FGV-2012-EBAPE-RJ-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE-LÍNGUA INGLESA - Escola Brasileira de ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA E DE EMPRESAS da FGV - Prova com gabarito.

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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR 2ºSEMESTRE, aplicação em 03/06/2012.

➧ BANCA/ORGANIZADOR: FGV-EBAPE-Escola Brasileira de ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA E DE EMPRESAS.

➧ PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 15 questões do tipo múltipla escolha (A,B,C,D,E).

➧ GABARITO:

01-D, 02-B, 03-D, 04-A, 05-E

06-E, 07-C, 08-A, 09-C, 10-E

11-B, 12-A, 13-C, 14-D, 15-B

➧ VOCABULÁRIO: 

➧ TEXTO I:

THE SPECTER OF GENOCIDE

by Alex Perry

1

The woman had been trapped in her office for three days as fighting rocked the streets below and armed gangs roamed. Alexandra had survived on a package of cookies and two cans of soda. Finally, frantic that a promised rescue by a U.N. convoy did not materialize, she ran out of her building and into the dangerous streets, dashing two blocks to a nearby hotel. "This place is paradise," she said to the staff, who took her in and provided her with water and some food, even though they were running low. "This place is paradise."
2
On March 31, millions in the chic, sultry West African city of Abidjan, the center of power in lvory Coast, abandoned their wine bars, high-rise offices and four-lane highways. They barricaded their apartments and watched, terrified, as the battle for their nation swept into town. Forces allied with northerner Alassane Ouattara, who was elected President on Nov. 28, fought troops loyal to southerner Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent, who delayed an election for five years, then refused to go when he lost.
3
Mediation went nowhere, and from March 28 to 30, militias supporting Ouattara captured most of the country. But the battle for Abidjan, a city of 5 million, was always going to be bloody. Gbagbo had surrounded himself with thousands of troops and heavy weapons – mortars, mounted machine guns and artillery – and was believed to be in a bunker under the presidential residence. Its food supplies already low, the city ran so short of water that even Gbagbo's thugs were knocking on doors begging for a drink. Thirsty civilians braved gunfire to draw water from the city's polluted lagoons.
4
Meanwhile, the specter of genocide hung in the air as Gbagbo's state television urged patriots to defend the nation, broadcasting pictures of bodies in the streets. Northerners and southerners daubed one another's doors with signs to indicate tribal affiliation, a guide to enmity. In the western town of Duékoué, 800 people died in two separate massacres, apparently one by each side. The U.N. estimated that a million people were displaced.
5
Gbagbo seemed to be counting on the world's doing little to stop what sounded like an alltoo-familiar African tragedy. As with other autocrats – Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Muammar Gaddafi in Libya – the country would burn. The world would watch in horror but just as quickly turn away. And after all the killing, rape and destruction, Gbagbo would remain.

Time – April 18, 2011

01 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

Which of the following best describes what happened to Alexandra, the woman mentioned in paragraph 1?

A) She was part of a U.N. delegation trapped in a hotel during a battle in her city.
B) She nearly died because she had refused to leave her home during a battle.
C) She nearly died because she had tried to observe a battle in her city.
D) Because of a battle in her city she had to stay in her office with almost nothing to eat or drink.
E) During a battle in her city she had left her office to look for food and water and then could not get back.

02 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

In paragraph 1, when Alexandra says “This place is paradise,” she most likely means that

A) her city used to be a wonderful place to live.
B) compared to the terrible battle she had just escaped, where she was staying was wonderful.
C) war is hell and can never be justified.
D) any place that offers peace and safety is preferable to a war.
E) she was very happy to have discovered that the U.N. had set up a shelter inside the hotel.

03 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the information in the article, on March 31

A) a civil war erupted in the country of Ivory Coast.
B) the city of Abidjan had to be evacuated because of a civil war.
C) a band of foreign mercenary soldiers invaded the city of Abidjan.
D) the war that had begun in other regions of the country of Ivory Coast reached the city of Abidjan.
E) enemy troops invaded the city of Abidjan and began the systematic massacre of all civilians.

04 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

Which of the following probably best describes the reason for the armed conflict in Ivory Coast?

A) The president of the country was not reelected but, even so, refused to leave office.
B) A losing candidate tried to force the country’s legitimate president to leave office.
C) A northern tribe and a southern tribe started fighting each other in order to determine which one would dominate the country.
D) The people decided to fight rather than accept the results of a fraudulent election.
E) Contrary to the will of the people, militants attempted to set up an Islamic republic.

05 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The first sentence of paragraph 3, “Mediation went nowhere,” 

most likely refers to which of the following?

A) The two presidential candidates had no intention of resolving their conflict peacefully.
B) Ivory Coast is too corrupt to find peaceful solutions to its political problems.
C) For five years, Laurent Gbagbo used mediation as a trick to stay in the presidency.
D) Laurent Gbabgo and Alassane Ouattara refused to let foreign mediators negotiate a peace agreement.
E) It was impossible to resolve the presidential dispute in a way acceptable to both Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara.

06 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

With respect to the battle for Abidjan, which of the following is not supported by information in the article?

A) The fighting was intense, with much death and destruction.
B) Militias supporting Alassane Ouattara did not know with certainty the exact location of Laurent Gbagbo.
C) The city had little food and almost no drinking water.
D) Abidjan was one of the few places in the country that Laurent Gbagbo still controlled.
E) Most of Abidjan’s residents fought to keep Laurent Gbagbo in the presidency.

07 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the information in the article,

A) Alassane Ouatarra and Laurent Gbagbo are fighting because they both want to set up dictatorial governments in Ivory Coast.
B) Laurent Gbagbo’s state television broadcast falsified pictures of corpses in the streets of Abidjan.

C) the fight between Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo was also a fight between Northerners and Southerners in Ivory Coast.
D) the worst massacre of civilians took place in the city of Abidjan.
E) the current conflict in Ivory Coast is the bloodiest in that country’s history.

08 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The first sentence in the last paragraph,

“Gbagbo seemed to be counting on the world’s doing little to stop what sounded like an all-too-familiar African tragedy,”

most likely refers to which of the following?

A) Apparently, Gbagbo believed that he could commit atrocities and that other countries would not interfere.
B) Gbagbo was certain that he could not count on foreign allies to help him in his fight.

C) Gbagbo feared that foreign enemies might take advantage of his desperate situation to remove him from power.
D) Gbagbo seemed to believe that it was unfair to compare his government to Robert Mugabe’s in Zimbabwe and Muammar Gaddafi’s in Libya.
E) Gbagbo knew that the world would never understand what was happening in Ivory Coast.

➧ TEXTO iI:

ET TU, MANCHU?

1

A century ago it was the “national language” of a vast empire. Today Manchu mixes with cigarette smoke blown through the wrinkled lips of 86-years-old Zhao Lanfeng in Sanjiazi, a village in China´s north-east. The words she croaks in her thatch-roofed, mud-brick farmhouse are precious. Ms Zhao calls herself one of only two fluent native speakers of Manchu left in the village, one of the last redoubts of a language that is verging on extinction.
2
Even in 1911, when the hated Manchu rulers of China´s last imperial Qing dynasty were overthrown, the language was national only in name. Manchus formed only about 2% of the country´s population at the time. Most people spoke Chinese, the language of the majority Han people who were conquered in 1644 by the Manchus, a collection of ethnic groups from the country´s borderlands in what was once known as Manchuria. Even the last Manchu emperor, Puyi (who was six when he abdicated), was far from fluent, despite the court´s dogged efforts to keep the language alive.
3
Hundreds if not thousands of Manchu civilians, many of whom lived in separate communities walled off from their Han neighbours, were massacred during the revolution by vengeful Han troops. Many more changed their names, clothing and other giveaway features of their ancestry to escape persecution. But in some remote rural areas Manchu ways held out longer. In Sanjiazi, descendents of the Manchu troops who settled the village during the Qing period outnumbered Han residents. Ms Zhao grew up speaking Manchu.
4
Hers was the last generation to do so. In 1979 there were 50 fluent speakers left. The two remaining (the other is also 86) sometimes chat to each other in Manchu. But Ms Zhao says the last time this happened was about four months ago. A few others in Sanjiazi speak a bit of Manchu. But in all of China, there are only a handful of people like Ms Zhao.
5
Few Chinese have any interest in learning the dying language of their one-time oppressors. Wu Yuanfeng, a government archivist, says 2 million out of 10 million Qing documents in the country´s collection are written in Manchu. Yet he estimates there are only about 30 scholars in China who are truly expert in the language. Knowledge of the language is kept up mainly by people like him who belong to the Xibo people from China´s far north-west. The Xibo language is very close to Manchu, but Mr Wu says only about 20,000 speak it and their numbers are rapidly diminishing too.

The Economist – October 8th-14th 2011

09 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

In the article’s first sentence, “national language” is most likely enclosed in quotation marks because

A) it is absurd to think that a country as vast and complex as China could have only one language.
B) the Manchu language is more common in Manchuria than in China.
C) the Manchu ethnic groups, who spoke the Manchu language and once dominated China, represented a very small percentage of that country’s population.
D) no one in China spoke the Manchu language outside of that region once known as Manchuria.
E) while Chinese and Manchu are considered separate languages, they share the same ethnic roots.

10 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

With respect to Zhao Lanfeng, which of the following is most supported by the information in the article?

A) She is one of only two fluent Manchu speakers living in Manchuria.
B) She speaks a kind of Manchu found only in her village in north-east China.
C) She is considered fluent in Manchu only because so few people actually speak the language.
D) She is fluent in Manchu but weak in Chinese.
E) She can speak a limited Manchu with some people in her village.

11 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the information in the article, the Manchu people of the Qing dynasty

A) were the only ones in China who spoke the Manchu language.
B) could not be considered a single, pure race.
C) developed the strongest military structure in Asia.
D) tried to prohibit the Chinese language.
E) did not intermarry with the Han people.

12 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

The article most likely mentions Puyi, the last Manchu emperor, in order to

A) illustrate how hard it was to get people to learn to speak good Manchu.
B) highlight the oppressive nature of the Qing dynasty.
C) compare the benefits of speaking Chinese with the disadvantages of speaking Manchu.
D) show that the function of the emperor was largely ceremonial.
E) emphasize that the inefficiency of the Qing dynasty made the decline of the Manchu language inevitable.

13 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

According to the information in the article,

during the revolution that ended the Qing dynasty,

A) most of the Manchus living in China were either killed or expelled.
B) the Manchus in China were forced to live in separate communities.
C) many Manchus tried to hide their typically Manchu characteristics.
D) the last Manchu emperor was executed.
E) Manchu troops in rural areas successfully defended their villages against Han invaders.

14 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

In paragraph 4, “this” in the phrase “…the last time this happened…”

most likely refers to the last time

A) a native speaker of Manchu showed up in the village of Sanjiazi.
B) a native speaker of Manchu in the village of Sanjiazi died.
C) someone wanted to learn fluent Manchu.
D) Zhao Lanfeng conversed with Sanjiazi’s other fluent speaker of Manchu.
E) Zhao Lanfeng spoke Manchu with the other people living in her village.

15 – (FGV-2012-EBAPE-VESTIBULAR-2º SEMESTRE)

With respect to the Manchu language, which of the following is most supported by the information in the article?

A) Nowadays, most Chinese scholars consider it a dead language.
B) The existence of the Xibo language has helped to slow the decline of the Manchu language.
C) During the Qing dynasty many Chinese were forced to learn Manchu.
D) During the Qing dynasty it was the language reserved for court activities and government documents.
E) For a brief period during the height of the Qing dynasty, Manchu was the most popular language in China.