Questões de Concurso

Regarding text III, judge whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E).  

The author of the text considers that, more than the competence of the applicants or their nationality, it is their political connections — who they know — that has the greatest impact on their chance of being recruited for international jobs.

Based on text II, judge whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E).

In “for them the familiar appearance” (third sentence of second paragraph), “them” refers to the people the book is meant for: “those who look for bearings in a new field”.

Based on text II, judge whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E).

It can be correctly concluded from the excerpt “Praise is so much duller than criticism” (ninth sentence of the first paragraph) that the author wishes to write a book criticizing what he considers “monstrosities”.

Based on text II, judge whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E).

The excerpt “lest the well-known masterpieces be crowded out by my own personal favourites” (second sentence of the second paragraph) could be, maintaining the coherence and correctness of the original, correctly replaced with to avoid leaving the well-known masterpieces out to fill the book with my own personal favourites.  

Based on text II, judge whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E).

In the last sentence of the text, the word “dog” has a similar meaning to trouble.