Questões de Concurso

Match the terms in Column 1 with their correct definitions in Column 2.

Column 1 Terms

1. Transaction Cost Economics

2. Eclectic Paradigm

3. Institutional Voids

4. Global Value Chains

5. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

Column 2 Definitions

(_) The absence or underdevelopment of market-supporting institutions

(_) The system of cross-border production and distribution activities.

(_) A framework explaining why firms expand internationally based on OLI advantages.

(_) The costs associated with conducting and managing economic exchanges.

(_) The ownership of business operations in a foreign country.

Select the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

Study the sentences below and decide if they are true ( T ) or false ( F ), based on their grammatical accu racy, vocabulary use, and structural correctness.

(_) There are four prepositions missing in the final paragraph. The most appropriate sequence is: in; on; to; by.

(_) The sentence Hedging instruments are employed by firms to manage risks is correctly written in the Passive Voice.

(_) The word nearshoring, in the fifth paragraph, refers to moving production overseas.

(_) Mitigating transaction costs most nearly means reducing transaction costs.

(_) In the sixth paragraph, the expressions not only and but also, form a correlative conjunc tion pair used to connect two related ideas.

Select the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

Mark the alternative in which the word “rather” is used with the same meaning as in line 30.

False cognates are words with similar spelling or pronunciation in two languages, but with distinct meanings in current use. Regarding false cognates between English and Portuguese, mark T for the true statements and F for the false statements:

(__)The word "actually", in English, means "in fact" or "in truth", differing from the Portuguese word "atualmente".

(__)The word "pretend", in English, means "to feign" or "to simulate", differing from the Portuguese verb "pretender".

(__)The word "parents", in English, corresponds to relatives in general, including uncles and cousins, in equivalent use to the Portuguese term "parentes".

(__)The word "college", in English, corresponds to "colégio" in the sense of a secondary school of Basic Education, in equivalent use to the Portuguese term.

After analysis, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom:

About the previous text, judge the following item.

In the fragment "growing acceptance of technologies that blur the line between biology and machines" (second paragraph), the expression "blur the line" is used figuratively to indicate increasing integration between technological and biological systems.