2007 TOLC

No mineral is animate – some existing things are animate – therefore ………………………… is not a mineral. Identify the CORRECT COMPLETION of the syllogism:

All pigeons eat beans – some birds do not eat beans – therefore………………………………………………………..not they are pigeons. Identify the CORRECT COMPLETION of the syllogism:

Identify the INCORRECT pairing:

Complete the following hypothetical reasoning correctly: If you had not had talent, you would not have become an artist; but you did become an artist, therefore …………………..

We have removed something from the following passage. Reinsert it, respecting its logic and meaning, using ONE of the alternatives below. ‘Laws are enacted to…………………………………………………., not because they do not do injustice, but because it is not done to them.” (STOB., Flor., 43, 139, quoted in Epicurus. Works, fragments, testimonies on his life, Laterza, Rome-Bari, 1986, p. 111)

It rains on the tamarisk trees, salty and scorched, it rains on the scaly and bristly pines, it rains on the divine myrtles, (From La pioggia nel pineto by G. D’Annunzio) The underlined words give rise to one of the rhetorical figures listed below:

Looking at the origin of the term, what does ‘millenarianism’ or ‘chiliasm’ actually mean? Identify the CORRECT answer:

The Albertine Statute was promulgated by Carlo Alberto in:

Which of the following figures from the Risorgimento does the concept of ‘Neo-Guelphism’ refer to?

In April 1917, he proposed to dissolve the provisional government, give “all power to the Soviets”, give land to the peasants, and end the war against the Central Powers at any cost. He is ONE of the figures listed below:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ involved:

Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794), a leading intellectual in the Lombard Enlightenment, is best known for his work On Crimes and Punishments, in which he:

Which of the following is NOT a European institution?

The motto of the European Union is:

Identify the INCORRECT pair:

Which of the following musical instruments is NOT a percussion instrument?

Which of the writers listed below was born in the 18th century?

Identify the INCORRECT pairing. Economic sector/activity

“Supporters of transhumanism”, i.e. the need to evolve, relying on biotechnology, into “a new ‘post-human’ species”, think they know “what constitutes a good human being and are happy to leave behind the limited, mortal, natural beings they see around them in favour of something better. But do they really understand the most important human values? Thanks to our obvious flaws, we humans are […] a product whose whole is much more than the sum of its parts. Our good characteristics are intimately linked to our bad ones: if we were not violent and aggressive, we would not be able to defend ourselves; if we did not have feelings of exclusivity, we would not be loyal to those close to us; if we never felt jealousy, we would never feel love. Even our mortality plays a critical role in allowing our species as a whole to survive and adapt. Changing just one of our key characteristics involves changing a complex and interconnected set of qualities, and we will never be able to predict the final outcome. (From Francis Fukuyama, ‘Biotechnology – The End of Man’, Corriere della Sera, Thursday 10 February 2005, p. 15.) Of the following statements, only ONE IS CONSISTENT with what is stated in the text. Identify it:

I sing of women, knights, arms, love, courtesy, and daring deeds, which were in the days when the Moors passed from Africa, and did much harm in France, following the anger and youthful fury of their king Agramante, who boasted of avenging the death of Trojan over King Charles, Roman emperor. This octave opens the poem by ONE of the following authors:

“Malpelo was so called because he had red hair; and he had red hair because he was a mischievous and nasty boy, who promised to grow up to be a real scoundrel. So everyone at the red sand quarry called him Malpelo; and even his mother, hearing him called that all the time, had almost forgotten his real name.” These words open a short story by ONE of the following writers:

Everyone stands alone on the heart of the earth pierced by a ray of sunshine: and suddenly it is evening. Which of the following poets wrote these lines?

Identify the INCORRECT pairing.

Identify the series that lists the following European countries in descending order of their surface area.

“The sofa is […] the heart of conversation. But for some time now in Italy, the noble art of alternating the pleasure of speaking with that of listening has been languishing. Nowadays, people wait impatiently for their turn to speak and pay no attention to what others are saying because they are thinking about what they are going to say. […] The mobile phone has dealt the final blow. It may happen that our neighbour on the sofa flatters us, ‘I’m pleased to meet you because I’ve been interested in your opinion for some time’. We concentrate and try to express ourselves as best we can, when we see the other person’s attention evaporate. They have felt their mobile phone vibrate […], take it out, and without even thinking of saying ‘hello, I’ll call you back in a minute’, start talking with great enthusiasm. Personally, in these cases, I walk away, approach other people and, when the person catches up with me (‘excuse me, you were saying…’), I reply: ‘I lost the thread, call me next time’. I wonder why, with landlines or mobile phones, the person on the other end of the line always takes precedence over the person in the flesh. We need to fight for a better world where you interrupt a phone call by saying, ‘I have to go, people are coming’. (From Luca Goldoni, “Girls, dormice and politicians: how many discoveries on my sofa”, Corriere della Sera – Dossier, Thursday 3 March 2005). Only ONE of the following statements can be considered inspired by Luca Goldoni’s words. Identify it:

Who painted The City Rises?

Climate is a word of Greek origin:

Ikebana is a typical ‘floral arrangement’; or rather, a plant arrangement, given that it is sometimes made up of branches with only berries or leaves, or even just bare branches. […] In ikebana, the asymmetrical harmony that exists in nature is highlighted by ‘distilling’ it, but this harmony does not normally appear because it is submerged by the quantity of elements that constitute it: the combinations of branches in a forest or flowers in a meadow are so numerous that the intrinsic qualities of each of them and of the individual elements belonging to them cannot be perceived clearly and precisely. Ikebana, through the use of emptiness, simply reduces the quantity of perceptible elements […]: it produces quantitative poverty in order to produce qualitative richness. […] It is the operation by which the elements used are reduced to a minimum, corresponding to the maximum expansion of their qualities and, consequently, the conditions for maximum perceptual intensity are produced. Giangiorgio Pasqualotto, Estetica del vuoto. Arte e meditazione nelle culture d’Oriente (The Aesthetics of Emptiness: Art and Meditation in Eastern Cultures), Marsilio, Venice, 1995, pp. 113 and 119. In light of the above, ONLY ONE of the following conclusions is valid. Identify it.

Which of the following works is NOT in the Louvre:

Which of the following works contains the famous verse “the love that moves the sun and the other stars” belong to:

The novels listed below (The Garden of the Finzi-Contini, The Truce, If This Is a Man, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Friend Found) have a common theme:

Sinn Féin, an independence and republican party founded in 1905, refers to ONE of the following historically contested geographical contexts:

The term ‘apocryphal’ means:

Caenorhabditis elegans, a small worm that has been extensively studied for the phenomenon of apoptosis, consists of a constant number of somatic cells: 1090. They all derive from a single zygote that divides through successive:

During the prophase of the first meiotic division, which of these phenomena does NOT occur?

People with high cholesterol are advised not to eat shellfish, which contain high levels of cholesterol. They should therefore eliminate the following dishes from their diet:

In summer, it is preferable to wear white clothing to stay cooler because:

The names listed are those of scientists who have made important contributions to the establishment of biological theories and principles. Which of the pairs listed lived during the same period?

Which of the following statements about the “polymerase chain reaction (PCR)” is CORRECT?

How many possible combinations can be generated from the three-base sequence UCG?

What mechanism allows the correct alignment of amino acids in a polypeptide chain, according to genetic information?

The gonads, pituitary gland, hypothalamus and uterus are organs in women that stimulate each other through a series of hormones. What is the correct chain of stimulation?

A hormone acts only on its target cells because:

In the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain, along the central sulcus, are the motor cortex and the sensory cortex. Stimuli destined for the skeletal muscles originate in the motor cortex. More precisely, the stimuli originate in specific areas corresponding to individual regions of the body. The extent of these areas:

Erythropoietin is:

Dendrites transmit nerve impulses:

When light strikes the retina, a chemical transformation occurs in a substance contained in its cells, which triggers a nerve stimulus. This substance is:

In situations of prolonged stress and high tension, the hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary gland to produce the hormone ACTH, which in turn stimulates the adrenal cortex to produce large amounts of glucocorticoids, of which cortisone is the best known. These hormones act on glucose metabolism, promoting its formation from fats and proteins, thus increasing blood glucose levels; they also inhibit inflammatory reactions and suppress the immune system. Based on the above, identify the only INCORRECT statement from the following:

Individuals who are heterozygous for the Mediterranean anaemia allele (recessive) have a mild form of the disease, which does not usually cause them any major problems as their red blood cells are simply smaller. These individuals show greater resistance to malaria, a disease caused by a protozoan that develops inside red blood cells. In malaria-infested areas, natural selection favours individuals that are

The ‘recombination’ between two genes is minimal when the genes are located:

Fever, i.e. an increase in core body temperature, is a way in which our body responds to a bacterial or viral infection. It is a consequence of the fact that:

The figure shows a cell in anaphase of the first meiotic division. From this observation, we can deduce that the original cell had a 2n equal to:

DNA molecules from organisms belonging to different species differ from each other in that:

By ‘clone’ of individuals we mean:

Electronegativity is:

In a reaction, a species is oxidised if:

If an aqueous solution of HCl (1 L) with a pH = 4 is diluted with water to a volume ten times greater (to 10 L), the pH of the resulting solution is:

In the periodic table of elements, the ionisation energy from top to bottom along a group:

Indicate the moles of molecular oxygen needed to burn one mole of propane, assuming that the reaction of C H with O (combustion) occurs completely: 3 8 2

A catalyst has the effect of:

An element is made up of atoms:

Indicate which of the following pH values (all at 25 °C) has the highest concentration of H O+ : 3

When glucose oxidises in the presence of excess oxygen, the following is obtained:

The molecular mass of water is equal to 18 u.m.a. Therefore, 1 litre of water contains:

The following are strong electrolytes in water:

Indicate the compound in which the chlorine atom has the highest oxidation number:

The formula H SO , according to traditional nomenclature, corresponds to: 2 3

Which of the vectors indicated in the following drawings with the numbers respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 represent the difference vector b – a? a 1 a 2 a 3 b b b a 4 5 a b b

Consider a conductor with ends A and B through which a direct current of intensity i flows, and let V be the potential difference between A and B. Let R be the resistance of the conductor. The energy W dissipated in a time t in the conductor is given by the formula:

A stone dropped from a height of 20 cm hits the ground at a speed V = 2 m/sec (approximately). If the same stone is dropped from twice the height, it will hit the ground at a speed of approximately:

An aeroplane travels at 800 km/hour, in the absence of wind, eastwards for 400 km and then returns. The time taken to complete the entire journey is therefore one hour. When a wind blowing westwards (or eastwards) at a constant speed of 100 km/hour blows along the route, the journey time (there and back) will be:

A slingshot consists of a stone tied to a rigid string that travels 5 revolutions per second along a circumference with radius L = 1 m. When the stone detaches from the string, its speed is:

A body is subjected to a constant force F parallel to the supporting surface; the resulting motion is rectilinear and uniform with velocity V. It can be concluded that the friction force:

The list price of an electrical appliance is £€ 680.00. It is sold for £€ 595.00. What percentage discount has been applied?

Which of the following sets of four numbers is ordered in ascending order? 27) 27

The area of the portion of plane S between the two semicircles and the segment AO of length r is: S r A O B 3π r 2 8

The half-line PT is tangent to the circle of radius r at point T and the segment PO measures 2r. The angle OPT is: T r P O

The expression y= -2×2+ 3x + 1 represents a relationship between the real variables x and y which, using natural language, means:

Given the equation 3×2 = 81. The set of all its real solutions is:

The algebraic expression + is equal to: a− 1 1− 4− a