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Quiz Concorso Segretari comunali e provinciali

MATERIA: INGLESE

Quesiti Risposta Multipla

4318 Leggere il brano e rispondere alla seguente domanda
The Facebook messages written by the Cambridge student Giulio Regeni in the weeks leading up to his murder give the lie to any notion he was a spy or political agitator. Even before he left England, Regeni was concerned about the risks he might face doing his thesis on trade unions in Egypt, a sensitive subject in the country. But the 28-year-old thought the worst that could happen would be for him to be deported before he could finish his research. Instead, he was snatched off the street and tortured and his semi-naked body dumped by the roadside in a brutal killing for which four Egyp??an security officials are due to stand trial in Italy in October. Enforced disappearances are a daily occurrence under Egypt's hardline president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. Regeni is unusual because he was a foreigner, an Italian PhD student at Girton College who moved to Cairo in September 2015 to work on a development studies thesis about independent trade unions. Things took a worrying turn when, at a meeting of union activists, Regeni spotted a veiled young woman taking his picture on her phone, which made him fear he was under surveillance. Nine days after that his body was found, dumped on the side of the Cairo-Alexandria highway. He had been tortured; beaten, burned and stabbed before his neck was broken after he was struck from behind with a heavy, blunt object. What followed was an apparent cover-up by the authori??es. President Sisi, in an interview with the Italian newspaper, La Repubblica, vowed to track down the culprits. Instead it was then claimed there had been a robbery by a gang, all now dead. But Italian investigators discovered phone records that showed the leader of the gang - all killed in a police shootout - was not even in Cairo at the time Regeni disappeared. They concluded the student's identity documents had been planted at one of their addresses. Since his death, Regeni has become a martyr - or shahid - for the disappeared in Sisi's Egypt. "That's why there's graffiti of him in Cairo," says Regeni's anonymous Facebook friend. "He is a representative figure of that."
Read the extract taken from The Guardian and then choose the correct option. Italian investigators found:

Regeni's documents were stolen from the gang leader's house. That the gang could not have murdered Regeni. That Regeni has become a martyr. That there were no police in Cairo when Regeni was murdered.

4367 Leggere il brano e rispondere alla seguente domanda President Biden and fellow Western leaders issued a confrontational declaration about Russian and Chinese government behaviour on Sunday, castigating Beijing over its internal repression, vowing to investigate the pandemic's origins, and excoriating Moscow for using nerve agents and cyberweapons. Concluding the first in-person summit meeting since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the leaders tried to present a unified front against a range of threats. But they disagreed about crucial issues, from timelines for halting the burning of coal to committing tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to challenge Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, China's overseas investment and lending push. Still, as they let Cornwall, almost all the participants welcomed a new tone as they began to repair the breaches from four years of dealing with Mr. Biden's predecessor, Donald J. Trump. The difference in tone was indeed striking: the last time the Group of 7 met in person, in Biarritz, France in 2019, its final communiqué never mentioned China and the United States dissented from all the commitments to confront the climate crisis. Then Mr. Trump withdrew American support from the gathering's final statement. This year's final communiqué called on China to restore the freedoms guaranteed to Hong Kong when Britain returned it to Chinese control, and condemned Mr. Putin's "destabilizing behavior and malign activities," including interfering with elections and a "systema??c crackdown" on dissidents and the media. Even as Mr. Biden successfully pushed his counterparts to embrace a more aggressive posture against autocracies, the group failed to reach agreement on key parts of the president's early foreign policy agenda. It did not settle on a timeline to eliminate the use of coal for generating electric power, and climate activists said that signaled a lack of resolve to confront one of the world's leading causes of global warming. And while the leaders called on China to respect "fundamental freedoms, especially in relation to Xinjiang," there was no agreement on banning Western participation in projects that benefited from forced labour. Instead, the effort to confront Beijing's human rights abuses ended with a vague declaration that the allies were setting up a working group to "identify areas for strengthened cooperation and collective efforts towards eradicating the use of all forms of forced labour in global supply chains." Read the extract taken from the New York Times and then choose the correct option. What is the purpose of this article?

To demonstrate that politicians cannot agree. To summarise the outcome of this year's summit. To criticise China and Russia. To describe why President Biden is better than President Trump.

4239 Complete the sentence with the most correct and proper option. "Mary snacks a lot... meals".

Up. Between. From. On.

4416 Complete the sentence with the most correct and proper option. "I'm a bit ... of money at the moment".

Slim. Short. Tall. Low.

4288 Fill in the blank with the correct option: Thank you for flying with us. We hope you had a pleasant ______ . We wish you a nice stay in Rome.

Traveller. Journey. Voyager. Flying.

4337 "Creative industries, including advertising, film and television production, product design, book and music publishing, the fine art and antiques markets have grown strongly in the last two decades. According to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, the creative economy accounts for 4.2% of the GDP". According to the text, what percentage of the GDP does the creative economy account for?

3%. 4.2%. 1.5%. 10%.

4386 Leggere il brano e rispondere alla seguente domanda
Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin auctioned off a seat on its upcoming first crewed spaceflight on Saturday for $28 million. The winning bidder, whose name wasn't released, will fly to the edge of space with the Amazon founder and his brother Mark on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket scheduled to launch on July 20. The company said it will reveal the name of the auction winner in the coming weeks. Bidding opened at $4.8 million but surpassed $20 million within the first few minutes of the auction. The auction's proceeds will be donated to Blue Origin's education-focused nonprofit Club for the Future, which supports kids interested in future STEM careers. New Shepard, a rocket that carries a capsule to an altitude of over 340,000 feet, has flown more than a dozen successful test flights without passengers, including one in April at the company's facility in the Texas desert. It's designed to carry up to six people and flies autonomously - without needing a pilot. The capsule has massive windows to give passengers a view of the earth below during about three minutes in zero gravity, before returning to Earth. Bezos and fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson are in a race to get to space, but each in different ways. Bezos' Blue Origin and Branson's Virgin Galactic are competing to take passengers on short flights to the edge of space, a sector known as suborbital tourism, while Musk's SpaceX is launching private passengers on further, multi-day flights, in what is known as orbital tourism. Blue Origin's auc??on may have netted $28 million, but a seat on a suborbital spacecraft is typically much less expensive. Virgin Galactic has historically sold reservations between $200,000 and $250,000 per ticket, and more recently charged the Italian Air Force about $500,000 per ticket for a training spaceflight. Musk's orbital missions are more costly than the suborbital flights, with NASA paying SpaceX about $55 million per seat for spaceflights to the ISS.
Read the extract taken from CNBC and then choose the correct option. Which of the following is NOT true about New Shepherd?

It has conducted more than 10 test flights without passengers. It has very large windows. It was designed by Jeff Bezos and his brother. It is self-flying.

4258 "Every year, the UN ranks countries according to the quality of life of their citizens. Each country is given a human development index (HDI) score. The score is calculated using criteria such as life expectancy, income and literacy levels. Most of the countries with a high HDI are located in the north of the hemisphere, whereas the countries with a low HDI are located in the south". According to the text, where are most countries with high HDI located?

Southern Hemisphere. Africa. Northern Hemisphere. Oceania.

4307 Which one of the following words is out of its context?

Salt. Paprika. Rug. Pepper.

4356 What is the best translation of: He has a shower every day.

Si faceva la doccia ogni giorno. Si fece la doccia ogni giorno. Si fa la doccia ogni giorno. Ha la doccia.

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