Questões de Inglês

TEXTO:

Denmark’s fat tax

    Denmark has become the first country in the world

to introduce a tax on foods seen as being harmful to

health. There will be an extra charge on items that contain

more than 2.3% of a particular type of fat.

5    When you think of Denmark, you think of pastries,

butter and bacon. So perhaps a fat tax isn’t a bad idea,

a levy that will be added to any foods that are high in

saturated fat; milk, cheese and meat, for instance.

    Make it more expensive, reduce consumption,

10 improve health. Well, that is the theory. Some shops

have reported increased sales, people hoarding food to

beat the price rise. The Danish Food and Drink Federation

says some might just cross the border to do their

shopping.

15    There is certainly some skepticism. Scientists insist

that saturated fat is not the right target. Salt and sugar

cause more health problems. But one study claims close

to 4% of premature deaths in Denmark are caused by

people consuming too much saturated fat. So hit

20 shoppers in the pocket, not the waistband.

ALLMAN, Tim. Denmark’s fat tax. BBC News. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 8 dez. 2011. 

TEXTO:

Denmark’s fat tax

    Denmark has become the first country in the world

to introduce a tax on foods seen as being harmful to

health. There will be an extra charge on items that contain

more than 2.3% of a particular type of fat.

5    When you think of Denmark, you think of pastries,

butter and bacon. So perhaps a fat tax isn’t a bad idea,

a levy that will be added to any foods that are high in

saturated fat; milk, cheese and meat, for instance.

    Make it more expensive, reduce consumption,

10 improve health. Well, that is the theory. Some shops

have reported increased sales, people hoarding food to

beat the price rise. The Danish Food and Drink Federation

says some might just cross the border to do their

shopping.

15    There is certainly some skepticism. Scientists insist

that saturated fat is not the right target. Salt and sugar

cause more health problems. But one study claims close

to 4% of premature deaths in Denmark are caused by

people consuming too much saturated fat. So hit

20 shoppers in the pocket, not the waistband.

ALLMAN, Tim. Denmark’s fat tax. BBC News. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 8 dez. 2011. 

TEXTO:

Denmark’s fat tax

    Denmark has become the first country in the world

to introduce a tax on foods seen as being harmful to

health. There will be an extra charge on items that contain

more than 2.3% of a particular type of fat.

5    When you think of Denmark, you think of pastries,

butter and bacon. So perhaps a fat tax isn’t a bad idea,

a levy that will be added to any foods that are high in

saturated fat; milk, cheese and meat, for instance.

    Make it more expensive, reduce consumption,

10 improve health. Well, that is the theory. Some shops

have reported increased sales, people hoarding food to

beat the price rise. The Danish Food and Drink Federation

says some might just cross the border to do their

shopping.

15    There is certainly some skepticism. Scientists insist

that saturated fat is not the right target. Salt and sugar

cause more health problems. But one study claims close

to 4% of premature deaths in Denmark are caused by

people consuming too much saturated fat. So hit

20 shoppers in the pocket, not the waistband.

ALLMAN, Tim. Denmark’s fat tax. BBC News. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 8 dez. 2011. 

TEXTO:

Brazil’s time bomb

    President Dilma Rousseff is raising eyebrows with

her plans for Brazil. She is winning agreement even from

the political opposition for an agenda that includes

eradicating absolute poverty, trimming the national

5 budget, and safeguarding freedom of the press. But she

is also shocking everyone with what she plans to ignore:

the social-security time bomb.

    Brazil’s social-welfare system is an unrivaled mess.

Though Brazil has one of the world’s youngest

10 populations, it shells out the same share of its GDP (11

percent) as the grayest nations of Europe. Worse, it’s

aging faster than the rich countries ever did — twice as

fast as Europe in the last century. And the problem is

getting worse: federal, state, and local governments write

15 checks to private-sector pensioners worth more than 7

percent of GDP, up from 2.5 percent 30 years ago. With

the economy surging again, even the ballooning

social-security debt seems almost manageable. But to

unleash its full potential, Brazil has little choice but to

20 disarm the pension bomb. While Rousseff says she’s

got no such appetite, she well knows that the average

retirement age in Brazil is a tender 53 … and that France

was in flames because Parliament voted to raise the

retirement age from 60 to 62.

MARGOLIS, Mac. Brazil’s time bomb. Newsweek, Nov 29, 2010, p. 8. GDP: Gross Domestic Product 

TEXTO:

Brazil’s time bomb

    President Dilma Rousseff is raising eyebrows with

her plans for Brazil. She is winning agreement even from

the political opposition for an agenda that includes

eradicating absolute poverty, trimming the national

5 budget, and safeguarding freedom of the press. But she

is also shocking everyone with what she plans to ignore:

the social-security time bomb.

    Brazil’s social-welfare system is an unrivaled mess.

Though Brazil has one of the world’s youngest

10 populations, it shells out the same share of its GDP (11

percent) as the grayest nations of Europe. Worse, it’s

aging faster than the rich countries ever did — twice as

fast as Europe in the last century. And the problem is

getting worse: federal, state, and local governments write

15 checks to private-sector pensioners worth more than 7

percent of GDP, up from 2.5 percent 30 years ago. With

the economy surging again, even the ballooning

social-security debt seems almost manageable. But to

unleash its full potential, Brazil has little choice but to

20 disarm the pension bomb. While Rousseff says she’s

got no such appetite, she well knows that the average

retirement age in Brazil is a tender 53 … and that France

was in flames because Parliament voted to raise the

retirement age from 60 to 62.

MARGOLIS, Mac. Brazil’s time bomb. Newsweek, Nov 29, 2010, p. 8. GDP: Gross Domestic Product 

TEXTO:

Brazil’s time bomb

    President Dilma Rousseff is raising eyebrows with

her plans for Brazil. She is winning agreement even from

the political opposition for an agenda that includes

eradicating absolute poverty, trimming the national

5 budget, and safeguarding freedom of the press. But she

is also shocking everyone with what she plans to ignore:

the social-security time bomb.

    Brazil’s social-welfare system is an unrivaled mess.

Though Brazil has one of the world’s youngest

10 populations, it shells out the same share of its GDP (11

percent) as the grayest nations of Europe. Worse, it’s

aging faster than the rich countries ever did — twice as

fast as Europe in the last century. And the problem is

getting worse: federal, state, and local governments write

15 checks to private-sector pensioners worth more than 7

percent of GDP, up from 2.5 percent 30 years ago. With

the economy surging again, even the ballooning

social-security debt seems almost manageable. But to

unleash its full potential, Brazil has little choice but to

20 disarm the pension bomb. While Rousseff says she’s

got no such appetite, she well knows that the average

retirement age in Brazil is a tender 53 … and that France

was in flames because Parliament voted to raise the

retirement age from 60 to 62.

MARGOLIS, Mac. Brazil’s time bomb. Newsweek, Nov 29, 2010, p. 8. GDP: Gross Domestic Product