{"id":763,"date":"2010-02-18T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=734"},"modified":"2010-02-18T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:00:22","slug":"reading-comprehension-series-business-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-series-business-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Comprehension Series: Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

For today’s reading comprehension activity, we’re going to take a look at an article from VEJA Magazine about the Brazilian state-run oil company, Petrobras.<\/p>\n

Petrobras volta a importar gasolina ap\u00f3s 40 anos<\/a><\/p>\n

“Ap\u00f3s quarenta anos de autonomia, a Petrobras voltou a importar gasolina. Prejudicada pela crise do etanol, a estatal foi obrigada a comprar o combust\u00edvel da Venezuela, que j\u00e1 recebeu encomendas futuras.”<\/p>\n

[Click the link above to read the full article]<\/p>\n

1. What did Petrobras have to import? Where did it import the product from?
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2. How many barrels of the product did Petrobras buy? When will the product arrive in Brazil?
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3. What two factors negatively affected the production of this product in Brazil?<\/em><\/p>\n

Answers after the jump.<\/p>\n

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Answers<\/p>\n

1. Ethanol; Venezuela<\/p>\n

2. 2 million; in February<\/p>\n

3. Heavy rains that hurt the sugarcane crop; the high price of sugar on the international market, which lowered demand for ethanol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For today’s reading comprehension activity, we’re going to take a look at an article from VEJA Magazine about the Brazilian state-run oil company, Petrobras. Petrobras volta a importar gasolina ap\u00f3s 40 anos “Ap\u00f3s quarenta anos de autonomia, a Petrobras voltou a importar gasolina. Prejudicada pela crise do etanol, a estatal foi obrigada a comprar o…<\/p>\n

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