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Questão 19 137277
ACAFE Demais Cursos 2015/1Brazil cotton deal perpetuates an unhealthy status quo of subsidies
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1. When is a victory for the United States not a victory for the American taxpayer? When it’s an international agreement like the one the Obama administration has just reached to settle a long-running dispute with Brazil over cotton subsidies. The roots of that dispute lie in this country’s history of showering federal funds on crop producers, including cotton growers. That particular business received $32.9 billion from Washington between 1995 and 2012, according to the Environmental Working Group, largely through programs that had the effect of rewarding farmers for increasing production. The extra supply dampened 9 prices on the world market, so, in 2002, Brazil complained to the World Trade Organization, which ruled that US cotton subsidies were indeed “trade-distorting” and authorized Brazil to retaliate against US exports. The United States avoided sanctions — not by reforming its programs but by agreeing in 2010 to pay Brazil’s cotton farmers $147.3 million per year.
2. In short, the US government bought off Brazil’s cotton farmers so that it could keep on buying off its own. Under the new settlement, announced Wednesday, Brazil agreed to drop its case at the WTO and to forgo any new ones during the five-year term of the farm bill Congress enacted last year. In return, the United States agreed to trim the modest US cotton export credit subsidy program and, most important, to pay Brazil one last dollop of taxpayer cash, in the amount of $300 million.
3. This is good news to the extent that it fortifies US-Brazil relations on the eve of a new presidential term in that country and that it spares US exporters from the threat of Brazilian retaliation, which could have reached a total of $829 million per year. Yet, in essence, the new deal perpetuates the unhealthy status quo whereby the United States pays Brazil ____ the right ____ continue propping _____ a domestic cotton industry that can ____ should learn to compete ____ its own.
Which is the correct sequence of the five words missing in the third paragraph?
Questão 17 137275
ACAFE Demais Cursos 2015/1Brazil cotton deal perpetuates an unhealthy status quo of subsidies
Published by The Washington Post (The text below has been slightly modified to better suit the exam)
1. When is a victory for the United States not a victory for the American taxpayer? When it’s an international agreement like the one the Obama administration has just reached to settle a long-running dispute with Brazil over cotton subsidies. The roots of that dispute lie in this country’s history of showering federal funds on crop producers, including cotton growers. That particular business received $32.9 billion from Washington between 1995 and 2012, according to the Environmental Working Group, largely through programs that had the effect of rewarding farmers for increasing production. The extra supply dampened 9 prices on the world market, so, in 2002, Brazil complained to the World Trade Organization, which ruled that US cotton subsidies were indeed “trade-distorting” and authorized Brazil to retaliate against US exports. The United States avoided sanctions — not by reforming its programs but by agreeing in 2010 to pay Brazil’s cotton farmers $147.3 million per year.
2. In short, the US government bought off Brazil’s cotton farmers so that it could keep on buying off its own. Under the new settlement, announced Wednesday, Brazil agreed to drop its case at the WTO and to forgo any new ones during the five-year term of the farm bill Congress enacted last year. In return, the United States agreed to trim the modest US cotton export credit subsidy program and, most important, to pay Brazil one last dollop of taxpayer cash, in the amount of $300 million.
3. This is good news to the extent that it fortifies US-Brazil relations on the eve of a new presidential term in that country and that it spares US exporters from the threat of Brazilian retaliation, which could have reached a total of $829 million per year. Yet, in essence, the new deal perpetuates the unhealthy status quo whereby the United States pays Brazil ____ the right ____ continue propping _____ a domestic cotton industry that can ____ should learn to compete ____ its own.
Based on the information given in the text, who did the US government buy off?
Questão 49 128899
Unisinos Inverno 2015
ABOUT #125STORIES
(1) #125Stories, your chance to join in with the Agatha Christie 125th Anniversary celebrations, was ins-
(2) pired by the discovery, in the Agatha Christie Archive, of a collection of very personal letters written to Agatha
(3) Christie throughout the 20th century from fans around the world. Some of these letters are witty and amusing,
(4) while others reveal intimate details of daily lives. Others still provide the modern day reader with an insight into
(5) the political situation of post-war Europe, of the Iron Curtain, and of how Christie’s books provided escapism for
(6) those in the most desperate of conditions.
(7) These letter writers took the time to let Agatha Christie know how important she was in their own lives –
(8) and now you too can share your stories of how the world’s most famous crime writer changed your life.
(9) What story should you share?
(10) Maybe you acted in a play once, and something went wrong on stage…
(11) Perhaps you were inspired to write after reading her novels…Have you ever written a screen play after
(12) watching Poirot on tv?…
(13) Or maybe Agatha Christie herself has been your inspiration – as a traveller, a surfer, an archaeologist, a
(14) musician, a wife, mother, daughter…
(15) Whatever it is, we want to know.
(16) And if you tell us your story, you’ll be in with the chance of being selected to have it exhibited in Septem-
(17) ber at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, England, as one of 125 Stories.
(18) We’ll be running #125Stories for the whole of 2015 – so if you are not selected for the exhibition but want
(19) to share your experiences of the September birthday celebrations and the rest of the year with us, then you’ll
(20) be able to right up until Christmas.
(21) Take the time to read others’ stories too – you never know what you might uncover.
(Disponível em http://125stories.com/feed/collection/94793. Acesso em 30 abr. 2015. Adaptação.)
Como resposta à pergunta “What story should you share?” (linha 9), o/a leitor/a recebe
Questão 46 128895
Unisinos Inverno 2015
ABOUT #125STORIES
(1) #125Stories, your chance to join in with the Agatha Christie 125th Anniversary celebrations, was ins-
(2) pired by the discovery, in the Agatha Christie Archive, of a collection of very personal letters written to Agatha
(3) Christie throughout the 20th century from fans around the world. Some of these letters are witty and amusing,
(4) while others reveal intimate details of daily lives. Others still provide the modern day reader with an insight into
(5) the political situation of post-war Europe, of the Iron Curtain, and of how Christie’s books provided escapism for
(6) those in the most desperate of conditions.
(7) These letter writers took the time to let Agatha Christie know how important she was in their own lives –
(8) and now you too can share your stories of how the world’s most famous crime writer changed your life.
(9) What story should you share?
(10) Maybe you acted in a play once, and something went wrong on stage…
(11) Perhaps you were inspired to write after reading her novels…Have you ever written a screen play after
(12) watching Poirot on tv?…
(13) Or maybe Agatha Christie herself has been your inspiration – as a traveller, a surfer, an archaeologist, a
(14) musician, a wife, mother, daughter…
(15) Whatever it is, we want to know.
(16) And if you tell us your story, you’ll be in with the chance of being selected to have it exhibited in Septem-
(17) ber at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, England, as one of 125 Stories.
(18) We’ll be running #125Stories for the whole of 2015 – so if you are not selected for the exhibition but want
(19) to share your experiences of the September birthday celebrations and the rest of the year with us, then you’ll
(20) be able to right up until Christmas.
(21) Take the time to read others’ stories too – you never know what you might uncover.
(Disponível em http://125stories.com/feed/collection/94793. Acesso em 30 abr. 2015. Adaptação.)
O texto acima pode ser entendido, principalmente, como um convite a:
Questão 49 128811
Unisinos Verão 2015
1. World Carfree Day – We all know about the dangers of too much pollution to our environment, yet every
2. day we get in our cars and make the situation worse. This important awareness day aims to help highlight the
3. pollution of the world caused by car use and persuade us to leave the car at home and have a no car day!
4. It is not just the pollution that can make travelling by car a misery. I hate sitting grid-locked in a city traffic
5. jam when I could be walking past the very traffic I am stuck in. I think it would be nice to travel at my own pace
6. and not have that set by other commuters.
7. Some methods of public transport also shorten your journey time by avoiding congested roads and taking
8. more direct routes offered by infrastructure such as railway lines.
9. Car use is seen as the norm in modern society but why should it be? Imagine a day when there is no traffic
10. noise, everyone is car free and you can hear the birds sing! Beyond the day to day journeying and pollution,
11. cars blight our environment with discarded parts such as batteries and tyres, oil leaks and then eventually the
12. carcass of the car when it is no longer fit for use.
13. Actually World Carfree Day was first organized back during the 1970s oil crisis and more days were
14. organized in the 1990s in cities in Europe. The problem is that most people don’t take notice at all or take part
15. for one day then revert back to the old way!
16. So on 22 September 2014 please take part in World Carfree Day and help make our world a little bit nicer
17. to live in ... you might even enjoy a change of scenery!
18. Remember the famous scene from this video? It’s time to step out of our cars and follow their lead!
Fonte: http://www.national-awareness-days.com/world-carfree-day.html
Na oração “...but why should it be?” (linha 9), o pronome it refere-se a
Questão 48 128810
Unisinos Verão 2015
1. World Carfree Day – We all know about the dangers of too much pollution to our environment, yet every
2. day we get in our cars and make the situation worse. This important awareness day aims to help highlight the
3. pollution of the world caused by car use and persuade us to leave the car at home and have a no car day!
4. It is not just the pollution that can make travelling by car a misery. I hate sitting grid-locked in a city traffic
5. jam when I could be walking past the very traffic I am stuck in. I think it would be nice to travel at my own pace
6. and not have that set by other commuters.
7. Some methods of public transport also shorten your journey time by avoiding congested roads and taking
8. more direct routes offered by infrastructure such as railway lines.
9. Car use is seen as the norm in modern society but why should it be? Imagine a day when there is no traffic
10. noise, everyone is car free and you can hear the birds sing! Beyond the day to day journeying and pollution,
11. cars blight our environment with discarded parts such as batteries and tyres, oil leaks and then eventually the
12. carcass of the car when it is no longer fit for use.
13. Actually World Carfree Day was first organized back during the 1970s oil crisis and more days were
14. organized in the 1990s in cities in Europe. The problem is that most people don’t take notice at all or take part
15. for one day then revert back to the old way!
16. So on 22 September 2014 please take part in World Carfree Day and help make our world a little bit nicer
17. to live in ... you might even enjoy a change of scenery!
18. Remember the famous scene from this video? It’s time to step out of our cars and follow their lead!
Fonte: http://www.national-awareness-days.com/world-carfree-day.html
De acordo com o texto, não é somente a poluição que pode fazer com que andar de carro seja um sofrimento.
Assinale a alternativa que menciona um sofrimento causado pelo trânsito citado no texto.
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