Civil Service Reading Comprehension Practice Test Results

Question 1
53% answer correctly

A perennial stream or perennial river is a stream or river (channel) that has continuous flow in parts of its stream bed all year round during years of normal rainfall. `Perennial` streams are contrasted with `intermittent` streams which normally cease flowing for weeks or months each year, and with `ephemeral` channels that flow only for hours or days following rainfall.


Which of the following is the correct order of stream type from the least amount of time flowing to the most amount of time flowing over the course of a year?

Ephemeral, perennial, intermittent.
Perennial, ephemeral, intermittent.
Ephemeral, intermittent, perennial.
Perennial, intermittent, ephemeral.
Question 2
76% answer correctly

Warren Wilfred Freer (27 December 1920 - 29 March 2013), was a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party. Freer represented the Mount Albert electorate in Parliament from 1947 to 1981, when he retired.

He was only 26 when he entered Parliament in a by-election for the Mount Albert seat following the death of Arthur Richards, and he held the seat for 34 years until he was succeeded by Helen Clark and then David Shearer.

He was a cabinet minister in the Third Labour Government of 1972-1975, holding the portfolios of Trade and Industry and of Energy Resources and was a candidate for the deputy leadership of the New Zealand Labour Party in 1974, dropping out in the third ballot.

In 1955 he was the first Western politician to visit China.


According to this passage:

Freer retired in 1974.
Freer was the first Western politician to visit China
Freer was the first politician to visit China.
Freer was born in New Zealand.
Question 3
53% answer correctly

A perennial stream or perennial river is a stream or river (channel) that has continuous flow in parts of its stream bed all year round during years of normal rainfall. `Perennial` streams are contrasted with `intermittent` streams which normally cease flowing for weeks or months each year, and with `ephemeral` channels that flow only for hours or days following rainfall.


Which of the following is the correct order of stream type from the least amount of time flowing to the most amount of time flowing over the course of a year?

Perennial, ephemeral, intermittent.
Perennial, intermittent, ephemeral.
Ephemeral, perennial, intermittent.
Ephemeral, intermittent, perennial.