Questão 89197

• Banca: ESAF
• Órgão: MTE
• Ano: 2010
• Provas: ESAF - 2010 - MTE - Auditor Fiscal do Trabalho - Prova 1
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Companies in the rich world are confronted with a rapidly
ageing workforce. Nearly one in three American workers
will be over 50 by 2012, and America is a young country
compared with Japan and Germany. China is also ageing
rapidly, thanks to its one-child policy. This means that
companies will have to learn how to manage older workers
better.
Most companies are remarkably ill-prepared. There was a
fl icker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was
snuffed out by the recession. The management literature
on older workers is a mere molehill compared with the
mountain devoted to recruiting and retaining the young.
Companies are still stuck with an antiquated model for
dealing with ageing, which assumes that people should
get pay rises and promotions on the basis of age. They
have dealt with the burdens of this model by periodically
"downsizing" older workers or encouraging them to take
early retirement. This has created a dual labour market for
older workers, of cosseted insiders on the one hand and
unemployed or retired outsiders on the other.
But this model cannot last. The number of young people,
particularly those with valuable science and engineering
skills, is shrinking. And governments are raising retirement
ages and making it more diffi cult for companies to shed
older workers, in a desperate attempt to cope with their
underfunded pension systems.
Feb 4th 2010 | From The Economist print edition [adapted]

In paragraph 2, the author claims that the recent economic recession has

• A. awakened an interest in science and engineering among younger workers.
• B. caused the number of young people seeking jobs in business to increase.
• C. extinguished what little interest fi rms had shown in how to manage an older staff.
• D. made a mountain of business management out of a managerial molehill.
• E. led many fi rms to dismiss older workers in their periodic staff reductions.

Gabarito: C

Comentários

• Resposta: "c"
  
   There was a flicker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was snuffed out by the recession.
  
  
  snuffed out: no sentido de ter sido deixado de lado.

• Trecho do texto que demonstra que a alternativa "C" é a correta: "[...] This means that
  companies will have to learn how to manage older workers better. Most companies are remarkably ill-prepared. There was a
  flicker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was snuffed out by the recession. The management literature
  on older workers is a mere molehill compared with the mountain devoted to recruiting and retaining the young.[...]" 
  
  
   No n.º 2, o autor afirma que a recente recessão econômica tem:
  (a) despertado um interesse em ciência e engenharia entre os trabalhadores mais jovens.
  (b) fez com que o número de jovens que procuram emprego na área de negócios de aumentar .
  (c) extinguiu o pouco interesse que as firmas haviam mostrado na forma de gerir uma equipe mais madura.
  
  (d) transformou uma montanha de gestão de negócios com um montinho gerencial.
  (e) levaram muitas firmas a demitir os trabalhadores mais velhos em suas reduções periódicas de pessoal.
  
  

• c-

  There was a fl icker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was snuffed out by the recession.