61.  Two separate tests which looked at such general knowledge were constructed.

62.  In summary, the performance of pupils in the sample on measurement questions was affected by three principal factors: (i) difficulties with decimals; (ii) lack of knowledge of the relationships between units of the same measure; (iii) lack of general knowledge about the value of a measure for everyday objects.

63.  Pupils' general knowledge about sizes of units and the relationships among them which could assist them to get a" feel" for numbers and help them decide whether measurements were reasonable, was lacking.

64.  Success with such questions requires not only knowledge of the measures concerned but also general knowledge.

65.  This lack of discrimination suggests that the general knowledge required is not highly related to attainment in mathematics.

66.  What we have described as a topic framework has much in common with Venneman's proposal that, for a discourse, there is a presupposition pool which contains information "constituted from general knowledge, from the situative context of the discourse, and from the completed part of the discourse itself" (Venneman, 1975: 314).

67.  Examples of expressions used for discourse subjects might be the Queen, John, John's wife (in the presupposition pool by virtue of general knowledge), your hat, today (from the situative context) and a concert of the Berlin Philharmonic's last year, several essays (from the preceding part of the text of the discourse).

68.  Keep general knowledge up to date

69.  One of the major areas of research in speech recognition concerns the ways in which general linguistic knowledge can compensate for such errorful or ambiguous acoustic input.

70.  "A Designer in Television must have a very wide general knowledge.