Questões da Prova CESPE - 2004 - Instituto Rio Branco - Diplomata

The substitution of the phras e " slew of" (L.9) and the verb " boost" (L.19) by mess of and soar respectively would keep the same semantic and syntactic relations as those presented in the text

The expression " fret that su ch cases are the tip of a large iceberg" (l.13-14) means t h at many other similar cases have been found.

In the latest revelation, Dick Thornburgh, the man in charge of evaluating the failure of Wo rld-Com, issued hearsay evidence stating that, not only many other crooked dealings are to be attributed to broken telecoms company , but that it also deprived the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS) of great sums of dollars us i n g a tax device invented by KPMG, its auditor.

In the last revelation on January 26th, Dick Thornburgh, the man accredited to look into the breach of World-Com, reported that, as wel l as a slew of other false dealings for wh i ch the undermined telecoms companies are to be criticised, it als o defrauded the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) o f h eaps of dollars through a tax cover created by KPMG, its accountant.

In the latest revelation on 26th January, Dick Thornburgh, t h e man nominated to examine the fall of World-Co m, delivered a report saying that, as well as a lot of other dishones t transactions of which the insolvent telecoms company is blameworthy, it also swindled the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) out of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes by means of a t ax s h elter dishonestly invented by KPMG, its auditor.