Based on the text, judge the following items.
The Chinese crew agreed to compensate the Australian
government for their law infringement.
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A Chinese ship intended to cross an environmentally protected area on the Australian coast.
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According to the text, Congress’ underlying motivation to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley act was its indignation over the shameful behaviour of some corporations in early 21st century.
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In line 8, “bean-counters” is a derogatory expression used to describe second-class accountants who deal specifically with agribusiness.
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The fragment “longer tenures yield better results" (l 8) indicates that it is necessary a considerable amount of time for an auditing company which has been hired to sharpen its auditing skills and deliver superior results.
IMF's new head economist is imaginative realist
By Edward Hadas
July 21, 2015
What the International Monetary Fund needs most in its economic counsellor is imagination and realism. With Maurice
Obstfeld, who will take over the job from Olivier Blanchard in September, it has both.
Of course, the distinguished Berkeley professor, member of the U.S. president's Council of Economic Advisers and leading
textbook author has the needed technical skills. But conventional academic excellence is not enough to guide the international lender
as it negotiates the intricate politics of the apparently endless Greek crisis. Nor can the old dogma deal with the greatest contemporary
challenge to steady economic development: global financial excess.
Blanchard already moved the IMF well away from its former identification with the Washington Consensus, which was based
on an exaggerated confidence in free markets. His suggestion that the universally targeted inflation rate of 2 percent might be too low
was highly unorthodox. Obstfeld is likely to go further in the same direction.
http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2015/07/21/imfs-new-head-economist-is-imaginative-realist/
Na expressão: “… which was based…", a palavra sublinhada se refere a:
Is France's supermarket waste law heading for Europe?
By Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris
Plans to introduce a French law that bans supermarkets from destroying unsold food and obliges them to give it to charity is
irritating retailers who say they already make a big effort to fight waste.
Under the law, stores of more than 400 sq m would have until July 2016 to sign contracts with charities or food banks, and to
start giving them unsold produce. It follows a media campaign run by a young centre-right politician, Arash Derambarsh, who says
he was outraged by the sight of homeless people last winter scrambling in supermarket bins. A local councillor in the Paris suburb of
Courbevoie, Derambarsh began his campaign by collecting the unsold food and handing it out to the needy. He then launched an
online petition, which helped create momentum for the new law.
While broadly welcoming the idea, charities are also wary about ending up with more food than they can handle. "This had
better not translate into a poisoned chalice," says Olivier Berthe, president of the Restos du Coeur (Restaurants of the Heart) charity.
"We cannot be made to accept donations we do not need. We cannot become rubbish dumps." Jacques Bailet, president of the
French Federation of Food Banks (FFBA), also says there is a risk charities will not be able to cope. "Our food banks are going to
need more staff, more lorries, more refrigerated rooms. But to get all that, we will need money - and money is pretty scarce these
days," he says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33907737
A respeito dos planos de introduzir uma lei sobre alimentos não comercializados em supermercados franceses, considere as seguintes afirmativas: 1.Os supermercados franceses serão proibidos de destruir a comida não vendida. 2.A comida não vendida deve ser doada a instituições de caridade. 3.Os varejistas veem essa nova lei muito positivamente pois diminui o desperdício de alimentos. 4.Mercados com mais de 400 metros quadrados devem submeter-se à nova lei. Assinale a alternativa correta.
Read the text below and answer the questions that
follow.
Telecommuting, which is growing in popularity, allows
employees to avoid long commutes.
“Brring,” the alarm startles you out of a deep sleep. It's
8 a.m. on Monday morning. Time to head to the office.
You roll out of bed, brush your teeth and stumble your
way to the kitchen to grab some coffee.
Moments later, you head to the office, still wearing
your pajamas and fluffy slippers. Luckily for you, you
don't have to go far – you work at home.
Telecommuting, or working at home, has grown in
popularity over the last 20 years.
On an increasing basis, workers are saying “no” to
long commutes and opting to work at home. In fact,
the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of
employees working from home grew by 23 percent
from 1990 to 2000
Telecommuting workers revel in making their own
schedule – allowing them to schedule work around
family and personal commitments. With the ready
availability of technology tools, like the Internet and
home computers, companies are more willing to let
employees work from home.
How Telecommuting Works
(Adapte dfrom :
The technology tools mentioned in the text refer to:
Read the text below and answer the questions that
follow.
Telecommuting, which is growing in popularity, allows
employees to avoid long commutes.
“Brring,” the alarm startles you out of a deep sleep. It's
8 a.m. on Monday morning. Time to head to the office.
You roll out of bed, brush your teeth and stumble your
way to the kitchen to grab some coffee.
Moments later, you head to the office, still wearing
your pajamas and fluffy slippers. Luckily for you, you
don't have to go far – you work at home.
Telecommuting, or working at home, has grown in
popularity over the last 20 years.
On an increasing basis, workers are saying “no” to
long commutes and opting to work at home. In fact,
the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of
employees working from home grew by 23 percent
from 1990 to 2000
Telecommuting workers revel in making their own
schedule – allowing them to schedule work around
family and personal commitments. With the ready
availability of technology tools, like the Internet and
home computers, companies are more willing to let
employees work from home.
How Telecommuting Works
(Adapte dfrom :
According to the text, telecommuting refers to:
The passive voice in the excerpt “Until recently, it had been considered a laughably inappropriate destination for a motherdaughter trip.” (lines 16–17) is being used because the agent:
The most suitable title for the New York Times text, bearing in mind its overall communicative function, is “Rio:
