In text LI-II,

Read the text below in order to answer questions 21 to 23:

THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 2000

The proposed budget for 2000 is fully consistent with the four-year plan for 2000-03 ("Avança Brasil"), also submitted to Congress at the end of August 1999. This plan identifies the federal expenditure programmes that are to receive priority in the allocation of budgetary resources over the next four years, reflecting the main governmental objectives in the social, infrastructure and other public expenditure areas. It seeks to exploit regional and cross-projects synergies, and to attract partnerships with the other levels of government, the public enterprises, the multilateral development banks, and the private sector, to pro... Ver mais

A typical computer system provides a hierarchy of different types of memories for data storage. Consider the statements below.

I. The hard drive has a local data cache. Because the hard drive access speed is so much slower, disk access are normally done asynchronously at the hardware level. The hard drive controller will acknowledge the instruction right away, and will take sometime to populate the disk cache with the requested data block, and then, at a later time, raise an interrupt to notify the interested party that the data access is complete. This model of interrupt based data transfer is asynchronous.

II. The cache is made up of small chunks of mirrored main memory. The size of these chunks is called the line size, and is typically something like 32 or 64 byte... Ver mais

The use of “well” in the beginning of the sentence is a very common feature of cohesion in spoken discourse and is usually used for:

I softening and correcting.

II gaining time.

III referring to your own expectations.

IV indicating you don’t need any help.

The only correct ways to finish the assertion are: