Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2004

Text II – items 38 to 40

Considering the ideas and expressions found in text II, judge the following items.

Blanks numbered  and can be properly filled i n with picking up, burst and sluggishness respectively.

Still in relation to text I, judge the following items.

According to the graph, from 1970 to 2001, accumulated corporate income tax receipts in North American countries displayed better results than the European ones.

Still in relation to text I, judge the following items.

The author's purpose is to show that governments around the world are scrabbling for scarce corporate taxes.

Still in relation to text I, judge the following items.

The expression " fret that su ch cases are the tip of a large iceberg" (L.13-14) means that many other similar cases have been found.

Text I – items 31 to 37

Judge if each it em below presents a correct rewriting of the information contained in lines 6 to 12 of text

In the latest revelation, Dick Thornburgh, the man in charge of evaluating the failure of Wo rld-Com, issued hearsay evidence stating that, not only many other crooked dealings are to be attributed to broken telecoms company , but that it also deprived the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS) of great sums of dollars using a tax device invented by KPMG, its auditor.