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Para responder às questões de números 9 a 13, considere o texto a seguir.
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Responsible state fiscal policy requires more than just balancing the current year’s budget. It must also include ensuring that the budget is on a sustainable path. Otherwise, policymakers cannot have the lasting impact they hope for. This risk is especially high in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Record budget surpluses, driven largely by federal pandemic aid, empowered states to adopt historically large tax cuts and spending increases from 2021 to 2023.
State leaders must be able to assess whether their decisions will be affordable over the long term or will jeopardize their ability to solve state problems or even sustain programs and services in the future. Unfortunately, the nature of state budget processes discourages such long-term thinking. State policymakers devote much of their time to developing, enacting, and implementing annual or biennial budgets, a prime opportunity to achieve immediate policy goals.
One key strategy for changing this short-term focus is for states to use long-term budget assessments and budget stress tests to regularly measure risks, anticipate potential shortfalls, and identify ways to address impending challenges. Long-term budget assessments project revenue and spending several years into the future, and stress tests estimate the size of temporary budget shortfalls that would result from recessions or other economic events and gauge whether states are prepared for these events.
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QUESTÃO
Considering the ideas conveyed in the previous text, as well as its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
The word “gauge”, in the last sentence of the text, has a similar meaning as the one of estimate.
Certo
Errado
🔐 Gabarito (clique para revelar)
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
A banca pede julgamento semântico do termo “gauge” no último período do texto. O verbo aparece no contexto de budget stress tests, indicando a ação de avaliar ou medir a capacidade dos estados de enfrentar choques econômicos.
🔍 2️⃣ Análise técnica
No trecho “stress tests estimate the size of temporary budget shortfalls and gauge whether states are prepared”, o verbo gauge é empregado com o sentido de avaliar / estimar / mensurar.
Trata-se de um uso institucional e técnico, comum em textos de economia e políticas públicas, semanticamente equivalente a estimate no contexto.
⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da CESPE/CEBRASPE
A banca explora a dúvida entre: sentido literal (instrumento de medição física) e sentido abstrato (avaliação conceitual).
Quem restringe gauge a “medir fisicamente” tende a marcar Errado. No entanto, em linguagem técnico-institucional, o verbo é amplamente usado como sinônimo funcional de estimate, assess ou evaluate.
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ Gauge = avaliar / mensurar / estimar.
✔ Uso abstrato e institucional, não literal.
✔ Contexto econômico e de políticas públicas.
✔ Equivalência semântica válida com estimate.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (C)