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❑ PROVA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA:
• UECE-2015.2-VESTIBULAR-2ª FASE-LÍNGUA INGLESA-05/07/2015.
❑ ESTRUTURA-PROVA:
• 20 MCQs (Multiple Choice Question) / 4 Options Each Question.
• Texto – | Brazil’s Power Dynamics Shifting Amid Political Scandals | www.nytimes.com |
PROVA, TRADUÇÃO, GABARITO & MUITO VOCABULÁRIO
❑ FONTE DO TEXTO:
* The New York Times é um jornal diário estadunidense. A versão impressa do jornal tem a segunda maior circulação, atrás do The Wall Street Journal. Apelidado de "The Lady Gray", o New York Times há muito tempo tem sido considerado um "jornal de referência" nacional.
❑ TEXTO:
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.
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