Онлайн-тестування: A verbal psychometric test (verbal reasoning) (Psychometric)

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

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

___ 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.

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 states that a doctor can be prosecuted if he or she does not report a patient who has suffered gunshot wounds.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Deceit is to fraud as: decision is to

The chancellor faced ___ demands to avoid further increases ___ the tax burden on companies in the forthcoming budget report.

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.

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 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: Top of the table of types of fraud are those committed with credit cards stolen from people's post.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Contend is to agree as: scramble is to

Strikes escalated ___ the Guy company yesterday after a third round of negotiations with unions failed to reach a ___.

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

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

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

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.

A rescue plan for Village Leisure, the ___ media company, was agreed by shareholders at an extraordinary ___.

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

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Passage 14: In most parts of the developed world many middle-class people ask themselves whether they should buy or rent a house. In the United States, Spain, Ireland and the UK, most answer ‘Buy’. In these countries house prices have almost doubled over the past seven years. Other parts of the developed world have not seen such inflation and the passage asks if it is realistic to assume that prices will always continue to rise. Some argue that paying rent is like throwing money away and that it is better to repay a mortgage and build equity. But what if house prices fall? A small adjustment could wipe out the equity of many home owners. If house price inflation is a thing of the past, then home ownership becomes less attractive. Renting has some advantages too; people who rent find it easier to move for their work.
Statement: The passage raises the spectre that homeowners may not always be able to rely on capital growth.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Responsive is to elastic as: rival is to

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

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

Passage 13: In the past 12 months benefit fraud has fallen by £½ billion to its lowest level for over a decade. The fall is equivalent to a 25 per cent drop to 1.5 per cent of the total £100 billion benefit bill. This spectacular fall follows permission for the benefit office to access Inland Revenue taxation data. Benefit officers can now immediately check to see if a claimant is working and claiming benefits intended only for those out of work. This new measure has led to over 80,000 people being caught making false claims. A similar initiative has also succeeded in a substantial cut in the level of fraud committed by claimants of housing benefit. Local authorities are responsible for the administration of this allowance, which is awarded to the unemployed and low paid to help with housing costs. Until recently local authority staff had been unable to access central government records to check the information provided by claimants. These checks have so far identified 44,000 claimants who have provided false information in order to make claims for allowances for which they are not eligible.
Statement: Ten years ago the level of benefit fraud was higher.

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

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Steep is to gradual as: bicker is to

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 passage states that the battle of Waterloo took place in 1815.

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

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

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

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.

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

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: Critics believe that traffic would flow more smoothly if road humps were removed.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Memorable is to ordinary as: tortuous is to

Continuing price competition and higher utility and labour costs resulted ___ a second-quarter decline in the group’s net operating ___.

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.

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

Passage 14: In most parts of the developed world many middle-class people ask themselves whether they should buy or rent a house. In the United States, Spain, Ireland and the UK, most answer ‘Buy’. In these countries house prices have almost doubled over the past seven years. Other parts of the developed world have not seen such inflation and the passage asks if it is realistic to assume that prices will always continue to rise. Some argue that paying rent is like throwing money away and that it is better to repay a mortgage and build equity. But what if house prices fall? A small adjustment could wipe out the equity of many home owners. If house price inflation is a thing of the past, then home ownership becomes less attractive. Renting has some advantages too; people who rent find it easier to move for their work.
Statement: Most middle-class people in the developed world prefer to own their own home.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Relent is to acquiesce as: remiss is to

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.

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.

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: The colour we perceive an object to be is determined by the electromagnetic waves it absorbs or reflects.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Divulge is to conceal as: percentage is to

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

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.

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.

Forty per cent of the total cost base is commissions or bonuses, making it ___ easy for costs to be slashed ___ demand shrinks; offices are on short-term leases, again giving flexibility to cut back at short notice.

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

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

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.

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.

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: A molecule is a cluster of atoms held together by bonds.

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.

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

Passage 13: In the past 12 months benefit fraud has fallen by £½ billion to its lowest level for over a decade. The fall is equivalent to a 25 per cent drop to 1.5 per cent of the total £100 billion benefit bill. This spectacular fall follows permission for the benefit office to access Inland Revenue taxation data. Benefit officers can now immediately check to see if a claimant is working and claiming benefits intended only for those out of work. This new measure has led to over 80,000 people being caught making false claims. A similar initiative has also succeeded in a substantial cut in the level of fraud committed by claimants of housing benefit. Local authorities are responsible for the administration of this allowance, which is awarded to the unemployed and low paid to help with housing costs. Until recently local authority staff had been unable to access central government records to check the information provided by claimants. These checks have so far identified 44,000 claimants who have provided false information in order to make claims for allowances for which they are not eligible.
Statement: Only the unemployed should legitimately claim these benefits.

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: At the height of Napoleon’s victories the French army was the largest in Europe.

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 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.