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    Verbal Reasoning

    Practice Test 1

    Solution Booklet

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    The Centre aims to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 20% below
    2001 levels by 2010, and a significant contributor to this target will be the
    improved energy efficiency of their building stock. At the same time, the
    government is aiming to have 10,000 MW installed Combined Heat and
    Power (CHP) capacity by 2010.

    Whilst many technologies were considered, a CHP unit is best suited to


    increase energy efficiency of the Centre. It will achieve this by lowering its
    electricity consumption. The CHP unit would serve the heating demand for
    both the domestic hot water system and the swimming pool, but it would
    not be adequate to also serve the space-heating requirements.

    Q1 The only way to reach the carbon emissions target is by improving the energy
    efficiency of buildings.

    True False Cannot say

    The passage says “a significant contributor to this target will be the improved energy
    efficiency of their building stock”. So improving the energy efficiency is a significant
    contributor, not the only way.

    Q2 The Centre is improving energy efficiency because the government have


    imposed legal obligations to do so.

    True False Cannot say

    The passage talks about a government aim to reach a certain MW installed capacity
    of CHP but no mention of legal obligations are made in the text. Therefore we cannot
    say whether it is true or false.

    Q3 A Combined Heat and Power unit alone will not be able to provide all the
    heating requirements for the Centre.

    True False Cannot say

    We are told the CHP unit “would serve the heating demand for…but would not be
    suited to space heating requirements” which means it would not be able to provide all
    the heating requirements for the Centre.

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    Enticing people to choose a bus over their car is difficult. Governments
    have tried by improving the comfort and frequency of public transport.
    However, this has little effect because people value their cars too highly.
    Public opposition to governmental action on car use has already been
    demonstrated through the petrol blockade.

    The most likely solutions are ones that retain the most driver-convenience,
    whilst retaining low cost. A popular suggestion is to improve public
    transport so personal cars are needed less. This can be gradually
    implemented alongside existing traffic and uses existing road systems.

    Q4 Governments have in the past made public transport more comfortable and
    increased its frequency.

    True False Cannot say

    This is implicit from the statement that “Governments have tried [enticing people to
    choose a bus over their car] by improving the comfort…of public transport”. Whether
    they succeeded in getting more people to use public transport is another matter.

    Q5 In the past, governmental actions have resulted in public demonstrations.

    True False Cannot say

    The passage tells us this is true from the statement “governmental action on car use
    has already been demonstrated through the petrol blockade”. The petrol blockade
    can reasonably be considered as a demonstration.

    Q6 If the government were successful in enticing more people to use public


    transport instead of their cars, there would be less traffic on the road.

    True False Cannot say

    The passage does not say whether or not traffic would increase if more people
    swapped their cars for public transport. This cannot be deduced from the passage
    either, since it does not say whether more or less car sharing would take place, thus
    increasing or reducing the number of vehicles on the road.

    - End of free verbal reasoning test 1 -

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