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FGV•
READ TEXT I AND ANSWER THE FIVE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW IT
TEXT I
National Assessment Reform: Core Considerations for Brazil
Education has been an integral part of Brazil’s success story. With expanded access to basic education and improvements in literacy rates, young Brazilians are entering today’s workforce with higher levels of education than previous generations. This educational progress has contributed to and benefited from the economic growth that helped improve living standards and, during the first decade of the millennium, lifted more than 29 million people out of poverty. Trend data from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) reveal that Brazil’s increasing school participation rates have been realised alongside progress in education quality. This is a remarkable achievement considering that many of the new students progressing through the education system come from disadvantaged backgrounds and often lack the socio-economic support that helps enable learning. Nevertheless, PISA also reveals that the overall performance of Brazil’s education system is well below the OECD average and other emerging economies, such as parts of China and the Russian Federation. One reason for this is Brazil’s high share of students who do not achieve baseline proficiency, or Level 2 in PISA. Results from PISA 2018 show that 50% of Brazilian students failed to reach Level 2 in reading, meaning they can only complete basic tasks. Brazil’s share of low-performers was even higher in Mathematics and Science (68% and 55%, respectively). At the other end of the spectrum, few students in Brazil were able to answer more difficult PISA questions, like inferring neutrality or bias in a text, which require skills that are increasingly important in today’s world. The new approach to education, set out in the BNCC, aims not only to ensure that all students achieve basic cognitive skills but also develop the higher-order skills needed to solve complex problems of everyday life.
Adapted from: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/333a6e20- en.pdf?expires=1728831657&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=CD292865CAA9F4B A019D2FE4378B5D2D
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( ) It is clear that accountants will need to do away with earlier core competencies.
( ) The impact of technology in accountancy tends to move more sluggishly than in areas like procurement.
( ) There was some fear earlier that accountants’ work would soon be taken over by automation.
The statements are, respectively,
Regarding the use of reading strategies, judge the statement below:
Scanning is an effective reading strategy when the
reader needs to quickly identify the overall gist of a text,
focusing on understanding the main ideas rather than
specific details.
Read the text to answer question.
No one who speaks English has any difficulty understanding the meaning of a sentence like ‘It’s warm in here’. We all recognise that it is a comment on the temperature in some place or other. But why it is being said, and what the speaker wishes to convey by saying it, depends entirely on two things: the context in which it is said and what the speaker wants people to understand (...) The meaning of language depends on where it occurs within a larger stretch of discourse, and thus the relationship that the different language elements have with what comes before and after them. In other words, speakers and writers have to be able to operate with more than just words and grammar; they have to be able to string utterances together.
Our ability to function properly in conversation or writing depends not only on reacting to the context in which we are using the language, but also on the relationship between words and ideas in longer texts.
Words can also mean more than one thing, for example, ‘book’ (= something to read, to reserve, a list of bets, etc.), ‘beat’ (= to win, to hit, to mix, e.g. an egg, the ‘pulse’ of music/a heart) and ‘can’ (= ability, permission, probability – and a container made of metal). Notice that, in these examples, not only can the same form have many meanings, but it can also be different parts of speech.
With so many available meanings for words and grammatical forms, it is the context the word occurs in which determines which of these meanings is being referred to. If we say, ‘I beat him because I ran faster than he did’, ‘beat’ is likely to mean won rather than physically assaulted or mixed (though there is always the possibility of ambiguity, of course).
(Harmer, 1998. Adaptado)
USP•
Judge the following items about the text above.
The presence of inverted commas (“) in “primitive” and “backward” indicate that the authors agree with the descriptions used by imperial authorities to define some specific peoples.
STM•
Industry, government and law enforcement agencies are in race to keep up with the vast cybercrime ecosystem, experts say, as cybercriminals and malicious actors increasingly exploit the digital economy. “The global law enforcement community is struggling with the sheer volume of cyber-related crimes,” Jürgen Stock, the Secretary-General of INTERPOL, said during the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Davos. “The crime statistics only go in one direction, which is up.”
HEG•
Read the text II in orderto answer item.
My name is Patrick. I ___________ on vacation to Brazii last Summer, and I ___________ in a five-star hotel in front of the beach in Rio de Janeiro.
I went to Rio by plane and I___________ a month there, I ___________ a lot of people and we____________a great time! I want to go back to Brazii as soon as possible.
According to text II, it's correct to say that the statements
are true, EXCEPT:
I- Who does this pencil belong to? Il- Who read a book last week? III- Where did your mother born? IV- What about are they talking? V- What fell on the floor yesterday?
Choose the correct option.
Idiom 1: Better late than never Idiom 2: go back to the drawing board Idiom 3: make a long story short
“Enjoy an Enchanting Holiday in the Maldives
Scattered across the Indian Ocean lie islands with the finest white sand beaches and clearest crystal blue waters. These are the MALDIVES! Over 1,000 coral islands. Temperatures here are always in the 80s. What can our holiday offer you?
Luxurious accommodation aboard the fabulous Orient Explorer. Water sports for the entire duration of your holiday. Drinks and entertainment included at no extra charge. Chauffeur-driven limousine to and from the airport. Combine this with another seven-night holiday in our opulent apartments at the Kelai Country Club.
Prices start from just £899 per person”.
(Available at: https://teach.files.bbci.co.uk/skillswise/en03text-e3-f-different-types-of-text.pdf – text specially adapted for this test)
Mark the correct statement about the genre of the text above.