Онлайн-тестирование: Вербальный психометрический тест (словесное рассуждение) (Psychometric)

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Passage 10: Recent changes to the postal voting system are considered by election officials to significantly increase the risk of electoral fraud. If it were to become widespread, such fraud could discredit the electoral process. Greatest concerns centre around the very limited time the new system allows electoral administrators to check that requests for postal ballots are genuine. The government is keen to increase the number of people who cast a vote and believe that people should not be denied a vote simply because they do not apply in good time. Fraud is currently rare and there is so far no evidence of postal votes leading to widespread fraud.
Statement: It is clear that the author agrees with the concerns raised by the administrators.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Alleviate is to irritate as: disagreeable is to

Complete the sentence by choosing the correct words for blanks A and B.

___ trading ahead of the imminent election meant that markets were especially quiet. Volumes were more ___ to those at Christmas with investors reluctant to take up large ___ ahead of the outcome of the ballot.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Choose the word that means the opposite of the given word. Replenish

Choose the correct sentence or word(s) according to standard English usage.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Complete the sentence by choosing the correct words for blanks A and B.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Announce is to declare as: characterize is to

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Impromptu is to rehearsed as: audit is to

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Niche is to segment as: perks are to

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Uphold is to sustain as: magnitude is to

Passage 4: Asia is the world’s largest continent and stretches from the Baring Sea in the east to Turkey and Europe in the west. Its southern border comprises many islands, including those that make up Indonesia. Since independence of colonial powers, Asian economies have boomed. First were Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea and later Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. More recently China and India have enjoyed rapid economic growth. The south-west and central parts of the continent are deserts. The Himalayan mountains divide the cold north from the tropical south. The people of Asia make up over two-thirds of the world’s population and they live in the birthplace of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Statement: The colonial era was a disaster for Asia.

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Unfaltering

Choose two words, one from each list, that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection.

Choose the word that means the opposite of the given word. Answer

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Get back is to return as: distribute is to

Choose two words, one from each list, that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Passage 9: People assume that they go to hospital to get well. However, in the past few years this perception has been challenged by the real risk of acquiring a deadly infection while in hospital. As a consequence, public confidence in the health service has suffered. An antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria was first identified in the 1950s. It was a staphylococcus common in abscesses and bloodstream infections and it had become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. Since then the bacteria have become resistant to a second antibiotic and have become established as a source of infection in many nursing homes and hospitals. Today they are believed to cause about 1,000 deaths each year as a result of hospital-acquired infections. Action that can beat this ‘superbug’ is simple but expensive: very high levels of hygiene and cleanliness and a programme of testing so that infected patients can be isolated and treated.
Statement: Infections of the bloodstream are more serious than abscesses.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Type the part of the sentence that is in the present continuous tense.

Passage 8: The ambulance service estimates that as many as 500 lives are lost each year because of slower emergency response times caused by road humps. Some claim that road humps, or sleeping policemen, cost more lives than are saved as a result of slowed traffic. Critics of road humps also claim that they cause more pollution as drivers repeatedly slow down and speed up and that they cause more congestion by disrupting the flow of traffic. Residents complain of the noise of cars crossing them and accelerating away from them. Some of these claims run counter to published research which shows that road humps cause average speeds to drop by 10 mph and as a result save lives. Since 1980 and the widespread introduction of road humps, figures show that the level of deaths and serious injury fell by 60 per cent.
Statement: The passage states that it is true that the repeated slowing and accelerating of cars over road humps causes more pollution.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Choose two words, one from each list, that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Passage 12: Solicitors, doctors and priests have traditionally kept in strict confidence information they hold about or are told by their clients. A doctor will not disclose a patient’s illness to anyone but the patient or next of kin. Priests have sought to keep secret the content of what they learn in the confessional and solicitors have guarded carefully the confidentiality of the client–lawyer relationship. However, under certain circumstances all these professions make exceptions and will break confidences. A doctor must by law report injuries he believes are the result of gunshots and conditions that represent serious threats to public health. Priests have provided information to the police in relation to child abuse cases and murder. Solicitors are required to report only suspicions they have of money laundering. Journalists also adopt a code of confidentiality to protect their sources. They have a reputation for being a profession far less likely to break their code even when ordered by the courts. In a number of high-profile cases journalists have chosen to go to jail for contempt of court rather than reveal the source of a story.
Statement: All professions have a confidentiality code but some are stricter than others.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Passage 3: Traditionally medicine was the science of curing illness with treatments. For thousands of years people would have used plants and would have turned to priests for cures. In more recent times illness has been attributed to natural causes rather than to gods or magic. Medicine today is as much concerned with prevention as with cure. Doctors use treatments of many types, including radiation and vaccination, both of which were unknown until very recent times. Other treatments have been known about and practised for centuries; Muslim doctors were skilled surgeons and treated pain with opium. When Europeans first reached the Americas they found healers who used many plants to cure illnesses. The Europeans adopted many of those treatments and some are still effective and in use today.
Statement: The author of the passage believes that prevention is better than cure.

Passage 3: Traditionally medicine was the science of curing illness with treatments. For thousands of years people would have used plants and would have turned to priests for cures. In more recent times illness has been attributed to natural causes rather than to gods or magic. Medicine today is as much concerned with prevention as with cure. Doctors use treatments of many types, including radiation and vaccination, both of which were unknown until very recent times. Other treatments have been known about and practised for centuries; Muslim doctors were skilled surgeons and treated pain with opium. When Europeans first reached the Americas they found healers who used many plants to cure illnesses. The Europeans adopted many of those treatments and some are still effective and in use today.
Statement: Modern medicine is the science of curing illness.

Passage 11: Oil prices have been at record levels and are currently at around $45 a barrel. In the most efficient oilfields it costs only 80 to 90 cents to extract a barrel. Most producing countries want greater oil price stability and fear the effect on their economies and on world demand when, as in recent years, oil prices have fluctuated between $20 and $50 a barrel. In response, some producers are expanding production capacity in order that they can respond more flexibly to demand and rising prices with greater production. Exploration and research into extraction techniques have been commissioned to investigate ways in which production can be expanded. This exploration and research brought unexpected results. Oil analysts have concluded that there is much more oil in the world than current estimates assume and that new techniques make it possible to extract much more of the known reserves economically than previously thought.
Statement: The passage states that the recent exploration has found new reserves.

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Respect

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Aggravate

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Output in Britain's factories ___ as strong demand ___ China and South East Asia boosted exports.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Genre is to class as: obsolete is to

Choose the sentence(s) that contain an error. Options are lettered A–D.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Passage 3: Traditionally medicine was the science of curing illness with treatments. For thousands of years people would have used plants and would have turned to priests for cures. In more recent times illness has been attributed to natural causes rather than to gods or magic. Medicine today is as much concerned with prevention as with cure. Doctors use treatments of many types, including radiation and vaccination, both of which were unknown until very recent times. Other treatments have been known about and practised for centuries; Muslim doctors were skilled surgeons and treated pain with opium. When Europeans first reached the Americas they found healers who used many plants to cure illnesses. The Europeans adopted many of those treatments and some are still effective and in use today.
Statement: Medicine is a science that owes its success to modern treatments.

Passage 1: Light is made up of electromagnetic waves. These vary in length and these differences are perceived as different colours. White light contains all wavelengths mixed together. An object looks coloured because light falls on it and it reflects only certain parts of the spectrum while the rest is absorbed. An object that looks white reflects all the light that falls on it; an object that looks red reflects the red part of the spectrum and absorbs the rest. Our eyes detect these different reflected waves and we see them as different colours.
Statement: White light is an amalgam of all the wavelengths of light.

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Shrewd

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Arrest

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Passage 15: For most of the last two decades of the previous century the economy of the city of Liverpool was mostly stagnant and far behind that of the rest of the UK. But as other cities have become more expensive, Liverpool has become a more popular place in which to invest and live. Liverpool’s population dropped from 800,000 after the war to less than 500,000 at the turn of the century. The process of depopulation has now reduced to a trickle and for the first time in decades the working population has grown. The level of unemployment, which once stood at 20 per cent, is down to under 5 per cent. Construction of office space is booming and currently being built are conference complexes, a series of department stores and two 50-floor tower blocks. It is not surprising, therefore, that the working population is expected to grow further still. Low living and housing costs have attracted many public sector organizations to relocate to the city. Forty per cent of the workforce of Liverpool work in this sector and it seems that this trend will continue as over half of the new jobs created are public appointments. Subsidy has played a significant part in attracting jobs and investment. Over £4 billion has been spent in the regeneration of the region and the lion’s share of this has been committed to the city of Liverpool itself.
Statement: During the 1990s the economy of the region fell far behind that of the rest of the UK.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Disdain is to respect as: disseminate is to

Complete the sentence by choosing the correct words for blanks A and B.

Passage 5: In tropical rainforests the climate remains hot and damp all year round. In the Arctic it is cold all year, and in high mountain ranges the climate is much colder than in nearby low-lying lands. Climate is not the same as weather. The weather can change quickly whereas climate describes likely weather conditions over a much longer period. The world is divided into five climate zones. Polar is the only zone where it is always cold; tropical is hot all year round; temperate has warm summers and cold winters; desert is dry and cool; forest has cool, short summers. Mankind can affect climate (e.g., forest fires that obscure the sun; more recently, pollution has affected climate via the greenhouse effect).
Statement: The passage states that the weather in high mountain ranges is cooler than in nearby low-lying areas.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Passage 4: Asia is the world’s largest continent and stretches from the Baring Sea in the east to Turkey and Europe in the west. Its southern border comprises many islands, including those that make up Indonesia. Since independence of colonial powers, Asian economies have boomed. First were Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea and later Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. More recently China and India have enjoyed rapid economic growth. The south-west and central parts of the continent are deserts. The Himalayan mountains divide the cold north from the tropical south. The people of Asia make up over two-thirds of the world’s population and they live in the birthplace of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Statement: Civilization began in the continent of Asia.

Choose the word that means the opposite of the given word. Distraction

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Plummet

Passage 8: The ambulance service estimates that as many as 500 lives are lost each year because of slower emergency response times caused by road humps. Some claim that road humps, or sleeping policemen, cost more lives than are saved as a result of slowed traffic. Critics of road humps also claim that they cause more pollution as drivers repeatedly slow down and speed up and that they cause more congestion by disrupting the flow of traffic. Residents complain of the noise of cars crossing them and accelerating away from them. Some of these claims run counter to published research which shows that road humps cause average speeds to drop by 10 mph and as a result save lives. Since 1980 and the widespread introduction of road humps, figures show that the level of deaths and serious injury fell by 60 per cent.
Statement: It is fair to say that road humps can save lives and injuries but at a price.

Passage 6: The theory goes that everything around us is built up of tiny particles called atoms. Some materials are made up of only one type of atom; these are called elements. Others are made up of different sorts of atom bonded together into molecules. Water, for example, is a compound made up of molecules that contain two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The force which holds atoms together is called bonds. Atoms are made up of even smaller particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons. Neutrons and protons are made up of quarks and gluons. The search is on for the particles that make up quarks.
Statement: Neutrons are made up of quarks and gluons.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Observant is to vigilant as: align is to

___ of companies’ expectations of orders, sales and profitability show the ___ sharp drop in confidence in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States followed by the strong return of confidence last June and then a trailing off during the ___ months.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Eurozone GDP growth ___ still weak, which is discouraging for UK exporters to the region, but US GDP ___ is stronger than has been expected and UK interest ___ are likely to increase only slowly.

The ___ fits with the practice of mining a diversified set of related revenue seams, hopefully giving the business a broader and more solid ___ which to build profits.

___ biggest utility company in the new EU member countries reported that its recent ___ activities had failed to have the desired impact.

Passage 7: Credit card fraud has reached £500 million despite the introduction of new controls. Figures show that losses to fraud rose by 20 per cent last year. Most frauds result from cards intercepted in the post. One hundred thousand cards were posted to customers every day last year. This represents rich pickings for fraudsters. The banks knew the year would be difficult because it was thought that fraudsters would try to commit as many crimes as possible before new controls were introduced. It is hoped that by this time next year the effect of the new measures will be known and that the level of fraud will have fallen considerably.
Statement: The level of losses to overall credit card fraud rose by 20 per cent.

Choose two words, one from each list, that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection.

Complete the sentence by choosing the correct words for blanks A and B.