Recognition of assumptions: practice

We should translate our safety leaflet into Polish and Romanian, so that more of our warehouse staff can understand it.

Question 1

Proposed assumptionSome warehouse staff understand Polish or Romanian better than the language the leaflet is in now.

Question 2

Proposed assumptionMost warehouse staff speak Polish or Romanian.

Question 3

Proposed assumptionIt is worth having more warehouse staff understand the safety leaflet.

Question 4

Proposed assumptionThe leaflet is currently available only in English.

Question 5

Proposed assumptionTranslating the leaflet will cost less than running safety training.

Because the new bridge will cut the drive from Ashby to the coast by twenty minutes, the coastal towns can expect more day visitors from Ashby.

Question 6

Proposed assumptionThe length of the journey puts some people in Ashby off visiting the coast for the day.

Question 7

Proposed assumptionMost visitors to the coastal towns come from Ashby.

Question 8

Proposed assumptionCars will be able to use the new bridge.

Question 9

Proposed assumptionDay visitors spend more money in the coastal towns than visitors who stay overnight.

Graduates who joined us through our summer internship stay with the firm longer, on average, than our other graduates, so we should recruit more of our graduates through the internship.

Question 10

Proposed assumptionIt is desirable for graduates to stay with the firm longer.

Question 11

Proposed assumptionInterns are paid during the summer internship.

Question 12

Proposed assumptionEvery graduate who joined through the internship has stayed longer than every other graduate.

Question 13

Proposed assumptionOther firms do not run summer internships.

If you want a seat at the conference dinner, book before Friday.

Question 14

Proposed assumptionSeats may not be available to people who try to book on or after Friday.

Question 15

Proposed assumptionThe conference dinner will be fully booked by Friday.

Question 16

Proposed assumptionA seat at the dinner needs to be booked.

Question 17

Proposed assumptionThe conference dinner is free for delegates.

The council should spend the new road budget on repairing potholes rather than on building the bypass, because pothole repairs will prevent more accidents.

Question 18

Proposed assumptionPreventing accidents is a relevant aim when deciding how to spend the road budget.

Question 19

Proposed assumptionThe bypass would cause more accidents than it prevents.

Question 20

Proposed assumptionPotholes cause some accidents.

Question 21

Proposed assumptionMost drivers in the area support spending on pothole repairs.

Our graduate scheme application form now takes about 40 minutes to complete, so we should expect fewer applications than last year, when it took 15 minutes.

Question 22

Proposed assumptionSome people who would complete a 15-minute form will not complete a 40-minute one.

Question 23

Proposed assumptionLast year's graduate scheme had more applicants than places.

Question 24

Proposed assumptionThe longer form will produce stronger candidates.

Students who revise with past papers score higher in the final exam, so the department will give every student a pack of past papers.

Question 25

Proposed assumptionGiving students past papers will lead at least some of them to revise with past papers.

Question 26

Proposed assumptionEvery student will use the pack of past papers.

Question 27

Proposed assumptionPast papers are the only useful way to revise.

Question 28

Proposed assumptionThe department wants students to score higher in the final exam.

The museum will stay open until 9 pm on Fridays this summer. No extra staff will be needed, because the gallery attendants have agreed to work later shifts.

Question 29

Proposed assumptionThe later shifts the attendants have agreed to cover the extra opening hours.

Question 30

Proposed assumptionThe museum has opened until 9 pm on Fridays before.

Question 31

Proposed assumptionThe attendants working later will be enough staff to keep the galleries open until 9 pm.

Online reviews of our hotel have improved since we renovated the rooms, so the renovation has made guests happier.

Question 32

Proposed assumptionOnline reviews give some indication of how happy guests are.

Question 33

Proposed assumptionEvery guest who has stayed since the renovation wrote a review.

Question 34

Proposed assumptionThe better reviews are not entirely due to something other than the renovation.

Question 35

Proposed assumptionThe hotel's prices did not change after the renovation.

I'd better leave by 7:30, or I'll miss the 8:15 train.

Question 36

Proposed assumptionLeaving later than 7:30 would not leave the speaker enough time to catch the 8:15 train.

Question 37

Proposed assumptionThe speaker wants to catch the 8:15 train.

Question 38

Proposed assumptionThere is no later train the speaker could take.

Offering a four-day week will help the agency recruit, because many experienced nurses now want shorter working weeks.

Question 39

Proposed assumptionSome experienced nurses who want shorter working weeks would consider working for the agency.

Question 40

Proposed assumptionAll of the agency's current nurses want a four-day week.

Question 41

Proposed assumptionNo other agency offers a four-day week.

To cut the lunchtime queue at the canteen, the company should stagger lunch breaks across teams.

Question 42

Proposed assumptionTeams currently take their lunch breaks at overlapping times.

Question 43

Proposed assumptionThe lunchtime queue is longer than the company would like.

Question 44

Proposed assumptionStaggering lunch breaks will cost the company nothing.

Question 45

Proposed assumptionSome staff will stop using the canteen if breaks are staggered.

We need to replace the office printers this year, because repairing the old ones now costs more than leasing new ones.

Question 46

Proposed assumptionThe office will continue to need printers.

Question 47

Proposed assumptionLeasing is the only alternative to repairing the old printers.

Question 48

Proposed assumptionCost is a reason to prefer one way of providing printers over another.

Question 49

Proposed assumptionThe old printers break down more often than any other office equipment.