{"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":"<p>For today&#8217;s reading comprehension activity, we&#8217;re going to take a look at an article from VEJA Magazine about the Brazilian state-run oil company, Petrobras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/veja.abril.com.br\/noticia\/brasil\/petrobras-volta-importar-gasolina-40-anos-533786.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Petrobras volta a importar gasolina ap\u00f3s 40 anos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Click the link above to read the full article]<\/p>\n<p><em>1. What did Petrobras have to import? Where did it import the product from?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2. How many barrels of the product did Petrobras buy? When will the product arrive in Brazil?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3. What two factors negatively affected the production of this product in Brazil?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Answers after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Answers<\/p>\n<p>1. Ethanol; Venezuela<\/p>\n<p>2. 2 million; in February<\/p>\n<p>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":"<p>For today&#8217;s reading comprehension activity, we&#8217;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 &#8220;Ap\u00f3s quarenta anos de autonomia, a Petrobras voltou a importar gasolina. Prejudicada pela crise do etanol, a estatal foi obrigada a comprar o&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-series-business-news\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1849],"tags":[1949,31,379368,379370,2383,2416,2447],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-economy","tag-brazil","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-learning","tag-petrobras","tag-practice","tag-reading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}