Sample Multiple Choice Questions



Sample Multiple Choice Questions

UNIT 1

Questions 1 – 4

In the following passage, adapted from Reinventing Australia, social psychologist Hugh Mackay offers a view about childhood in the 1990s.

PASSAGE

The idea of childhood as a free, innocent and self-contained stage of life is pretty much a

twentieth century invention. Before then, children tended to be regarded as junior adults who

were waiting in the wings to assume the mantle of adulthood. Certainly, the idea that

'teenagers' might still be indulged like children is a very modern concept.

In the 1990s we seem to be moving towards yet another redefinition of childhood, under

the direct influence of the redefinition of gender roles, marriage and the family. In family

structures, which are more transient than ever before and Which are, increasingly, able to rely

on only one parent as a stable reference point for children, the nature of childhood itself is

bound to be affected.

In some families children are now more indulged, cosseted and protected because of the

insecurity in the breast of a divorced parent. In other families, children are left much more to

their own devices because of the logistics of contemporary urban life.

Parents frequently remark that the level of vigorous debate within families about

children's rights takes them by surprise and causes them to question whether life wasn't

simpler when children had more acquiescent attitudes towards their parents. Perhaps every

generation has complained about the lack of discipline and respect shown towards it by the

following generation but, today, that situation does seem exaggerated by the sense that, as the

family itself is being redefined, patterns of childhood behaviour are changing. Particularly

under the influence of widespread family breakdown, many children are simply being forced

to become more assertive at an earlier age. Parents may express a certain nostalgia about their

own childhood; they may hanker after what they now see as the simple pleasures of an earlier

age; they may fleetingly wish that their children could enjoy the same freedoms and the same

innocence as they did. But present realities seem harsh: parents cannot easily see a way back

to such a simple concept of childhood. The other redefinitions in their lives have been so

significant - and so permanent - that they have left a redefinition of childhood in their wake.

1 In lines 1 – 4 the writer suggests that teenagers are

A idle parasites on society.

B disrespectful and selfish.

C over-protected from the harsh realities of life.

D subjected to a great amount of stress and pressure.

2 In lines 10 – 12 the writer suggests that divorce and mode4rn urban life have caused children to be

A over-indulged or neglected.

B confused about their identity.

C uncertain about how to behave.

D overly dependent on their parents.

3 The writer suggests that children are 'left much more to their own devices' (lines 11 - 12) because

parents are

A selfish and egoistic.

B tolerant and trusting.

C liberal and permissive.

D pressured and distracted.

4 The writer views the redefinition of childhood as a

A natural outcome of progress.

B consequence of social changes.

C result of changed philosophies of childhood.

D reaction against the rigidity of childhood in the past.

UNIT 2

Questions 5 – 10

Figure I shows the arrangement of many of the keys on a computer keyboard. The keys

correspond to the 26 letters, the space and some punctuation marks.

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The fingers of the left hand are used to press the keys that are to the left of the dotted line

between TGB and YHN; the fingers of the right hand are used to press the keys that are to the

right of that line. Although the letters on one side of the dotted line are pressed only by the

fingers (not the thumb) of one hand, the space bar is pressed by the thumb of either hand. The

thumb used to press the space bar is on the hand opposite to that whose finger was used to press

the last letter of the word just typed.

5 When typing letters, the fastest typing speed is achieved by first using a finger of one hand, then a finger

of the other hand, then a finger of the first hand again, and so on.

Of the following, the word that can be typed most quickly is

A typewriter.

B proficient.

C lamentable.

D dismantled.

6 When typing the phrase ‘the quick brown fox’, the first two spaces would be typed using the

A left thumb both times.

B right thumb both times.

C left thumb then the right thumb.

D right thumb then the left thumb.

Question 7 refers to the following additional information:

Four common errors made by typists are:

omission a letter is left out of a word.

transposition two adjacent letters are interchanged.

intrusion an extra letter is inserted into or added at the start or end of a word.

Substitution an incorrect letter is typed instead of the correct letter.

7 The error(s) made by a typist ‘perfect’ instead of ‘prefects’ could be

A omission only.

B intrusion only.

C intrusion and transposition.

D transposition and omission.

Questions 8 - 10 refer to the following additional information:

A keystroke is the action of finding and pressing a given key. The time it takes for a person to

carry out a keystroke is called their reaction time.

To measure a person's typing speed, they type a series of words, each containing four letters,

followed by a space at the end of each word. The number of such words typed in this way in a

minute is the typing speed of the person.

• 1000 milliseconds = 1 second

8 Brian has an average (mean) reaction time of 250 milliseconds

His typing speed is

A 30 words per minute.

B 48 words per minute.

C 56 words per minute.

D 60 words per minute.

Questions 9 - 10 refer to the following additional information:

Figure 2 presents the time per keystroke for a typist who typed 'the quick brown fox jumps over

the lazy dog' using the keyboard (Figure 1).

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9 Which one of the following statements is best supported by Figure 2?

A The keystroke time for a letter immediately before a space is greater than the keystroke time for the space.

B The keystroke time to type the letter '0' is more when it is in the middle of a word than when it is at the start of a word.

C The keystroke time for a letter immediately after a space is less than the keystroke time for the letter immediately before the space.

D The keystroke times to type letters whose symbols are closest to the middle of the keyboard (broken line in Figure I) are less than the keystroke times for other letters.

10 According to Figure 2, the average (mean) keystroke time to type a space was closest to

A 120 milliseconds.

B 150 milliseconds.

C 180 milliseconds.

D 200 milliseconds.

UNIT 3

Question 11

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11 This cartoon suggests that for people the urban environment is

A stimulating and challenging.

B civilised and sophisticated.

C hostile and destructive.

D critical and callous.

UNIT 4

Questions 12 – 14

Figure 1 represents the display of a particular calculator when it shows the negative number - 85.4619. This calculator can display a number with up to eight digits (but not a number with nine digits or more). The left-most place is only used to display a minus sign (if needed) or the letter E (meaning error). This place is not used when a positive number is displayed. An E occurs, for example, if the number to be displayed exceeds eight digits. If an error occurs, only the E is displayed, and no digits.

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Each digit (from 0 to 9) is formed when some or all of the straight diodes in a set of seven light up. The digit 8 is represented when all seven straight diodes in a set light up. A decimal point is indicated if one of the small circular diodes lights up.

• Answer the questions on the basis of this calculator display (and not others that you may have seen).

• This calculator does not display numbers raised to a power (scientific notation). For example, it cannot display 103 or 2 x 106.

12 In the left-most place, which of the following diodes will never be used?

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A R only

B S only

C Rand S only

D P, Q and S only

13 How many of the following can be displayed?

• a number in which two circular diodes are lit

• a number with an E in the left-most place

• the numerical result of adding 55 555 555 and 5 555 555

• the numerical result of adding 66 000 000 and 34 000 000

A one

B two

C three

D four

14 The greatest number of straight diodes that can be lit up is

A 56.

B 57.

C 64.

D 65.

UNIT 5

Questions 15 - 18

In December 1989 a national telephone poll asked 1000 Australians the following questions and

obtained the results below.

We are now very close to the 1990s. The sixties were generally years of economic prosperity in

Australia, while the seventies and eighties were more difficult. How do you see the 1990s?

First, in general, do you think that living standards in Australia will: improve during the

nineties, remain about the same as now, or fall?

And what do you think about world prospects for the nineties? Are we likely to see: an

increase in international conflict and instability, the situation remaining generally as it is now, or

a reduction in international conflict and instability?

How likely do you think it is that there will be a major war involving any of the superpowers

in the 1990s? Would you say it was: very likely, quite likely, quite unlikely, very unlikely?

And finally, do you think that, for you personally, life in the 199Qs will be: better, worse, or

about the same as it is now?

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15 For which one of these alternatives is the size of the difference between the responses of the blue- and

white-collar workers greatest?

A international instability as now

B living standards will improve

C major war quite unlikely

D major war very unlikely

16 In the question about personal life expectations, the age group with the strongest response to the most

negative alternative is

A 18 - 24.

B 25 - 39.

C 40- 54.

D 55 plus.

17 In 1989, the largest total response for the most pessimistic alternative was given to the question on

A living standards.

B major war.

C personal life.

D international instability.

18 Comparing the responses of blue- and white-collar workers to the most optimistic alternative for each

question it seems

A blue-collar workers always have the more negative expectations.

B white-collar workers always have the more negative expectations.

C there is a consistent pattern in the responses of the blue- and white-collar workers.

D there is no consistent pattern in the responses of the blue- and white-collar workers.

UNIT 6

Questions 19- 25

In higher animals, muscles are activated (caused to contract) by streams of impulses (signals) sent via neurones (nerve cells) that consist of a cell body, surrounded by fine, spike-like extensions. One of the extensions, called an axon, is generally longer than the others, and can be up to a metre or so in length in some human neurones.

A simplified model of how impulses travel along neurones is given as follows: when a neurone 'fires', impulses stal1 in the cell body of the neurone, and subsequently travel along the axon to where the impulses are 'transported', by means of chemical 'interconnections', across a small gap to one or more other neurones (Figure J). Such interconnected neurones do not actually touch. The axon of the neurone, which initially carries the impulses, releases a chemical which quickly moves (diffuses) across the small gap between neurones and may cause another neurone to fire. In some cases, an axon ends at a muscle, which is activated by the impulses. Neurones whose impulses end at a muscle are called motor neurones.

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Neurones can be excitatory or inhibitory. If a neurone receives the chemical released by an inhibitory neurone, it does not fire, even if it also receives the chemical from an excitatory neurone which would otherwise cause it to fire. A muscle contracts if it is activated by an excitatory neurone.

Note: In this unit, excitatory neurones are labelled by a positive sign (+), and inhibitory neurones are labelled by a negative sign (-). An arrow (') indicates the direction of flow of impulses.

19 Given that the left-most neurone(s) is stimulated to fire as shown, which one of the following best represents what happens in the motor neurone axon as a result?

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20 Which one of the following diagrams best represents a situation in which inhibition will prevent muscular contraction?

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Questions 21 and 22 refer to the following additional information:

In some neurones the axon is branched. In such cases impulses reach the end of each branch.

Figure 2 illustrates a simple arrangement of excitatory and inhibitory neurones, in which the axon

of neurone L is branched.

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21 Which neurone (K, L, M or N in Figure 2), when fired without the other three labelled ones being fired,

will cause muscle R to contract?

A K

B L

C M

D N

22 If fired, will muscle R be activated as a result?

A Yes, regardless of whether K, L or N is fired.

B Yes, but only if K is also fired.

C Yes, but only if N is also fired.

D No.

Questions 23 and 24 refer to the following additional information:

Figure 3 illustrates an arrangement of neurones found in the tail muscles of some fish.

The muscles are labelled Land R.

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23 When there are no impulses in F, a stream of impulses in E would cause

A only muscle L to contract.

B only muscle R to contract.

C muscles Land R to contract simultaneously.

D muscle L to contract, followed almost immediately by muscle R contracting.

24 Simultaneous contraction of both muscles will

A occur if both E and F are firing.

B occur if either E or F is firing.

C occur if either G or H is firing.

D not normally be possible.

Question 25 refers to the following additional information:

An arrangement of neurones and muscles in a vertebrate forelimb is illustrated in Figure 4. When the flexor muscle (bicep) contracts, it raises the lower forelimb, thereby stretching the opposing extensor (tricep) muscle. The opposite effect is achieved when the extensor muscle contracts, resulting in the stretching of the flexor muscle. Neurone W is activated by the stretching of the extensor muscle as the flexor muscle contracts.

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A S and U only

B S, U and V only

C S, T, U and W only

D S, T, U and V only

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