PISA PRE-TEST
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Use the below information about Lake Chad to answer the questions below.
What is the depth of Lake Chad today?
29About two metres.
It has disappeared completely.
About fifty metres.
About fifteen metres.
The information is not provided.D
- Q1
Use the below information about Lake Chad to answer the questions below.
What is the depth of Lake Chad today?
About two metres.
It has disappeared completely.
About fifty metres.
About fifteen metres.
The information is not provided.D
60s - Q2
Use the below information about Lake Chad to answer the questions below.
Figure 2 is based on the assumption that
the animals in the rock art were present in the area at the time they were
the artists who drew the animals were able to travel widely.
the artists who drew the animals were able to travel widely.
the artists who drew the animals were highly skilled
there was no attempt to domesticate the animals which were depicted in the rock art.
60s - Q3
Use the above information about Lake Chad to answer the questions below.
For this question, you need to draw together information from Figure 1 and Figure 2.
The disappearance of the rhinoceros, hippopotamus and aurochs from Saharan rock art happened
after the level of Lake Chad had been falling for over a thousand years.
in the middle of the period when Lake Chad was at its highest level.
at the beginning of the most recent Ice Age.
at the beginning of an uninterrupted dry period.
60s - Q4
Which one of the following describes a feature of the ACOL flu immunisation program?
A small bonus will be offered to participants.
A doctor will give the injections.
Daily exercise classes will be run during the winter.
Immunisations will be given during working hours.
60s - Q5
This information sheet suggests that if you want to protect yourself against the flu virus,
a flu injection is
as effective as exercise and a healthy diet, and less troublesome.
more effective than exercise and a healthy diet, but more risky.
not worth considering if you have plenty of exercise and a healthy diet.
a good idea, but not a substitute for exercise and a healthy diet.
60s - Q6
According to the information sheet, which one of these staff members should contact Fiona?
Steve from the store, who does not want to be immunised because he would rather rely on his natural immunity.
Julie from sales, who wants to know if the immunisation program is compulsory.
Michael from accounts who would like to be immunised but will be on leave in the week of May 17.
Alice from the mailroom who would like to be immunised this winter but is having a baby in two months.
60s - Q7
The two letters below came from the Internet and are about graffiti. Graffiti is an illegal painting and writing on walls and elsewhere. Refer to the letters to answer the questions below.
The purpose of each of these letters is to
tell people how much is spent removing graffiti.
present an opinion about graffiti.
demonstrate the popularity of graffiti.
explain what graffiti is.
60s - Q8
Use the information about a country’s labour force shown above to answer the questions below.
What are the two main groups into which the working-age population is divided?
Of working age and not of working age.
Full-time workers and part-time workers.
In the labour force and not in the labour force.
Employed and unemployed.
60s - Q9
Use the information about a country’s labour force shown above to answer the questions below.
How many people of working age were not in the labour force? (Write the number of people, not the percentage.)
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Use the information about a country’s labour force shown above to answer the questions below.
The information about the labour force structure is presented as a tree diagram, but it could have been presented in a number of other ways, such as a written description, a pie chart, a graph or a table.
The tree diagram was probably chosen because it is especially useful for showing
categories within each group.
changes over time.
the size of the country’s total population.
the size of each group.
60s - Q11
What does the table indicate about the level of PLAN International's activity in Ethiopia in 1996, compared with other countries in the region?
The level of activity was comparatively low in Ethiopia.
It was about the same as in other countries in the region.
The level of activity was comparatively high in Ethiopia.
It was comparatively high in the Habitat category, and low in other categories.
120s - Q12
POLICE
A murder has been committed but the suspect denies everything. He claims not to know the victim. He says he never knew him, neverwent near him, never touched him... The police and the judge are convinced that he is not telling the truth. But how to prove it?
To explain the structure of DNA, the author talks about a pearl necklace. How do these pearl necklaces vary from one individual to another?
The order of the pearls is different.
The number of necklaces is different.
They vary in length.
The color of the pearls is different.DThe color of the pearls is different.
120s - Q13
POLICE
A murder has been committed but the suspect denies everything. He claims not to know the victim. He says he never knew him, never went near him, never touched him... The police and the judge are convinced that he is not telling the truth. But how to prove it?
What is the purpose of the box headed "How is the genetic identity card revealed"? To explain
how cells are analyzed to find the pattern of DNA.
how it can be proved that a crime has been committed.
what DNA is.
what a barcode is.
120s - Q14
POLICE
A murder has been committed but the suspect denies everything. He claims not to know the victim. He says he never knew him, never went near him, never touched him... The police and the judge are convinced that he is not telling the truth. But how to prove it?
What is the author's main aim?
To amuse.
To warn.
To convince.
To inform.
60s - Q15
POLICE
A murder has been committed but the suspect denies everything. He claims not to know the victim. He says he never knew him, never went near him, never touched him... The police and the judge are convinced that he is not telling the truth. But how to prove it?
The end of the introduction (the first shaded section) says: "But how to prove it?"
According to the passage, investigators try to find an answer to this question by
interrogating the suspect thoroughly.
going over all the results of the investigation again.
carrying out genetic analyses.
interrogating witnesses.
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