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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR(todos os cargos), aplicação em 09/08/2009.
➧ BANCA/ORGANIZADOR: CESPE-Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisa em Avaliação e Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos.
➧ PADRÃO / COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 10 questões.
➧ GABARITO:
01-B, 02-E, 03-E, 04-D, 05-B, 06-D, 07-C, 08-C, 09-E, 10-A
➧ TEXT: This text refers to the questions from 01 through 10.
With the price of oil hovering near $ 100 a barrel, the discovery of the biggest deep-water oil field off the southeastern coast has the potential to transform Brazil into a global energy powerhouse and to reshape the politics of this energy-starved continent.
While Brazil's state oil company, PETROBRAS, has known of the field for more than a year, it only finished assessing its full potential in recent months. It announced on Nov. that the field held some five billion to eight billion barrels of crude oil and natural gas.
The announcement has everyone in the region, and beyond, taking notice. A field that size — the biggest in the world since a discovery in Kazakhstan in 2000 — is a potential political game-changer for Brazil.
In the next five years it is conceivable that Brazil could move ahead of Mexico and Canada in total oil reserves, becoming second only to Venezuela and the United States in the energy pecking order of the Americas.
This is heady stuff for Brazil, a country that only last year became a net energy exporter mostly because of its aggressive push into sugar-cane ethanol and hydroelectric power.
“All of a sudden Brazil is emerging as an energy power”, said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a policy group in Washington focusing on Latin America. “Everything they have developed, from soybeans to sugar to oil is suddenly working. They have had amazing luck.”
There is little doubt that the find gives Brazil new influence against energy players like Bolivia and Venezuela, and not just in the economic competition among energy suppliers, but in the political arena as well.
Much to the chagrin of the United States, Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, has used his nation's oil wealth to aggressively push a leftist agenda at home and abroad. The Brazilian field, known as Tupi, now has the potential to lend more weight to Brazil’s more moderate, leftist approach.
Already countries around the region have been quick to sense the potential threats and benefits. With news of the discovery coming just ahead of a meeting of Latin American leaders in Santiago, Chile, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, acknowledged there during the meeting that he was being “treated with a certain deference” by the other leaders.
Mr. Chávez nervously jested that Mr. da Silva was now an “oil magnate”. He also quickly suggested that the two nations create an Amazonian energy region similar to the Caribbean and Andean integration efforts Venezuela had been pushing for.
Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted).
01. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
Based on the text, choose the correct option.
[A] Petroleum price has reached a lot over $100 a barrel.
[B] Never before has Brazil found such a deep-water well oil as large as the one in the southeastern coast.
[C] Brazil will certainly become an international energy powerhouse.
[D] South American continent has plenty of energy available.
[E] Only people in the Brazilian southeastern coast came to know about PETROBRAS' new discovery.
02. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
According to the text, it is possible to conclude that
[A] PETROBRAS took less than a month to find out the full potential of this deep-water field.
[B] PETROBRAS made public the new field contained five to eight billion barrels of crude oil.
[C] PETROBRAS’ new discovery will cause the end of Brazilian diplomatic relations with Venezuela.
[D] Brazil will soon surpass Mexico and Canada in terms of oil reserves.
[E] Brazil could move to the third position in the so called “energy pecking order of the Americas” (R.18) in less than a decade.
03. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
Based on the text, it can be deduced that
[A] Brazil has turned out to be rather aggressive against the use of alternative energy.
[B] suddenly Brazil became an energy power.
[C] Brazil is a lucky country, to the extent that whatever it plants it becomes a success.
[D] Brazil will get a new influence against energy players beyond a shadow of a doubt.
[E] Brazil as well as Venezuela and Bolivia are energy players.
04. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
From the text, it is possible to infer that
[A] Lula is supposed to follow the approach to oil wealth as that of Mr. Chávez.
[B] Mr. Chávez spoke seriously when he called president Lula an “oil magnate” (R.47).
[C] Mr. Chávez praised the joint effort they had made to create an Amazonian energy region.
[D] Mr. Chávez is taking strong action to try to promote the Caribbean and Andean integration.
[E] Brazil new deep-water oil field will disturb the present position of South America energy producers.
05. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
“hovering” (R.1) is the same as
[A] standing somewhere nearby.
[B] staying very close.
[C] moving from one side to another.
[D] hesitating between two different opinions.
[E] aiming at something.
[A] “Brazil” (R.6).
[B] “state oil company” (R.6).
[C] “PETROBRAS” (R.6).
[D] “the field” (R.7).
[E] “full potential” (R.8).
07. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
“the biggest” (R.12) is
[A] a comparative of superiority.
[B] a comparative of equality.
[C] a superlative.
[D] a comparative of inferiority.
[E] a comparative of inequality.
08. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
The word “chagrin” (R.33) means
[A] fear or concern.
[B] hope or disillusion.
[C] disappointment or annoyance.
[D] worry or shame.
[E] embarrassment or confusion.
09. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
“abroad” (R.36) refers to
[A] strange countries.
[B] on board.
[C] aboard.
[D] one’s country.
[E] foreign countries.
10. – (CESPE-2009-FINEP-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)
“around” (R.39) is the same as
[A] round.
[B] about.
[C] near.
[D] above.
[E] under.
