UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE- LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR-Universidade Estadual do Ceará - Prova com gabarito.

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➧ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-VESTIBULAR, aplicada em 05/07/2015.

➧ BANCA/ORGANIZADOR: Universidade Estadual do Ceará - Comissão Executiva do Vestibular - www.uece.br/cev.

➧ PADRÃO/COMPOSIÇÃO DA PROVA: 20 questões do tipo múltipla escolha (A,B,C,D).

➧ GABARITO:

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

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

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

16-B, 17-C, 18-B, 19-A, 20-B

➧ TEXT I:

The head of Brazil’s Senate, Renan Calheiros, has been accused of tax evasion, using a government jet to visit a surgeon who alleviated his baldness with hair implants and allowing a construction company’s lobbyist to pay child support for his daughter from an extramarital affair with a television journalist.

Eduardo Cunha, the conservative speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, has also faced — and successfully battled — a list of corruption accusations, from embezzlement to living in an apartment paid for by a black-market money dealer.

In some democracies, figures facing such situations might find themselves banished from public life even if they were never convicted. But not in Brazil, where the men who command the scandal-plagued Congress are actually increasing their power over the scandalplagued president, Dilma Rousseff.

The move reflects one of the most profound shifts in political power in the country in decades — and is a clear measure of the troubles Ms. Rousseff now faces in the wake of a sweeping bribery case involving Brazil’s national oil company.

“This is ‘House of Cards,’ Brazilian style, with the chiefs in Congress seizing a moment when the president is very weak,” said David Fleischer, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Brasília. “They are putting into motion a strategy of simply letting Dilma dangle in the wind,” he added.

The strategy seems to be working. While both Mr. Cunha and Mr. Calheiros are on the list of dozens of political figures under investigation in connection with the bribery scandal, the congressional leaders appear to be deflecting attention from their own troubles by revolting against Ms. Rousseff, whose public approval rating stands at a dismal 13 percent.

In doing so, they have managed to largely shield the Brazilian Congress from blame. Its own bleak approval rating climbed to 11 percent in April from 9 percent in March, according to Datafolha, a prominent Brazilian polling company. The survey, conducted through interviews with 2,834 people, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus two percentage points.

Ms. Rousseff, who narrowly won reelection in October, is facing huge protests calling for her impeachment, with many Brazilians fuming over the sluggish economy and revelations of the broad bribery scheme at the national oil company, Petrobras. She was chairwoman of the board at the statecontrolled oil giant from 2003 to 2010, roughly corresponding to the period when the scheme was started.

The scandal involved executives at Petrobras accepting vast amounts of bribes, enriching themselves while also channeling funds to political figures and to Ms. Rousseff’s leftist Workers Party, according to testimony by former executives.

No testimony has emerged indicating that Ms. Rousseff personally profited from the scheme. But at the same time, Ms. Rousseff has been put on the defensive, insisting that bribery proceeds were not channeled to her election campaign. The scandal moved closer to the president after the arrest of the treasurer of her party, João Vaccari Neto.

As Ms. Rousseff and her party reel from the scandal, she is facing a rebellion from the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, which has anchored her coalition and controls both houses of Congress.

Both Mr. Calheiros, the Senate leader, and Mr. Cunha, the speaker of the lower house, are members of the rebelling party. Ms. Rousseff’s own vice president, Michel Temer, is the leader of the PMDB, as the party is known, and Mr. Temer is bolstering his own power after the president appealed to him to ease tensions with Congress.

At each turn in the bribery scandal, the PMDB’s chiefs have moved to erode the power of the left-leaning Ms. Rousseff, stalling some of the austerity measures proposed by her finance minister; thwarting the president’s nominees for her cabinet; and advancing socially conservative measures aimed at weakening gun-control laws and repealing legislation keeping teenagers from being tried as adults.

Cristovam Buarque, a respected senator on the left who voted against Ms. Rousseff in the recent election, said the growing sway over the president by the troika formed by the heads of Congress and the vice president amounted to a “coup.”

“Instead of a general, a brigadier and an admiral acting with the support of the armed forces, we have the vice president of the republic and the chiefs of Congress maneuvering with the support of the troops of the PMDB,” Mr. Buarque said.

Congress’s growing resistance represents a turning point for an institution that has been widely despised in Brazil for its propensity to reward itself with pay raises when other parts of society endure austerity measures, and for its capacity to shield its members facing legal challenges.

Nearly 40 percent of federal legislators who won large numbers of votes in the 2014 elections are under investigation in an array of crimes, including illegal 0deforestation, embezzlement and torture. It takes a great deal for any member to be expelled from Congress. One example: Hildebrando Pascoal, a legislator convicted of operating a death squad whose victims were dismembered with chain saws.

Few federal legislators ever face imprisonment for any crimes because of the special judicial standing enjoyed by all 594 members of Congress allowing them to be tried only in Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal, effectively producing years of delays in a court overwhelmed with examining many other pressing issues in Brazilian society.

After facing scandals in the past, the figures now at the helm of Congress have shown an exceptional ability to withstand the allegations and resurrect their fortunes. Both Mr. Calheiros, the head of the Senate, and Mr. Cunha, the head of the lower house, have asserted that they are innocent in connection to the bribery scheme at Petrobras.

From: http://www.nytimes.com April 27, 2015

01 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

One of the facts mentioned in the text about the political reality in Brazil is that

A) our president profited from the Petrobras bribery scheme.

B) too many federal legislators are being investigated.

C) Cristovam Buarque is facing legal challenges.

D) all the parties are calling for Roussef's impeachment.

02 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The text refers to Ms. Rousseff as a

A) weak and failing head of the Senate.

B) good forger of political ambitions.

C) scandal-plagued leader.

D) great strategist and smart president.

03 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

One of the accusations against the head of the Brazilian Senate is that he

A) used a government jet to go to a doctor to fix his baldness.

B) lives in an apartment purchased by a former president.

C) is facing a rebellion from the PMDB.

D) dated the daughter of a television journalist.

04 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

Unlike other countries, Brazil does not usually

A) face bribery scandals involving political chiefs.

B) trust famous polling companies.

C) shield members of Congress from blame.

D) banish federal legislators from public life.

05 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The Petrobras scandal got near Ms. Rousseff when

A) she was chairwoman of the board of the company.

B) her election campaign started.

C) the Workers Party's treasurer was arrested.

D) PMDB members advanced socially conservative measures.

06 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

One of the deepest shifts in Brazil's political power is the fact that

A) some executives at Petrobras have denied some of the allegations.

B) leaders of Congress have been able to be stronger than the president.

C) construction companies' lobbyists are no longer a part of the system.

D) left-leaning parties will have a hard time in next year's elections.

07 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

According to the text, Eduardo Cunha and Renan Calheiros seem to be changing the focus from their problems by

A) organizing protests against the president.

B) revolting against Ms. Rousseff.

C) revealing names of politicians involved in scandals.

D) filing for Ms. Rousseff's impeachment.

08 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

Two criticisms made at our Congress are related to its

A) involvement in Petrobras bribery scheme and the rejection of measures proposed by the finance minister.

B) support of illegal deforestation and the discussion of irrelevant issues for the Brazilian society.

C) capacity of protecting members who face legal accusations and rewarding itself with pay raises.

D) support of the armed forces and years of delays to discuss important issues.

09 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

So far, there has been no evidence to indicate that the president has

A) made profits from the Petrobras bribery scheme.

B) weakened gun-control laws.

C) found a way to increase her approval rating.

D) tried to erode Michel Temer's power.

10 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentence

“the men who command the scandal-plagued Congress are actually increasing their power over the scandal-plagued president, Dilma Rousseff” (lines 17-20)

contains a/an

A) non-defining relative clause.

B) defining relative clause.

C) subject noun clause.

D) object noun clause.

11 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The ING words: increasing (line 19), rating (line 44), polling (line 47)

are respectively

A) verb, noun, verb.

B) noun, noun, adjective.

C) adjective, verb, noun.

D) verb, noun, adjective.

12 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentence

"Ms. Roussef, who narrowly won re-election in October, is facing huge protests" (lines 51-52)

contains a/an:

A) adverbial clause.

B) gerund phrase.

C) adjectival clause.

D) infinitive phrase.

13 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The verb tenses in “has been accused” (line 2), “command” (line 17), and “have managed” (line 42)

are, respectively in the

A) active voice, active voice, passive voice.

B) passive voice, passive voice, passive voice.

C) passive voice, active voice, active voice.

D) active voice, passive voice, active voice.

14 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentence

“Congress's growing resistance represents a turning point for an institution that has been widely despised in Brazil” (lines 110-112)

is an example of

A) compound sentence.

B) simple sentence.

C) complex-compound sentence.

D) complex sentence.

15 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentence

“the figures now at the helm of Congress have shown an exceptional ability to withstand the allegations” (lines 135-138) 

is an example of

A) simple sentence.

B) compound sentence.

C) complex-compound sentence.

D) complex sentence.

16 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentence

“Mr. Temer is bolstering his own power after the president appealed to him to ease tensions with Congress” (lines 85-87) 

contains a conjunction that introduces a/an

A) object noun clause.

B) adverb clause.

C) restrictive relative clause.

D) contrastive clause.

17 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The verbs 'stand', 'find', 'grow', and 'weaken'

are classified respectively as

A) regular, regular, irregular, irregular.

B) irregular, irregular, irregular, irregular.

C) irregular, irregular, irregular, regular.

D) regular, regular, irregular, regular.

18 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

In the sentence

“Both Mr. Calheiros, the head of the Senate, and Mr. Cunha, the head of the lower house, have asserted that they are innocent in connection to the bribery scheme at Petrobras” (lines 138-142),

the verbs in the clauses are respectively in the

A) simple present and present continuous.

B) present perfect and simple present.

C) past perfect and simple past.

D) present perfect continuous and simple present.

19 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentence “She was chairwoman of the board at the state-controlled oil giant from 2003 to 2010” (lines 56-58)

contains a/an

A) subject complement.

B) direct object.

C) objet complement.

D) subject noun clause.

20 – (UECE-2015/2-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-VESTIBULAR)

The sentence

“This is ‘House of Cards,’ Brazilian style, with the chiefs in Congress seizing a moment when the president is very weak,” said David Fleischer, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Brasília” (lines 27-31)

contains an example of

A) indirect speech.

B) direct speech.

C) infinitive phrase.

D) non-defining clause.