Questões de Concursos Públicos - Inglês

The author of text 2 concludes the text with: 

Read the statements below:  I.The implemented sharing system consists in the company offering the government the largest percentage of oil has the right to extract. II.Pre-salt areas are divided between companies, as well as the revenues. III.The Brazilian government owns those companies. IV.The risk of investment lies on the company in the concession model. Select the correct alternative: 

"By 1996, with the establishment of new federal standards of air pollutants, tetraethyl ______________ to gasoline in the U.S." is suitably filled in with: 

Identify Downstream: Refining and Marketing type of text: 

Phrasal verbs are expressions made up of a verb with a preposition or adverb or both, that together act as a completely new verb with a meaning separate from those of the original words. Identify the appropriate phrasal verb, which covers the same meaning of to increase in (...) tetraethyl lead was added to gasoline in the United States in the 1920s in order to increase the octane: 

Choose the option, which the passive would be a better alternative, rather than the active form: 

The author of text 2 concludes the text with: 

Read the statements below: I.The implemented sharing system consists in the company offering the government the largest percentage of oil has the right to extract. II.Pre-salt areas are divided between companies, as well as the revenues. III.The Brazilian government owns those companies. IV.The risk of investment lies on the company in the concession model. Select the correct alternative: 

Verb +ing can be used as an adjective, as a progressive verb, a noun and an adverb, like in the examples: the winning team, I'm taking my brother to the airport tonight, People make a good living by local standards and She ran out of the room crying, respectively. The extract that presents the −ing form as an adverb is: 

Read the sentence: “After months of hard work, the team finally pulled off a successful campaign.” The expression "pulled off" means: