"The big economic difference between nuclear and fossil-fuelled power stations is that nuclear reactors are more expensive to build and decommission, but cheaper to sun. So disputes over the relative efficiency of the two systems revolve not just around prices of coal and uranium today and tomorrow, but also around the way in which future income should be compared with current income."

1. The main difference between nuclear and fossil-fuelled power stations is an economic one.

TRUE
UNTRUE
CANNOT SAY

2. The price of coal is not relevant to discussions about the relative efficiency of nuclear reactors.

TRUE
UNTRUE
CANNOT SAY

3. If nuclear reactors were cheaper to build and decommission than fossil-fuelled power stations, they would definitely have the economic advantage.

TRUE
UNTRUE
CANNOT SAY

"At any given moment we are being bombarded by physical and psychological stimuli competing for our attention. Although our eyes are capable of handling more than5million bits of data per second, our brain are capable of interpreting only about500 bits per second. With similar disparities between each of the other senses and the brain, it is easy to see that we must select the visual, auditory, or tactile stimuli that we wish to compute at any specific time."


stimuli usually win in the competition for our attention.
TRUE
UNTRUE
CANNOT SAY

5. The capacity of the human brain is sufficient to interpret nearly all the stimuli the senses can register under optimum conditions.
TRUE
UNTRUE
CANNOT SAY

6. Eyes are able to cope with a greater input of information than ears.
TRUE
UNTRUE
CANNOT SAY

VERBAL ANSWER：
1. C CANNOT SAY

2. B UNTRUE

3. A TRUE

4. C CANNOT SAY

5. B UNTRUE

6. C CANNOT SAY


PartII NUMERCAL TEST

1. Which country had the highest number of people aged60 or over at the start of1985?

A. UK B. France C. Italy D.
E. Spain

2. What percentage of the total15mm button production was classed as sub-standard in September?

AA % BB13% CC15% DD % EE20% AB % AC25%
AD % AE28% BC %

3. How many live births occurred in1985in Spain and Italy together (to the nearest1000)?

,000 ,000 ,044,000 ,400,000
,440,000

4. What was the net effect on the UK population of the live birth and death rates in1985?

of66,700 of752,780
of84,900 Say
of85,270

5. By how much did the total sales value of November‘s button production vary from October‘s?

(Decrease) (Decrease) (Increase)
(Decrease) change

6. What was the loss in potential sales revenue attributable to the production of sub-standard (as opposed to standard) buttons over the6month period?



至于图嘛
是
1：Population Structure1985

country

population at start of years(millions)

live bitrhs per1000 population(jan-dec)

deaths per1000 population(jan-dec)

%of population at start of year aged:under15

%of population at start of year aged:60 or over

UK 1921
France 2119
Italy 1919
1520
Spain 2317

2:production of15mm buttons,july-dec

total(standard and sub-standard) production(in thousands)

standard production(in thousands)

july7060
aug6055
sept8565
oct10080
nov9585
dec10090

sale price: standard: $ per100
sub-stand:$ per100

答案是：
1. D W. Germany

2. AB %

3. C1,044,000

4. B Increase of84,900

5. E No change

6. C

声明：图2原是一张图表，为了在BBS上刊登，特将它变为了直观的数字