Questões de Inglês

According to the comic strip, the interviewer considers as a prerequisite for the job:

You can infer from the comic strip that the candidate:

  When it comes to what makes us happy at work, job satisfaction surveys have been showing for years that the size of our paycheck is losing ground to intangibles like autonomy, mobility, low stress, flexible hours, job security, health coverage, paid time off and other benefits. Does pay matter? Of course it does. But as China and other emerging markets have gained ground on the U.S. economically, American workers have begun to come to grips with what that means: in many cases, finding a standard of living that is declining relative to other nations and saying bye-bye to generous and automatic pay raises across industries. The recession has only deepened this trend. Workers who are elated to simply have a job aren’t complaining about money, and according to a Randstad survey, they now name job security and benefits among the top factors in their happiness.

(www.time.com TIME in partnership with CNN, May 29, 2009)

The word “trend” in the text most likely means:

The era of transition that we are entering will be disruptive – but

it may bring a world where markets are servants, not masters.

To understand what capitalism might become, we first have

to understand what it is. This is not so simple. Capitalism includes

a market economy, but many traditional market economies are

not capitalistic. It includes trade, but trade, too, long precedes

capitalism. It includes capital – but Egyptian pharaohs and fascist

dictators commanded surpluses too.

The French historian Fernand Braudel offered perhaps the best

description of capitalism when he wrote of it as a series of layers

built on top of the everyday market economy of onions and wood,

plumbing and cooking. These layers, local, regional, national and

global, are characterised by ever greater abstraction, until at the top

sits disembodied finance, seeking returns anywhere, uncommitted

to any particular place or industry, and commodifying anything

and everything.

Only a few decades ago there was great interest in what would

supersede capitalism. The answers ranged from communism

to managerialism, and from hopes of a golden age of leisure to

dreams of a return to community and ecological harmony. Today

these utopias can be found in the movements around the World

Social Forum, on the edges of all of the major religions, in the

radical sub-cultures that surround the net, and in moderated form

in thousands of civic ventures across the world.

MULGAN, Geoff. Available at:  Access on June 17th, 2009 

 

Study this cartoon:

 

We can infer that the cartoon above says that socialism

The era of transition that we are entering will be disruptive – but

it may bring a world where markets are servants, not masters.

To understand what capitalism might become, we first have

to understand what it is. This is not so simple. Capitalism includes

a market economy, but many traditional market economies are

not capitalistic. It includes trade, but trade, too, long precedes

capitalism. It includes capital – but Egyptian pharaohs and fascist

dictators commanded surpluses too.

The French historian Fernand Braudel offered perhaps the best

description of capitalism when he wrote of it as a series of layers

built on top of the everyday market economy of onions and wood,

plumbing and cooking. These layers, local, regional, national and

global, are characterised by ever greater abstraction, until at the top

sits disembodied finance, seeking returns anywhere, uncommitted

to any particular place or industry, and commodifying anything

and everything.

Only a few decades ago there was great interest in what would

supersede capitalism. The answers ranged from communism

to managerialism, and from hopes of a golden age of leisure to

dreams of a return to community and ecological harmony. Today

these utopias can be found in the movements around the World

Social Forum, on the edges of all of the major religions, in the

radical sub-cultures that surround the net, and in moderated form

in thousands of civic ventures across the world.

MULGAN, Geoff. Available at: <http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10680> Access on June 17th, 2009 

 

 

We can say that the author of the text thinks that religion

The era of transition that we are entering will be disruptive – but

it may bring a world where markets are servants, not masters.

To understand what capitalism might become, we first have

to understand what it is. This is not so simple. Capitalism includes

a market economy, but many traditional market economies are

not capitalistic. It includes trade, but trade, too, long precedes

capitalism. It includes capital – but Egyptian pharaohs and fascist

dictators commanded surpluses too.

The French historian Fernand Braudel offered perhaps the best

description of capitalism when he wrote of it as a series of layers

built on top of the everyday market economy of onions and wood,

plumbing and cooking. These layers, local, regional, national and

global, are characterised by ever greater abstraction, until at the top

sits disembodied finance, seeking returns anywhere, uncommitted

to any particular place or industry, and commodifying anything

and everything.

Only a few decades ago there was great interest in what would

supersede capitalism. The answers ranged from communism

to managerialism, and from hopes of a golden age of leisure to

dreams of a return to community and ecological harmony. Today

these utopias can be found in the movements around the World

Social Forum, on the edges of all of the major religions, in the

radical sub-cultures that surround the net, and in moderated form

in thousands of civic ventures across the world.

MULGAN, Geoff. Available at: <http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10680> Access on June 17th, 2009 

 

Communism (line 19) and managerialism (line 20) are mentioned in the text as systems that