CESGRANRIO — 2006 — PETROBRAS — NÍVEL SUPERIOR (vários cargos) — CONCURSO PÚBLICO — PETRÓLEO BRASILEIRO S/A — PROVA COM GABARITO.

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➧ NESTE POST: PROVA de INGLÊS da CESGRANRIO-2006-NIVEL SUPERIOR VESTIBULAR (vários cargos), APLICADA EM 07/05/2006.

➧ COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA:  10 (Dez) questões do tipo (A,B,C,D,E).

➧ GABARITO:

01-B, 02-B, 03-C, 04-D, 05-E

06-B, 07-B, 08-C, 09-D, 10-A

➧ VOCABULÁRIO:

• OECD /ôu-issidi/ (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) — Organização de Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico.
• OPEC /ôupék/ (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) — Organização dos Países Exportadores de Petróleo.
• non-OPEC — os países que não fazem parte da OPEC.
• the ongoing refinery construction — A construção contínua da refinaria.
• World oil demand — Demanda mundial do petróleo.

➧ PROVA:

➧ TEXT I:

The age of speed: how to reduce global fuel consumption by 75 percent

September 11, 2008

Low-tech Magazine 

At the same time that President Bush is urging America to free itself from its addiction to oil from unstable parts of the world, European leaders are calling for a more self-sufficient energy policy that relies less on oil and natural gas.

“Europe is becoming ever more dependent on oil and gas imports from geopolitically uncertain regions,” European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso alerted last month in a speech. “We have to do something about this, and we have to do it now.”

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after a meeting in Berlin that Europe must develop an energy policy for the next 15 years that includes more renewable sources of energy.

The new emphasis on energy security is a result of soaring energy prices and signs that supplies may not always be available. Oil prices tripled in the last three years, from about $20 a barrel to $60. And Russia, which has become a major supplier of oil and gas to Europe, raised concerns when it cut off natural gas to Ukraine last month during a dispute over prices.

These developments have motivated a new debate on the continent about nuclear energy and brought about ambitious biofuels programs.

• Nuclear power, which with the exception of France, was disappearing in Western Europe, has re-emerged as a clean and reliable source of energy. Germany is reconsidering its plan to phase out nuclear power generation by 2020. So, too, is Britain. With the exception of France, which gets more than 70% of its power from nuclear sources, Europe has rejected nuclear generation as too costly or unsafe since the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine nearly 20 years ago.

• Sweden has just announced that it wants to be the first nation in the world to eliminate oil as an energy source in the next 15 years. It would use ethanol for its cars, and geothermal heat and burning everything from agricultural byproducts to trash would replace heating oil. “Our dependency on oil should be broken by 2020,” said Mona Sahlin, Sweden’s minister of Sustainable Development.

• The European Commission adopted in February 2006 an ambitious biofuels program to set off the production of ethanol and gas from crops and organic waste. The goal: to more than double production — from a 1.4% share of the European fuel supply in 2005 to 5.75% in 2010.

Although Europe relies less on oil than the USA, the tripling of oil prices over the last three years has been felt. Oil provides 40% of the USA’s energy supply and about 36% of Europe’s.

Europe is the largest producer of wind and solar power. Also, biofuels can help give this continent a more diverse supply of energy. But it is unlikely that Europe can replace fossil fuel entirely, as Sweden plans.

“It’s not a crisis,” says Claude Mandil, executive director of the International Energy Agency in Paris, of Europe and the USA’s energy situation. But, he remarks, “Everybody is understanding that capacities are limited ... and the problem will not be solved overnight.”

By Jeffrey Stinson, USA Today, Feb. 20, 2006

01 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

The main purpose of the text is to:

(A) criticize the re-emergence of nuclear power as a major source of energy.
(B) blame President Bush for America’s dependency on oil from hostile countries.
(C) complain angrily about sharp increases in oil and gas prices in the last three years.
(D) describe in detail Sweden’s efforts to promote the use of energy sources other than oil.
(E) present Europe’s actions to depend less on energy imported from unstable world regions.

02 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso’s statement in Paragraph 2 sounds like a/an:

(A) warning.
(B) complaint.
(C) accusation.
(D) apology.
(E) excuse.

03 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

According to the fourth paragraph, there was reason to worry when:

(A) Ukraine raised oil prices from $20 a barrel to $60 in the last three years.
(B) Ukraine refused to buy natural gas from Russia because of high prices.
(C) Russia became a major supplier of oil and gas to the whole continent.
(D) Russia stopped supplying natural gas to Ukraine in January 2006.
(E) Europe asked Russia to cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine.

04 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

Mark the correct statement about nuclear power according to the information found in lines 28-33.

(A) Germany and Britain are planning to start using nuclear power in 2020.
(B) Less than half of France’s energy comes exclusively from nuclear sources.
(C) France is the only country in Western Europe that now relies heavily on nuclear power.
(D) All European countries stopped using nuclear power after the Chernobyl accident.
(E) Nuclear power has always been considered as a clean but costly source of energy.

05 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

In

“Sweden has just announced that it wants to be the first nation in the world…”(lines 34-35), the pronoun it refers to “Sweden”.

Check the other pronoun that also refers to the name of a country.

(A) this (line 10).
(B) it (line 10).
(C) which (line 25).
(D) its (line 30)
(E) it (line 54).

06 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

Check the item in which should is used in the same sense as in

“Our dependency on oil should be broken by 2020,” (line 39).

(A) America should reduce both petroleum fuel use and emissions of greenhouse gases.
(B) European governments should focus their efforts on large-scale fuel-saving projects.
(C) Developing countries should work to establish policies to coordinate energy planning.
(D) The European Commission should encourage all countries to adopt a biofuels program.
(E) The results of this research on biofuels should be available to the public in a few months.

07 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

In (line 48),

“Although Europe relies less on oil than the USA,”

could be paraphrased as:

(A) Despite the fact that the USA is a major oil supplier.
(B) As Europe is less dependent on oil than the United States.
(C) Even though Europe consumes less oil than the United States.
(D) Because Europe is not so dependent on oil as the United States.
(E) Europe’s dependency on oil, however, is greater than that of the USA.

08 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

In

“...it is unlikely that Europe can replace fossil fuel entirel,” (lines 54-55),

unlikely can be replaced with:

(A) illogical.
(B) improbable.
(C) unexpected.
(D) unacceptable.
(E) unpredictable.

09 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

When Claude Mandil said that

“...the problem will not be solved overnight.” (line 60)

he meant that:

(A) such problematic situation will never be resolved.
(B) there is no easy or quick solution for the problem.
(C) this difficult state of affairs emerged quite suddenly.
(D) the solution for this puzzle will be rather unexpected.
(E) it may be sometime before the problem becomes critical.

10 – (CESGRANRIO-2006-PETROBRAS-NÍVEL SUPERIOR)

Check the only item in which the phrasal verb in bold type has the same meaning as the verb in italics.

(A) “European leaders are calling for a more self-sufficient energy policy …” (lines 3-4) – demanding.
(B) “raised concerns when it cut off natural gas to Ukraine last month…” (lines 20-21) – delivered.
(C) “These developments have (…) and brought about ambitious biofuels programs.” (lines 22-24) – discontinued.
(D) “Germany is reconsidering its plan to phase out nuclear power generation by 2020.” (lines 28-29) – encourage.
(E) “The European Commission adopted (…) an ambitious biofuels program to set off the production of ethanol and gas …” (lines 42-44) – discuss.

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