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

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Complicate is to clarify as: busy is to

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: Staphylococcus infections kill around 1,000 people a year.

Maclenas, the London insurer, was on ___ to meet full-year expectations ___ future performance underpinned by its successful new savings product.

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.

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

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

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

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: It would be reasonable to infer from the passage that oil analysts were impressed by the findings of the exploration and research.

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

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

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: Vaccination is a relatively recent discovery.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

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. Amount is to volume as: abrupt is to

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: Forty per cent of the new jobs are public appointments.

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

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

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: Practitioners of modern medicine make use of many techniques and technologies.

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: Without colours we would consider the world a dull and less beautiful place.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Presently is to later as: infrequently is to

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

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

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

Passage 2: Between 1797 and 1815 Europe went through the Napoleonic wars. During this period France was at war with Prussia, Russia, Austria, Spain and Britain. At that time the French army was the most powerful in Europe. By 1808 France had conquered much of the continent and created the largest European empire since the Romans. Napoleon Bonaparte was emperor and military leader. However, a disastrous campaign in Russia, retreat from Spain and British supremacy at sea eventually allowed a combined European force to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.
Statement: The Napoleonic wars lasted 18 years.

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

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

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

According to industrial sources Castle Cole, the property company, is ___ in line with expectations at the operating ___.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

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: New extraction techniques allow oil to be extracted at a price of between 80 and 90 cents a barrel.

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: In a tropical rainforest the climate is the same winter and summer.

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. Plummet

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

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: Post-colonial growth first occurred in Singapore.

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

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: The passage mentions priests, doctors and solicitors as professions with a confidentiality ethic.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Disgrace is to honour as: alarmist is to

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

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.

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.

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

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: All substances are made up of elements.

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

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

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.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Choose the correct sentence or word(s) according to standard English usage. Options are lettered A, B, C.

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. Symbolic is to metaphorical as: all is to

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.

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: Drivers find road humps annoying.

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.

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

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Objective is to goal as: judge is to

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 record price for crude oil is $50 a barrel.

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.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

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

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.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Train is to teach as: services are to

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 two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Co-ordinate is to harmonize as: commodity is to

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 sentence by choosing the correct word for blank A.

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

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

British firms have failed ___ implement government recommendations about investing in and managing their workforces because they have been busy ___ to unprecedented regulatory changes.