Numerical and verbal reasoning (A category)

• Question 1.

Text (questions 1-4)

Entrepreneurs running small firms play a vital role in ensuring a healthy economy, not just from a business perspective, but also in social, educational and political terms. They compete with the large businesses that would otherwise dominate the markets and are key providers of new jobs. Smaller businesses are able to accommodate working patterns tailored to the employee's needs. They are, therefore, valuable sources of employment for the large number of people with family responsibilities who wish to remain part of the labour market but are unable, because of domestic commitments, to take up full-time employment.

Base your answers only on the information given in the text

Question 1:

Entrepreneurs tend not to compete with large organisations.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 2. Large businesses do not want to accommodate an employee's individual employment needs.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 3. Small firms run by entrepreneurs provide no benefits for the community.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 4. More new jobs are provided by entrepreneurs than large organisations.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 5.

Text (questions 5-8)

Advertising and selling books via Internet sites is becoming more popular with traders. It costs less to publicise a book on the Internet than by traditional methods, and as books are stored in warehouses prior to being despatched to customers, overheads are lower than those of shops. True, the price war on the Internet is likely to put pressure on royalties, with publishers demanding that they be calculated not on the cover prices of books but on the prices actually received for them. However, these discounts will be greatest on best-sellers, rather than other books.

Base your answers only on the information given in the text

Question 5:

The consumer demand for books sold on the Internet is increasing.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 6. The cost of placing an advertisement for a book on the Internet is less than other methods of marketing.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 7. Internet bookstores offer their biggest discounts on less popular books.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 8. Writers will definitely lose money because of the nature of Internet book-selling.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 9.

Text (questions 9-12)

The number of accidents, which occur during the course of the working day, will never be reduced to zero, regardless of the attempts of regulating bodies. This is because all activity inevitably involves some degree of risk and luck. However, it is possible to reduce the number of occupational accidents, and one way of doing this would be to impose punitive fines on organisations within which occupational accidents occur. Whilst this will result in cases of injustice to some organisations, the overall effect for the employee, in terms of securing a safer workplace, will surely be beneficial

Base your answers only on the information given in the text

Question 9:

Some accidents at work are the result of misfortune.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 10. Organisations have no power to make workplaces safer.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 11. Under the proposed system of fines, organisations taking safety seriously would have nothing to fear.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 12. A system of fines is the best way to reduce accidents in the workplace.

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  A. True

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  B. False

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  C. Cannot say

• Question 13.

Tables (questions 13-16)

Question 13:

Which country has the same percentage of people using private and public vehicles to get to work?

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  A. Country A

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  B. Country B

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  C. Country C

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  D. Country D

• Question 14.

In which country is there the biggest difference between the numbers of people in the 5 - 14 and 15 - 24 year old categories?

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  A. Country A

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  B. Country B

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  C. Country C

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  D. Country D

• Question 15.

Approximately how many people in country B travel to work by motorcycle?

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  A. 3 million

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  B. 5 million

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  C. 7 million

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  D. 9 million

• Question 16.

What is the approximate difference between the number of people taking public and private vehicles to work in country B ?

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  A. 1 million

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  B. 1.5 million

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  C. 3 million

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  D. Cannot say

• Question 17.

Graphs (questions 17-20)

Question 17:

In country A, which source of energy had the largest proportional change between 1987 and 1997?

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  A. Coal

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  B. Petroleum

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  C. Natural gas

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  D. Other

• Question 18. For country A in 1987 how much of the total energy consumption was provided for by coal?

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  A. 85 Million tonnes of oil equivalent

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  B. 95 Million tonnes of oil equivalent

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  C. 105 Million tonnes of oil equivalent

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  D. 115 Million tonnes of oil equivalent

• Question 19. Which country showed the greatest percentage change in total energy consumption between 1987 and 1997?

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  A. Country A

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  B. Country B

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  C. Country C

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  D. Country D

• Question 20. Country C anticipates that energy consumption per million population will increase at a rate of 10% a year from 1997. If the energy consumption of country B remains constant, how many years will it be before country C's consumption exceeds that of country B ?

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  A. 3 years

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  B. 4 years

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  C. 5 years

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  D. 6 years

Verbal and numerical reasoning (B category)

• Question 1.

Each question consists of a text and four statements. Your task is to indicate which of the four statements can best be derived from the given text.

N.B. Sometimes a statement will be in entire or partial contradiction to the given text. Sometimes a statement itself is true, but that fact cannot be derived from the sample text. Base your answer exclusively on the information provided by the text. You may only choose one statement for your answer.

Question 1:

China is too large and too many people live there. That is the complaint on everyone's lips when traffic in China's congested cities once more comes to a standstill, people worm their way through shopping streets, or criticism is levelled at the impotence of China's leaders. But none of that mattered on the day that Hong Kong was handed back. With the return of Hong Kong, China has become even larger and that is an important fact for the merry-makers in Beijing.

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  A. When traffic in a congested Chinese city comes to a standstill, everyone says that it is because China is over-populated.

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  B. On the day that Hong Kong was returned to China it was once more frantically busy in Beijing.

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  C. On the day that Hong Kong once more became part of China, no-one was angry with the Chinese leaders.

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  D. It does no good to complain about congestion in China, certainly not on a day of celebration.

• Question 2.

Apartheid and Kruger Park, for a long time those were the two things which the world associated with South Africa. After the abolition, in 1993, of the most sophisticated system of racial discrimination which the world has ever known, all that was left was Kruger Park, an institution which apparently had nothing to do with the evil of the past. For a long time, the Park had been seen as a model of a successful way to protect "good nature" against "evil man".

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  A. Kruger Park is a successful example of how "good nature" can be protected against "evil man".

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  B. Two things can be mentioned which were long associated with South Africa. One of them, Kruger Park, still exists.

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  C. Kruger Park, as we had known it until then, was closed down in 1993.

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  D. The things with which South Africa had been associated until 1993 have all changed or been abolished.

• Question 3.

It is expected that the social changes taking place in South Africa will also have been incorporated into Kruger Park within a few years. Then, Kruger Park will be seen to have become part of the new South Africa. The present, mainly black, government is not planning to slaughter this goose that lays the golden eggs: nearly a million people visit the park each year. A well-known politician even sees the Park as having a constructive function: "Appreciation of the natural environment and the conservation of nature can forge a link between all South Africans and can become an aspect of political maturity of which we can all be proud."

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  A. a. The present mainly black government is expected to introduce substantial social changes in Kruger Park.

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  B. b. On the basis of nearly a million visitors each year, Kruger Park can rightly be seen as the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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  C. c. A well-known politician thinks that Kruger Park is a model for South African society.

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  D. d. Within a couple of years, policies concerning Kruger Park will need to drastically change or it will cease to be such an important source of income.

• Question 4.

All road, rail, air and inland shipping traffic in and around Breukelen came to a standstill on Sunday when a British Second World War bomb had to be deactivated. Inhabitants of houses inside the immediate danger zone had to remain indoors with the windows open and curtains pulled shut. The police invoked emergency byelaws to enable them to act against anyone found on the streets.

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  A. People were not allowed on the street in Breukelen on Sunday because a Second World War bomb had been found.

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  B. The lives of many inhabitants of Breukelen were disrupted on Sunday as a result of the explosion of the bomb.

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  C. The police invoked emergency byelaws in Breukelen on Sunday, bringing traffic to a standstill for several hours.

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  D. If you lived within the immediate danger zone around the site in Breukelen where the bomb was deactivated last Sunday, you had to stay indoors but keep the windows open.

• Question 5.

The bible was right. At least, it was in the sense of nature conservation. Adam was told to give all the animals a name, and Noah filled a boat with them, but The Netherlands has regulated nature in plans from A to Z. Man held, and still holds, the life and death of the animal and plant world around him firmly in his hands, as if by some divine mandate.

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  A. The Netherlands makes plans in which nature is regulated from A to Z.

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  B. Man has absolute power over life and death in nature.

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  C. Adam giving all the animals a name is an example of nature conservancy.

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  D. The bible was right, for man rules from A to Z in nature.

• Question 6.

Except for misplaced ideologies, the over-indulged citizen is yet another threat to the government's nature policies. Although scientists agree that good nature conservancy depends on preserving as many species as possible, citizens prefer to see their nature with plenty of parking spaces and playgrounds. Not all animals and plant species are served by this desire. Nonetheless, this sort of public desire is kept in mind for political reasons.

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  A. The citizen would like to see many parking spaces in nature, so that he can visit nature reserves for instance.

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  B. Politicians take account of over-indulged citizens.

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  C. Scientists would dearly like to preserve as many species as possible, but the over-indulged citizen is against this idea.

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  D. As the government has to take account of the citizen, with a view to his political opinion and vote, parking areas are sometimes being created in nature areas anyway.

• Question 7.

European regulations contribute to a sensible protection scheme for nature, because they are international. It would make little sense to try to protect Dutch migratory birds, for instance, if they are only destined to be shot out of the skies over France and served up as a delicacy. This can now be avoided because France has committed itself to the same regulations.

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  A. The international migration of birds benefits from the protection offered in the Netherlands.

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  B. European regulations prevent birds being served as a delicacy in France.

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  C. The protection of migratory birds in the Netherlands can be more effective if migratory birds are no longer eaten as a delicacy in France.

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  D. Since the introduction of European guidelines, migratory birds avoid France.

• Question 8.

It is pretty rough going, up there on the mountaintop where Lhasa has been built. Mobile phones don't work in the Tibetan capital. Slowly the travellers realise that they have never strayed so far off the beaten track, and that here there are rats even in the Holiday Inn. These unsuspecting tourists are being called the new generation of Tibetan travellers; inspired by the film Seven Years in Tibet (with Brad Pitt as leading man) they loaded their suitcases. The Brad Pitt effect has done the travel agencies no harm at all, because the film was in the cinemas over a year ago and people are still admitting that the film was the most important inducement to make the trip.

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  A. As their mobile phones do not work in Lhasa, modern tourists in Tibet are caught like rats in a trap.

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  B. Many participants in a trip to Tibet admit that they are doing so because of a film they saw.

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  C. The fact that Brad Pitt had a role in a film about Tibet has induced many people to visit that country.

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  D. Many visitors to Tibet are unsuspecting tourists who find it really rough going and will probably never come back.

• Question 9.

In Papua New Guinea it sounds a bit hackneyed if someone says that he was born in the stone age and that his own lifetime has bridged ten thousand years of history. Half a million people living in the valleys of the Highlands were only discovered by western gold-diggers and missionaries in the nineteen thirties. New tribes were being discovered right up to the nineteen sixties, and it is claimed that an unknown tribe still lives in the border area between three provinces. They are said to live in trees for fear of crocodiles, and to have had no contact at all with western civilisation.

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  A. Western gold-diggers made it possible for many people in Papua New Guinea to bridge the gap from the stone age and ten thousand years of history to the present day.

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  B. Even now there are undiscovered tribes living in the trees of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

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  C. New tribes were being discovered in Papua New Guinea as recently as the nineteen sixties.

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  D. The fear of crocodiles makes the people live in trees.

• Question 10.

Graphic (questions 10-15)

Question 10:

What is the ratio of the production of cattle farming to other agricultural production in country X in the year 2002?

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  A. 2 : 1

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  B. 1 : 1

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  C. 3 : 1

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  D. 1 : 2

• Question 11.

In which agricultural sectors does the lowest production occur in the year 2002 in countries X and Y respectively?

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  A. arable and horticulture

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  B. arable and cattle farming

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  C. horticulture and arable

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  D. dairy and arable

• Question 12.

If there is a development whereby half the beef cattle production disappears in country X in 2003, and horticultural production doubles, what will then be country X's total agricultural production in millions of euros?

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  A. 32

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  B. 34

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  C. 36

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  D. 38

• Question 13.

Dairy production in country Y is the largest by far in 2002. By how much must the dairy production in country X increase to reach the same level of production?

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  A. 16 million euros

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  B. 12 million euros

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  C. 8 million euros

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  D. 4 million euros

• Question 14. If investments are made in country X so that beef and dairy production increases by 25%, and arable and horticultural production by 50%, by what percentage will that country's total agricultural production increase in comparison with 2002?

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  A. 25%

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  B. 33 1/3%

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  C. 40%

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  D. 50%

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