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1- According to the Brazilian Federal Constitution, article 37, item XXI: “With
the exception of the cases specified in law, public works, services, purchases
and disposals shall be contracted by public bidding proceedings that ensure
equal conditions to all bidders, with clauses that establish payment obligations,
maintaining the effective conditions of the bid, as the law provides, which shall
only allow the requirements of technical and economic qualifications
indispensable to guarantee the fulfilling of the obligations.” The regulatory law
is Law Number 8666, 21st June, 1993.
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Based on the above text, judge the following items about biddings regulated by
Law Number 8666, 21st June, 1993.
1) CESPE/TCU/2007
___ In a public bidding, all conditions being the same, Brazilian companies
have preference over foreign ones if there is a tie.
COMENTÁRIO
Essa prova tá interessante!!!!! A prova é “2 em 1”: vamos estudar inglês e
vamos revisar a Lei 8.666 – cool, isn’t it?! ☺
GABARITO: CERTA
2)CESPE/TCU/2007
__Public companies are exempt from the bidding process.
COMENTÁRIO
O texto traz um rol das entidades que estão sujeitas à lei, e, entre elas
menciona as empresas públicas.
“…entities subject to the law: … all public companies, including those with
private participation…”
Assim, as empresas públicas não estão isentas (are not exempt) do processo
de licitação.
GABARITO: ERRADA
3)CESPE/TCU/2007
__ Only bidders are allowed in all of the bidding process.
COMENTÁRIO
Precisamos entender que All= todos(as) e Only = (somente )
“…article 3 states that all the bidding process is open to the public
GABARITO: ERRADA
4)CESPE/TCU/2007
__ By no means shall any bids be expressed in foreign currency.
COMENTÁRIO
Pessoal, a dificuldade seria saber o significado da expressão
“by no means”, que significa de modo nenhum.
Watch out! cuidado para não confundir, na hora do cansaço, by no means com
by all means! A troca de “no” por “all” torna as frases de sentido oposto!!!
5)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ Contracts to deal with emergency situations may be awarded without a
bidding process.
COMENTÁRIO
Guys, o texto traz que a licitação não é obrigatória ( bidding is not mandatory
) em algumas situações, às quais se inclui situações de emergência em que
pessoas ou instalações estejam em risco. Article 24 =Artigo 24
Verifique:
Resumindo:
mandatory = obrigatório e
not mandatory = não obrigatório
GABARITO: CERTA
6)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ However low a price bid may be, it still may not be the winner if technical
factors are not up to standards.
COMENTÁRIO
Ok, o fator preço (baixo) é uma das condicionalidades para se ganhar uma
licitação; porém, de acordo com o texto, fatores técnicos podem também
definir o vencedor, veja:
“Article 45 states that, besides the price bid, technical factors may also
define the winner”
A alternative diz : ainda que o valor da proposta seja baixo, ela poderá não
ser a vencedora caso os fatores técnicos não atendam os padrões exigidos.
GABARITO: CERTA
7)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ The Portuguese word for public biddings is alienações.
COMENTÁRIO
GABARITO: ERRADA
8)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ “shall” ( line 3 ) can be correctly replaced by might.
COMENTÁRIO
Pessoal, shall nesta questão é similar à should. É um Modal verb e tem o
sentido de should (uma recomendação - forte)
Já might = may expressa possibilidade
Falaremos de mais modais nas aulas!!
GABARITO: ERRADA
9)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ “those” ( line 21 ) refers to “public companies”.
COMENTÁRIO
Guys, a banca LOVE este tipo de questão que tem um pronome e pergunta o
que esse pronome retoma.
Vamos nos preparer para ela!
GABARITO: CERTA
10)CESPE/TCU/2007
___“others” (3rd paragraph) stands for other big businesses.
COMENTÁRIO
• OTHERS= outros
Vamos analisar o trecho:
“…(this means that big businesses like PETROBRAS, Banco do Brasil and others
are subject to the law)...”
O importante aqui é saber que like neste contexto não é verbo gostar. Like
aqui é = como (por exemplo). Então, o texto traz Petrobrás, Banco do Brasil e
others (= outros) como exemplos de “big businesses”
GABARITO: CERTA
11)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ “premises” ( line 32 ) means the building and land that a business or
organization uses.
COMENTÁRIO
Vocabulary, guys!!! “Premises” = prédio/ edifício/instalações. O conceito de
“premise” não inclui “land” (= terra). Tinhosa essa!!
GABARITO: ERRADA
12)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ “besides” ( line 40 ) can be correctly replaced by in addition to.
COMENTÁRIO
Perfeita, pessoal! “Besides” = “in addition to” = além de (ademais). Esses
sentence connectors aparecem em todas !!!!!!! Veremos mais sentences
connectors nas próximas aulas!!
GABARITO: CERTA
CESPE/TCU/2008
Text 2
Around the world the public sector is under siege: taxpayers everywhere want
better, cheaper government. The message is simple: tinkering with the system
is not good enough. What’s needed is a complete reinvention of government.
Since the federal government initiated the National Performance Review in
1993, by most accounts progress has been uneven in the implementation of
the approaches developed. The report notes that public confidence in the
federal government has never been lower. The average citizen believes 48
cents of every tax dollar are wasted. Five of every six strongly want
“fundamental change”. Only 20% of the people trust the federal government to
do the right thing most of the time — down from 76 per cent thirty years ago.
The national debt now exceeds $ 4 trillion — $ 16,600 for every man, woman,
and child. There is enormous unseen waste. The Audit Department has found
that the Defense Department owns more than $ 40 billion in unnecessary
supplies. The Internal Revenue Service struggles to collect billions of unpaid
bills. A century after industry replaced farming as the country’s principal
source of wealth creation, the Agriculture Department still operates more than
12,000 field service offices, an average of nearly four for every county in the
nation — rural, urban, or suburban.
And yet, waste is not the only problem. The federal government is not simply
broke; it is broken. Ineffective regulation of the financial industry brought us
the Savings and Loan debacle. Ineffective education and training programs
jeopardize our competitive edge. Ineffective welfare and housing programs
undermine our families and cities.
The conclusion was that the US is suffering the deepest crisis of faith in
government in memory. In past crises, people doubted their leaders on moral
grounds. They felt their government was deceiving them or failing to represent
values. Today’s crisis is different: people
simply feel the government doesn’t work.
Don Tapscott. The digital economy: promise & peril in the age of networked intelligence
(adapted).
13)CESPE/ TCU/2008
___ All over the world the public sector is besieged by those who pay taxes.
COMENTARIO
Questão de vocabulário! O examinador parafraseou, na alternativa, a 1ª frase
do texto.
Veja:
GABARITO: CERTA
COMENTARIO
Outra de vocabulário! Você irá perceber que o CESPE gosta de reescrever
trechos do texto com sinôminos.
Veja o trecho:
“The report notes that public confidence in the federal
government has never been lower.’
GABARITO: CERTA
___ Most people believe that near half a cent of each dollar is badly spent.
COMENTÁRIO
Use scanning: vá ao texto e procure a informação específica! Ache a palavra
cent e sublinhe toda a frase. Então, compare-a com a assertiva.
Vamos lá?
“The average citizen believes 48 cents of every tax dollar are wasted…”
GABARITO: ERRADA
___ More than eighty percent of the people hunger for basic changes.
COMENTÁRIO
Guys, guys, não deixem o cansaço pegar vocês. A questão é simples, mas
cuidado para não cair na pegadinha! Não tire conclusões apressadas baseada
nos “...only 20%...” do texto, ok? Sempre que ler textos com muitos números,
tente destaca-los para localizá-los com rapidez ao retornar ao texto.
Veja o texto:
“Five of every six strongly want “fundamental change”. Only 20% of the people
trust the federal government to do the right thing most of the time..”
O texto diz que cinco em cada seis (pessoas está implícito) realmente querem
mudança essencial. Isso concorda com a assertiva, que afirma que mais de
oitenta por cento das pessoas buscam famigeradamente (=hunger ) uma
mudança básica.
GABARITO: CERTA
___ the Internal Revenue Service has now succeeded in getting back billions of
the existing debt.
COMENTÁRIO
People, a assertiva e o trecho do texto trazem palavras de sentido oposto.
GABARITO: ERRADA
___ today, the main source of wealth creation lies in the agricultural
activities.
COMENTÁRIO
Atenção ao vocabulário:
GABARITO: ERRADA
Text 3
• explicit provision is made to account for the income and expenses (often
through a trust fund);
• it is funded by taxes or premiums paid by (or on behalf of) participants
(although additional sources of funding may be provided as well); and
19) VLADIA/INÉDITA/2012
COMENTÁRIO:
GABARITO: ERRADA
Texto 4
Pre-salt
The discoveries made in the Pre-Salt raise us to a new level of reserves and oil
production, ranking us in a prominent position among the major energy
companies.
With the experience they have acquired developing fields nestled in deep
waters, our technicians are now ready to develop the accumulations discovered
in the pre-salt.
To this end, they are already adapting the technology and the logistics the
company developed through the years. The goal is to achieve, by 2017, a daily
production in excess of a million barrels of oil in the Pre-Salt areas we operate.
www.petrobras.com(adapted)
20) VLADIA/INÉDITA/2012
____In paragraph 2, the word “they” refers to technicians
COMENTÁRIO
E aí, já estão familiarizados esses assuntos! Hopefully YES!! Trabalharemos
muitos assuntos relacionados ao seu concurso para deixá-los
AFIADÍSSIMOS .
Vamos à questão:
Já notei que a banca de nossa prova gosta de cobrar o termo que os pronomes
retomam, that’s why pensei nesta questão. O parágrafo 2 é uma frase só e
está invertida. A ordem correta seria assim:
Our technicians are now ready to develop the accumulations discovered in
the pre-salt with the experience they have acquired developing fields nestled
in deep waters.
“They” retoma “technicians”.
GABARITO: CERTA
Word formation:
O bom sobre entender um pouco como as palavras são formadas nos ajuda
a “chutar” o significado de palavras desconhecidas. Falaremos de mais
sobre formação de palavras nas próximas aulas.
Sufixos:
Vocabulary Builder
Após a leitura de cada texto proposto em aula, faça um “Vocabulary
Builder” das palavras a ele relacionadas. Esse esquema ajuda
memorizar novas palavras.
citzen Tax
payers
Public
confidence values
GOVERNMENT
welfare
National wealth
debt
Espero que tenham gostado desta aula demonstrativa. Aguardo vocês na Aula
1 com muito mais!!. Continuaremos nas próximas aulas com muito mais!!!
Qualquer dúvida feel free para perguntar. Estou aqui for you. Pode contar
comigo!!!
Em seguida, vejam a lista de questões desta aula com o gabarito ‘seco’.
1- According to the Brazilian Federal Constitution, article 37, item XXI: “With
the exception of the cases specified in law, public works, services, purchases
and disposals shall be contracted by public bidding proceedings that ensure
equal conditions to all bidders, with clauses that establish payment obligations,
maintaining the effective conditions of the bid, as the law provides, which shall
only allow the requirements of technical and economic qualifications
indispensable to guarantee the fulfilling of the obligations.” The regulatory law
is Law Number 8666, 21st June, 1993.
The Law forbids preference to or differential treatment between Brazilian and
10-foreign companies. However, when local and foreign competitors offer
equivalent conditions in terms of price, quality and delivery time, the law
Based on the above text, judge the following items about biddings regulated by
Law Number 8666, 21st June, 1993.
1) CESPE/TCU/2007
___ In a public bidding, all conditions being the same, Brazilian companies
have preference over foreign ones if there is a tie.
2)CESPE/TCU/2007
__Public companies are exempt from the bidding process.
3)CESPE/TCU/2007
__ Only bidders are allowed in all of the bidding process.
4)CESPE/TCU/2007
__ By no means shall any bids be expressed in foreign currency.
COMENTÁRIO
5)CESPE/TCU/2007
Profa. Vladia Mattar www.pontodosconcursos.com.br 18
Curso On-Line Ponto dos Concursos
Inglês - ANP/ 2012
EXERCÍCIOS e TEORIA
Vladia Mattar
6)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ However low a price bid may be, it still may not be the winner if technical
factors are not up to standards.
7)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ The Portuguese word for public biddings is alienações.
8)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ “shall” ( line 3 ) can be correctly replaced by might.
9)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ “those” ( line 21 ) refers to “public companies”.
10)CESPE/TCU/2007
___“others” (3rd paragraph) stands for other big businesses.
11)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ “premises” ( line 32 ) means the building and land that a business or
organization uses.
12)CESPE/TCU/2007
___ “besides” ( line 40 ) can be correctly replaced by in addition to.
CESPE/TCU/2008
Text 2
Around the world the public sector is under siege: taxpayers everywhere want
better, cheaper government. The message is simple: tinkering with the system
is not good enough. What’s needed is a complete reinvention of government.
Since the federal government initiated the National Performance Review in
1993, by most accounts progress has been uneven in the implementation of
the approaches developed. The report notes that public confidence in the
federal government has never been lower. The average citizen believes 48
cents of every tax dollar are wasted. Five of every six strongly want
“fundamental change”. Only 20% of the people trust the federal government to
do the right thing most of the time — down from 76 per cent thirty years ago.
The national debt now exceeds $ 4 trillion — $ 16,600 for every man, woman,
and child. There is enormous unseen waste. The Audit Department has found
that the Defense Department owns more than $ 40 billion in unnecessary
Profa. Vladia Mattar www.pontodosconcursos.com.br 19
Curso On-Line Ponto dos Concursos
Inglês - ANP/ 2012
EXERCÍCIOS e TEORIA
Vladia Mattar
And yet, waste is not the only problem. The federal government is not simply
broke; it is broken. Ineffective regulation of the financial industry brought us
the Savings and Loan debacle. Ineffective education and training programs
jeopardize our competitive edge. Ineffective welfare and housing programs
undermine our families and cities.
The conclusion was that the US is suffering the deepest crisis of faith in
government in memory. In past crises, people doubted their leaders on moral
grounds. They felt their government was deceiving them or failing to represent
values. Today’s crisis is different: people
simply feel the government doesn’t work.
Don Tapscott. The digital economy: promise & peril in the age of networked intelligence
(adapted).
13)CESPE/ TCU/2008
___ All over the world the public sector is besieged by those who pay taxes.
___ Most people believe that near half a cent of each dollar is badly spent.
___ More than eighty percent of the people hunger for basic changes.
___ today, the main source of wealth creation lies in the agricultural
activities.
Text 3
• explicit provision is made to account for the income and expenses (often
through a trust fund);
• it is funded by taxes or premiums paid by (or on behalf of) participants
(although additional sources of funding may be provided as well); and
• the program serves a defined population, and participation is either
compulsory or the program is heavily enough subsidized that most
eligible individuals choose to participate.
19) VLADIA/INÉDITA/2012
Texto 4
Pre-salt
The discoveries made in the Pre-Salt raise us to a new level of reserves and oil
production, ranking us in a prominent position among the major energy
companies.
With the experience they have acquired developing fields nestled in deep
waters, our technicians are now ready to develop the accumulations discovered
in the pre-salt.
To this end, they are already adapting the technology and the logistics the
company developed through the years. The goal is to achieve, by 2017, a daily
production in excess of a million barrels of oil in the Pre-Salt areas we operate.
www.petrobras.com(adapted)
20) VLADIA/INÉDITA/2012
____In paragraph 2, the word “they” refers to technicians
GABARITO
THE END.