rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that
counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the
health of family life matter too. In all, the index takes 11
statistically signifi cant indicators into account.
What does all this, and likely developments in the years
to come, mean for where a baby might be luckiest to be
born in 2013? After crunching its numbers, the EIU has
Switzerland comfortably in the top spot, with Australia
second. Small economies dominate the top ten. Half of
these are European, but only one, the Netherlands, is from
the euro zone. The Nordic countries shine, whereas the
crisis-ridden south of Europe (Greece, Portugal and Spain)
lags behind despite the advantage of a favourable climate.
The largest European economies (Germany, France and
Britain) do not do particularly well.
America, where babies will inherit the large debts of the
boomer generation, languishes back in 16th place. Despite
their economic dynamism, none of the BRIC countries
( Brazil, Russia, India and China ) scores impressively.
Among the 80 countries covered, Nigeria comes last: it is
the worst place for a baby to enter the world in 2013.


Source: The Economist print edition ( adapted ), Nov 21, 2012.


It can be said about the criteria used to rate countries on this survey that they

a) include both objective and subjective aspects.
b) are biased towards poorer European countries.
c) lean favorably towards EU powerhouses.
d) underestimate life-satisfaction perceptions.
e) cover more than a dozen determinants.

A resposta correta é:

Can businesses learn from each other’s secrets?
It is Friday morning and the collection teams at
1-800-Got-Junk, a North American waste removal business, are
out hauling garage clutter and office cast-offs on to pick-up
trucks. Items that are salvageable will be recycled or reused;
the rest will be chucked. Back at Got Junk’s Vancouver
headquarters, a tour party is engaged in recycling of a different
kind: the recycling of ideas.

1-800-Got-Junk invites other organizations in for a
privileged view of its inner workings. Rhys Green, who
manages Got Junk’s call-center operations, says he and his
team have grown used to the fortnightly tours that file past their
desks, sometimes stopping to ask questions or eavesdrop on a
call. Visitors respect that they are working, he says, and it is
nice that a junk business is considered “cool enough” to visit.
The only time having an audience intrudes is if the pace starts
to slow. “Having people wander around, when [things are just
ticking over] can be a little awkward. You kind of think: do I
look busy enough? That can be a little strange.”
Mr. Green’s team are not alone in this;
1-800-Got-Junk is among a growing number of entrepreneurial
businesses that host visitors from other companies, often from
different sectors, in search of fresh ideas.

Learning by observing does not have to be expensive,
say proponents — even bootstrap businesses can organize
affordable visits, since they range in cost from nothing to
serious money. Zappos, the online shoe retailer, runs free tours
and sells add-ons that go from $50 question-and-answer
sessions to three-day forays into its quirky culture. Labeled
“boot camps”, these include a meeting with founder Tony
Hsieh and “No Title” Fred Mossler, and weigh in at $6,000 per
person. Three and a half days of workshops and
behind-the-scenes tours at a Disney resort, run by the Disney
Institute, Disney’s professional development arm, costs about
$4,200.

Sharing knowhow may help open doors. Brian
Scudamore, who founded Got Junk in 1989, says the ideas that
visitors share with his business make the effort worthwhile.
“Someone on a tour said: ‘Do you guys do affiliate marketing?’
At the time, I didn’t really know what it was, so they got their
marketing team to walk us through the process and the results
have been fantastic.”

Not all companies are happy with visitors. At Gold
Medal Service, a New Jersey-based home services company,
competitors are not welcome after an employee caused such an
impression on a rival taking its tour that it offered him a job.
“Now, we don’t let in companies that compete in our
backyard,” says co-founder Mike Agugliaro.

Internet: (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the items below.

Both guests and hosts may benefit from the visits described in the article.

A resposta correta é:

Where to be born in 2013


Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful
investor, has said that anything good that happened to him
could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the
right country, the United States, at the right time (1930).
A quarter of a century ago, when The World in 1988 lightheartedly
ranked 50 countries according to where would
be the best place to be born in 1988, America indeed came
top. But which country will be the best for a baby born in
2013?
To answer this, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a
sister company of The Economist, has this time turned
deadly serious. It earnestly attempts to measure which
country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy,
safe and prosperous life in the years ahead. Its qualityof-
life index links the results of subjective life-satisfaction
surveys—how happy people say they are—to objective
determinants of the quality of life across countries. Being
rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that
counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the
health of family life matter too. In all, the index takes 11
statistically signifi cant indicators into account.
What does all this, and likely developments in the years
to come, mean for where a baby might be luckiest to be
born in 2013? After crunching its numbers, the EIU has
Switzerland comfortably in the top spot, with Australia
second. Small economies dominate the top ten. Half of
these are European, but only one, the Netherlands, is from
the euro zone. The Nordic countries shine, whereas the
crisis-ridden south of Europe (Greece, Portugal and Spain)
lags behind despite the advantage of a favourable climate.
The largest European economies (Germany, France and
Britain) do not do particularly well.
America, where babies will inherit the large debts of the
boomer generation, languishes back in 16th place. Despite
their economic dynamism, none of the BRIC countries
( Brazil, Russia, India and China ) scores impressively.
Among the 80 countries covered, Nigeria comes last: it is
the worst place for a baby to enter the world in 2013.


Source: The Economist print edition ( adapted ), Nov 21, 2012.


Regarding Brazil"s rating in the survey, the text considers that it

a) exceeded expectations.
b) preceded all the BRICs.
c) was impressively high.
d) has improved over time.
e) was somewhat disappointing.

A resposta correta é: