Oxford can be said to be a city which ostentatiously exhibits its treasures.
The relative pronoun “that” (R.6) can be correctly replaced by whose.
Read the text below entitled "Facing headwinds, Dilma changes course" so as to answer questions 46 and 47:
Facing headwinds, Dilma changes course Source: www.economist.com (Adapted) Aug 18th, 2012
The government announces plans to privatise infrastructure, and disappoints striking bureaucrats. In recent years Brazil's government has been able to avoid tough spending choices. Faster economic growth and falling tax evasion have translated into steadily rising revenues, allowing the federal government to hire more workers and pay them more, as well as to boost pensions and social transfers. But the fat times are over. In 2011 economic growth was only 2.7%; this year 2% looks optimistic. Tax revenues are rising only a little faster than infl ation. The government can no longer satisfy everyone. The noisiest demands come from public-sector workers. Teachers at federal universities have been on strike for three months; they have recently been joined by federal police, tax offi cials and staff at some regulatory agencies. The strikers'demands would swell the government's salary bill by up to 50%; infl ation is running at 5.2%.
According to paragraph 1,
Why have other principal languages been demoted and degraded in relation to English according to the text (second paragraph)?
Which is the correct sequence of the five words missing in the seventh paragraph?
Choose the following alternative in which the relative pronoun cannot be left out:
Choose the following alternative in which the relative pronoun can be left out:
Which of the options below is not an example of homophones?
In the sentence “Except for a brief turndown during the recession, those numbers have been rising (…)"
(line 14), the preposition “except for" is synonymous with:
Leia o e-mail e responda as questões 38 e 39.
November 26, 2010
Mr. James G. Webb
Delon Hampton & Associates
800 K Street, N.W., Suite 720
Washington, DC 20001-8000
Dear Mr. Webb:
Thank you so much for taking time from your busy
schedule to meet with me on Tuesday. It was very helpful to me
to learn so much about the current projects of Delon Hampton
& Associates and the career paths of several of your staff. I
appreciate your reviewing my portfolio and encouraging my
career plans. I also enjoyed meeting Beth Ormond, and am glad
to have her suggestions on how I can make the most productive
use of my last semester prior to graduation.
Based on what I learned from my visit to your firm and
other research I have done, I am very interested ____ being
considered for employment with DHA in the future. I will be
available to begin work after I graduate in May 2011. As you
saw from my portfolio, I have developed strong skills in the area
of historical documentation and this is a good match for the
types of projects in which your firm specializes. I have enclosed
a copy of my resume to serve as a reminder of my background,
some of _____ I discussed with you when we met.
During the next few months I will stay in contact with you
in hopes that there may be an opportunity to join your firm.
Thank you again for your generous help, and I hope you are
enjoying a pleasant holiday.
Sincerely,
Kristin Walker
23 Roanoke Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Fonte:www.career.vt.edu
Complete a oração retirada do e-mail acima com uma das opções. “I am very interested ____ being considered for employment…”
The underlined word in “Governments have always been keen to achieve results” (lines 1 and 2) can be replaced by
