Questões de Concurso
Comentadas sobre vocabulário | vocabulary em inglês
Foram encontradas 2.206 questões
Ano: 2014
Banca:
Quadrix
Órgão:
SERPRO
Prova:
Quadrix - 2014 - SERPRO - Analista - Desenvolvimento de Sistemas |
Q450025
Inglês
Texto associado
Eric Schmidt says encryption will help Google crack Chinese censorship and stop the NSA
By Rich McCormick on January 24, 2014 02:08 am Email
Eric Schmidt thinks encryption is the answer to many of the internefs problems. Google's executive chairman said last November that "encrypting everything" could "end government censorship in a decade." Now Schmidt says that in that same decade, encryption could "open up countries with strict censorship laws," giving their people "a voice."
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Schmidt said that Google was attempting to strengthen its encryption so the world's governments "won't be able to penetrate it" and obtain private data. Those efforts, Schmidt said, would create particular problems for "governments like China's," which he thought responsible for "80 to 85 percent of the world's industrial espionage." The Google chairman also said he saw the eventual relaxation of Chinese censorship over time as the number of people using social media in the country continued to grow.
Schmidt suggested the debate over the NSA surveillance scandal was good for the world, but also chastised the US government, saying "because you can do this monitoring does not mean you should do this monitoring." He was also asked his reaction to comments made by Microsoft that suggested non-US customers would be able to store their data outside of the US. "I don't understand it," was his reply.
(Disponível em www.theverge.com)
By Rich McCormick on January 24, 2014 02:08 am Email
Eric Schmidt thinks encryption is the answer to many of the internefs problems. Google's executive chairman said last November that "encrypting everything" could "end government censorship in a decade." Now Schmidt says that in that same decade, encryption could "open up countries with strict censorship laws," giving their people "a voice."
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Schmidt said that Google was attempting to strengthen its encryption so the world's governments "won't be able to penetrate it" and obtain private data. Those efforts, Schmidt said, would create particular problems for "governments like China's," which he thought responsible for "80 to 85 percent of the world's industrial espionage." The Google chairman also said he saw the eventual relaxation of Chinese censorship over time as the number of people using social media in the country continued to grow.
Schmidt suggested the debate over the NSA surveillance scandal was good for the world, but also chastised the US government, saying "because you can do this monitoring does not mean you should do this monitoring." He was also asked his reaction to comments made by Microsoft that suggested non-US customers would be able to store their data outside of the US. "I don't understand it," was his reply.
(Disponível em www.theverge.com)
In the expression "NSA surveillance", the word "surveillance" refers to:
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CETRO
Órgão:
AEB
Prova:
CETRO - 2014 - AEB - Assistente em C&T 3-I - Apoio Administrativo |
Q444271
Inglês
Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that rewrites it using a synonym to the underlined word.
Our nation is embarked on an ambitious space exploration program, and we owe it to the American taxpayers to get it right.
Our nation is embarked on an ambitious space exploration program, and we owe it to the American taxpayers to get it right.
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
ANATEL
Provas:
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Conhecimentos Básicos - Cargos 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 e 12
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CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Administração |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Direito |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Engenharia Civil |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Mídia Digital |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Contabilidade |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Economia |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Engenharia |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Direito |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Métodos Quantitativos |
Q432903
Inglês
Based on the text, judge the following items.
The term “hard-to-reach” (l.33) is an adverb which means incomprehensible.
The term “hard-to-reach” (l.33) is an adverb which means incomprehensible.
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
ANATEL
Provas:
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Conhecimentos Básicos - Cargos 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 e 12
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CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Administração |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Direito |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Engenharia Civil |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Mídia Digital |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Contabilidade |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Economia |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Engenharia |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Direito |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Métodos Quantitativos |
Q432902
Inglês
Based on the text, judge the following items.
In line 18, “unreel” indicates a type of optical fiber.
In line 18, “unreel” indicates a type of optical fiber.
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
ANATEL
Provas:
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Conhecimentos Básicos - Cargos 2, 3 e 6
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CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Conhecimentos Básicos - Cargos 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 e 12 |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Desenvolvimento de Sistemas |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Suporte e Infraestrutura de TI |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Administração |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Direito |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Analista Administrativo - Engenharia Civil |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Mídia Digital |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Contabilidade |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Economia |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Engenharia |
CESPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Direito |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2014 - ANATEL - Especialista em Regulação - Métodos Quantitativos |
Q432898
Inglês
Based on the text, judge the following items.
The word “average” (l.1) is used in the text as an expression related to time.
The word “average” (l.1) is used in the text as an expression related to time.
Ano: 2014
Banca:
IESES
Órgão:
GasBrasiliano
Prova:
IESES - 2014 - GasBrasiliano - Engenheiro de Gás Natural Júnior |
Q422683
Inglês
Complete the sentence: That milk will leave a __________ in the carpet.
Ano: 2014
Banca:
IESES
Órgão:
GasBrasiliano
Prova:
IESES - 2014 - GasBrasiliano - Engenheiro de Gás Natural Júnior |
Q422682
Inglês
The correct opposites for the words “hot” and “waste” are respectively:
Ano: 2014
Banca:
IESES
Órgão:
GasBrasiliano
Prova:
IESES - 2014 - GasBrasiliano - Engenheiro de Gás Natural Júnior |
Q422680
Inglês
Which alternative contains a correct correspondence of meaning?
Ano: 2014
Banca:
IESES
Órgão:
GasBrasiliano
Prova:
IESES - 2014 - GasBrasiliano - Engenheiro de Gás Natural Júnior |
Q422677
Inglês
The phrasal verb “make something up” is the same:
Ano: 2014
Banca:
FUNCAB
Órgão:
PRODAM-AM
Prova:
FUNCAB - 2014 - PRODAM-AM - Assistente de Hardware |
Q422615
Inglês
Texto associado
WELCOME!
And congratulations on your new purchase. You’re now entitled to an unsurpassed service and a number of benefits as part of the Ericsson warranty and service program. Your Ericsson mobile phone was designed to offer you the ultimate in quality, convenience and performance. And of course, we guarantee it. From now on, as the new owner of an Ericsson mobile phone, you’ll have access to a number of exclusive advantages such as: a vast network of Ericsson service centers; a limited 1 year warranty and service agreement, and a toll-free customer service hotline.
WARRANTY CONDITIONS
Dear Customer,
If your Ericsson product needs warranty service, you should send the product to any company authorized service facility. For information contact the store from which you purchased the product. The product in all cases must be accompanied by the following items: your name, address, telephone number, warranty card, bill of sale bearing the serial number, date of delivery, or reasonable proof of these dates, and a detailed description of the problem.
Our warranty
This warranty is extended by Ericsson Inc. (“The Company”) to the original purchaser for use only. Ericsson warrants this product to be free of defects in material and workmanship at the time of its original purchase and for the subsequent period of one (1) year. All accessories for the product are covered for a period of one (1) year fromthe date of purchase.
What we will do
If, during the period of warranty, this product proves defective under normal use and service due to improper materials or workmanship, the company will repair or replace the defective item with a new or factory rebuilt replacement.
(Taken from Ericsson - One yearWarranty and ServiceAgreement)
And congratulations on your new purchase. You’re now entitled to an unsurpassed service and a number of benefits as part of the Ericsson warranty and service program. Your Ericsson mobile phone was designed to offer you the ultimate in quality, convenience and performance. And of course, we guarantee it. From now on, as the new owner of an Ericsson mobile phone, you’ll have access to a number of exclusive advantages such as: a vast network of Ericsson service centers; a limited 1 year warranty and service agreement, and a toll-free customer service hotline.
WARRANTY CONDITIONS
Dear Customer,
If your Ericsson product needs warranty service, you should send the product to any company authorized service facility. For information contact the store from which you purchased the product. The product in all cases must be accompanied by the following items: your name, address, telephone number, warranty card, bill of sale bearing the serial number, date of delivery, or reasonable proof of these dates, and a detailed description of the problem.
Our warranty
This warranty is extended by Ericsson Inc. (“The Company”) to the original purchaser for use only. Ericsson warrants this product to be free of defects in material and workmanship at the time of its original purchase and for the subsequent period of one (1) year. All accessories for the product are covered for a period of one (1) year fromthe date of purchase.
What we will do
If, during the period of warranty, this product proves defective under normal use and service due to improper materials or workmanship, the company will repair or replace the defective item with a new or factory rebuilt replacement.
(Taken from Ericsson - One yearWarranty and ServiceAgreement)
The verb REPAIR in “the company will repair or replace the defective item with a new or factory rebuilt replacement”means:
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
Câmara dos Deputados
Prova:
CESPE - 2014 - Câmara dos Deputados - Analista Legislativo - Consultor de Orçamento e Fiscalização Financeira |
Q420824
Inglês
Texto associado
According to the text above, judge the following item.
According to the text above, judge the following item.
Without changing the meaning of the text, the fragment “explains the basic rationale for instituting controls rather straightforwardly” (L.16-17) could be correctly replaced with explains a common-sense approach to retain control instead of simply handing it over.
Q418804
Inglês
Texto associado
This (Illegal) American Life
By Maria E. Andreu
My parents came to New York City to make their fortune when I was a baby. Irresponsible and dreamy and in their early 20s, they didn't think things through when their visa expired; they decided to stay just a bit longer to build up a nest egg.
But our stay got progressively longer, until, when I was 6, my grandfather died in South America. My father decided my mother and I should go to the funeral and, with assurances that he would handle everything, sat me down and told me I'd have a nice visit in his boyhood home in Argentina, then be back in America in a month.
I didn't see him for two years.
We couldn't get a visa to return. My father sent us money from New Jersey, as the months of our absence stretched into years. Finally, he met someone who knew "coyotes" - people who smuggled others into the U.S. via Mexico. He paid them what they asked for, and we flew to Mexico City.
They drove us to the Mexican side of the border, and left us at a beach. Another from their operation picked us up there and drove us across as his family. We passed Disneyland on our way to the airport, where we boarded the plane to finally rejoin my father.
As a child, I had thought coming back home would be the magical end to our troubles, but in many ways it was the beginning. I chafed at the strictures of undocumented life: no social security number meant no public school (instead I attended a Catholic school my parents could scarcely afford); no driver's license, no after-school job. My parents had made their choices, and I had to live with those, seeing off my classmates as they left on a class trip to Canada, or packing to go off to college, where 1 could not go.
The year before I graduated from high school, Congress passed the amnesty law of 1987. A few months after my 18th birthday, I became legal and what had always seemed a blank future of no hope suddenly turned dazzling with possibility.
When I went for my interview at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the caseworker looked at me quizzically when he heard me talk in unaccented English and joke about current events. Surely this American teenager did not fit in with the crowd of illegals looking to make things right.
At the time, I was flattered. His confusion meant I could pass as an American.
(Newsweek, October 2f 2008. Page 12.)
In "They decided to stay a bit longer to build up a nest egg" NESTEGG is a/an
Q418803
Inglês
Texto associado
This (Illegal) American Life
By Maria E. Andreu
My parents came to New York City to make their fortune when I was a baby. Irresponsible and dreamy and in their early 20s, they didn't think things through when their visa expired; they decided to stay just a bit longer to build up a nest egg.
But our stay got progressively longer, until, when I was 6, my grandfather died in South America. My father decided my mother and I should go to the funeral and, with assurances that he would handle everything, sat me down and told me I'd have a nice visit in his boyhood home in Argentina, then be back in America in a month.
I didn't see him for two years.
We couldn't get a visa to return. My father sent us money from New Jersey, as the months of our absence stretched into years. Finally, he met someone who knew "coyotes" - people who smuggled others into the U.S. via Mexico. He paid them what they asked for, and we flew to Mexico City.
They drove us to the Mexican side of the border, and left us at a beach. Another from their operation picked us up there and drove us across as his family. We passed Disneyland on our way to the airport, where we boarded the plane to finally rejoin my father.
As a child, I had thought coming back home would be the magical end to our troubles, but in many ways it was the beginning. I chafed at the strictures of undocumented life: no social security number meant no public school (instead I attended a Catholic school my parents could scarcely afford); no driver's license, no after-school job. My parents had made their choices, and I had to live with those, seeing off my classmates as they left on a class trip to Canada, or packing to go off to college, where 1 could not go.
The year before I graduated from high school, Congress passed the amnesty law of 1987. A few months after my 18th birthday, I became legal and what had always seemed a blank future of no hope suddenly turned dazzling with possibility.
When I went for my interview at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the caseworker looked at me quizzically when he heard me talk in unaccented English and joke about current events. Surely this American teenager did not fit in with the crowd of illegals looking to make things right.
At the time, I was flattered. His confusion meant I could pass as an American.
(Newsweek, October 2f 2008. Page 12.)
I n "I was flattered. His confusion meant I could pass as an American." FLATTERED is
Q418800
Inglês
The ad contains a/an
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDF
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2014 - SEDF - Estudantes Universitários |
Q417537
Inglês
Based on the text above, judge the following items.
The expression “Along with exercise” (l.15) can be correctly replaced with As well as exercising.
The expression “Along with exercise” (l.15) can be correctly replaced with As well as exercising.
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDF
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2014 - SEDF - Estudantes Universitários |
Q417527
Inglês
Judge the following items according to the text above.
“non-Western societies” (l.17) and “Elsewhere in the world” (l.15) refer, in the text, to basically the same thing.
“non-Western societies” (l.17) and “Elsewhere in the world” (l.15) refer, in the text, to basically the same thing.
Ano: 2014
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
DESENVOLVE-SP
Prova:
VUNESP - 2014 - DESENVOLVESP - Analista - Grupo 6 |
Q405865
Inglês
Texto associado
[…]
For mobile computers and telephones, cellular radio is the up-and-coming technology. GSM, CDPD, and CDMA are widely used.
The IEEE 802 LANs are: CSMA/CD, token bus, and token ring. Each of these has its own unique advantages and disadvantages, and each has found its own user community and will probably continue to serve that community for years to come. Convergence to a single LAN standard is an unlikely event. A new addition to this family is DQDB, being sold as a MAN in many cities.
An organization with multiple LANs often connects them with bridges. When a bridge connects two or more different kinds of LANs, new problems arise, some of them insoluble.
[…]
(Extraído de: Computer Networks, A.S. Tanenbaum, 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, pg. 335)
For mobile computers and telephones, cellular radio is the up-and-coming technology. GSM, CDPD, and CDMA are widely used.
The IEEE 802 LANs are: CSMA/CD, token bus, and token ring. Each of these has its own unique advantages and disadvantages, and each has found its own user community and will probably continue to serve that community for years to come. Convergence to a single LAN standard is an unlikely event. A new addition to this family is DQDB, being sold as a MAN in many cities.
An organization with multiple LANs often connects them with bridges. When a bridge connects two or more different kinds of LANs, new problems arise, some of them insoluble.
[…]
(Extraído de: Computer Networks, A.S. Tanenbaum, 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, pg. 335)
Considerando o contexto, o termo grifado em “… new problems arise…” pode ser traduzido como:
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
Instituto Rio Branco
Prova:
CESPE - 2014 - Instituto Rio Branco - Diplomata - Prova 2 |
Q391746
Inglês
Based on the article (text 3), decide if the items are right (C) or wrong (E).
“bungling” (L.29) can be replaced by recovery without changes in the original meaning of the sentence.
“bungling” (L.29) can be replaced by recovery without changes in the original meaning of the sentence.
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESGRANRIO
Órgão:
EPE
Prova:
CESGRANRIO - 2014 - EPE - Assistente Administrativo - Apoio Administrativo |
Q389533
Inglês
Texto associado
Texto I
The meaning of groundbreaking new programs (line 40) in Text I can be replaced, without change in meaning, by programs that
Ano: 2014
Banca:
CESGRANRIO
Órgão:
EPE
Prova:
CESGRANRIO - 2014 - EPE - Assistente Administrativo - Apoio Administrativo |
Q389532
Inglês
Texto associado
Texto I
The meaning of to pursue renewable energy (line 37) in Text I can be replaced, without change in meaning, by to
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