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II SIMULAZIONE IN INGLESE
General Knowledge and Logical Reasoning
1. Two afternoon courses have been implemented in a primary school. There are 250
students in the school. 200 of them attend the Spanish language course, 199
swimming course and 13 students don’t attend either of them. How many students
attend both courses?
A. 37
B. 237
C. 38
D. 162
E. The information is not sufficient to provide an answer
2. “It is not impossible that the bottle found at the beach may contain a message”.
According to the previous statement, which of the following is certainly true?
A. the bottle found at the beach might contain a message
B. the bottle found at the beach did not contain a message
C. the bottle found at the beach could not have contained a message
D. the bottle found at the beach contained a message
E. It is not possible that the message in the bottle is readable
3. It is not possible to deny the falsity of the statement that the Earth is not round. Which
is the right meaning of the previous statement?
A. The Earth is round
B. It is sufficient to deny the statement, to confirm that the Earth is round
C. It is not possible to know for sure whether the Earth is round or not
D. The Earth is not round
E. The Earth is not round as it is a geoid
4. Contrary to one of the most known commonplace about Italians, a famous american
journalist states that it is not true that all Italians sing and eat spaghetti. Thus he is
stating that:
A. Some Italians don’t sing or eat spaghetti
B. Whoever doesn’t eat spaghetti and doesn’t sing, may be Italian.
C. All Italians eat spaghetti but they don’t sing
D. Italians either eat spaghetti or sing
E. Italians don’t sing and don’t eat spaghetti.
5. Identify which diagram satisfies set existing relation between the three following
terms: firearms, cold weapon, armistice.
A. Diagram 2
B. Diagram 6
C. Diagram 3
D. Diagram 1
E. Diagram 4
6. I wish to repaint the walls of my garage. It is 3 metres high, 4 metres wide and 9 metres
deep. I shall not need to paint the electronic door which covers one 3 x 4 metre end, nor the
window, which is 2 metres wide and 1 metre high, nor the rear door which is 1 metre wide
and 2 metres high. 1 litre of paint covers 3 square metres.
How many 1 litre tins will be needed to complete the painting?
A. 21
B. 18
C. 22
D. 25
E. 26
7. Tom shared out some money between his three children in the ratio 5:3:2. He later had an
extra €6 which he gave to the child who received the least originally. This meant that the
money had been shared into one large and two equal smaller shares.
How much money in total did Tom give to the three children?
A. €66
B. €20
C. €26
D. €36
E. €60
8. Three months ago, Jane had 5 times as many DVDs as Duncan. Since then they have both
bought 12 more DVDs. Jane now has twice as many as Duncan.
How many DVDs does Jane have now?
A 32
B 42
C 52
D 62
E 72
9. Look at this series: 8, 10, 7, 9, 6, 8, ... What number should come next?
A.6
B. 9
C. 10
D. 5
E. 11
10. The ingredients list on a tin of baked beans reads as follows (in order of descending
weight):
 Navy beans (51%)
 Water
 Sugar
 Tomato puree (4.5%)
 Modified maize starch
 Salt
 Natural flavourings
 Onion powder
 Paprika
What is the maximum percentage of water the tin could contain?.
A. 40%
B. 17.5%
C.22.2%
D.44.5%
E. 49%
11. Odometer is to mileage as compass is to
A Speed
B hiking
C needle
D direction
E depth
12. In each series, look for the degree and direction of change between the numbers. In other
words, do the numbers increase or decrease, and by how much
1. Look at this series: 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4), ... What number should come next?
A. (1/3)
B. (1/8)
C.(2/8)
D.(1/16)
E (1/4)
13. Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York is the world's
A. largest railway station
B. highest railway station
C.longest railway station
D.None of the above
E oldest railway station
14. FFC stands for
A. Foreign Finance Corporation
B. Film Finance Corporation
C. Federation of Football Council
D.None of the above
E Francis Ford Coppola
Biology
15. In which parts of the plant does photosynthesis generally take place?
A. Leaf and other chloroplast bearing parts
B. steam and leaf
C.Roots and chloroplast bearing parts
D.Bark and leaf
E. None of the above
16.
Number of chromosomes in Klinefelter's syndrome is
A.46
B.47
C.48
D.49
E. 51
17. One of the following is most suitable for study of mutations
A. Haploids
B. Diploids
C.Tetraploids
D. Polyploid
E. All of these
18. Mycobacterium leprae causes leprosy, Corynebacterium diphtheria causes diphtheria and
Vibrio comma causes
A. tetanus
B. influenza
C.cholera
D.typhoid
E. None of these.
19. Cross over values (COV’s) can be considered as the relative distance between genes and
are used to help construct chromosome maps. Four genes, called P, Q, R and S, are found
on the same chromosome. Use the following COV’s to work out the sequence of the four
genes.
P to Q = 33 Q to R = 8 R to S = 15 P to S = 10 P to R = 25
The sequence of the genes is
A PSRQ
B SPQR
C RSPQ
D QSRP
E PQRS
20. The family pedigree shows that boy C has a genetic condition. No other member of the
family shows the same genetic condition.
Which one of the following could NOT explain why boy C has the condition?
A Sex-linked dominant condition
B Sex-linked recessive condition
C Mutation
D Both parents are carriers
E Autosomal recessive condition
21. Which of the following organisms are subject to natural selection?
1 prokaryotes that reproduce asexually
2 single-celled eukaryotes that reproduce sexually
3 organisms living in a changing environment
4 organisms living in a stable environment
A. 3 and 4 only
B. 1, 2 and 3 only
C. 1 and 2 only
D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
E. 2 and 3 only
Chemistry
22. The mass of P4O10 that will be obtained from the reaction of 1.33 gram of P4 and 5.07 of
oxygen is
A. 2.05 gram
B. 3.05 gram
C. 4.05 gram
D.5.05 gram
E. 6.03 gram
23. What are the number of moles of CO2 which contains 16 g of oxygen?
A. 0.5 mole
B. 0.2 mole
C.0.4 mole
D. 0.25 mole
E. None of the above
24. The molecule which has the highest percentage of ionic character among the following
is
A. HI
B. HF
C.HCI
D.HBr
E. H2S
25. 8.0 g of copper oxide is reduced to 5.6 g of copper using hydrogen gas. [relative atomic
mass: Cu=64, O=16]
What is the yield of copper as a percentage of the theoretical maximum?
CuO+H2=Cu+H2O
A. 14.3%
B. 43.9%
C. 56.0%
D.70.0%
E. 87,5%
26. Sodium chloride (relative molecular mass = 58.5) has a solubility of 36.0 g per 100 g of
water. The density of the solution is 1.13 g/ml. Which of the following calculations would
give the solubility in moles per litre?
A. 36.0 x 10 x 1.13/58.5
B. 36.0 x 1000/(58.5 x 1.13)
C. 36.0 x 10 x 1.13/(58.5 x 136)
D. 36.0 x 10/58.5
E. 36.0 x 1000 x 1.13/(58.5 x 136)
E. None of the above
Physics and Mathematics
27. An object of mass 50 g just floats in a liquid of density 2.5 g/ml. When the object is placed
in a liquid of density 2.0 g/ml, it sinks to the bottom of the container. What is the force that the
object exerts on the bottom of the container?
[ g = 10 m/s2 = 10 N/kg ]
A. 400 N
B. 0.1 N
C. 0.4 N
D. 10 N
E. 40 N
28. The law of gravitation states that the gravitational force between two bodies of mass m1 and
m2 is given by:
G (gravitational constant) = 7 x10-11 Nm2 kg -2
r (distance between the two bodies) in the case of the Earth and Moon = 4 x 108 m
m1 (Earth) = 6 x 1024 kg
m2 (Moon) = 7 x 1022 kg
What is the gravitational force between the Earth and the Moon?
A. 1.8375 x 1019N
B. 1.8375 x 1020N
C. 1.8375 x 1025N
D. 1.8375 x 1026N
E. 1.8375 x 1028N
29. A shape is formed by drawing a triangle ABC inside the triangle ADE.
BC is parallel to DE.
AB = 4cm BC = x cm DE = x + 3cm DB = x - 4cm
Calculate the length of DE.
A 5cm
B 7cm
C 9cm
D 4 2√ 7 cm
E 7 2 √7 cm
30. The total surface area of a cylinder is numerically the same as its volume.
The radius of the cylinder is r cm, the height is h cm.
Express h in terms of r.