Considering the sentence "Frequent travel and stepped-up job requirements had resulted in overstretched teams whose effectiveness had become diminished." (lines 78-81), all of the following statements are true, EXCEPT
"The agency model presumes the employer is able to accurately measure employee performance. Yet measuring performance is always difficult, and in knowledge work it is especially difficult. If you have no real chance of observing, understanding, or attributing the results of employee work, you become much more dependent on employees' willingness to openly communicate the meaning of their work."
Robert Austin in http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/
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The authors use exemplification in many parts of the text in order to clarify their ideas. Mark the option that indicates the correct relationship between the examples and the issue being illustrated.
The author's communicative intention in Text III is to
The only correct conclusion we may derive from Text III is that, by 2030,
"Although predicting the future is always risky, we can be fairly certain of the general trends now expected in global population in the next few decades. The world will add billions to its population, through additions made almost exclusively in the world's poorer nations. This can only be expected, since developing countries already represent most of the world's population. These anticipated changes, that now seem almost inevitable, loom large as the backdrop against which today's policy choices are to be made, both in and out of government."
Global and U.S. National Population Trends - by Carl Haub Consequences. Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1995. ...
The rhetorical structure of the sentence %u201CThe rapid increase of the world%u2019s urban population coupled with the slowing growth of the rural population has led to a major redistribution of the population.%u201D (lines 31-33) can be correctly described as one of
"Nearly all population growth will be in the cities of developing countries, whose population will double to nearly 4 billion by 2030." (lines 4-6) The only option that CANNOT be considered an appropriate semantic equivalent for the sentence above is
In the sentence "World Urbanization Prospects: the 2005 Revision, prepared by the United Nations Population Division, presents estimates and projections of the number of people living in urban and rural areas for the period 1950- 2030." (lines 8-12), the words "prospects", "estimates" and "projections" can be suitably translated as, respectively,
The pairs below contain a fragment from Text III and a possible translation into Portuguese. Which CANNOT be considered a correct match?
