Questões: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC - RJ) — com gabarito

In the fragments “Organisations funding bakeries and local councils were forced to rely on him to transfer hard currency into Eastern Ghouta.” (lines 57-59)” and “The government has financed its huge deficits by printing money and eating up its foreign reserves.” (lines 85-87), rely on and eat up mean, respectively,

The authors, in the original publication of this text, used the following paragraph to support one of their arguments. “As the fighting dragged on, many of Syria’s big businessmen fled, moving their assets abroad. Those who remained, mostly the owners of smaller firms, have filled the vacuum. The services they provide vary, but most involve facilitating the flow of goods into regime-held areas. Others have helped the regime skirt sanctions, establishing front companies that import fuel, food and luxury items.”

This paragraph fits in immediately before the paragraph that starts in

Based on the opening lines of the text “Many Brexiteers built their campaign on optimism. Outside the European Union, Britain would be free to open up to the world. But what secured their victory was anger” (lines 1-4), one can infer that

The fragment “If they cannot find a voice within the mainstream, they will make themselves heard from without.” (lines 15-16) means that, in case enraged people cannot find representation within the mainstream, they

Francis Fukuyama is mentioned in Paragraph 4 (lines 21-31) because he

The fragment “It was liberalism’s greatest triumph, but it also engendered a narrow, technocratic politics obsessed by process” (lines 27-29) is structured by

In the fragments “The move to a flawed European currency … led to stagnation and unemployment and is driving Europe apart.” (lines 35-38) and “When Mr. Trump called for protectionism this week” (lines 60-61), “driving apart” and “called for” mean, respectively

The fragment “But many factory workers who have lost their jobs have been unable to find a decently paid replacement.” (lines 46-48) is correctly paraphrased in

Based on the meanings of the words in the article, it can be said that

The option in which the phrase in bold is correctly explained is

In paragraph 7 (lines 49-58), the author blames politicians because they were NOT

In the fragment “…almost no politician has been willing to make the full-throated case for trade liberalisation…” (lines 63-65) the expression “make the full-throated case” means

The expression in bold and the item in italics convey equivalent ideas in

The fragment “Sooner than curb numbers, governments should first invest in schools, hospitals and housing.” (lines 104-106) expresses an idea of

The author claims that “Without their ideas, and their energy, Britain would be much the poorer” (lines 109-111) given to the fact that migrants

In the fragment “That rekindled an interest in markets.” (line 118), “That” refers to the fact that

The communicative intention of paragraph 13 (lines 119-124) is to