Questão 9592

• Banca: ESAF
• Órgão: MRE
• Ano: 2002
• Provas: ESAF - 2002 - MRE - Assistente de Chancelaria
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension; Verbos modais | Modal verbs; Verbos | Verbs

Read the text below in order to answer questions 16
to 20:

Brazil-UK Relations

Brazilian President Fernando Henrique
Cardoso paid a brief visit to the United Kingdom
on 27-28 October 2001, accepting a last minute
invitation by British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a
private meeting. The two leaders met at
Chequers, Buckinghamshire, and were joined by
former American President Bill Clinton.
During the meeting, Blair and Cardoso had
the opportunity to discuss current global affairs
issues such as the ongoing international
campaign against terrorism, the forthcoming
World Trade Organization meeting in Doha and
the reform of the United Nations Security Council.
Speaking to the press before departing for
France, President Cardoso stated that during the
meeting they had agreed on the need for
immediate reform of the UN Security Council so
that the "fate of countries is not decided by a small
group of nations, as it is today".

According to the Brazilian President, a small group of nations

• A. should get together in Doha.
• B. was supposed to meet in England.
• C. should make the major decisions.
• D. could be making the major decisions.
• E. has been making most decisions.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• No texto --> Speaking to the press before departing for France, President Cardoso stated that during the meeting they had agreed on the need for immediate reform of the UN Security Council so that the fate of countries is not decided by a small group of nations, as it is today.
  Tradução --> Em declarações à imprensa antes de partir para França, o presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso afirmou que durante a reunião eles tinham concordado com a necessidade de reforma imediata do Conselho de Segurança da ONU, de modo que o destino dos países não é decidido por um pequeno grupo de nações, como é hoje.
  Ou seja: a small group of nations has been making most decisions (um pequeno grupo de nações vem fazendo a maioria das decisões).
  Resposta: e

• "fate of countries is not decided by a small

  group of nations, as it is today". In other words, at the present moment, therefore is correct that it has been making most decisions.