A n s w e r k e y test 1, Paper 1, Reading

Part 3: The new management gurus
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C: When 
Smart Swarm
’s author wrote an article on the same 
subject as his book some years ago, 30 million people read it
and the writer predicts that it will ‘become the most talked 
about in management circles’. 
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A: ‘Miller believes his book is the first time anyone has laid out 
(demonstrated) the science behind a management theory.’
15 
C: The writer draws a parallel between bees who have to make a 
decision – ‘and fast’ – and managers who ‘need to be able to 
make the right decisions under huge amounts of pressure’.
16 
C: They need to ‘encourage debate’ among a group of people and 
get them to vote on ‘which idea is best’; they need to involve a 
variety of people in their team and get them to take part in the 
decision-making process. 
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D: Ants do what they think is required in the circumstances, and 
‘the right number’ of ants do each different task. This system 
works well and it can show managers that their own system of 
hierarchy and bureaucracy is stopping employees from being
as effective as ants are (‘is getting in the way of getting the
work done’).
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C: they decided to keep their system of ‘letting customers choose 
where they sit’ because they discovered from studying ants that 
‘assigned seating would only be faster by a few minutes’. 
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B: The book is aimed at managers who are ‘concerned’ (worried) 
‘about surviving the next business cycle’ and who want to make 
sure that their company can respond to ‘challenges that you 
can’t anticipate’ (difficult situations in the future that can’t
be predicted). 
Part 4: The unstoppable spirit of inquiry
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B: ‘though it (the World Wide Web) impacts us all, scientists have 
benefited especially’
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D: ‘Whether it is the work of our Science Policy Centre, our journals, 
our discussion meetings, our work in education or our public 
events, we must be at the heart of helping policy makers and 
citizens make informed decisions.’
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C: ‘Within a day, 20,000 people had downloaded the work, which 
was the topic of hastily convened discussions in many centres of 
mathematical research around the world.’